kid-skullomania

WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS? Part 2

2009-08-19T01:16:21Z

so yeah, here's the deal: right now, i've been trying my best to with the help of my parents to get into the Savannah College of Art and Design, or (S.C.A.D.), But lately , it seems my old school, The Art Instiute of Washington (word to the wise, if there's anyone in the D.C. aspiring to become an artist, and this school pops up, don't even fucking waste your time.it is by far the worst run school out of all the art institute. they will basically drain you of all money, boot your ass out if you can't get a co-signer for loans, leave you with the big bill, and look at you like it was your fault you came from somewhere else to go school there, and now you need help affording your own education rather than doing anything real to aid you or help you out in your time of need. i've seen many of my friends gets tossed out on the streets and be left with debts they have no way to pay.) has been trying to screw me over because i want to go to a new school.

for the past 3 months my mom has been trying to get in contact with the collection agency the school referred me to to pay help mne pay off all these petty fees that i supposedly haveso i can get my officialy transcript for SCAD, which is all they' were waiting on. they take down the info, but they never take the money from the account given, and then call back another day asking when when can they expect payment. pretty redundant right? my advisor from scad called recently and told me that my deadline for the transcript was the 15th, and i became wary, because it was the one weak i didn't have the money, and the collection agency or A.I. still hadn'yt sent the transcript as many times as we tried to give them the money. i thank god for my parents helping me out, or i swear i wouldn't make in this world. they payed off the debt for me, but i'm worried wheter or not the transcript arrived on time, because no one has called me.if it didn't arrive, then i'm screwed, because the next window to get into the is in 2010, which puts me in a pretty fucked up situation...

i mean, i quit my shitty job to start toi pack to get ready to go to this school, and complete this portfolio they wanted for this school on the same day as the transcripts were due.

i can only hope and pray now i guess....

what the fuck did i do to deserve this?

2009-08-11T22:29:22Z

ok so yeah... kinda down in the dumps today.... my weekend was awesome....but my week fucking sucks....

Last Thursday night, my friend shaun hits me up he's like "wanna do something tomorrow?" and i'm like "fuck yes" because he's was one of the first friends i made when i got to A.I. (the art institute) the guy lives like a modern day renaissance man.... holy shit you should see him paint and draw.

so friday ,i meet him over at where he works at; eastern market where there's this chill tattoo parlor where another one of our friends and his wife works... this silly guy called mick, also a pretty cool guy. but yeah, we shoot the shit for a little bit. after that we head over to shaun's place by georgetown. It's this old retro apartment complex with room doors modeled after room doors on a ship. we head to his place, bullshit and watch british comedies for a few hours..... speaking of which got me into this show called snuff box. same guy who did the mighty Boosh and Garth Merengi's Darkplace. shit is dumb funny, go watch that shit.

but later on, we go down to the local coffee shop and drink and sketch, bullshit some more until he picks ups his girl and we go out to eat in one of the cool parts of the city. basically ate at a cool italian resturant called Bertucci's; shit was Italian up the ass. the appetizer was like bread with olive oil so yea...... pretty much italian up the ass. my friend and his girl opted for a brick oven pizza and i followed suit. it was like one of the best pizzas i had ever eaten.... like some kinda italian sex in your mouth. after that we went to this bar called the "Lucky Bar". i uh, had like two beers in me from dinner so it came out "RUCKY BAR".

we went in, met up with mick, and had a few more drinks. then we went to this pool hall and played some pool. they had some shitty house band playing complete with one screaming groupie and a frontman that dressed like brett michaels was his fucking idol. i don't even really care because i'm trying not to get my ass kicked in a game of cutthroat against shaun and the waittress just brought the beers to where we sat down. Later on, i'm feeling drunk after all i had consumed during the night, so i'm outside takling to the to another friend.... and out strolls this douchebag, the frontman of that horrible house band mind you, he sees me and gives me the international "i'm a white guy, but i'm cool with black people" greeting.

