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Into the Wild

Published by KP April 29th, 2008 in freedom and hippies. 3 Comments

I must’ve cried at least four times during this movie. It made me wanna be a “tramp” and leave modern luxury and civilization and run away to nature. I’ve always wanted to take a trip across country and just be free and happy. How fun would that be :0

Ultimate Freedom!! I think our culture is too caught up in money, materialism, and greed; all these things shield the free essentials of life that really matter and really make us happy. Money doesn’t buy life-long love or happiness. Whens the last time you took a minute to stop and listen to nature, stare at the sky, enjoy every breath, and just take it all in?

With that said, I definitely recommend this movie. Go rent it!

Garfield minus Garfield

Published by Matt Gondek April 29th, 2008 in culture. 0 Comments

Google It

Urkel, Cody, Corey Matthews…. T.G.I.F. to the MAX

Published by Matt Gondek April 25th, 2008 in Art, zombies, Design, Artist and weekend. 0 Comments

It’s Friday and I don’t feel like writing anything poignant today. Instead, heres a picture. It’s of new line of four shirts I created for Bambino clothing. I like when I finish big projects like this because:

A: Its nice to finish a big project and relax for a second
B: I have a new portfolio piece
3: I get that sweet cash

So yea. Have a good weekend.

Are You Smater Than a Fifth Grader?

Published by KP April 24th, 2008 in Uncategorized, entertainment, smart, think, school and tv. 4 Comments

Here are some questions taken from a recent episode. Answer them and see if YOU’RE smarter than a fifth grader!

1. Only president to never marry.

2. Is ice a solid, liquid, or gas?

3. How many people signed the Declaration of Independence?

4. What state does the Sierra Nevada mtn. range run through?

5. Which mythological figure is the father of Apollo?

6. Is a fillie the name of a female young horse?

7. How many legs does a typical octopus have?

8. T/F: Plants are not part of the food chain.

9. Mt. McKinley is in in what U.S. State?

10. What British naturalist developed Natural Selection?

Answers:

1. James Bucchanin

2. Solid

3. 56

4. CA

5. Zeus

6. TRUE

7. eight

8. FALSE, they are

9. Alaska

10. Charles Darwin

Everyone Loves Oral

Published by Matt Gondek April 24th, 2008 in Art, zombies, Design, Artist, Entrepreneurs, advice and mexican. 2 Comments

Here’s another hot tip from my brain I’m sharing w/ all you hard working freelancers out there.

It seems in my research, I’ve discovered you’ll do better with people if you actually talk to them over the phone versus busting them a fly email. Now, of course, face to face is the best medicine, but this tip applies to when it’s impossi-bull to meet them in real life.

The best way to go about this is to simply offer to call them to discuss business. Just let them know it’d be easier to discuss matters over the phone and ask for their number. You can offer yours and ask them to call you, but research shows (my research) that they’ll almost never call. BUT, they will answer when you call them.

It seems like common knowledge, but it took over a year for an idiot like me to realize this so I thought I’d share.

How to make infinity friends on myspace PART TWO

Published by Matt Gondek April 23rd, 2008 in zombies, marketing, web, advice, computers and money. 0 Comments

Unless you’re the type to black out drunk and forget large chunks of your memory, you may recall me talking about how to get bum bum loads of friends on myspace the other day.

It brought up the argument that all the OTHER people on sites like this are ALSO trying to accumulate hoardes of friends and will probably never check out your page. However, it was decided that although this may be true, it would still be beinficial because you could send out bullitens to alert others of your goings on.

But, now I finally have a resolution to this matter. I didn’t realize this until last night, but if you have over 1,500 friends on myspace, they no longer show you bullitens. Something having to do w/ it taking up to much memory on their servers. Therefore, all those people you’re adding probably have more than 1,500 friends and are missing the bullitens anyways.

It seems that going to these sites and adding people is completely worthless, other than showing off that you have 60,000 friends. Diz-amn.

Well, now we know.

Give me money.

The Adventures of Matt Gondek, Freelance Artist V

Published by Matt Gondek April 22nd, 2008 in Art, Career, zombies, Artist, vandalism, advice and facts. 5 Comments

I dropped off some paintings at a store that sells art last year. They had me sign a contract w/ them that seems pretty basic and layed out. My pants tightened at the thought of our smooth transaction and the newly aquired legal tenders I’d soon be getting dancing in my wallet. Their joyous float from my hand to the shopkeep as I exchanged them for goods and services was something I was quite looking forward to with deft anticipation.

