Happy New year!

Well it's a brand new year...

...Time to make a new blog entry.

Yes...I'm an infrequent blogger. It's part of my charm...and makes the few times I do wax bleh-loquent far more rare and valuable.

Well that's the theory anyway. It's probably better to have something relevant to say I suppose. Luckily I'm full of it...

Did that come out right?

Oh well...

I got sick over the Christmas holidays...spent four days at Valley General in Renton...excellant care...but the food...ew! Bring your own. Actually the bacon was okay...but every time I ordered like six slices...they'd give me three...I ordered four...I'd get two. Four days was my limit.

So I'm on the downside of this virus...doing better...thanks for asking...turns out the limo biz was so slow that most drivers didn't even work during the holidays. I picked the perfect time to let my lungs turn green...but financially I'm screwed until I get my tax return.

I also took the sicko time-out and used it as an opportunity to try to quit smoking. As of this writing, I haven't had a cigarette since before Christmas.
I realize now...it's not the nicotene that hooked me...it's the stress. If I don't start decompressing soon...I'm gonna backslide and blaze up.

Whoever reads this...save my life and buy my art okay!?

I need the dough...and a lot less stress!

Oh girlfriend!...You gotta see my two new YouTube videos!

I had so much down time from work...it gave me a chance to work on the net (and my OneTrueMedia account) and finish up these two projects. The first video is one I've wanted to create for over ten years!

It's called: "If I Had A Hammer!"

Here's a link to it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGxO3mZ9gbs


Certain music speaks volumes to me graphically...and the pictures appear in my mind...evoking a visceral reaction that must be shared.

The Song "If I Had A Hammer"...written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays...is both prophetic and timeless.


The next video is just a higher quality rendering of my original musical montage of my past artwork. It's called 'The Amazing Art of GARTH - 2010.

Here's a link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyeOoNsvyvA&feature=related

So watch and enjoy...

There's more I suppose...but it'll keep.

Garth.

My Infrequent Blog....continues apace...
Had a cube steak for dinner...floured and cooked with mustard...Ummmm-boy! Simple but good!
Ya'll should try it...cooked with butter...damn the health consequences...

The limo world slows to a crawl...colloquially known as the 'winter doldrums'...trips & tips are drying up quicker than expired chapstick on Jagger lips...

So the big news is...

On November 6th I went to see my old school chum Casey Klahn at Northwest university where his 'River Passages' art show was being featured in the Health & Sciences building...Hadn't seen ol Case since 1974...I took lotsa photos with my digital camera...

Here's one:

Casey's the real deal artist-wise...if you live in the Seattle area you should drop by and check out his work...which is 'prize winning' by the way...

Working on websites for various folks...

One of my neighbors is a musician...blues and rock fusion...he just got back from Indonesia...might do a website for him as well as a CD Album cover...his name's Reggie...

Some other driver's need website help too...

The news has been full of massacres and arsons and police assassinations lately...crazy people popping their corks and hurting the innocent. There needs to be a website for these crazed people to go to where they and their madness can be dealt with sanely and their tragic paths averted. Sort of a 'crisis line' for unabombers...

I'll cogitate some more on that one.

Might save a life or two someday...

later...
Garth

No...I didn't die or anything...

(I always like to have an uplifting title to my posts... )

"THA-WHOOMP!!!"

(sound of a mach nine tongue hitting Dizzy Gillespie's cheek.)

Looks like Garth is causing trouble again!

WONDER TWIN POWERS ACTIVATE!

...Form of...

...ELVIS ON THE CAMODE!...Eating a peanut butter sandwich...watching Johnny Carson on a mini-TV...with a hunka-hunka-hangover in the works...

Yes...it's been too long since I've posted...so I've decided to 'get off the pot'...so to speak (with apologies to the King) and fling some artistic poo through the branches of the internet tree...straight atchu!

DUCK!

SPWAT!!!

Ohhh....too late...

That image of Elvis is burned into your brain forever now...

AND...speaking of images...

I HAVE SOME NEW ARTWORK TO POST!

So here we goze...

Starting with...

................."The Lady of the Lake'

...and continuing onward...

...we go unwittingly into...

.................'The Frosty Arms of Bestla'!


...and of course...no politically correct artistic quest is complete without a quick visit from that all-around 'holier-than-thou' religious wing-nut...

................"Martian Christian Commando".

(can I get an 'AMEN'?)

No Amen?!....

Oooo-kaaaay...

Then I'll just have to condemn thee to...

......................'The Firefalls of Vulcan'!


See...all that's left of you now is a wisp of water vapor...

...erupting from the icy surface of Mars...

...at the gravimetric...