" SUP' DAWG?"

i just gave him the "WTF?" look for a min.
after that what looks like an aging rocker woman and a old fat guy in a hawaiian shirt chase after him, and i think something tells me they're his parents, lol. but oh well......i go back in, we finish our game and since i can't really get home because it's now 1 in the morning and all the buses that could take me home around my way have long departed. so, i end up crashing as an ex's... don't even fucking ask me how..

i didn't do nuthin though.....just slept i think. couldn't remember shit the next morning, and frankly i'm a tad afraid to ask her,
especially because she's been rubbing in the fact that she's moved on in my face and has some new tall swank french boyfriend to show for it. buuut according to her he does that french shit where they kiss too much during sex, and he's not as gentle as i am or some such bullshit i really didn't need to know....which i can believe. fucker's hand is as big as two of mine! he's in my height area,
and she's a shortie i'm like... 6"2' so she's gotta be around 5 something, so i can imagine ol' gropey pierre just tryin' to manhandle her short ass during coitus. hahaha..........sucks to be her......

okay i've apparently ranted too long.... i'll just post a second entry of what all the bad news is.

it's beginning to look alot like...... uh... something... oh yeah, christmas.

2008-12-20T12:10:37Z

ugh...... it's 6:34 in the morning where i am now, and i'm kinda frustrated but it's okay..... seems christmas is around the corner, and all the little kiddies are eager to have toys and gifts for this momentous occasion as it is like, every year. i;\'m supposed to be transferring to the art institute of seattle, but it's starting fall through, the admissions advisor hasn't called me back in 2 days, after i finished the application.... and i probable won't be making moves till april. eh, figures....

oh, other than that, i bought a DS lite awhile back to amuse myself on the way to work and school, and oh my am i amused right now.

i'm currently playing drawn to life, Mario kart DS, and the world ends with you.

the world ends with you has been quite a sleeper hit me right now.... to be honest, i kinda thought it was gonna be another one of Tetsuya Nomura's stylistic abortions filled with spikey headed people with twiggy arms and huge feet and emos attitudes covered head to toe in zippers, and it kinda has.....

BUT OH HOT DAMN IS THE GAMEPLAY ADDICTIVE..... DAMN YOU NOMURA!

besides that, amid all my holiday shopping, i so want to play the new prince of persia..... it looks sooo awesome. all cell shaded and gritty, and with some kinda panther's claw on his hand to climb places, a fancy looking fencing samshir sword, and magical women that sling you everywhere...

.

oh, and tom schafer over at double fine has finally churned out a gameplay vid for the VERY VERY RIGHTEOUSLY AWESOME....

Brutal Legend, starring jack black. if i have to tell what this is or is about, shame on you. rock is obviously not your friend.

moving on, i've been keeping my anime viewing a little lax they past few weeks, still trying to keep up with kamen rider kiva, enjin sentai go-onger and watch casshern sins, Space adventure cobra, kamen no maid guy, to aru majutsu no index, and Xam'd. that, and reading numerous manga at the same time. i swear my head is going to exploded one day on accident.

but yeah, that's it for now.... if i don't post in here again before christmas, happy holidays to everyone. i'll probably be somewhere.

what a week.....

2008-11-10T02:06:04Z

oh man, yes indeed what a week.

so on tuesday, i got up at about 6:00 am to get up and wait 2 hours in line to vote, and guess what? mine and all our vote counted.......

WE GOT OURSELVES A BLACK PRESIDENT FOLKS. BARACK OBAMA IS IN OFFICE!

and on saturday, i got a few new things:

one, i got a phone. this samsung RANT.

yeah, sweet phone, i know.

and also, some ink.

the symbol is from the manga 20th century boys.... my arm is still alittle sore.

there's alot for me to process from this week, and there will be more to come....

WOooT!

2008-10-10T23:39:05Z

yo, you know i thought this was going to be an anti-climatic day because honestly, i'm the black sheep of my family, but this day was fyucking awesome.

i thought i was gonna have to work, but i only did for like... 2 hours.... the chick that was upposed to cover for me came thru, and i went straight to the strip club next to my job..... oh man... it's called archibald's. man if you are ever in the DC area, look that shit up.... the ladies work for realz..... shit was sooo cash, lmao

oh yeah.. i am fucking drunk too. i had like.... three shots of patron', three beers, and a martini (i watch the bond movie i didn't know what the all fuss was about them..... so i gots one.) man..... strippers are awesome.

but i know the day isn't over. but it's all good. i think i'm gonna get a tattoo tomorrow...... i dunno something anime-themed..... i know it's gonna be awesome

happy birfday to meeeeee!!!!!

Wimmenz troubles....

