i don't think i mentioned this on deviant art but i've been published for a 4th year. i was mighty worried about this year since i hadn't written anything worth a whole pile of beans. i guess that just means i'll have to make up for it next year, going for 5 years in a row next year. this years anthology of verse is called "whispers on the wind", and no thats not a typo...whispers in the wind makes more sense to me, but what do i know right? basically its a contest, you send in your poems or songs, they have to fit a pretty lose criteria and then the best ones in canada get published. so i feel pretty spiffy about being in that group. this published poem is entitled "a man", pretty simple play on words. my favourite lines from it are the beginning and the end with "i'm a man of quotes and melody, a man of comedy and tragedy" its not labeled as published i'll change that soon enough since i posted it a while ago. the other poems that got published are labeled in my gallery. i think they were much better than what i wrote this year for the contest, but i had slim pickings this year since i haven't been doing much writting, or not much good in my writting. been focusing more on my guitar work as of late i guess and thats been paying off so i guess its not so bad. typical mitch: fail in one section of your life and gain a bit of ground in another.

in other news i had my volunteer shift on sunday and it was pretty dumb really. we only fed like 80 some people but i guess thats okay. then allison (the head cook) wouldn't trust me with knives for the day, i donno why i guess i was kinda dangerous but thats nothing new really. i donno my boss use to freak out at me all the time at work cause i was always doing dangerous stuff...he acted like my mom sometimes lol. he loved to correct me by saying he was more of a dad, well that didn't go too well since i have a dad and he's a real piece of work. i guess i can't blame him cause i did scare him really bad at the gym once, infact he and the worker at the gym thought i was dead since i passed out (my eyes rolled to the back of my head as well) in the kids play room LOL....that was fun trust me. i don't think i've told anyone on deviant art that story but no sense in telling it all if no one is gonna read this so it'll be by request.

oh right more fun stuff, going to vancouver twice in the next little bit. once to go see U2 (just learnt the black eyed peas are opening...that'll be pretty ouch on my ears), my mom needed someone to go with, well more like someone to keep her awake during the 6 hour drive there and the 6 hour drive back. i guess my music keeps her awake...probably with nightmares half the time i'd dare to say. then for some doctors crap that i don't want to deal with but that i have no other choice since its for my surgery. i threw it away a week ago when things went a bit haywire in my life but now they went even more haywire...and i can't deny the help it may bring. tho it could bring utmost disaster at the same time, although those chances are slim, i've been in the slim end of side effects from medications and various treatment methods quite often. hopefully we don't have a repeat there. i've even gotta see a lawyer for this surgery...how ridiculous is that? anyways enough doom and gloom stuff...

right that halloween party is creeping up on me, wonderful. i don't feel much like going since i won't hardly know anyone there, a few friends and a girlfriend of a friend. i went camping with her and the friends that will be at the party, on the positive side if its anything like our camping weekend it'll be a riot. i guess if i go and it gets really boring i'll just have to pull some antics. infact i have a plan, a devious one at that. i'm pretty sure no matter what i do it'll be an epic fail tho....since amanda is hell bent on setting me and brandon up with a pair of her friends. recipe for disaster, especially with the last week i've had with one girl. i have no woman/girl skils what so ever and it is so not the right timing at all. but showing up as nikki sixx should be alright i guess. i was wondering how nikki sixx did the stripes under his eyes, i talked to adria about it and all i remember of the conversation is "nude sparkles", no clue what those are but they do interest me, joking. so i guess i'll just do it with eye shadow. got my nikki sixx-ish (bass player and architect of motley crue) wig, found a slash (guitarist from guns and roses) looking one too, maybe next year, if there is a next year LOL.

okay its going on 1:30 am and i guess i should get some sleep, ttyl take care and thanks for reading (if infact you did

P.S. i need some new music for my vancouver trips...to put on my ipod at least, so if you have any good tunes you think i might not have heard do pass them on please =]

currently listening too:
mouth to mouth-kill hannah (infact i want to do art to this song with the lyrics "love...in the lights of an ambulance, so blue and cold" but i can't find a good kissing stock that fits nor do i have models so i guess i'll just have to suffer)
snowblinded-kill hannah
new york city speed-kill hannah
i hate myself for loving you-joan jett
my house-kids of 88
all on our own-midnight youth
hot air balloon-owl city
lifeline-papa roach
anthem-filo and peri
this time-johnathan rhys meyer (gonna kill this johnathan guy by the way for putting a d2 chord before a gmajor7 chord in his progression...genius but complete idiot fingering wise on the guitar, obviously learning this song lol)