Welcome back to yet another episode of my digital diary friends and haters alike. Today is a particularly special day because it's a snow day!!! I get the day off!!! Isn't life so delightful? The snow's forecasted to be up to about 10 or 12 inches, which is completely wild to me. Hell, at this rate and if we get particularly lucky we might get tomorrow off as well, which sounds like a blessing to me. It reminds me of when I was younger, watching attentively at the news to see which counties were giving their students the snow day off and which ones weren't. It was generally a 50/50 chance on whether or not we'd get the day off, but seeing the other counties which almost always gave their kids the day off made me so pissed. [REDACTED STATE]-ians can die and go to hell.
At the moment I'm listening to some Margo Guryan recommended to me by Roxy (hi Roxy!), and I'm really really liking it. The intro to 'What Can I Give You' always reminds me of the Sesame Street opening, but I adore this song nonetheless. 27 Demos is a pretty solid album, I really really like it! I'm hoping I'll get to listen to a few more of her albums, and maybe dabble back in a bit of jazz. It's also making me wanna make a combination playlist of Margo Guryan & Sixpence None The Richer. Two completely different sounds, I know. I think it'd make for an interesting combination nonetheless.
Speaking of music, I don't know if I mentioned this on here or not but while going out with my Aunt I managed to snag a copy of A Fever You Can't Sweat and MMM...FOOD from FYE (For Your Entertainment), and I'm so happy with these purchases. AFYCS is one of my favorite albums, probably my favorite Panic! At the Disco album. Its one of those albums that I listen to and adore every single song on it without thinking any of them are misses. I'm so, so happy that I have it on CD. I'm hoping that when I get a job I'll be able to buy myself more music, honestly it's the only thing making me really want a job at all. At the moment I really, REALLY want the CD singles for Nine in The Afternoon & That Green Gentleman. They're my favorite songs off of Pretty. Odd. and the album artwork for both are just mesmerizing.
Anyways, Discogs has them both listed as being for sale in the marketplace, so I'll just hope that when I actually gain some financial independence they'll still be up. I love Discogs, that place is like music nerd heaven. Like they have a listing for Here My Dear on the 8-track tape format, and I think that's the only album I'd ever be willing to get on an 8-track tape aside from like, maybe some stuff by Michael Jackson. Mainly cause who in their right mind still uses 8-track tapes anyways? Aside from music nerds obviously, but it doesn't seem like something I logically *should* want due to the pure absurdity of getting an 8-track tape player for maybe, what, one or two albums?? But temptation calls, it reigns me in like a shepherd reigning in their sheep. I will resist that temptation for now though, but if I ever have enough money to where I'll be able to blow it on absolutely useless crap, the Here My Dear 8-track tape is MINE.
OKAY. Music rambling aside, I think I still have more to talk about?? Roxy was not lying when she said that my blog posts are long, jesus. It's not my fault I have a hell of a lot of thoughts in my brain that I desperately need to release!! Using my private twitter isn't enough, how can I be even MORE talkative. By the way, while you're here go look at her blog. It's a lot prettier than mine, haha.
I guess I could say that I've been getting into practicing digital painting as of late. It's mainly cause I'm not really good at it or even know where to start!! If I wanna be a better artist that seems like a skill I should try and work on improving upon. I actually made a list of things I wanted to improve upon art-wise, since I've just sort of been winging it this whole time without really knowing or understanding how I make my work look the way it does. Art is all about throwing shit at a wall and seeing what sticks, then keeping the shit that does stick and you sort of keep throwing more shit until you eventually get a consistent amount of shit that sticks in comparison to the ones that don't. Unless you actually put in the effort to study anatomy and perspective and all that junk, which sounds (and usually is) kind of boring unless you make it fun. I suck at anatomy, doing a study of a pose made me figure out my understanding of anatomy currently is actually pretty piss-poor (try saying that three times fast!) in comparison to how it actually works. Oops. I really gotta do more studies, man, I'm telling you.
At the moment I've just been painting apples whenever I feel like it on my iPad. It's pretty good practice in my opinion. The only thing I'm kind of struggling with is the learning curve from going to having a million layers to only using about 1-3 layers. I do one for the background, one for the apple and shadow, and one for the sketch. It's so, so weird. But I think I just need more purractice to adjust is all.
Anywho, I think that's all. I gotta go do some registration stuff for college courses this spring. Typing that sentence feels weird, I hate growing up. But I'll catch you on the flipside! This is Spidey, signing out.
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