Read THIS, people. It's been a while since I irritated an assent out of Joe B R to link up to this post ( ;P ), but I didn't get the time to actually link up. This post is a couple weeks old, and it's a good read, especially for girls who'd like to hear someone speak, as in SPEAK, out against men groping women. This dude was effing pissed in upper case, and I tell you folks, you won't regret having read it...

:P

!!!

christ!! what where how??

i thought i only used the f word. but according to this here i must be a foulmouthed bitch... wtf!!!

O_o

makes me wonder WHICH all words they actually consider cusswords...

NOW!

I am in NOW this week!

Now is an independent free weekly news and entertainment newspaper that pretty much one trillion Toronto people read on the subway every Thursday. Its basically the perfect audience for people like me. Its an "Authors Fest" issue and my little bookmark got chosen!

Hello little cat!

Here is a link to the web version of the little article. I like it that my name got into the little blurb at the top. Not too shabby.

So that is fun. Its pretty much what I expected when I was contacted by the fashion reporter. Its teeny tiny but its still in print. I tried so hard to pitch the "Book Vampire" one to him! Ugh, doesn't anyone like vampires?! ;-) haha

So HI NOW READERS!! If any of you manage to trickle this far I am going to celebrate by getting myself a present. Or if none of you do, I get a present. I basically just get a present.

i hate kids.

yes. i hate them. they get on my nerves and i simply. cannot. stand. them. shy reticent quiet kids are still okay... but you get so few of such kids these days that it's okay to say i hate kids as a whole.
:P
And the very prospect of having kids makes me go Ugh!! Yech!!! Creeps! nononononoNOWAY!! :shuddershudder:
I was just discussing this with mom when she told me how ugly it was of me to hate nishpaap sishus(innocent children) and she also attempted to enlighten me on how absolutely devoid of emotion I happen to be. I promptly left the spot with a snappy 'Ma plee..h..z! Don't nag!!!'
Once I was safely back in my room and had locked the door, another thought gripped me- The scary idea of having kids that'd actually grow up into teens and young adults and have their own opinions and rebel against parental authority!!! Jeepers creepers!!! The horror the horror!!! I could NOT stand a specimen like myself!!! My nerves'd blow off! :shudder: The sheer thought made me break into cold sweat.
Plus, of course, having kids also means cleaning them feeding them doing all the yecchy stuff worrying about their studies health school homework blahblahargh. Read, end your life. Read, say tata to your own hobbies, entertainment, obsessions. Read, sacrifice your life for something that, despite it all, grows up and slams the bedroom door on your face with a "Jeez! It's my life for chrissakes! Leave me the hell alone."
Thanks but no thanks. I'm NOT having kids. Newsflash, mom!
:cheeky grin:
Though I'm ever so thankful Mom never felt the same way herself. :P
(PS. Oh and by the way, I haven't yet told her I don't believe in marriage or that I think living together with one's partner without marriage is the best idea mankind ever came up with. I'll keep you posted though, on what passes when I do tell her.)

Also this is what a lovely friend LD writes:
'Well, females are conditioned to want kids from the moment they are born. If you have a slightly older girl in a bunch of kids she's expected to "mother" the younger ones. It's sick. I don't know, but you'll find very few women who are willing to admit that they dislike the idea of kids, it's mostly the social pressure in a way which results in this. I mean, hey, if a man says he doesn't want kids, it's considered manly and perfectly acceptable. If a woman says the same, she's judged to be some kind of heartless monster. Whoever said women have to be maternal? Besides, the world is already full of examples of poor parenting. Don't we have enough spoilt and pampered brats already? How do I know that I won't end up doing the same? Blah.'
Read this post HERE.

I swear he can say the word "mom."

Here is my day, morning and evening.



His isn't so much a cat, as he is some sort of constant eating-animal. I like to call this animal the fatty bear. Or possibly, the cat-loaf. He turns cat food into fur and pee. Loudly.

I am featured on my Street team's blog today! My street team is pretty active and has about one billion members. The Etsy Dark Side Street Team is all about making darker sellers more visible and giving them a community to chat to and network with. I just squeak under the door as "dark" enough. Hi street team people!

