Monday, November 28, 2011

Recent Happenings, etc...

It was Thanksgiving recently. I am thankful for my family and friends. I got to see so many wonderful people, it was awesome. 

Much has happened since I've last written. I've been doing a lot of painting lately. I haven't uploaded them to the blog yet, but you can see them on my Facebook Page, so go check them out there if you wanna. I've given out about a fuck-thousand of those 'painting factory' paintings out too. If anyone got one of my free paintings and landed here some how as a result, than congratulations, I will literally kiss your ass for you being so cool, hahaha, thanks for peeping my shit!  More importantly though, I've finally managed to pull my head out of my own ass a little bit. I think I must be waking up out of some sort of seven thousand year depression... I'm so grateful for everything. In fact, I should spend the time to write a damn essay about it, because I finally have so much to say again. My god, the brain is an amazing thing. You can literally do whatever the hell you want to with it, bahhahaha. So think about that, and seriously, if you're not making yourself happy everyday, you're probably doing something wrong, hahaha. Geeezus H. Christ, life is too short to worry about shit you have no control over. Damn cliche nonsense@!!1! Now that I feel better i just want to barf out cheesy self help rhetoric to any depressed sap that needs some love, like that even makes any sense at all.  How self defeating is it to try to read a self help book in order to help yourself?  merffm, i shouldn't even start a topic I don't want to devote the time to finish writing about... But damn life is easy if you just smile! aNy way, 


This is my most recent musical endeavor;

If you like this then go on and Subscribe to my Youtube Channel!

Well, that's all the time I have for now, I'll see you magnificent bastards next time! =D

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Old Ass Guitar Video

Hahahaha, I just found this on my external hard drive and had a massive laugh about it. I had totally forgotten this video even existed.  Anyway, here is me (in all my old dreadlocked glory) doing really awful cover songs, in various locations around my parents old farm. Damn I miss the farm sometimes! This is just so wonderfully nostalgic for me. Those days are gone forever....  Oh well, at least now I can sing a lot better these days, lol.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

September (What's Crappenin')

*****  I've been redesigning my website and it's almost finished, so check it;    Drake Arnold . com




*****  I've been working on producing endless amounts of paintings, for what I am calling my "Painting Factory".  It is my intention to give all these painting away for free to random strangers I meet. I am kick starting this effort by bringing hopefully about three hundred paintings with me to the BlackWater Music Festival to pass out. Hope to see you there!    =)












*****  Here is a video my friend Laura made recently, featuring one of my songs,  Aphrodite;
"Isaiah"




*****  Here is some of the Frank music, courteously uploaded to Youtube by my friend Katie;

"Number Two"

"Drakes' Gay"
"The Ballad of Ravis"

Monday, August 15, 2011

The Painting Factory...

...is up and running, with the first session of paintings hot off the assembly line. Hot damn are they handsome! Drake Arnold's marvelous painting factory; providing free art to anyone, because we love you!







Monday, August 8, 2011

Friday, July 29, 2011

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Soufflé au Charabia...

Is the name of one of my songs...

I made a post about it with the lyrics right after I recorded it.
Here is the link to that post;  Souffle au Charabia Lyrics

Well here's the music video for that song that I just threw together a year later for no apparent reason;


and lastly, just for fun, this is what I got when I just tried to run the "french" lyrics through a translator. 


Gibberish Souffle

Ehtwah, of cottage cheese,
 In a bowl, mix Faucette,
Cheese, the white juan,
Johns, eggs, and cream. 
Ajouater a clamp, salt and poivréon.

Students, and the dress,
Parade through the streets to demand,
Money to passers-by,
Or they throw,
Flour, flour and eggs.

Pour into mold, and as flour,
Put in preheated oven, When he came out of a crazy,
To form the crust, buttered soufflé,
Put that needs to go up, When he came out of the insane,
Serve, immediate - ing hot, but - the pan.

Wishing you, an iron,
Kitchen hell and eggs,
he told me that soon we would put,
Everybody in, Prozac face fear.



Saturday, July 23, 2011

Charcoal Women

These are sketches I've done over the last month or so...  A lot of these photographs are kind of blurry and crappy. Maybe I'll try to take some better photographs of these sometime soon, before they all end up crumpled up in a portfolio or cardboard box in an attic somewhere, lol.






















Thursday, July 14, 2011

A Correlation Between Perspective and the Passage of Time

My third split screen song/video...



