Well looks like Azure is breaking up with me again. looks real this time.
I won't sit here and say bad things about her. I think it's been obvious for a while that this was what she wanted.
I may be homeless again soon. If anyone knows of someplace I could get a job quickly, please let me know. I promise to keep the job for a while, so if you speak for me, I won't make you look bad.
    In brighter news. The book is available now on http://www.barnsandnoble.com
You can also search for it on http://www.bookfinder4u.com that will get you the cheapest price. It should be up on amazon and borders soon. probably within the next few weeks. It's called Hell 101. I have another one coming soon, and there's two novellas available from my website. http://www.josephsweet.co.nr
    I know that the people I added as friends on here are Azures friends, and I only signed up for this account for her. Maybe none of you care, but if you talk to me I'll talk to you.  As for her? Not to be childish, but she removed me from her friends list, so I removed her from mine. There was no other reason than that.

Current Mood: cold

My book is available online now. It's a collection of short stories in the horror and science fiction genre, and I just got info back on the ISBN (internet sales book number) which means it will be available on barns & noble, amazon.com, borders, and various other online places, as well as bowkers books in print and a wholesale service that most bookstores use. So stores everywhere in the world will be able to stock it if they want.
I'm excited. If you want to check it out, or read a preview go to http://www.lulu.com/content/1044005
you can buy it there now, but it will be available in stores as soon as I get the damn proof copy and approve it online. I wish they would just hurry up and develop teleport mail.. lol.. Waiting for something like this normal usps, is torture.. lol
Let me know what you think of the cover art, preview etc. If you purchase it and read the whole thing, let me know definitely.

Current Mood: artistic

     I went to get some food today. Local diner.. was early in the morning... well by restaraunt standards anyway.. about 9:30 am... they were closed... the diner was not open on the weekend... So I went to subway.. subway did not open until 10:00 am.. by this point it was almost quarter to, so I figured screw it, I'll wait, and I could see the guy in there preparing things.. I waited patiently... (keep in mind that patiently for me is pacing back and forth in front of the door until they let me in, cuz otheriwse it's stand there and stare at people and they tend not to like that, but hey, I have to do something to make the time go by right?)
     He finally comes out a little after 10 and says that he can't serve me... the computer is down and he can't run the cash register at all.. and he doesn't have bread ready anyway.. since when are cash registers completely run by computers, but hey. whatever...
     Alright.. not the end of the world, right? But it sort of is the end of trying to get anything to eat unless I want a fucking egg and bacon sandwich or sausage or pancakes or french toast sticks, or whatever the hell they are serving now at these places... so what the hell?
     I mean who wrote a law that's included in the constitution or anywhere for that matter that says if you are going to eat between the hours of midnigh and 11 in the friggen morning you have to eat food classified as breakfast.. I.E. cereal, sausage, eggs and bacon... etc etc. where is that written?  did I miss that class at school? was there a chapter in the bible that I somehow never read? was that the eleventh fucking commandment? "thou shalt not eat cow in the morning?" only pig and aborted chicken?
    the only other places open at that time were places likke burger king, mcdonalds, wendys.. within walking distance... and if I were to go in there and request a cheesburger.. I would get laughed at or looked at like I was some sort of diseased thing.. "You want a burger at 9 am? are you on drugs sir?" and they would tell me to wait until 10:30 or 11 oclock.. WTF? My way right away my ass.. my way right away would be me walking in at 3 in the frickin morning and saying yah. I want a steak and fries, smothered in cheese, with lots of gravy.. or a bacon cheese burger with extra fucking cheese.. and fries.. and since it's my way.. how about we make that only cost five bucks.. can we do that? sure we'll be eating diseased cow meat with maybe some rat and cat mixed in to make the price go down, but I'm sure they could swing it.. has to be better than what they serve at taco bell... (do not even get me started on that) dog food companies get better meat... 
     Somehow society has created a standard that says if you don't wake up at 5 in the morning and go to bed by 10 pm you are abnormal... if you don't eat special k in the morning instead of a tv dinner or a hamburger you are a freak.. I got news for em.. people that work night? that's thier day.. thier morning is like 5pm.. instead of five am.. maybe later.. so when it's 5 in the morning, they probably want lunch or supper...
     Why do we have these rules? because WE don't pay the majority of fast food income.. fat, lazy middle aged welfare rats do.. the people who get pissed when they buy a cup of coffee and accidentally spill it on themselves cuz they're fat and clumsy and they can't even take the blame for that... they sue the fast food companies for not having a label on it that said HOT... well DUH!!.. if you wanted cold coffee.. go to duncan donuts and get one of those coolata things... Anyway, I'm off topic.. We need to open more 24 hour diners... I want more places where they don't care what the AVERAGE person wants, tehy only care what YOU want... if I walked in there and said I wanted french toast and 10 pm, or said I wanted a steak and potato at 3 in the morning.. they'd say, how you want that? Now THAT"S MY WAY RIGHT AWAY!!! 
fuck it.