Maybe tomorrow I will make a comic about how my cat can only go to sleep if I build him a tent in the blankets. No really. Its freaking pathetic.

Monday.

Ok, its Monday. It dreary outside and cold in my studio and I feel like I could just crawl under a blanket and watch House (which I downloaded in a totally legal way.) Is someone being a jerk to everyone supposed to make me smile so much? I might be a bad person...

So this weekend a batch of Batcat plush were finished up. I got a request for a more baby-safe doll, and this is what I came up with. They are nice and floppy, and kind of flat, perfect for kids to lay on and beat up.

I put one sleepy one in the shop. One is spoken for and the awake one might be photographed tomorrow (when its less dreary.)

Another thing that I will add is my new little phone my Dude got for me. I had the oldest phone on the planet, and the worst part is that it still worked perfectly and dependably. How crappy is that?? I wanted it to break so I could get a new fancy one.

I now have the phone of a 16 year old boy.

I have yet to mar its surface with stickers and junk, but that will happen after the honeymoon period of newness. I think its nice I actually have a use for my Bluetooth now. Sending nonsense to and from my phone. Its like I live in the future. (P.S. My Dude got the 'girl' colour and I got the 'boy' colour. Does that blow your mind how we laugh at typical gender roles? HA.)

Ugh, today is definitely the day I turn the heat on in the apartment. It somehow feels like failure. I always try to go as long as possible without it. But Screw that, its officially friggan cold, and friggan Monday. I have written posts about how I usually feel so optimistic and productive on Mondays. I am so sorry about that. I take it ALL back. I just feel COLD.

On Whiplash, and a bit of the eternal how-could-i-have-avoided-it-it'd-get-to-me-sooner-or-later Tallica vs Deth debate.

This dude here was inhuman. Fucking. Inhuman. Period.

:bows:

RIP.

And this…

Late at night all systems go
You've come to see the show
We do our best, You're the rest
You make it real you know
There's a feeling deep inside
That drives you fuckin' mad
A feeling of a hammerhead
You need it oh so bad.

Adrenalin starts to flow
You're thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
Whiplash!

Bang your head against the stage
Like you never did before
Make it ring, Make it bleed
Make it really sore
In a frenzied madness
With your leather and your spikes
Heads are bobbing all around
It's hot as hell tonight.

Adrenalin starts to flow
You're thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
Whiplash!

Here on the stage
The Marshal noise
Is piercing through your ears
It kicks your ass, kicks your face
Exploding feeling nears
Now is the time to let it rip
To let it fuckin' loose
We are gathered here to maim and kill
Cause this is what we choose.

Adrenalin starts to flow
You're thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
Whiplash!

The show is through
The metal is gone
It's time to hit the road
Another town Another gig
Again we will explode
Hotel rooms and motorways
Life out here is raw
But we will never stop
We will never quit
Cause we are Metallica!

Adrenalin starts to flow
You're thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
Whiplash!
…is pretty much the goddamned ANTHEM of thrash metal. Metalheads here’ll exactly know what the song talks about..
And isn’t it oh so us? Isn't the feeling ohsofamiliar!

For people who haven’t heard it, HERE’s the youtube link. (Bleh. Not that I think there IS a metal fan who has NOT heard the song. I posted the link so Whiplash just might convert a couple of Others into Metalheads.) GO LISTEN TO IT. And wonder how, just HOW on earth, a human can play the bass like THAT!!! Yeah, that’s the same dude whose picture I’ve posted up there. Cliff Burton!!!

Oh and you can’t miss the guitar solo either. That, as Metal-militant points out, is Kirk.
Anyway, Metallica has and shall never been the same after Burton and Mustaine. And I trust I’m not the only one that keeps wishing Mustaine was still with them. And people, let’s admit it, Deth is musically superior to Tallica as well. For people who do NOT listen to Metal but still appreciate musical talent, duh!, go listen to (and this is obvious to any BABY metalhead,)… Hangar 18, Symphony of Destruction, Tornado of Souls, Holy Wars and Kill the King(big DUHs after each.)for starters for some fucking inhuman guitar and bass work. That brings me to these dudes here, besides of course, Mustaine.



