More Stuff in my Dark Happy Holes

Hey friends. Gearing up for the Starslam 2 kickstarter launch... any day now. Like a thief in the night, its coming! And I'm gonna be a promoting machine, out there doing what I can to get as many books sold as I can. You can help too! REPOST! RETWEET! Tell your friends! Especially friends with comic podcasts! Let's make it happen!!

Meanwhile, life around here stays the same. I'm very happy in my current situation and I have zero complaints lately. Seems like for the last month or so, I've finally found a nice comfortable base level for my life. I just have been feeling very happy and productive. I've been getting a lot of shit done. Not as much stalling. I'm filled with energy and joy every morning when I get up. Things seem brighter. Maybe its the change of weather. Maybe its that my work is finally getting done. Maybe its how my girl treats me. I'm sure its a combo of all those factors. Either way, I'm enjoying it!

Yesterday I went out and scored some more NES games for my Top Loader. And then, my Top Loader arrived in the mail!!

Some essentials and some games I've played but forgot about. Like Pinbot and IronSword!

A pal of mine just invested in a large poster, promo book and movie trailer collection from a closing movie theater. So he let me take an early pick of some of the goodies. Some of the posters have wear, but I'm not THAT kind of collector. I just wanted them for my new apartment. Check it:

All original. All theatrical style posters. I also got a HIGH FIDELITY, my favorite movie! I gotta get frames for all of them this week. They will proudly go up in my new apartment, which is now becoming MOVIE THEMED! Its a proper "museum of me" instead of someone else! (see previous blog) If you need posters or promo things from pretty much any movie from 1975 to current, hit em up with a message HERE - I'm glad I did! I want to see the investment succeed for him, so I am doing all I can to let people know. 

Its amazing what a positive mind can do for you. All that self help bullshit you read about carpe diem and choosing happiness, its all true. Everyday you are presented a choice: Be happy or not. Yeah, you got fucked up shit going on. We ALL do. Some by our doing, some from outside sources. We all take a big bite of the shit sandwich of life. People screw us over. We screw ourselves over. But the choice still remains. Be happy, or don't be.

So when you choose happiness, your mind starts to change. You feel sparkier. More free. More able to cope and things brush off of you easier. Trust me, I'm living proof of this process.

This time last year, I was working two part time jobs with no pay, nursing a hurt foot, broken heart, sadness over a death in my family, no place to sleep on but a cheap ass goodwill couch, no furniture of my own.... and now here I am a year later. Gearing up to decorate my new apartment, great job, great people in my life and a positive attitude. And a new book coming out! This time last year, I was only a few pages of art into it!! What a year!

This didn't all just HAPPEN, folks. I made it happen. I kept at it and got out. So can you. I'm no miracle of a person. I'm just a guy. I made it happen, you can... believe me. So don't let things or even yourself hold you back. The one thing that stops you from what you want is YOU. That person in the mirror is your worst enemy and your best friend. But its YOU. Learn to like them. They are all you got. And I don't care what the goal is. So long as its realistic, you drill down enough, work hard, give it time... it will happen. Guaranteed.

There. Much better of a blog post than I've done in the last ten years here, don't you think?

--T