Watch it on Youtube - If you so desire...



A Correlation Between Perspective and the Passage of Time

Sometimes life feels like it will never change
The time crawls by but things just stay the same
And each day bleeds into the next
Months pass by without significance

Here in this moment that is frozen
We decide how our lives will end up
And its everyday we have to fight
to hold up our heads
lest we start crumbling

Sometimes life feels like it moves so fast
You blink you eyes and several years have past
You reflect back on things you wish you had done
and how the chance to do all those things are gone

Here in this moment that is frozen
We decide how our lives will end up
And its everyday we have to fight
to hold our heads up
lest we start crumbling

Friday, June 24, 2011

The Redemption of Hobart Mantooth Wadsworth Livingston Jenkins the III

My second split screen video music session thing...



Watch it on Youtube - If the embedded version above doesn't work for what ever reason...

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Tuesday Afternoon

Well, I was bored after work today so I started recording some video of me drumming. Then I thought "eh, might as well keep going with it"... This is the result. It might have turned out better if I wasn't just trying to 'tear ass around the backyard' on my drum set the whole time. It was fun though, I'll have to do it again sometime soon, only make it more of a song instead of just some bizarre jam session...  

I keep using the same embed tag as before, it works fine for my work computer but not for my home computer, so here's the direct link once again:

Tuesday Afternoon
Tuesday Afternoon on my Youtube account

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On a side note, life has been good lately. A switch flipped in my head about two weeks ago. I realized I'd been feeling sorry for myself and being all shitty and pathetic...   Someone was actually trying to reassure me that I'm a cool guy, hahaha! That made me remember, I'm Drake mother fucking Arnold man, and I don't need that shit from anybody! So instead of being all shy and apologetic about my work, I think I'll be overly confident for awhile. Its equally annoying I suppose, but might be slightly healthier for my head for a little while. So anyways, here's a video of me kicking crazy amounts of ass at music and life in general!

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Another year I claim....

Hello, and thanking you kindly, for to be celebrating, of whence, laborious birthing, 25 years Anniversary, my mother celebrating, yes?        I guess its technically the 26th already, but whatever...
Well... As part of my birthday celebrating, how could I not bother to share some of the joy with one of my closest old friend and associate, ...my blog...   hahaha! I haven't much cared for birthdays for the last, I don't know, five or six years....   Who wants to be reminded of their mortality? That their an aging waste of life? [Seriously people, what the hell are we all doing on a day to day basis? Is there some bigger picture I'm missing out on?] As such, I took the opportunity to celebrate today in my own small ways... Barricaded drunkenly in my apartment, doing weirdsies, beardo type stuffs...  This self indulgent blog and all the stupid shit I put on here, well.... This is just another part of my birthday present to myself, hahaha...  I mean...  i just have to maintain this blog, I'm compelled to do so by forces beyond my control...  I don't know why, it just helps keep me sane...   I always feel weird and ashamed about it... Like the way I feel when I use social networking website stuff...  Why? whats the purpose? Validating my existence? Shouldn't I be content with just making stuff and learning things? Must I always put so much of that crap on my blog? Who am I trying to impress or prove anything to?  
And  --'whoa man', says I.... It's my birthday, so fuck it, I needn't be bothered with these petty turdlings of concerns.... I do what I wants, I'm Drake motherfuckin' Arnold... and plus, I'm drunk and its late at night, so thats when all the weird shit goes down anyways!       My birthday present to myself, if anything, would be to give even less of a fuck what anyone else thinks of this shit!  hahaha right, so without further adieu, here's some of my birthday that I'll share with you's guys....




In case the embed tag isn't working above, here's a direct link: Drunken BirthDay HoDown.... Either way, you'll probably need some sort of a quicktime plugin...

The songs I played were:
'Happy Birthday to Me'       by Bright Eyes
'If the Battle Wasn't Won'
'Daily Programming'
'Black Omen'
'Licked Clean Blues'
'Fan Fiction'

If I have more to say about that video, I'll put it here some other time
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And finally, Here's a picture I doodled today....

Sunday, May 15, 2011

A weekend of Words....

I can't stop writing yet, after lots of private writing....  so it's obviously blogging time...

