Wanna see me scrape myself off the ceiling? Imagine the horror when, just 5 minutes ago, I casually glanced down beside my chair and saw a BIG ASS spider... no not the itsy-bitsy ones, body about a quarter inch, total width maybe about 2 inches.

SPHINCTER MALFUNCTION !!!

Knowing myself, discovering these useful little beauties is only the beginning of a heart-stopping ordeal before... catching it...
As a nature lover I'm usually unwilling to kill anything larger than a fly... mosquitoes I will gladly swat because, well, they steal my blood... but spiders are not only useful, they're about the only thing standing in the way of global insect domination, so they're on OUR side... but did they HAVE to be so GODDAMN ugly, and crawly, and fast, and have eight legs and eyes? DJEEZUS...

So I take a plastic cup and an empty envelope, ready to trap it... IT RUNS... OH SWEET MOTHER OF GOD IT RUNS... by now my heart is racing along with the spider, chills run down my back... finally I catch it and throw it out my window, two stories up.

*PHEW*

The one thing I've learned about spiders is, that when you make them fall, they spread their legs and hover down... quite fascinating... as a matter of fact, the further they are from me, the more fascinating I think they are...

I just spent two days on the trot watching the first season of Legend Of The Seeker, a fantasy series filmed on location in NZ. Based upon Terry Goodkind's "The Sword Of Truth" books, this is beyond any doubt the best in TV fantasy I've EVER seen...

If you haven't seen this series, I advise you to do so.
A wonderful storyline and brought by people making a very serious attempt at bringing hardcore fantasy to the little screen with uncompromising seriousness , this has been an enormously entertaining first season.

I'm just sad I ran out of episodes to watch...

Mental note to self:
riding a donkey to a party is very uncomfortable and generates ridicule...

I hadn't been drawing anything for months on end... it was very frustrating.
Today, for the first time this year, I'm actually enjoying it again...
I hope this signifies the end of an inspirational dry spell that has been going on for a long time.
It's 5.30AM and I'm submitting fresh stuff again... life is good once more

Gothic Festival 2009 @ Expo Waregem was übercool !!!
3 days of beer, sun, music and people with extravagant clothing and haircuts.
Too bad I didn't take more pics and the ones I took are kinda crappy...
I won't upload them here.

Best bands I saw included: KMFDM, Diary of Dreams, And One, Diorama, Miss Construction, IC434, Client, Hocico, Apoptygma Berzerk.

Pièce de résistance was undoubtedly Hocico, the uncanny Mexican industrial duo.

I'm inclined to go again next year