In fact, I
was writing in my Portuguese blog first but am still under effect of marijuana.
I quite like to write in this state, it’s one of the greatest pleasures of my
limited life. I think we, collectors have a very specific type of consumerism,
we buy mass produced pieces as if it was art. We give up of one of the rarest
commodities in the world and in everyone’s life that is the amount of space to
live, to stock those products, that most people sees as strange, ridiculous or
childish. And we pay a high price for this, much higher than the cost of
production, especially with the market overcrowded with the most expensive
capital, human capital, due to the change of traditional hand sculpted method
to digital, the higher offer tends to lower the price of the service. Also
because of the multiplication of digital artists and the blind eye media industry
is giving to their intellectual properties in the statues market, the number of
independent non-licensed publishers is multiplying, proving the market is
expanding and there is more public to the segment than imagined. A public with
high acquisitive power. Wait, I’ll put more Coke and smoke a cigarette an put
List 6 in Spotify since I finished hearing The
Bends from Radiohead.
“[22:47, 12/14/2018] Mário Barros: Quer ver um filme de
zumbi realista. Assista "Extermínio". Foi o mais realista que eu vi,
você pode gostar.”
22h48. This
(above) was me suggesting my friend (with whom I smoked the joint) to watch 28 Days Later since is the most
realistic zombie movie I’ve ever saw and because he had told me he didn’t watch
zombie movies because were too unreal. I don’t know if it’ll work, I guess not,
most people watch just what they want not suggestions from other people. This
let me wondering why people who buy figures asks the community what figure to
buy. To me it is a so personal matter it need to fits so exactly my taste that
I accept no suggestions whatsoever. It doesn’t even make sense to me. Oh, I
need to put the sound.
23h23. I had
to go downstairs the apartment building I live to take some wine bottles to my
mother and the neighbors gathering around the swimming pool. I live in Brazil.
Yet I’m back and coming back to my theme, many of who answers these polls if I
can call this way will not even buy the said figures. I say it because one time
or another I myself do that. Give my opinion about a figure I’ll never buy. If
somebody comes to ask about which Batman Sanity version to choose, I’ll gladly
say the painted version because I think it to need a lot more handwork to do,
the characters and the scene is more distinguishable understandable and because
the great accomplishment of the piece is to gather so many characters in so constraint
space harmoniously. But I’ll never buy it. It is way beyond my means (money and
space). One just wonders what passes in the mind of the ones who say, “Get both”.
I think it’s irony most of the cases. I’m starting to feel hungry. I’ll go
smoke a cigarette to send it away since to eat always gives me sleepiness. And
I want to write at least one Word page for it to be considered a post by my
standards. Oh, and I didn’t put List 6, put a remix album from Radiohead whose
name is too complex for me do write down here, especially under these conditions.
23h45. I
will change the music. No, I won’t. Sounds like ambient electronic now. If this
genre even exists. I finished my collection; to be honest I surpassed that
point and bought a statue I don’t really want, Blitzway Vito Corleone. I found
it to be the most perfect portrait I’ve ever seen but this isn’t enough to give
me pleasure to have him in my collection. I think I’ll resell it. Hope it
capitalizes once sold out and sell it. I never saw most of my statues because
they’re on the basement of my brother’s in US and because they’re yet to be
delivered due to a consumerist surge I had or because there were simply too
many statues I deeply desired launched this year and the year before. Statues I
really want to have in my collection. Statues that are not an act of pure
impulse (like Corleone) but of carefully consideration and bonding. Most
females. Since Red Sonja Queen of Scavengers, Sideshow really amped the game
regarding female statues, producing some of the best pieces the market have
seen. Several enchanted me. Four to be more precise. Here they are:
My most
beloved statues? Are four as well.
I really
hope the painting of Harley Quinn to be on par with the prototype, this is paramount
for it to shine and succeed as a piece for me. More than the others.
Specifically the unmasked portrait. If I find it non-acceptable when the
production pics are released I will promptly cancel it. The positioning of the
eyes of Wonder Woman is another essential detail that can destroy the figure to
me. I saw some cockeyed EX portraits from Rebel Terminator that left me
worried, I didn’t cancel it because I will display it with the usual damaged head.
