happy halloween

have fun tonight everyone! i will be working while you guys are trick or treating.
costumes are fun, it brings out the creative people and the streets are filled with ghosts, corpses and vampires. It's like a weird nightmare.

Currently listening to statistics cd, currently reading promise of the witch king, by ra salvatore, currently playing midway arcade treasures 3 gamecube, current movie reccomendation the station agent on dvd.

freak music

thats what i like about cerebus shoal and the twelve canons. you could see a solitary crazy homeless man signing these tunes. great show. great fun. also michah bluesmalldone is ana amazing guitarist.

shows, shows shows,

show last night, gabes oasis
statistics, A+ thank you denver dalley.
little brazil, B++ these two on tour together is going to be fun
my electic heart. F- hey guys you may have gotten a c, but you suck because you left after your set, showed no support for two great touring bands, and that alone puts you in failure category.

Tonight I get to see cerebus shoal again, along with michael blue smalldone and twelve canons. yipee!

loveless, superf%%ckers, avengers, innocents.

The Innocents by Gipi. Fantagraphics. This is my pick for the week. A great book by an italian artist, about a young boy spending a day with his uncle going to see an ex convict. Its very slow and the washed out artwork is nice and sedative. The story doesn't really go anywhere but it doesn't really need to.

Loveless # 1 DC/Vertigo. A western by Azzarello(100 bullets). This is the most foul languaged mainstream comic I've ever seen DC publish and I'm in love with it. The nice sky colors and the weird post civil war west lend themselves well to this, one of the few western books even being published in any literary format.

Super F**ckers by James Kolchaka, Top SHelf. oh man. this book is funny, but i don't know that im that into it. Kolchaka's American Elf is a work of artwork and life, this seems like all the high school jokes you can think off crammed into one book for better and mostly worse.

New Avengers # 12 Marvel We still don't know who Ronin is, and captain america told a joke! Still my favorite superhero book currently being published. Good week for the funny book store!

today, i can't write

today, im sitting at the keyboard and i just can't put words in the system. I feel frazzled. I just spent the last three hours walking aimessly, managed to snag a copy of the kite runner for 50 cents, and i've eaten just bread and cream cheese all day. maybe tommorow will be more productive. but it doesn't have to be.

used to love sunday tv.

i feel old. i used to get excited for sunday night tv. id finish off a crazy weekend of shows and fun with an easy night of the simpsons, xfiles and deep space nine. Now, I dont even bother to turn the simpsons on. they have slowly weared off on me. It's not that they arent as funny now, but i don't get excited to watch them anymore. I hope my excitement for little things like a sunday television date isn't gone just moved elsewhere. Sometimes I just want to go out and find that new thing. It's out there.

old traditions.

Just ordered some stickers from stickerguy I have always been impressed with sticker guy. They have done many stickers for me and what im impressed with, is the quality and the fact that these stickers cost the same as they did ten years ago. Sticker Guy reminds me of the whole punk myth that we are all trying for but many never reach. They probably do make some money, but the fact is they could charge alot more for their services. But they don't and it allows, individuals like me with little income to have nice shiny stickers made. I thank you sticker guy! Keep up the good work!

Stay early screening review.

Last night I got to go to an early screening of Stay, a film by Marc Foster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland), and starring ewan mcgregor, Naomi Watts, and Ryan Gosling. This film is Foster's most artistic so far, and he uses visuals more than spoken words, something he talked about after the screening. There are some really cool transitions between scenes that in some movies may seem a little too artistic but since this movie is about two characthers and their paths to one spot in time, it all makes sense at the end. I won't ruin the end for you but it's a nice twist ontop of the usually twist we have all learned to guess. This movie combines Ghost, and some Hitchcock, is fun, enjoyable, and the actors are great except for Watts, who seems preoccupied with something else, maybe a 2000 pound ape. O.k. check it out. One interesting comment from foster, he had not seen a movie till he was a teenager. The first one he saw, Apocolypse Now. Ouch!

batman,

todays lunch hour spent buying batman begins deluxe edition. even comes with a mini graphic novel! and i got a haircut.
now reading: current punk planet, now listening, make believe. still playing viewtiful joe 2, just finished watching children of dune miniseries.

Unlucky Trip?

We head up to Wisconsin for the Madison Zine fest. No Scene Fest. It's OK as we walk around and explore the city. Heading out of town, our front hood flies open and smashes the windshield, while we are going down the highway. No one was hurt and I got to spend the whole day with my sweetie, (AWWWWWW!!!) I'm a very lucky creature.

