Category: Drawn

Run Away

When I was working at a certain company under a certain boss not so long ago ( Crazy Train, Clearing out the files, Straight from the top, Budget Cuts, Heel! ) an under desk treadmill was my “static” pathway to sanity.

I’ve now been working as a Programmer Analyst with the school district for seven months ( The Coolest ) …and the difference is night and day. I feel like a valued human again – not a cog or number. The work is all on-site – so no more treadmill, but I’m also not walking 14.6 miles daily in frustration, either.

Happy as I am – it’d be a waste of a good comic to not post it, so here ya’ go!

Take care. Stay healthy. Live life.

-Scott

#worksucks #underdesktreadmill #exercise #badbosses #burningoffsteam

Never tell me the odds…

September was prostate cancer awareness month. For me, and every other person that’s ever had, known, or loved someone that’s fought cancer – every month is. 

Like Star Wars? ( Hate cancer? ) Me, too. Here’s another one from almost four years ago : That’s no moon!

Take care of yourselves, people. And please, get checked.

-Scott

P.S. I’ve posted ( and drawn ) a lot on my cancer journey over the last six years. If you want to know more go here : Prostate Cancer

#prostatecancer #survive #cancer #prostatezero #psa #hormonetherapy #gleasonscore #cancersucks #starwars

Return to Alacran

A flyer I churned out for our Halloween performance.

Happy Halloween!

Alacran Court invited “The Rubber Band” back to play for their annual Halloween block party. This year we had a band of middle-schoolers, called “Dencity”, open for us. Dencity played through a set of five songs – including a couple of originals – before we took the stage. I wish I had their guts back when I was their age. It took me another 30+ years to gain the courage, I guess. Better late than never. We played for an hour before retreating to our respective halloween festivities.

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Our take on “Werewolves of London”
“Shook Me All Night Long”

You can follow The Rubber Band on Instagram ( the.westwood.rubber.band ), or through on YouTube ( @WestwoodRubberBand ).

… and as always, live life and stay healthy!

-Scott

#TheRubberBand #WestwoodRubberBand #DadBand #GarageBand #Music #RockBand #Halloween #WerewolvesInLondon #RanchoBernardo #SanDiegoMusic #PowayUnifiedSchoolDistrict #PUSD #Westwood #SupportLiveMusic

Rancho BEERnardo

The Rubber Band was invited to play at Rancho Bernardo’s annual Oktoberfest festival at Webb Park on October 11th. We opened for Par Avion, an instrumental surf music-inspired band from Santa Monica, to a crowd of 900 beer aficionados.

The local paper and ( no joke ) Union Tribune picked up on the event, and ran articles in which we were published. As our lead vocalist announced to the crowd ( jokingly ), “Yeah, we’re kind of a big thing.” We almost laughed him off the stage.

The Chieftain interviewed us. Other local papers, including The San Diego Union Tribune, re-published the article. My co-workers at Twin Peaks Center found out and surprised me with my own copy in the main conference room.

Would we do it again? Absolutely. However, we couldn’t have done it without the help of a lot of people…

Thank you Eric and John from San Diego Event Pros for making us sound so good. You guys are awesome!

Thank you Rancho Bernardo Sunrise Rotary Club for inviting us to play for the festival

And, as always, a huge thanks to our wives and families for letting us chase our middle-aged rock star dreams.

Set One
Set Two

You can follow The Rubber Band on Instagram at the.westwood.rubber.band

Thank you for your support!

-Scott

#RanchoBeernardo #RanchoBernardo #WestwoodRubberBand #DadBand #92127 #RotaryClub #RanchoBernardoSunriseRotaryClub #SanDiegoEventPros #ParAvoion #GarageBand

Homecoming Tailgate

A “quick and dirty” flyer I created for RBHS homecoming.

I went to my first homecoming in 31 years last night – sort of. My daughter, Ashley, is in ASB at Rancho Bernardo High School. About two weeks ago she and her friend, Lizzie were brainstorming a tailgate party for the upcoming homecoming game. When asked about a live band, Lizzie suggested – The Rubber Band.