 

 

Current Location: home
Current Mood: crazy
Current Music: none :-(

I meant to mention it on here sooner, but it's only been a couple days.
I finally got a book out. For all of you horror and Sci fi people
It's a book of Short stories. one or two of which were initialy published a while back.
If you're nterested you can check it out at the online store..
It's available in both Hardcover and Paper back and for those of you that like to read
on your PC there is an Ebook. The ebook is the cheapest ofcourse.
Below are some direct access links tothat stuff and purchase links, but the store
link above with give you more options and allow you to see samples.
I will be coming out with more merchandise soon. Soe mouse pads with my digital
landscapes and other art on them, T-shirts, Sweat-shirts, and other things.. maybe
even some mugs.. :-) I dunno.. let me know what you would like to see, and I will try
to do it.

And Here are some individual MP3's for .99 cents each. . .

Another Plane

Lost

Without You

The Days

Can't go on

I Lie

Piece of Sanity

Get the Hardcover Edition Now

Get the Paperback Edition Now

or go to the storefront, and click on the downloadable format of either here

Just letting anyone who cares know that I have a CD out now.. If you want to check it out, you can buy a copy at
This link
If that doesn't work. copy and paste the following into your address bar on whatever browser you use.
www.lulu.com/content/776622



Support a starving artist. Well not exactly starving.. but poor.
lol.

