So much to do and I find myself not really interested in doing any of it. I think the next couple of weeks are going to fly by way to fast as I have christmas at work, and christmas at home, then Bowl trip to Memphis and a possible drive to Peoria in January. Should be a fun couple of weeks, especially if this blasted snow goes away.
I will be going back to Memphis on January 1st to watch my Pirates play in the Liberty Bowl. I find it funny the role of Memphis in my life these last 13 years. That’s how long it has been since East Carolina went to the Liberty Bowl last. I was still in High School then and I made the trek with my parents to watch ECU beat Stanford on a cold dreary day. Later, I would live in Memphis for exactly one year and the city left me with some good moments, but overall, not really my kind of vibe. I’m debating where I should hit on my very short stay, coming in the 1st and leaving the 3rd. Even with only spending a year in a place, you can develop lots of favorites and it will be hard to do any of them justice. I’m interested to see how downtown has progressed. When I went as a teenager it was a wasteland besides Beale st. While I lived there the Fed Ex Forum had been built, and the Peabody Place mall made downtown nice and safe and more than just Beale St. Autozone Park is one of my favorite Baseball stadiums I’ve ever been in. Now Tower Records is bankrupt so I wonder what anchors that mall? I guess I’ll find out in less than three weeks. Of course, a Pirate Victory and I’ll be happy with the rest of the festivities, whatever they may be.
I remember the first time I got on the web. Freshman year in college. Email was all green and just text. So much information was out there. It was amazing. And then things got more and more graphic-y and things started to slow down. Then came the high speed revolution and media/tv and music started flowing through the inter-tubes at an amazing pace. Every Jo-Blo had a blog(me as well) and we just started putting nonsense on the net.
I find myself streamlining my web browsing experience even as I visit a far larger array of sites. Maybe it’s because of that. First I stopped going to the traditional sites and moved more to the blogs that give you just enough info, and if you want more you could go to the provided link. Now I’m streamlining even more, using sites Like Twitter, to just get the headlines from my favorite destinations and only leaving twitter if something appeals to me.
It’s even affected how much I blog here. In the past I would make a post if I liked a movie or went to a show. Now I get lazy and write a sentence on a movie through Twitter. “That was a good movie.” What used to take a paragraph can be summed up in one sentence. Does it make it interesting? Not really, but you know where I stand without reading through my reasons why.
I don’t really know how I feel about the lessening of content, but it’s here and I’m sure there is another new Twitter, waiting around the corner for all of us.
Our annual anthology of comics/short stories/ poetry and more returns with a whopping 62 pages!. This years edition includes comics by Rodolfo Maximiliano Buscaglia, Eric Gapstur, Shawn Scott Smith, Domen Finzgar, Agata Laguniak and Ed Moorman. Fiction by Brendan O’Donnell and Zakarya Anwar and Poetry by Ray Succre.With a beautiful wrap around cover printed on a letterpress by Jessica White of Heroes and Criminals PressOrder yours Today!
Artists will be receiving their copies within the next two weeks depending on shipping times, so if you know them feel free to buy a copy from them. I’m real excited about this issue as I believe it’s our best one yet!
So I got my Blu Ray Player today at one of those chaotic must have, push and shove you till it hurts day after T-day doorbusters at one of those corporate tricks where they want you to buy everything by giving you deals on one thing. I smiled when the cashier said “is this it”, pointing to the two players (one for me, one for my brother). “Why yes it is. Thank you.” I’m sure my receipt flashes across some number cruncher in a large cubicle, tallying whether these sales are worth it to bottom line. Really I don’t care. I have now officially entered the age of High Definition. It started almost two years ago with my TV, then my Xbox360. This past spring I upgraded my cable and now I have the player for my cinematic experience.
So what movies should I put on my list? Note to self, no personal purchases till after the Holidays. Dark Knight is out soon and that’s a must. Certain things I’m tempted to upgrade, like Terrence Malicks “The New World”, a movie just recently described to me as “you stare at a f***ing tree for two hours”. Yeah, my kind of cinema. I feel like some of my movies won’t benefit from Blu Ray at all. But would something like Lawrence of Arabia? Even though it wasn’t shot in HD, wouldn’t the picture of that movie just shine in true widescreen?
Anyway. Once I wake up, I’m going to hook it up and play with all my old dvd’s and see how the upconvert looks. Fun Fun Fun.
Everyone have fun on your day off tommorow. We have a friend coming over and then we may go see Australia. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
It was great to see one third of Rainer Maria still touring. Caithlin De Marrais is well worth seeing if you get the chance. El May was a great opening act with some neat audio tricks. And Owen was good as ever if it a bit talkative. Here’s the few snapshots I took tonight. Click on them to see the larger picture. 
His World /Her World #8 has gone out of print. Hope you got your copy. Number 9 is still available and all signs point to it entering that no return land sometime next year. I made these two new paintings last night which you can purchase at Etsy.
Update Both have sold.
Thanksgiving is just around the corner and the chaos of Christmas follows shortly after. I’m already starting to feel it, but it does seem more subdued than in years past. I have no clue what to get anyone this year as we all seem to have everything we need, which is a good thing I guess. The new Star Trek trailer impressed me greatly. I keep hearing people saying it’s not Trek. Maybe that is a good thing. Trek had dried up to the point where no one cared. This still looks like Trek, except for once with a budget and I look forward to seeing the end product. If the story is as smooth as the special effects look, then we should have a revitalized franchise come May.
A Spock wannabe and a Doomed Red Shirt. enjoy.