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Shawn McDonald

Starving artist eats own soul.

About Me

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My Interests

Beauty ,,, Love ... Music ... The human experience... Quantum Physics ... DNA ... Philosophy ... movies ...

I'd like to meet:


Hmmmm... I just actually contemplated this one .. Who would I like to meet living or dead? ... I could always go with one of the cliche' answers .. Einstein... Buddha.. Jesus .. etc .. not that it would not be great to meet any of them .. but I think my answer would have to be Hitler before .. when he was still working on being an artist .. To convince him to stay an artist .. and if he did not .. kill him ..
Painting by Adolf Hitler

Music:

Anything that has a heart ... not contrived .. or contrite .. no new country ... originality goes a long way...

Movies:

I prefer independent movies .. blockbuster hollywood movies for the most part are not worth the celloid / digital ... Kevin Smith is a SELL OUT .. I used to love his movies .. now .. wow .. Kevin if by some strange cosmic twist you should ever stumble onto myspace and find my little insignificant blurb here... GIVE UP MAKING MOVIES until you find your soul that you obviously sold to the devil. Sorry about that little rant .. pet peave of mine. That pet peave happens to be SELL OUTS.

Television:

I try to avoid television... I watch the Simpsons .. though the fact they are drawn in North Korea ... still not exactly to think about that information and I watch Arrested Development ... Its witty... I used to watch the Sopranos, Six feet under and Carnival before I turned of my cable... found I was watching too much television .. it was like crack without the empty calories.

Books:

Quantum Physics ... DNA ... Philosophy .. Neil Gaiman's Sandman series ..

Heroes:

I don't know if I have any "Heroes". I believe a "Hero" is a person that happens to be in the right place at the right time and does the right thing. There are a number of people that I respect a great deal .. but I am not so sure I would use the term hero to describe them. Sister Mother Theressa -sp? is the closest person I could consider being a Hero .. but she fits in the saint category better.

My Blog

Ramblin' Man

Into a thought caught in time ...It will hang there ... Hanging in time ... An infinity of pictures from every possible angle...captured ...Vibrations ..DNA is the KeyboardWe are just notes ...Lucid i...
Posted by Shawn McDonald on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:13:00 PST

The singer is taking a break

I am here. .. Was in another place before ... This place has doors It has no windows .. Friends and strangers walk in without knocking ..You don't see them coming ..You never seem them comingSometimes...
Posted by Shawn McDonald on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:18:00 PST

The Logic of education ...

Just going to throw a few thoughts out there ... Why is there not a test for a potential president? A lawyer ... a doctor ... a teacher ... etc .. ALL have to take tests to enter into the their vario...
Posted by Shawn McDonald on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 04:07:00 PST

Letting go ...

There was a "Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handley that I think about once in a while when something bad happens in my life and I have the desire to hold onto that pain ... "If you ever drop your keys into ...
Posted by Shawn McDonald on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:09:00 PST

Close to preaching to myself

Sitting here in a philosophical mood .... I was told in an e-mail earlier "all you do is draw" I have to say that I was offended ... I had to take a step back and wonder why I was so stricken by th...
Posted by Shawn McDonald on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:13:00 PST

The gallery

The grand opening of the gallery is going to be Feb 24th..... ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am NOT ready .... not scared .. not nervous .... just the pressure of a deadline that is serious t...
Posted by Shawn McDonald on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 01:06:00 PST

Assume

Assume who I am...Assume what I am about...Assume that I am dangerous...Assume that I am safe...Assume what I will do next...Assume me by my appearance..Assume I will repeat my past actions...Assume y...
Posted by Shawn McDonald on Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:35:00 PST

Stampede!

I saw a news teaser on a local television station a few weeks back that has been plaguing me since I saw it.A train hauling cattle hit by semi-trailer. Stay tunned to see how many cattle survived. The...
Posted by Shawn McDonald on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:37:00 PST

Contemplations of a wondering mind

Do you think in words/ideas/mathematics/conceptual? Or do you think about the world you in live in terms of images? Why do we have fingerprints? We could be covered from head to toe the same way ...
Posted by Shawn McDonald on Sun, 18 Sep 2005 03:16:00 PST