2008-09-26T03:43:31Z

sorry i haven't been using this thing as much i as i should lately, but i've been kinda

busy.... you see, in between going to school, i've finally gotten a job..... at a starbucks.
yeah, i make coffee for anal-retentive douchbags, health nuts, and high school kids who

don't know what they want. i'm trying my best to get used to it, i'm on the register now,

but sometimes i forget to call out drinks and things like that, but i'm trying my best to do

a good job, y'know. my co-workers are always there to help me out and it makes me feel good,

so i never have a real problem with them; they're cool.

i also seem to be to be the 5th person in my school to get a job at a starbucks in the

washington DC area, which brings me to something else happening lately.

i seem to be striking out with the ladies bad..... and having the ability to be inspired and

draw like i used to.

i went to visit a classmate who works at a starbucks in the mall recently and happened upon

what i thought was a nice girl, and i thought against my better judgement, to try to be

outgoing and talk to her because i thought she was cute...

oh yeah. Mr. social butterfly here.

I chatted with her alittle bit only to find out that my friend and her had something going

on the sneak tip, like fooling around and getting her back blown out on his breaks in secluded

places in the mall kinda sneak tip....

i immediately gave up chase.

i don't know if it's that i'm kinda old-fashioned or chivalrous or whatever, but i can't

have another man's leftovers.... much less his side-chick. (wow, that kinda sounded

insensitive.)

you know, that seems to happen to alot to me lately. i meet someone supposedly nice and

sweet and i'm a day late and a dollar short.

there was another instance where i had just gotten off of work and there was this cute girl

who seemed to had just gotten off of work and having a bad day. she tried

to open a soda to drink in the metro station and it overfizzed and it went everywhere.

being the nice guy that i am, i tried to help her clean it up. we kinda started talking as i

helped her, trying to cheer her up, and she went to the trash can and threw away some

things, inadvertently forgetting her wallet. i give it back to her to try to strike up alittle more

convo because the train is on its way and i don't have much time to talk with her.

but it seems to go only that far... as she thinks i'm a high school kid because my work

clothes looks like the high school uniform around here. that, and i look really young.

dammit.

and to top it all off, i recently got in contact with an old ex to meet up with and hang out

on a saturday just to find out something i didn't really need to know anyway.... i so want

that saturday back btw.

oh well, i don't know what i'm going to do.... i have no idea what i'm doing to repel women

away from me. i mean i'm not a bad-looking guy, but i'm no denzel or brad pitt or something.

eh, i've been a bit of quiet, reserved loner most of my life, guess i'll be one for a little

while longer....

Otakon aftermath

2008-08-23T22:53:14Z

so yeah... i wenr to the otakon this weekend. halfway decent, man! there were a few problems though.

1. i was not on my own time. i was riding with my friend who had never been before, who was taking an out of town friend. they seemed to enjoy it, and looking at all the cosplayers, until my friend and i had realized how long the at-con registration line was. his friend had already pre-registered, so she got in like that. jeezus, i wish i had pre-registered.

so around the corner, and down the block we waited..... for almost three fucking hour baking in the hot sun. listening to the staff of the con babble incoherent nonsense into a blaringly loud megaphone, one guy spoke so fucking loud close to me, that i thought i was gonna go deaf, but then it was time for us to be let in.

i had been to many an otakon, i wasn't going to cut too loose. i just wanted to meet my friends and enjoy the con.

i only got to take 2 pics on my friend's camera, but i think they were pretty cool. tokusatsu related, but cool.

this is me with two kamen rider: the first cosplayers. pretty badass for costumes made from scratch. yes, that's me with a cig in my mouth in the back.

and here is a pic of the rare akared ranger i found at the con about to go into the cheesecake factory. i guess rangers love cheesecake?

all in all, it was cool. i even bought two cool new things, a DX kamen rider Den-o Zeronos belt (i've already modded it!),

and a Revoth tech gurren lagann, that even came with a core drill that is now on my keychain; TOO BAD ONE OF THE ASSHOLE VENDORS GOT OVER ON ME AND MADE ME OVER-PAY $10 ON IT! swindling bastard......

DARE WO DATTE OMOTTO YAGARU!

that, and i fucking missed the jam project concert, which i thought was soo gay. so much hot blood that night, and i missed out on it. oh weel, there's always another con, right?

DS gaming, the dark knight and the end of avatar.

