So little time to update very often. Like hardly ever. Here it is in a nutshell – Tax season is upon us and as a tattoo artist that means steak for dinner instead of ramen, in addition to long, hectic, non stop, ink slinging days and nights. So, I have been as busy as a one armed paper hanger at the studio and just too damn tired to mess with the computer interstates. Also, I have been painting everything I can get my hands on including a bust of Beethoven for my buddy Santo and one of Jesus and even a couple of gargoyles. I expect to have a large number of new works in the “seeing: section of this site, provided I can stop playing Rockband 2 long enough to actually accomplish that goal.  Aside from that I have been asked by my good friend Tyler Benton to do some set design and illustration for the latest endeavors of his traveling sideshow. I havent ever done anything like set design before so it should be a very cool experience to see something I have designed, built by someone else and hopefully put to good use. As for my involvement with the them – I dont exactly share the same ideology as that presented by Tyler and his White Collar Sideshow, but I most certainly have a lot of love and respect for the guy and his aims. I expect to see them on the TV show the Dog Whisperer sometime soon as they were filmed for the show. Hopefully the  trailer that my friend Ed and I painted for them will be seen on the show. That would be kind of cool. Even though I dont watch TV.

Danger

I decided a good way to introduce one and all to my website would be to tell you about one of my top five favorite metal bands of all time. Then I thought well now you have to tell them about the top five. And then I thought aww man lame start with the top five. How typical. But I’ll just go ahead and tell ya anyway.

I’ll start with the top five and go from there.

Number one – Entombed  *greatest metal band EV ER. Disagree? Kiss my taint. Especially you genre whores.

Number two – Sigh – * never fails to surprise me with how good it is.

Number three – Death -  *feels just like home.

Number four – Carpathian Forest  *admittedly a rather guilty pleasure, but this shit is deadly!

Number five – Slayer  *will always hold a special place in my heart.

I could go on and on and then on some more about other bands I am totally fascinated with like Genghis Tron, Gojira, Carcass, Napalm Death, Celtic Frost, Kreator, the Crown, Sodom, Chimaira, Arch Enemy, Venom, Morbid Angel and so on and so on.

But really I just wanted to tell you all about Sigh but its easier to simply listen for yourselves. If this doesnt convince you then here

If you dont instantly love it your hair will fall out.

I was raised to be the Titan of GRR!!! on a steady stream of pure metal in the form of cassette tapes from the flea market, so trust me when I say that Sigh makes me want to kill my grandmother and then go play DnD in the sewer, wearing scuba gear and a scimitar as I did so badly want to in the long long ago. Sigh.

So here she blows. I have added all kinds of goodies in the seeing, drawing, tattoo departments. Still searching for old photos of works for the various layer. Check back every hundred years or so for new content. No seriously my plan is to begin using this outlet of communication much more while gradually extricating my self from the facebook time vampire.

I may occasionally use this site to spout off little diatribes and my jaded world view from high atop my soapbox, but for the most part I’d like to avoid doing that sort of thing and focus more on simply allowing  my artwork to speak for itself.

If you are one of many folks who I have given artwork to over the years, I certainly would appreciate a nice scan or photo of whatever it is you may have so that I can add it to this site.