......................."Approach of Deimos"!


What's this?...is it a bird?...is it a plane?...no-oooo....it's...

.................."Ride my C-SAU" time!...

Having too much fun are we?!

Well then...it's high time you were drafted as an ALIEN SCOUT!

...and sent on your LAST MISSION!

NYAH!...So there!

.................'ALIEN SCOUT -The last Mission'...

By the way...

Be sure and stuff plenty of bananas and peanut butter sandwiches into your backpack!

(Notice that the depicted 'Alien Scout' is in the 'granny hover' position.)

Okay...I figger this post is worthy enough to fling.

OOH-OOH!

AAH-AAH!

Which means...

"Artist must not kill artist!"....(for tasteless blog postings)

And yes...my blog is definitely...

"A MAD HOUSE!...A MA-AAAAD HOUSE!!!!

CONFIDENTIAL TO CASEY: Casey! Go to 'onetruemedia' on-line.

You can create musical montages of your art and post it on YouTube..for FREE!

Garth wuvs yoo...'MWAH!'....:)

Garth lectures a bit...

This is a reply e-mail I sent to the Arthur Young Group on Politics and Religion (i.e. - Hot potatoes)

God is God. Religion is the spiritual opinion of someone who died before his opinion on God's will could be openly challenged and/or verified. That person was either right or wrong. Having any intangible belief system punched into your brain from childhood will either benefit you if correct or detriment you if incorrect. Do parents have the right to send their kids to Hell because they picked the wrong belief system? And who can make that judgement call? This is why I believe all belief systems should be studied from grade school forward so that people can make a decision based on equal representation by every church. I had the good fortune of being dragged to dozens of different churches as a kid by my parents whose spiritual indecision worked to my benefit.

I believe hat if you don't get the important spiritual messages (pertinent to you) straight from God, then what good is it? All things being equal (or not) if you move to understand God...will he sit by and let you brag later on that you did all the work to get saved? Or will he move towards you twice as much as you move towards him because God lets no one beat him at anything?

As to proof of the existence of God...can a 'dead' universe create something 'greater' than itself? That being 'LIFE'?

To 'exist' at all requires that something which 'exists longer' than us, must be there to create us (or impell our existence).

To 'cease existing' after having existed means that something which 'exists less than you' must impart that 'non-existence property' to you as well.

My personal theory is that all matter has to be created and uncreated at the same time in order achieve 'stability'. If a bit of matter is being created faster than it is being uncreated (or vice versa) than you have an unstable element which either implodes (fusion) or explodes (fission). Matter must also have the ability to 'grow' up the periodic table as more energy is poured into it...and decay down the periodic table as less energy goes in or becomes available to stabilize it's existence.

I believe ETERNITY and OBLIVION interact to create TEMPORALITY wherein we exist and cease to exist. We are thus one half of each.

To continue to exist, we must stretch ourselves spiritually (during our alloted lifespan) using FAITH, towards the greater existence (which we can define or have defined for us) which theoretically impels us with life. We must 'JOIN WITH THE CREATOR' (Star Trek 1 & 5) in order to surpass death.

Politics must take into account the material and the spiritual...one being a theory on the 'tangible'...the other a theory on the 'intangible'. Everyone has the right to try and save themselves spiritually. When you take away that right...you become the architect of Hell wherein all hope is abandoned.

If you were God, would you reveal yourself at an appointed time and place to every inividual in order to instill FAITH/FEAR? Or wold you take care of the human aquarium and wait for those who sought you out on their own to reveal themselves? Or might you pick out a favorite (Abraham, Moses, etc) and give them a heroic life and a better chance for spiritual development? Or do you keep an open mind and send a savior to potentially/theoretically save everybody if they so desire?

Now teach the finer points of your best guess on religion and Politics to someone and see if millions die because you got it wrong.

It's been years since I've contributed...hope I'm not too far off topic.

GarthfromSeattle

Been Awhile...

(Found this page was saved as a draft copy...so that worked out... )

Yeah...I've been remiss on this blog. What can I say?...life just steamrolls over a guy sometimes and you can't get centered enough to write. Just plug away at life and hope for the best. So here's the good stuff...

Today was a very good day in that I took my middle daughter to see her favorite writer who was in town, up in Ballard, doing a book signing. His name is D. J. MacHale and he is the author of the 'PENDRAGON' series. My daughter was absolutely ecstatic meeting him and got her books autographed and picture taken with him. She also gave him lots of her fan art. I also had a Kinko print made up of some Pendragon fan art I did (for my daughter on her birthday) and gave it to him. Great guy. Loved the art. Great speaker too.

