Miscellany – Page 321

BIG, ER, BUBBA IS WATCHING YOU

Sunday, March 12, 2006

(based on a real photo by Doug Mills that Meg clipped for me…)

Lester Bangs on Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks.
Junebug would be a great movie if you walked in late and had to leave early. Real people who talk like real people living in a real place. Now where would I be if I was a screwdriver?
Freud’s Jokes and their Relation to the Unconcious. Done up as a sweet book by Ralph Steadman.
DFW’s review of an old Updike novel contains a final sentence that I think could serve as a summary for about 50% of fictional characters nowadays (not to mention a few folks we all know): “…it never once occurs to him that the reason he’s so unhappy is that he’s an asshole.”

DRAWING CRUMBY COMICS AND LISTENING TO KID A

Friday, March 10, 2006

$Year\'s Best Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga$

“Actually, a lot of these poses in these panels I took from freeze-framing the Fly Girls on In Living Color.” – R. Crumb
Meghan says KID A is the ultimate work-in-the-studio-with-headphones album. If, like me, you’ve been out of touch with your Radiohead fandom, check out their blog. Lots of cool pictures recording the new album. Also, check out Stanley Donwood’s slowly downward. His photoshop work and site design for Radiohead…big inspiration for me when I was 17.
Ray Kurzweil on Science Friday: the singularity is near.
Short story: Eric Puchner reading “Animals Here Below.”
Short story: Etgar Keret, “Actually, I’ve had some phenomenal hard-ons lately.”

Sean on “Tonight You Belong to Me,” from The Jerk.
Virtual drum machines. Awesome.
Great interview with Dan Savage from a while back.
Oh, Project Runway. It was probably the safe bet to give Chloe the money, but damn, I really liked Santino. (Andre and Tim at Red Lobster, Tim Gunn singing Closer, the musical numbers…)

IF YOU DON’T KNOW, NOW YOU KNOW

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

meghan’s bookshelf. (it’s official, folks!)

AS LONG AS IT ISN’T BORING

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Next month is Small Press Month.

Last year was actually a pretty good year for short fiction: the Story Prize has recommendations. (See if you can match the recommendations with the advisory board.)

I like Maureen McHugh’s book a lot (and I liked her reading at Mac’s way back too) and her blog posts are very long and make me feel stalkerish.

Sometimes it takes me a long while to catch on. For me, the greatest thing about Flickr is the searching capability. Up until now, I’ve been using Google image search to pull up reference photos for drawing…

So much for that. Check out Retrievr. Using a simple sketchpad interface, you can draw the shapes/colors you want to search for in Flickr, and as you add to your drawing, photos from Flickr will appear…

A great idea would be to put your comics on Flickr, right? Wrong. Flickr discriminates between photography and drawing. Bummer.