THE BIG BLOG BY TRAVI$

I was supposed to be seeing Terrence Howard last night… however after arriving at the Viper Room with my sister and friends, we learned that he had actually cancelled and there was not going to be a show. I guess that there wasn’t enough ticket sales etc… or whatever… I guess we were the only people that were excited to hear him… HA.

So we all went up the street to Sunset, and walked East to The Whiskey Bar inside the Sunset Marquis Hotel… Always a great place to have a drink… Peter is always friendly at the Valet service, and the Staff is always friendly plus, the crowd last night was good for 9:30PM on a Tuesday…

We left and headed to Chateau Marmont, and had Appetizers, Drinks Desert and Coffee in the Hotel Lobby Bar, and we had a great time just talking and laughing while people watching…

Speaking of people watching…We saw Kevin Sorbo and friends when we actually gave them our cab, as they were leaving Chateau… “Close-Talker” Kevin… Nice though, and a good runner uphill in dress shoes.

http://www.ozfans.com/Kevin_Sorbo.html

Also saw Avril Levine and husband leaving the Bar and Matthew Perry coming in with friends for dinner… Chateau is a cool place to get a few drinks and it’s nice to see the door-staff haven’t changed… Rude as Usual.

I woke up this morning and immediately began to wonder if I will ever finally get to go out in Hollywood, or L.A. wherever, and not have buyer’s or,”Partier’s” remorse…the next morning because, as Bill Murray says in Kingpin, “Big Ern is finally above the law…”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxXJbjHttMc

I went out to LAX Tuesday afternoon to pick –up a couple of friends from the airport… hopefully they will be dropping Manda and I off in NOV for the trip to Europe, so I don’t mind the run, but I hate the airport… I actually was the random person the LAPD stopped entering the Airport, and after they check the trunk etc, said hello, I was on my way, didn’t look like they were checking too closely, but I guess they know what they are doing… the fact they were even checking me was odd. Whatever, If they can convince an entire Nation the best response to Planes Hitting The World Trade Center is a War in Iraq, I guess they can ask us to jump and the entire country will have to jump. Anyway, after the flight was delayed and I drove lap after lap like Dale Earnhardt, Jr. really slowly, I got pulled over again this time by a Motorcycle Cop… I guess I didn’t come to a complete stop turning around for the 5th time to make the loop to go back and pick the guys up… He eventually let me go after we discussed the finer points of my Cadillac’s window tinting… Whatever… I just better have a ride to the airport in NOV Ry.

The whole problem with Los Angeles is the entire freeway system, most of the surface streets, and the entire police force is governed and was established by fucking RETARDS…. I guess eventually they will outsource the jobs to India, or Myanmar like the rest of this country, and then maybe someone will actually do the job and fuck it up instead of not even trying at all…Accent or NOT. I hope that I am rich soon so I can have a driver, that way I never have to deal with traffic, and cops, and crazy pedestrians and right turn lane-red light runners, the chicks that put on make-up and talk on cells, or text too…. I HAVE A SOLUTION.

and all the other crazy people that are somehow driving around still believing they are in their native country where cutting-up and cooking chicken while operating a late 80’s model motor vehicle is a completely acceptable everyday routine practice. Where do these Fuckin’ people come from, and why are they drawn like a moth to the flame of LA? I think that not only does LA have the worst air the best looking women, the coldest beaches, and the fattest Homeless people but it also may have the highest concentration of idiots than any other place except the Midwest, and Mississippi, DUH? They flock here I guess, or maybe it is the sheer numbers…. I hate driving here because depending on the time of day you try and tackle this city you may encounter not obstacles, or you may hit a brick wall of gridlock, and it can happen anywhere in this city… Everyone drives even with $4 gas, now they just are more pissed off, but still clueless, oh a just wait till it rains…

AND THIS CHICK….LOVE U BRIT.

MORE TRAFFIC….. Think this is the 405…..SUCKERS!!!

