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mark cant dance

It's the doing, not the it.

About Me

I had a fairly normal childhood. I was born a poor serf child on an alien planet, and an intergalactic shipping error caused by dyslexic drunken postal workers and soggy inverted digits resulted in my arrival on earth in the year 1970 with extreme postage due (sorry about the national debt). Then I was exposed to massive amounts of gamma radiation, bitten by a radioactive spider, possessed by a firey demon from Waco Texas, had my skeleton reinforced with a rare and indestructable substance known only as saran wrap, and then I was enlisted against my will into a top secret government super soldier program. When I reached my fifth year of age, things got a little bit funky.
I came face to face with a band of three super powerful evil mutants known respectively as 'Public School System', 'Color Inside the Lines', and 'Homework'. Public School System threatened to rob me of my identity, Color Inside The Lines broke my crayons and Homework forced me to believe that I could truly appreciate light beer. I battled with them for 12 years and was finally defeated in 1989 when I graduated from high school. In losing, I was forced to walk amid my peers wearing a goofy looking hat with a black dress and to accept the terms of my defeat printed on an expensive piece of embossed toilet paper that Public School System gleefully referred to as a diploma. I found the diploma's cleaning properties to be less effective and much more scratchy then my preferred triple ply charmin, but then again Ive always had sensitive skin. I found myself lost alone and in dire need of training. I was taken in by a group of super elite heroes called the faculty. Under their guidance, I honed my abilities to paint, draw and drink. I quickly came to realize that I would be forever in their debt (mostly because I simply cannot imagine ever having my student loans paid off). Uh, yeah...so anyways.....I repaired the crayons with tape, found my identity under the couch and discovered dark beer.
Life is a whirlwind, quite a bit has happened since then. I got promoted, married, and acquired a bunch of useless material items. Then I lost my job, got divorced and was stripped of said material items.. I spent some time living out of my car, got another job, got promoted again, and eventually remarried....this time, to the right person.
To view some of my artwork and bend your brain cells a bit, go to the gallery at Dark Garden .
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My Interests

Painting, Drawing, Art History, Acting, Writing, Comic Books, Video Games (PS2), Reading, Psychology, Personality Theory, and Identity.

I'd like to meet:

aliens, people, aliens pretending to be people and people pretending to be aliens.

Music:

Concrete Blonde, Radiohead, U2, Alice In Chains, Jello Biafra (DK without Jello, isnt DK), White Stripes, Johnny Cash, Dave Mathews Band, STP, Velvet Revolver, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Who, Sex Pistols, PIL, Filter, and REM (admittedly, I liked them better when I couldnt understand what they were singing).

Movies:

Hell, just about any comic book movie will work for me. LOTR, Star Wars (all 6), Team America, Raising Arizona, Blues Brothers, any Tarantino flix.

Television:

I cant claim to be much of a fan of television. I do like CNN (even though at times it comes across as biased), A&E Biography and the History Channel.

Books:

LOTR, Neil Gaiman, Ralph Steadman, Sue Coe, Luis Royo

Heroes:

Max Beckmann

My Blog

Glenngarry Glen Ross Full Dress Photo Blog

Ive been very busy.  Rehearsals have been EVERY SINGLE DAY.....we open this friday.  Like any given show day, this means that my stomach will probably drop through my ass at around noon and ...
Posted by mark cant dance on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:37:00 PST

GlennGarry Glenn Ross Promo Piece

I havent had a whole lot of time lately. Between rehearsals and work, most of my days have been incredibly long. I'll be back to my regularly scheduled blogging and blog reading soon (I hope...) In th...
Posted by mark cant dance on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 08:30:00 PST

Stone Cold Bitch

Ive posted two of these before, the third one belongs with the set but was never posted. Ive always referred to these as Stone 1, Stone 2 and Stone 3. These are shortened from the real title, STONE CO...
Posted by mark cant dance on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:26:00 PST

The HIPPOCRITIC Oath

The Hypocritic Oath Keiser Permanente is a large HMO based medical company. According to their website: "Henry Kaiser's revolutionary ideas about health care helped give birth to Kaiser Permanente. L...
Posted by mark cant dance on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 05:53:00 PST

I Had a Dream That I Couldn't Sleep

...this one is from 1994...  
Posted by mark cant dance on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:06:00 PST

Guard My Temples

I had heard that they were placed infront of temples to scare away evil spirits and thieves. It made sense to me, and in the very front of each of my temples I positioned at least one of them..... ......
Posted by mark cant dance on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:47:00 PST

Ah, Blow It Out Your Harmonica

  ...he did.
Posted by mark cant dance on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:28:00 PST

Untitled Teeth With Crazy

Untitled Teeth with Crazy ( or Untitled With Delirium: Part Two) Untitled With Delirium: Part One My head smells like non-compliance with industrial strength shampoo and theres dirt beneath my finge...
Posted by mark cant dance on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 08:54:00 PST

The Road to Calvary

Im fairly certain that this is a study of a work from another artist.  Generally when I conduct studies, I make some kind of notation as to who the original artist was.....in this case, I failed ...
Posted by mark cant dance on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:34:00 PST

a couple of quick ones

more fun with lace and something else ...
Posted by mark cant dance on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:21:00 PST