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Andrew

I'm not here, just a webpage representation of myself.

About Me

I'm in progress, towards what end i don't know.I draw, I write, I play Video Games (mainly just one as of the last year), and I watch movies.Caricature has become my job for longer then ever I intended. Working weekends, parties, and private gigs i've managed to sneak by as a Self-employed Freelance Artist ever since Graduating from art school. I still have interest in becoming a Comicbook artists, or storyboarding or whatever, just torn on what I'd want to do and where to spend my time. Interests are split and like I mentioned I'm still in progress of sorting it all out.What do I write? short stuff, notes for stories I mostly never finish and idea's for things that once I'm not "in progress" i'll hammer out.Which Video Game? World of Warcraft has become pretty much my sole form of entertainment since I pretty much stopped watching most television. Yes i'm online alot and I know it's a game, but everyone does what they enjoy, and currently I enjoy raiding what WoW has to offer.What Movies? good ones are nice, but GREAT movies! I try to watch the best films no matter the genre. Doesn't have to have been popular, just well done from the preformances to script to directing, etc...

My Interests

I'll go on the record that I'm a SUPER Geek except unlike most I'm not very techno-savy or in any manner technologicomputerologically skilled. Otherwise I'm into Drawing, Inking, painting, writing, Comic books, Movies/DVD's, Video Games (ps2+xbox+computer), Books by Alexandre Dumas or William Gibson, Vodka, Coffee with Cinnamon Hazlenut creamer, and many other things. I like Entertainment, All kinds. From Dramas, to Science Fiction, to Comedies but what I appreciate most is quality in whatever I read/Watch/or participate in. Quallity or an Enjoyable experience from it. Generally I use gaming a bit too often when I'm down to distract me from life. The list of interesting ways to distract or entertain myself BUT mostly distract myself from things goes on and on and etc... More and more lately i've been World of Warcraft as my main distraction, great game with fun things to interact with, mostly good people online playing on Earthenring, and some cool stuff to work strategies out to defeat.

I'd like to meet:

Who i'd like to meet would be someone interesting with interests that spark my creativity and interest in them.

Music:

White/Rob Zombie,NIN, Ministry, N*E*R*D*, Iggy Pop, Moby, Chemical Brothers, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, Pearl Jam, Remy Zero, R.E.M., Beastie Boys, Cold Play, Prodigy, Underworld, Led Zepplin, They Might Be Giants, Yoko Kanno, The Vines, Lords of Acid, KMFDM, and occasional Classical music (especially Spanish guitar)

Movies:

Lawrence of Arabia, Princess Bride, Trainspotting, Snatch, Fight Club, Battle Royale, Ussual Suspects, Seven Samurai (or anything Kurosawa), Leon/the Professional (or anything by Luc Besson), City of Lost Children, Army of Darkness, Rushmore, Matrix Movies, Garden State, HERO, Lord of the Rings, Ronin, Xmen 1+2, Spirited Away (or any others by Miyazaki), Blade Runner, Star Trek or Wars, L.A. Story (and alot of Steve Martin flix), Zatoichi (and nearly any BEAT TAKASHI films), Donnie Darko, Spiderman (1+2, great films with great cast, scripts and director), Azumi/Alive/versus/Aragami (any japanese movies by Ryuhei Kitamura all i've seen are incredibly fun) , Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Galaxy Quest, Kiss kiss bang bang, lucky number Slevin, and tons more...

Television:

The Shield, Smallville, Futurama, Simpsons, MONK, Bonanza(a classic), My name is Earl, the UNIT, used to watch wrestling and very rarely check it out to see what my former faves are doing. I watch more DVD's then watch TV, and do have cable now after not having it, TOO MANY CHOICES but no time to watch anything!!! I do however pick up select shows that i didn't watch when they were originally broadcast that are now available on DVD such as M.A.S.H., Buffy+Angel, and FireFly (which was incredible and I never saw when fox screwed up broadcasting the series but I beleive could have been one of the best shows given time) ...

