comic reviews

Fell# 3 by Warren Ellis and Ben templesmith. 1.99 Image comics. 16 pages of nine panel comic bliss. This story is so depressing, but not in any sort of real way. It just leaves you wanting something from the human condition. Templesmiths art, especially near the end of this issue is superb and spooky all at once. I'm loving me some fell and you can't go wrong with the price.


New Avengers # 13 by Bendis, Finch. Snap. Bendis gives his buddy David Mack some props near the end of this issue and we've got more drama in this issue than the E! news channel could find in Joan Rivers closet. I love the way Finch draws Captain America's eyes. They are so hurt and angry. And Iron Man just turns into a total badass midway through making you wonder why he needs the Avengers(especially spider-man) at all. Anyway I'm still hooked and this one will stay at on my very small list.


Lost tonight!

doo-dah

finished writing my half of the julie jones story which began in his world her world last month, it is about 20 times the size of that first installment, so when they are all published individually the plan is to release a collected edition of this little girl in the wild world we created, but that is a few years off at earliest. Played around with garage band this morning. I want to do something violently musical but everytime i touch an instrument i get soft and somber. I just can't play fast and hard I guess.

Im stuck on page 87 of this vampire/pirate/anticatholic novel i was writing. Been stuck there for about a month. guess that's not going to get finished either. I have such a terrible habit of starting and stopping too soon. So it's nice to be done with Julie Jones. It's cold on the computer.

randominicity

watched today: 4 minutes of eagles football, before sunset (ethan hawke Julie delpy), one episode of forever knight.
read today the newspaper, spx2003 collection, cicada by josue menjivar.
worked today 8.5 hours. moments spent daydreaming. plenty.


My east carolina pirates beat UAB yesterday to go 5-6 on the year. Far from the glory days i lived in the 90's its nice to be competing again, and I look forward to touching down in greenville, nc on game day again. I miss the festivity of it all.




going broke, going for gold. loving each moment as we burn the candle on both ends. let's not hold back any longer.

48 hrs.

past 48 hours what ive done. 2pm,monday beers and margaritas at Mickeys Irish pub, downtown iowa city. 4pm drunken walking around eventually home. We watch my life as a dog, and doggy poo(yes thats a real movie) It was a dog themed evening. afterwards i read this months issue of Black Book and turn off the light at 11am. Im up at 6am, to catch the bus to work. our car is in the shop. I work from 7:45 till about 4.30 and run to target to get christmas gifts, catching the bus home at 5.30. I make spaghetti and we watch the greatest inventions of our time before watching my name is earl. Jason Lee is one funny dude. I play Turok Rage wars on the 64, I got it for a 1.69 and then play ssx tricky on the gamecube till 11pm. Get online until god knows when and crawl into bed. This morning I got up and walked the four-to eight miles to get the car at the autobody shop. $814 dollars down the drain. I could put out a 7" for that money ouch! Pick up an used blade trinity on dvd for 4.98 and the second season of Forever Knight for 7.98 I vaguely remember this show but for 7.98 who cares? Got to the funny book store where I get Loveless # 2. If ever a comic deserved a R rating this one is it. It's full of things that make you cringe, and not in the gross way. It's just dirty. But I admit to enjoying it. Had lunch with Jessica at a pretty decent BBQ place but it's not NC BBQ. Now Im here typing for you. I will go watch Lost tonight, and celebrate Kill the Indians day tommorow. Have fun giving thanks.

"they have a great capacity for good"

i'm in love with the superman returns teaser trailer. Marlon Brando voice over is awesome. I don't even like superman in the comics, he's so one dimensional. But the trailer all 30 seconds of it is so symbolic of movie making that it has me more excited for this film than any other next year. And that is just crazy to me. How am i excited about a superhero i find boring in the comics? one name. Bryan Signer. You can already tell from the look of this film what he is doing, it looks fabulous and just as he did x-men i think were going to have a good time at the movies next summer, Speaking of x-men. I'm horrified about X3. X2 was sooo good and was ripe for a followup but im afraid were going to get utter crap out of Bret Wagner as director. I hope i am so wrong. I really do. but we will see. Anyway im off to watch the trailer for a 10th time. Hey at 30 seconds thats only 5 minutes of my life. I'm not that big of a geek. Maybe.

good night and good luck

Good Night and Good Luck, a film by George Clooney. Very nicely done film about edward r. murrow's battle with Mccarthy and fighting the government's witchhunt for communists. David Straithan plays Murrow almost perfectly and the surrounding cast including Robert Downey jr. all turn in fine performances. Very good political film which Americans should watch closely during this hunt the terrosit age we live in. Also remeber that CBS pulled the plug on Murrow for being too political for the sponsors. Well we all know sponsors hold more power now so who exactly is paying for your news now? And how does that affect the content. Good Night and Good Luck America. We need it.

stuff.

im surrounded by stuff. These things I do not need. These books I will never read again, these cds i will never play again, dvds that look nice in their shiny package but do i have the hours left to watch them again? It's part nostalgia, part consumerism, but we keep these things on our shelves, and then they do what? they sit there looking pretty, or in my case often tacky. I can always justify it to myself that thanks to ebay i can always sell them later when they dont look so pretty to me anymore. In fact half of the money for the next cd lucky creature is putting out came from ebay sales such as this. I do like my stuff, and i guess that's all that matters. but at the end of the day it is just stuff. funny how affected we are by such unalive pieces of plastic. funny and kinda sad.


