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Benefit For A Cancer Victim

Fuck. Fuck Fuck Fuckitty God Damned Fuck!

My very dear friend Lori (the one we were helping to send stuff to Iraq for US Troops?) posted today about her sister Teri's cancer. The prognosis isn't good. After finishing the treatment they scanned her again and said she had MORE tumors, not less, and they are inoperable. Fuck. GO HERE to donate to their benifit to help pay their medical bills in the many thousands of dollars. GO HERE if you want to read Lori's far more elegant and eloquent post about it. If you can't afford a few bucks (and remember every little bit helps) remember that prayers are very welcome also.

JOY HNT

I'm taking a little break from HNT this week. Maybe I'll be back next week. I dunno. I haven't missed many but I'm not feeling it today. Even though I got a speeding ticket this AM I'm still feeling grateful. I'm alive, sober and I have everything I need to live, thrive and survive another day. Truly blessed.

NY @ Night

Here's a nice shot I took of NYC @ night. I thought I'd share it with y'all. More photos HERE. The jam went well again last night. We had a huge crowd and that's always fun. The female backup singers were my favorite part. :-) Got gigs Friday and Saturday night and the big photo shoot in Brooklyn Saturday afternoon. I'm pretty excited. It'll be my first time in a real pro photo studio. Recording studios don't impress me much anymore but this is something new. Hope everyone's having a nice Wednesday. Cheers!

Post Of Lime

I must point you to THIS wonderful post by the inimitable Lime. She is ever a rock of strength, sanity and calm in my often emotionally tumultous life. It reads in part, "Mahatma Gandhi, Corrie Ten Boom, Martin Luther King, Jr., Imaculee Ilibagiza - These are people who have all adhered to nonviolence and insisted that we must not return evil for evil, that we must return good." It was Lime who wisely reminded me that you should never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty but the pig enjoys it. It's much easier to delete and, having deleted, move on. Peace out.

Apples and Oranges

Well, I wanted to post something today so you get this picture. I have one that's ACTUALLY apples and Oranges but I like this one better. More HERE.
But I'm here to tell ya
There's something else...the afterworld
A world of never ending happiness
You can always see the sun
Day or night
So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills -You know the one
Dr. Everything'll be alright
'Stead of asking Him how much of you're time is left
Ask him how much of you're mind, baby
'Cause in this life things are much harder than in the afterworld
In this life...you're on your own!
And if the elevator tries to bring you down,
go crazy...punch a higher floor!

Happy St. Pats/Wearin Of The Green

Well, these Lillies are MOSTLY green...more pix from the Philly Flower Show HERE.I have mixed feelings about St. Pats. I'm more proud of my Irish ancestry than ever but being sober now I feel it's a bit of a shame that the thing my countrymen are best known for is getting pissed. Have a look HERE for a bit more about Irish culture besides a Pint O' Guiness. No tha thar's aught wrang wi thae! Even when I was a proper drunk I didn't much care for Guiness tho. I couldn't readily drink 30 of them at a sitting so...
As for The Saint himself well...I've heard it said that the legend of him driving snakes from Ireland's shores is a metaphor for his persecution of Pagans. Not sure if that's true but I will go so far as to say that the Catholic Church has much to answer for in Ireland and abroad, but then again so does all of organized religion.
A dear friend at the doctor for her 2nd mammogram in a week. Apparently they wanted another look. Since she already survived breast cancer once we are none too happy about them wanting another look. Doubly so as they won't say WHY but apparently they never do. Anyway I'm worried and I'm praying hard for knowledge of God's will and the strength to carry that out fearlessly no matter what. It is not easy.
EDIT: THE BOOBIES ARE OK!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU GOD!

Fighting a cold again

Well, I have that "You have a cold coming on Jack." feeling. I am Jack's failing immune system. I'm letting Jack down. Actually, last time I felt like this I managed to fight it off with some Airborne and a good night's sleep so we'll see. My schedule always gets fucked over the weekend. The jam was good on Tuesday night, Thursday's solo show in Milford, CT went well. I'll be at Sloppy Josés every other Thursday now and Saturday night's surf show made me a few bucks too! I got a modeling gig for myself next Friday, next Saturday is the big photo shoot in Brooklyn. Four models, a makeup artist, a pro studio and ME! Woot! Between music and photography I'm starting to come close to paying my rent with my art. In NY that's no mean feat no matter WHO you are! Sunday I hope to convene The New Gearjammers band complete with keyboardist!

