OKAY, let’s try this post again. i had it up earlier (sorry for your lost comment, mark!) but i kept fearing some kind of backtracing from the blogs i was linking to, like remember when Zach accidentally lured people to RS like that Kevin Church guy and wasn’t there another one, some political blogger who was really mad? anyway, i didn’t want to start a shitstorm here on the blog, even a small one, so i’m starting over and being less moody.

anyway, wasn’t sure what category to put this in.

thought i’d do a Shadoweyes-related post since it’s supposed to be Shadoweyes Month here at RS, and the San Diego Comic Con was pretty slow and uneventful this year, and most of the good stuff i can’t talk about publicly because it involves specific people so there isn’t much left to talk about. anyway, other than the advance review by Kelly Thompson from a while back, there are a few new reviews: one really good one on Amazon, a stellar one on ComicBitsOnline.com, and one mixed not-so-good review at Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie (you have to scroll down a little for that one). check ‘em out.

i’m still hard at work on the second volume, Shadoweyes In Love. i’ve been running a behind-the-scenes kind of interactive series of posts on my livejournal where i put up cover sketches and color tests and get people’s opinions as i narrow it down with each installment, inching toward the final cover, and i realized i should have been putting them up here on RS, too. i have a friend who’s also trying to put together a live-action Shadoweyes short film, he’s already contacted special effects people including Stan Winston studios about getting estimates for building a Shadoweyes suit. i’m pretty excited about it, and my job right now is that i have to write a script or outline or something for what happens in the film (not sure how long it’s going to be, probably less than 5-10 minutes) but i don’t have any ideas!!!

i was supposed to go see Inception with Dan today but he ended up having to hang out with his dad so i’m not sure when i’ll get out to see it. WHATEVER, it probably sucks anyway. sorry again that i lost your comment, Mark, but i liked how you said you’d see “an Inception” with me, haha. do you want to see it without Dan or should we wait for him? his schedule is really packed.

Recommended if you’re mark:

Snow Snow For Lucy from SnowSnowForLucy on Vimeo.

The latest round of bands gigging at Sacramento’s Fire Escape and Boardwalk may not live up to the lofty example of Blownload, Sexrat, or the Snot Cocks as far as hilariously bad band names, but June does offer some decent pickings. Enjoy:

Friday, June 11 @ The Fire Escape

“Summer Showdown 2″ (night 1)

Fallrise

Zuhg

Dogfood (that sounds about right)

Exhale

Saturday, June 12 @ The Fire Escape

“Summer Showdown 2″ (night 2)

Splitself

March into Paris

Allinaday

Flatline

(I’m hoping for a Fallrise-Splitself final round.  Maybe they’ll form a Voltron-like super band called Fallrisesplitself.  Also, a band called Coldcokt is playing at the ‘Scape on 6/25.)

Saturday, June 12 @ The Boardwalk

Conducting From the Grave

The Antioch Synopsis (sounds like a terrible Tom Clancy-esque thriller)

Journal

Aurelia

Beyond all Ends

Lifeforms

My Murderous Intentions

Karakas (because the city of Caracas, Venezuela sounds badass when misspelled!)

(By the way, how long did this show run?  Two days?  Could it still be going on?)

seems like it might be a boring article until you see the photos and how cartoony these people were. so weird! they look like concept artwork for a movie or Sebastian Kruger caricatures or something:

weird drunkards.

For whatever reason Eric Clapton has always grated on me. I think it was one of those arbitrary middle school/high school decisions that I’ve never really had reason to revise. Anyway this cell phone commercial has been on non-stop during the olympics and I’m super sick of it. The thing I hate the most is the “move” Clapton does at 0:15. Other lowlights include the song (“I get off on ’57 Chevys” cannot think of a less interesting thing to get off on) and Clapton doing his best Earthworm Jim impression at 0:11.

Recent shows at The Fire Escape:

Fri 2/5: DEFYANT CIRCLE, TBA

Sat 2/6: THE NICKEL SLOTS; HELPYOURSELF; MUSICAL CHARIS (possible typo?)

Sun 2/7: SCOWNDROLLS; TAGYOURDEAD; CHASER; CALL THE COPS; FUTURE DAYDREAM

NOTES:

1) Intentionally incorrect spelling (e.g. Defyant Circle) and an odd agglutinative tendency (Helpyourself) are revealing themselves to be the two dominant tendencies in Fire Escape band nomenclature, along with, of course, potty humor (Sexrat, Blownload – incidentally both agglutinative as well). The ultimate Fire Escape band name would combine all three of these tendencies, as in “Blownlowd.”

2) As a name, “Tagyourdead” is somewhat unclear.  As it reads now, it seems to imply an admonition to “tag your dead,” which sounds rather boringly like something you’d say to your kid the first time he takes down a deer on a hunting trip. “Tagyouredead,” as in “Tag! You’re dead!” would probably register as more badass in the world of The Fire Escape, suggesting some sort of lethal, satanic game of Laser Tag, though perhaps the band members considered an extra “e” an effeminate excess.

One of Zach’s favorite sub-genre descriptions – butt rock – gets some exposure in Paste, from Barry Blasengame’s review of the Midlake album, The Courage of Others:

“The disappointing thing about most Molly Hatchet albums – beside the fact that they’re horrible – is the blatant deception of their covers.  During the band’s heyday, Hatchet albums featured a hulking, wide-eyed barbarian swinging a massive battleaxe as sinew and bits of bone fell about him like crimson snow.  It was, in a word, badass.  But when you dropped the needle, out came a sickening bilge of chuggin’ boogie blues and butt rock.  The only thing hemorrhaging was your ears.”

O_O

really, really long.

i skimmed over much of it, as you’ll probably end up doing too, but i like how the nature of the review itself seems to be a meta-review of the game; you experience the review as this reviewer experienced the game.

funny meme, but kind of an interesting artist, too: wiki.