I’m sure you all guessed by now that I’m an artist. But did you know I’m also a writer…?

I was thinking the other day of doing a blog about this. As I said in my first post, the title of my blog is a song title from my favorite J-Rock group, L’Arc~en~Ciel. It was their videos, as a matter of fact, that got me started on parodies.

I once spent a shit ton of money to make color copies of my parodies of their videos and to ship them over to Japan… I went to the mailbox every day for an entire year waiting for a response. I wasn’t hoping for anything special. A form letter, maybe an autographed picture… Hell, even a note saying, “Fuck you, you whacko!” would have been nice. Maybe my poking fun at their videos insulted them…

Sorry for the teeny-weeny, eye strain-o version…

This is a desktop wallpaper I made up (currently gracing my MacBook). I made up this silly “The Story of What She Said” (get it?) to tell you… well… what she said! The parts that are in all capital letters are actually some of the group’s song titles. It really wasn’t an easy task…

This was actually the first parody I wrote…

It came to me when I was listening to The Pet Shop Boys, “West End Girls”. That song came out when I was young and I always thought they were saying “eastern” and “western”. It suddenly dawned on me that I, and a lot of the people on the forum I belonged to, were “western” girls who were fixated with the “eastern” boy J-Rockers. The rest was history… I didn’t think too much of it, but one girl on the forum called it genius. Okay then…

My “Western Girls” parody started something… I’m not sure that was a good thing…

One day, soon after I wrote that parody, I bought a sock monkey (for no other reason than I never owned one). It was a bad idea, because it caused me to create this parody of the Peter Gabriel song, “Shock The Monkey”.

When I wrote this, again, I didn’t think much of it. Like my previous parody, it was just my twisted mind pouring itself out on paper. So I decided to let my best friend read it. Her mind isn’t quite as twisted, but close… When she got to the line, “Doggie, don’t you chew up that sock monkey!” she laughed so hard I was afraid she would pee herself!

So, on the day I saw Baxter chewing on his sock monkey toy… I was reminded of that stupid line and I just had to take a picture.

Once I had, I texted my friend and asked her if she remembered when I wrote that “Sock The Monkey” parody and that particular line from it. I wasn’t sure she would remember… It was probably a good ten years since I wrote it.

Surprisingly, she actually remembered both the parody and that particular line. So I sent her the picture I had taken of Baxter… It started her laughing her ass off all over again! See…? Her mind is twisted, too. It’s just not to the same degree as mine, apparently…

I also draw parodies of various shows and whatnot…

This one is really only funny to other people who have watched the original Gatchaman series, I’m sorry to say. I’m not sure it’s even funny to them… But to give you a brief idea, Joe’s favorite weapon of choice is the feather shuriken. Imagine if the ends of feathers were like darts and you get the idea… And so, I poked fun at my favorite character getting what would be the perfect present.

Nothing is immune to my twisted mind if it gives me an idea that tickles my twisted mind. Not even one of my favorite TV shows…

Anyone who has ever watched the show knows that House is obsessed with Cuddy, the Dean of Medicine. In one particular episode, it was what kind of underwear she was wearing… Sometimes writers make it way too easy for my twisted mind to go off and get tickled…

However, I’m not just a parody writer… I also write, of all things, romance stories…

I loathe romance stories. My mother always read those Harlequin Romance books when I was growing up. When I got older, I tried reading them as well as other romances and… oh my god… I thought I’d go brain dead reading that drivel! Jesus Christ! I’m sorry if I offend anyone by saying that (especially you “50 Shades” fans) but I can’t stand romance stories! So I decided to write my own. No “and they lived happily ever after” shit. My stories are dark and don’t always end happily…

Not surprisingly (I hope not, anyway) I’m also in the process of writing and drawing my own manga…

This is a rather old drawing I did of my two main characters… I’d love to redraw it, but I’m just not that motivated right now. I’m still in the process of working on the storyboard, so I don’t really have the gumption to work on more complicated drawings of my characters right now. I actually had another story I wrote for a manga, but this idea was more important to me, so it took precedence. Eventually I may work on the first one…

And just in case you’re wondering where my inspiration came from…

This is a screen shot from the Thomas Dolby video “Europa and the Pirate Twins”. One of Thomas Dolby’s songs inspired the story for my manga and his looks somewhat inspired my male character. So I felt it only proper to use this shot for the pose of my characters. Obsession really is twisted, as you can see…