We Now Return To Our Regularly Scheduled...

Before most of the holiday craziness, I'd started to paint the Kings of Leon. With a couple commissions and consignment replacements done, I wanted to get back to it. Painting the musicians that I both love and respect. Coming up will be the final member of KOL, Richard Ashcroft of The Verve, and Nick Drake to name a few.

It's nice to get back into the swing of things, especially since I love what I do. I feel so dang lucky that I get to these days.

The swing of things also means getting back to new episodes of TV shows. I'm not much on that form of entertainment these days, well, years, but there are some fun ones that make for a relaxing evening spending time with my wife. So, along with continuing to watch the DVDs of "Get Smart" she gave me for Christmas, she and I will get cozy and watch "Ugly Betty" and "Grey's Anatomy" tonight.

What shows are you glad to have back?

Peace.

Feedburner Activated - Television Gathering Dust

My first post that'll be sent through Feedburner! Don't know if anyone'll get it, but it's there! RSS/Atom subscriptions are kinda like TV, I guess. Or maybe Tivo. Anyway, it's like push *and* pull content combined. I like it. I was at UCLA in the late '90s when the Internet and World Wide Web were just getting public interest. I got so interested in the underlying technology and software that I changed majors to the computer science-based Cybernetics.

Way off topic, sorry. Won't get into THAT too much. Suffice it to say that television took up much less of my time. Yet, TV was and is an important influence on me. It's helped develop my visual aesthetic, my sense of humor, and my ability to sit comfortably without moving for hours. Great pop culture skills. There were many shows that have become embedded in my media-saturated brain, but here're the ones that stand out:

The Simpsons

Get Smart

Looney Toons

High-class humor, huh? But so creative and, really, kind of revolutionary for their time. They each had their impact on our culture and on me. At the very least, I really really REALLY wanted a shoe-phone. And now, amazingly, my phone *could* fit in my shoe under my foot if I wanted a smelly phone. And you could get my post on your phone! What a world. Well, it'll all help to spread my idea if you:

CHECK OUT MY WEBSITE AT: WWW.VINYLART.INFO

and tell your friends!