Mine's a High Horse goes illmatic.

Oh my. I have such sweet sounds in my ears right now. James Mercer (singer and guitarist for The Shins) and Danger Mouse (really Brian Burton, a sick, grammy-award winning producer who always comes up with sweet projects such as mashing together Jay-Z’s The Black Album with The Beatles’ The White Album to form his own The Grey Album…which is tight) have teamed up to create a siiiiick CD. They have called themselves Broken Bells and their new album is self-titled. For cereals, you need to check it out. At least go to this website: http://www.myspace.com/brokenbells and listen to the song “The High Road” and “The Ghost Inside” if they’re on there. You’ll get hooked.

So lately, I’ve had this really intense craving to do something creative. I’ve been playing my guitar a lot, sketching a lot, and trying to design some stuff on my computer that I could turn into some stencils. I think that it’s because I feel such a lack of creativity at work. It’s not about being creative when you’re in public accounting. It’s about being thorough and gaining a working understanding of the new things you encounter as quickly as possible so that you can decide whether or not the client is accounting for something correctly. The client may literally spend a month and a half figuring out how to correctly account for some major event and yet I am expected to come in, look at all the material, and have a good working understanding of what all they did after just a few short hours. Then I have to conclude on whether it was done correctly. It’s all about getting your mind-juices flowing as quickly as possible.

Regardless though (I got off track), I’ve been wanting to get my creative on. It has been driving me crazy because what I really want to do is some stenciling and some spray-paint art. My main problem is that all my equipment and spray paint is currently in Stillwater! I almost went and bought all new stuff last night but that would be ridiculous because I probably have $100 worth of spray paint and supplies in Stillwater and I’ll be back there this coming weekend. But I’ve just got all these crazy ideas for things I want to stencil. The one I’m most excited about is that I want to do a close-to-life-size stencil of a little boy underwater. It could look really sweet with some bubbles coming off and him just suspended there in the water. If you’re skeptical right now, just wait. I think it’s gonna be sweet.

Here’s my other question though: is it creepy if I make a stencil using someone I know as essentially the “model” for my stencil? Like picture it being you. Would you be weirded out if I make a stencil of you, put it on a canvas, and then, I don’t know, what if I give it away? Would that be weird? Sometimes I feel weird about it but here’s my issue. If I don’t use someone I know, then I use someone I don’t know! How much creepier is that if some random dude found a picture of you on the internet, looked at it and used you as the base for his “art” and put your face on a canvas that was then going to be hung up in his room. How flippin weird is that? It’s a tough situation. Thus, I think I’ll probably just keep doing a combo of those two methods as well as just drawing the people in my mind to use.

Man, just talking about all that is making me want to get the hell out of this office building, drive to Stillwater, grab my spray paint, and start tagging all the good walls in back alleyways around town. How am I an accountant? How can I enjoy the work that I’m doing while also enjoying that kind of stuff? Doesn’t make sense but that’s just how it is. When I talk about it at work, people are kinda like “hmmm…kiiiiiiinda weird but ok.”

Is it sad that I’m probably going to make a B in a 2000 level “Personal Finance” class that I’m taking online? I have had 5 years of accounting and I’m about to get a B in a sophomore level class that is teaching me how to balance my checkbook and create a personal financial plan. Wow. The truth is though that this class is just absolutely retarded. I refuse to waste my time on this financial plan thing. I could easily spend 15 hours on it if I was really trying to get an awesome grade but it is just completely worthless stuff for me to be doing. Outside of getting a grade on it, it is completely unproductive. Thus, I shall do a half-ass job and probably get a B. Oh well, it probably doesn’t matter what grades I get at this point.

Between then and now, the music in my ears has been changed (by me) to Nas – One Mic. Who am i?

Peace out.