An Actor Will Seek Revenge!

(Another title borrowed from a song! "An Actor Will Seek Revenge" by 'Destroyer.' Not because Destroyer is the best band ever, but because Destroyer is the best band of the 21st century.)

I'm going to hate these game presentations for class. Cameras hate me as much as I dislike them; actually, more so, I've never physically mutilated a camera. (Maybe once when I was the Incredible Hulk for Halloween as a child. My mom just didn't know when to stop! RAGE! [My Hulk Hands actually stopped me from destroying the camera, probably. Truth be told, I was never the Incredible Hulk for Halloween. I was always a knight, but everyone thought I was a vampire because I made my knight costume out of a vampire costume and my canine teeth were unnaturally pointy until I took sandpaper to them! That's a lie too, they're still really pointy; pointier perhaps, considering teeth are larger in adulthood.])

Anyway, I forgot what I was typing, something about a camera then Hulk hands then how no one can tell the difference between a knight and a vampire. I think the first thing was the only important one. Yeah, cameras are pretty lame, in my opinion. I'm 1/16th Native American, maybe I can say it's against my tribal religious beliefs to be taped. Hopefully they wouldn't question my severe chalkiness. (Also, I realize my title has very little to do with anything I typed.)

Why Has Time Existed for so Long?

For some time, I've been working on an oil painting I've titled "Whiskey Priest." It depicts a clergyman with a headdress on fire, as well as traditional Vatican robes with a flask in a front pocket. I decided on Spanish-type brush strokes because I felt those weren't used very often or often enough in portraits. (Traditional Spanish brush strokes, by the way. The cake-y, messy paint with a lot of incomplete lines. Actually, I could save the reader some time and describe it as Fauve inspired. [Also, I know Fauve is a French movement! Just sayin', looks a lot like Spanish brush strokes.])

Then what do I find? Maurice De Vlaminck using nearly the exact same blotched brush strokes in his portrait of Apollinaire. (Would link the painting, but the copy-right restrictions inhibit me to do so.) I feel I should know that using inspiration from a particular movement will conclude in a painting similar to another painter's. I also feel I could have invented those brush strokes on my own, bringing me to my point: why has time existed for so long? Without any inspiration I could have been Le Fauve, I could have defined the absurd and I could have made fire or something to that effect. Everything good has been done in the 20th century. (Excluding fire, that's probably a little bit older, 19th century?)

Well, two paragraphs of whining is always fun to get out. Therapeutic, if I may say so! Also, I feel like mentioning something positive; 'Notorious Lightning' has been re-released on vinyl with a faster tempo on three songs! To me, this means it's only a matter of time until 'City of Daughters' will be released again with "School, and the Girls Who Go There" actually on it.