There's a Debate Tomorrow

I went and listened to Bernie Sanders speak when he was in Portland, Oregon.  

I say listened because the NBA gymnasium he spoke in was filled with 19,000 people so I had to join another 8 or 9000 outside.  

Blah blah blah numbers. 

I've been reluctant to speak about the event on my blog because I needed time to let things summer. Vibe things out.  

People are really passionate at those rallies and I'm a skeptic. 

Bernie Sanders spoke with genuine conviction.  

He called his audience "brother and sisters". 

Those people who say if you don't pay your mortgage or student debt that the economy will crash.  

Numbers numbers.. Blah blah. 

They refer to you as "consumers".

not customers. You are a pawn in a never ending game of a chess or something except there's only so many pieces in chess. 

Focusing... I ask you.. All around the world.. Especially in the United States. 

watch that debate. I don't care if you have to YouTube it a day later.  

There is a corporate machine out there.  

Last election and the one before it was just mumbled about and mostly looked at as tall tale to most. 

now if you read the NYTimes or anything other than Fox News or cnn these names and super pacs are realities. 

I could ramble on this all day but there is a guy with a lot more knowledge and much better worded than I who wants that to change.

I don't know the language of this stuff there is a senator who does and has for a long time. 

I'm not saying he's a saviour. Most the work will have to come from ordinary folk.  

Listen to what he says and if we decide to continue to live in our ignorance than count me out. 

I know a lot of people would like to be ignorant to politics. 

i wish we could be a bunch of small countries and agree to disagree.  

Watch the debate. Then let's talk. Seriously we gotta start talking sooner or later.  

The world is changing. We must adapt. The age of convience is ending whether you like it or not.

-abc

Also if you got this far. This is an interesting article to read.  

Step 1

Let yourself wander. Let yourself ponder. This is the first step towards defeating the corporate machine. 

Happy Monday Sleepwalking Friends

One day about 60 years from now I truly hope we look back and remember 2014 as the beginning of the end of the corporate machine.

(Pause) So What's The Bloody Point!?

What's the point? Why do I post a picture of doodles every morning when I have shirts to sell? Do you even sell shirts? Who am I talking to? What the hell is Sleepwalking anyway?

Hmmm..... well it's been a while since I rambled hard. 

1: I do sell shirts. I wish I had all the money to do this as a full scale, full time job business, but that ain't how I do. I make up as I go, I make use of what I have, I make it what I want it to be.

2: By my definition to Sleepwalk is to: "Live. Dream. Get lost in between.". In other words things are NOT how they be. They are what you make them to be. We all have magic to make our own realities, but only some of us really tap into that energy.

3: I post drawings because that's how this clothing line started. Drawings in a notebook when I feel overwhelmed by feelings I cannot put into writings. They are all part of the same world I run to in my head. They are all "Alfreds" and they all live in a place I think I call "Corduroy Cove".

4: I do not sleep a lot. 3 hours here. 4 hours there. I find magic by in peoploids. In animals. In conversation. In books. In rambles. In drawing.

5: The idea of Sleepwalking Collective is to inspire others to do the same. I don't care if you draw, write, sing, play guitar, but get lost in whatever the doing you do. If one person listens, if 10 listen then cool. Mostly it's for me.

6: Sleepwalking Collective is a clothing line: Yes. I want it to be greater. I want it to be a movement of art. I want it to be more than just me, but these things must happen organically. There will be more items available. I don't try too hard to front I'm more than I am. I just had to start somewhere that was comfortable for me. Some months I make no money, others $50, mostly somewhere in between.

I am already exactly who I've always thought I would be. The rest happens when you take time to just let things be. Sometimes I post absurd stuff. Sometimes it's heart felt thoughts.

7: I want to do a many of things. I got many more books I want to write: kid's books, graphic novel/poetry epics, and many many more. I want to make music again. I want to perform music again. It all can't happen overnight. Shit.. It took me how long to even start a clothing line and write a book.

Time is a joke.

She creates knots and expectation. Just because some tweeny pop star took over the world overnight doesn't mean you have to. I mean look at the old man who wrote Game of Thrones. Homeboy hasn't even finished writing those books yet. 

LASTLY... Sleepwalking is a Revolution. I don't expect you to believe me. It's a shift in consciousness, but it has to start within.

I don't do time, but something happened at the beginning of 2014. The beginning of the end of the corporate machine.  

Those machines didn't rise to power in the blink of an eye. They didn't do it alone. I can't do this alone.

The shift won't happen overnight, but I predict it will by the end of my life and I expect to live between 85 and 100. So we have at least 58 years worth of work to do.

I'm only trying to creep into you're thinking patterns. You can call it absurd or just words. I've already said a whole lotta lot of brain thoughts and my attention span is that of a fly.

Enough of my ramblings. Be Free Fellow Earthlings. Be Free!

Coca Cola

Sorry Coca Cola but you're about 20 years late. Beautiful sentiment but I don't care for what America has become or your corporate machine.

Wait... I think they are one in the same, but anyway... Viva la Cascadia! 

Some Words of Mine

December was by far the most challenging month of my life as an adult. A lot of almost opportunities and almost trues.

There's not a lot of talking to do on the subject because that's you move forward.

You break when you got to, be true, and get through.

All was not bad, a lot of it was good. It made up for the difficult. It made up for the confused.

I think shared knowledge is power and we should all be more in tune.

I spent the greater part of the month lost in moments, unsure how to convey to people who read these words. 

The answer is not one answer. It's through pictures, it's through words, it's through song. 

I don't know a lot of things, but I do know we all deserve to be free. Free from our minds. I know I am. 

It don't make no sense sometimes, but what's that ever mattered? Not much does.

I just want to create and distribute magic to all of you. I hope you feel inspired to do so, too. 

Cell phones make great tools but they are not a requirement to appreciate the sunset or the moss covered roofs.

Feel the suns warmth on your skin, take time to breathe, and most importantly BE FREE! 

Because 2014; It's the beginning of the end of the corporate machine.