The colors scanned kinda weird...
P.S. here is the previous dream I'm referencing:
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
MY BRAIN LATELY...
The colors scanned kinda weird...
P.S. here is the previous dream I'm referencing:
Monday, March 21, 2011
Late nite puppet time
My friend Franc and I have been working on puppets for a school project. Besides costume design, puppetry is my primary focus, so I was really excited to get this assignment. My puppet as a whole isn't entirely up to my standards, but I made it without spending any money.
I am making a giant cosmic tortoise and Franc is making a giant carbuncle skeleton. More details later.
Testing out Mother Tortoise:I am making a giant cosmic tortoise and Franc is making a giant carbuncle skeleton. More details later.
Ignore whatever nonsense I am saying.
Here Franc and I sort of describe our process :
The sound is out of sync. Agh! And we sound like teens. Oh well.
It is important to note that the jello we are eating is also going to be used to make bloody boil-like egg sacks for Franc's puppet. Yay!*
*NOTE:The jello was made into a beautiful placenta,which Franc birthed and tore apart for the class. Good job, Franc! Videos forthcoming!
*NOTE:The jello was made into a beautiful placenta,which Franc birthed and tore apart for the class. Good job, Franc! Videos forthcoming!
Some passages from Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN
Here are some of the Creature's that I either thought would be good song lyrics or felt perfectly befitted my current state of wretchedness. Don't write Frankenstein off as one of those books you had to read in high school-it's amazing! And in spite of the vengeful qualities of the provided quotes, the Creature is one of the most sympathetic characters in British literature (in my opinion).
Hey,how about reading these while listening to some appropriately gloomy music?
"'All men hate the wretched; how then must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life?Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind. If you comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.'"
"'The desert mountains and dreary glaciers are my refuge. I have wandered here many days; the caves of ice, which I only do not fear, are a dwelling to me, and the only one which man does not grudge. These bleak skies I hail. for they are kinder to me than your fellow-beings.'"
"'Shall each man...find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? I had feelings of affection,they were requited by detestation and scorn. Man, you may hate;but beware! Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness for ever. Are you happy, while I grovel in the intensity of my wretchedness? You can blast my other passions; but revenge remains-revenge, henceforth dearer than light or food!'"
Hey,how about reading these while listening to some appropriately gloomy music?
"'All men hate the wretched; how then must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life?Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind. If you comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.'"
"'The desert mountains and dreary glaciers are my refuge. I have wandered here many days; the caves of ice, which I only do not fear, are a dwelling to me, and the only one which man does not grudge. These bleak skies I hail. for they are kinder to me than your fellow-beings.'"
"'Shall each man...find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? I had feelings of affection,they were requited by detestation and scorn. Man, you may hate;but beware! Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness for ever. Are you happy, while I grovel in the intensity of my wretchedness? You can blast my other passions; but revenge remains-revenge, henceforth dearer than light or food!'"
Saturday, March 12, 2011
I made a mini-comic book of cheesy monster jokes for all you ghoulish Monster of the Month Club "dis-members" ! If you're not a member, sign up NOW! It's fun and easy and only a dollar a month for custom monster artwork and a few other surprises. $12 for the whole year plus $5 postage. I will be posting some monsters sent to other members soon.
Don't forget to "like" the Monster of the Month club on Facebook! :
MONSTER OF THE MONTH PAGE.
FANGS FOR THE MEMORIES!
Thursday, March 3, 2011
ANTHEMS TO GIVING UP!
WARNING: A pretty depressing post, but don't worry, the author isn't suicidal or anything.
SO:
Thanks to the internet, when I feel really depressed, I can put a sad-sack song up on the ol' social networking 'site and passive aggressively let everyone I know get the gist of how shitty I feel. Now, if I still had my radio show, Ampersand Theater, I could make a weepy playlist for all the world's masochistic/cathartic benefit . However, I do not, and instead of sticking a bunch of songs on facebook just in case the people I am bummed with get the hint, here are some of my favorite songs to listen to when I hate pretty much everything:
This is one of the most effective songs for when you feel like the dung pile in the elephant's pen at Roger William's Zoo (on a rainy summer day?). The idea that the syrupy brother/sister duo put out a mainstream pop song with such honestly self-loathing lyrics blows my mind. The Carpenters' made more sad songs (duh) like "Rainy Days and Mondays" and the Sonic Youth-covered "Superstar" (baby baby baby baby ooooh baby),but "Goodbye to Love" tends to be the best illustration of how I feel in moments of despair.
THE LYRICS
I'll say goodbye to love
No one ever cared if I should live or die
Time and time again the chance for love
has passed me by
And all I know of love
is how to live without it
I just can't seem to find it.
So I've made my mind up I must live
my life alone
And though it's not the easy way
I guess I've always known
I'd say goodbye to love.
There are no tomorrows for this heart of mine
Surely time will lose these bitter memories
And I'll find that there is someone to believe in
And to live for something I could live for.
All the years of useless search
Have finally reached an end
Loneliness and empty days will be my
only friend
From this day love is forgotten
I'll go on as best I can.
What lies in the future
is a mystery to us all
No one can predict the wheel of fortune
as it falls
There may come a time when I will see that
I've been wrong
But for now this is my song.
Here's a humorous approach to throwing in life's towel! Here we have Lisa Germano's "Cancer of Everything":
This song creeps along slowly with a morbid sense of glee. Nothing like Germano's little girl vocals singing about the irrational desire to be destroyed in order to make everyone around you drop everything and pay attention to you. HEY, WE'VE ALL BEEN THERE, RIGHT? Right?
"Disintegration" by The Cure
This song is just gorgeous and creepy and heart-wrenching, and it cradles your despair like a tiny baby, gently rocking it back and forth into a deep underwater sleep of sadness. The best part is the monster back up vocal echo!
