Yeah, another one.

It probably seems redundant to post another portrait of Lady Gaga, but I actually did this one prior to the last one I posted. This one I spent more time on and used a higher quality paper on. I really liked how it came out so I replaced an old portrait I'd framed that wasn't very good of her with this new and improved one. I don't know where I'm going to hang it in the apartment. One day I'll get around to it!

Fall Quarter 2010 BEGINS

Had a pretty long, annoying day at Ai dealing with all manner of administration and registrars. The first day of classes is hectic and they weren't kidding about it being worse the start of Fall Quarter. That being said, I did a lot of waiting. While I waited I sketched this. Some kid asked me, "What class is that for?" and I said, "It's not.." While that was a quick, brief exchange, it dawned on me as time passed that that was a pretty stupid question considering it was the very first day of classes. I suppose by that time of the day I could have had a morning class, but it's pretty unlikely. I don't know. Maybe it wasn't the dumbest question in the world, but I felt it was kind of silly. Despite the annoyances, I survived and got everything I needed to accomplish done. So, all in all, WIN!

The Wizard of Gaga

Went to see Lady Gaga at the Wachovia Center (Shove it, Wells Fargo). It should not come as a surprise to anyone that I thought the show was awesome; just as she was the other two times I've seen her. She puts on a good show. An odd show, but a good one. She proudly sings live, proudly hates money, and proudly bares her butt cheeks throughout the show. As do her fans. They sing loud and proud, must hate money considering how much they spend on tickets, memorabilia, and food & drink, and definitely bare their butt cheeks all over the place. There's a fine line between dressing like Lady Gaga and dressing like a straight up hooker. There was a lot of Gagas and even more hookers. And a good majority of those hookers were probably underage. I used to think that the outfits you see at Britney Spears shows were interesting. They do not compare in the least to the outfits you see at a Lady Gaga show. It's like Halloween. I have to wonder what some of these people dress like in their everyday life. I mean, I pretty much dressed up for the show as I would for any other show. I'd love to see what these people do for a living.

To the left you can check out the lovely little hooker Gagas. That would be the photo with the girls, not the photo with the fame monster eating Gaga. This was taken moments before the cleaning crew thanked us for coming, informed us that the show was over, and told us that we could come back tomorrow and see Gaga. He of course was being a jerk. And I wanted the Fame Monster to eat him. We weren't in the way of their cleaning or anything. We were just waiting out the crowds. And lots of other people were doing the same! That dude pooped on my party! Alright. I'm over it. Thanks for being awesome, Gaga. You're younger than me and way more awesome. I should hate you, but instead, I love you. Don't let me down like so many others!


ps. the show was actually on Tuesday but since I don't like having two posts in one day and I didn't do anything cool on Wednesday it's going to go here. Deal with it. It's my blog. I can Superman time if I want to.
pps. thanks so much for the ticket, fuckface!!

That girl is a monster

What can I say about Lady Gaga that hasn't already been said?
I could say that I love her, but that's definitely been said.

I could say that her shows are not only visually stimulating, but the girl can fucking sing. And when I say she can fucking sing, I mean, she can hold a steady note when a man is picking her up by her crotch. That has to be some kind of testament to her vocal stability/ability.

She's kind of like a pop monster. Like a mad scientist took all the best parts of the top stars of the day and combined them and thus created Lady Gaga. Sings like Christina, dances like Britney, plays the keys like Alicia Keys, and so on and so forth. I'm sure you could mix it any way that you want or maybe you're just shaking your head at me and thinking I've gone gaga. Yeah, I totally have. She's phenomenal.

I can't stop listening to Fame Monster! Still!

So yeah, I'm a proud little monster. Despite the slight confusion on whether she likes monsters or not, I think it's ok as long as we stay "little" and let's face it, I'm going to be little always!

And many thanks to fellow monsterteer, Jamie, who is phenomenal for not only hooking me up with those tickets, but also for hooking me up with a glo-stick! I should be so lucky!

How could we all have died at the same time?

Lady Gaga

I really don't like this very much at all, but here it is anyway. I worked long enough on it that I might as well show it. It's total crap. Oh well.

I have to kill to make it true

For the sake of having a good time and not being tempted to spend the whole show taking pictures, I didn't bring my camera to the Fameball. I wanted to dance! So, instead of posting a photo of Jamie's, the blurry crap I took with my phone, or stuff I could google, I opted to sketch Lady Gaga myself! It scanned terribly. It's very hard to scan pencil. The only way to get them to show up at all is to turn up the contrast and that doesn't always do it justice. The subtly is lost. Maybe I should have just taken a picture of it instead. Hmm. Maybe I'll try that later. If you'd like to see the original I used for comparison sake, clicky click. I obviously removed her hand. It was taking attention off of her face. Just always looked awkward. I wanted the attention to be on her eyes. And trust me, it looks a lot better without the hand. My attempts at making her hand not look awkward were completely in vain! haha

Anyway, I really had a good time at the Fameball (I just like saying that). Lady Gaga has got to be one of the oddest entertainers out there right now. I just saw Factory Girl a few weeks back so Andy Warhol things are fresh in my mind and I completely understood what she was doing, but it was very odd nonetheless. But it was great. I had a lot of laughs, sang songs I love, and got a plethora of hot new dance moves to bring to da club! And, look, she even got me out of my sketch slump!

The perfect sum up: Thanks Gaga! (yeah, that's an in-joke.)