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I’ve been in a weird pseudo-funk lately.
There’s nothing wrong, I’m just…feh. Very feh.
Watching a lot of movies lately, like Death race 2000 (hilariously bad), The most recent two Bourne movies (fun, Matt Damn should play Captain America), the Deaths of Ian Stone (okay, forgettable), the Cottage (really well done and funny) among others. I think I’m ready fro shows to come back, although Project Runway is on and its always good for cheap thrills.
Lost, Battlestar, 24, Dexter, Heroes, I miss you. The time after the strike was too short and it didn’t feel like we got enough. I’m just a whore for episodic storytelling.
Writing has been a struggle lately. I feel like I’m trying to find a new schedule, because after Kenzie goes to bed isn’t working for me. It’s weird, because in some ways I don’t even really want to work on the computer anymore. Hand writing has been a real release, and now I kind of don’t want to go back. I think everyone is in a malaise.
Lee and I haven’t done much of anything with “Gifted” since we got back from Chicago. Granted, I’m halfway through the last issue, but he’s only drawn half a page since we got back. We’re both like “Wow, not having a deadline sucks.” It helps in someways because he wants to do things differently with the shading and the eventual inking (and in fact, re-inking the first pages that we used in the sample that we took too Chicago, because they didn’t turn out as good as we would’ve liked), so he has more time to experiment and try things out. I did layout fort eh rest of the issue, so that’s going to speed that end of things up a little bit for him too.
The second artist, Julia, on the second project is kind of awol. Which is fine, I don’t own her or anything like that, but it’s been more than a month since I sent her the script and descriptions and I’ve only had sporadic updates from her. She did say that she had to check into the hospital for a couple of days but it turned out she was fine. That kind of stuff is going to slow things down.
I had an idea for another project (I won’ even call it a third one, because its more like the 33rd one) that has been nipping on my frontal lobe, and I just broke down the first issue the other day. I think I may hop on this and try to bust out a first issue and then get an outline together. Then, maybe, hit the internet to try to find an artist and some disappointment.
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We have an employee at the store now, which is nice. Until he goes back to school, Tony and I both have two full days off. He’s a kid we worked with at Dark Star who left there and decided to come hang with us. It’s nice to have someone who we can rely on and have on staff officially, as opposed to Travis who is practically an employee but refuses payment. It’s cool, but he also has his own life and full time job that pays him more than we’ll probably ever be able to pay him.
Regardless, it feels like we’re moving up in the world, even if we’re not bringing home more money just yet.
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Did my triannual self-inflicted haircut again the other day. Always a good time. A really short, buzzed head good time.
Did you watch Death Race 2000 or the new Death Race? 2000 is classic and from the godawful reviews I’ve been reading about Death Race sounds like it’s classic Jason Statham. I can’t resist a bad Jason Statham movie.
2000. I haven’t seen new Death Race, but I will probably watch it when it comes out on DVD. It looks like it’s worth a laugh.