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NOVEMBER 17, 2008: DON'T FORGET TO BLOG, ASSHOLE

All my brilliant thoughts, all my singular experiences, being lost to time because I'm too high to blog. What a stupid asshole! Again with the catch up entry. For all of September and October I did basic Suckadelic wood-shedding. Casting figures, editing video, and getting drunk/ high. I live with my girlfriend now, which is something I resisted forever until she became homeless and I became even broker. So she weaseled her way in and now I'm stuck with her, which really isn't so bad. In fact I rather enjoy it, which is weird. We have become total homebodies. We cook every night, drink a little wine or whatever and then snuggle in for a night of watching TV on the internet. We have our shows like HEROES and MADMEN plus we watch MAD CLIPS of JOHN STEWART, RACHEL MADDOW, KIETH OLBERMANN, DAVID LETTERMAN, SNL, anything having to do with the election. We were total OBAMAMANIACS, anything about how John McCain and Sarah Palin were fucking up and about how perfect Bam was and all the gossip coming from the Liberal media we snorted up like it was crystal meth. I was on Huffington post all fuckin day reading every last update while I sat on the crapper. I guess I went through all the same highs and lows and the whole emotional gamut that every Obama supporter went thru. I don't think I really need to describe it here cuz I believe for once in my life I had a truly group experience where I felt everything the same as millions of other people and didn't have some weird or unique or ironic twist to it. The campaign went on for so long I got used to it always being there. then suddenly it was finally over and he actually won! and I felt great! Nuff said.

While all this was going on, I was hard at work assembling all the disparate elements of the SUPER SUCKOFF group show at MUNKY KING in LA. That was very difficult and time/ brain consuming. I had to cull, transport, and organize artwork from 40 different artist from all over the place. Lots of emailing and repeat emailing in that affair. I had to work with the gallery to plan out all the logistical aspects of the dates and times, flyers, graphics, alcohol, DJ, etc etc, contracts, plus all the booking of the flights, the hotel, the rental car (Prius!) and all the little odd details of the traveling. AND the artwork had to be done for the T shirts and prints that we were producing AND i had to make short runs of three new original SUCKADELIC figures to release at the event. There were 50 bootlegs, 40 suckpegs, and 20 vinyl versions of the CHINATOWN WARRIOR character. That's a lot of making and doing. Plus I got involved in that ART for OBAMA fundraiser that JAILBREAK TOYS put on. I had only 5 days to suddenly make a custom Barack Obama figure for this awesome group show. SO damn busy. Oh yeah, and I had to plan out all the video shit I had to do also. AND I busted ass building this fucking CRAZY set with vehicles for the new MICROSEXUALS episode. They go out to a nightclub in this one and we literally BUILT a 3 and 3/4" scale sleazy dance club with a vip sections, velvet ropes, a bathroom, a lighted dance floor and a limo. It sounds like so much work now what I write it all down.

Somehow it all got done. After planning the Munky King show for 8 months, it went from building up towards along term goal to an impending, immediate reality. So all the shit went into motion and we flew out there. We stayed in this really interesting Bed and Breakfast on Fairfax that was run by this old Hollywood Matchmaker/ publicist lady with this huge house full of crazy oriental nick nacks and Movie biz detritus. It was quite fascinating. We would wake up in this lady's house and cook out own breakfast and eat it on the back porch in the warm California sun. It was a swell scene. Then every day for like 6 days we would go to Munky King and work on the show. First I had to asses all the artwork. This would be the first time I would be seeing it in person and was I pleasantly surprised! There were some top notch people in this thing and I was flattered by how much effort they all put into it. The Guys from GARGAMEL, FIG-LAB, KOJI HARMON, AMANDA VISELL, ILLENENA, Lots of superstars. URBAN MEDIUM, KOZIK, ONELL. It was really cool. So I wound up with exactly 40 pieces that had to be photographed, packaged, displayed, priced, and entered into the database. Then there was the massive task of posting all the updates and fotos to all the toy blogs and stuff. Then there was the interviews with VINYL PULSE, TOY BREAK, and ACTION-FIGURE TIMES. A lot of talking about ME and MY shit all day, which never seems to get boring for some reason...