I am planning on staying in tonite, I am working on a presentation for a local business this evening, and I am also trying to get some artwork done. Hope you all enjoy the blog, I will keep writing it; maybe someone will read it :)

Another pic of John

PEACE -

TRAVI$

THE BIG BLOG BY TRAVI$

I just taught myself to sew, unbelievable what you can do, when you really want to. I BOUGHT A Singer and I can make seams etc, interesting day… I taught myself Algebra in 8th Grade, and I guess that if I can do that I can do anything. So now I guess I am a Seamer? Definitely not a seamstress, and I am going to put together some patterns tomorrow, I have them all drawn up already, at least for one T-Shirt, I have plenty of fabric to practice on old t-shirts etc, and I have thread and needles, and a DREAM….HA. I am a DESIGNER :)



MY SINGER.

I am planning on getting a little sleep here in a few, and then get up tomorrow and watch Football, and make clothes, I guarantee that you don’t read that sentence much on Blogs…



TRAVI$ Rule 3: If the COWBOYS don’t win the Super Bowl this year, I will never watch another Fuckin’ Game.

I am a Cowboys Fan, but I do not refer to “US” and mean the team, for example, I don’t say “I don’t know what the hell we’re doing, picking Julius Jones, instead of Stephen Jackson!” or “Fuck, it’s holdin’ on US!” or my all-time super-fan 99 shit is…“Even I know what we’re doing wrong and it’s up to US to fix it!”

TRAVI$ Rule 4: If you refer to the team you support as US or WE, you are officially ReTarDed, regardless of the league or sport; and regardless of your religion, nationality, or paid-endorsement.



No dumbass dude at home or drunk at the game or in a bar, with the t-shirt on and the hat and the jersey ON too, and the pit stains, and cigar is going to ever have anything to say except Ruuuunnnnn or OoooHhhhhh!… You are not part of the team, and you don’t know anything about what they’re doing wrong or what they need to fix, You don’t understand the internet… or how you ended up with more hair on your back than on your head…or how the zone defense really works ; so I doubt you really can enlighten me on the intricacies of the salary cap… You know why, because none of these idiots…these Super-Fans, with the painted face, ever have played or coached or anything ….they play Madden on PS3 or Xbox… they listen to guys talk about triple coverage…and they Parrot it, But they don’t cash a check that has Jerry Jones signature on it, do they, NO they work at some cubicle or out on a jobsite, or some other meanial shit job, and live and die with a team that they know nothing about, never have met etc, and if they did the player/coach etc would think they are a dumbass fan and that they would tolerate them by humming a song in their head about fucking your wife as they nod and say “Yeah dog…” to your stammering of “I like the way you play….” I was at a Pro Game one time the last time in fact…And the couple that we bought the extra two endzone seats from were nice, and sold them at face value..and the Old dude stood and yelled and hollered and cried and screamed, and his old lady read a fuckin’ book the entire ballgame, which Houston was winning until the last play of the game which coincidentally was a record braking FG to clinch it for the Colts… These guys bought season tickets, and He doesn’t have a clue and she is nose-deep in Danielle Steele, like its Cocaine and she’s Rick James… THAT is The NFL FAN, that is all Fans mostly… in all sports Dumbasses or kinda weird, after I coached and played etc, I never did watch the game the same, and I guess it wasn’t fun it was a job… I watch it now.. and, I will be watching tomorrow, they should beat the Browns…I think

SO, I hope they do well, and I hope they win, and I still promise that I will watch them this year, at least the games I can because I live on the West Coast…BUT if they don’t win this year after the last two years ‘ B.S. I will never Watch another ballgame. Mark it Down.



And Mr. Jerry Jones, if You’re out there, my sis says Hi, Said you were very Nice as well as your wife… She met you both this past Summer at The Beverly Hills Hotel….Wish more folks were like you she said it was a pleasure getting to know you, and spoke extremely Highly of you, but I am serious about the Lombardi Trophy….I know you are TOO. ITS BEEN AWHILE SINCE 1996!!!!