A few months past. Thanksgiving… Christmas… and I never heard from them but never gave it more than a second thought as I tend to not distribute second thoughts so easily. It wasn’t until I was in the area last week dropping off some handmade comic book noise to the local stores that I noticed the store was now defunct. A big closed sign, flipping me the bird and booting my thin wallet right in the ass.

I snagged the contract and dailed the number on it. No answer. I left a message. No reply. I repeated this. Twice. Fuck. I am out two paintings.

The point is, before you sign something over to someone, be sure to have arrangements if something like this were to happen. Situations like they contact you if they’re going out of business, or if your item doesn’t sell. Don’t be a fool like Matt Gondek and leave your work to strangers with loose morals and sticky fingers.

The two paintings I left there retailed for around 180 million a piece, so I am out a considerable ammount of money.

How to make infinity friends on myspace

Published by Matt Gondek April 17th, 2008 in Career, culture, zombies, marketing, Advertising, technology and computers. 7 Comments

Recently my roommmmmate allerted me about a whole online community of websites that allow you to cheat the system and aquire allot of myspace friends quickly.

Basically you go to one of these sites, punch in your myspace account ID to “log in”…. Then, you can send mass friend requests to a list of everyone else who is using the site at the same time. Each request you send earns you “points” which puts your account higher up the list. Thus, other people using the site will see you on this list and friend request you back.

Also, you can spend alittle cash to become a “VIP”. A VIP is always at the top of the list. In addition to this, other people are enticed to add you because you are worth more points. Sneaky sneaky.

At first I was pretty gosh-darned excited about this. I make a majority of my income off myspace and thought that this was a way to increase that ammout like whoa. Then I started thinking about what I was doing.

The people on this site are just trying to boost their number of friends. They’re going to add you and probably never even look at your account. If no one looks at your account, then no one is going to buy any artwork, or order a T Shirt. Sure, it looks great to potential clients to see you have a giant ammount of friends, but in the long run, all these people would have never even visited your account. They’re like “junk friends”.

My roommate brought up a valid argument however. If you have 30,000 myspace friends and you send out a bulliten, at least 100 of those people will look at it. If you’re using these bullitens to allert them of a new product you have, maybe one or two of them will buy it.

I’m still pretty torn on this matter. I don’t know if I want to devote the time to adding tons and tons of “junk friends” just to boost my numbers.

What do you think about this ?? Comments are appreciated.

Use words like “genitals” in your subject line to get people’s attention.

Published by Matt Gondek April 11th, 2008 in zombies, marketing, Advertising, Commercials, Bumpkins, Violence, vandalism, Entrepreneurs, advice and facts. 0 Comments

All I can say is WOW. It seems this blog is getting MUCHO-POPULARO with the spambots!! They just CAN’T STOP leaving comments!!! How blessed can echoflip.com get? I don’t mean to brag, but I posted some of the comments below so you guys can share in my joy and happiness.

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Thank you so much spambot! Even though my blog post was making fun of the name of the hotel, I’m glad that you and your friends are benifiting from my obviously amazing site layout and excellent content!! Suck an egg!

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Sorry there spambot. I know that I use allot of big words and I honestly hope that you can find some more resources to de-code my 4th grade writing level.

The I hope you choke on your fist in your sleep spambot at wikisources.net writes:
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Thanks allot spambot! I’m glad you thought my “artikle ist vey interesting!!! Learn to spell asshole!

I hope the rest of you blog owners out there can read this and not get THAT jelous. You’ll be as cool as we are someday w/ practice.

P.s. Turtles can breathe out of their behind.

A point at which to recall some thoughts

Published by KP April 10th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Aka A Day to Remember or ADTR.

Their recent album, “For those who have heart,” is pretty damn decent. ive been listening to it all day while doing my work. but i have one bone to pick with this album. for those who havent listened to them, they are kinda hard-core mixed with singing songs that sound alot like story of the year. however, they scream…sometimes…and it just totally takes away from their amazing instrumental sounds. i wish hard core didn’t involve screaming, bc im sure then that i would like it alot more, especially because those singers do have good voices, except when they start talking “demon talk”

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