Marty Friedman, David Ellefson and Nick Menza!!
Gods in their own rights.

And don’t even get me started on Deth lyrics. Every time I listen to Rust In Peace, I’m left wondering how on earth Dave came up with lyrics like these…

Tremble you weakings,
Cower in fear
I am your ruler, land, sea and air
Immense in my girth, erect I stand tall
I am nuclear murderer I am Polaris
Ready to pounce at the touch of a button
My systems locked in on military gluttons
I rule on land, air and sea
Pass judgement on humanity
Winds blow from the bowels of hell
Will we give warnings, only time will tell
Satan rears his ugly head, to spit into the wind
I spread disease like a dog
Discharge my payload a mile high
Rotten egg air of death wrestles your nostrils
Launch the Polaris, the end doesn't scare us
When will this cease
The warheads will all rust in peace.
Bomb shelters filled to the brim
Survival such a silly whim
World leaders sell missiles cheap
Your stomach turns, your flesh creeps
High priests of holocaust, fire from the sea
Nuclear winter spreading disease
The day of final conflict
All pay the price
The third world war
Rapes peace, takes life
Back to the start, talk of the part
When the Earth was cold as ice
Total dismay as the sun passed away
And the days where black as night
Eradication of Earth's
Population loves Polaris.

The only facet where Tallica scores above Deth is James’s godly vocals. In fact there too, though people are always ranting about how bad Dave is as a vocalist, I think his gnashy gnarly vocals have a charm of their own. And well, who could miss that grimace. Ah well. That, to me, would place Deth a wee lil above Tallica. At any rate now we have two great bands instead of one. Metallica still remains Metallica, and with all due respect to Hammett and Newsted, who I worship as well. So well if Metallica is Godly, Megadeth is GODLY! And that's about it. :)

Coming back to Whiplash then, this song here is just about the best piece of music I’ve come across in old-school-real-Thrash Tallica, or atleast one of the bests at any rate.

AND I also have to mention the fact that THIS is the song, and Burton is THE dude that made my favourite style of headbanging what it is- the whiplash!

The dead rise and review...

Nightmare Revisited

Looking at the CD for "Nightmare Revisited", I really have to imagine that it was prompted by a Disney executive in a nondescript boardroom saying, "Geez, we ought to exploit this Nightmare Before Christmas property after all these years!". Beloved of spooky kids everywhere, a 'special edition' DVD of the film has just been released, and to accompany it is this album, a collection of covers of the full original soundtrack, I.E. with 20 different artists all covering a different song. Luckily, the album sounds much better than a quick cash-in should (though this can be attributed in no small part to the strength of Danny Elfman's songs). The choice of artists is interesting; although there are exceptions, the album largely splits into straightforward alternative rock on the one hand (Flyleaf, Korn, Rise Against, Plain White T's) and more experimental, hipster-approved bands (Sparklehorse, The Polyphonic Spree, Datarock). I have to say that my preference (at least on this album!) is for the former. Marilyn Manson's bombastic Weimar-metal cover of "This Is Halloween" is clearly cartoonish by design; Sparklehorse's "Something's Wrong With Jack" is insufferably precious, a mess of glittery meandering and falsetto vocals. Definitely a worthwhile album - most of the time - for fans of Jack and Co.
-N. Zombie

N. Zombie will be reviewing only zombie approved awesome albums weekly, to brighten your dreary existence. Or the opposite. Or whatever. :-)

Its ready!!

I heart my colouring book!

Its in the shop!

I think it came out really well. It was fun to do too. I might have to start a second book right away!

Its a little 10 page black and white book, with a glossy cover. Each little book was hand assembled, has an original little Batcat doodle, signature and number. So each little kiddie, or big kiddie feels like they have something super special.


If I never sell one, I don't even care, because I am think they came out so sweet. (Ok, I would still like to sell some. haha!)

There was some discussion on whether I should use the US or the Canadian spelling of 'colour', especially since it was definitely for children, and almost all my audience is in the states. But when it comes down to it, I am a Canadian, Batcat is a Canadian, and that is how we spell colour! :-) I think the world will survive my choice.

