Somewhere, somehow, someone stole my Badmotorfinger. Luckily, the joy of being part of a duo allowed me to find what I was looking for on A-Sides. (This is a Soundgarden reference, for those out there scratching their heads).

Another joy of being part of a duo is the flexibility it allows with real estate. In keeping with the SG theme, we’re gonna break our rusty cage of renting an apartment and run to the land of home ownership. I’m sure this was not what Chris Cornell had in mind when he wrote the lyrics, but it works for me.

Nevertheless, we’ve never been so psyched to be going into debt in our lives. Bigger and brand new kitchen, brand new bathrooms, about three times the studio space for painting-writing-crafting, multi-zone central air/heat, plus no more sharing a washer-dryer.

Of course, there’s a lot of paperwork between now and the closing date, and there’ll be quite a bit of sacrfices to be made financially in the short-term (a topic I hope to touch on in the upcoming weeks), but we’re pretty confident that everything will fall into place.

In summary, home ownership is just like the natural high of revisiting a song you had not heard in a long time multiplied by three hundred and sixty monthly installments. Cheers.

I always found that shadow boxes full of dead insects (like above) defeat their own purpose. While it might have some extremely rare specimens, they’re all dead, immobile, and lacking any thrill that might have been there when that bug was crawling along a tree trunk. I suppose it’s better for a rare bug to be preserved than consumed by a predator, smashed on a windshield, or eviscerated in the soothing blue light of the neighborhood bug zapper, but not by much.

The same holds true for a portfolio of your creative work. It preserves the ideas and concepts from your mind that have been executed as composition. But technically those compositions are no longer “alive” after they have been in the public domain for a while. Nevertheless, unlike a shadow box, the portfolio may just help me make a connection down the line that helps me reach my artistic dreams.

Thus, I give you: www.marksahm.com

Be sure to let me know what you think is my strongest section of the portfolio. I’m always trying to choose the one area within the five that I should invest 90% of my creative efforts. Until then, I will remain the sum of many creative pieces. Cheers.

…And blogs are no exception. Today, I upgraded Blogimus Prime to WordPress 2.1.2. Unlike previous WP upgrades, this one really did go over in five minutes like their old slogan preached. I think it was the fifth or sixth time I’ve done an upgrade, so perhaps I’m getting smooth in my ‘old age’.

Of course, I knew that I had to upgrade all of my Plug-Ins afterwards, as well as fixing the code for my Blogroll. There’s a couple more bells and whistles now, but I’m most happy to announce that I have finally rid the blog of the aesthetically displeasing Google ads. They really served no purpose and are never going to pay off (unless I get a $100 check in the year 2043), so I gave them the heave-ho.

I’m hoping for a few more visual upgrades soon. However, I’m months behind on several upgrades all around the Sahm site index, so it’s probably best I don’t make you any promises… other than my usual serving of juxtapositional philosophy, that is. Cheers.