hello, what's all this? arcane scribblage from the keyboard of the devil messiah
howdy. i'm the devil messiah. " who in the hell? " you might be asking.
well,  let me back it up a bit.  i used to be called internal bleeding, but it
sounded  gay, so i changed it to fresh, and it was good. but i got sick of it.
i then changed it to lordash, but i came to the conclusion that it sounded way
to much like lord jazz, so here i am. " devil messiah " has a mild paradoxical
nature  to it, and it sounds whizz-bangin' neat, so i'm sticking to it. i have
been  doing ascii since the fall of 1995, and my inspirations were (are) deep,
nootropic, cypherhex and krone, so now you know who to blame. most of my fonts
look the same, but they all look wicked (no ego...) so it's cool.

my personal pet peeves are all the fontkids who draw the same shit with
the same style over and over again, and i do mean shit. no offence, but take a
look at the plain ascii division. 4 good artists (wator, narcosis, smokey, and
epoxy/agent#77 who are the same person =P) and about 20 middling ascii chumps.
what the hell is going on? the general state of ascii is sad and pathetic. i'm
not  concerned about people imitating a good artist's style like sir death  or
lord  jazz (cause i do that) but imitating the " joe loser " style of the same
stupid stuff over and over again. jesus christ, if i don't like something that
i  draw, i delete it. and the sad fact is (without needing to flatter  myself,
because i don't need to) that most of the ascii i delete of my own is twice as
good as the status quo of ascii right now. if any of you are new ascii artists
trying  to get into a group, consider the following: if i've drawn  something,
it's  impressed me, right? if it has, it doesn't matter trying to impress your
pals  in  the scene by getting into a big group if you're not happy  with  the
ascii that you do. it's as simple as that.

i  pulled  a misfit and got a $1,000 phone bill.  the only board that i
still call is the lethal aspect,  so if you want an ascii, bam, leave me email
on there. as well, i am working on several side projects right now :

gothica  is  a comic book for pc using rip art, sort of like dive.  the  story
story will be co-written by me and my pal acid knight,  and should be out some
time  before  the  end of the millenia with art by acid  knight  (tenatively).
madness  is  a literary persuit i've been meaning to try to start for a while.
it's  a  lit  group,  with more focus on essays and  short/long  stories  than
poetry. spatula city is a board i'm setting up for a friend. we need menus and
some other stuff. i'd be willing trade asciis and shit for it.  gloom is still
going up,  so if you did art for it,  up it to the lethal aspect, and it would
be much appreciated.

whilst most of these projects are still in early development, questions
you might have about them i would be most happy to answer. leave any inquiries
about  any of these stupid projects (i'm happy to idly chatter with any fool i
happen to come across) or for an ascii request on the lethal aspect.  finally,
i would like to express my undying love for nacho cheese.  ah, nacho cheese is
the savior of us all.