An Attempt for Sanity

So, I've decided that I'm going to take up the art of drawing. I've been at it for a couple of days now, and I've drawn four things so far. I've create a blog for my work, An Attempt for Sanity. I've posted the four I've done up, and I'll be posting more once I finish with them. Feel free to go check it out.

Just an update.

So, just to update you on the project I mentioned a couple of posts ago. I turned it in to the teacher and he liked it so much he gave me two credits for just one piece. So instead of doing four small projects, I only have to do three. So I have one left to do. The next one I'm doing is a research paper on Winston Churchill, one of my favorite players of World War II. Despite being British(being of Irish decent and a huge Irish nationalist despite being born in the United States, I have a natural despise for Great Britain. Primarily England, since Wales is practically obsolete in the United Kingdoms and Scotland was forced into it by England.), this man was a genius as well as charismatic. Without him, I'm really not sure Great Britain would have fared as well in the war.

The Wheel of Time

I'm dedicating today's post to a great author, Robert Jordan. He wrote the fantasy fiction series The Wheel of Time. He, unfortunately, died in the midst of writing the thirteenth and final book of the series. Another author, who studied Jordan's writings, finished the book for him. If you're into fantasy fiction books, I strongly suggest you to hunt down The Eye of the World(The first book) and read it. I'm currently reading the sixth book of the series, Lord of Chaos, and I have to admit I've never read a better author.

Make Death your date!

       So, today I draw an U.S Army recruitment poster  based on World War II for a class project in my American history class. It looks pretty bad-ass, I must say. I copied the album cover for The Gang's All Here by Dropkick Murphy's. (Click the link to see a picture of that.) Except I made a few adjustments to it. I made the sky just a plain sky blue color, instead of the yellow, black, and red streaks, I used green and yellow-green for the uniforms and helmets instead of the pale olive green and olive green, and I removed the text "Dropkick Murphy's" and "The Gang's All Here" and replaced it with "Join now! Don't wait!" and "Make Death your date!" (Lyrics to the song Sold As Freedom by Anti-Flag) I also removed some of the planes in the distance, just because trying to draw them became more of a nuisance than anything else. They don't add or take away from the picture any, so why waste the effort?

       I'll be turning it in on Monday, and my teacher just might be posting it on the marker board with the few other drawn posters. Mine will be the first colored poster and the first recruitment poster, that I am aware of. The others are black and white ads for war bonds or propaganda against Hitler and Mussolini. And they are drawings of actual posters put up during World War II, while mine was something I "made up." We'll see how my teacher reacts when he sees it on Monday. I'm expecting good results, though.

       Also, I'll be showing my teacher the songs The Green Fields of France by Dropkick Murphy's and The Lads Who Fought and Won by The Real McKenzies for another project. We have to do four total projects for one big project grade. So there's two projects down, two more to go. Which I have no idea what else I'm going to do. I ought to look at the assignment sheet and see what other options it gives.

Sincerly dear, the end

So, 3. September, 2010 a dear friend of mine wrote me a little note. It goes

"[My name here] bitch dick <3

                <i love you! 3

                                               sincerely dear,

                                                                the end"



I often used this note as a comfort and a means to keep my sanity somewhat in check. However, yesterday I read it and started thinking about why she signed it as "the end" instead of her name. Needless to say, the outcome was not the best. Was she aware of what was to come in our future, and wanted to subtly hint at it? Or was it just something she did without any meaning? Perhaps something else I can't think of? I've been racking my brain over this


Anyway, I'm still fretting over the signature and if you feel like putting in some input on what you think, go ahead.

So...

I decided to finally create this godforsaken blog of mine, since I've been thinking about it for at least a year or two. I'm not really sure what I'm doing with it, or how many people will be following and reading what I post. (One person so far, yay!) I suppose I'll post some poetry on here every so often, as well as try to have random discussions about who-knows-what.

Anyway, welcome to "Your Classic Homicide," a blog about everything and nothing.