emperor_norton

Fantastic journal, browski!

Two confessions that are more or less on topic here:

1.) I've never done meth, but I've done a few other recreational substances, and under the influence of most of them I suspect I'd find that Lautrec/Anarchism book mighty entertaining. Don't know if that says more about meth, or me. Ahhh tweakers.

2.) As a middle schooler I loved Michener. Well, I only read three of his that I can recall: The Source, Chesapeake, and Poland. The first one I loved, and by I'd finished the third I knew enough to be done with him. But back in '93 I was into that crap. Also: Ken Follet. I didn't know any better.

I don't think you'll regret it. I have a cousin in Phoenix. I stopped there on my way out here. He has an extra bedroom. If his girlfriend didn't prefer a half a dozen sugar gliders to me (they are kind of cute, but really what could she be thinking?), I could have lent you my copy. As it is, I pay a king's ransom in rent only to spend most of my time writing, making my ass poorer.

I'm not sold on Science of Sleep. I have the utmost faith in Gondry's ability to wow me visually, but this looks like it has the potential to enter dangerous romantic comedy territory...

I hope to god I'm wrong.

It's definitely a rant. As such, I won't comment. Hope it felt good to get it off your chest. The Rocky Horror amused me.

I remembered something I forgot to write after getting to the end of your essay. I recently watched the first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica at the behest of a friend. While I doubt I'm anywhere near as enthusiastic about it as she is, it's pretty good as far as hour-long television dramas are concerned. However, there's something that one of the main characters points out in the first episode that appears to be one of the show's continuing themes (if the writers for the week get around to it that is), that something being "When we fought the cylons, we did it to save ourselves from extinction, but we never answered the question 'why.' Why are we as a people worth saving?" It's a damn good question and it's one that I've yet to come up with my own personal answer to.

Y is great. I really appreciated as an aspiring writer because while the story was top-notch from the very beginning, the dialogue in the first few trades left something to be desired. Eventually though, he seemed to get the flow, which gave me hope in spite of my first dismal attempts at the art of conversation. I wrote Vaughan an email saying as much and, to my great amusement, he wrote back thanking me for the most honest compliment he's had in a while.

Love the moniker by the way.

It's amazing how many comic writers have their email address out in the open and how quickly they respond, at least in my experience. I also wrote Jamie Delano - the first guy on Hellblazer - a while back with some questions and both he and Vaughan responded within like 12 hours of my original email, a lot better than most of my so-called real-life friends. I know Warren Ellis is huge on corresponding with fans, although I've never had a reason to write him myself (other than the generic "You're awesome!" email which I tend to avoid - I'm sure he gets enough of that without me adding to the pile); in fact, he appears to run the biggest virtual enterprise I've seen outside of webcomist, but I guess with his emphasis on creator-owned comics, you have to work it a lot harder.

Haven't read Fables, but I'll check it out. As I'm currently unemployed, I've been avoiding comic shops like syphyllis. I suppose I could check the local library to see if they have it; that's where a friend found some copies of The Goon, which is phenomenal if you haven't read it. Also, I really like how Phil Foglio tells his story in Girl Genius which he has huge parts of online as a webcomic of sorts at , if you haven't come across it before and would like to check that out.

In other news, you've probably heard that they're doing a Y movie and giving Vaughan first shot at writing the script. Still, I'm only slightly less dubious about fitting that storyline into two or so hours than I am about them doing the same to Watchmen. Why can't they leave him alone? Hasn't poor Alan suffered enough at the hands of Hollywood? Of course, I want to make movies too, but I'd like to think I'd have the decency to leave what can't be made into a movie (or what the creative forces behind the film can't make into a movie, as was the case with V) as, well, not a movie.

Sorry for the length, I've been loquacious since my nap. I only wish my own projects were this easy to write...

I know you, you know me.

;-)

see our movie yet?

I'm with you on the Woody Allen fans hatred track. Yet I've always counted myself among them. I guess as a non-Jew it's my version of self-loathing. Bill Hicks is a worthy hero.

i was just *this close* to getting rid of a bunch of my playstation games as part of a whole "cleaning out the closets" purge. but they made the cut after all.

your writing is phenomenal; tell me you've been published.

Does Gatorade really have a strawberry flavor, or did you make that up?

oh, and p.s. - Oldman and Walken were both in True Romance, but I don't remember if they had any scenes together. I'm thinking they didn't. But I'll watch it tonight and find out. Of course this means I have to watch Xtian Slater, but I'll suck it up cuz it's a great flick.


okbye.

It's important to get an authentic translation,
or the devination/interpretations will be off.
Which translation of the IChing do you have?