The Rise and Fall of Gunstar 141

Vid of the Day - Clothes Off

2009-12-17T20:32:00.000-08:00

The incredible @capitaln turned me on to this one, and it's OUTSTANDING! Check out the Gym Class Heroes in the Vid of the Day - Clothes Off

Vid of the Week - How to dress like a Ninja

2009-12-15T18:54:00.001-08:00

Fantastic good stuff! Check out the Vid of the Day - How to dress like a Ninja

Cowboy's Vid of the Week - Cars

2009-12-12T22:44:00.000-08:00

Gary Numan AND Fear Factory? How the hell can you go wrong? Check out this remix of a classic, and my Vid of the Week - Cars

formspring.me

2009-12-10T20:59:00.001-08:00

your sister is very hot. I want to do questionable things to her... is that bad?

Many people have wanted to do questionable things with my sister. I'll just let you know that she's armed, VERY dangerous and more than a little fucking crazy. Be prepared to get as well as you give...

Ask me anything

formspring.me

2009-12-10T20:47:00.001-08:00

So, how DID you get out of that (last) Mexican prison you were in?

*bows head in shame* It involved promises of eating a low cholesterol diet, voting my conscience, not flashing my tits at Mardi Gras... I'm so ashamed!

Ask me anything

formspring.me

2009-12-10T20:23:00.003-08:00

Be nice or I'll set fire to your bed again. While you're asleep in it. Again.

You say this like it's a bad thing. This is NorCal. It's cold. I'd LIKE some damn heat! You little delinquent!

Ask me anything

formspring.me

2009-12-10T20:23:00.001-08:00

How is someone as smokin hawt as you still single?

Easy - When you hide heroic ugliness and a shameless disposition towards evil behind a Clint Eastwood avatar, it's only a matter of time before the jig is up...

Ask me anything

formspring.me

2009-12-10T20:18:00.001-08:00

Did your mother drop you on your head as a child, or maybe she just let you eat paint chips when our dad wasn't around?

Since this sounds like my Sister wrote it, I can only assume you were just jelis of all the attention and that I got the BIG paint chips! Ha. HA!

Ask me anything

formspring.me

2009-12-10T20:08:00.001-08:00

Why do you even fight the girls at every corner?

When they mass in somewhere between Jabba the Hutt and a Mack Truck, you have the fear that they may eat you after the fact! I am NOT a damn snack!

Ask me anything

formspring.me

2009-12-10T20:05:00.001-08:00

How do you keep the girls from pulling off your pants and taking advantage of you at every corner?!

It is a challenge, I won't lie. But the use of a studded leather codpiece, and several stunt doubles usually gets me out of harms way. But once in a while....

Ask me anything

Hell March

2009-11-22T10:12:00.000-08:00

2008 had been, to my way of thinking, one of the worst years I'd experienced. I'd jumped from one set of industries, (online recruitment advertising for a major newspaper), to financial services. By the end of the year, I was wistful for my old salary, and the simple complications of people not wanting to buy from me. 2009 has made all that look like a cakewalk...

This has been one of the most challenging years of my life. Personally, professionally, financially, etc. And I'm joined by millions of others who have had to trek through this same hell. Blame can be thrown many directions, but the fact of the matter is that when it all comes down to it, it still doesn't help us day to day. So my words of total wisdom and complete knowledge? Survive. Do what you have to do. Work three jobs. Max the cards out then make outlandish promises to the credit card companies*. Raid your retirement savings*. Borrow from friends*. Do what you need to. Not because I'm some blind optimist, but because it will allow you to fight another day. When the sharks circle, you can have one of two attitudes - 1. I'm fucked, and fish food, or 2. About time lunch was served...

Tough times don't last. Tough people do. Make sure you're one of them....

Kick Ass in 2010, Take Names and Get your Gun on!

*Not to be construed as sound or any other financial advice. Just a rant

Vid of the Week - Jump Around

2009-11-02T20:07:00.000-08:00

Drop an old school beat! Back in the day when Everlast and DJ Lethal were still on the same team. Check out this classic from the House of Pain, my Vid of the Week - Jump Around

You Fight Me

2009-10-11T19:29:00.000-07:00

I was in the middle of being truly frustrated when I heard this Breaking Benjamin song come on. Because of this wretched economy, a lot of people are suffering. Waiting to make a next move, sticking with a job they may hate because of the uncertainty and difficulty in finding something better. I thought I was in the same boat. Turns out, I'm not...

