Not In Control

11:11am

no joke.

I made my wish.

Tuesday July 9th, 2024

Tuesdays are the soon-to-be official printing day. I started a few hours ago.

I wasn't listenin to vinyl today. At least not yet. I've been watching Hot Mulligan shows on youtube.

12:24p

Moved to Movements. I think their my favorite "new" band. In one song- I can't think of the title at the moment, but he says... "when I start to shake, I can't shake it"

and for some reason the Hi-matics just came on. God, I wish I hadn't lost that CD.

Printing is complicated today. I have a new plate that I carved, but I guess the lines are too fine, because I am getting no luck printing. But on the flip side, I printed "Helpless Decisions" again and it turned out great, I few pieces of paper left that I didn't print last time because it was getting blown out. But its printing good today. I think I'm going to print some of the "Interwoven" again too, since I got everything out.

Tuesday July 23rd

11:28a

Listening to Itunes this morning. No vinyl today. I am under a lot of pressure today. I want to get some last minute prints in since I have a gallery opening on Saturaday! I thought I wouldn't have enough art, but I have plenty of stuff to set up. It probably would be good to get "rid" of some it. oof. I was finishing an old paintin I had last night and it turned out pretty good. I still have a little left to do though.

I'm listening to radio based on "Algernon Caldwallader". I keep coming across this band and I wanted to hear more from them. I love the midwest emo, math rock genre. Of course not all of it is good, but when its good... it really gets me. I wonder if its because I've spent so much time in the midwest that I can really vibe with it?

I already started printing. Of course it's starting out rough which is probably why I started to write.... but I should get back.

3:22p

I've been busy. My flyers were printed and I had to go pick them up downstairs from the printshop down the street. And they look amazing except for one single stupid little line that came out of no where. Thats the trouble with my ipad, it works great for photoshop and illustrator, I love it except when your zooming in and out with your fingers (which you do a lot) little mystery lines end up in unexpected places and I know your saying "you didn't do a test print first?!" and the answer is yes, I did.... but I added some small minor detail and in that process the mystery line appeared. ugh. Hopefully no one notices :/

I did print stickers though, to sell for fundraising for the next project. !!

My internet is being shitty. So I'm moving to vinyl. But I really want to listent to Eisley. I can't for the life of me figuer out why I need the internet to listen to the music I uploaded myself?

The shitty thing about listening to vinyl is that I'm printing and my hands constantly have something somewhere on them, I already see on my Eisly ablum cover, a spot from a previous listen. And I'm a little pissed. However, none of the albums I got from my dad are in mint condition. I guess thats the caveat to actually listening to your records vs. just collecting them.

7:18p

Finished printing around 5 or so. Printing didn't go as well as it did last week, but we'll see once they dry.

Did I mention that I am temporary custodian of my sister's dog, Titus? Hes and old man and he is struggling. I really don't know what to do for him.

I went to the store to pick up a few things. I was only an hour.

Now I am home and I think I am going to do some painting. I really want to chill and do nothing, but I really enjoyed painting last night.

I was really avoiding eating, but when I was out I had to get something. I got a small thing of potato salad and I regret it. It had so much mayonaise in it that I feel like I ate a jar of lard. I didn't finish it, but clearly it was enough to make me feel sick now.