Strike the Match!

Everything starts where it ends: 

The idea of starting a blog first came to me when a friend (Melissa) said to me with a gentle hint of sarcasm, "I like your mind." I laughed and thought nothing of it. A short time later, an old friend commented on an art piece I had done stating the same phrase, "I like your mind." Coincidence? "My mind" has always been expressed through art or music. There has always been a bit of irony between me and these outlets of expression. Something has always been lost in the translation of color or noise. For instance, I hate loud obnoxious music, but about 60% of the music I produce falls under the 'hardcore/metal/dumb' genre. Instead of the low tone blues/bluegrass/folk music my heart melts for, my throat melts in producing ridiculous yelps of madness into a microphone for a bunch of hoodlems who cannot even tell what I am saying. Another case of irony, the fact that I love life in black in white. Not a boring life, but a literal life; a life that can be figured out, and makes sense, in your head. Despite my love for realism, my paintings honestly have no meaning. As well as having no meaning, they are done in the bright colorful fashion that is appealing to only those tripping on acid. It is within this loss of meaning, during the translation of my paint to canvas (or tongue to motion), that comes a pursuit of clarity. 

To Clarify:

-i hate capitalizing "i" when pertaining to myself. Call me buddhist. 

-this blog will probably be explicit. With the words in the English language it is very hard to be precise with emotion. So, if using more 'colorful' words bothers you, i am by no means trying to offend you. i want this blog to be me in my most raw state, perhaps one day i will be refined enough to cringe at thoughts of using explicit language.

-there will be no common thread throughout these blogs. Some days i will write about theology, some days i might write a poem. Who knows?However, i will try to write them once a day, even if they are not posted everyday.

-These blogs may at time seem critical, but i assure you, i speak my opinion, not truth. i feel that if more people would speak there opinions (with action) truth could be found.

- I am not a good writer, please be patient. If something does not come across clearly, please ask me to refraze<----oh i also like to use 'f' in place of 'ph.'

The Closing Note: 

We have to establish one solid principle: the 'playing board' which these posts will be played off of. You cannot play monopoly on a chess board, no more than you can discuss politics off the basis of anarchy, or establishing peace through war. Throughout these blogs many religions will be mentioned and many ways of thinking will be used, even if i do not necessarily agree with them. So please, if i am talking about the immediate mayan doomsday of 2012 (which i will) don't throw at me how Jesus is going to rapture you in the glory cloud and a bunch of Escotology non-sense. 

...LETS DO THIS!