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Tuesday, February 28, 2006
It seems to come in three as they say. First I heard of the passing of Don Knotts. Then I heard of Darren McGavin dying. And to top it off, right on the heels of that I heard about Dennis Weaver.
I actually felt bad about Don Knotts. I never went out of my way to see all things Knotts but I would not pass it up if it came my way. I think almost everyone could enjoy his brand of slapsticky yet almost ingenue like comedy. I am sure everybody remembers him as the bumbling deputy Fife from Mayberry. But he left the show to go off and make movies and he did. Off the top of my head you need to go out and find "The shakiest Gun in the west", "The Private Eyes" co-starring Tim Conway, and "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken". The last if only to see how people used to be able to make movies that were fun without worrying about wowing the audience with over the top special effects.
Darren McGavin's death is a shame because he was one of the character actors who you could see in like a hundred movies without having to worry about watching him get carried away. Unless you count "Nightstalker" Where he was the biggest spas who ever tried to chase a werewolf while trying to load a new roll of film into a camera and not drop his tape recorder or notepad. By the way I always hated that damn Christmas movie.
And as for Dennis Weaver everybody seems to only remember him as "McCloud" but every time I would see him in something I would recall him as the nebbish hotel clerk in "A Touch of Evil". And yeah "Duel" was cool and OK, he was cool as the dad in "Gentle Ben".
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Friday, February 24, 2006
(this was originally posted elsewhere but I own it bwahaha)
I will relate to you a story told to me by a friend. He was attending a work related convention in Vegas. He got tired of laughing at the boss's jokes and decided to head back to his room. As he was crossing the hotel lobby, lo and behold, here comes Gene Simmons, a young girl on each arm, crossing his path.
My friend stopped to let Simmons pass. He notices that Gene has a shirt unbuttoned down to here exposing his fine field of gray chesthair. Right as Simmons strolls by, my friend get a close up profile shot and also notices the thick tufts of gray hair protruding from the Fire-Breathing-One's ears.
Yay groupies.
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Friday, February 17, 2006
Could I care less about the Winter Olympics (or the winty-o's as I call them)? This time of year always make me think of getting married. No, not Valentine's day, I am talking about taxes. How much more of a break could I get if I were married? But living with the woman I will be married to, I get to experience more than my share of tv shows that I would never had considerd watching before. Like Survivor. Ugh. The winty-o's seem like educational television compared to that. But I don't watch the superbowl either so now what?
I have been swamped with work lately. Just a bunch of small stuff as well as some bigger projects. I am still plugging away on two different comic books. A bunch of illos for card games and some advertising and magazine stuff. I also just landed inking an eight page comic story. But I have time because the penciller hasn't even started yet. The plus side is that I get to do some character and robot designs on it before he even gets the script.
Let me leave you with some advice,
never trust a man named Giles, Fritz, or Eroll
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Saturday, February 11, 2006
So I watched an episode of CSI on tv the other night. It was the original Las Vegas one. I remember seeing a few episodes from the first season and I must say that it has gone noticeably downhill. However, I will say that I am glad that somebody finally figured out that William Peterson + forensics = story. If you don't believe me then go back and watch Manhunter. By the way Brian Cox is, in my opinion, far more sinister a Hannibal Lektor than Anthony Hopkins. He conveys an absolute sense of alienation, of disassociation from humanity. The scene where Peterson visits Cox in prison and he wants out of the room is scary. You feel Peterson's anxiety. He shows his actual fear of a man inside a steel and glass cage and illustrates just how creepy Lektor really is.
Back to CSI, the show lately has a penchant for almost manipulative music swells and lingering pauses as well as a disappointing tendency for cheap dramatic entrances.
The episode the other night mentions lobotomies. A homeless fellow is apparently lobotomized through his eye socket. The doctor treating him mentions that that method was done a lot in the '30's and '40's. Oops! That is actually incorrect. What he is talking about is known as "trans-orbital lobotomy" and was not effectively used until the mid '50's. It was pioneered by one American doctor, Walter Freeman, and used to the point of excess by him.
My other problem with the show is that it started off as a sort of whodunit that you had to actually put on your thinking cap to try to figure out before the actors did. Unfortunately, now the show has lowered itself to taking viewers by the hand and leading them down the crime solving path. Yay.
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006
BELIEVE YOUR REVIEWS
Some of my friends are having good reviews lately so here are some links to one interview and one review. I first met Greg a few years ago at San Diego and he is a solid guy as well as a solid atist.
Read this.
I have known David longer than I can remember and have actually gotten to draw some of his stories in comic form before. He has a nice review of his story, "Through the Data Storm" in an anthology here.
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Monday, February 06, 2006
QUICKIE DEPT II
Tell a religious co-worker that a loved one is in the hospital. "I'll pray for you." The next day walk by and say "Thanks, asshole. They died anyways."
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Saturday, February 04, 2006
QUICKIE DEPT.
Whenever a friend is on vacation or honeymoon or such at a hotel wait until they have arrived then call the hotel. Leave a message for them at the front desk asking them to steal more towels for you like last time.
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Thursday, February 02, 2006
Sitting up after several late night phone conversations in between sending emails back and forth to a client regarding some production artwork for a play. The client was tweeking some details of a set's background after I couldn't understand some of their instructions. I am going to be doing a series of illustrations for them. And the deadline on the first one just got bumped up a bit. No big deal. I am used to that. I am also working on two comic book projects. Which should be out later this year as far as I know. I was trying to put up some new stuff on the website yeterday but was having trouble. I am hoping to be able to put it up in a day or two.
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