Current Fave, Warren Ellis's email mailing list Bad Signal. &
Mark Schwaber "The Killing Card" cd Out Soon!

mark schwaber, the killing card.

just opened my mail and played from start to finish the new album by Mark Schwaber that lucky creature is going to split release with Pigeon records here shortly. This may be the best sounding, completely thought out record I have ever had the privelige of doing anything with. It is going to melt some minds out there. Beautiful tunes and some really inspired rock songs as well. This cd is what indie rock should be, catchy, yet laid back and not overly in your face. The lyrics are great and Mark does reign in some of the f bombs from his debut cd "two years and thirty minutes." Some but not all. And the 16 songs on this disc range from full band pieces to soft somber guitar entrees. Mark Schwaber should be heard by everyone. So I will be happy to mail you your cd when it hits, in a beautiful digipack case! Shortly, oh so shortly.

iowa city nights.

went for a walk last night. here's the city i am now residing in. enjoy.
now reading Boondocks Public Enemy # 2
now playing, mishief makers n64
now listening, roots of orchis cd

On a road in Iowa.

We drove out to this little town west liberty, ia in the middle of nowhere. You could smell the cows as you ziped through the cornfields on the little two lane highway. Arriving on main street usa it was nice to see our destination, the new strand theatre, all lit up in neon, where electricity shouldn't even exist. This town with it's two little streets has a life, a pulse, that many similar towns abandonded long ago. There is a downtown grocery store, a chinese restaurant and a spanish fish resturaunt. We ate a cookie at the Mexican Bakery, next to a puppet theatre. It was only fifty cents and very good. The movie we came to see, wallace and gromit was only 3.50 and popcorn and soda a total of 2.35. It was a step back in time. The wide brick streets, undisturbed by the massive SUV's that crowd our cities. As we were waiting for the movie to begin I thought about the owners of the theatre and how they must love what they do. They can't possibly be making money out there, but they are making dreams. And not just theirs. I can't imagine the kid, growing up in such an isolated place, having the joy of a new movie every week, all in walking distance of his house. It's unheard of in this day of highways and empty downtowns. This must be what America is supposed to be. But was it ever really? Were we ever this content?

another day, another

hey came home late last night after playing pool with some co workers, and woke up to run out to the body shop to get an ouchie estimate for car repair. Had a wonderful lunch eating shitwoole? a weird sandwhich with fries inside it. Jessica had a fiber pancake which was a pancake with nuts on top and strawberries. yummy. my clothes are in the dryer right now. I checked out constatine and go tigers! on dvd at the libary along with the latest boondocks collection. Just read infinite crisis # 2 and im not going to review it, so there! Finished promise of the witch king by r.a. salvatore the other day, it is good stuff. going to watch lost tonight, go to bed and get up and go back to work on thursday. Another day, another........

my battle with the naturalists.

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could, some blunders and absurdities have crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)"

uh, o.k. sure ralph. I do like to sleep. But I do like my memories even my blunders. I don't think they encumber me at all, they make me better, and old nonsense is once again new if you want it to be and one man's nonsense is anothers greatest creation. I'll keep my days the way im already living them. With one foot going forward and another one holding on to the past.

these streets.

something about city streets, city sidewalks makes me want to explore. It's funny I can walk for tens of miles in a city, really not going anywhere and not even think about the feeling in my legs, but if you get me out on a nature trail or hike, I'm usually ready to quit before i begin. What does that say about me? God it can't be good, i just like to wander i guess, hopping into random buildings to see who and what is there. I like the feeling of brick, the smells of exhaust and the sounds of electricity humming around me. I like the rows of houses and the chain restaurants competing for my milkshake money. I guess if I'm out there walking those streets, for all our faults, I can see our progress.

saw the movie junebug last night and if you are like me and from NC you have to see this. there are so many things in that movie that for better or mostly worse are pure NC at the heart. its mostly things i don't miss but i sure could use a cheerwine right about now, but alas it's regional.

people who bought this also bought.

two if by sea records one of the fine distros carrying the cd comp we are so happy to have released says customers who have bought this cd also boughtcds by ultimate fakebook, madelene ferguson, elora danan, unicorns, arab on radar, jawbreaker, one line drawing, and ugly casanova, as well as the jade tree comps location is everything. Don't know what that says about the comp, but it is pretty diverse and good company to be with. Id like to meet those people who bought those great cds.

linotype printing lessons, materlistic feelings.

today i had chinese buffet for lunch and of course i will not need a dinner. After lunch I spent four hours learning how to use a linotype printing machine. It's a really big machine with all kinds of gears and plates and motors and really makes you feel like your in the 1920's. I now have these neat metal slugs that say lucky creature on them now for use in a printing press and i can use a linotype machine although i doubt i would be able to fix anything if it went wrong, which happens alot with old machinery. I can't imagine what making a newspaper must of been like not so long ago.

I also have been spending way too much money lately with the car and all kinds of other stuff needing fixing, but yet today i bought a used nintendo 64 with superman 64, described to me by the sales clerk as the Worst video game ever made.
So naturally i had to have it. Also just got the latest sigur ros takk and am listening to it as i type. And then as usual were the comics,


Convesations # 2 By jeffrey brown and james kolchaka, a must have for artists as i sure you people have always pondered these questions. For those like myself with no artistic talent, it is a fun enjoyable read.

House of M # 8 The finale to Brian Michael Bendis saga hits and if Marvel doesnt erase the events this will send shockwaves through the marvel U. I say overall the series gets a b from me as a few issues were pretty much too slow and pointless.
ok. have a great day! don't spend as much as i am!

my space is a nightmare

o.k. so i like to be productive when im on the computer. Ive resisted myspace because of this. But now im on it and i cannot stop. I hate you my space. I hate what you have already done with my free time! be my friend
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