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Saturday, December 31, 2005
YEAR'S END ROUND-UP
Well, what did I do on my end o' year vacation? Didn't get much work done. I have a new comic book assignment to start on, some production artwork for a play, and the usual this and that commercial gigs. What I did do was fight off a sinus infection, watch a pants-load of movies and read a few books.
Movies:
Troy, Series of Unfortunate Events, Lost in Translation, Van Wilder, Ray, as well as a few documentaries on various subjects.
Books:
Chabon's "Kavalier & Clay", and Emei Bagua Zahn (martial arts).
I am also moving into my lovely girlfriend Sally's house and setting up my studio in a spare room. I hope everybody is having a great year and that next year will be even better for you.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Ding Dong!
Well the second ugliest man in Hollywood is dead. Vincent Schiavelli died in Sicily on the 26th. I am reserving a tip of the hat in the ugly category of course to... Clint Howard.
I can remember the very first movie I saw with Schiavelli where immediately after, I realized who he was. It was some bizarre alien cattle mutilation, but not really thing, circa 1980. And every time after that, if I saw him I would always harken back to that moment.
He was fifty seven when he died which is amazing considering that he looked like he was a hundred and seven. Actually I always thought that he rather looked like a John Byrne drawing of someone whose face was melting off of their skull.
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Friday, December 23, 2005
How about this? What if they make a movie showing how Paris Hilton is a stupid whore? Wait. That is real. Do ones based on real life count?
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Tuesday, December 20, 2005
OK THAT'S IT! I AM OUT OF HERE!
Is Hollywood so totally out of ideas that it has to start cribbing ideas from South Park? First the whole gay cowboy with or without pudding is just silly. But then to blatantly swipe from a show where Cartman pretends to be mentally handicapped so as to clean up at the Special Olympics? Are we waiting for the smart and sexy blockbuster where the Mexican Space Agency! (La Agencia del Espacio) tries to put the first whale on the moon?
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Monday, December 19, 2005
TOO BAD
but perhaps not a surprise. Richard Pryor died a week ago. I am slow in commenting. My first real exposure to Richard Pryor came when I was in grade school. Perhaps the first year of junior high. I was having a sleepover at my best friend Kyle Webbenhurst's apartment. We lived on an airforce base in Germany. This was approximately 1977.
His sister, who was a few years older, was out on a date so we raided her room to find her Richard Pryor lp. Almost as soon as Kyle put the record on the turntable his mother told him to not play that. And that the two of us were way too young to be listening to such material.
O.K. We won't. We get to fooling around and playing then it is finally time for bed.
Let me stop here to give my definition of youth: "too much energy and not enough wisdom".
We lay in the living room in our sleeping bags talking and laughing trying to keep the noise to a minimum. When we are finally sure that his parents are asleep we creep over to the record player and turn it on. There is truly nothng harder than putting your ear right up to a record player's speaker, with it turned almost all the way down, and trying to stifle your own laughter while listening to the parentally banned comedy of Richard Pryor.
R.I.P.
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Saturday, December 17, 2005
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FINALLY
I finally have actually seen the pilot to Dorkin's Welcome to Eltingville. I remember it first being aired years ago but I didn't see it for some reason. I liked it but I am not surprised that it wasn't picked up. My favorite episode (comic) of the Eltingville Club was in fact "Bring Me the Head of Boba Fett". But it is so dense with geekery (that's a word) that no exec in his right mind would think that the average viewer would know any of the references let alone care to hear other people who do know them. And thusly no green light.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Just a quick card rendition for everybody's happy holidays
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Sunday, December 11, 2005
THIS JUST IN!!
"Tookie" Williams will get clemency or die trying
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Wednesday, December 07, 2005
'TIS THE SEASON
I know it must be the holidays because it seems that everybody I know is sending me these religious emails. It's weird because I get all of these images of Jesus on the cross. I know that was the pivotal moment in christianity; Jesus dying for humanity's sins. That is kind of the point, but I am still surprised at how many "Christians" fixate on that as opposed to His life before that. You know the whole "It's not always about the money. You don't have to be a dick every day. Be cool to each other."