Speaking of boredom, have you read this blog entry? Sorry for this lame description off all my stupid art chores, but I'm going for realism here. I got to chill with some cool peoples, like Mr. BUFF MONSTER, he took the fotos of the toys for me, he did a great job and was a really nice guy. I wonder why people talk so much shit about him all the time? My back, by the way, was KILLING ME. I fucked it up again from too much drunk video editing sitting all bent up in the chair. Here I was doing this great big fun thing , and it was diminished by a chronic hot stabbing ache in my left shoulder. God that sucked. But I soldiered on. we got all the shit put up. We shot our ORIGINAL VILLAINS scenes where VECTAR had to fight the MUNKY KING in order to get into the temple to wreck the Sucklord's party. That was fun. We painted the suck logo on the wall. Drove out to see CHOPSTIX CHARLIE to make the screens for the suck-shirts and prints. But besides all the work, we managed to go out to eat at some great restaurants with some swell people. We had Ethiopian food with that big round spongy bread they make, we scarfed mad cheap tacos, had expensive sushi twice. Korean BBQ, Argentinean food. Loved that fried Provolone. Thai food with Elvis impersonators, Yeah, we ate good.

Then suddenly it was the day of the show. And for the most part, it went really well. All that planning and organizing paid off and it went pretty much exactly how I envisioned it, and with not all that much stress. Imagine that? We partied on Halloween up in the hills with COLBY PARKER Jr. and then came home the next day. I've taken some time to lay low, plotting and scheming, assessing the cost-benefit analysis of the adventure, editing the video, getting full blast into the new Microsexuals episode, getting ready for the new round of figures I need to produce, doing a few more platform shows for other people, watching America elect the first black president, doing some early preparation for my first book, shooting more villain shit, making new deals I can't talk about yet, getting ready for another Christie's auction, planning my trip back to LA to shut down the show, thinking about doing a part two in NY.....

DECEMBER 29, 2008: ALL RIGHT, IT'S OVER!

Fuck this year already. I mean, what a winner, overall. But still, let's get on with it. Let's get Barack in there and set off a new vibe. I know the economy is fucked, but that may be a good thing. People in the western world spend way too much money on disposable crap. Maybe a new folk sensibility will arise; One of creative consumption and conservation. Maybe gaudy flashes of excess will go out of fashion. (fuck Paris Hilton and her fucking pink BMW. That bitch needs to shut the fuck up) Maybe rents will go down and all these gay dress shops and stupid restaurants will go away and New York will get seedy again. Maybe I can open my store in such a climate. Yeah, This was a swell year. I'm not worried about the future. I think 2009 is gonna be cool. I think that the world will come to some realizations. I think the essentials will come into focus and the trivial will diminish. Bush was such a vibe of the times and I do believe he was destined to be the face of the decade, but that shit is over now and we got a new guy who seems not only competent as fuck, but representative of a futuristic move. Its gonna be interesting to watch him president this piece up. Did you see how buff he was? Damm if he can run for president in the most fucked up campaign ever AND have time to rock a body like that, i should be able to not be a fat fuck too. My life isn't 1% as stressful as his. Guy's a mover, man!

As far as Suckadelic goes, ain't a damm thing changed. Shit is gonna roll straight ahead until the lights go off. A lot of "desiger Toy" companies are gonna go down in the recession. Tough shit, asshole. I kept it up all year in the face of all kinds of hurdles. Nothin's gonna touch me. I'm like a fucking cockroach. I can survive and even thrive in shit conditions. In 2009 the plan is to wrap up the bootleg series with 11 final figures and get it all compiled into a book. The Suckpegs will come more into the fore of operations and additional bootleg vinyl will be dropping. The Sucklord, as a character will also finish up. Only one or 2 more versions of him left to do, then the Original Villains will become more central to the toy game. I plan to do less platforms of other peoples shit this year, although the SUCK-OFF group show will most likely get a sequel here in NY. Another thing is going to be getting the music back in the mix. There hasn't been any new Suckadelic music in 2 years. All my musical hustles have gotten mad cobwebby. That's gonna change. And videos. The Darkowl Chronicles have dominated OVN in 2008 and the releases have been very sporadic. That was a dope series, the best shit we've done since we began, but it was a tough one. A lot of special effects and green screen work. They were hard to make. The next series will hopefully be more streamlined so we can get them out quicker. These ones will relate more to the toys this time too.

Yeah 08 was great, but let's dead it already. Fucking holidays are a drain on time and wallet. The future looks rather interesting. Will you share it with me? I thought you would, fag.