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By Chris Graves

First of all Congrats to Lovely and DanielK on a wonderful set!!!!


Wow. So it has definitely been a while since I've updated. SO much has been going on and it has just been crazy busy. I have a ton to update!

Ok, so that one job interview I had didn't pan out. But I have had a ton of interviews with placement agencies since then. However, they aren't being too helpful as I have yet to go on an actual job interview from any of them. I've had calls from insurance companies and the such but I just cannot work a commissioned job. I would go insane. So, I'm still looking. I've impressed a few of the placement agents I've interviewed with. Now I'm just waiting for them to get jobs to send me on.

Trip update: The road trip through KC to St. Louis and then onto Chicago has been cancelled. Gas prices are just WAY too high to make it at all financially feasible to do it. So, I'm flying in for the wedding for the weekend and then back home.

Since my last update we had the art show and portraits at Thunder. The portraits went over REALLY well and I am hoping to do it again next year. The art show was not so fruitful. One of the artists was just a huge pain in the ass and there was just no pleasing her. However, we did meet some really great people and artists and made some good connections. Plus it is always fun to see the outfits everyone wears. I was exposed to more suturing and piercing than I have been in a while. Not done to myself, but people who got portraits taken. One person had peacock feathers sutured into her lower back, right above her butt. Another person had feathers sutured into her head like an Indian headdress. Another had wings. And a friend of ours had beads sutured onto her shoulder so it looked like a beaded flower tattoo. It has made me consider possibly trying something like that out. But who knows. I'm a big pansy and I'm not sure if I could take it. We'll see though.

Last weekend I helped out with Evey's set. It looks great! Tomorrow we have a shoot with another hopeful that should turn out pretty cool as well. Then next weekend we are going up to Outfest in Grand Junction to do portraits. It is 80's themed and they will be having a drag show. I can't wait!

The weekend after that is Labor Day weekend and no plans just yet. Weekend after that is my cousin's wedding and I'll be in St. Louis feasting on all the foods I miss.

Just when I think things are beginning to slow down, it just gets busier. One of these days I'll actually get to finishing getting the props for my set and we can get that shot. I've got ideas now for at least 3 sets. Set 2 props are being gathered as well. In the meantime, I'm helping out on other SG shoots and doing a little modeling here and there as time allows. It's just so hard to want to model for many people when all I'm looking for is a free day on the weekend to catch up on laundry.

So, I'm finding that my posts are more about WHAT I do rather than who I am. I am going to try to be better about that. And I am wanting to learn more about you as well.

For my first attempt, the subject shall be: Little or Lesser known interests.

What some of you may or may not know about me is that I used to write a lot. I still love to write, I just don't get the chance to do it very often. I have written a feature length screenplay, an award winning poem, a television pilot and series outline, multiple other poems and short stories and erotica. I used to have some great erotic short stories. I will have to start posting some of my writing again. I guess while I feel there is a lot of room for improvement on everything I've written, one of the things I am most proud of is my poem. I won an annual poetry contest sponsored by the university I went to. Not a great prize but the recognition for my achievement was REALLY nice. It was a 7 stanza (I think 7) poem written in iambic pentameter (the form of poetry that Shakespeare wrote it for those who don't know) on the subject of the Holocaust. It dealt with the atrocities that were faced. Yeah, the wording could definitely be improved upon but I'm still proud. Iambic pentameter is not the easiest form to write in. But, oddly enough, it was the right form for what I was writing about. I can't imagine it working better in any other form. Guess my writing teacher really did know what she was talking about

I started writing in the 4th grade. Ok, I wrote a few cheesy poems starting in 3rd but it was in 4th grade where I had the teacher that probably had the greatest impact on my life. She saw that I was interested in writing and encouraged me and supported me. She had me write a short story for our little newsletter that our grade had. Man, I wish I could find that now. I bet I have it in a box of memorabilia somewhere. Ever since then, writing was my creative outlet and was what I was known throughout school for. Even in college. It wasn't until I started modeling that writing kind of took a backseat. Now I'm so busy, I just don't have the energy to make myself sit down and spend time writing. I mean, look at how much time often goes between journal entries.

Wow. This is becoming a novel in and of itself. I better stop.

What are some of your little or lesser known interests?