First of all, my sister is happy with the art I made for my niece. She told me she wanted mushroom art, so I did this…
I knew it was gonna be popular, so I made it into a bunch of products from t-shirts, masks, pillows, bath mats, prints, cards, skateboards, magnets, shower curtains, towels, stickers, mugs, phone cases, etc.
Starting at some point today, February 8th until maybe the 12th, everything is on sale for 15% off for Valentines day.
https://wickedcliche.threadless.com/
That’s the link to the store. There are dozens of other designs if you don’t like mushrooms.
I had the Jam’n Java Open Mic Friday night and did pretty good with my version of “Loser” and I am thinking of trying to do “Clint Eastwood” by The Gorillaz next, but it’s tricky.
After the Open Mic, I went to find these in the mail.
The CD is Ravipops by C-Rayz Walz… more on that later, and the record is the soundtrack to “The Harder They Come” which is a Jamaican movie from the 70’s about a weed dealing reggae singer, and it is one of my all time favorite movies, and part of what makes the movie so great it the soundtrack, much of which is by Jimmy Cliff, the reggae singer in the movie. Here are a couple songs from the soundtrack. This is the kind of music and film that can change you. I know it was a big influence on me.
I hate football, so I don’t really care that much about the Superbowl, but I used to watch it with my family growing up, including one year when I was in college, taking what was my favorite college class ever, Pop Culture and Society with Peyton Paxton. He was my professor who dug my ideas and could tell that I really got what he was teaching, in a bigger way than the average student. He was talking about how we are brainwashed by society, but he never quite put it like that. The class was about what was popular and why it was popular, and what intention did the capitalistic society have when they chose these things to be the things we all collectively see, hear, eat, buy, root for, etc. It was a great class, but one of our assignments was to watch and do a paper on the Superbowl and its role in society and pop culture and stuff. I’m pretty sure the Patriots may have even been in it that year which made it a little more fun for me because I’m from Boston, and my Grampy was over that night who is no longer with us, and he was betting on the game with my dad. I also watched the year of Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” when I was married to my ex. We watched at her parents’ house and they were all in the kitchen during that exciting moment, which I personally enjoyed and was mad Justin Timberlake didn’t have to take any of the blame. I watched the year Prince did the halftime too… at least I know I watched the halftime that year anyway. I feel like I may have been alone at home, not watching the game, and then put it on when people online said Prince was starting. At any rate, that Prince halftime show was the best one I ever saw, easily, hands down, but I enjoyed The Weeknd’s performance last night. I’ve liked him for awhile now though and most of the songs he did were from his first album which I have and love. I though it was great, the way he sounded and the total package performance… but to backtrack…
I was supposed to go to my parents’ house last weekend but the weather was shitty and I wasn’t feeling great, so I made it a goal to try to visit them for the Superbowl weekend, and if that didn’t work, we were gonna do next weekend, but I planned to drive up Saturday and home on Monday and it was gonna snow Sunday, but my car would be in the garage, so I decided to go for it while I had the chance, because I haven’t seen them since Christmas, I needed to get out, and there’s no guarantee it won’t be bad weather this coming weekend. I had to stop and get gas on the way and I was a little unsure that I was gonna make it as I started driving because the sun was blinding, but it got shady and I made it up, listening to a CD I just bought called Ravipops by C-Rayz Walz. It was on El-P’s old record label and there is a song with MF DOOM on it, who just died, but C-Rayz is actually one of my favorite underground rappers, and I love the album Ravipops. I was trying to find a vinyl copy with no luck and noticed it wasn’t even easy to find a CD, so when I found one on his site and it said the money went to his bail, I had to buy it, and I enjoyed the hell out of it on my way up north and I even got a signed flyer with it that said Jymi- You are the light. C-Rayz. Of course, it also said 2020 and it’s 2021, so it wasn’t a personal message and he was probably not the one to write my name, but it IS a real signature, and still cool.
When I got up to my parents’ my dad took a look at my computer that he wanted me to bring because it had recently died and he fixed it and that was part of the reason for my recent blog move and why I’m starting over on this page with no followers and I don’t even know how to get any because I sign on here through another site… it’s no really like a regular WordPress account, or at least I haven’t figured that part out yet.
After my dad looked at my computer and we hung out talking, dinner was ready. We had a meat pie with mashed potatoes and a salad. It was all delicious and then we watched Ma Rainy’s Black Bottom on Netflix. It was my second time watching and I liked it even more than the first time… a powerful film.
I hung out all night by myself after they went to bed and I took a selfie to mark that I went out because this was the first time I’ve left home since Christmas.
It snowed Sunday and we ate Italian takeout. I had chicken, broccoli and ziti and a Caprese salad. After we ate, I did art while the Superbowl was on.
Those 2 drawings are new and for sale, and this last one is another page for my children’s book.
That’s all for now. I’m hungry and gonna eat something. Peace!
