…for not posting much. I’ve been unemployed for a while, I have no access to scanners or photoshop, my car broke down and I am stuck in Sylmar, CA. It’s kind of like being in jail except that you have to find your own food. I haven’t been able to work up the energy to do much of anything, and I keep having strange urges to gnaw my own fingers off like a fox in a trap.
I am coming to you from the Sylmar Public Library. It’s better than nothing, but the quality of government-supplied internet reinforces my libertarian views.
A while ago there was a discussion here about what kind of dirt people could dig up on you if you ran for office. I’ve got a new one- I have stolen low-hanging lemons from lemon trees around the neighborhood.
Sorry…
July 8, 2009 by mororogers
:-( Miss your artwork. Keep looking. For tips on how to live on less money go thru DSL’s old posts. He has it down pretty well.
Steve
“For tips on how to live on less money go thru DSL’s old posts. He has it down pretty well.”
I’ll say: $560 room rent monthly, $100 groceries/hygiene, $50 car insurance, $48 TimeWarner Internet, $10 gas, no medical insurance or bills, no phones land or cell, no entertainment or gift spending = $768. Outside of lots of rye flour/bulk oats, dried beans, cabbage/carrots/greens, chicken legs/canned mackerel/sale pork, milk/sour cream, store-brand brick coffee/100-ct. tea, I seem to live on web links and laughs.
Wishing you all good luck in the absence of anything more tangerinable or lemony, We Twenty-Three Kings and Queens of Alexandria Are…
…and store-brand peanut butter/home-roasted bulk soybeans.
My rent is $750 and I kinda have to use my cell phone, but aside from that, this is good advice. I made some chili pepper/garlic/tomato/fat-free halfnhalf/parmesan bowties with mushroom and turkey sausage that was pretty good last night. It sounds like a lot but I make enough so that I can eat it for a few days.^^
Also I think I can maybe get my car back soon.^^
Argh, Moro! Sorry to hear you’re still searching. I hate to sound like a weirdo, but I was actually wondering a few days ago if you’d found a job. I was with an illustrator friend of ours and showed him some of your drawings I really liked a lot; he agreed that you’re awesome.
Can you figure out a way to sell prints of your stuff online, like on etsy or something that’s big like that right this second? The whole “affordable, but cool” art thing is banking for some folks around here. We have a great, self-sufficient artists’ community, which has blossomed and is thriving on that idea. I’m not attempting to sound like a mom or a hippie here; just throwing an idea out there. I know it sucks to be one place, have to start over in another place (euphemistically or physically or even both), but you never know where some side roads can take you. At least, with something like that, you’d be forcing yourself to keep drawing even if you have to take other work for a bit.
Glad you checked in.
Kristan- No, that sounds like a good idea, I’ll look into it.
So I’m listening to my current XM radio station of record, Spa, on channel 72, when I hear a track, “Meridisong”, by this spellbinding classical guitarist by the name of, yes, – wait for it – Moro, of Bodega bay, California, off his album Amilucience.
So it’s official: Moro’s the name, art gifts your game, Golden State of your fame…
Re: low-hanging lemons–I think that’s the kind of thing Deuteronomy says is reserved for the poor, the widow, the orphan and the stranger. So you may be okay.
Two out of four ain’t bad.^^
And if you reduce that series of four by just one non-Morofier, she’d have meat loaf (which, er, ain’t bad)…
His name is Robert Paulsen!
Moro send DSL. russian to the Internyets after last comment:
On filming of Fight Club:
“Fighting in the film was heavily choreographed, and fighters were required to ‘go full out’ during fight scenes to capture realistic effects such as having the wind knocked out of oneself. To enhance the scenes, makeup artist Julie Pearce, who collaborated with the director on The Game, studied mixed martial arts and pay-per-view boxing for her work on the fighters. She also designed an extra to have a chunk missing from his ear, for which she cited Mike Tyson’s bite as inspiration. To create sweat on cue, makeup artists devised two methods: spraying water over a coat of Vaseline, and using straight water for ‘wet sweat’. Meat Loaf, who plays a member of the fight club who has ‘bitch tits’ [see Wikipedia on character from original novel, Robert ‘Bob’ Paulson, wore a 90-pound (40 kg) fat harness that gave him large breasts for the role. He also wore eight-inch (20 cm) lifts in his scenes with Norton, being shorter than the lead actor.”
The bitch tits were fake…that’s a relief.
…the bastard balls, on the other hand, were real…
Good for what avails you:
Just Drawn That Way
By Michael Arthur
Driven by grief — and a meeting with Al Hirschfeld — a young artist follows his impulse to draw the world as he sees it.