Bandit

We met Bandit a few months back when we were in Tahoe for The Great Gribbilin's birthday. He belongs to an equally charming couple that is friends with the Gribblin.
JB did some inspired e-mailing with said person and aranged for us to watch him this past weeked.

We paid him such a deal of attention that the poor guy was entirely tuckered out by the end of the weekend; And he is hyper guy. A totaly adorable shih tzu with one blue eye and one brown. And not one of those foppy long-haired ones. He was all rough and tumble and mostly looked like an ewok.

We are now looking for breeders...





Oh, and Happy Birthday food stuff.


Since last session:



Drinks:
For our "5 months" JB and I went out to a tres' schmancy restaraunt last night. I ordered a bottle of pinot noir but they were out of anything costing under $50. So he showed us the others available. I cringed but then said fuck it and bought an amazing bottle by the Byron wineries.
It just seemed ummm...poetic?


Read:
Jonathan Strange & M. Norrell, Sussanne Clarke hhhhh
It is hard to some up this book as it took five months of my life to get through (months in which I finished maybe 3 other books). It took that long For 2 reasons.

The first, I really wanted to savor and not rush through any of it.

The second it is 800 pages. And of those pages at least 1/3 (probably more) are covered in footnotes that fill out the lush semi-historical word it takes place.

Laced with dry wit and containing much social commentary, setting it far from the “Harry Potter for adults” people are claiming it to be. It reads far more like Austen or Dickens than Rowling.

* Watched:
Underworld: Evoloutions h
Mind you I went assuming it would be kind of bad, but man.


* Listened to:
Anthology Vol. 1 Cowboy Man, Lyle Lovette hhhh
I got this from the library but it is well worth the price of the record. A sort of compilation of best hits. As the name implies most are lonely (and sometimes angst ridden) cowboy ballads, all with a bit of tounge in cheek. Walk through the bootm land. Mmmm.


RATING SCALE h Utter shite hh Don't bother hhh Average hhhh nicely done hhhhh farking brilliant

We Built Another World

The creation of the second Chapter of Claviger is nearing its end. Two pages to ink four to pencil and then some lettering and tones. The art shifts in it pretty dramatically, more so even then the first, but for the best.



Both Chloe and Finch have been revised a bit and now have a more solid look. Here is a character sketch of Finch I did before starting Chapter Two; he actually looks pretty much like this throughout. Except with a hoody on so I can play with all kinds of fun shadows on his face.




Since last session:

* Drinks: All day wine tasting with Julie and her Parents in Napa. Some superb bottles and a great picnic in one of the vineyards. They know who is who and what is what and it feels like the Disneyland ride version of Nappa. In a good way.

* Read: Dragonhead Vol. 1, Minetaro Mochizuki : hhhh
I "read" the first three volumes of this in Japanese years back, and then tried to get CPM to licnese it. It didn't work but it has finally come out here.
On the way home from a school trip the train carrying all the students crashes. One kid wakes up to find the train in a darkened tunnel with all of his classmates dead. He begins to wander around and figure out how to survive and get out.

It was a bit more creepy before I knew what they were saying bit still quite good.


* Watched: Lost: hhh
Lost, most of season one. I like this show. When it is “on” it is hell of creepy and intriguing when it is not it is a bit slow. I gave it three stars (or little ambulance fellas as it were) but the episodes range from 2-5 mostly around 4’s.

* Listened to: Apologies to the Queen Mary, Wolf Parade: hhhhh
I bought this the night I aw the show. Which was one of the best kick ass rock shows I have seen since Archers of Loaf broke up. The record is as good.


RATING SCALE h Utter shite hh Don't bother hhh Average hhhh nicely done hhhhh farking brilliant

Aught-six, begin!

I've not posted in forever. Been crazy busy, with the holidays and the move and junk.
For everyone I saw over the holidays it was cool though I wish I had more time. To everyone who I did not get a chance to see, sorry. I hope I will be able to visit again in the spring.




This was the last sketch done in my old apartment (moved in with JB three weeks back).
I was sitting in the bathtub at the time. Most days we would put a laptop on the toilet seat there (to the left of the tub) and watch DVD's from the comfort of steamy water.



Since last session:

* Drinks: The holidays, Who the heck knows. Last night I had a Moretti with a pasta dinner.

* Read: Feast of Crows, George R. R. Martin: hhhhh
The book that was four years in the coming! Pretty slow, as of all the climaxes in the end of book 3 it took a while to build steam. I do so enjoy Martin's world so that was fun.

* Watched: King Kong, Peter Jackson: hhhh
I really went to see dinosaurs and a giant monkey fist fight. I could give a shit about the rest. On that criteria it succeeded well.

* Listened to: Live at Folsom Prison, Johnny Cash : hhhh
After the biopic I was curious to hear the record. JB got it for me for x-mas. It's good!


RATING SCALE h Utter shite hh Don't bother hhh Average hhhh nicely done hhhhh farking brilliant