Fresh Meat aftermath

I am mentioned (by penname) in this here article.   I am rather proud of this.  Megan, Allison, Pat, Hanni, and a few others are mentioned as well.  Hurray for being noticed!

As for MoCCA- I have to decide a few things.  I would really like to spend the time to make some nice, fresh covers for the Waldgrave Manor Issues I have finished, and I’d also like to print out some more copies of ManEatingTiger.  Unfortunately, these both require time and money, two things which I am tight on at the moment.  So, for the moment, nothing is settle; I still need to decide exactly what I am bringing to MoCCA.  Unfortunately, I will probably not have any new material ready in time, but I still look forward to the event.

oh man, it has been a while

well. Sophomore year is almost over, and I am EXHAUSTED.

Got me a twitter:  http://twitter.com/maneatingtiger

Fancy, right?

Sophomore Year

Okay, so… I am ridiculously excited about starting all my classes.  Summer break was just waaaay too long; I missed the city, I missed my friends, I even missed the work…!  I’m… a little bit nervous about Woodruff’s class, I have heard so many things about the man (he’s brilliant, he’s nuts, he’s a hardass, he’s rude, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, he makes kids cry, he brings out the best in his students, etc.) that I don’t what to think.  But… I wil just have to make my own opinions for myself, I guess.  That’s as usual, anyway.  I will deal with it, either way.

I am also looking into a job at the school’s library… I think that a work-study thing will be much better for me than the Duane Reade, because in addition to my managers NOT BEING HUGE DICKS they will understand that I’m a student.. and have to do student-things… and will not give me shifts to working during class time (something which DR did to both me and another student working there… jerks.)  So yeah.  And if not the library, then hopefully somewhere else that is work-study.  Yup.  The mons is goods.  😀

Ohhhh I am so excited for this year.  Yay!  XD

So this is what I have been working on:

Starry Knights

Uhm, uhm… it’s not anywhere near finished yet… there is more graphics to go up, links to link, pages to make… not to mention that things are not laying out the way that I thought they would, so I am entirely reformatting it… but still, something is more than nothing, right?

The official launch of the comic will be on September 1st.  Megan and I have both been working very hard and are very excited about this… so basically, everybody and their grandma should go read it, okay?

Uhm.. synopsis?

Starry Knights is the story of Maggie (a girl adventurer) and Sam (a prince who likes unicorns).  Murder mysteries, pirate fights, royal curses, and flying islands ensue, all with a light touch of comedy.

Writing it’s been a great load of fun, really.  I am too tired to really get in depth right now, and if you let me I’d end up giving the whole plot away.  Oh yeah, and there are fairies.  And an ice princess.  And some traveling musicians, a psychic cartographer, an order of gymnast nuns, er… I am getting carried away by my own two feet now.  Blah blah blah.  Whatsits.

Exhausted

Augh.. it’s only my third day working as a camp counselor for four-year olds and already I’m worried that I won’t make it through the summer.  These little kids really wear me out!

 

Hopefully I will have time on the weekend to do more interesting things.  Until then, it’s all overenthusiasm and confidence-boosting praise from me.

We Will Rock You

Last night, I went with my grandparents and my cousin to see the Queen-inspired rock opera, We Will Rock You. Set in a dystopic future where there are no longer any instruments, main character Galileo Figero, along with his chick, Scaramouche, must save the Earth (renamed Planet Mall) from the Killer Queen and her Gaga people by bringing back the Rock.

The music was great, of course, (Queen songs, lyrics twisted ever so slightly to fit the plot) although I sometime felt that the talking lines were overly scripted; there were some great chances for humorous banter/improv for the characters which were completely missed. Scaramouche was the best among them, I think. Played by Sabrine Aloueche, she had some great lines, was possibly a more developed character than Galileo, and ends up as the lead guitarist who weilds the Mighty Axe, supposedly Brian May’s former guitar which has been buried and enchanted for hundreds of years. Not to mention she had a gorgeous costume. Actually, a lot of the costumes were excellent; the only the which bothered me was that the Killer Queen’s wardrobe was very remiscent of the things that the Bohemians wore. Except whe hates the Bohemians. So.. why would she dress like them? No idea.

OH YEAH and the set featured some floating screens which would occasionally play things that went a long with the songs… usually Maya animations. This made me happy. (“Look! A lambert texture!”) Aaanyway I definitely reccomend going to see this if you get the chance. The song-title/rock celebrity puns (“Don’t forget what Victoria Beckham told you right before he died!”) and Bohemian Rhapsody grand finale (definitely worthy of the standing ovation it received) are reason enough.