On another Note, I actually heard from an old friend today too, and he is back in the Mid-West pursuing a college degree in Architecture, and I am happy for him. He seems like he really is headed in the right direction, and He sounds good, and I hope we get to meet up later this fall, maybe in Europe…. Go get them B.M.O.C ZACH.



I guess I am going to turn in… Oh and I just registered to Vote, 1st time I am voting for President, I am 30, I never have had a guy that I really thought was going to do something for me… I hope Obama doesn’t Fuck this Up… I’m Voting for him. I just can’t imagine another four years of this shit… Get out there and VOTE. Zach, Ohio is going to be a battle ground state, go vote dude.



I WILL SEE YA TOMORROW NITE.

PEACE-

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THE BIG BLOG BY TRAVI$

I guess this is just the beginning of a really long trip… I know what Hunter meant about Fear and Loathing, I have been experiencing them both and at the same time these feelings are punctuated with highs that rival all my hopes and dreams… I have got to get this whole thing off the ground before I go fucking nuts…

I spent the beginning of my day in Los Feliz, at Fresh Pressed; a T-Shirt Place that can put out custom T’s the Silk Screen method etc… I hope later to meet up with them again and try and put together some samples for the gangster line, but right now I guess I will have to silk-screen them myself here at the house and create Kustom T’s like my Kustom Kicks, one at a time, by hand…. I am putting the graphics together and have already purchased fabrics to create the shirts,



http://www.fresh-pressed.com/site2008/home.php

After the trip by Fresh Pressed, I drove back towards the house, and went down Melrose, to check out the new boutiques, and the Art Galleries, I know it won’t be long until I am in the galleries and shops, I just have to make a Brand and them sell the world (but first celebs, and inside Hollywood-LA crowd types), then I can start to really make a difference for Art in the World. I whizzed by the shops and the Galleries, there are a ton of new places down that way, and some of my favorites have all been replaced by new shops that have taken over the market with their new brands…. Affliction, Ed Hardy, and the like have Consumed Teenage Millionaire, and Von Dutch, I guess that most places survive on the current trends …. Figures the whole US has ADD, or ADHD, or some kind of Drugs… You almost have to self-medicate to deal with daily b.s.

LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT hahaha.



After the shops and galleries, I headed to the fabric store, and home to finish up some Artwork, and then try and prep up for this T-Shirt Making extravaganza… I guess the whole thing is going to be a fucking blast… I have always wanted to do this, so here goes I guess…

On an entirely different note, I hope My Monday goes as planned, a huge piece of my Heart is tied up in a project that is going to get its start that afternoon… just a beginning hopefully a huge beginning to a whole other chapter in this crazy life I have decided to travel…

I guess I will eventually be happy…with what I am doing, with my life…

So I am sitting here hammering this out and thinking about all this time that I have wasted with my life… or was it all prep for the rest of the challenges life is going to throw at me like it does everyone else out there, I am not stupid, I realize life is hard… I guess that you just have to keep pushing forward toward your dreams…My Dream is to be a great artist, and to share my art with the World.

I was always fascinated with art and the fact that I could replicate and duplicate, and could immitate the guys that I thought were so good, Like MC ESCHER, this guy was amazing… These are a few preliminary sketches I did for a project in high school, I guess I was a freshman, Sophromore, or so… Eventually I painted a series of Escher Images on My wall in my room, I will scan in the picture eventually and I’ll post it up here, so you can see for now check this out.


MC ESHER- http://www.mcescher.com/




I had other dreams, too, I was talking with my sister, and she said that she always wanted to be an actor, I guess I really wanted to be an artist all along, but I just kept doing other things for other people, and never really completely went all out to pursue my dreams, I just took gigs, and tried to make sure that I had a back-up plan, but at what cost? I wasn’t ever really happy, and I guess I needed to deal with all of that myself… OH WELL.

NOW, with that being said, I AM HAPPY NOW… More happy about what I have going on in my life than ever before… but that doesn’t mean that I don’t worry about stuff, hell I need to have some paintings bid on and sell on eBay, I need to have people buy Paintings off my site, I need people to buy my clothing off the net or out of a boutique… But that all comes with time, and I just have to keep exploring this creative energy that I have to make a living and hope that other people also get excited about all of the things I make too.