Jesus was the first rock star. He toured up and down the coast of Galilee. He had his entourage. The big debate now is if he had groupie(s).
Maybe these people sending me these things know I think it is funny when people get hurt. I have discs of footage of skaters hurting themselves and it is always funny.
Maybe if they sent me an email with Jesus falling off the cross, hitting His head and rolling down the hill I would be happier.
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Monday, December 05, 2005
IS IT ME?
I watched Saturday Night Live this past weekend. The host was a comedian named Dane Cook. I thought his face was a little familiar but not his name. That is to say, I really didn't know him at all. I thought O.K. I am willing to give this guy a shot, he couldn't be any unfunnier than some of the people they have had hosting for years and years.
Turns out he was funny. I actually enjoyed watching this particular episode. I think part of the appeal was that I didn't know what to expect from this guy. Could he pull it off?
Yes. I liked it.
And there was no mention of his newest project. No "go see my movie in theatres now". No "buy my new CD". For all I know SNL has finally broken the machine and put somebody on just to be funny, not to be a part of the circuit.
And the musical guest was somebody that I have never heard of. Not that that is all that unusual. But this guy, again, seemed to be one of those outsiders that you wouldn't normally see performing on the show. I didn't feel like running right out and finding this guy's stuff but it was refreshingly different. Do you realize that Ashlee Simpson has been a musical guest twice? Bleargh.
Great! Let's actually put on hosts that are qualified for the job, i.e. funny. Not just in the public eye this week because their movie or play is climbing the charts.
Here's the kicker. The very next day I was reading an online interview with Patton Oswalt. A really good interview. There is a link to a different page at the site. I follow the link. There is a message board and the topic at the moment was Dane Cook's hosting of SNL. Curious, I read. OH MY GOD! There are actually people posting things like "Who the fuck is Dane Cook? He doesn't even have a movie out right now". There were like three different people who posted entries with this sentiment. A few of the others more or less said that they didn't want people that they couldn't immediately recognize hosting the show. Is it me or do these people have their heads up their own asses? I have paraphrased Marx before but let me say it again: television is the opiate of the masses.
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a little pet peeve. I regularly go to certain websites with ads looking for artists. Most of the time the ads ask for "artists" and when you read the particulars they are really looking for something else. Usually a technician of some sort. As annoying as that is that is not my peeve. My peeve is for someone to post an ad looking for an artist to do a job that I could toally do. And when I go to submitt to the ad there is a follow up posting saying that the position has been filled. I then look at the time codes of the posts. Many times the job is filled within hours of the posting. Impatient much? I would hope that if this were a brick and mortar business that they wouldn't hire the first applicant who came through the door. Wait a day or two, stack up some applications and weed through them parsing them down to a few of the best qualified, not just hire the first person to respond.
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Thursday, December 01, 2005
I just wrapped up pencils and inks for a little back up story to a book called October Tales. It will obviously be out sometime in '06. I was kind stoked to do it even if it is just a shortie. The rest of the book is supposed to have work by Tom Luth, Mike Royer and Fernando Torres.
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WHAT ELSE IS IN THE NEWS TODAY?
I have no mercy for them. I was a teenager. I was a teenager for seven years. And I never did stuff like that. I had just as much horemones raging, just as much excess energy, and yet I could still act civilized. Am I saying that I am a better person than most teenagers nowadays? Yes, that is what I am saying.
Needs R&D money!
Wow! check out this article. I am not sure which one of these two articles is more of a Transmet moment.
Wacky Canucks!
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Went out to MOCA last week with buddy, writer John Villalino.
I really liked the Jack Kirbys. And the Eisners. And the Kurtzmans were pretty cool too. I had forgotten that he had art-directed Little Annie Fannie. It was interesting to see his color roughs for those. 