2008-07-22T14:56:59Z

so i'm know i haven't been keeping up with this thing, but it's all good.

so on saturday i went with my friend mike to go see the Dark Knight. sweet lord, that was a dark, hardcore movie. batman just didn't even give a fuck halfway through the movie and just starts going in on low-lifes and villains alike, and starts fucking them up bad. there were also of familiar faces, and some new ones. i'm trying not to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, but joker and the disappearing pencil trick will live on in the back of my mind forever now. thanks alot heath ledger, speaking of which, the guys acting was spot on. i loved heath as joker, and he will be sorely missed. coming out of the theatre, i had never felt so evil in my life, and that's not good for karma, so i went and got some ice-cream.

i've also finished avatar: the last airbender (finally). the finale was pretty damned good, and i loved how the shipper fangirls who obsess over dumb things didn't get their way, except the ones who follow the regular canon (i don't particularly like them either but what ya gonna do, eh?)all the characters seem to have had a chance to get their own time to shine, but them were still some people m.i.a., or dead, but the finale made it so that new episodes and tv specials might be on the way.

and even though i hate spoiling it for people, i wanted to mention it.

i've been playing some new games and anticipating some new games as well.

i've also picked up gundam 00 on DS lately, and i fucking love it.

it's entirely in japanese, and i haven't watched the whole series like i guess i should've, but it's still fun. it play kinda like a tiny zone of the enders, with about 4 different gundams to choose from.

it gets harder and harder with every mission, but i'll make do for now.

later..

so much self-loathing......

2008-07-09T13:47:34Z

It’s almost 9:30 in the morning, on a wednesday morning. I haven’t been to school in a few days. Dammit, I need to go before I totally fail my classes like the jackass I am. I have great potential, but I’m sooo stressed and lazy.

I’ve got some more scans to to put up like the first boss from the fatal furies. The reason I haven’t been on the net in a few days isz because I’ve been chillin’ in the cut over my family’s old house in eastover, where my grandfather still resides. It’s a nice place to be, but no internet. I don’t really care to tell you the truth, but whatever. I’ve found myself totally getting better at my own styles of art, and I am loving drawing women now. The curves and muscles and smoothing out everything, and the new broaden range of expressions.

I’m still kinda sad I still haven’t had a chance to play metal gear solid 4. oh well, by the time the otakon rolls around this year, I’ll have had the chance to play it and maybe even beat the sonuvabitch. Oh yeah, that’s how I feel. It’s like if I don’t play anything else mainstream this year, I want that mgs4 in my hands. There’s no excuse I have a ps3, and I really haven’t broken it in anyways. I love mgs. I’ve been following the story so far, and snake hasn’t reeeally disappointed me. So I’m dying for more new adventures and chances to unlock new mysteries of the past.

Oh man, has anyone been watching The Venture Brothers? It’s fucking hilarious. The murderous moppets are creepy and funny, as always Dr. girlfriend and her brand new monarch-themed villain costume is hot, but her voice isn’t. Dean’s getting some serious play from the ladies, (triana was somewhat jocking his shit when he let loose a volley of nerd rage and went to fucking town on that one douchebag that was supposed to be brock’s son at the venture compound summer camp, and the other time in the Amazonian jungle where Dr. Quymn’s girls had stole him away back to their room and him slightly drunk and pinned him down for some beaucoup Nancy and Drew time. Lol, they pad their bras.)

poor hank has been getting the raw deal, Brock hasn’t really been going all sickhouse and sh* t on anyone, but dr. Venture’s new arch enemy, Sgt. Hatred is a laugh every minute. It’s like if John Ratzenburger or John Candy was an evil army-themed villain who was a convicted sex offender with a thing for lil boys (ewwww), he’d be Sergeant Hatred. And then there are some villains with wild gimmicks, like Truckules. And old classics, like Cat-clops and girl Hitler.

Oh man, I want to make a cartoon like that someday.

Other than that, I’ve start back drawing some new designs for my other comic, “with Two Fists of Iron.” I’ll talk more on it later but for now, I’ll say it’s about fighting. Breaking taboos between men and women and lots of fighting.

Also, since I haven’t been on the internet, I have been watching a lot of TV. Man, if you haven’t seen them yet, you have got to see the shows chowder and flapjack. They’re fucking hilarious. I know it’s not all kid humor, and the kids still love them. Schnitzel is all-around priceless, and so is the rest of the cast on chowder, and is Flapjack’s. the whale is actually played by the same woman who played the shortest muses in the Hercules series, and you can tell.

Well that’s it for now. More to come later.