Drama Free HNT

If there's one thing I've been working on in my life it's cutting down on drama. I used to swing at every pitch but lately I'd rather walk. I'm powerless over others and there's really no point in getting upset about the things they think, do or say. I try to be kind, honest and forthright with everyone in my life. That is best I can do. I am not perfect but I try to be good. If that isn't enough for some people that's really too bad. This is a drama free zone. Seemingly everyone I talk to wants to fight today. I wonder why that is. Anyway HHNT

Glowing Birds Of Paradise

Some of you may remember sometime back when I had this yogic vision of a glowing bird of paradise flower.

Imagine my surprise when going through the photos of my recent trip to shoot the Philadelphia Flower Show I saw THIS:
OK, it's a coincidence. Except there ARE NO coincidences. God is giving me a message. And the message is "Listen to me: Follow your heart." OK. I get it. At least I think I get it. Why is it always harder to DO what's right than KNOW what's right? Especially when KNOWING what's right can be so God Damned Hard to begin with sometimes? Anyway I only put up a dozen or so pics from the trip so far. I'm trying not to innundate my Flickr account with fortyleventeen and scaighty-eight flower pictures. There's some good street stuff from Philly too. Visit My Flickr Account

NOTE: THE BIBLE, THE WORLD’S BEST-SELLING BOOK, IS ALSO THE WORLD’S MOST SHOPLIFTED BOOK.

Talking Fish @ The Philly Flower Show

I went to shoot a flower show and yet I met this talking fish. "Fish," said I "what do you here? Did you not know it's a flower show?" But the fish came up and breathed the air and "I don't care at all!" said he. "What you all do up there my friend is rather naught to me!" "Isn't that a rather odd thought?" thought I, "That all that I should do or see is rather naught to a fish that lives and breathes and swims beneath the deep blue sea?" And so if you should ought to see a fish that lives beneath the sea please tell him that I said hello for though all that I should do or see is rather naught to he all in all I have to say he was rather nice to me. After all, how often can you say you had a nice seaside chat with a fish that swims and lives and breathes beneath the devil's deep blue sea?

photo phreak

I made some changes to www.AndyT13.com - I'm hoping the headshot icons look more pro and give a better tease so people click. Please look. I uploaded a pantload more pictures of the runway shoot for Seventeen Magazine and well as some more night shots of NYC like this one. I needed an external flash with its own power supply for that shoot. I had to use too high an ISO (800) or the "sports" setting to get any light at all and stop the blurriness from them running down the freakin catwalk.

I thought it would take me a year to start bumping up against the technical limitations of my "one-step-below-professional-SLR" camera. I should have known better. It's been a month and already I'm like "Fuck, my aperture won't allow a deep enough depth of field for these large-scale low-light night shots I want to do." They won't tell you that kind of shit at the camera store LOL OK, so it was Best Buy and when I went back to buy all the accessories (like lens hood and lens adater and hot shoe flash attachment and external flash) they were like "You want WHAT now?" Clearly in the field of digital photography the overlap between technology, art and craft are overlapping in a jagged and uneven fashion at best.

Everyone knows what a player HE is! LOL

I'm not a MAC fan to say the least. That's a DELL LAPTOP running windows XP you see there that I got for $300 running on my wifi network and that little piece of shit kicks MAC ass all over the floor.

I didn't say much about it but the 40th birthday party and 500 days sober celebration and jam session went fine. My face broke out like a teenager from the stress of having a houseful of relatives and organizing a big ol' get together but hey we should all have such problems. 25 people came to my 40th birthday party. I aim to double that number next year.

Says It All

Image originally from Here
Enough of my bitter blather. Here's something meaningful.

PLAYER PLEASE

I'm bummed today because someone has been impugning my character to someone I care about. I've had plenty of female company but I'm hardly "a player". I try to keep my karma clean and make sure everyone knows where they stand. I NEVER tell two or more women at once that I love them or that they're the only one if they aren't. That would be MY definition of "A Player". I could strike back but I know who I am and I know I have integrity. If you DON'T know me then you have no right to talk shit about me and you should mind your own business and shut the fuck up. BECAUSE I treat people with respect it's pretty rare that this type of thing happens to me so it throws me off. Anyone else ever have a relative stranger slagging you off?

Madness

Sometimes it DOES howl however. Sometimes it spins and flails about. Sometimes it breathes you in, sometimes it takes you out.

Eve Ex Cathedral

I wish I could lay claim to this image, but I can't. It's Jordan Matter's. I admire genius and commitment, but I never fail to envy the living shit out of it.

Seventeen Magazine Fashion Shoot

Seventeen Magazine Fashion Shoot. I'm really starting to love this fucking job. Really, no foolin'.