 

 

 

more rhyms and such

Notes from Literature dated 4/17/08:

the sweetest lies
and sweet surprise
of nestled fool
in foolery who will
feel all or none
of the above won
through hard work
or hardly working
fouls on the part of birds
that howl in their fowlery.

madness, a commonish
child take
and with firmest
hand and will of touch
reach, and flush,
from modern thought
and eldest prose
a darling daughter
or budding rose,
ripped, far too
soon for her sweet
fibs and her
dreadful lies.

our prayer to hand
and hand above
to hold the land
and win his love,
but desolate wasteland
from which i seek
to take your hand
and kiss your cheek,
wed, my love, away from here
in finest times
and maddest fear
and nightly sing lines
of sweet lyric
and cunningest lies,
we fools hear it
in our foolest surprise,
but madness in the wed,
my dear, makes nought
to naught this bed
in which we ought
to forsake the deed
and wed to death
we hardly breathe –
we fools are wed only in jest.

 

The last one feels a bit forced but I like the ending.

Coraline

So it seems that Neil Gaiman’s novel Coraline is going to be made into a stop motion animated film.

http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool_Stuff/Video_Clips/Coraline_Teaser

This makes me incredibly happy.

Coraline is the story of a nine-year old girl who finds herself trapped in an alternate version of her own apartment, wherein an Other-Mother tries to sew buttons onto her eyes in order to make her stay there forever.  Coraline’s only allies are a Cat (who generally just does whatever he pleases) and a few ghosts (who aren’t very much help at all).  It’s delightfully creepy, yet at the same time manages to follow all of the Fairytale rules, which keeps it from bending into horror.

I am excited.

Silent Rave in Union Square

I wish I had known about this:  http://www.papermag.com/?section=video&vid=162&vcid=2

today in history i did not take notes

Instead, this is what I wrote:

• there’s no rest for the bleeding heart, ’cause they’ll be losing bodies tonight
• pureness and holiness is the only path to righteous living.  throw off your cloak of ignorance – there is evil afoot! and it leads us astray.  when your own government ignores the poor, the homeless, and the innocent which it so proclaims it should protect, when your own government is more concerned with fighting a war which is more focused on economical gain than the loss of life, when your own government is stuck in so much of a rut that no politician is expected to be truthful. then is the time for change!
• trains trains trains
• redlings on tides of nonny
• kidding on redlings and things covered oh smoke
• close lips around a sharp snake’s smile
• more proof that the ’80s are the source of all evil
• these ships leave no survivors!
• heroes do not come so close to the truth – they are normal people like you and I, and do not believe in what is holy or what is right any more than the average citizen – it is up to us and us alone to overthrow this idolatry – the path to holiness and righteousness is open for us to follow!
• ironical
• 2003 – Invasion of Iraq
• what about America is not disturbing?
• plastic
• we believe in our government in the same way we believe in gods; the vague idea of large men in suits with very dark, very thin sunglasses who exist in a faroff sort of way, with plain names like “Smith” or “Jones”, who protect us from invisible threats – probably – or who construct compicated conspiracies behind our backs – possibly – but mostly who are there for the sake of being there, when really – they’re not.
• unawareness
• shmolly!
• filthy lies
• when I was a young boy I was very interested in becoming a scholar.
• Incidentally, as I was reading Foucault I overheard someone stumble out of my suitemate’s room and go to the kitchen to jerk off.  I was unable to further focus on the text.
• filthy lies
• I did not read it.  Well, just the first 20 pages on the subway. [Wheeler wrote this]
• All you really need to know is that sex is sexual but no one likes to talk about it.
• I love to talk about about sex. [Wheeler also wrote this one]
• last night I started narrating my life as though it were a soft-core porn, but Megan got disturbed so I had to stop –>
• “as she cautiously traced patterns on the paper with her long, red pen, memories of the previous night flooding back with fondness”
• discourse against sodomy – well! Samara was my wife, goddamn her, but when she dies I was nearly heartbroken, and I could no longer rest my head against her heavy bosom – she was my wife, but goddamnit if I didn’t sodomize her.
• Paul was my father, and I was his child.
• Prohibition – to not
• “you yank on it too much and you’ll go blind!”

I think perhaps I should take up life as a blasphemous speaker for some shady political faction.