P.S. Do you like Batcat's new buddy? He is a cute little Rat, as Batcats only eat cakes and pastries, not rodents.

addictions..

ALRIGHT! anyone who doesn't worship these dudes here


...particularly this motherfucker,
[Children of Bodom
Angry are rising
Running amok, slaying
With a sense of desire
From the twilight of the past,
Among the victims who died

Something Wild
has survived!]
Wildchild!


(he's a friggin' one-man army dammit!!!)

AND these chaps here...


...any bugger that does anything less than worship these people, and still call him/herself a metalhead, can go die. :/
okay poserish post i know, and it ain't really meant for metalheads, coz there canNOT be a respectable metalhead that does not. but then waddaheck. :P


okay now for the rant part. sometimes i feel much closer to the music than i've ever felt to anyone. any human being. sometimes, and i won't deny it, it scares me how i haven't really LOVED...and not just romantic love(and mind you, going out is one thing, and actually loving is another thing altogether), any kind of love. sometimes it scares me. but then again i don't believe in love so where's the point! heh that brings me to what i started this rant to quote.
this one's from Pratchett:
'"...And what would humans be without love?" (said Ipslore.)
RARE, said Death.'

Hell. that's about it. oh and people, thank you so much but please do NOT attempt to enlighten me about lurbh. :P
so anyway the music. to people who haven't heard Behemoth yet, i'd advise you to [PLEASE] go listen to them. For me they're like therapy... i mean NO SERIOUSLY...at times Behemoth makes me feel like someone's playing football with my brain and then my nose feels like it's gonna bleed soon, and my eyes feel like they're popping out!! I tell you people it's fucking addictive!!!! Once you start listening it takes a good bit of effort to move on to another artist. And COB...well...is COB. Fullstop. :D Oh and Alexi Laiho is God (plus drooldrooldrool).
Ahem. Okay that's about it.
Later.
:)

PS. And I also think I might just have eaten the comp up. Jeepers!
PPS. I smell beer. And I want beer. Right. Fuckin'. NOW. :'(

Sneaky Peaky

Assembly of my little book thing is underway! The one I showed a bit of here.


Trim,trim,trim.


And another bit.

I am assembling them slowly (it IS Thanksgiving weekend in Canada...) And I am sure they will be in my shop my Tuesday or Wednesday. Its cute! I think I can safely promise that now. ;-)

You Scored as Black Metaller You are a black metaller. Chances are your favourite bands wear corpsepaint and come from Scandinavia. Stay grim!

erm. i've never been much of a genre person(read, i cannot and do not define subgenres of metal. so i don't really know whether this fits me, though i'd much rather go for melodic metal. but then the quiz was real fun. found it on metalmilitant's blog.)

New Pin Set!

Its been a while since I designed a new pin set for my shop.

I guess this one is only half new really, since it uses existing paintings, like the one I posted about in my last post...

"Pretty Girls" is available now in the shop.

The little mirrors are really cute! I think I like them more because I did something I don't usually do. I cheated! I did this little sketch in pencil, loved it, and then just scribbled on it with pen and marker and kept it as the final. Usually in a situation like this I would take the time to make this super clean ink drawing, which sometimes looses a bit of the life of the pencil sketch. This worked out way better. In university my professors always said this was the best way to get good work, but I guess I forgot. haha

So that's my big accomplishment for the day. I feel like its a good one.

*Oh, look at that, a pin set sold before this post was complete! Yay. That's a good sign! :-)*

Commission...

Please don't ask me to paint you.

Once in a while I do a commissioned painting, usually if it interests me. Call me lazy, but its really stressful to paint something for someone you don't know, and be happy with the final product.

I really struggle with custom work, because I am a very bad planner and I like to "try stuff" in the middle of paintings. Stuff that sometimes goes horribly wrong.Ok, OFTEN goes horrible wrong. So when I can't do that because I am freaked out that I will ruin the painting of your lovely pet/child/husband/mama, it looses some of its life.

BUT. When I know the person I am doing work for, its WAY easier. I know what colours you like, I have seen the art at your house and I know that you know me and have seen everything I have ever done. So doing work for you is a treat.

