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I’m here for the sounds, not the pounds

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Dear Fat Girl Standing beside me at the Day to Remember show.

Hello there. It’s been awhile hasn’t it? It was very nice standing beside you at the show a few weeks ago. Thank you so much for singing every effing word of every damn song as loud as you could and off key. I am sitting here torn miss… you see, I can’t decide which I enjoyed more. You’re miserable attempt of trying to sing the screaming parts in between bites of your cheddar cheese pretzel, or your giant flabby sweat soaked arm pressing against my side. It shows real character to keep singing, even though every single person near us was glaring at you.

I don’t know what I’d do without people like you at shows. I mean, sure I went to see the band perform, but hearing you instead was totally better. I have been contimplating fronting the money for alittle studio time for you. That way I could get you in there to sing overtop the vocals so I could enjoy it again and again. If only there was a way to make the disc smell like cheddar cheese and cigarettes. Do you have any suggestions?

In closing, it was my pleasure to spend 40 minutes standing beside you. I hope I can meet you again sometime so that you can ruin another experience for me.

Love,
Matthew Ryan Gondek

lil Spears

Last night on MSN Entertainment, I read that Britney Spears’ little sister Jamie Lynn Spears, 16, is preggers!!! WOW, can someone say red neck family?! I hope its baby-daddy isn’t K-Fed’s little brother…Although that would be hilarious, it would be completely pathetic! The only thing that would be better than that would be if K-Fed himself was the baby-daddy! YES! I’m praying it is! The true father of the baby has yet to be released.

On top of all this, their mom, Lynn Spears, is writing a parenting book…I have compiled a couple names for the book, maybe Lynn will be able to use one:

1.       Pregnant? The younger the better!

2.      Seemingly good career boosters that flop: babies

3.      How to be a completely worthless parent

4.      How to raise your child’s baby

5.      Babies: everything not to do (Brit-Brit can give testimony)

6.   How to completely fuck up your child

Seriously, could this family be any more pathetic? Merry Christmas Jamie Lynn, I guess santa came a lil early for you this year!

Allegedly, Jamile Lynn is three months pregnant and plans to keep the child and raise it in Louisiana.

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Low Ballin’…

Today I got an e-mail from another Pittsburgh artist talking about collecting as many Pgh artists as possible and amassing their information on one site. Not a bad idea at all. One site with everyone’s contact information as well as samples of work seems like a good idea. I was excited to jump on board. Until I got to the guideline portion on the e-mail.

 There was your standard rules, but one in particular stood out. It stated that “This site will not list artists who lowball their prices in order to sell in
volume, hobbyists, or those who do not know how to value their work, all of
which hurts the art community in general”.

When people write things like that, it makes me mad. I know that this sentence isn’t directed at me, but in a way, I feel that it is. I definately don’t charge alot for my work. I would make rather have my work in someone’s house, on their shirt, or in a shop than sitting in my house where no one is seeing it. How many times did you see a certain piece of art you really liked, only to get discouraged at it’s $500 price tag? Another reason I charge low is because, like 99% of the art world NO ONE KNOWS WHO I AM. I am not famous in any way. I can see jacking up the price on a piece by Crayola or Alex Pardee because they are amazing at what they do, and the demand for their work is high.

Listen. You want to know what hurts the art world? High priced, no name artwork. If EVERYONE didn’t charge so much, then ALOT more people would have artwork in their homes, where it could be appreciated. Not sitting in a closet of the artist’s home, waiting for the day when some asshole is going to pay 2 grand for a 6” by 6” piece of wood with some acrylic paint on it.

 I get alot of freelance work. ALOT. And with each piece I make sure I’m not ripping them off. I do it for as low a price as possible, because I know they will tell their friends, who will also want something done. It’s called MARKETING. I can see where you get the argument of “well, people will pay high price for an original piece”. Maybe if those artists had more creativity, EVERY piece would be original.

I have no problem with big name artists w/ high prices, but c’mon people, don’t try to be something your not.

Redneck Rampage

redneck_1.jpgI recently overheard a conversation between two redneck country looking girls, and one of them was trying to explain to the other how her new I-Pod worked that she bought off her aunt. Apparently she just got it yesterday, and still couldn’t quite figure out how to get her aunt’s music off of it, let alone put hers on. She knew that she needed “some wire” to connect it to her mom’s computer, but she didn’t know how to do it. Getting her CD’s onto the computer was another problem she mentioned. Also, she couldn’t figure out how to get the batteries out, because they looked like it was running low on the screen and she needed to buy some new ones.

How in the hell can it be 2007, and someone in their early 20’s completely not understand how to work a damn I-Pod? I gotta admit though, I did get a kick out of listening to their conversation. Probably the same feeling someone educated gets listening to me talk about ANYTHING. Haha, oh well.


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