RBHS Homecoming Tailgate Set One

We played for about an hour over two sets. We even got the principal of RBHS to join us for a cover of “I Wanna Be Sedated”, by the Ramones. 

And the Broncos? They won.

RBHS Homecoming Tailgate Set Two

If you want to follow the band please join our Instagram page at The.Westwood.Rubber.Band

Live life. Stay Healthy.

-Scott

#RanchoBernardoHighSchool #RBHS #Homecoming #DadBand #GarageBand #RubberBand

Sunset on Summer

The Rubber Band played for the neighbors’ of Chieftain Court at their Labor Day block party this weekend. We kicked it off with a set of songs from 60’s through early 2000’s. In a little over a month ( October 11th ) we’ll be playing at Rancho Beer-nardo for Oktoberfest, so it was good to get in some stage time.

John Hatcher, our bassist, mastered the audio, combined it with with video we captured using a GoPro, and posted it on our new Rubber Band YouTube Channel. Here is just a few of the videos….

And that’s all, folks! Thank you, as always, for your continued support. And….if you could subscribe to our YouTube channel, that’d be great …..m’kay.

Take care. 
Stay healthy. 
Live life.

– Scott

#therubberband #westwoodrubberband #dadband #labordayblockparty #coverband #90s #90sCoverBand

New Logo

Drawn and Coded is fourteen.

Originally, I named it “Scott’s Jewels” and used it solely to showcase programming projects that I had been working on. Over the last ten years, however, it’s become a platform for showing off my illustrations, comics, musings, and more recently – music. I guess my interests have changed over the last decade – or, more accurately, I’ve finally decided to let them out of their respective cages.

Like any teenager, Drawn and Coded – specifically the logo – needed what my daughters call a “Glow Up”.

Here’s what I came up with…

Drawn and Coded Logo

There were, of course, some “failed” experiments. At first, I was kind of caught up on the whole “computer” thing. Keeping with the new direction I’ve taken, however, it didn’t make much sense – I haven’t posted anything technical for over a year.

Next, I wanted to emphasize art and music, but having a guitar fretboard front-and-center didn’t jive with the name, “Drawn and Coded”. Then there was Jodie’s remark, “You don’t paint. Why do you have a paintbrush?”

So, there it is – all glowed up. Now I can finally get back to drawing comics!

Take care. 
Stay healthy. 
Live life.

– Scott

Rock Out, School’s Out!

The Rubber Band played at yet another block party on June 13th to celebrate the end of school and the start of summer break. We played for about an hour-and-a-half, running through about twenty songs.

Good photographs were few and far in-between this go around. I stole this one from a GoPro we clipped onto the speaker stand.

I think everyone had a good time. The only complaint was a lack of water bottles – but that’s what happens when six guys plan a party. Beer? Plenty. Water bottles? None.

My oldest daughter, Ashley, and I.

The band is going to take a much needed break for the next two weeks before hitting it hard for our upcoming gig at Rancho Bernardo’s upcoming Oktoberfest celebration, “Rancho Beer-nardo”.

Keep livin’ life,

-Scott

#therubberband #garageband #illustration #dadband #ranchobeernardo #ranchobernardo #westwood #drawnandcoded

Yummy

Pica, dog eating rocks
My dog, Chip, has developed a taste for rocks.

My dog, Chip, has developed a taste for rocks. This is addition to his eclectic taste for other household items including crayons, pens, Lego, and toothbrushes. Up until the rock everything had passed through with flying colors ( yes, even the toothbrush ). The rock cost more than I’d like to admit to extricate. Let’s just say I paid as much for his rock, as my wife’s.

While picking him up at the vet I was told there are many repeat offenders, one patient even consuming the same rock that was just extricated. For several months afterwards Jodie and I would only walk Chip with a “Hannibal Lecter”-esque muzzle on. This of course concerned other people we ran into while walking him.

“Wow… is your dog mean?!?”, I’d get asked.

“No, not mean”, I’d reply, “Just stupid.”

-Scott

#pica #mydogeatsrocks #pets #dogowners