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So I have been utilizing my break time, to completely and utterly crush myself with a monotonous drawing and painting program. I am currently trying to finish up the piece for my prostitution article for Subversion magazine. I am having an immense amount of trouble with photoshop painting.

I am sure it will come along eventually, but my OCD, impatience, and manic-depressive behavior is really starting to become a major burden on my creative process. I keep taking on new projects like some multi-tasking, manic psycho. I am trying to single- handedly produce an e-magazine, finish a novel that I have been writing for a couple years, trying to drastically improve my illustrating/ fine art skills in general, and lots of other crap that I can't seem to recall at the moment.

I usually work a bit more efficiently when i'm stoned, but sobriety has been my state of mind lately. Got an art lesson with my little sister tomorrow, we are going to practice watercolor, so I will probably upload some work if anything good comes of it.

Well, the melatonin tea is kicking in and I am getting super sleepy.

Hey everyone. I wish I could be more consistent with these journal entries, because I always have so much to say. Its been a long time, so I am just gonna jump right into this years topic lol.

I am a US citizen, born and raised, but I have taken lots of time to sit back and take a look at the American Education system, and see why it is we are so dumb, we are actually among the dumbest people in the world. In this country we are taught incorrectly I think. Learning isn't memorizing a bunch of shit that smart people already figured out. Some of the greatest thinkers and inventors were people that didn't even go to school, if they were alive today would we call them uneducated? The truth is, people learn from trial & error, people learn from their mistakes, but how can we as Americans learn from our mistakes when our children are still being taught that Christopher Columbus discovered America. You can't learn from your mistakes if you never admit to them.

The reason we aren't told about these mistakes is because of the monetary system, or "money". Money, you will find is the greatest influence in the world, and will soon find that it even influences how we and our children will "learn". The thing is learning things like "Christopher Columbus discovered America." isn't taught because ppl believe its the truth, its because ppl want you to believe its the truth, so that you are conditioned to believe that everything that happens in this country is good, and that we are incapable of mistakes, and even in its discovery, America always been good, and pure. Oh the land of the free.

I realize that we are taught in a very precise way, as to condition us to not be free thinkers. We just learn a bunch of crap, no one is truly intelligent, we just remember things, and by the time we graduate high school we just perpetuate what we have been taught to do our entire lives, "Go to work and obey, or you'll get into trouble." Why? Because if us "sheep" realize how bad things actually are, we might start to question why one nation owns 40% of the worlds wealth, or why we go to war around the same time of a recession, always. If that happened ppl would be truly smart and see that the monetary system is actually economic slavery. That would be bad to the bankers that run this country, they wouldn't be selling oil anymore, because the "new man" would know we have the technology and the resources to make 100% clean and 100% free energy sources. They wouldn't be going to war anymore, because the "new man" would realize war is just a tool of profit for the federal reserve bankers, and that there is no such thing as a war on "terror" it is like having a war on jealousy. The "new man" would see through this propaganda, the "new man" wouldn't be fooled by a facade like the one we live in today.

I go to art school, and I have to take a biology class. So, while i was in an art related class, I said to a classmate, "there shouldn't even be a biology class in this school! Period." My instructor overheard me and replied, "Well you want a well rounded education, you don't want to be stupid do you?" I kind of brushed it off and agreed but I wish I wouldn't have, because I was right, and I truly pity her and her concept of intelligence. Like I said before, memorization is not intelligence.

Here are a few things you and your kids should do in order to truly educate yourselves:
1. Read books, not just any, read intelligent books, Plato,Aristotle, Karl Marx, great food for thought.

2. Get your news from independent and emerging news sites on the internet. Those places are more likely to give the ppl unbiased news.

3. Visit: www.zeitgeistmovie.com, and watch "Addendum" gives some infinitely valuable information.

So i have been working on this comic of my for about two years now. I have finally done some character concepts, and I have typed out the first issue. So now I am going to begin illustrating (pull out hair!!!) I have two concept sketches in my gallery but I havent put anything else up yet. I am going to say the release will be around the end of September. There will be a website and the first issue will be free. So keep an eye out for new sketches, posts, and then the site!!! Wish me luck. On a side note, I ama one man production as of now, but I am always looking for help, may it be with writing, background art, and stuff like that. If you are interested let me know.

Okay, first journal entry in months so, Hi!. In the time I have been gone I have turned 21 and graduated college. We also have a new president, speaking of which I was thinking...So I have been noticing our economy is in trouble and financially this country isn't doing too well. But, I see a lot of people having kids that shouldn't be, such as extremely low income/unemployed/unmarried individuals. When I see things like this I think to myself, "Why would you have children when you can barely provide for yourself?" I then began to think about solutions to this problem.

The government probably spends millions if not billions sending checks to people that can't afford to provide for themselves or their children. But then because of the situations that those children tend to grow up in, they end in the same boat as their parents did, and so on and so forth. Well I think that if the government just gave lower income individuals money to not have children then we would probably save a lot more money. If those individuals decide to have kids, no more money, they have to work. That way only the hard working and responsible people will be likely to have kids. To me its like new age natural selection, except no one dies.

The only problem is, the federal government has never been fond of "good" ideas. But I honestly do think this would be a great idea but I highly doubt it would ever happen.

Hey people, I previously stated I would be starting a new series, well i won't. I will be continuing oil drawings, i will also be continuing my C.C. series, so look out for some new stuff soon.