Current Mood: bouncy

Do the local officials care about us?
I suppose if asked this question, I would answer I don't think so, but I guess some part of me still had faith that if I ever called the police with a legitimate problem, they would be there.
A couple days ago, I witnessed some really bad destruction of property. I was at my computer around one in the morning, and I started hearing this banging sound. Well there is a pretty big parking lot behind the building and I wanted to make sure that someone wasn't damaging any of the cars out there, so I stepped out onto the roof. There was nothing going on right there, and I couldn't see anything yet across the street, so I came back inside. Adirondack outfitters is immediately across the street from my building, and after this sound went on for some time.. about an hour by my clock. I stepped outside again...
   This time I saw a light in one of the buses that they have to transport rafting customers.. moving around.. and that same banging with the occasional glass breaking sound.
   I wanted to call the cops but didn't have a working cell phone at the moment and my neighbors didn't hear the door or like normal people don't answer at 1-2 in the morning.. I went back to watch, hoping there'd be something I could tell the authorities later in the day.
   I witnessed three kids leaving.. all white. one rather large, about 5' 8" in a dark sweatshirt and shorts. and two other ones a little bit shorter, definitely teenagers.. As they left, they also slit three tires in a vehicle parked on Newel street and smashed out one window.
    Apparently the damage to the buses was horrible. I saw it first hand later.. the windows are all smashed out.. mirrors ripped off, head and tail lights destroyed as well as other damage.. This is very bad for that business, but other rafting companies are helping out with that I guess..These kids took their time, and when they left, they didn't seem in a hurry. They seemed like they didn't have a care in the world and weren't worried in the slightest about being caught.
    When they left they went up mill street
    Later in the day about 10:30am or so.. I looked out my window to see that someone was at the rafting place, and the big sliding door was open. So I went over to let them know what I saw, and offer to talk to the police if they wanted.
    One of our city councilmen Tim LaBouf.. (hope I spelled that right) Was there, and he talked to me for a little bit.. then passed the information on to a reporter and some other people on his cell phone.. they took my info.. I talked to the owner of the place. Mr LaBouf called the cops and was given the runaround by dispatch, or so I overheard him say, but he finally got hold of a detective that assured him, he would be right down to take my statement.. Hours passed and no cops came. Finally a very disinterested individual (to say the least) in a uniform showed up and took some information, but he was from evidence, and not there to talk to me.. he assured me that someone would contact me, and after a few more hours, I gave up and went home.. But not before talking to the owners of the car.. At this point I saw what I believed to be one of the kids from the event, and another kid that could have been one of them. They walked down onto newel street and seemed like they were thinking of heading toward the buses, but exited the street onto mill instead. The way they kept from looking at any of us was pretty suspicious and from body language, and they way they left, they seemed to be displaying some signs of guilt.
   The woman there called the cops again, and reported what had happened and that I had thought I saw the kids again.. the cops said they would be right down.. I also called it in myself and reported it and mentioned having been told someone was on the way hours ago.. and still a couple hours later... nothing.. I was assured by them that someone would come get my statement, but still I've talked to no one.
    One thing that I find interesting, is that these kids apparently vandalized all the way up newel street.. broke some lights and I don't know what else.. over heard a city guy talking about that.. A squad car did come down at one point about an hour after they said they would come take my statement, but passed right by, heading toward where city property had been damaged..
    What does this say to me? They don't care about us or our property.. Someone can vandalize your house, place of business, or vehicle, and they don't care enough to follow up a lead that could potentially lead to arrests. But they sure as hell rushed down toward where city property had been damaged..
    Maybe I'm asking for trouble for posting this.. Maybe I don't have a right to be angry.. Hell, with the way the country is being run right now, maybe I seriously don't have the right.. But I feel this is ridiculous.. The city should be investigating this.. not only might they catch these kids and stop them from destroying your place of business or your vehicle, or your home. But wouldn't you feel safer at night thinking that the cops actually cared what happened to you? Instead now we all have to worry that this could happen at any time to any of us... And I know I can't be the only one who witnessed something.. But will people step forward? No. These are kids.. they aren't crime lords or drug cartel.. just kids.. nothing to be afrraid of people. But on some level, if this is the way things are handled by the authorities, maybe I won't be so quick to come forward next time.. if it all is going to fall on deaf ears.  I've never been the sort of person that just closes thier curtain and turns off the lights when I hear signs of violance, but what good is coming forward actually doing.. Cops are reactionary anyway.. I mean you have to be aware that they are not there to protect you. They can only do something if they see it happen or if it's reported. And that's after the damage is done.. What good are they doing when they don't care to actually follow up on leads. Hopefully this gets some people motivated.. contact city hall.. contact your city council. Mr. LaBouf actually seemed to care. Maybe that was genuine. tell them what you thing of this. Tell them that you want these kids caught.. It's very posible that the cameras at the paper plant caught footage of them early in the morning walking up mill street.. it would place them near the scene.. between 1:30 and 4:00 in the am. But no one appears to be looking into this.

Current Mood: aggravated

   So apparently, The Pewter Mug is not doing Karaoke anymore, and I need a Job. Anyone know of somewhere that needs people where I can get hired, but only monday through friday?
   Uggh. This means I will actually have to work for a living again.
   :-(
   Oh well. What can I say, I'm a musician/artist/writer.. we're all kind of lazy..
   Seriously, let me know if you know someplace.
   Sun's been up for two or three hours now.. Maybe I should go to bed..
   *Yawn* yup.. bed is looking good..
  

