I've been AWOL for a while, it seems. There's a very easy explanation for this. That explanation is that the semester started back, and I have developed a relationship with my own personal Ramona Flowers. Things at G2K were getting pretty rocky, but starting next week I'll be working more hours, and now I'm thinking that I should really get on the ball with that whole becoming a Time Lord thing before I get overtaken.
So. Quickly showing myself to prove I'm still alive and haven't forgotten about this site. Here's a scattershot of stuff currently going on:
For months now I'd been hearing about X-Men: First Class. I didn't care. I wasn't concerned at all. But once official photos started coming up and I realized what it was all about, it got my interest. Then I saw the trailer this morning:
So...it's 1960's spy-fi kind of thing with equal parts intrigue and spectacle? It's nice and colorful, not bogged down with some lousy color filters? I am sold. And that trailer song is amazing. I've watched it too many times already. I mean, I'm excited too for Thor, and Captain America is promising despite my inability to wrap my mind around the fact that Chris Evans is Steve Rogers. I don't really care so much about Green Lantern. But this, I don't know, this is just pushing all the right buttons for me for reasons I can't quite explain. There's this strange sense of...well, class, to it that is missing in the trailers for the other films I mentioned. I'm stoked.
I've been overdosing on British comedy lately. A Bit of Fry and Laurie, the IT Crowd, Eddie Izzard, and we watched Monty Python's Life of Brian in my absurdist film class. Sometimes I find myself speaking in a (lousy) British accent. Also Doctor Who and Top Gear. And I just noticed this pen sitting at the desk here almost vaguely resembles a Dalek if you squint properly. God help me.
CLASSES: Spanish, I'm slogging through dilligently and doing a decent job of it. Absurdist film leaves my head spinning once a week, and I'm not looking forward to watching Eraserhead again in a couple weeks. Figure drawing, it's been so long that I feel like I'm trying to dig up all I learned. It seems the only music that I can listen to in there that helps me concentrate and work is my old faithful punk playlist. Graphic design workshop, I'm doing a banner for my friend David's blog, Airship Over Water, and I'm doing some work for the Little City Rollergirls website too, but haven't really made any progress in either just yet. Something's not quite clicking, but I feel I'm getting close.
Work on the Ezra Neuro comic has all but grinded down to a halt. I get a little inking done once in a while, but not much, and the thought of toning it in Photoshop is making me shudder. I guess I spent so much time in Photoshop doing crap last semester that I really don't want to get back into it just yet, but I've no choice, it must be done and WILL be done...Eventually.
Finally cracked open another Philip K. Dick novel, Martian Time-Slip. It took forever, but I'm just over halfway through it and it's finally gotten good now that Weird Stuff has started happening and characters have started possibly hallucinating. I've got a stack of comics to go through, but my current love is still for all things Jonathan Hickman, as well as Matt Fraction's Invincible Iron Man. I've acquired two volumes of Grant Morrison's New X-Men run that I'm slowly getting through, as well as WE3, and a few other odds and ends. Comics!!
Um. That's it. I keep rewatching the X-Men: First Class trailer. I should go to bed now. GOOD NIGHT INTERNET TUBES.
[Brett]