I SMOKED A JOINT AND CAME TO WRITE ABOUT STATUES

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.