Current Mood: tired

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Current Location: home
Current Mood: awake

:-(
So a while ago as some of you may remember, I broke my Taylor guitar.. Probably the most expensive guitar I have owned so far.
I was being an idiot and leaned it against a table while putting some equipment away, and it fell over and the headstock broke from the body.
Well I put it back in it's case and put it away. and then after a while I took it down to Wind and Wire. (formerly Black River Music)
The gentleman down there says, Sure I'll have it done for you in a week and a half. and he quotes me $130.00
I think it over.. Let me see. $360.00 to have the neck replaced by Taylor and be without it for a few weeks. Or $130.00 to have this guy fix the neck. So I leave it there and I give the guy $130.00 which I ask him to hold for me incase something comes up and he can't fix it.
He gladly puts my money aside in an envelope and three weeks fly by.. I waited patiently for the week and a half, then started coming in every other day.. when it still wasn't done at three weeks, I needed to do something to convince myself that it would be done.. so I talked to him about it.. "oh I just haven't had time to get to it.. and blah blah.. excuse after excuse.. After a month. I take my money back and buy a cheap electric. Three months later and a billion excuses from then here I sit, and no guitar.. And to top it off.. I kept going in there and I asked him if he could do something fast because I thought I might be losing some income soon and I may not be able to afford it then.. he says, "Well in that case, we'll be waiting on you, instead of the other way around." I couldn't believe this reply. I mean what way is that to do business?
After talking to some people and researching the repair, (which isn't that hard apparently) I go back in there intending to take my guitar back and do it myself.. As I walk in.. he goes.. "Oh yah. you're guitar is almost finished.." I'm happy about this, so I say Cool.. and leave.. he told me that all he had to do is a fill on some of the spots where wood was missing due to the break. But the gluing is done.. So I figure, great, and he tells me a couple more days at the most.. I lost track of how much time has past at this point but that was about three months in, and now it's been a few weeks since then, and still, he isn't done with it.. And to top it off, I can't just take it back, because he started on it, so if I do that, I have to pay for an unfinished job. and I keep getting excuses when I go in there. I'm thinking now that I may never see my guitar again, or that when he does get it done, I won't have the income to pay for it, which I warned him about a month and a half ago. Some week and a half repair. Way to go Wind and Wire. I'm thinking he should seriously discount the repair at this point to make up for my time. But I'm doubting he'll get it done this year.

Current Mood: bitchy

So yah. I go to the Yahoo movies page to watch some clips of upcoming movies..
First on the list was Transformers. Which I wouldn't be giving a chance if it hadn't been for the michael bay thing, (never seen a michael bay movie that sucked) but I try to watch that and get a tiny little twenty second clip, and then instantly go into a Harry potter full length trailer.. I watch it. I figure What the hell, right, I kind of liked harry potter movies. Well the third one was dark enough to suit me. But then it goes back to transformers and I get another small clip and then it goes back to the same Harry potter trailer.. I'm going What the $%^&.. So I scroll down the screen, where various trailers for transformers are listed and click the theatrical trailer.. and it starts the harry potter trailer again.. Everything I click starts the harry potter trailer.. I'm suddenly feeling like throwing my keyboard across the room, but I figure.. okay.. Screw transformers.. what else is out.. and I started watching other movie trailers.., like the bourne ultimatum.. Looks good.. but then what comes on immediately upon completion of the bourne trailer? You guessed it.. DING DING DING.. TELL EM WHAT THEY WON JOHNNY!!!... HARRY POTTER.. and with everything after that.. SO I'm refusing to watch Harry Potter now. Or atleast I sure as hell won't be paying for it. Bu then again.. I almost stopped going to the cinema when they started airing TV and product commercials before movies.. I must have watched ten or twenty trailers including Evan Almighty, and after every one the same trailer came on automatically. I'm guessing that the movie is expected to suck or something, because they are putting way too much effort into making sure we see the trailer whether we want to or not.. Well to hell with Yahoo.. (and Harry Potter) I think I'll be watching trailers at youtube from now on. :-)

Current Mood: bored