ever elusive

2 cell phones (both got drowned), 2 bicycles, backpacks, my keys..ect. One time I was on my brand new bike that I paid top dollar for, and I stepped off it to do a throwup and when I turned around to get back on it some vigilante comes from behind a tree and pepper sprayed me with that foam shit. Instinctively I just ran the opposite direction at top speed with my eyes closed getting clothes-lined by a tree branch and biting the holy crap out of my tongue, trying to get away before this fool beat my blinded ass. Like 20 seconds later when I realized that it didn't burn at all because I was so intoxicated on Xanax the guy and my bike were gone. Doh!

I went at it with OCD like obsession for 5 or 6 years. Then alcoholism honestly got the best of me and I didnt paint once for probably 3 years. I felt like in my little city I had done all I could do really, and I was just spinning my wheels at a certain point and I didn't really have anything to prove anymore, and at that point I felt kinda lost. Karma was catching up to me with a vengence, and kicking my ass all over the place for like years. And the substance abuse really got so bad that I was never sober ever except when I was at work. I was so drunk I didnt even care about anything, just drinking pretty much non stop. Then about 3 years ago I did a highway spot and been at it again more and more ever since. Im seriously too old for this shit tho, and Im foolish to be fucking with it again, but It's all I can think about sometimes. I don't know wtf is wrong with me, serious self destructive streak..lol.

I prefer to paint solo pretty much always, mabey it's because I prefer solitude in general. I'm not a liability, often times others are, although they can make useful decoys at times..hah. Just me, my thoughts, and my alcoholic tendencies, thats the way I like it.

I saw this one on my way to work this morning, it made my day. Crazy spot man, thats the last place I'd wanna be if i got rolled on by a cop. Props.

You know those grizzled 50 yr old dudes that live in the tent cities in the little wooded area adjacent the trainyard. You know, the ones that look like theyre 80 with broken bodies, rotted out teeth, and listerine on their breath that don't say a single fucking word that makes sense. The guys that give you the creeps cause youre worried one is gonna try to shank you cause you look like you might have $5 in your wallet. Yeah, those guys were standing on the same cliff as you when they were 20 something. It's not a decision that is to be taken lightly.

I prefer the stop and go method. Laying flat on the ground can be useful, as can acting like a passed out drunk or bum. If noone sees you in action, you will not get caught. Of course there are some spots where you're getting seen no matter what, in which case you just want to beat police response time. Of course there is always the wildcard of a cop actually seeing you or vigilanties(sometimes scarier than the cops), but running like the wind usually will solve either of those issues. Also, dont dress like a "tagger" or gangster or hoodlum or someone that looks like theyre up to no good. Not looking the part will go a long ways. Sometimes i'll dress like a bum, sometimes like a jogger. Even been known to throw on workboots and a hardhat. I always wear dark colors though just incase I gotta end up hiding. Also bear in mind there are cameras everywhere these days. Call me crazy, but it's been about a decade since the last time I was in handcuffs....knock on wood. :::edit::: Oh and about hitting up houses....I personally wouldn't...well not anymore =P. Good way to end up looking down the barrel of a gun. You better believe if I found some fool creeping around my house in the middle of the night it would be a bad night for them, I'd hate to be on the recieving end of that.

^^ ^^ Go ahead and increase those crews, and I'll increase my late night bike rides. I really have noticed an increase in frequency with which the traffic signal boxes are getting buffed. Go, city of Tulsa, lets see whatcha got. =) Anyone noticed those gorgeous new patterned concrete sound walls that are being installed just east of Memorial Dr. on the Creek Turnpike/169 on the South side of the highway? For the city being in a supposed budget crisis, why are they putting up such expensive patterened sound walls? On The North side of that stretch they, in the last couple days, have begun demolition on the perfectly good old ridgy sound walls (probably to install the new prettier ones). The city can't afford to pay the cops (which is fantasic in my book) or fill the city pools, but they can tear down perfectly good sound walls to install high dollar custom patterned sound walls where the richest people in Tulsa county live....really? Ok, my rant is over now.

those 3D-ish Zuaws above are sick.

"Movements" are over rated. America was once a "movement", as were countless societies before that ultimately ended up in the same boat of corruption that is inevitable for any society that holds material possesions in higher esteem than spiritual/philosophical evolution. Thank God that alot of the folks born in the last 30 yrs or so are waking up to this fact. Now, all we gotta do is combat the substance abuse and media brainwashing bombardment and somehow organize ourselves against the media perpetuated status quo. I'm not gonna hold my breath for that one. Oh my god, I have become a hippy, damnit, but seriously the only thing that can overcome evil, opression, taxation, ect......is LOVE.

Wasted the last 15 yrs writing graffiti and drinking beer.

I gotta say that my alcoholism (substance abuse) and graffiti have been intertwined from day one. I'm not fooling myself, I know that I've been an alcoholic/addict for 15+ years and 95% of the graffiti that I have done throughout that period was while being drunk and/or high. Yes, substance abuse and graffiti have limited my "potential" as viewed by the normal world. But the longer I participate in my drunken delusion, the less I care for the opinions of the "normal" world. If you're a newcomer to graff and substance abuse, I suggest that you turn the other way and run for your life.