"Cry for the Fire" by the Residents
I can't totally explain this one, but it makes me feel better (actually, like most Residents songs, I think it's kind of sexy, but I'm a creep). The wailing? The fire requests? The caveman glossolalia? Whatever, if I say it's about despair, it's about despair. Don't be impatient, now! Listen to the whole thing!
"Put Me Down" by the Cranberries
Like "Goodbye to Love" and The Smiths' "I Want the One I Can't Have", "Put Me Down" is a great commiserating song: it sits there and sympathizes with you, an arm around your trembling shoulder. Hey, as far as '90s sad songs go, it was either this or Garbage's "I'm Only Happy When it Rains", which played on a loop in my head junior year of high school. This song might have the line "let me take you by the hand/ away from here to another land", one of my most hated rhyme cliches, but the music is just so beautiful. Her ethereal wailing really prompts the gushing of those tears you were keeping back. Maybe it's just because it's an early '90s song, and most early '90s music makes me think of being in the car as a little kid, but I think the perfect environment for listening to "Put Me Down" is in a tan Volvo parked in an empty lot, sun pouring through the windshield , your head plunked on the dashboard and drenching the beige vinyl.
"Meaningless" by The Magnetic Fields
This song speaks for itself. Listen closely, because he says "Mind-blowingly meaningless" at the end. "I Shatter" woulda been up here, but it's not on the you-tube.
"Allison" by Slowdive
Slowdive makes everything gut-wrenching. I barely ever listen to them because they hurt too much. Isn't that enough?
Thus concludes this post on "sad sadness songs." (Not to be confused with Sadeness,which is like, totally different, man.) I know I am leaving out a lot, but I have a comic to watercolor and I can't just sit here like a whiny baby right now.
SO:
Thanks to the internet, when I feel really depressed, I can put a sad-sack song up on the ol' social networking 'site and passive aggressively let everyone I know get the gist of how shitty I feel. Now, if I still had my radio show, Ampersand Theater, I could make a weepy playlist for all the world's masochistic/cathartic benefit . However, I do not, and instead of sticking a bunch of songs on facebook just in case the people I am bummed with get the hint, here are some of my favorite songs to listen to when I hate pretty much everything:
This is one of the most effective songs for when you feel like the dung pile in the elephant's pen at Roger William's Zoo (on a rainy summer day?). The idea that the syrupy brother/sister duo put out a mainstream pop song with such honestly self-loathing lyrics blows my mind. The Carpenters' made more sad songs (duh) like "Rainy Days and Mondays" and the Sonic Youth-covered "Superstar" (baby baby baby baby ooooh baby),but "Goodbye to Love" tends to be the best illustration of how I feel in moments of despair.
THE LYRICS
I'll say goodbye to love
No one ever cared if I should live or die
Time and time again the chance for love
has passed me by
And all I know of love
is how to live without it
I just can't seem to find it.
So I've made my mind up I must live
my life alone
And though it's not the easy way
I guess I've always known
I'd say goodbye to love.
There are no tomorrows for this heart of mine
Surely time will lose these bitter memories
And I'll find that there is someone to believe in
And to live for something I could live for.
All the years of useless search
Have finally reached an end
Loneliness and empty days will be my
only friend
From this day love is forgotten
I'll go on as best I can.
What lies in the future
is a mystery to us all
No one can predict the wheel of fortune
as it falls
There may come a time when I will see that
I've been wrong
But for now this is my song.
Here's a humorous approach to throwing in life's towel! Here we have Lisa Germano's "Cancer of Everything":
This song creeps along slowly with a morbid sense of glee. Nothing like Germano's little girl vocals singing about the irrational desire to be destroyed in order to make everyone around you drop everything and pay attention to you. HEY, WE'VE ALL BEEN THERE, RIGHT? Right?
"Disintegration" by The Cure
This song is just gorgeous and creepy and heart-wrenching, and it cradles your despair like a tiny baby, gently rocking it back and forth into a deep underwater sleep of sadness. The best part is the monster back up vocal echo!
"Cry for the Fire" by the Residents
I can't totally explain this one, but it makes me feel better (actually, like most Residents songs, I think it's kind of sexy, but I'm a creep). The wailing? The fire requests? The caveman glossolalia? Whatever, if I say it's about despair, it's about despair. Don't be impatient, now! Listen to the whole thing!
"Put Me Down" by the Cranberries
Like "Goodbye to Love" and The Smiths' "I Want the One I Can't Have", "Put Me Down" is a great commiserating song: it sits there and sympathizes with you, an arm around your trembling shoulder. Hey, as far as '90s sad songs go, it was either this or Garbage's "I'm Only Happy When it Rains", which played on a loop in my head junior year of high school. This song might have the line "let me take you by the hand/ away from here to another land", one of my most hated rhyme cliches, but the music is just so beautiful. Her ethereal wailing really prompts the gushing of those tears you were keeping back. Maybe it's just because it's an early '90s song, and most early '90s music makes me think of being in the car as a little kid, but I think the perfect environment for listening to "Put Me Down" is in a tan Volvo parked in an empty lot, sun pouring through the windshield , your head plunked on the dashboard and drenching the beige vinyl.
"Meaningless" by The Magnetic Fields
This song speaks for itself. Listen closely, because he says "Mind-blowingly meaningless" at the end. "I Shatter" woulda been up here, but it's not on the you-tube.
"Allison" by Slowdive
Slowdive makes everything gut-wrenching. I barely ever listen to them because they hurt too much. Isn't that enough?
Thus concludes this post on "sad sadness songs." (Not to be confused with Sadeness,which is like, totally different, man.) I know I am leaving out a lot, but I have a comic to watercolor and I can't just sit here like a whiny baby right now.
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