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October 14, 2006
The Month That Wasn't
Where did the last month and a half of my life go? Ugh. The overtime's killing me. All of the backlog at the day job will be caught up this coming week, so that's nice. It'll give us more time to recreate it, I guess.
I'll be traveling to Columbus OH some time in the near future. I've got two employees out there I've never met, and I finally talked the boss into letting me. This means I will have to finally use a cel phone. I've fought off this century for about seven years now, but I must finally succumb.
I'll be taking a week off from work in November. I'm looking forward to that. Lots. I really, really need the vacation. I plan to overhaul the gallery sections of this site during that time. A lot of the art on here is not very indicative of where I'm at now, I think.
I'm listening to the Easy Star Allstars right now. Picked up both of their CD's yesterday, and it's blowing my mind. See, they're a reggae band that covers classic groove albums. A total 'duh' concept, you know? Taking albums that stoners would love and doing them reggae. Duh. Rob circa 1998 would have been all over this. Their first is Dark Side of the Moon, and the current one is OK Computer, and they're both AWESOME. Total awesomeness.
DMZ #12 came out this week. It's gorgeous. Lived up to expectations.
Joe Kubert's amazing. I picked up a buch of Sgt Rock comics last weekend and have just been poring over them and bowing to the master. (Kevin, what's he like in person? If he's a douchebag, lie to me. I'd hate to have another one of those moments like when I met John Byrne.)
I'm now reading the collected short stories of Raymond Chandler. It's a massive 1300 page tome, but so far it's worth it in every regard.
I'm watching the second season of The West Wing while working on Black Chamber pages. The rich dialogue of the show makes it really conducive to doing something creative. Sorkin gets it, doesn't he?
I've decided that I'm going to hand-letter my next graphic novel. That gives me a few months to bone up on it and get myself ready. Expect to see me posting lots of crappy lettering samples over the next while as I try to beat the crap lettering out of me.
I love you all.
Posted by Schamberger at October 14, 2006 08:02 PM