That’s what I’ve been working on. But when I got too tired last night I listened to some more of those Nick Cave album talking things. I had sort of forgotten this song. It is nice.
And then I started watching Twin Peaks, but got so excited that I had paused it twice to draw in the first five minutes.
What am I enjoying this week?
- Duncan Trussel talking to his old buddy Ari Shaffir
- The Nerdists talking to Tom Hanks
- These cute comics about haiku by Jessica Tremblay, who I know from local comic shows.
- This Jonathan Carroll book Outside the Dog Museum. It seems like I can’t read two pages without something completely delightfully surprising happening. I am loving this guy’s books!
- I’ve been getting the Tezuka Buddha books from the library and holy crap. So good. I veer between being completely inspired and completely intimidated by how good they are.
I was awake and totally hyped up at 4am Saturday for no reason. I read some of the Jonathan Carroll book. Did this drawing.
And I was excited yesterday to see there was a new Die Antwoord video! NSFW and not safe for delicate constitutions.
The rain is back. Just now, while I slept. That is okay, it has rained twice in the past three months here.
No new True Loves this week, but Manien and I did do some writing last weekend. It was a great session. As we approach the end of the book, the writing seems easier. While writing phrases were uttered such as “I’m on fire!” and “Now you’re on fire!” And we blasted through one crucial sequence that left us breathless and reeling by the end of it. Here is where we writing.
Manien has been working a lot of nights this month, and I have gotten in a good rhythm of inking for a few hours (or longer if the podcasts I’m listening to are too interesting, like this Inkstuds chat with Dave Sim). And then I putter on the internet and end up staying up too late watching these videos with people talking about Nick Cave’s albums, and drawing some of the great faces in them. Last night I was thinking that part of my enjoyment of them is that the people talking tend to be my age or older recalling their wild youth in the 80s.
Kid Congo has an AMAZING and animated face. As I drew him I recalled that I saw him play at the Railway Club once, and he was hanging out afterwards, and talked to him a bit and drew him.
Tender Prey was my first Nick Cave album. I clearly recall being at an Industrial Video Show at the Rivoli and the Mercy Seat came on, converting Jesse and I instantly.
On the weekend I saw a dog driving an RV.
New True Loves 3 is up! The virtues of man-servants are discussed.
I was watching these videos on the youtube of people discussing all of Nick Cave’s albums. Interesting to hear thoughts and memories, some from people in the Bad Seeds. And some great faces. I just had to draw some of them.
And I quite liked this video. The song kind of reminds me of that Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeroes “Home” but that works for me.
And this is a cute song and video too.
On the other hand this David Lynch song and video is fairly disturbing.
Treasure! Treasure!
Wow where did the last half of August go? I had two weeks or so where I hardly got any drawing done, between the ceilings being painted, houseguests, comic jams and comic shows. I think I am back on track now though. I even resisted going to the new nerd pub everyone’s talking about.
Some of my houseguests were small people who I was playing pirates with. I decided we needed a treasure map, and once I added enough details to it they got interested. Then we needed a map of the actual island where the treasure was hidden.
I also made them a mixed CD which included this instant hit.
And this classic dance rave-up from my own childhood which we danced to five times in a row.
And here are some drawings I did of random things that came up on that (NSFW) tumblr that I’m still sort of obsessed with.
I just came across this CocoRosie video and the aesthetic seemed closely related to stuff from this NSFW blog I was totally fixated on over the weekend.
Here are a couple more of these things.
New True Loves 3 is up! Confession: I have not had anything like a girlie drink in a long time. Headaches and hangovers!
You could watch this.
Earlier in the week I was feeling like this.
But I’m okay now. How about this song instead?
And some more of these…
Boy this song made me happy yesterday. I guess it has been all over tv shows, movies, ads, trailers and so on. I heard it at the end of the movie Jesus Henry Christ and it knocked my socks off.
And then this afternoon I saw yet another mention of this Tosh person, but luckily I read Tosh and think of this person.
Here’s a couple more of these. I think I am falling behind.
Happy Canada Day weekend. Manien worked the past two days, so I just laid low. Did some drawing. Listened to some podcasts. This You Made it Weird chat with Sara Schaefer was quite good. Funny and moving. The Todd Glass Show has been cracking me up. And since Manien and I quite liked Jeff, Who Lives at Home, I was interested to listen to Marc Maron talk with Mark Duplass.
I have also recently plowing through the Duncan Trussel Family Hour. He is very funny full of crazy stoned new age-y ideas and riffs. The one where he talked to philosopher, author and gay porn actor Conner Habib was quite the fascinating chat. Also, Duncan Trussel did this classic Drunk History of Nikola Tesla.
And here are some more Mega-j things.
Hm. Those dots are messing up some of the colours I guess. Oh well.
Here’s a song I was enjoying yesterday. With a video someone made that gives me Memories of Mexico.
I feel like there were many things I wanted to tell you, but can I think now what they were? Okay:
1. I’m reading this sci fi book Spin by Robert Charles Wilson. It is kind of blowing my mind to a degree that I find pleasantly surprising.
2. Manien and I watched Mission Impossible one day and the Descendants the next and found Clooney’s greying dad-hair looked so much better on him than Cruise’s desperate dye-job.
3. I got Tom Gauld’s Goliath recently. So good! Funny, beautiful and sad. And thought provoking even!
4. A couple of VanCAF videos. Some nice photos here too. Oh yeah, and this comic Grade Eight that I got at the show was great too.
5. It has been a fairly wet summer so far here in Vancouver Town. A lot of people are bellyaching, but I don’t mind. It means less watering of the garden, and less of Jason bursting into flames as he walks to and from the Dayjob. Today I was enjoying some music that was good for a drizzly day. Sparklehorse. The National. And my soothing music in general these days, Grimes.
6. And hey a new Die Antwoord video! It is a classic family drama in the vein of Twisted Sister’s We’re Not Gonna Take It!
Okay I better stop or I’ll go all night.