The next Episode

2008-06-23T14:18:56Z

oh my gawd.... what is up with me today? my stomach's been hurting since this incident last night where i was wading through the just in my room and tripped over a wooden sword, fell on the back of a folding chair really fucking hard, and proceeded to barf on my shoe.

that has got to be a practical joke God played on me or something. maybe some incentive to go to church again, i dunno.

but in other news, i'm kinda pissed that i don't have enough money to buy my heart's current desire: Metal Gear solid four. GI magazine gave it a perfect 10, and everyone's been giving it perfect views across the fucking board. i want to play it sooo fucking bad, and i even tried to rent it, only to find out it's sold out everywherem, which fucking sucks for me.

oh well, i guess i'll just wait to get a pre-owned copy of it next month or something. then i will not come out of my room for a week or something.

i've also been working on the story of the young neil fancomic i've been planning. i've created bosses for him, awesome badass rock bosses who have a collaboration band called the Fatal Furies. (ha ha, snk reference.)and they are all based on familar rockers and popculture icons we all know and love.

check it out:

The Fatal Furies:

Gabe drohl:

-based on foo fighters' base grohl

-awesome guitarist and frontman for the band, woo foo warriors

-also awesome drummer

-expert of Savate, French martial art

-drumsticks transform into eskrima stun rods

Adamo De leon` :
- Based on Coheed and Cambria's Claudio Sanchez
- fuck awesome guitarist, able to switch from stratocaster to fendercaster during songs.
- has a large possessive head of hair with a life of its own.
- expert of Nova Scrima, an italian martial art, and the rapier.

Lyra:
- based on the WWE's Lita
- former pro wrestler turned punk rocker. she will still kick your ass.

- professes, like all strong women, that a guy not fighting a woman does give him the moral highground, it just makes him look like a pussy.
- possessed by the long dead spirit of wanda o' williamson (based on wendy o. williams of the plasmatics.)

Vin Manishewitz- based on victor wooten and lenny kravitz
- monster of the electric bass guitar, which doubles as a chainsaw.
- touted as very philsophic.
- has developed a fearsome sword style using his guitar.

and the BIG boss, the king of kong:
- obviously steve weibe
- king of the art of oldschool gaming.
- seeks a worthy opponent to slake his savage 8-bit thirst of hardocre competition and rivalry.
- owns a record company that the fatal furies are signed to.

ah, what do you think? that's kinda cool, right?

i've actually drawn them all as a group already, and i'll post the rough sketch later.

i've got more things, planned, and a long ways to go.

until next time....

Once again it's on...

2008-06-22T19:04:16Z

meh, as much as i protested this, making a livejournal or blog or whatever, here i am. i already see some familiar faces on here, doing their own thing, and it got me to thinking that i should go ahead and bite the bullet; get my own and stuff.

well, here's the rundown on me.

i'm 20, i'll be the legal drinking age in about 4 months. i figure nothing's really gonna change seeing as i'm a social drinker at parties and not a fucking boozehound. i'm pretty random when it comes to some things, but that's why my friends love me. i uh, am cursing with spouting random nuggets of info that no one knows, and sometimes care to know. right now in the background as i write this, i think the first spiderman movie's on like, tnt or something. damned satellite tv, why must you be so entertaining with your sleek remotes and numerous channels that include like six kinds of porn.......

but enough of that; i am an animation student aspiring to be an awesome comic book artist who ends up making an awesome adult cartoon series that will change this fucking world one day.
i am the dog, and i WILL have my day.

i draw kinda good, but the problem is i lost the tablet pen to my uh, tablet, so i can't make with the cool and awesome artsy-fartsy graphics and color. it seems that everyone with a good knowledge of a tablet and the half-assed drawing talent of a giggly middle school girl can call themselves an artist, which is un-awesomely gay. i want to buy another pen, so i can get better at things like photoshop and opencanvas shows these pretenders how it's really done, on either pen and paper or 600 hours in MS paint. either way i feel i need to grow as an artist, and maybe level up as well..

i'm kinda lonely now because all my friends have disappeared due to various circumstances, and now i have to make new ones at a new school, but i'm not worried; i'm a likeable guy.

since i'm an avid scott pilgrim fan, i decided to work on a crappy fancomic sidestory for the character young neil, the one character that always seems to gets emotionally and verbally shat on by everyone and never noticed. it shall be 5 kinds of awesome, i stake my life on it.

this is my young neil. it came to me one day talking about him being a "bottom of the rung" character in the scott pilgrim circle of friends. i gave him this awesome power glove as a tool for fighting. why? well think about it; the power glove is arguably the most frustrating perihpiral in the history of gaming; maybe a person wth the right amount of anger may be able to tame and harness the power of the glove.

i think he looks pretty cool, although this drawing is horribly rough. i gave him a list of moves as well, and i gave him a drawback to it all, as to not make him a walking deus ex machina; when he uses the glove, he only has 25 minute time limit to kick some major ass, as the glove feeds on his emotions. after using it to its fullest potential, his energy is totally zapped, and he has to rest for about two days.

that's all for now.