This will be just a quick post because I have a lot of things on my to do list to get done. Here is a piece of art work that I just finished in honor of my pending three year wedding anniversary to my wife, elementalmuse. Enjoy!

Pointless Entry Alert!

This will probably be a short entry. I've wasted enough time today on silly things to waste time when I should have just gotten to work. Writing this should galvanize me though, so it will be good.

Today I hope to make significant progress on the new book cover for my wife's book, Sun Signs for Writers. She recently got all publishing rights back to it, so she will be e-publishing it herself. My goal is to have it ready to go by Wednesday so that it is completely off our plates for the trip to Oklahoma this weekend.

Cutting into my work time is the fact that I have a pre-investigation tonight and tomorrow night for CSPA.

Okay, this blog is lame so I'll just end it here. Man, I need to get out and do something stupid and dangerous so that I'll have something interesting to write about. I need to be a more creative blog writer.

DUUHH!!

Seems like I've had very little brain activity going on today, and as a result I'm a bit cranky. Do any of you ever get that fuzzy headed feeling? You know, you're sure that you've gotten enough sleep, but somehow you just can't seem to function? That's the day I've been having. The trouble is that when I feel this way all I want to do is watch cartoons. Now, I've never used weed, never even tried it (I know that, looking at my picture you might not believe me, but trust me, the exterior looks metal, but the interior is all geek,) but from what I've gathered the experience that I'm having right now, (and that I've had frequently through out my life,) is not unlike being high. Ain't that just a kick in the head, I get naturally what many folks spend hundreds of dollars trying to achieve. Subsequently, I drink an inordinately large amount of coffee each day in an attempt to attain a basic level of functionality that most of you take for granted. Function I do however, and I do it damn well, thank you very much.

So, what am I up to lately? Well, I'm looking for video work, but to be honest I'm always looking for more video work. I've also been working on a personal project that is very important to me. I won't go into too much detail right now, but involves combine my two great creative loves, Production (audio and video) and illustration. Nuff said about that for now.

Fun wise, my wife and I are working our way through all of the Jean Rollin films on netflix. Rollin was a french film maker who had a real soft spot for female vampires. He is also known for a film called Zombie Lake that I love to watch simply because the production value is so low that the under water scenes of zombies attacking people where obviously filmed in a swimming pool.

That's about all I have for now, time to drink more coffee.

What's in a name

Not that anyone has ever asked, but I thought I would drop a quick missive about where the name Paulzuzu came from.

If you ever look at my Facebook or MySpace profiles, you'll see that I do a little drawing in addition to my video work. Most of the stuff that I draw is very horror based. I love horror movies, and in fact, my wife and I collect them. Also, for a while there my wife and I ran an organization called the International Order of Horror Professionals. It was very successful for a time, but it just got to be too big for us to manage. The point is, before I start to ramble too much, that, although I'm a pretty mellow, nice guy, I like the darker side of entertainment.

Now, have you ever noticed that there are those folks out there on the web who have those really cool web names? Well, I wanted a cool web name, but try as I might I just couldn't come up with one. Every thing that I tried just made me feel like a complete poser. That's because I was being a poser; I'm not some cool, brooding goth type, I'm a nerdy guy who loves horror movies and who loves horror art.

I decided that what I should do instead is pick a web name that sort of exemplified that idea. It had to have a horror reference, but in the end still needed to sound goofy.

In the movie "The Exorcist", the statue that father Merrin stands opposite of in the Iraqi dessert is a representation of Pazuzu, a wind demon that appears in Assyrian and Babylonian mythology. The demon is not, however, named in the movie, though if I remember correctly it might be mentioned in the book by William Peter Blatty. The demon IS mentioned in the sequel though, so I was sure that people would get the reference.


This should be a lesson to me. Things that seem so obvious to me just aren't that obvious to lots of other people. Almost nobody gets the reference so I spend a great deal of time explaining it to everyone. It occurs to me though, that this is part of the joke.


In the comic book "The Tick" there is a character that is a speedster (runs really fast) and the emblem on his chest is a palm tree that looks like it's caught in a strong wind. The joke here is that he has to take the time to explain the emblem to people, that he runs so fast that he creates that kind of wind effect.


So that's where I got the name Paulzuzu from. It was an attempt to come to terms with my own goofy nature, and maybe it's a commentary on the concept of web acceptance and our desire to put on airs to impress other webizens. Finally, It has become almost a sort of performance art; an online inside joke that I keep having to explain to blank staring faces who just don't get it, and that's part of the fun.

Procrastination

I was going to write a quick blog post about procrastination, but I never got around to it.