This little painting was a gift for an autumn bride's paper anniversary. I know the giver and receiver really well, so when I got the "Do whatever you want." I didn't have to panic. This little painting was supposed to remind her of the wedding, remind her of herself, and maybe even remind her that there is life outside her office walls. ;-) I think it came out quite pretty.

Little tip for anyone commissioning an artist for a gift for the Mrs or Mr: The giver who commissioned the artist gets no love, and the artist gets it all. :-) Haha. Sorry!

So its October! Officially fall to me. And if I needed any proof, there is something that proves it. Door to door pumpkin salesman.

You can buy a pumpkin off the street of busy Toronto, with the farm dirt still on it. How weird is this? Weird and kind of perfect for the neighborhood I live in. Its veggieland.

Some day I am gonna run out there and buy something. Maybe its the mix of cuteness of the piles of veggies, the obvious law breaking, or the fact that its the ultimate DIY way of selling your stuff. Next time...

Oh wait, would I actualy have to eat the veggies? Hmm. Might have to rethink this.

i'm yet to meet a guy...

...whose idea of fun during a festival is NOT limited to booze, and booze only.
bugger.
:|

An new print.

I don't generally do artwork that is for a specific time of the year, as that just seems like such a strange and limiting concept...

But. I did do a Halloween-ish one this year.

Not that it started out that way, it just kind of progressed and with LARGE thanks to a costume idea from Martha Stewart, it just became a Halloween painting.

Here is a progress shot I grabbed if it as I threw paint on it. Of course, using orange makes it instantly Halloweeny. I hardly ever use orange.

I think this is one of the rare times when the print is actually more beautiful than the original artwork. I reproduced it at the same size and the slight change in colour that happens when you scan and print really made it pop. It's available in the shop now. I might also offer it matted in the near future. And probably the original painting too. Haha, how many ways can you utilize one image? I will do it!

P.S. She has magic hair. In more ways than one.

metalfist on pujo pandal wall!!!

this is what i found worth bringin back from panchami city trip. metalfist with devilhorns on north calcutta pujo pandal wall!!! BANG! baby!!! it's even got black nailpaint! dammit. talk about detail. :D

(oh and btw, this was made of burnt matchsticks. look closely. :) )

made me wonder. ooh. made me wonder.

ah well. metalheads rule the world anyway. do we NEED such proofs?

manias. (or maniae??) dang! let's call this greenandsilverrant for obvious reasons.

makeover mania. yay.

with an exam on Beckett, Woolf and Miller tomorrow, i know i shouldn't be caught even by myself doing this now. but then waddaheck. what with the the vacation just a day away, and new clothes smelling like springtime daisies(erm. i don't know what springtime daisies smell like, or even if daisies are spring flowers, but the idea sounds nice. hehe.)... and new fuckbands and studded armbands and silver egyptian bracelet and plastic bracelets and loads of siver pendants and tinkly stuff for all my piercings and aaaaaa!!!!! i want the test to be over goddammit!!!!

i can smell pujo despite being a staunch atheist. best of both worlds baby. muah! :P

I haven't worn anything but pjs this week.

No, I haven't left the house yet this week.

I usually make things for myself to go out and do but this week seems like a good time to cocoon and work on stuff.

Just a few minutes ago I sent part of the teeny tiny book I made to the printers. Nerve wracking!! I just get all worried that it will printed wrong. Just a tiny change in colour or shift and its ruined. I won't sleep soundly until I have it in my little hands. I think its going to take a week and a half...

So, my October is going to go well. How do I know this? Good omen. My bat was on the front page!

Its always super nice when someone (Thanks phydeaux!)lets me know I have something on the front page of Etsy! I would never know if people didn't do that. I was just on the front page recently, so I am feeling the love. :-)

So aside from a few custom orders, and restocking a few items in my shop, I have decided to take a break and just do some paintings and drawings in the next week or so. Nice to have a change of pace. I have some new supplies to try out and halloweeny ideas to bring to life.

Maybe I won't leave the house until Friday! Hmm, that would be a new level of hermit-ness. yes, I think I can acheive it.