Last 2007 thoughts.....

Well, another year of life has come and gone. I survived and so did you. Lets rejoice.

My personal TOP 5 lists of 2007:

CD:
Patton Oswalt “Warewolves and Lollipops”
Type O Negative “Dead Again”
White Stripes “Icky thump”
HIM “Venus Doom”
Dream Theater “Systematic Chaos”

MOVIES:
Hot Fuzz
Simpsons Movie
Grindhouse
I am Legend
300

EVENTS:
Moving to St. Joseph
Pittsburgh Comic Con
Big Screen TV/HD
New Jeep for the wife
Drawing lots of new comics.

WORST LETDOWNS:
Mike Weiringo RIP
Spiderman 3
No new Idiothead Album
No Movie Shoot
No Traveling as much as I wanted to

2008 ANTICIPATIONS:
Star Trek 11
Going to Comic Cons
Indiana Jones 4
Baby?
QUITTING MY JOB FOR GOOD!

So there you have it.

2008 wasn’t a spectacular year. It was a “transisition year.” We moved and transplaneted our lives to get out of the deep deep rut Mt. Pleasant was leaving us in. That’s good. But I didn’t get to hit but one convention, I didn’t release but ONE COMIC in March. And never got to promote it really. I did do 3 comics with Ryan, 1 comic with Brett and my own projects, all which will be released next year. Plus made the decision to end Pleasant Life for good with one huge tradebook collecting the whole story in one big Whoo-Haaa.

Starting in the new year, we’re going on a diet, we’re gonna save like mad, buy a new computer, pay off debt and hit every fucking convention I can. I’m not gonna make this another year where I say I’m going to do this or that and never get to do it cause we didn’t have the fucking money or I left lazy. No. Dreams aren’t built on that. They are built on guts and luck. So I gotta have the guts to put my nuts out there. Go to every show, even if I have to sleep in my car. Get a second job, whatever. Comics are #1. I make or break my career in 2008. I mean that.

So no excuses. No more bad food. All of that cash is going into my comics. The life I want.

I can sit here and type promises all day, but I mean to show you by actions. Time to change my life. I’m turning 30, my “youth” is over and its time to start kicking ass. I don’t want to hear whining about it. Nothing stops me.

I love you all. Have a safe and happy new year. Don’t drink and drive. That’s just stupid. Me, I’ll be working at midnight, selling dildoes and movies to horny old drunk kids. But dreaming in my head of the life I want, if only I can make it happen. It all rests on my shoulders. As do your dreams.

Go out and do it.

T