I really am enjoying this game so far. I picked it up at midnight and instantly started playing online mode. I am hooked. I am usually not the greatest but I typically win in the online set up, especially in battle mode. I really love it and the SNES courses they have. So great.

Anyone else have it yet?

I'm going through something I invented, however I will remove the patten so you can enjoy it in your own bliss if you feel so impressed.

I call it...early life crisis.

I think college is stupid in principle and in paper. I think it is brilliant for what it creates, organized networking and forced submission to a greater good. I mean you get to meet people who share interest and you do the art you may have not otherwise try.

It's stupid because really college by paper is just a way of the government and business weeding people out by making them do things they hate. "Most people can run five miles if they must, but how many can run it...on a track full of marbles." That is the evil side of college.

I also do not enjoy the sinkhole it is for anti-religious prophets. It amuses me how many young people will cry against organized religion...yet they learned this mainly through organized education.

So what am I getting at?

I'm going to college, I'm finally giving in. I'm failing on my own, I don't draw enough since I've been out of high school and I really don't want to lose it. I also would like to have an art JOB while I work on my comic in my free time.

Most art jobs don't sound appealing to me though. Animator, graphic designer, inker...yeah it just sounds lame. I only want concept design, writing or a directing job. All of which are low on the possible side.

So I'm thinking art teacher. At least for now, tomorrow maybe murderer again but really I have a passion for it today.

I like the idea of being an art teacher a lot. I enjoyed my art classes and my art teachers. I had friends in those classes. I like helping people learn to draw, but it is very hard through the internet. I want to be an art teacher who shapes lives and changes the system.

Why is it that we start kids out with music at such a early age? Fourth or fifth grade it's the recorder, sixth you pick a instrument and get to play it in class twice a week. Seven and Eighth it is an elective and then in High School it is your life. At least that is the way it worked in my school system. Do they do that for art? Nope.

Art is a fun play thing the crazy loner kids do when they aren't sucking glue or killing people. Music teachers HAVE to know music, art teachers...well they, uh must know how to pass out brushes and write As on report cards.

I want to teacher high school art, but I want to go to the middle schools that cycle into my high school. I want all the kids interested in art to come to my class and get started on the basics while they're basically infants. That way in high school they are doing what people do in college.

I want to give people Fs, lots and lots of FAILING grades! Why is it that a math geek can take art thinking it is an easy class and be right...as always!? Yet they can't draw a stick man without its spinal cord extending past its non existing nose? It is stupid. In my class you will be graded on effort. When I had to take gym class I was expected to lift 25 pounds more on the last day than I could in the first. The same principle will apply.

If a kid wants to do abstract that is fine by me but they will have to think. What is abstract art? Is it art art, or is it art design? Does it really work on its own, or should it simply highlight a living space?

That would bring me a good amount of joy. I know people say teachers don't get paid very well but then again they get paid twice to three times what I make and I work way more hours. They get four months out of the year off I currently get two days a week off, usually a lame day and I get to often work till 1 in the morning. No paid vacation. (Waves a yi-pee flag between two fingers)

Sure, maybe art teachers have to pay for their class supplies a bit, but if I CAN get into the job really it is the easiest of teachers. No papers to read, no tests and homework to grade. Just a couple of pictures to look at and say yea or nay to. That is it, or is it? I don't want to grade papers, but I want to use that extra time to go that extra mile currently failing in the art programs of this country. I think it can easily be done.

And you know, with those extra months in the summer I may just very well get some comics and stories done.

I could have an okay life career wise, and that possibility is something I think I'm ready to at least run over marbles for.

Who knows, maybe five years down the line when I'm nearly thirty I'll have just broken my neck twice for nothing but I'm hoping for the best.

I'm being torn right now. I want to mess more with animation and ditch my dull comic. More and more I'm learning I don't like the comic format.

Too many comics BORE me. I try to sit down and read other webcomics and about 96% are far too boring because the characters talk in paragraphs. WRITE a novel if you are going to be so blunt! (Or a video game walkthrough.) Could you imagine if in a movie everyone went on in long winded explanations and random banter with next to no added expression? It would be horrible.

I'm not saying I need 100% action, I just feel like too many comic artists don't know how to communicate and/or are lazy. The worst part is I don't know if I can escape it.

The more I think about where I'm going to take these characters...it really frightens me. Five days ago I was listening to music and thinking about one of the characters deaths I have planned and I couldn't stop crying. I became that character, felt their vivid pain and couldn't stop the emotions from taking over. I hadn't cried in quiet a while and I guess it really disturbed me.

I was like "Oh my gosh, I can't do this. If people read my comic I'd be a murderer, but since no one does if I do this...it will be blunt suicide."

So I stopped, I shut down Photoshop and didn't look at it again. The themes are so personal and real for me. Santa Sucks Blood is literally Schindler's List meets Candyland. It won't be easy writing super sweet stuff and the depths of darkness in one story.

It may tear me apart but I probably have to finish it now. I'm far more sick of starting my projects and ditching them. I'm going to do this. If it catches on in four months cool, if it doesn't then by Christmas of 2008 I think I'll just skip a bunch of sub stories and kill all the characters.

Yay!

Crazy I've been on deviantart for exactly a year now. I was hoping somehow I would reach the 1000 pageview mark by this time but that doesn't just happen on its own. I've met a couple new people through this place which I always enjoy and I'm very glad I am able to keep in touch with some old art friends...or at the very least just seeing your new art work is very warming and encouraging to myself.

I'm really hoping art wise I'm less lazy this coming year. The last few years have mainly been a lot of writing so bla-bla-bla, I just need to switch back and keep going.

Since I really enjoy movies I'm going to quickly post the top ten films of 2007. Of course this is a list made without me having the chance to see No Country for Old Men or There Will Be Blood.

1.) American Gangster

2.) Hot Fuzz

3.) 300

4.) Micheal Clayton

5.) Planet Terror

6.) Zodiac

7.) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

8.) Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street

9.) The Bourne Ultimatum

10.) Disturbia

Other than that if you are reading this but not my new webcomic SANTA SUCKS BLOOD, please check out my gallery and read it from the beginning. It will probably take less than ten minutes. Thanks guys!

Anyone know about a coloring tutorial for photoshop were the reference is an anime snake lady? I found it, and then lost it and got an error when trying to fav it. It was awesome...now it is gone. I'm trying really hard to cry but instead my face just looks dry and fussy.

I'm super annoyed, it's like losing a wedding ring in the pacific ocean. I'm not finding it, but you guys are lifeguards right? You could help...maybe. No the tutorial, not a ring. Yeah, thanks.

Other then that children scream when you eat them alive, but they scream when they don't get candy or when told to take naps so it doesn't really feel out of the ordinary. They taste better too, compared to cows and stuff, just wear ear muffs, they are only 5 dollars at most mart places. The screams will be muffled into soft good-byes with pastel colors. For the child, just steal one from a daycare, they won't notice. Just get the thing tested, don't want to be eating a aids baby you know. That's all.

Oh, for the record I've eaten a white kid, a black kid, but never ever a blue kid, M&Ms got me there.