Last Saturday (May 23rd 2009) I took two my daughters and my brother to the FOLK LIFE Festival at Seattle Center. This is Seattle's official 'Start of Summer' celebration...and there was thousands upon thousands in attendance over the Memorial Day week-end. Lots of musicians, lots of keen-o booths, lots of great food an such...plus the usual carnival rides. We did the ferris wheel and the 'Music Express'.

Two Fridays ago, my boss-lady gave me four free tickets to the Mariners game at Safeco Field. The Mariners beat the Boston Red Sox 5-4 in a comeback win. My middle daughter and my sister Rachael went with. My daughter was elated at seeing Ichiro close up. We had second row seats right by the right field foul post. This was my daughter's first baseball game...and a great one it was. She thought she might be bored but was pleasantly surprised at her own excitement level and the fervor of the crowds. The food was WAY EXPENSIVE!...but ya gotta have a hot dog and a drink at the ballgame. Saw Judd Hirsch at Seatac airport the next day...he was at the game too.

I worked the Big Microsoft CEO conference last week and chauffered some big corporate honchos (who shall remain nameless) and on the last day I caught a glimpse of Bill Gates driving by me at the conference center.

I picked up some Seahawks players on Monday and drove them to the new terminal 91 cruise ship docks for an autograph session/bon Voyagee event. This was my first time going there. Had lunch at 'Maggie's Bluff Grill' at the Smith Cove Marina...next to the Palisade Restaurant. What a great view of the new terminal and Marina.

Outside of all that good stuff, my 83 Olds had transmission issues. Cost: around $1,200. And this after nearly $800.00 worth of engine work was done earlier in the month. Plus tabs & title transfer fees. Financially I'm reeling.

My T.H.R.U.S.H website has attracted some attention...some weirdees too.
More later...

Garth.

Virus got me...

Just a quick note to let whoever created the computer virus that wiped out my files three days ago, know that he (or she) has banked some bad karma...which is too bad for them.

I cannot imagine the dementia it takes for some bottom-feeder to wrecklessly put something so evil into motion in order to hurt innocent starngers on-line...destroy their family photos...wrecking months or even years of their hard work. I've always felt that those who secretly set improper things in motion within our world are just 'unfortunately aware' of how much less their dingy world is compared to ours. These vile 'sub-humans' who process evil in their garbage-strewn apartments, have truly lived in vain...and are sequestered in a mental jail of their own making, waiting for their painful end, after which, nothing good awaits.

Much of what I had was fortunately backed up on CD...but a lot wasn't. Many beautiful recent family photos of my three daughters and I on a trip, birthday parties, etc...are gone...irretrievable lost.

But I choose not to let this get to me.

My daughters and I are determined to return to those places we visited and have twice as much fun this year than last...and take twice as many pictures as before. What was taken from us will be restored or replaced by memories ten times better than before.

So I won't dwell on what I lost too much...or how much work it will be to restore my favorites or my on-line research...or dwell on what punishments I'd mete out to whoever created the virus.

There's no need to.

Evil people are themselves caught up in a storm of their own making like as not. The worst punishment for such evil people...is just to BE those evil people. They will never know what true, unadulterated joy...untarnished by past misdeeds...actually is. To live a life without regret...to be a person who 'fears no truths' (as Thomas Jefferson once stated) is to have truly lived.

Whoever created the silly, inneffectual virus that attacked our family's computer...will never be able to say that or be that person. They've just sealed their own future in a jar marked 'pathetic' for the rest of us to pass by and think "There but for the grace of God...".

What evil people fail to reckon is that we all live in a balanced universe...an infinitely well balanced universe...which is balanced right down to your thoughts. Every evil misdeed or thought that is set into motion weighs against you.

Likewise, every neglected chance to put positive works into motion weighs against you as well.

For every action, there is an equal and positive reaction.

Let the unrighteous be warned:

Evil deeds only cause the righteous to join ever closer together against the works of the unrighteous few who, in the end, are just their own worst enemy.

So I feel no worse for the recent on-line attack. Just lucky to have salvaged so much that was precious. My daughter's graduation pictures and videos were properly backed up on CD...and that alone is cause for cheering. Most of best artwork files were already posted on-line and easily retrievable. This blog alone saved some of my best works.

I know that all things work together for good...and that better times await me and my family this year...which will be savored all the more for having weathered this silly, ineffectual virus.

Note to the wise...take the time to back up your most precious files on CD or on-line at those websites which safeguard precious files. It is well worth it.

Garth

Sinai speaks.

Here's a new digital art piece...

It's called 'SINAI'...for obvious reasons.

"Take off thy shoes from off thy feet...for where thou standeth is Holy ground!"

Happy Easter!...and Passover too...

Garth..