Self Indulging Photo Booth

This is a stuck up self loving photo booth. Seeing it sit in the corner near an Intermedia Art show we attended friday evening, we decided to enter and have our pictures saved for posterity. We made the required funny faces and came out expecting to laugh at ourselves. And out comes the above picture. The photo booth only likes taking pictures of itself. I fear the day when they begin to move past vanity and start to take over the world.

really short history of violence review

went to see history of violence this afternoon and then attended a intermedia art show that was pretty cool.
im sure you've heard plenty about the movie by now so i'll just give a quick review

the violence. Quick. it's the aftermath that's painful.
Viggo; he should be nomitated for an oscar for this. His facial expressions are downright scary, and very real.
Overall: B+ a solid movie from David Cronenberg, One note, do not see this if for some reason you can't handle sex on screen. this movie is lucky it didn't get an x rating, alltogether an enjoyable outing, that kinda just leaves you on edge.

Now Reading, Top Shelf Under the Big Top.
Tommorow I'll tell you about a stuck up Photobooth.

Daniel Craig is the new 007? Yeah, Who?

I know that Bond usually makes the actor, not the other way around, but Daniel Craig? I would have much rather seen Brosnan for one more go around than Daniel Craig(layer cake, road to perdition and gasp Laura Croft:Tomb Raider,ughh,) Anyway, at least the director of Goldeneye is doing this one so it shouldn't be cheesy but maybe it's time for 007 to dissapear for a good long while. Heck I've never heard of so many actors turning down a role. Good luck Mr. Craig, Daniel, Daniel Craig.

Every Wednesday is a holiday,

Across America every wednesday is a holiday for my fellow geeks as we tromp down to our local comic book stores to buy our brand new issue of our favorite books. It's rather unique part of our culture that every city in america with a comic book store is alive on that particular day, every week of the year. Some of us have big stacks each week. Some like me buy one or two titles at the most, but it is the excitement of arrival that does it for the most of us i believe. Not unlike tuesday for media junkies, the day when dvds and cd's usually come out, comic book day, can be a fun filled and escaping day, to that little fantasy world in our heads.

books i picked up this week
INFINITE CRISIS # 1 Dc comics. I got to admit i don't really know what's going on in this book. I've always been a marvel guy and there are so many dc characthers in this book who i don't even know who they are that i am a little lost. But this is the most hyped book of the year so i am giving it a shot. I really enjoy the batman, superman, story arc as those characthers usually play off well agaisnt each other, but I can't say i really undertsand much else that is going on.

HOUSE OF M #7. MARVEL favorite book this week. The story Bendis has been writing is finally hitting it's stride, and boy does he leave with a cliffhanger for the final issue coming up. It will be intesting to see if this story has any lasting impacts on the marvel characthers. If it does, it's an amazing piece of comic book history. if it does not. ends up being a dream or some such thing. Then it has been a waste of my time. we will see.

THE GOON 25Cents edition Dark Horse. This is perfect comic for October and for 25 cents you can't go wrong. It's the Sopranos meets the munsters and even a little song about the sun coming out tommorow is included. Best line,
"Monkey's going to learn Ya don't mess with a man when he's eating his ice cream." Steal a qaurter give this book a try.

Going to Madison

Hello. This sunday myself and Jessica are attending the madison zine fest It will only be my second visit to Wisconisn, my first when I visited my friend Michael a few years back and I played my really bad songs in a little practice space in some strange warehouse. I'm excited by the drives, by the motion that carries us from one place to another. It seems that the world is big and it is, but when you make the connection, any connection with other people of similar interests, including the joys of stapling pieces of paper together and exchanging the ideas within, it makes the world seem much smaller. And that's a nice comfort.

The first of many happy posts.

Hello, brave internet, hello brave people, the tempartures are falling and the sky is still blue.
I have found that I can't resist joining in all the commotion over writing a blog. Around six years ago I had a pretty frequent blog up and it became kind of meditative. I doubt anyone out there really will care what i have to say here but i don't mind writing just in case one of you might.
It's funny this internet world we live in. feel free to communicate, that's what it's here for.

currently listening to: The Promise Ring, Signal Hill
Currently reading: Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
Currently playing: Viewtiful Joe 2 (Gamecube), Mr Driller Drill Spirits (DS)
Currently Watching: Battlestar Galactica season one on dvd.
Current Question: Why haven't you people seen Serenity yet. BEST MOVIE THIS YEAR!