"Where'd you put my stuff?"
"What stuff?"
"You know, my stuff?"
"I didn't touch your stuff! Why would I want your stuff? Your stuff sucks."
"No, your stuff sucks!"
So does anybody know what these two people are actually talking about? No...? Come on, of course you do - they're talking about stuff. And like the conversation above, I hope you get just as much knowledge and insight from this blog - my Journey into Stuff.
It's a collection of stuff from my past and the present, as I attempt to make some sense out of, well - please don't say it again... stuff.
Creativity
I've tried a lot of creative pursuits. I think it's been my way of trying to figure out stuff. The first thing I tried was cartooning. And since it was where I started - way back in the early 90's when Grunge AND Jeff Buckley ruled (a testament to how good Jeff Buckley was) - I think it's a good way of starting out here too.
These are some of my early cartoons. Many were self-published on a now defunct website I called "Elephant Tales" - predominantly focusing on a quirky elephant named Eric (any emotional likeness to me is purely coincidental - and besides - it was a long time ago). I'll try and put at least one of these old cartoons up with each blog.
The first "Eric" I drew properly:
I always felt like the black sheep, especially in my late teens/early 20's - ditching an accounting job to draw...
... and attempt to play music.
I still play (very poorly), and still harbor ambitions of writing at least one song that I actually like. I once wrote a song called Soul Destroyer - it was about somebody I used to work with. It was a hard rock style of song, but not very good. I tried several variations - one being acoustic - it still wasn't very good, but somehow it was sort of funny.
Until next time ...
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Get stuffed.
ReplyDeleteOnly kidding :) Your first Eric is still one of my faves.
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Thanks. No recommendations on your blog from me.
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, I still like it too after all these years.
OH YAY!!! Eric returns!!! I still have an old Eric greeting card that I stumbled across recently. I'm so excited to have the chance to have double dose of Bilman family blogging. More in my comment on your next post ...
ReplyDeleteOoh but before I go to your next post, can I beg that you ditch the "prove you're human" thing in comments? Blogger is really good at keeping out spam as it is (in my experience) and I promise to comment more if I don't have to keep proving I'm human because those tests tend to suggest I'm not. (I am human, though, in case you are having doubts.)
ReplyDeleteHi Amanda, thanks for your comments. Still working my way through the technicalities of the blogging landscape. I was going to wait until I had more content and had settled on a "look" for the website, but my lovely (yet meddlesome) wife facebooked it - as you know. I think I've sorted out the issue of your humanness. The new Blogger interface doesn't have the setting for it available to choose so I had to go back into the old interface (which does have the setting).
ReplyDeleteI'm very glad your lovely, meddlesome wife Facebooked it otherwise it would have taken me ages to catch up once you had a trillion posts on it. And thank you VERY much for dealing with my humanness issue. Much better.
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