I've got to hear Pat Boone's 'In a Metal Mood' that came out in 1997. It was his most successful album in thirty-five years.
You see, Pat and Ozzy were next door neighbors, and Pat kind of got into what Ozzy was doing. So that is how that happened.
'Minus Touch' was misheard by my friend when I said, "Midas Touch". It is pretty good. He said often good ideas come from misheard sayings interpreted different than intended.
'Minus Touch' is the equivalent of 'Wither'.
Anyway, it all started with thinking about 'Midas Touch', and how I need that card in real life. I need to make that card, so that the Magic can flow. That is what I am trying to do with this blog is to make the bridge from the real and the magic world more possible. I've got to turn it from a rope bridge that is difficult to cross into a super highway with lots of traffic to help get my life going.
'Sit Next To Me Intruder' is a card. It is the guy who sits next to you in the cafe, and gets on his cell phone, and does all kind of little things to annoy you, and he often wears a plaid shirt, and glasses, with headphones in his ears, and it is all really annoying, and it is as if he sucks your energy out. It is as if his presence is of a human vampire type of energy. It is not easy to explain, but some people give life, and others take it away.
It is just how it goes.
Anyway, it is time for another coffee. I need to get really caffeinated to make it through the day. I have a lot of things I have to do today.
I brought a figurative painting with me to the cafe, just to have something to look at. I am tired of the photography exhibit that's been up for a month. I would rather look at my own art than what is up.
Anyway, there is something that is really similar between art and MTG. It is the combination of words and visuals that makes it all exciting for me, and gives a context in which to explore.
There is still improvements that can be made with the flavor text on cards in MTG. They could be funnier.
I would imagine it is not easy to get the right combination of visual and text for any Magic card. They test them out and see what works. There are a lot of people employed full time just to come up with this stuff. It is amazing.
Magic Online helped to keep the game alive. I haven't played it for a while, but I will have to get back to it at some point. I used to play it every day, but I have just been really busy. Plus, I have other problems with my low computer memory before I can update more online games. It is too complicated to explain, but that is the gist of it.
Basically, you can make Magic cards out of anything, about anything in your life to make it all work for you.
The other day I made a Jesus Christ card. His creature type is that of a 'Human Savior'. lol. Tap and all humans are saved. haha.
Okay, my time here is approaching an end. I am not feeling it anymore. This is the beginning of The End Game.
My coffee shop sessions have a beginning, middle, and end, just like chess, and just like Magic.
A new guy just sat down with his lap top. It looks if he touched me, he would give me a -1/-1, and I ain't kidding.
Some people touch you, and you feel an energy drain. It is a real thing.
A guy last night interrupted our Sunday night Magic game, saying, "HEY, YOU ARE PLAYING MAGIC THE GATHERING...GIVE ME A HIGH FIVE!"
I told him I don't like to touch people. I didn't want to take a hit point of damage from him, and be dragged down to his bro-speak level.
The card for this is called, "Descent Into Mediocrity".
I am not into lowest common denominator people. This makes me into an asshole at times, but fuck it. I don't want the goddamn energy drain.
Monday, January 2, 2012
The Relationship between Magic and The Real World
Hello, and Greetings. I am Bauvy.
My real life name is David Lovins, but that is neither here nor there. You can look on youtube if you really want to know more about me. I don't know if it will be worth your time or not.
Anyways, this blog isn't about how to play the game, it's not about deck building, it's not about anything normally associated with the game of Magic The Gathering. I'm interested in something else.
You won't find out how to trounce your opponent here. You won't learn how to beat your enemy into a pulp by turn 5. Those kind of things don't interest me much.
I am more intrigued by The Magic of Magic The Gathering. I am more interested in Alternate Realities and The Relationship between Real and Fictional Worlds.
There is something that artist's and musicians use called 'The Midas Touch'. It is that one little spark of magic they are able to produce that brings in the money. It is a very subtle thing between 'I am doing something good but I also want to sell'.
When you are too much about the selling, people get turned off by it, because humans don't like fake and phony stuff. Though, I guess some people like Mariah Carey...but...ugh and sigh...Okay some people like crap and they buy into the s***.
But what I am getting at is something more.
