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It's About Time
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Listing To PortListing to port, there is dread in uncertainty, A lifetime of choices that will never be found, A spear in the side of some ill-gotten gains, I watch as they drop to the groundListing To Port
Like dry dusky leaves in a handpainted pasture Where even the ponies look frozen, I push back the gate and exhale a cold whistle From my mouth comes a tune never chosen…
Autumn is a season of hollow discontent And my horizon is filling with snow, I waste my hours with fears deconstructed Because I know of no place I can go
Where love dangles free like a careless jewel &nbs
by @rapidograph
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- Current Residence: Seattle Washington (soon to be renamed "Starbucksopolis")
- deviantWEAR sizing preference: sloppy is better in an XXL
- Interests: animating silly creatures for fun & profit, screenwriting & storyboarding for film/comics
- Favourite movie: anything by the Coen Bros, Tim Burton, Ridley Scott, Terry Gilliam or Nick Park
- Favourite band or musician: BB King, Taj Mahal, Keb' Mo', SRV, John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins, Brian Setzer
- Favourite genre of music: contemporary/electric blues, pounding roots rock and really loud danceable swingboogie
- Favourite artist: Pixar, Blue Sky, ILM, Dreamworks, Aardman, Klasky-Csupo, Spumco (I mean shucks, what'dya expect
- Favourite poet or writer: Douglas Adams, Garrison Keillor, Shel Silverstein, Neil Gaiman, William Goldman
- Favourite style of art: 3D modeling & character animation, with 19th century Impressionism coming in at a close 2nd
- Operating System: Windows Vista (woe is me)
- MP3 player of choice: Winamp 5.552 and *only 163 skins* (... shh, not so loud or my iPod will get jealous...)
- Favourite game: Pictionary, but no one wants to play me anymore
- Favourite gaming platform: Miss Scarlett did it in the Ballroom with the Candlestick
- Favourite cartoon character: Snoopy, Scooby, Calvin & Hobbes, Invader Zim, Little Nemo in Slumberland, Daffy, Goofy, Pogo
- Personal Quote: "You never really know someone until you go camping with them" -- Will Rogers
- Tools of the Trade: Sharpie XF & non-photo pencil, PS & Painter, Maya & Max, caffeine & laughter
- Email: rapidograph@gmail.com
- Skype: rapidograph
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