Looks like I'm an old smelly man now :0

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Well it was an interesting birthday. Started off at midnight with a couple flash tributes, and over the rest of the day some more followed. Despite the fact that most of the entries are rather spammy, I'm still happy about (almost) every one ;D Check em out below (listed in order of submission):

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

Also, check out this nifty art thread (cux ima whoer)

Went to work just like any normal day, and listened to a fair amount of Mars Volta, as I would be seeing them live later that night. I was pretty ecstatic, as they are my current favorite band, and had yet to see them live. You see, the Mars Volta is from El Paso, and for some reason seem to hate coming back to Texas. We were going to drive up to Oklahoma to see them, when they decided to add 3 Texas tour dates, and would be in Dallas on my birthday... what a gift!

However, as the evening was building up, it had to come crashing down when I got home. My back door was open, and when I went inside my apartment was upside down, and a ton of stuff went missing, what pisses me off most was the Wii :/ Luckily my TV and computer were still there. Then I called the police, and boy did that police officer like to talk. He gave us all sorts of advice on how to shoot him.. I believe it went something like "Yeah just hide out here and ya know when they come through that door you just gotta POW POW ya gotta defend yourself ya know? Then you call the cops and say, 'hello there's been a break in and the robber is dead' and that's just self defense ya know?" Then he proceeded to tell us about how if someone is breaking into your car, you can only shoot them at night... not at day. He was an interesting character. We talked about his taser for a bit, I asked if it was one of the new ones that comes out all the way with two barbs... and indeed it was.

But enough about that crazy cop, he left, and I was waiting around for my friends to arrive to pick me up. Then they arrived and pulled out some bottles as a surprise for the concert (okay it wasn't really a surprise... it was my birthday, I knew what to expect). Me and two of my friends got our drinks on (this story totally takes place in Canada where 18 is the legal drinking age *cough cough*) and our other friend drove us to the concert (that's right kids, don't drink and drive). Sadly we got there late as I live on the other side of the planet and my car is dead at the moment, but it didn't matter. I ran straight into the crowd and made an attempt to shove my way to the front. Eventually I reached a point that it was too thick to procede any further at a constant rate... at which point you need to worm your way forward. I had made a shirt that said "CEDRIC! IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!" (made as in, white t-shirt and colored sharpies 5 minutes before I left) I was determined to show Cedric, the lead singer.. although I knew it wouldn't do anything. Sadly the furthest forward I made it the whole night was the second row, but either way it was still pretty awesome.

The band was phenomenal. The presence of their new drummer was outstanding. He just grinned like a fool and beat the crap out of those drums perfectly all night. He would look over at Omar and smile, and Omar would play something, and he would play a beat to it, and when they found that place they were comfortable at, the rocking out would resume. Cedric would wriggle around and dance up onstage while wailing his little heart out, and we'd scream our asses off in the pit. I remember at one point screaming "THIS IS THE BEST BIRTHDAY EVERRRR" and I got a nice wave of woo's, yeah's, and 'happy birthday!'s.. good stuff :D

Stuck around after the show and ended up meeting the black piano player, and Marcel, Omar's little brother. Got both of them to autograph my silly shirt ;P My friend also picked up a poster for himself, and I only now realize that it has the date and city on it. It turns out they have a different poster for each stop... neat :0 The poster is pretty bad ass, too.

But that about sums up my birthday, now I suppose I should actually talk about something "artist news" related ;) I've started freelancing websites in my spare time to try to scoop up some extra cash, sadly that keeps me more busy than I already am :( I need to get around to finishing my Pico Day drawing... Sheesh, I can't even finish a drawing... good thing I didn't attempt an animation :/ I'm still trying to save up some money to go out to Otis (gotta have a dream, right?) But recently I've come to realize that surviving solely on animation is not an easy task. I feel a little doomed and realize I'm probably going to have to still do web design on the side to keep the bread on the table.

I'm tired of rambling and am going to end this post now.