Last night I started reading Lord of the Flies again. I had to read it in middle school or high school as an assignment but I don't remember much besides the general story of a bunch of young kids getting stranded on a deserted island and becoming savages. What I'll never forget is a scene from the 1990 movie where they kill the character named Piggy. He was a dorky fat kid in glasses and I saw myself in him cause I was/am a dorky fat kid. I think that scene scarred me for life. It's a short book and I'm 3 chapters in right now. When I'm done I'm gonna rewatch the 1963 black & white movie and the 1990 color version. 

After posting this on Instagram someone commented about a real life "Lord of the Flies," where 6 Tongan schoolboys got shipwrecked and stranded on a deserted island for 15 months in 1966. Their story was a much happier than this book by William Golding.

Just went thru emails, updated my calendar, made a couple phone calls, worked out at home, walked for a few miles, and rented Jojo Rabbit. Tomorrow I go back to work on this sumumabitch.

Redux on the left. Original artwork on the right. 

When I printed the EMN shirts with the original artwork, a lot of the smaller details were washed out or blurry. Now that I'm going to print more I decided to redo the parts of the image that weren't so sharp. I printed the original artwork in black & white on paper then highlighted the parts that came out blurry on the t-shirt. I then digitally made some of those lines thicker and redrew others completely. This should result in a better looking print on the next batch of shirts. I feel like I did what George Lucas did to Star Wars when he released the Special Edition versions of his original trilogy. 

I crossed these things off my to-do list today:

• Read & sent out work emails. These are for upcoming events I'm DJing 
• Went thru personal emails and unsubscribed from a bunch of mailing lists.
• Cleaned my desk. I threw away and put away a lot of shit.
• I updated my to-do list. 
• Created a doc to log all my cash & credit card sales at events this year.
• Spent a long time looking for all the info needed to fill in that doc. I had the numbers written on a bunch of different notes. I even had to go thru my recycling bin looking for notes.
• Made plans to go out for dinner tomorrow with my cousin Reyna. She assisted Arely and I at the Jazz Festival last month.
• Paid my car registration and renewed my Costco card online. 
• I went to cook the chicken & veggies I bought last week but the chicken went bad so I just cooked the veggies.
• Spent an hour or two stretching & lifting weights. I watched the first half of the movie Turbo Kid while I was stretching.
• Went to gym and got the treadmill for an hour. I ran 30 and walked 30. It's been almost a month since the last time I ran.
• Uploaded a couple posts to my Insta @frankiemcfly
• Now here I am posting my daily blog entry before bed. I think this is blog post #27