Off to Play the Grand Piano

Well, I enjoyed the 4th of July. I suppose I could call it Independence day, but it, like every other holiday has drifted off to encompass a much different meaning. I think, to the average United Statian, the 4th of July means one thing... "BLOW SHIT UP!!!". Which is fun. I did stop to think about the Boston tea party briefly, and actual North American Independence. I think people really have to be driven to do something like that. Take the draft during the Vietnam War for instance; people got out into the streets and really made noise. I think people would be doing that today, but since the military is voluntary, it's not happening as much.

Guy Fawkes also came to mind. I was thinking about that holiday in comparison to the 4th. It's interesting what sorts of things become traditions and celebrations, and who decides these things? I'm going to make up a holiday.

We went a little overboard this year on fireworks. I suppose we should have our fun before all fireworks are outlawed here. But this is what the haul looked like:



We burnt through a bag of the little ones, and I completely overlooked the bag with all the medium-big ones. That was a nice surprise. I need to remember to buy a decent lighter next year.

Since I've been out of work and school I've had time to get a few things done that I needed to do. I put up a couple of shelves in my room. Now, my room is very small for someone my size. There was a time when cleaning my room was like doing one of those slide puzzles where you have to arrange the tiles but you only have one space to slide each tile. Since I cleaned out my closet and put up shelves and threw a bunch of shit away, it has gotten better, but it's still difficult.

I finally got a place to put my vhs stuff and my cd collection (all paid for btw, no burnt stuff)



And then I used the other one to display a bunch of stuff that was on my desk (and a bunch of stuff that had been sitting in boxes) The 2 munnys you see there were painted by Blinky & Sylvie



While we're looking at pics of my room, you'll find I still have work to do, as usual.



I haven't been painting or drawing too much, but here are a couple of recent things I did:




Lastly in this long image-laden clump of a journal, is one more image of the movie I just saw, and you should go see it because it was pretty damn good.