NEW! Our wonderful comic is leaving the printers at the end of the week and will be in our grubby hands next week! Preorders are up for only $7 (this includes shipping) whereas if you buy it in the store it will cost you 7.95 and you also have to find it in the store. This book has something for everyone so step on up and be the first cool kid on the block to have one order it HERE!
so this may be our new kitty. o.k. i admit it this is most likely our new kitty. If araby doesnt kill it the first chance she gets. the little boy was ‘ rescued’ by jess from the gutter the other day and has been living in our hallway until he gets the vets clearance to move into araby’s domain. he’s cute, and small, and just a little too hyper for my tastes. He has no name. more as the drama and ruffled fur unfolds.
The new album St Elseweher by gnarls barkley aka danger mouse who brought me the much loved danger doom cd with mf doom, has come back with this strange mix of marvin gaye and rand b from the fifties all with that nice recording sound danger mouse made famous with his animated project gorillaz. Truly an innovator where innovation is needed, and with a cover of Violent Femmes gone daddy gone to boot. Get it. dance it, hum it.
This wonderful little film written, directed and starring Miranda July, really got me. Its very sporadic, and funny, and just a very nice feeling about it. Loved the interaction between July’s lunatic artist and John Hawkes(deadwood) mopey crazy recently seprated soon to be boyfriend person. The film to me hits at all the right points of indy cinema. It’s short enough to keep you interested, it has nice different music, and it tries things a little bit odd. The best part to me was that this movie feels like growing up, it feels like it for adults, and it makes me remember being a kid as well. I’m headed over to IMDB right now to see what else Miranda July has done.
Wow got hit hard with superhero bug today,
lets start with Nova Annhilation # 3 0f 4. great space opera that only fails to really do anything sci-fi. but it looks good, and nova isn’t a complete goofball in the series. And even Quasar is o.k. so as a miniseries it’s very good. Not sure this will ever warrant more than that though.
New AVengers 20 O.k. Deodata whose artwork I’ve been bashing this whole run turns in his best performance and now i feel let down by Mr. Bendis writing. Can we just leave Magneto dead for a week? Please? God. I’m so sick of him as a villian. I’m so tempted to drop this book, so tempted but there are little lines between Wolverine and Spidey that keep grabbing at my 2.99. sucker. Worst book i picked this week though, and that’s a shame.
and the best book i got this week. Drumroll it’s Astonishing X-Men 15. Wowsers. Bring it on. Love it! and Yes mr. Whedon do a S.W.O.R.D. series next. don’t leave the Marvel U. it’s freaking wonderful. Bring it on Kitty, Bring it ON!
hey look at my previous post, go see Whedon’s Serenity. Buy this comic, try to write dialouge any better. I’m in Love with the man’s sentence structure. SHiny!
I will get Comic reviews up later but the good news for all you browncoats is that if you live in one of 40 cities this weekend Serenity will be playing on the big screen again to benefit Equality Now charity. To find out where it’s playing in your city go here If you’ve never seen this movie, it deserves to be seen on the big screen and have you ever seen a movie be rereleased for a weekend of charity screenings like this? It’s really pretty awesome. Go watch the movie!
chicago day 3. we were pretty worn out. all this vacation has taken its toll. time to go back to work. we wandered around for most of the day, enjoying the city and ate dinner in naperville before turning in early to go sleep. oh vacation., Im all out of days now. guess that means i have to go to work.
So we got up early and headed out for the Sears Tower. The views are pretty impressive. Even with the fog you can see all of Chicago and many of the suburbs. Pretty neat stuff. Did the manigficent mile thing and ate at an awesome Asian resturaunt Wow Bao. Bao is a bun filled with whatever you like, and their only 1.29 each. Even Vegetarian options are available. The picture is of the Cloud in the wonderful Millenium Park. it’s awesome how the whole city is reflecting behind me. Went to Navy Pier which is nice but a tourist trap. We went through a glass haunted house that was only worth it with the coupon we had, but it had cool bubbles that left colors on your clothes. Spent the evening at the Arts Institute which has one of the largest collections Ive ever seen and Edward Hoppers Diner painting. And then we had CHicago pizza to finish off the night. It was good but hurt my stomach. Yummy.
So we stayed in Naperville for the cheaper hotels and the train ( I hate driving in big cities when walking works much better)
and we got there in time for the 330 train, which got canceled. So we explored naperville which is pretty cool. it’s like a college downtown, except for families instead of college kids. Pretty nice place. We got into chicago at 500 and headed for the red line which we took to wicker park area. Wicker Park is where all the cool punk clubs are and its home to tons of little boutiques and resturants. We hit Reckless Records which is a pretty great record store and Quimbys, the best bookstore Ive ever seen for alternative comics, and zines. Pretty neato place, although at the time all i was looking for was Civil War 2, but the place doesnt carry superhero books. oh well I guess they are readily available elsewhere. By the time we headed back we caught the 1030 train which got us into naperville at 1130, hit the hotel and were asleep pretty quickly. fun fun fun.
So we just got back from chicago. awesome trip. will write more later tired now. i did buy the gnarls barkley album while i was there found the fifth season of next generation for 30$ and picked up a bunch of back issue comics at quimby’s. I’ll write more later, but heres a quick one sentence review for this weeks comics three days late.
civil war # 2 . yeah. this is what a summer event should be. wow.
superf****ers # 3 James Kolchacka has this book growing on me. The ‘heroes’ are all retarded and all stereotypes. grotessa is the best female comic hero ever. ha!