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The once and future KingEXIST AS A MIXTURE OF SEXINESS AND DANGER. that is all. |
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| Rock N' Roll is more than a musical style. It is an ideal, a set of morals, even anti-morals, if you will. Rock N' Roll is the recipe to all that is awesome, and ain't nobody cooks the dish like King Rockwell cooks it, and he's been a-stormin' in the kitchen tonight. So pull up a chair and choose a spot at the table, sweet thing, dinner is served. For a tag index, try http://aliasjack.livejournal.com/ta |
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| Jul. 8th, 2009 @ 04:01 pm some bullshit | |||
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Packing a little early, just clearing my bookshelf. Something occurs to me. The DVDs I've purchased in the last seven months (since my last move) total in four. They're Venture Brothers Season Three, The Dark Knight, Anatomy of a Murder, and Dirty Harry. The comic books, on the other hand, hell just the trades since my two stacks of floppies were mostly nonexistent seven months ago when I never bought new comics, total in twenty-four! I mean, there's the Super Dictionary, The Great Outdoor Fight, Red Rocket 7, Zot!, The Atomics, Mister Miracle, Spider-Man: Reign, a Love and Rockets collection, the first volumes of 52, Gotham Central, Madman Atomic Comics and Popgun, then seven Bird of Prey trades (including a Nightwing one that ties in), two for Zero Girl, and three for the Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League (another comes out today but due to Kroger messing around with my paycheck i can't get it yet). Granted, the ratios may be higher, but compared to my DVD collection, my comics are just trying to catch up. And at least now they're not mostly Marvel. | |||
| Jul. 3rd, 2009 @ 12:50 pm | |||
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| On a different topic, regarding the earlier post featuring The Question and a Robot Shark, I've been doing a series on the history of Vic Sage in comics over at scans_daily, would anyone be interested in having me cross-post them over here? | |||
| Jul. 3rd, 2009 @ 12:44 pm | |||
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Continuing the topic of the last post, a change that would be much more jarring is if I went back and translated all of James' dialogue. I've always felt a bit lazy for that one, and want to start with the new pages, but then I guess consistency isn't exactly one of WGMD's stronger points. If I ever did a printed version, though... | |||
| Jul. 2nd, 2009 @ 02:39 pm Obvious, with hindsight | |||
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Now that I'm halfway through 23 myself, I wished I'd made James and Feather a few years older. Decompresses their backstory some, gives them time to be established. I can not imagine someone doing what they do at my age without a little too much suspension of disbelief. Now that I know the kind of styles she'd use, I wish I'd made Feather half Chinese instead of half Japanese. It wouldn't change anything intrinsic to her character, it would only make more sense. Then again, almost none of this is text, it's just in their profiles. I could possibly change their ages and Feather's middle name and no one'd be the wiser, up to a point. | |||
| Jul. 1st, 2009 @ 02:49 am | |||
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| Apr. 30th, 2009 @ 02:51 pm it is done | |||
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On the spinner: Low
Do you have the daring to take ? | |||
| Apr. 21st, 2009 @ 11:57 am | |||
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Goddammit, cigarettes are suddenly fucking expensive. I might have to quit when this carton runs out. And bus fares might go up, too! On a lighter note, Lee Harvey Oswald's ears were huge! | |||
| Apr. 10th, 2009 @ 01:25 am Official title: A Shot In The Dark | |||
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 HOW WILL ALICE HANDLE SEXUAL HARRASSMENT? You have two buttons to help her decide. But which is which? My last game idea from way back, due April 30, 2009. | |||
| Mar. 31st, 2009 @ 11:34 pm | |||
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This isn't a lame April Fool's joke I swear It's page twenty. The rest is just an unfortunate coincidence. I swear to god, though, as soon as this chapter's done, whenever that manages to happen, I'm switching things up in the process to make it easier on me. | |||
| Mar. 19th, 2009 @ 11:58 pm | |||
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| sup guys? | |||
| Mar. 7th, 2009 @ 01:00 am Re: Watchmen (probably completely biased!) | |||
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| Fancy dressing! Now where's my salad? | |||
| Feb. 28th, 2009 @ 02:05 am | |||
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| You know you've read TV Tropes too much when you like to guess what trope any link might lead to before mousing over it to see if you're right. | |||
| Feb. 23rd, 2009 @ 02:23 am it sounded better when i was half-asleep | |||
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An idea for an adventure cartoon: "Teddy and the Rough Riders" President Teddy Roosevelt, with the powerful big stick called "The Trustbuster leads a ragtag team of misfits, including a 10ft tall grizzly bear named "Bully", against the forces of the villainous Captains Of Industry, including "The Oil Baron" John D. Rockefeller, an electric-powered Thomas Edison, J. P. "Moneybags" Morgan, and the affably evil villain with good PR, Andrew Carnegie, who has a steel powersuit. It'd be ridiculous and not really historically accurate, but it would be fun! | |||
| Feb. 22nd, 2009 @ 12:32 am getting to know the tablet, pt 2 | |||
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So, aside from failing to get any program to recognize the pressure sensitivity, and any drawing program to recognize the eraser, I've decided the best way to get used to drawing with the tablet is the same way I got used to drawing with a mouse, by doing finishes on my pencilled drawings. We'll get comfortable with the way this moves, then we'll worry about freehanding. compare to pencils What is my fascination with monsters that have millions of needle-like teeth? Sure they're horrifying and neat-looking, but really annoying to draw off-paper. They came out really badly, but that's why I'm practicing, I guess. I should've picked a different picture, instead of the first one I came across. I'm not even bothering with the headache the back-row would give me. | |||
| Feb. 20th, 2009 @ 10:31 pm | |||
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I got a 6x8 Graphire4 off ebay for $160. It came in a few days ago, but I didn't hear 'em knock (our postman sucks, so he probably didn't even), so I picked it up at the post office today. Bobby also picked up Street Fighter 4 and we were passing the controller off every round through arcade, so I decided to break the tablet in drawing the first guy to beat us.  Yeah, I have a lot of getting used to this thing to do. Also maybe not using Paint would help. | |||
| Feb. 7th, 2009 @ 08:14 pm | |||
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On the spinner: Stevie Wonder
Hey, so who's got a graphics tablet?What kind? What're your experiences with it? I'm thinking about (finally) getting one, but most of what I've ever heard about tablets is the only ones worth bothering with are Wacoms. I've always wanted to know if there's any truth to that or if it's just silly brand loyalty (though apparently they have the market cornered on battery-free styluses), but it's a lot of money to spend on something you're not sure about. And it looks like I might be able to get a good price on an Intuos 2 on eBay. I dunno. User reviews anyone? | |||
| Feb. 1st, 2009 @ 11:23 pm that political quiz and, you guessed it, more Vonnegut | |||
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So first there's this guy ( political bullshit underneath the cut ) Second, back to our regular topic these days, Slaughterhouse-Five made a really good movie. It's funny though, in the book, during the first chapter/preface, Vonnegut mentions his father's observation that none of his books have villains, and how it's due to his time studying Anthropology in college. Thinking about the ones I've read, it really is true; there may be people who fit the role of antagonist, but that's only if you think of them in terms of their relation to the protagonist. All of them are simply human, with all that entails, including diametrically opposed motives. Well, Slaughterhouse-Five goes on to give us the closest thing to an exception, Paul Lazzaro. That he was inspired by a guy Vonnegut knew in the POW camp at Dresden reinforces the possibility that it wasn't necessarily intentional. It's really just a line between being a villain and being a jerk. Winston Niles Rumfoord came close, with a few reprehensible acts, but it's also easy to think his time-displacement has dehumanized his outlook and made him something different, almost like some dubious god figure. It's interesting to think about. Cat's Cradle receives special mention for not even having an antagonist, but I guess that's why the University of Chicago gave Vonnegut a Master's in Anthropology for it. | |||
| Jan. 26th, 2009 @ 03:01 am Breakfast Of Champions: a short review about a movie | |||
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On the spinner: talking about vonnegut AGAIN
Basically there are only two good things I took from it: Vonnegut's cameo as a disgruntled commercial director and Omar Epps' role as Wayne Hoobler (mostly because of all the House I've been watching lately).The rest of it was a mixture of the failings of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy movie (all the plot with none of the humor) and the failings of the V For Vendetta movie (all the plot with none of the meaning). The ending felt tacked on, having a good final message (which might have been from the book, but carried better context) with nothing to really make it stick. Even if I was someone who hadn't and wouldn't read the book, that was something that simply won't fly. Everything before that was like taking the Vonnegut out of it and putting Twin Peaks-esque zaniness in its place. Taking the Vonnegut out of a book as personal as Breakfast Of Champions is A Bad Move. It really isn't a book that lends itself to adaptation, as it was something of a culmination of all the books he'd written before it, with references and characters from previous books coming in for a grand (well, maybe "grand" is the wrong word, since it was purposefully anti-climactic) send-off. This isn't to say the book could never be adapted, the implications in its conclusion apply to fiction in general, not just books, only it requires more care than was taken here, especially since the film's conclusion kind of contradicted the whole point of the book. If Cronenberg could make something somewhat faithful and comprehensible out of Naked Lunch (which, off the top of my head at three in the morning, feels like the best book-to-movie adaptation ever) than someone could've made a worthwhile movie out of Breakfast Of Champions. Unfortunately, from the results we have, that person was not Alan Rudolph. It may just be my bias, but I think if there was one Vonnegut book that lent itself to film adaptation, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater would be it. Eliot deserves better than what this movie gave him. And yeah, I get it. It's an adaptation, so I'm bound to complain about it. You'd think I'd learn I just don't mesh with these things. I'm too biased. Some part of me wants to know the opinion of somebody who isn't familiar with the book going in. I don't think I can really judge these things fairly anymore. | |||
| Jan. 25th, 2009 @ 01:11 am | |||
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Mildly related to the previous post, I've collected three Vonnegut books from used bookstores, his first two and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (the first i read and still my favorite so far) but always lamented not being able to find more, especially his three most popular, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast Of Champions and Slaghterhouse-Five. This is all the fault of me preferring used bookstores because I don't like spending money. Anyway, on my third successive trip to the library this month (because bigger cities mean bigger, cooler libraries) I picked up the third successive book off that short list. Hurray! Sorry, The Ticket That Exploded, you're going back on the shelf for now. Also, 20-30 minute bus trips to and from work have definitely helped conquer my occasional laziness towards reading. Now if only I could do something about my laziness towards drawing and writing and making music and stuff. | |||