Well hello again, dear ****imaginary reader*, and prepare to be entranced, by my weirding ways...

it's time for installment seventeen. It's that time of the year for me again.... when about tri-annually I need to barf out a whole wretched heap of drake pudding...    What else is there to do, I've been talking to inanimate objects all day anyways, the computer is just another in a long line of uninterested house hold appliances... hahaha...   Man, see, that's half the problem...  no body else, I imagine, thinks its very funny, hahaha but I think it's pretty damn funny...

Ok so... wait...  the purpose was...   err...    oh right...  to update you about what I do....    because I don't facebook very much, or have friends very much...   This is like my 'public journal'...  my pubic journal...  I don't like the social networks, so this is my lonelyface.com or whatever...    ok shit... i've been drinking so i want to branch off from here in twenty directions, here are the bullet points, so i remember later what the hell i was thinking

  1. Music information
  2. Job stuff
  3. Lonelyface.com
  4. Free association rant
  5. Haiku or something else, for shits and giggles?
  6. My weekend>?
  7. In summation/youtube/ whatever else
Before I start in on all this though, my mind has been wandering whilst bulleting...  damn, i usually edit myself better than this, but i feel like if i don't type as quickly and stupidly as i can, i'll never be word satiated....   ok so anyway, Fuck all this stuff...  My life and it's updates are boring as shit and irrelevant to anyone except me!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to talk about stuff that I think might actually be important....  like, I've been wanting to rant about religion and politics and philosophy, and god only knows what else...  and i've tried several times over the last month...  I re-read a lot of my un-published blog posts and they are great...    The problem is...  i have this job, and I don't want to get fired... so maybe I should just shut the fuck up, and sit on all my horrible dooms day sooth saying...  I mean, seriously though, you thought the shit that I ended up putting on here was bad?   there could be a whole subterranean level of hell reserved just for my unpublished blog posts, hahahaha///   Don't get me started....  also, i'm not smart enough to want to publish those thoughts...  they change every five minutes, and they're substantiated by no more than mystical gut feelings, so whats the point of writing it anyway, i guess...   So, now on to business... 

1}}} Music Information 
When I started the blues project in august of last year, I set a deadline of january 1st 2011 for the completion date, and I worked like a fiend to get there on time too...  HAHAHA!  If i'd have realized how incredibly naive of me this was! I thought i'd just do this little blues project in three or four months...   Thank god I didn't end up forcing it out, just to meet that retarded deadline! This project is insane, and has taken on a life of it's own! It can never be stopped, and it will never end, because this project is the story of my damned life, so it will never end, while my heart still beats...   HAHAHA!!!!  Right?   I know its ludicrous and retarded, and regrettable, like the rest of my life. but HA!  I'll still be laughing while I die, and all the dumbasses of this world will eat their ice cream and watch their 'grey's anatomy' or their 'bones' or 'house' or 'scrubs' or 'road rules' or 'jersey shoreline' or whatever the fuck is current... probably not that stuff, hahaha, but none the less. I do not feel unconsoled...double negative  As much as I rag on myself, I really think everyone else are the weird bastards and I'm the only normal one...  
I think this project is realistically another four... five...  six months away....   It's getting better and better... I don't want to short change it...   In fact, I love this project...  When it's finally finished, i don't expect anyone to give a fuck, because realistically, i only know two or three people who actually listen to the musical genre, 'the blues'....  But, when it's finally finished, months later, I think I'll be proud of it...  atleast I hope I can say that...   [I better take singing lessons first, hahaha]

2}}} Job Stuffs
Well what the hell...  I work so much ever since I got this new job...  I feel like work is becoming more real than my time after work... I spend probably just as much time there as I do at home, and I find myself thinking about those work people when I get home some times...   It sucks...  I'm like 'GET OUT OF MY HEAD, YE BASTARDS!, ARRRGGGG'   was that like a pirate? unintentional.  Haha, infact, when I said that thing about how those people should get out of my head out loud, two separate people were like "I think that you call those people friends" hahahahaha....  funny coincidence... anyway...  I don't know what to do there... i'm like a big ole socially inept whacky-waving-inflatable-arm-tube-man...  I think the quality of my work is good? but still I wonder about my presentation to the people who have god-like powers over me.... I don't think I can articulate my thoughts well in real time...   I'm one of those, 'kicking-a-rock-after-the-fact,-because-you-know-just-what-you-should-have-said' sort of guys...  A couple people from work have even mentioned reading my blog...  hahaha, which makes writing any of this a bit akward, but it's ok, cause I like those good folk anyway...   What is there to say about work...  It's so much more decent than what i was doing prior, that it's actually terrifying...   I don't want to feel content with my job, or i'll start eating ices-cream and watching 'dharma and greg' if i'm contented, as opposed to smashing up everything i love, and being a monomaniacal bastard like captain Ahab, or Howard Roark, or any of the people I love, admire, respect, or would want to be anything like....   I'm not saying I'm gonna quit, quite the contrary, i'm saying I like it very much, and have every intention of staying around for awhile while they'll continue to have me... I'm just saying, i don't want to let my being content at work prevent me from working full time at my real job, which occurs from the hours of five to nine am... I'm trying to berth a couple albums and get some animation going again... it's hard to do all that, work full time, and also have any extra curricular activity with friends at all...  whatever...  i'm off to topic three...  if more comes later about this, i reckon i'll know what section to file it under....  