I will post some pics on here of the clothes when I get them done

PEACE

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THE BIG BLOG BY TRAVI$

I have had quite a day … it started at 7:00am…. not a morning guy, and I used to get up and unlock the weight room work kids out etc at 5 am or earlier HATED THAT SHIT. But Today it was different; Manda had an audition for The Ex-List, a new Stu Segal production, so we had to drive down to San Diego, this morning, and back…. BUT the HOV helps, so anyway…yeah carpool. I hope she gets this thing she is due, man… so good, she just needs someone to give her a chance.

SHE LOOKS LIKE A HOT ROCKER CHICK COME ON EX-LIST!!!!!


My Sis- MANDA LEIGH

MANDA’s MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/mandaleighmoore

I came back and immediately started to get stuff up and going for this site, and all the changes I hope you guys that have been looking at the site etc…. Like the new look, and the new format, thanks Chris, looks great… I know it is a process, and if so,,,, we almost have a HOT DOG by now.

SO what else is new, well, I have finished the Nikki Sixx piece, and I will send out a post for that soon, I am going to have up more and more pictures everyday on here, and now you can check out the eBay link and the MySpace link on the site.

THERE ARE ALREADY 9 AUCTIONS on eBay…. So check it out there’s a link on the Home Page or click here: http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/texla1000_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZ



JOHN LENNON 1- Have this 6x6 up at home the rest are similar..





I know that you will like the Faces that are up and soon there will be more celebrities, Movie Stars, and a whole slew of cars, landscapes, animals etc, as well as still lifes, and the like all at 6”X6” size… who can’t use a little painting for a small space at home or work, or in the kitchen or bathroom. These guys are great framed or unframed…. Check um out.

TRAVI$ Rule 2: I have something for everyone; you just have to look first.

I am also going to start listing the larger pieces as well, and see what kind of action I begin to see, please take a look at the auctions, and look at the sites and leave me a message. I just want to build up an artist’s community and hopefully more people out there will get to see the artwork I make.

I found out some info about a guy that I just met, found out he is not who he said he was, and is bad news, so typical here in L.A. There are so many people that lie and think that just because they act like they are important they can get you something etc… I knew better than to even listen, but, I want to explore every AVE…. OH well, didn’t cost me anything except some time. He said some rude things about folks I know, and love, and that just doesn’t fly, and when I checked into the validity of his story it didn’t wash out… I guess he thought I was dumb even though he couldn’t keep from marveling at my intelligence… DUMMY mE… LIKE PLAYING CRAPS …. Have to hand it to L.A. there are some real ZEROS out there…







LA=Craps Game=F’d up Mess





TRAVI$ THEORY #4: If someone that has nothing promises you everything; he is full of shit….. So see Travi$ Rule 1 –Trust No One.

I love this town LA, and I love SOCAL, and I love SD…and this is why…. I spent a lot of time in the car today, and I drew a little and sketched out some ideas and I ran lines with Manda, and I checked out the other girls reading at Stu Segal, and I observed…. Lots of Nice looking girls, especially one in particular… I, we, stopped by Elegance, and I let them know I was back in Cali, maybe they might send me out, and I am SAG….HA. I got two call for auditions while I was in TX, and couldn’t fly back in here, so this is good…. and Pam Pahnke, and Carmina, and all the staff at Elegance is awesome, we love them, and I will have to send them a new set of head shots with my long hair now, we’ll see….. Maybe they need some hippie, surfer, stoner, rocker, long-haired dude for some damn something, You would think…… I got back here and have been working on ART and killing time, I think that I am so consumed with everything all day, and all nite, I just haven’t been sleeping, it’s the stress, of starting a new biz, and having a couple of cool deals coming down the pipe, and all that jazz, I really have to get some more sleep, and to exercise, so tonite I am starting this early I am done with NIKKI, and I will get some shut eye 2nite. FINALLY!!!!

I have been getting up every day and repeating the same phrase to myself, for encouragement, from the time I decided to start this business, and to focus on painting.

It is as follows: “I will make $2.2 Million by my 35th Birthday, by working tirelessly to build a company around myself and my Artwork.”

I say that every Morning when I get up and everynite when I go to bed… I have been saying for some time now, all those days walking down Cypress Station Drive to the Nut House… oh my GOD, OMFG… I hated that, at least I kept soldiering on, I just knew that eventually I would be out here, and I also knew I didn’t have a long time to go, and the fact that I worked with good people and was hired by an awesome dude, Dr. Ron Nelms, made it a good experience I never want to do again, I guess…. what’s up to you folks there at Intracare North, like Dena, and Ms. Joyce… ya’ll need to quit smoking, SO do I, HA. I guess It will always be a part of me just like everything else I have experienced.

MY ART is MY LIFE. I paint what I see, saw, and dream….. WELL BACK to LIFE, I mean PAINTING…


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TRAVI$

THE BIG BLOG BY TRAVI$

I have had quite a CRAZY few months, and I guess I should start at the beginning, even though this is the First Entry in this blog. I guess I have been working on creating my own business for about a year or so, and I spent much of that time working at a Mental Ward, pushing papers, as I plotted my strategies for this website’s inception. But there is no way I could have done it alone….SO,

I want to take the time to acknowledge my family, especially my Mom and Dad and my sister Manda Leigh, who is an awesome actress, and suggested I speak to a friend about doing shoes-BRILLIANT; and of course my buds, like Ry-Heen Kline, and David Perry, both talented Performers and Artists in their own right, and my Brit Friends back in the UK: Amy, Andi, Olly and Chloe, I will be bringing gifts for ya’ll in NOV. I promise…. Nice nod to my boy Gary Rue$ink, helped make my eBay look sick, and as well as my web-man, Chris Gouras, who has transformed the idea into a reality. Thanks Mikeal for making me believe that I can do this shit on the highest level….And thanks to The Whisky a Go-Go and the Rainbow Bar & Grill, and all the folks that work there and get their mail there. You guys have seen my art and my shoes and have always pumped me up and helped with suggestions ….SO THANKS to all of YOU. Also I want to say thank you to all the folks, like Shiva’s Garden Caregivers, that are currently working with me to display my artwork , and my Kustom Kicks, I am hoping that this is just the beginning…

Travi$ Theory 1: When you want it bad enough, you will get it; just make sure you know what to do with it, when you do get it.

I have been creating art my entire life and I love to paint and draw. I decided to go to college twice… instead of painting and drawing for a living I coached football and got a Masters, WHY?

I began to realize that I had to make art to be happy, I had to take the best thing I do, the one thing I do better than anyone else, and make that my career, and make that my life… (Sorry Dirk Diggler Moment there)…SO I began to paint again, and create again, and now I am putting together a business based on me and my Artwork. I like saying that, I really like saying that…. and I guess that even though I may be broke in the city of Angels, at least I am trying to Live the Dream. I love when Cruise says that in Vanilla Sky, “Just Living the Dream…” or McConaughey says “Just Keep LIVIN, L-I-V-I-N…..” I feel like I am trying to do that, and right now I guess all the excitement and the nervous anticipation is beginning to get to me a little. People have begun to see my artwork and they like it and I am beginning to actually try and pursue a career in ART… I always wanted to be a famous Artist when I was a little kid…. I even had a comic strip in the Newspaper… but for some reason I decided to check in to college, and then study Architecture, and then teach history, and coach Football…WHAT?

I am complicated I guess….I wanted to go to NYU and live in the city and be an artist, but I didn’t so what…SO I’m doing it now. And here in LA I never have to shovel snow, just bullshit. So LA….

Travi$ Theory 2: 99% of all people in Hollywood, West Hollywood, Lo$$ Angele$$, etc are full of ShiT.

I know it’s not an original theory, but that leads me to my first RULE:

Travi$ RULE 1: Trust no one. I know it’s simple and obvious but so is Paris Hilton and look how popular she has been.

Even with all that being said, I LOVE LA, more than Randy Newman, more than Jack Nicholson, and more than all the paparattzi, because of the energy and the style and feel, and the noise and everything about this place. I love the diversity, and the way people get along, and try and make it work, and this is a city that is enormous. I love to explore the city and I was doing a lot more of that before Dubs(GWB) and the rest of the fat cats pushed up the price at the pump… I guess I will have to break down and get a shoe( Smart For2)… or go HYBRID, or ELECTRIC?

..SO, anyway this website and my ART Career… I guess I just needed to kick myself in the ASS, and start producing, and with encouragement from my friends and family, that is exactly what I did, and now I have this up and running, I am producing artwork daily, and I am trying to get a show together. I am also in talks with a major shoe line, and a prominent venue to produce a line of shoes… I know things are starting to happen, in fact I have to tell you a story that really kept me going back in July…

I actually had the pleasure to meet Marc Busey, who is brother to Diablo Cody, Oscar Winner, etc.. and their cousin Bobby, and eventually cousin Billy. My sister actually made the connection, and as a result they purchased two pieces of artwork from me. One Beverly Hills Sky 1, which they gave to Diablo(Brooke) for her birthday. The other piece was given to Bobby’s Father, Marc’s Uncle… He is a big Elvis Fan, I hope he enjoys it. I was fortunate enough to accompany my sister to Diablo’s B-Day party at the Playboy Mansion, and had the pleasure of meeting Diablo, and she and Marc’s parents, and they were so awesome. Real down-to-earth good folks, and a few celebs, I just knew that Drew Barrymore would catch me staring at her and her MAC guy boyfriend would have to be a tough guy or something, glad they broke up.. DREW if you are free…let me know. Met Courtney Love, awesome woman, just as nice as the last time I spoke with her… But the nicest people there besides the Hosts (Hef, the Girls, and of Course Diablo) was Jonathan Knight, and his brother Jordan, I didn’t meet Joey McIntyre, he used to live near me on Sunset always waved…Nice guy, and my sister’s Friend Harley, who happened to be attending the party with the NKOTB. Such nice guys…we actually took the shuttle back to our cars at UCLA, together, and talked the whole way back, our group….ha. I felt like I was a New Kid. Cool. I really thought that that would be the beginning… and I have just now got this website up and going…Like Maxwell Smart,”…would you believe September?”

Travi$ Theory 3: Right before the big break you always have to be damn near dead broke, and on the edge of insanity…..

I am damn near broke and on the edge of insanity, if this was a film I would meet Richard Gere, or rob a bank, or have someone leave it to me in a will, so I guess I am about to hit it big…..I need it now more than ever, and I can taste the whole thing, the Kobe Beef….SHIT…. I hope that I can hold out long enough for all these good things to happen, and not dwell on things that are in the past. The best thing about my life right now is that I am in control of it, I am the one who produces paintings, and clothing, and that is what I always have wanted to to…Be my own boss…work for myself not the man. Only way to ever make it in this Capitalistic Mecca……SELL OUT and SELL OUT FAST!!!

I am about to go to bed, because I am accompanying my sis to SD tomorrow for a Audition for The Ex List, know she’s gonna’ kill it, but the drive really blows, I will most likely work on designs, sketches etc, and keep her company run lines etc for her… We help each other out and try and push each other, we are a Team here in this F’n place. But I was watching Hard Knocks on HBO Cowboys Training camp season, etc… and Jerry Jones was up addressing the team about Making Money, and being a businessman. He was pretty funny and profound, Jerry said “There are 5 important rules for Doing Business, First rule is Get the Money, (and when you can get upfront)…then he said” I forgot the rest of them because after that first rule the rest really don’t matter…shit….. I just thought it was funny..

Working on a new acrylic piece it’s a painting of Nikki Sixx’s Hands tonite/today… and I will post it in the website when it’s done. I also will be working on a few more… and I will begin to use this blog as an update on pieces that are at various stages of completion. And as a way to vent… so Hang in there Folks.

PEACE-

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