I currently hate what I do. Insurance is boring. Tedious. Investments can be the same. Trying to sell them can be as much fun as masturbating with broken glass with market conditions what they are. I have found myself focusing on other activities that I like rather than deal with the frustration and aggrevation of trying to do what I do for a living. My problem was one of perspective.

I've been in the financial services business, off and on, for over 15 years. Right now, it IS tough to be in the business. But there are reasons I truly love it. Not for any altruistic reasons. Not even for the most basic - to make money. I like it because I occasionally get to solve very complicated problems, and get paid well for it. To me, that is really cool. Giving it some thought, I actually got kinda excited, because I remembered why I LIKE doing what I do...

My sincere hope is that, if you are doing something that you may not love, to think about the aspects of your job that you do, or did, like. See if there's a way to reinvigorate that passion. Doesn't mean you'll keep your current job forever. But why not be happy, enjoy what you're doing for now? And if there really is nothing, then maybe you really do need to change what you're doing. I didn't say it's a perfect solution.

Life is too short. We have to work too hard. We might as well have a good time doing it..

Live Hard and Get your Gun on!

Keep your shit the hardest

2009-09-20T11:19:00.000-07:00

These are troublesome times
And the crime prevails
And the dark side keeps a niggaz ass in jail
Bada-boom-bada-bing some of this and some of that
I've got to boogie for a minute but you know I'm comin' back

No, I'm not DMX, and I'm not suggesting that you bust rounds and cause a ruckus to get what you need to done. But I had Keep Your Shit The Hardest come across on a random play, and there is something about the angry tone and lyrics that struck a chord. Get Angry, you Sons of Bitches!

This has been a fucked up year. Yeah, we can be honest about that much. But are you going to meekly accept it or are you going to do something about it? I've had my moments where it seemed easier to say Woe is Me. But you know what? Doesn't make anything better...

My solution? Get Angry! Don't accept life for what it is - Do something about it. Not making enough money? Then find a way to make more. Feeling down? Then kick your own ass and get it in gear! Want more out of life? Then TAKE IT!

This has been a rude awakening for many people. I can honestly say that I'm surprised at how it's humbled me. But you know what, it's also given me an appreciation for everything I took for granted. And now it's time to take back what's rightfully mine...

So with all the woe, and discontent, and bad news and other bad shit, you can choose to lay down and accept what's happening. Or you can knuckle up and take this bitch called life on and get what you're due.

Keep your shit the hardest!

Get Some and Get your Gun on!

Vid of the Week - System

2009-09-20T11:00:00.000-07:00

From the Queen of the Damned soundtrack, check out the Vampire Lestat and the Vid of the Week - System

Vid of the Week - Speed Racer

2009-08-30T17:08:00.000-07:00

Sponge did a remake for the movie of the classic theme song. Check out the Vid of the Week - Speed Racer

2009 - Year of the Troll

2009-08-23T19:59:00.000-07:00

2008 and most of 2009 have sucked, professionally. I decided to make a jump back into financial services just in time for one of the WORST markets in history. To make ends meet, I've had to take on two part time jobs, just to barely scrape by. But what annoys me most is that I've accepted what life has handed me and allowed it to steer my course, instead of vice-versa. That changes here, now...

Life is a tricky bastard and will throw curve balls at you whenever it can. Fate doesn't always have your best interests at heart. But you can't let yourself be a victim of its circumstances. Sure, you'll have to deal with some crap, and sometimes even true tragedy. But you make a choice as to whether you pick yourself up, dust yourself off, or you can choose to accept what's handed to you, sometimes to lay down and die. Life is a full contact sport, and you WILL pick up a black eye or two in the process. But you CAN fight back. You won't always win, but you sure as hell won't always lose.

Add to this that I've been a bachelor for the last five years now. I've noticed that I've slipped, my standards have become abysmally poor. I've done what I've needed to, and I've survived, but I've accepted a lower standard for myself. I haven't been taking care of myself. I've made a choice, conscious or not, to live that way. I now make a conscious choice to change that.

