The 2003 mayhem came and went. Life was on the upswing. There is only one place to go.
Down.
For the next 2.5 years I will experience more gut wrenching, heart breaking moments that I could never go through again. It will kill me. I wish I was kidding but it was one tragedy after another.
Up to this point I was struggling like every Joe Schmoe (pretty common with our current climate). I was out of school and it was really hard to land a stable job. Eventually I did. And I hate to admit to it but it was a life changing affair. It is really uncomfortable that a fucking job can bring me to two people that are key to my existence. We have worked so well together AND we are great friends. Not best friends (which is a huge feat so I would not expect that of them) but people I can say anything to and on top of it do great work.
Everything is looking up. Let s go down
1. I had to give away a friend. Mojo. I, literally, rescued him from the Detroit dog pound. If he had stayed there a minute longer he would have been dig fighting food. I cannot emphasize it enough. I can’t go into it here. I promise I will later.
2. Shaneequa, a beautiful and loyal cat passes away from lung cancer. Not to belittle my family and friends but this was really hard.
3. Wife leaves. Really this should be with the upside because it was a long time coming. Long before even moving into the new house. But we’ll over analize that later.
4. Grandfather dies. Just up and fucking dies. Perfect health. Could out bench press, lift, run, joke and laugh anyone a third his age. Still haunts me to this day.
5. Father goes in to get his ticker looked at. All of a sudden. QUADRUPLE bypass heart surgery. Holy shit did this turn into a epic ordeal. More later
6. All four tires and rims stolen from my car in front of my house
7. Same day. After getting the car into the shop. Rented a teeny tiny Ford something that wouldn’t win in a head on collision with a squirrel I GET LAID OFF OF WORK. The one fucking thing I actually enjoyed.
So how does that tie into today’s shirt.
Well during this time I was doing a lot of fun things. And getting a lot accomplished. And dare I say growing up. One of the fun moments was ordering from Mike Coles of Malicious Damage.
Who is that? Well look at the Killing Joke records. Up until recently it was all him. Previous to the 2003 resurrection of Killing Joke he started to reproduce some of the magnificent art, t-shirts, records and anything else form the glory days. But what is even better is that he was moving forward. As a result I bought this t-shirt from him, and many other things on a regular basis.
One of the greatest moments is opening his package. I actually kept every piece of it. WHY? Because he actually put effort into everything. Because he loved it. Even down to the return mailing stamp. I haven’t seen this sort of dedication and loyalty to art since the 80s. Whn you actually had to write out EVERYTHING. There was no internet. No Myspace, eBay, this or that.
His work is exceptional and I cannot recommend him enough. Of course him and Killing Joke had a bit of a falling out. Who knows why. Who cres. Killing Joke is awesome and so is Mike Coles
http://www.maliciousdamage.biz/
Pick up Chaos for Breakfast. Hold it. It is how EVERY SINGLE release should be.
Day 5 of 8 .......Wardance