3}}} LonelyFace
This will be brief because i don't give a fuck or want to write about facebook... 
I just figured it was worth mentioning...   I dropped off facebook...  I don't like using it much....   I've already anticipated a deal with the devil though...  I think I'll make my triumphant return back to facefuck soon enough....  When it's time for the blues and my other shit to happen, I will most certainly have to be a facebook person again...   In fact, it may even happen sooner than that, so i can start my shameless whoring and what not...   I've been considering it, but I don't know...  this deserves it's own bullet... the battle between not giving a fuck if i die starving and crazy, and forcing myself to suck horrible cock and trying to promote myself, like a complete shit head....  I won't go any further...  all I'm saying is, I still have my dignity right now, so fuck facebook...   In a few month, maybe even a year....  at some point, i'm going to descend back into the terrible diarrhea maelstrom which is social networking...  

4}}} Free Association Rant 
Its far more interesting if I could step back, who gives a rats bollocks about any of this shit...  My skin feels like russian snakes on cold wheel barrel mornings....   when all of this began i felt like i would never let myself be a part of it...  who know where we are anymore. they haven't made a farmers almanac for this, in years! in Beards! Let me pay you in beards? It's a fine currency from where i come from... Did i Mention we also eat hank williams grandmas bikini back in those days? Yeah, we walked fifteen miles, give or take, through the bloody entrails of our conquered concubines.... and once My nursing home was in trouble...  it was such a young time of night, before the third band even played...   we went to unleash fauceted fire hydrant extinguishers, but to little avail...   When all at once, we finally were overcome by post coital regret, we lay down in puddles of our 'breakfast tears'.. and what else is there to say really...   it was just a day...  just like any other day...  just like every day for the rest of our god forsaken lives...  It was ' the usual'... .  once again...  i won't even mention it tomorrow...  no one would care or believe me anyway....   don't you fucking understand...   it would only make sense...  and my heart will always...  always...    and always....    so when and if you get your spatula from your house...  i'll meet you at the final edge of the galaxy...  an epoch so distant, i'll burn and be reborn a million times betwixt...  so what now then...      
i'LL keep going, i guess?   I jest?  LETS hope...  My stuff is all wrong.. . i'm like a crumb bum...   whatever that means.,.. I'm done with this, it degenerates in to nonsensical auditory pun...  or fun...   there it is yet again...     fuck it...\\

5]]] Blanketed Meat Scallions

I won't write no shit
I dont give not another fuck
Does my gut look hard?

Ahh, damnit, it happened anyway!

6}}} My weekend
Is mine, and not worth talking about!, there had to be one more thing to blather on about... my head was so filled with shit earlier i couldn't even finish a sentence, and now its so devoid, i might actually sleep tonight...  or perhaps thats the spirits....  thats the spirits talking and helping lull me to bed...   I only entertain thoughts of writing this shit when i'm drunk...   sober me knows that i shouldn't....   I say a lot of nothing... a lot of incriminating nothing....   no whatever....  i'm word satiated....   i'll write a conclusive paragraph and then do something more productive...  like play guitar, or go to sleep, hahaha...

27}}} In summation...   
This terrible crap would never pass QA....  I feel like I should upload a guitar video or a picture of one of my paintings or my ass or something... I might upload more guitar videos soon. I know i said i was done being a self indulgent bastard, but what the hell, it makes me happy, so what do i care, if i revel in my suckery....    The 'client' needs more stimulating media to be interested, my words alone do not suffice...   
Ooh, also, i'm celebrating...  I just noticed my Youtube channel has a total video's view number of like 130,000 or some crazy shit like that!!! when did that happen? haha i know in the grand scheme of things, thats not a very big number, but it's still a little bit neat i think, the last time i checked it was probably more like 10,000... and also like four years ago....  hahaha, cause who gives a fuck or keeps track of that lame shit?