We face many external obstacles, challenges that we can do fuck all nothing about. But we CAN choose how we will fight, how we will live. Knowing yourself, your strengths and weaknesses is half the battle to winning any war. You won't win every fight. The secret is that you don't have to...

Live how you WANT to live. You will have to fight for it. Nothing good comes without some effort, some struggle. But do you REALLY want to live anything less than what you dream? Do you really want to settle for what someone else has in mind for you? Make your own luck. Make your own destiny. Choose Life!

The catalyst for this rant is, of course, love. I found someone I care very much about. I want better for myself, because I don't want her to see what I currently am. Because it's NOT me. I know not what the future holds for us, but I want there to be options, and I want her to see the REAL me. Not this current incarnation. I like the fact that she accepts me for who, and what I am. But I'm not happy with it. Therefore, I am going to make changes...

That was a really long winded, chest beating post. The short version is that you should NOT just meekly let life hand you bullshit, and ask for seconds. Send it back to the kitchen and ask for Chateau Briand, medium rare. Accept nothing less than the best for yourself. Otherwise, you'll get whatever that lazy chef is cooking...

Rise Above and Get your Gun on!

Vid of the Week - I Will Not Bow

2009-08-23T19:30:00.000-07:00

Love Breaking Benjamin, and this is a great call from @SKILLETfan01 over on Twitter! Check out the Vid of the Month - I Will Not Bow

Men grow older, not up

2009-08-09T21:10:00.000-07:00

I am a man. I have an adult job, drink adult beverages, and wear big boy boxers. That said, the simple fact is that for all intents and purposes, I really didn't mature past age 5. Fart jokes are still funny. I love blowing things up. I still secretly believe that girls have cooties, (and I DOUBT I'm wrong)...

I'm not alone in this. Most men that I know are the same. 8 to 80, we're all still boys at heart. We put on a good face, but when it comes right down to it, we're still those bad little boys running around First Grade class, hollering at the top of our lungs, eating paste and pulling little girls hair, (when we're not throwing rocks at each other and some such). Most women suffer under the delusion that they are dealing with a grown, mature man who's put away his childish toys. Ladies, let me disabuse you of this fallacy - EVERY man is a little boy at heart. Nothing you do will change that. You can try all you want. You can try to reverse the laws of gravity, while you're at it Probably have better luck...

Work with what you've got. Don't try to make the Eiffel Tower out of Play-Doh. Don't believe that you're going to get a man to behave himself. You'll only piss yourself off and probably give your wayward manchild fodder for a joke...

A Public Service Announcement from your "friendly" Cowboy. Now to go find some paste - I'm hungry...

Blow Shit Up and Get your Gun on!

Can't Touch This

2009-07-28T23:56:00.000-07:00

A serious piece of awesomeness stolen from Olivia Munn's blog - Can't Touch This

Not for the meek of heart...

2009-07-09T19:59:00.000-07:00

I'm a profane, irreverent megalomaniac. And I have a good time doing it. It's in my nature. Most of my friends accept the fact that they're going to hear some fairly absurd things come out of my mouth. Sometimes they'll laugh, sometimes they'll stare in open-mouthed wonder that such a thing could actually be uttered out of a human mouth. I've been told that some of my utterances prove my part demon nature. I've even heard I could make the Devil blush! High praise, if you ask me...

But the point is, for better or worse, that I have come to be comfortable with who I am. My friends may shake their heads, and they may wonder how any human being's synaptic process could be that skewed, how that many neurons could misfire. But they're still my friends because they too have their quirks, as do we all. We have to wear many faces during our lives, our day to day existence. We sometimes have to subdue our basic nature so that we don't totally offend and appall the majority. But trying to suppress your basic nature is a mistake. Not being yourself, not being who you are, not saying what you really feel can be of more harm to you, in the long run, than to any you might offend.

BE YOURSELF! Life is truly too short not to be. Don't go out of your way to offend, but be who you are. Profane, sexy, silly, subversive, submissive, dominant, whatever. Enjoy who you are, and you'll be AMAZED at how many others will smile with you...

