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it's raining in my cranium, my head feels like a stadium
2001-10-08 10:43:55
Next projects:
Chili Peppers or soul Asylum, Massive Attack, Indigo Girls.
And that's all I'm sayin'.
Walking into work this morning I passed the row of newspaper vending machines with the headlines blaring out through the plexiglas windows. I just wanted to go home, get in bed, and put a pillow over my head and shut it all out.
But I kept walking and going on with the morning.
I guess that's what we have to do now - just kind of grit our teeth and move on. -
and there's no reply
2001-10-07 17:07:17
I wake up from a 45 minute nap to find that we started bombing Afghanistan just as I fell asleep. Still don't know what to think about that.
Scanning and uploading Bebop movie crap for the fansite.
Speaking of which, I LOVE THIS IMAGE:
http://www.big-big-truck.com/bebop/movie/quietsunset.jpg
(it's a crappy scan - wish I had a de-moire filter option on my scanner)
The sunsets out here look like that now that it's fall and the skies are clearer. I think I'll go to Mount Bonnell with Brett tonight to look out over the lake and get chilly. Maybe bring a thermos of hot cocoa or hot cider... Man, that sounds good...
Watched some music videos (the AWA Pro tape) with some friends from Houston this weekend. I tend to make this assumption that if someone doesn't go to cons or make videos, they won't be interested in them, so I barely ever talk about AMVs outside of the con environment. (I mean hey, I wouldn't want someone to come up and start telling me about their fanfic or about Babylon 5 if I hadn't asked...) Even when people seem interested and ask, I kind of dodge the question.
When people ask me about the art I do, I say "I draw cartoons" and usually leave it at that.
I guess I'm a bit embarrassed to be a fan, and be an active fan at that. It makes me uncomfortable when "normal" people want to know more about that secret side of my life.
Not really secret... I dunno. Well yeah, I guess maybe I do lead a dual life, in a way. There's still a pretty heavy stigma to being into SF or anime or things like that, even with comics moving more into the mainstream.
Fandom is what I turned to for fun in highschool ... art kind of shunted me there - I'd always loved to draw, and anime was such an interesting medium to me.
When I met other people who liked anime, I noticed they didn't hold it against me that I wasn't tan, or blond, or thin, and that they didn't size me up to see whether I was wearing Ralph Lauren or thrift store clothes. They just wanted to enjoy cartoons. At my first con, when I was 17, no one sneered at me for wearing out-of-style, cheap jeans or for not having perfect hair. It was such a liberating feeling.
I don't really know what else to say here so I guess I'll go read the news and find out exactly what's going on.
I know it sounds selfish, but I'm glad Brett's turning 35 soon so he won't be drafted, should a draft be instituted... -
mind you it's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing
2001-10-05 17:15:02
Those street jazz musicians are out again today. Yesterday it was trumpet and Turkish drum, today it's tenor sax, trumpet and Turkish drum.
I want to go drop them a big fat wad of bills but they pack up and leave before I can get out of the building at the end of the day. -
I kept a chain upon my door that would shake the shame of Cain into a blind submission
2001-10-05 15:13:58
Falafel and dolmas for lunch = good.
Tonight some friends are coming into town. I gotta babyproof my apartment, which shouldn't be hard. I don't have anything valuable or sharp in easy reach.
Brett's grilling steaks tonight. I don't know what I'd do without him. Probably starve and wither away from my own bad cooking.
Getting CB manga #2 in the mail soon. Art is kind of off, but the stories are good (they're all written by the script guy who wrote "Brain Scratch".)
Did some more Nekocon art, finished all the color pieces. Still gotta do the B&W staff T-shirt.
Speaking of color artwork... *drooooly drool*
I want these... *weep*
http://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/38709268
Except the one of Jet... How scary would it be to have that hanging on your wall, in a dimly lit room, late at night? An UNWAVERING STARE THAT BORES INTO YOUR BRAIN!!!!! Brrrrrrrrrrrrr.
I don't collect cels, though - too expensive of a hobby... :/
Now manga, you can read repeatedly, you don't need a TV or VCR, and it's way cheap.
I was listening to Gorillaz the other day and "Latin Simone" came on... gaah. I can't listen to that or Pizzicato 5's Lupin remix without shuttling past the intros. >_<
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So the trap's been set and you took the bait / you saw it all come down just a little too late
2001-10-05 09:13:53
Life is so much better when you get enough sleep. I got maybe 5 hours last night and was depressed all day, but today I'm good.
This morning driving into work, I did the whole DJ thing with my CD player, since traffic was slow enough for me to fiddle with the stereo. "Space Lion" from Bebop OST 1, then "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel, then "Learning to Fly" by Pink Floyd, then "Trina Magna" by Blues Traveler. Hey, a 4-song commute, that's not bad.
Trina Magna. FUUUUUUUUCK that song ROCKS so HARD. I so wanted to do my Bebop masters video to that song, but it was one of those cases where the lyrics get in the way. The song's about passing wisdom and knowledge down from generation to generation, so yeah, it wouldn't exactly work.
But ooooo daaaaaaaaaaamn, that last part with the BIG CHOIR and HARMONICA GOING CRAZY and aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAH!!! ::headbangs:: Fucking EPIC. Makes me want to do something crazy involving flying off a cliff in slow motion.
But then I'd die.
Nekocon deadline is kicking my ass. I've spent the past few nights scanning and inking pictures of catgirls. This year's bunch is a lot less fanservicey. Fanservice is fun to draw, but... it bores me after a while.
Yesterday there were 2 musicians playing Turkish drum and jazz trumpet down on the street below my window.
I can't remember what I was going to write about.
Coffee time!
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