In closing:    So now dear reader, i leave you with a final thought, and a note i appended to the end of this 'rondom' rant right as I wrote the very first sentence or two... And the final thought is this; fear not in my absence...  The blues project continues to stomp the balls of oxen bulls...  If I do not write, it's because my words are impotent, and fall on deaf ears, while the actions i store in my muscle memory alone, are worth a thousand fold trying to explain what i've been doing....    What i'm doing when i'm not doing the blues project is good too, although its too early to talk about it....  Before my heart stops and I croak, I'll be damned proud of myself, so with any luck, it won't be for a little while yet...  and even when the blues project, the 'cd' is released, i intend to make videos for the songs, so it will keep going indefinitely,  anyway.....  Maybe I'll add pizzazz to this blog tomorrow or the next day.... Maybe I won't update it for a few months....   Who knows...   But I have high expectations for the future, either way....  Assuming I'm granted enough time on earth to complete my work, I expect none to care, but I alone, will be a smiling corpse, like a pirate skeleton, fetally curled around a chest, rich of dab-loons...  When it's found in a distant future, the value will be placed on an archaeological scale, not a contemporary popularly cultural one...  Isn't that just an adorablly confident thing of me to say?...   [and conjugated all wrong as well?] 

hahahaa  
thank you, 
and goodnight, 
dear reader

If you bore with me this long.... 

You must share a similar affinity for the madness that consumes the both of us....
As i assume I would be illegal to drive right now, so too should it also be illegal for me to blog, 
but good lord, you're a good listener, and I give merit where it's due...  Thanks be to you... I've been diligently plucking out this retarded manifesto of my incoherence for I assume at least thrice the duration it took you to read it...  By that logic, it was even more terrible for me to type it then for it to be sped read, quickly digested and forgotten, by you...   At least I hope its that way friends, because i'd bear the brunt of this burden, since it were mine to give...     {{{{holy shit....  i must be writing about something so hypothetical it doesn't even matter, or make sense anymore}}}  good night then, my happy children! I guess i Love you all... who ever the hell you are!




 ****  My idea of the 'imaginary reader' is never a good thing...   it's never some bleeding heart, that reads my words, identifies, and feels empathy, perhaps, dare I say, a mutual bond of humanity? No...  I durst not....     look it up...  [durst is dare in past tense, I just learned that the other day, thanks to my brother...  {i assume it's common knowledge, but wow, it's news to me!}]...  ok, so, I digress...   My idea of the imaginary reader is always someone who I have to explain myself to...  some one who has the power to fuck me over...   a potential mate, employer, friend, business partner, etc...  ... this tangent...  maybe I'll add more to it later, for now though, back to the bulk of the text

Friday, April 29, 2011

UNTITLED

::::Published on the 15th/16th of may... I changed my mind, Sometimes I actually like my pathetically drunken ramblings::::



... I'm like an animal without instinct. I think some soul sickening madness drives me instead. If this were a darwinian competition, I'd have been extinct already.... half of the time. The other half, i'm like a mad god, laughing as i create tortured souls, like dr. frankenstein's monster. Now, down to relevance, dearly beloved reader. The blues project I had originally thought would be finished in January, well, the harder I work, the better it gets. But as such, it won't be ready for at least another few months...  Short staccato bursts of words. Now to address my over abundant use of the ellipsis in written word. Isn't it such a great and versatile punctuation? I wonder when that started anyway. High school mayhaps? ages ago at any rate... I trail off when using verbal communication.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Some Paintings...

From the last five or six months. The only one I'm actually proud of or happy with is "Atlas Hugged" as I colloquially refer to it... It's funny trying to title art. I never think much about it, until I go to throw it up on my blog or my website, and then I hastily call it the first thing that pops in my head.... Anyway, remember that doo-doo bear loves you!



A Novel Burden

Easy like sunday morning...

...Yeah?

Splish-Splash

Jelly Glass Panda

For Anna

For Dave

For Mam & Pa

For Grandma Gerri

For Mom and Dad

Generic Spray Paint Art # 1

Generic Spray Paint Art # 2