Luminescent You

Amping up the blogging

2012-01-27T10:12:00.001-05:00

I have neglected this blog far too long. I'm going to make a concerted effort to blog much more in 2012, yo. Also going to be using "yo" a lot more as well, yo.

Cemetery Dance Magazine

2011-10-04T11:20:00.002-04:00

You like horror? Check out:
http://www.cemeterydance.com/

I've been spending quite a bit of time in the forum the past few months. It's been a heck of a lot of fun.

Slackness Abounds

2011-10-04T11:15:00.002-04:00

I had no idea how neglected this blog was. I need to update this sucker.

Kissing You In Art Deco Light

2011-04-27T14:48:00.002-04:00

It's burned in bright,
Kissing you in art deco light.
A wonderful night.

Quote

2010-07-15T15:54:00.001-04:00

"Lies and betrayals, fruit covered nails
Electricity and lust"
- Pavement

Neglect

2010-07-02T09:40:00.001-04:00

Two months without a post. I didn't have anything to say, I suppose. How depressing.

Bad News - Masturbike

2010-04-27T15:55:00.000-04:00

Bad News - Masturbike

Alex Chilton RIP

2010-03-18T08:21:00.002-04:00

"Don't like to see your face
Don't want to hear you talk at all
I could be with Ann
But I'd just get bored
Can't even bring myself to call."
-Life Is White

Picks

2010-02-01T09:42:00.001-05:00

TV:
Mad Men

Books:
Catch-22

Movies:
Moon

Happy Birthday, Anton Chekhov!

2010-01-29T09:56:00.002-05:00

Anton Chekhov, the Russian writer and physician, was born today in the year 1860.

Picks

2010-01-04T23:15:00.001-05:00

TV:
Sons of Anarchy
Breaking Bad

Movies:
Up
9
Fanboys
Killshot

Books:
Preacher
Juliet, Naked

Quote:
"No, Paul."
-John Lennon

Last post of 2009?

2009-12-30T17:18:00.002-05:00

There goes 2009.
Break its spine!
Break its spine!

Here comes 2010.
Bring it in!
Bring it in!

The old year's almost done.
The new year's nearly begun.

Happy New Year to everyone!

For the Family Circus fan out there

2009-11-16T23:33:00.002-05:00

Halloween Night

2009-10-29T21:52:00.002-04:00

Goblins and ghosts
Halloween toasts
Children dressed up for scares

Spirits that float
No head over coat
Foolhardy boys taking dares

Tricks and/or treats
Dastardly feats
House to house with candy in tow

Don't stay out late
Don't try to tempt fate
Or the Gashlycrumb Tinies may show

Halloween night
If it's done right
Will come off without a care

Count the kids right
At the end of the night
To ensure that they are all there

If you come up short
Then make a report
For all the good it won't do

Call out the hounds
But they'll never be found
For the monsters all want treats, too

I've had enough!

2009-10-21T16:17:00.001-04:00

The past tense of the verb "lead" is "led" not "lead".

Let's never speak of this again.

Band Names

2009-10-09T15:15:00.002-04:00

The Ubiquitous Headband
Not a Jackleg To Stand On
Ben Gibbard's Holy War
The Flaming Elevators
Hotly Flying Ferns of Death

Feel free to use these, just thank me in the liner notes to your albums and at every show you play.

Picks

2009-10-01T21:42:00.003-04:00

Movies:
The Orphanage
Wonder Boys

Books:
Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere

Quote:
"Lay on Macduff
and damned be him that first cries
Hold! Enough!"
- Willie S.

Picks

2009-09-11T11:03:00.005-04:00

Books:
Ben Sisario - Doolittle (this was an interesting read, although lacking a KIm Deal interview, therefore incomplete)

Movies:
The Prestige

TV:
Defying Gravity
Vampire Diaries (so far it's good, would be better without the diary stuff)

Picks

2009-09-01T23:50:00.003-04:00

Books:
Michael T. Fournier - Double Nickels On the Dime (I'm a big Minutemen fan and still learned some things by reading this book)
Charlaine Harris - Dead and Gone

Movies:
Rachel Getting Married
The Hangover
Wall-E (Rhino is fully awesome)
Sunshine Cleaning (while I thought it was a good movie, it was billed as a comedy which it was most definitely not)

On this day in history

2009-08-28T15:32:00.003-04:00

1861 - Capture of Cape Hatteras

1913 - Robertson Davies is born.

1937 - Toyota Motors incorporates.

2009 - I had lunch.

Picks

2009-08-24T16:30:00.003-04:00

Movies:
Bolt
Quantum of Solace
Memento
Mr. Brooks
Gigantic - This destroyed and restored my faith in humanity.

Books:
Marc Woolworth - Bee Thousand (33 1/3 series)

Re-reads:
Neil Gaiman & Andy Kubert - 1602

Quote:
"I had always thought of Del Shannon as being right down there with Pat Boone.

Why?

Because I didn't know what the fuck I was talking about."
- Joe Pernice

Picks

2009-08-20T15:53:00.002-04:00

Movies:
I Love You, Man

Rereads:
Orson Scott Card - First Meetings
Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Saturday wisdom

2009-08-15T18:00:00.001-04:00

Saturday's alright for fighting.

A roller skating jam called "Saturdays".

Saturday in the park.

S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y night!

A Devout Wish

2009-07-29T20:59:00.002-04:00

I breathed in.
I couldn’t get enough air.
I coughed through the hitch in my throat.

I tried again,
A deep breath that didn’t satisfy.
I hacked in rhythm to a steel drum beat.

A third time still.
I, my lungs to bursting, filled.
It came rushing out in an ineffectual breeze.

The birthday candles stayed lit.

-A poem dedicated to all those of my friends and family who have a birthday in July.

Picks

2009-07-29T20:54:00.002-04:00

Books:
Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Movies:
Let The Right One In

TV
Torchwood: Children of Earth (best Torchwood series ever)

Picks

2009-07-22T16:23:00.004-04:00

Books:

Scarlett Thomas - The End of Mr. Y
Sherman Alexie - The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

TV:

True Blood season 2
Torchwood: Children of Earth (brilliant day one and two)

10 Best and 5 Worst comic book movies

2009-07-21T23:42:00.003-04:00

Best:

1 - The Dark Knight
2 - A History of Violence
3 - Sin City
4 - X-Men 2
5 - 300
6 - Watchmen
7 - Batman Begins
8 - Superman II
9 - Spiderman 2
10 - Iron Man

Worst:

1 - League of Extraodinary Gentlemen
2 - Batman & Robin
3 - Elektra
4 - Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer
5 - Superman III

Picks

2009-07-15T23:22:00.004-04:00

Books:

Brian Wood & Ryan Kelly - Local
Gerard Way & Gabriel Ba - The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite
Hannah Berry - Britten And Brulightly
Steve Niles & Berni Wrightson - Dead, She Said
David & Dan Lapham - Young Liars: Daydream Believer

TV:

Caprica pilot
Warehouse 13
Eureka final half season

Quote:

"International she goes out
Fresh from the sweat factory
I’m in love tonight
Perhaps we’ll be best friends for the week"
-Robert Pollard (Tight Globes)

Picks

2009-06-29T22:21:00.003-04:00

Music:
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Idlewild - Post Electric Blues
Polaris - The Adventures of Pete and Pete Soundtrack

Movies:
The Squid and The Whale
Burn After Reading

Quote:
"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."
Arthur Schopenhauer

Comic:
Cat and Girl that eerily reminds me too much of myself

Picks

2009-05-30T11:53:00.003-04:00

Books:

Chuck Pahlaniuk - Pygmy
Brian Azzarello/Lee Bermejo - Joker

Lost Flashbacks/Flash Forwards Guide Season 5

2009-05-27T17:18:00.004-04:00

For this season, I decided to link the flashback comments thematically, so they all are either song titles or lyrics:

-1 Six (We're not going back!)
-2 The Treacherous Three (Shot with his own gun!)
-3 Desmond (We're a happy family! Me, Mom and Daddy!)
-4 Six (I don't want to go back empty-handed.)
-5 Six (Baby, don't you want to go?)
-6 Six (I can't believe it!)
-7 Locke (Recruiting soldiers)
-8 Sawyer (New sheriff in town.)
-9 Everyone (One of us! We accept you! One of us!)
-10 Sayid (Why can't we be friends?)
-11 Kate (Girl power!)
-12 Ben (Mrs. Brown, you've got a lovely daughter.)
-13 Miles (Father of mine)
-14 Daniel (Cry-y-in' over you!)
-15 No one (Wayback Machine Brain Freeze)
-16 Jacob (Touching me, touching you)

The person to identify all the artists in the comments gets the most perfect little no-prize that you'll never see.

Links to the past seasons flashback guides:
Lost Flashbacks/Flash Forwards Guide Season 4
Lost Flashbacks Guide Seasons 1-3

Picks

2009-05-26T23:41:00.003-04:00

Movies:

Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Overnight (This is really funny! Even though it's not a comedy.)

Books:

Steven T. Seagle/Teddy Kristiansen - It's a Bird
Neil Gaiman/John Romita Jr. - Eternals
Gail Simone - Welcome to Tranquility

TV:
nothing on TV now

Star Trek

2009-05-11T23:42:00.001-04:00

The new Star Trek movie is so cool! The best one since Khan. If Shatner had been in it, it would have been the best ever!

Picks

2009-05-04T16:08:00.002-04:00

Books:
Mark Millar & Peter Gross - American Jesus: The Chosen
Steve Niles & Ben Templesmith - 30 Days of Night: Dark Days

Music:
Ken Will Morton - King of Coming Around

Uncommon People

2009-04-23T22:40:00.002-04:00

Jacques Cousteau and Shazam
Whipped out their guns. BLAMITY! BLAM!
I wonder if God's ever said GODDAMN!
I knew the Pharoahs but Sam was a sham.

last 5 books read

2009-04-23T21:51:00.002-04:00

J. D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
Garth Ennis & Darick Robertson - The Boys: Good For the Soul
Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard & Cliff Rathburn - The Walking Dead: Here We Remain
Robert Heinlein - Glory Road
Dash Shaw - Bottomless Belly Button

Last 5 decisions made

2009-04-23T21:49:00.001-04:00

1. Blog this.
2. Sporcle or blog.
3. Log off facebook.
4. Stepped in office.
5. Turned right.

Picks

2009-04-15T16:06:00.002-04:00

Music:
Score! 20 years of Merge: The Covers Album

Picks

2009-04-07T21:10:00.003-04:00

Movies:
Role Models

Books:
Nick Bertozzi - The Salon

Music:
The Jam At The BBC

National Holiday

2009-04-01T16:43:00.000-04:00

Happy April Fools Day! From one fool to all of you!

Lost Flashbacks/Flashforwards Guide Season 4

2009-03-30T20:14:00.008-04:00

For Seasons 1-3 see here:
Lost Flashbacks Guide Part 1

- 1 Hurley (I ate the Oceanic Six!)
- 2 Nuggets (We already get back stories?)
- 3 Sayid (Meet the new boss.)
- 4 Kate (None that I know of.)
- 5 Desmond (Time, time, time. See what's become of me.)
- 6 Juliet (Bikini Girls With Machine Guns)
- 7 Sun/Jin (Hurley suited up! Panda Bear?)
- 8 Michael (The singer for AC/DC? No, that's Brian Johnson.)
- 9 Ben (Time/space travelling MOFO!)
- 10 Jack/Kate (Is that you?)
- 11 John (Reading is fundamental.)
- 12 & 13 The Six (It's a c-o-n-spiracy.)

Picks

2009-03-11T22:48:00.002-04:00

Song I've been playing over and over the last two weeks:
Low "California"

Books:
Martin Millar - The Lonely Werewolf Girl
Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely - All Star Superman Vol. 1

Movies:
Watchmen
Coraline

TV:
Lost (the best season ever)
Heroes (not fully back to form but much better than the fall)
and of course
Battlestar Galactica

Garfield Minus Garfield

2009-02-11T22:46:00.002-05:00

This makes me makes me feel better about my life and really creeps me out from time to time.

Garfield Minus Garfield

A really good example of one that does both:

Picks

2009-01-26T23:12:00.002-05:00

Movies:
Slumdog Millionaire
Lars and The Real Girl

Music:
Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal

Alejandro Escovedo at the Music Farm

2009-01-24T10:44:00.003-05:00

What a great show!

Alejandro played mostly songs from his new album "Real Animal" including a song written for Iggy Pop. He also dedicated songs to Ron Asheton and Joe Strummer and their influence was definitely felt in the songs he played, especially "Chelsea Hotel '78".

His new album is a look back at his career with bands like the Nuns, True Believers and Rank And File.

The sound was great and all around me people were having a great time. If you get the chance to see him, do so.

Picks

2009-01-20T18:24:00.002-05:00

Songs of the week:
Bon Iver - Skinny Love
Flight of the Conchords - Bowie "Bowie's in spaaaaccceee."

Books:
Marjane Satrapi - Persepolis
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange

Event of the Year(so far):
President Obama's inauguration

2008

2008-12-31T12:26:00.002-05:00

Last day of 2008. It's been a wonderful year in some ways, a horrible year in others. Let's hope 2009 is fuckin' well better in those other ways.

Good things to keep in mind for 2009:

1) May should be a great month for movies.
2) After February the manufactured corporate holidays end for a good long while. Well, okay after Easter then.
3) July is a great month for birthdays.
4) Perhaps the new government can make some steps to repair the damage of the last eight years.
5) And the world is not scheduled to end until 2012, so we don't have to start worrying about that for a couple more years.

Top 10 Albums of 2008

2008-12-30T14:14:00.004-05:00

1. Centro-matic/South San Gabriel "Dual Hawks"
Double albums are hard to pull off. Count how many truly great double albums come to mind. Not that many, right? This is
the best double album I've heard in a long long time.

2. Okkervil River "Stand Ins"
The companion piece to their last album "The Stage Names". They should have been released together and this would have been the best double album I've heard in a long long time.

3. Jenny Lewis "Acid Tongue"
Last time she was funneled through folk and country, this time it's soul, r & b and gospel and Gawd-o-mighty it's good.

4. Death Cab for Cutie "Narrow Stairs"
Their best album as far as I'm concerned. They tend to get too precious at times, but they avoid that almost completely on this one.

5. Amanda Palmer "Who Killed Amanda Palmer?"
Listen to "Leeds United", a mix of piano and cabaret singing and you will most likely be hooked. She also gets the prize for album title of the year, hell, the decade.

6. Destroyer "Trouble In Dreams"
I was a huge Destroyer fan after "This Night" came out, but my interest waned over the subsequent albums. This to me is a big return to form.

7. Hello Saferide "More Modern Short Stories From..."
Hello Saferide. I first discovered them on Cable and Tweed's blog. Annika has a great voice and the lyrics are really something special. I love it when she sings "You Stupid Fuck" three times in a row.

8. Black Mountain "In the Future"
After their first LP, I was looking forward to this one immensely and it was not a disappointment.

9. Shearwater "Rook"
Another beautiful record from this band led by Jonathan Meiburg who used to be part of Okkervil River.

10. Elvis Costello "Momofuku"
The best Elvis alive. He rarely has a clunker and this album definitely does not clunk.

Honorable Mentions:
Vampire Weekend “s/t”
Mudcrutch “s/t”
Conor Oberst “s/t”
Fleet Foxes “s/t”
Foxboro Hot Tubs “Stop Drop and Roll”
British Sea Power "Do You Like Rock Music?"

Other Awards:
Best album title: Amanda Palmer "Who Killed Amanda Palmer?"
Best Double Album in years: Centro-matic/South San Gabriel "Dual Hawks"
Best Album Cover: Shearwater "Rook"

Best of What I've Seen, Read or Watched This Year

2008-12-30T10:52:00.005-05:00

Movies:

The Future Is Unwritten
Michael Clayton
The Proposition
30 Days of Night
Iron Man
Dark Knight
No Country For Old Men
Tropic Thunder
Step Brothers
Persepolis

Books:

Gilbert Hernandez - Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories
Jamie Hernandez - Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories
Alan Moore & J. H. Williams III - Promethea book 1
Nicola Barker - Darkmans
Craig Thompson - Goodbye, Chunky Rice
Craig Thompson - Blankets
Elmore Leonard - Swag
Elmore Leonard - Mr. Paradise
Donald Westlake - What's So Funny?
Mark Waid - Superman: Birthright
Brian Wood - DMZ book 1
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five

TV:

True Blood
Fringe
Dexter
Californication
Life
Torchwood
Dr. Who

Webcomics:

Girls With Slingshots
Cat And Girl
Bears With Nuts
The Abominable Charles Christopher
Freak Angels
Octopus Pie
Kukuburi
Something Positive
Thingpart!

Characters:

Luba from Palomar
Hopey from Locas
Grace from Promethea
Lafayette from True Blood
Tidwell from Life
Lew Ashby from Californication
John from Torchwood
Tilda Swinton's character from Michael Clayton
John Travolta looking governer, Blagojevich, from Illinois

Amanda Palmer - Leeds United video

2008-12-04T00:05:00.003-05:00

Amanda Palmer - Leeds United

Picks

2008-12-03T17:03:00.002-05:00

Movies:

The Future is Unwritten
The Slaughter Rule

Books:

Houdini: The Handcuff King by Jason Lutes & Nick Bertozzi

Quotes:

"Watch where you step." - Unknown or myself

Picks

2008-11-08T12:03:00.002-05:00

Books:
Gilbert Hernandez - Palomar:The Heartbreak Soup Stories

Movies:
Michael Clayton

Song of the Week:
"A Good Flying Bird" Guided By Voices

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

2008-10-31T10:06:00.000-04:00

Y is for Yorick whose head was knocked in

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin

Picks

2008-10-29T20:55:00.002-04:00

Books:
Jaime Hernandez - Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories
Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee - Absolute Batman Hush (incredible artwork)

TV:
True Blood

Music:
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue

Worst recent commercials

2008-10-29T20:50:00.003-04:00

Those smarmy Cadillac commercials:
"Does it return the favor?"
"Oh have I said too much?" I'd really like to punch that guy in the face, whoever he is.

The Microsoft "I am a PC" answer commercials to the Apple "I'm Mac, I'm a PC" commercials.

All the credit card debt consolidation commercials.

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

2008-10-29T10:05:00.000-04:00

W is for Winnie embedded in ice

X is for Xerxes devoured by mice

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

2008-10-27T10:04:00.000-04:00

U is for Una who slipped down a drain

V is for Victor squashed under a train

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

2008-10-25T10:02:00.000-04:00

S is for Susan who perished of fits

T is for Titus who flew into bits

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

2008-10-23T10:02:00.000-04:00

Q is for Quentin who sank in a mire

R is for Rhoda consumed by a fire

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

2008-10-21T10:00:00.000-04:00

O is for Olive run through with an awl

P is for Prue trampled flat in a brawl

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

2008-10-19T09:59:00.000-04:00

M is for Maud who was swept out to sea

N is for Neville who died of ennui

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

2008-10-17T09:55:00.000-04:00

K is for Kate who was struck with an axe

L is for Leo who swallowed some tacks

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

2008-10-15T09:54:00.000-04:00

I is for Ida who drowned in a lake

J is for James who took lye by mistake

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

2008-10-13T09:53:00.000-04:00

G is for George smothered under a rug

H is for Hector done in by a thug

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

2008-10-11T09:51:00.000-04:00

E is for Ernest who choked on a peach

F is for Fanny sucked dry by a leech

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

2008-10-09T09:40:00.003-04:00

C is for Clara who wasted away

D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

2008-10-07T19:07:00.003-04:00

I've decided to post all the couplets from Edward Gorey's The Gashlycrumb Tinies in a celebration of creepiness. I'll post another one every couple of days on the way to Halloween.

Here's the first one:

A is for Amy who fell down the stairs

B is for Basil assaulted by bears

Picks

2008-09-24T17:59:00.003-04:00

TV:
Fringe
True Blood

Books:
Dark Tower: Treachery

Starting reading today:
Matthew Lewis The Monk

We Don't Need No Stinking Pic-A-Nic Basket!

2008-09-15T23:47:00.003-04:00

Doctor Who Haikus

2008-08-21T21:00:00.000-04:00

Sonic screwdriver
Fly me off in the Tardis
Squareness gun, what’s that?

Rose Tyler returns
The fuck is Sarah Jane Smith?
Torchwood fires

Rachel Haiku

2008-07-21T21:06:00.001-04:00

Tattoo’s wild colors
Muted by your smile so bright
Would your heart was mine.

Picks

2008-06-23T19:35:00.005-04:00

Books:
Nicola Barker - Darkmans
Craig Thompson - Goodbye, Chunky Rice
Neil Gaiman - Absolute Sandman Volume 1

Music:
Centro-matic/South San Gabriel - Dual Hawks

TV:
Firefly

Ladyhawk and Neva Dinova at Charleston Pour House

2008-05-17T12:19:00.004-04:00

Thursday, March 15th
The Pour House
Charleston, SC

This was a great show before a sparse but enthusiastic crowd. The lack of numbers didn't seem to matter to either band, as they both played great enervated sets as if the place was filled stage to bar. If they come to a venue near you, go to the show. You will not be disappointed.

Hear some songs:
Ladyhawk

Neva Dinova

thought

2008-05-12T22:29:00.000-04:00

tempus fugit

Desert Tongues

2008-04-30T19:28:00.000-04:00

I flew in from Bonneville.
It was far too salty and flat for my tastes.
I thought I might find you out there racing.

I walked out of the Gobi.
Sand and wind aren’t my cup of tea.
I spent 3 long years searching for your bones.

I left the Sahara.
My skin was getting leathery and the sand got in my radio.
I bribed nomad after nomad, but no news of you though.

Photograph

2008-04-30T19:27:00.000-04:00

Emulsion burned in
Long enough to burnish skin
To furnish your sin.

We Both Thought You Were Beautiful

2008-04-30T19:26:00.000-04:00

My love for you would have been strong and dutiful,
But I see that the only thing we had in common
Was that we both thought you were beautiful.

You Are Not Real

2008-04-30T19:15:00.002-04:00

“Hey, you can’t be looking at something like that in here. These are real people walking around with real sensibilities and fears, hungers and desires. They aren’t fictional characters like you.
“With your ball cap and your talking way too loud on your two-way phone planning three-way sex. Your shaved, stubbled head, your braying laugh.
“These people are blocked with solidity. They are unerringly corporeal. They have substance. They are real.
“They are not like you.
“You’re a caricature, a cartoon hound pacing back and forth from computer to telephone inscribing an ever-widening path in the already worn carpet.”

Proud bumper sticker

2008-04-16T17:36:00.003-04:00

I saw a bumper sticker today that read, "PROUDLY SERVED IN THE AIR FORCE 1973 - 1978".

It inspired me to create this one in order to display my pride.

Picks

2008-04-01T00:00:00.001-04:00

Books:

Craig Thompson - Blankets
Elmore Leonard - Swag

Movies:

The Proposition
30 Days of Night

Free Comic Book Day coming soon

2008-03-12T11:53:00.013-04:00

Record Store Day coming soon

2008-03-12T11:49:00.008-04:00

Quotes

2008-02-18T23:01:00.001-05:00

"Who will help the widow's son?"

-Alan Moore
-From Hell

Quotes

2008-01-30T21:20:00.000-05:00

"I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embace the silence."

-Neil Gaiman
-Sandman: Endless Nights

Picks

2008-01-16T19:22:00.000-05:00

Books:

Mark Millar and J.G. Jones - Wanted
Nail Gaiman - Sandman: Worlds' End
Neil Gaiman - Sandman: The Kindly Ones

TV:

Sarah Connor Chronicles (so far!)
***update*** think again on the Sarah Connor Chronicles- the third episode- bleaaggh!

"Her Face" haiku

2008-01-07T20:41:00.000-05:00

Black hair frames her face
Her wondrous face glows even
In harsh fluorescents

Woman from Sticky Buns Throwdown

2008-01-07T20:34:00.000-05:00

I was watching an episode of "Throwdown with Bobby Flay". It was the sticky bun episode and the challenged was explaining the difference between her and Bobby's sticky buns. The challenged was a Harvard alumni and a lot of the crowd were Harvard affiliated. So as she explains the difference, a woman from the crowd chimes in with "That's how they do it at Yale!", and I was so impressed with how cute she was that I wrote her this haiku:

Spectacled goddess
“That’s how they do it at Yale!”
Sung from the sidelines

Free Okkervil River

2007-12-11T22:34:00.000-05:00

Free Okkervil River mixtape album on their site.

www.okkervilriver.com

WOOO-HOOO!

get it.

Knife Collectors Show

2007-10-30T18:54:00.000-04:00

Drunk guy selling 161 knives for 140 dollars.
A different assistant on every show.
He’s drunkenly flicking the knives open.

Picks

2007-10-27T14:29:00.000-04:00

Books:
Jay Faerber & Mahmud Asrar - Dynamo 5 Vol. 1
Garth Ennis & Jacen Burrows - Chronicles of Wormwood

Music:
The Canadians - A Sky With No Stars
How I Became the Bomb - Let's Go

TV:
Torchwood (Eve Myles is incredibly hot!)

Movies:
Dog Soldiers

Picks

2007-10-12T16:12:00.000-04:00

Stories:
Philip K. Dick "Second Variety"

TV:
Dexter
Life
Pushing Daisies

Trend:
Star Trek actors appearing on Heroes. Bring on Spock as Sylar's dad or granddad already.

Music:
Black Mountain

Fear Haiku

2007-09-25T19:13:00.000-04:00

Shadows on the page
I’m struck dumb by your rage, I
Can’t even see you.

Picks

2007-09-21T16:51:00.000-04:00

Songs:
Babe the Blue Ox "Hazmats"
Centro-matic "Daggers Sharp Enough"

Stories:
Judy Budnitz "Visiting Hours"
Philip K. Dick "Fair Game"

Books:
Grant Morrison "The Invisibles Vol. 1: Say You Want a Revolution"
Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata "Deathnote"

Movies:
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Leah Gets Educational

2007-09-18T19:11:00.002-04:00

Uncle Bob Drinking Beer

2007-09-18T19:09:00.001-04:00

Cold

2007-09-11T20:56:00.000-04:00

Her under the bright
Lights of the photographers’ lies
Reflecting off the snow.

The Writer's Lament

2007-09-05T22:53:00.000-04:00

He soon perceived, however, that the battles which Sir Miles and the rest had waged against armed knights to win a kingdom, were not half so arduous as this which he now undertook to win immortality against the English language. Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed good; read and it seemed vile; corrected and tore up; cut out; put in; was in ecstasy; in despair; had his good nights and bad mornings; snatched at ideas and lost them; saw his book plain before him and it vanished; acted his people’s parts as he ate; mouthed them as he walked; now cried; now laughed; vacillated between this style and that; now preferred the heroic and pompous; next the plain and simple; now the vales of Tempe; then the fields of Kent or Cornwall; and could not decide whether he was the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

Virginia Woolf
Orlando: A Biography

Picks

2007-08-26T13:11:00.000-04:00

Books:
Brian Azzarello & Eduardo Risso - 100 Bullets: Hang Up on the Hang Low
Robert Kirkman & Tony Moore - The Walking Dead: Days Gone Bye

TV:
Jekyll
Doctor Who (Human Nature episode)

Haiku Haiku Five Seven Five

2007-08-15T21:06:00.000-04:00

Haiku is hard to write
Restricting, limiting sounds
To five, seven, five

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2007-08-12T19:56:00.001-04:00

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