Books:

Nueromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Idoru, All Tommorrow's Parties, (anything by WILLIAM GIBSON cyberpunk or not), 3 Musketeers, 20 Years After, Vicomte de Bragelone, Louis de La Valliere, Man in the Iron Mask, the Black Tulip, Count of Monte Cristo (any Alexandre Dumas books I can get my hands on they're all incredible), NEVERWHERE, Greek and Norse Mythology, Samurai books, Comics of nearly every type from the Super Heroes to Crime Noir to Japanese Sci-fi but my favorite Artists are Michael Golden and Olivier Vatine.

Heroes:

....::BRUCE CAMPBELL::..... he's a god amongst mere mortals. I read his book "IF CHINS COULD KILL:CONFESSIONS OF A B MOVIE ACTOR" and it was highly entertaining just like his preformances in most every movie he's been in. I had him sign a copy he was just a really really cool guy. Plus I have to really respect someone who lives doing a job he really seems to enjoy and that enjoyment is readily visible in his work......::WILLIAM GIBSON::..... I've had him sign copies of his books as well. If you've never heard of him then SHAME ON YOU! He's the science fiction author who came up with CYBER-PUNK... His idea's and what was sceince fiction then is very real today in the form of the very internet you're reading this on now. Almost all the internet terminology relates back to his books. Meeting him was cool as well, he was very nice and spoke for a time to the crowd about living in an era where what writers create as science fiction is soon realized as technology......::MIYAMOTO MUSASHI::..... He's a legendary Samurai considered the last great samurai, he went undefeated in duels until he retired as the era of samurai's ended. He began his life as someting of a Thug, then became sort of a Warrior/artist/poet......::ALEXANDRE DUMAS::...... He wrote over 300+ books in his lifetime and was the most succesful and prolific author of his era. Not only did he write books filled wih action/intrigue/humor he traveled and lived the very life he wrote about even participating in revolutions.

My Blog

Recently...

So, i've been laxx yet another time in keeping my updates going.  I have recently picked up an Independant comicbook/graphic novel job.  I'll make a small bit for the pagework fee, and perha...
Posted by Andrew on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:53:00 PST

David Mamet & The UNIT

David Mamet is one of the best writers of our age of entertainment.  Creating some of the best twists, and best modern tales from Stage to Screen.  A few years ago a movie of his I somehow m...
Posted by Andrew on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:33:00 PST

been awhile

Blah. life's been life, nothing much has changed. I've gotten together with a long time friend, we moved from friends to relationship quick. Started in december and now i'm burned out of it and sen...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

father

NOT too much to report, except decently good news for once. My father had a cancerous growth in the fatty tissues of his right pectoral. Recently he had surgery (3rd and fourth surgery on it since it...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Star Wars

i have to say i'm a little dissapointed in the DVD set of star wars. For all the claims to this set being the ULTIMATE DVD of the year and such, there's not all that much. These dvd's don't in anywa...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

love?

I read and hear many people tossing around the word LOVE often. It's something in word and meaning so hollow to me I find it nearly indescribable but i'll try. I have a family who "loves" me, cares ...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I am great, or so i've heard.

So i'm back after the summer away. Not actually. I never really left i was just too busy to keep up with everything so i kind of only checked my internet to make sure i wasn't missing work from inde...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

busy and other stuff...

works been crazy. i had to cancel my trip to the chicago comicon since i've been too busy to finish up samples and didn't want to show old work. My father had a cancerous growth removed, then they w...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

goals...

yes, i've been sidetracked. Yes I have a ton of things I'd love to accomplish but not enough time to do all of them AND goof off enough to fufull my needs for wasting time which could be better used ...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Goals

So I'm putting together a list of some personal goals. As ussual I'm going to put to more goals then I could accomplish and just attempt to make "some" of them. The list may or may not be short (I h...
Posted by Andrew on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST