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An old friend from France sent me this photo so I thought I'd share.

NIGHTMARES Tour Photos

I finally got a full set of tour photos formatted and uploaded to Flickr.

Check them out here.

The State of My Union

I noticed today that I am losing subscribers and regular visitors to this blog as I am regularly gaining them over at Colors of the Dark. This makes sense as COTD is a way to "entertain and inform" as this blog was back when I posted every day.

My day job is cranking up into busy season so my free time is even more limited than it usually is. That, in addition to the above mentioned facts, means that I will not be posting regularly here. I will only post when there is something worth mentioning going on in my creative life. Sometimes this will be several times a week, sometimes much less. Around the beginning of November I will probably do a little more over here as my job will slow down again.

I promise if I ever get a patron to pay my rent I will post here every single day. Ha ha. No... I'm not holding my breath either.

So, maybe consider subscribing using the Blogger follow thingy or just stop back from time to time. Also, keep in mind I am determined to keep posting at least once a day on Colors of the Dark no matter how busy I get. So far so good (so what).

Feel free to comment. I will be checking and happy to respond as time allows.

Insomnia leads me to "Glass Insomnia"

Glass Insomnia from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

I woke up at 1:30 am and couldn't fall back asleep. This happens to me at least once a month and ALWAYS the night before a shift at my already soul punishing day job.

Today

is going

to suck.

Anyhow, I typed "Insomnia" in at Vimeo and that's what I got. Good stuff.

For those of you that haven't seen the film "Koyaanisqatsi," that inspired the above video, you can check it out for free at YouTube here (too busy... here's the trailer). It's one of those movies you really must see at least once.

Yeah, so I have no idea how much more posting I will get done here this week. I may be happily confined between four padded walls after today.

New Drawing

Untitled from 9.1.09 - india ink on paper

I did this one while on tour. I hope to get back to some painting very soon. I've had the backgrounds done on six canvases for a while.

NIGHTMARES live in Cincinnati 8.29.09

NIGHTMARES live @ Art Damage Lodge in Cincinnati 8.29.09

And no, the Morbid Angel style fan action in my hair was not on purpose. Ha ha.

Many thanks to Christopher from Art Damage for shooting and uploading the video.

Bicepts of Steel!

Samson - Biceps of Steel

Sick of Nightmares related posts? Me too. Here's some REAL music for you.

Samson is the band Bruce Dickinson was in before being recruited for Iron Maiden.

Many thanks to Aaron Dilloway for showing me this musical / cinematic masterpiece in the first place.

NIGHTMARES live in Chicago 8.31.09

You think you know DARKNESS? You don't know nuthin.'

Nightmares
August 31, 2009
Viaduct Theater
Chicago, IL
Courtesy of Blake Edwards

NIGHTMARES tour journal links

Here are links to Mark Solotroff's NIGHTMARES tour journal by entry:

Nightmares Tour Report 1

Nightmares Tour Report 2

Nightmares Tour Report 3

Nightmares Tour Report 4

Nightmares Tour Report 5

Nightmares Tour Report 6

Nightmares Tour Report 7

Nightmares Tour Report 8

Nightmares Tour Report 9

Nightmares Tour Report 10

Nightmares Tour Report 11

Nightmares Tour Report 12

Nightmares Tour Report 13

Back from tour...

The NIGHTMARES Midwest tour is all done. I'm back at home a little worse for wear but happy.

You can read all about the tour over at Mark Solotroff's blog bloodlust.blogspot.com - there's also a few photos.

I just downloaded a bunch of photos off my camera. I will try to get through them this weekend.

As far as the availability of the three NIGHTMARES releases... I have none at this moment (they have to be shipped to me). Once I have copies I will do a post about it.

BUT If you are interested in getting the limited to 300 7" EP you can do that thru Bloodlust. For the limited to 100 cassette and CD release please contact David Reed. You can e-mail him at lupine447 at hotmail dot com - act fast because he has very few copies.

Many thanks to everyone we met and the bands we played with. Megahuge thanks to Mark and David for putting up with me on the road and making me sound like I know what I'm doing.