Well, how do the figures in the basement of my brother arrive here? Well when
he travels to visit us or when my mother and I go visit him. Now with this rule
of just one luggage for person it became even harder, even my brother having
three kids. Thank god Sideshow lists the approximate size of its figures so I
will be able to pass them to the architect who will plan my man-cave in
February so she can take into account all of my collection. Although I said I
finished my collecting, I’ll ask her to leave the space to two or three more
figures, since nobody knows what tomorrow’s SDCC will bring. All I know is that
every statue that arrives in Brazil stays in my collection since I throw the
boxes away and there’s no way I can compete with people that ship their pieces
from US. Plus, I tend to create a connection with them, they give me a sense of
familiarity that I like. I always dreamt to display them properly, to have my
magical fantastic room, unique, beautiful to me, friendly to me, that
represents who I am. What I like and love. And the architect, or so I hope,
will find a way to make it harmonious and cool (and creative, if possible). I
spend 95% of my time (minimum), inside my room, I think it’s fair I transform
it in the best place for me to be. I don’t mind no one else (well, I’m dating a
girl I don’t know yet where it will lead but there’s one thing that I need to
be aware about: the TV must be viewed from the bed for her to watch). I’m
trying to like this girl and I feel I am getting attached to her, it’s the
first girl I date in ten years, since my ex-wife. Loneliness has been my
companion since then. I’m 41, she’s 19 have a slim body just the way I like, it’s
a very hard to reach person, I have a lot of work to do to build affection on
her. But if she’s giving a chance to a guy with my age is because something she
saw in me. I don’t know what to be honest. It’s not the money because I don’t have
any. All of my money is received and controlled by my mother. My credit card (which
I’m not allowed to carry almost never) stays with her and he handles me the
money I need when eventually I go out somewhere. Lucky me internet shopping doesn’t
require the physical card, just the info on it otherwise it would be goodbye
collecting a long time ago since my mother hates the figures. She swallow them
as a bitter pill and I promised that by the end of March there will be no mores
expenses in this regard. At least for a good amount of time if the architect
finds a way to put some empty space in my room. Otherwise I’m pretty satisfied
with what I have, not too many, not too much. Enough for me. And they will
bring and keep bringing me the joy just like the first day with the aid of
familiarity. Why want more? I know the answer: the urge never goes away and
fantastic pieces are sure to appear. If I were to stop collecting for real, I
would unsubscribe the Sideshow newsletter and stop visiting collectors groups.
Avoid people and places that induces me to consume my “drug” of preference. It’s
on the Narcotic Anonym’s textbook that saved me from the heavy stuff. So I’m
aware I’m venturing myself through dangerous venues to my addiction but for now
I believe I can help myself. I’m on the denial state as addicts call it.
Thinking I can control the habit. Vito Corleone already proved me wrong. I shouldn’t
buy him. But as I said on an earlier post it was 30% off using a trick to apply
the discount for preorders which is not allowed by the shop. But I am
Brazilian, so is my character, and I use the glitch on the system to my favor.
I don’t know if they will charge me later, if they do, I’m screwed because I
ordered Batman Beyond White Version, Sideshow new trinity Superman and Corleone
among some smaller figures using this very trick, none of them available yet,
amassing a total discount of over 500 USD. If the bill arrives to me I don’t
know what to do, how my mother will react, though I said her about the trick
and the possibility of it not work. It doesn’t matter, she’ll be completely enraged
with me the same way. Hey, I wrote more than one page already. In fact I’m on
the third page. Will finish with my most WTF piece. Thank you for reading, be you
who you are. Sorry for my broken English. It was a pleasure to write about
statues mildly stoned. Now, prepare the images, revise the text, post it, eat
and sleep. First and foremost Coke and cigarette! Lol.
3h53. My
mom came out drunk from the wine and talked to me since the moment she arrived.
Was a nice conversation that only I will remember, she was too drunk and I
presume will have a huge hangover later on. I don’t know if I have the courage
to revise this now, think I’ll go to sleep as well. And eat. Ate nothing until
now.