The first time I was introduced to MTG was in 1997. I didn't know what the hell was going on with it. No matter how they tried to explain the game to me, I couldn't get it. I was in another place and time. Since then, I was critical of the art work, and of the game itself, but then I started to see that, "Hey, the artwork here is pretty good, and keeps getting better."
My friend Marco The Finn really got me into the game, and I was intrigued after that. It turned out to be an escape from the real world for an hour or two once a week.
Mostly, the game is a waste of time, but like therapy, where you don't realize the immediate effects, the long term effects are: You will waste a lot of time, You will have fun beating your opponents into a pulp, You will find that it sucks to lose, and You Will Know Pain When You Get Your Ass Kicked.
Anyway, I will explore the world of Magic as I see it. Most people talk about the mechanics of the game, and that stuff bores me to tears. I approach the game as an artist with a slight sense of poetic notions is what I am getting at.
Let's suppose you see a person walking across the street. That person could be made into a Magic Card.
Basically what I am saying is that everything you see and experience in this world can be made into a Magic card.
There is a relationship between this world and The Magic The Gathering World.
This laptop that I am typing on, well, it is an artifact. Get it?
A car is a Goblin Tank.
There is no end.
I am starting to see The Birth of Mythology itself by playing this game. It is all beginning to tie in with my previous interests of Mythology, Dungeons & Dragons, and Medievalism in general.
Did you know Marcel Duchamp was a medievalist? A little know fact, but he cared about the foundations of Modern Human Culture, and for that, he had to dig into The Magics of The Past.
I haven't worked it all out yet. I am struggling to get all of my ideas down, but that is what I am going to do on this blog.
I hope it will be a good ride.
My real life name is David Lovins, but that is neither here nor there. You can look on youtube if you really want to know more about me. I don't know if it will be worth your time or not.
Anyways, this blog isn't about how to play the game, it's not about deck building, it's not about anything normally associated with the game of Magic The Gathering. I'm interested in something else.
You won't find out how to trounce your opponent here. You won't learn how to beat your enemy into a pulp by turn 5. Those kind of things don't interest me much.
I am more intrigued by The Magic of Magic The Gathering. I am more interested in Alternate Realities and The Relationship between Real and Fictional Worlds.
There is something that artist's and musicians use called 'The Midas Touch'. It is that one little spark of magic they are able to produce that brings in the money. It is a very subtle thing between 'I am doing something good but I also want to sell'.
When you are too much about the selling, people get turned off by it, because humans don't like fake and phony stuff. Though, I guess some people like Mariah Carey...but...ugh and sigh...Okay some people like crap and they buy into the s***.
But what I am getting at is something more.
The first time I was introduced to MTG was in 1997. I didn't know what the hell was going on with it. No matter how they tried to explain the game to me, I couldn't get it. I was in another place and time. Since then, I was critical of the art work, and of the game itself, but then I started to see that, "Hey, the artwork here is pretty good, and keeps getting better."
My friend Marco The Finn really got me into the game, and I was intrigued after that. It turned out to be an escape from the real world for an hour or two once a week.
Mostly, the game is a waste of time, but like therapy, where you don't realize the immediate effects, the long term effects are: You will waste a lot of time, You will have fun beating your opponents into a pulp, You will find that it sucks to lose, and You Will Know Pain When You Get Your Ass Kicked.
Anyway, I will explore the world of Magic as I see it. Most people talk about the mechanics of the game, and that stuff bores me to tears. I approach the game as an artist with a slight sense of poetic notions is what I am getting at.
Let's suppose you see a person walking across the street. That person could be made into a Magic Card.
Basically what I am saying is that everything you see and experience in this world can be made into a Magic card.
There is a relationship between this world and The Magic The Gathering World.
This laptop that I am typing on, well, it is an artifact. Get it?
A car is a Goblin Tank.
There is no end.
I am starting to see The Birth of Mythology itself by playing this game. It is all beginning to tie in with my previous interests of Mythology, Dungeons & Dragons, and Medievalism in general.
Did you know Marcel Duchamp was a medievalist? A little know fact, but he cared about the foundations of Modern Human Culture, and for that, he had to dig into The Magics of The Past.
I haven't worked it all out yet. I am struggling to get all of my ideas down, but that is what I am going to do on this blog.
I hope it will be a good ride.
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