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| Webcam photo taken the night the Seahawks won the playoffs. |
I return to Head of Devin:
Well well well. I have once again activated the blog side of my world. After being away for a year or so from the last time I posted here, I think it's time to once again broadcast and transmogrify myself in blog form. If that's still a thing. It is right? Rhetorical! Rhetorical! Yes, indeed all previous posts have been put in the rubbish bin. It is 2026! The time is right for a fresh start at Head of Devin. Maybe we'll make this an ongoing volume, but who knows if I will shake the Etch-A-Sketch at the beginning of 2027? If so, then so be it. Sooooooo. How you all doing? How about them Seahawks? No. I won't go into me being the happiest for my home team in long time. How can one be happy about anything in today's climate? It's as if being happy and content comes with a cost. I mean we can get into the brass tax and whittle down why we need the format of society we do, but the mere thought is exhausting. I am at wonder how folks can be a hundred percent into politics and religion. Nothing against those folks, but geez looeez, exhaustion much? Look, I get it, there are needs that need met. All around. But also. Live. Just live. Do something other than radicalize yourself. Or not, don't listen to an old 90s acid casualty like myself (oof, I miss it).
Once again, well. Where do I go from there? It's not like I use blogs as a means of trying to change minds and narratives. I try to do that with my art, graphic or musical. I draw. Mostly pen and ink. And I am in a metal band, KHAOS DRIVER. I use those outlets to try and get the mind of the audience going. If I didn't use those means, I might end up using the blog outlet or make a podcast to project directly. And that's just not me. I would rather use music and art as my veil to stand behind. Not sure if that is a sign of weakness. But I like the mystery of it too I guess. Maybe I am missing out on being a gotcha content creator, even with this blog, but that's just not me. I would rather it be gotcha with what I scream into a microphone while I play heavy caveman riffs.
Speaking of caveman riffs. I guess I will take some moments to talk about signal. In my early days of learning of the signal, I would marvel at it. Early moments with the signal, a Fender Strat and combo my cousin Timmy had. And my dads home stereo. I didn't have much time with Timmy's guitar and amp. But I had enough fun with my dads stereo. I plugged into one of the inputs on front of it, it was an old Realistic receiver. Wasn't meant to have a Kingston electric guitar plugged into what I believe was an input meant for other components. But neither here or there. I blew that sucker into oblivion overdriving the receiver by cranking the volume. You can say my father was displeased. But he later went to CDs and later lost his original vinyl collection in a devastating forest fire. We won't talk about that. Anyhoo, I blew out the family stereo with the signal to say the least.
By 1994, I got my own amplifier. I still have it. A Fender M-80. I tell you what, those amps rule. I look them up on the web time to time to maybe replace mine. I did wonders with that M-80. It has a wonderful drive channel. meant for rock or metal. It had a speaker cabinet out so if your cab was 8 ohms, plug it in, baby. At first I had a single 15" cab then later used a Marshall 4x12 cab I bought in 2001. Pristine cleans. Amp-wise currently, a Marshall AVT150H with matching cab (one I just spoke of). I have had a few amps here and there. I like combo amps, but I have sold and given a few away. There's a Peavey Bandit I wish I still had. I used to use two amp signals. Got into AB/Y boxes. I mean, heck, to go into the pedals I have and used to have, oof. I wish I still had my Zoom 505. I and an old bandmate prided on our homemade pedal boards. Both of us being artists. They were almost works of art themselves. The signal had went through the wringer in my teenage and twenties. The signal went through so much dynamics with the music I was creating that it was like being at the top of the world. Later on the signal went to a single layer. Distortion. Drive. Gain. I went from creating tapestries of sound to a black metal militia. Any drive other than fuzz was good. I didn't use any other effects for a while with those days because I didn't need to. The songs just needed the drive to support the evil.
Chrystal, Nathan and Fluffy Pants aka Meow Meows. What can I say? I fricken love them to death. I feel bad I don't have the self-discipline to do better for them. I really need to work on that. I smoke weed. Eat candy bars and donuts. Drink Vanilla Cokes. I really need to do better. They deserve it. Chrystal is still working at the local KFC/Taco Bell. I keep telling her to find a new job. I feel that this one is stressing her out too much. Nathan is doing good in school. Last thing I had to hear of was he and some other kids kind of bullied a kid and broke something of theirs. So we kind of had to talk to him about how it is to be with the crowd or be an individual. Nathan is so talented and smart I get a lot of remarks from friends and family. I am hella proud of that boy. He currently likes to watch YouTube while creating stuff on apps he likes or playing Roblox. He loves cats. Our housecat Fluffy Pants is buttering up to him now that he's older. She got to know him when he was just out of being a toddler. So she put up with his playfulness. But also had fun with him. She's older now and so is he and they are much more simple with each other and chill. My existence is primarily for them. The most I get stressed about is when I am inside my own head or anxiety. I try and curb these instances. Depression can be a mutherfucker. But like a junkie that wants to be clean, I work hard at not letting my mind get the best of me. When I run out of that strength is when I will seek help professionally. As of right now. Doing good. There's this track. And I try to keep my life on it. Any stops these days have to be planned. Not as spontaneous as I used to be.
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| Layering art by me, using Paint.NET |
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| First bong hit of the year. |
Gonna get out of your hair.
Thanks for reading and checking out this blog.
January is doneski.
Devv o))) signing out.
Ciao)))