Dei dono sum quod sum - By the Grace of God, I am who I am

Run Amok and Get your Gun on!

Subject to change without notice...

2009-06-14T09:56:00.000-07:00

That's life for you. Sometimes, you'll make a change because of where you are, and sometimes things will happen to you, and you'll have to adjust and adapt. Life is a full contact sport, and not for the faint of heart. It can be a capricious, wayward bitch one moment, and it can be a wonderous and incredible thing the next. It can also pass you by in a heartbeat, and will NEVER wait for you to catch up.

No matter where you are in life - Up, down, smiling, frowning, know that things can and will change. It's inevitable. But for God's sake, please play. You may not always win, but you won't always lose either. There is nothing worse than being on the sidelines for this incredible, dangerous, fun, scary thing we call life. Go live it and see what happens. You might really enjoy it!

Get ready for battle and Get your Gun on!

The Modern Warfare 2 Trailer

2009-05-24T22:52:00.000-07:00

Violence in video games? Check! Check out the ultra violent, ultra cool lookin' trailer for Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 2

90 Miles from Yuma, on the Highway to Hell

2009-05-12T22:13:00.000-07:00

For some odd reason, this was the title of a mix tape that I made, back when mix tapes were still made. Probably the reason Just Saying No is such a good idea. Anyways, it make me think back to some past journeys, and my current (mis)adventure(s). Life is fluid. Thinking you'll just be able to travel a straight path is an illusion. At least in my experience. It's about ups, downs, smiles and frowns. Great glory, heartbreaking agony and defeat. If you don't try, if you don't dare, if you don't risk, you are bound to lead a very lackluster life. Our greatest victories usually come after some of our most painful defeats. Do you sit on the sidelines, instead of getting in the game and playing, because you'd rather not take a painful hit? Do you choose to play it safe, rather than strike out on your own, take the risk of greatness, or ruin, and instead settle for a life of quiet desperation? Do you not try for love, even if it can lead to heartbreak and pain? Life is Risk. If you don't take chances, you sentence yourself to a prison of your own making....

Teddy Roosevelt's quote from Citizenship in a Republic will always stand out to me - "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

And on a lighter note, if you've never seen Texts From Last Night, GO NOW! When you can find gems like "(812): Rocking a Headband at the strip club, because of Rock of Love this shit is like their kryptonite, I smell like stripper butter and back child support." and "(830): If I was Danny Tanner and my wife died and left me with three kids I would hire a nanny rather than bringing in the sexually promiscuos uncle with a fetish for leather and rebellion and my obviously mentally ill (possibly gay) best friend Joey, who has never had a girlfriend and consistently talks in cartoon voices... a nanny is just a better choice", how can you NOT love this site?

Live Fast, Die Hard and Get your Gun on!

The size of the fight in the dog...

2009-04-26T01:52:00.000-07:00

It's nice to have the occasional good day, to balance out the tough ones. The Law of Large Numbers, as applicable to Sales, says you will have X number of absolute crap days of getting kicked in the teeth and beaten like a step child before you have that one day that makes it all worth while. Problem is, X is a variable. May be 1. May be 15. May be 10 to the 44th power. You can probably stand after one punch. Or two. Three. Four. But after 10, etc., it gets a little tougher to keep in the fight. And staying the duration is ALWAYS what it's about. You may learn it's not a fight you want to be in and bow out. You may find that you just don't have the endurance to stay the course. You may not want to just stopping fists with your face....

But if you stay the course, and keep in the fight, you may find that you get your chance to strike, and make your mark, and that it WAS all worth it. And that is a sweet and wonderful feeling. I can't say I've landed that knockout punch yet, but I got three good jabs in over the last couple days that may help get there. And I've found that it was because of having a good corner, (e.g. good friends). In particular, I owe a big debt of gratitude to a new friend, who has been incredible in her encouragement and support, and just being there. It's amazing how MUCH of a difference that makes. I'm used to fighting with a broken sword against Hell's Legions all by myself. It's incredible knowing that you have some support behind you to bolster your spirits and gird your loins, metaphorically speaking.

In summation, fight the good fight, but don't do it alone, if you don't have to. You'd be amazed who can, and will help you, and what a difference it makes!

Raise your Swords and Get your Gun on!