Dusting off the cobwebs..

What a slacker. I'll get some art up on here soon!

So this was a FB survey and I dont know if my answers will compare to the awesomeness that is Kathleen Foley but here goes.


1.Currently: being a sexy married beast.


2. Being Busy: Txting and fbing, I only have 100 txts left and they renew in 5 days FML!!11?!


3. Secretly: a lesbian. I'm going to elope with a stripper called Jasmine. Next week. Sorry Kathleen, the divorce papers will come in about 3 days. Kthanxbye.


4. Actually secretly: a real Maori oww.. whos marrying a stripper.. AWKS! JOKES ily Kafleen.


5. Living: in a gangster's paaradise.


6. Travelling: To the other side of Auckland for Uni in about 2 weeks, chyeah.


7. One day: the apocolypse will come and Dean will save us. Well me but you know, get in line.


8. Fact: Davey Havok is God.

CLEARLY.


9. Like: Peace and good people.


10. Don't like: Haters, especially ones who VICTIMISE goats. GTFO.


11. Belief:
Think that sums it up.


12. Family: I got lots of cuzzie bros in da hoood, since I'm Maori and Irish I think I'm pretty much related to everyone in New Zealand.


13. Friends: are pretty much my family also :)


14. Success is...: being me! LOL jk, being Jensen.


15. FOOD!: is my second love.. as long as its vegetarian :D


16. Collection: music. music. music. music. music. music.


17. Weakness: Sam and Dean.


18. Talents: not math/science/sport.. but I'm pretty good at everything else XD


19. Men/Women: should be treated with equal respect/love AND NOT BELITTLED ON BURGER KING ADS.


20. Games: freetetris.org is where its at bru.


21. "I have always said.." : "It's a praying mantis. Do you know how they mate? The male will sneak up on the female and she'll bite off his head and the rest of his body will keep on mating and when they're done... She'll eat him. She'll eat the rest of him."


22. Surprises: Are nice!


23. Adventure : I wish Jensen would take me on an "adventure."


24. Mystery: is my middle name. Jokes, its actually Enoby.


25. Learning: all the time, you can only try your best :)

The key to self liberation

is abstinence from the destructive escapism of intoxication.



So today I thought I might, in avoidance of other work I should be doing, post a blog on the straight edge culture.

Straight Edge - Minor Threat

I'm a person just like you
but I've got better things to do
Than sit around fuck my head
Hang out with the Living Dead
Snort white shit up my nose
Pass out at the shows
I don't even think about speed
that's just something I don't need

I've got the straight edge.

Straight edge is a movement and philosophy that abstains from alcohol and drug primarily and started in California in the 1980s, I believe, with a band called Minor Threat from the hardcore/punk scene. At this time it was a normal practice for shows to be all ages and kids who were under 18 (or 21 depending on the area) had Xs put on their hands so that the bar staff knew not to sell them alcohol. Eventually a movement started where people voluntarily claimed the X and started a counterculture to the drinking and drugs scenes.

Today straight edge varies in extremity and the vegetarian/vegan lifestyle often coincides with being edge, some people believe in abstinence from promiscurity as part of the culture as well. And just some trivia, the 'emo' thing tried to rip off the edge scene as well as the LBGT community through their xXx usage and so called bisexuality (I wonder what they're like now that the 'movement' is dead?)

Last year I really got in to the music that all of this comes from and continues to thrive on. Minor Threat, Teen Idles, Ceremony, Sick Of It All, Earth Crisis, Propaghandi, Bleeders and Antagonist.

Until 2008 I didn't think the edge scene existed in New Zealand, until I saw the Bleeders play with False Start and These Four Walls somewhere in Glenfield. Angelo from the Bleeders changed my perception of the hardcore scene in New Zealand.


That night I had been wearing my X's on my hands, as I usually did back then and I'm quite sure he noticed them. I sure as hell noticed his tattooed on the back of his hands. I suppose realising the culture existed in New Zealand gave me a reason to believe I wasn't the only one trying to abstain from a culture that holds this country's social scene together.

Antagonist are probably the biggest NZ band today that are completely xveganx (straight edge vegan) band that dominate the hardcore scene today and after picking up one of their EPs Distance a few days ago I can't say I'm more proud that they are.


There's something about hardcore music that I really feel, there's hardly any bullshit in the scene just raw, hard breakdowns and when the lyrics are expressing issues that I really feel, it just makes listening all the more worthwhile.

Let's start a firestorm, to purify.

The art of photography

I've always loved photography and wanted to own a cool camera and take awesome shots but I've never really got around to it. Today I went and took some amateur shots of my Grandma's dog and played a little bit in fireworks with them. Here's one:



Concert and portait photography is my favourite. I quite like Ryan Muirhead's work, but I enjoy most photography from both amateurs and professionals I see on the web.

Keeping with the animal theme, I love this photo (which is completely her property) by Ebrusidar on Deviant Art

History is herstory too

So I finished Jared


Quite pleased with that actually.

I have the rest of my holidays now to invest some time in a movie called Milk (not this milk) and to recreate my art board for school this year. Originally, as you can see in my previous post my focus was on 'stage lights'. However, I've found that light alone doesn't mean a lot to me so I'm bringing back the figures and being the awesome feminist I am, I'm creating a board which depicts how female musicians are left in the shadows of the music industry and how the light needs to fall somewhere else. It's an abstract kind of concept but it's something I care about so I'll make it work.

I expect the board to go realism --> cubism/furturism --> surreal furturism eventually getting to a point where I can emulate something like what Jeff Soto creates:

Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life

Picasso said that.

Here's something I'm currently working on, I'll get the full version up when I'm done (the dimensions are a bit warped here too.) It's Jared Leto, in case you didn't know. I need to make him look more fierce, he's a pretty intense person.



I also do art at school which is kind of average but I do enjoy a part of it anyway. Here are a few examples:



I have a lot of art at home, mostly unfinished which should theoretically make me feel like a bad artist but Leonardo da Vinci, the genious of everything (after Kathleen Foley of course)once said that art is never finished only abandoned. Is that because it becomes redundant? Unwanted? Probably. I find that creating art has to be done in one sitting, the graduation of finishing a work can drive you insane if you aren't careful.



Peace

Oh, hello didn't see you there

Well the good news is that I'm not so new to this blog thing. Apparently I've been rocking this here at blogspot for two years and now I'm finally posting something. Amazing isn't it?

Although, admitedly I forgot about this. I'm not actually one of those people that sit on a computer adding profiles to all these websites just to sit there and read other people's contributions to the world wide web... or to view interesting content. I'm more of a, if I have to bother signing up to your page just to view this one picture, you can get fucked - I like my google provided pixelated image anyway- kind of girl.

I'm not sure what's on the agenda for this blogspot. Stray thoughts, deep poetic ballads about my personal life, commentaries on my angst against society? I suppose thats a small array to choose from.

I like blogs. Especially funny blogs and funny pictures. I'm quite an emotional person myself sometimes, however I feel that those expressing their endless sad stories of our mutual devastation and sadness get a bit too much to read. Did you know we read 25 times slower on a computer than on paper? That's probably why I don't get into the heavy stuff. It's just the internet anyway.

I'm getting a bit tired from my first blog entry. It's a bit excruciating. In due time I'll leave you with some "shout outs" to my favourite G's over in their blogger lands, those being Kathleen Miranda and a few guys who dont know me.

Kia Ora