Wednesday, August 31, 2005
DR. TRAN ON G4 TONIGHT!
Catch Here Comes Dr. Tran in its entirety tonight on cable network G4! Check your local listings.
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Catch Here Comes Dr. Tran in its entirety tonight on cable network G4! Check your local listings.
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RESPITE
This week I've been working on a temp title sequence for the G4 Dr. Tran stuff in the mornings and working on another effects project in the evenings. The evening project started last week where I was also working on a different project in mornings. I've been informed that the workstation at MFX I was using to do the titles is busy this morning with "real" work (the boss being kind enough to let me use the facilities during down time) and since I don't have to work tonight, I get a break. And it is welcome.
I've been rundown lately. Part of that is the work. Part of that is worry about this and that. Part of that is not getting enough sleep. And part of that is how stupid hot it is here in Burbank as soon as the sun comes up. I swear, it's not even 9:30am and it feels like it's 90 degrees in here.
Anyway, I have some things to do to prepare for Lindsey's sister's birthday plus a few errands to run. That'll keep me busy and my restless brain occupied.
KANYE WEST'S LATE REGISTRATION
Kanye West's new album came out yesterday and although I've been happily listening to a bootleg of it for the past couple of weeks I decided to make it one of the 3 or 4 CDs I buy for the year.
Late Registration is a pretty bold sophomore album. West enlisted producer Jon Brion , known more for his work with Fiona Apple and director PT Anderson, to help him with his vision. And as is par for the course with West (and with hip hop in general), this vision is rife with contradiction. The album is both adult and adolescent, beatiful and gutter, intelligent and ridiculous, loving and crass.
Even if Kanye is an "international asshole" (his words), I'm still convinced that he's here to save hip hop from itself.
And while I was writing this, I just read somewhere that M.I.A. was supposed to appear on this album. Apparently, she declined. That makes me sad. Kanye and M.I.A. Sigh...
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This week I've been working on a temp title sequence for the G4 Dr. Tran stuff in the mornings and working on another effects project in the evenings. The evening project started last week where I was also working on a different project in mornings. I've been informed that the workstation at MFX I was using to do the titles is busy this morning with "real" work (the boss being kind enough to let me use the facilities during down time) and since I don't have to work tonight, I get a break. And it is welcome.
I've been rundown lately. Part of that is the work. Part of that is worry about this and that. Part of that is not getting enough sleep. And part of that is how stupid hot it is here in Burbank as soon as the sun comes up. I swear, it's not even 9:30am and it feels like it's 90 degrees in here.
Anyway, I have some things to do to prepare for Lindsey's sister's birthday plus a few errands to run. That'll keep me busy and my restless brain occupied.
KANYE WEST'S LATE REGISTRATION
Kanye West's new album came out yesterday and although I've been happily listening to a bootleg of it for the past couple of weeks I decided to make it one of the 3 or 4 CDs I buy for the year.
Late Registration is a pretty bold sophomore album. West enlisted producer Jon Brion , known more for his work with Fiona Apple and director PT Anderson, to help him with his vision. And as is par for the course with West (and with hip hop in general), this vision is rife with contradiction. The album is both adult and adolescent, beatiful and gutter, intelligent and ridiculous, loving and crass.
Even if Kanye is an "international asshole" (his words), I'm still convinced that he's here to save hip hop from itself.
And while I was writing this, I just read somewhere that M.I.A. was supposed to appear on this album. Apparently, she declined. That makes me sad. Kanye and M.I.A. Sigh...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
TONIGHT'S SOUNDTRACK
Make a mix cd of these songs and be me for an evening (moustache and crap beard optional).
"Gone" - Kanye West featuring Cam'Ron and Consequence.
"I Got The (Blues)" - Labi Siffre.
"Radical Agenda" - The Cousin Lovers.
"I Want You" - Marvin Gaye.
"Summer In The City" - Quincy Jones.
"Number One" - John Legend featuring Kanye West.
"Hombre" - M.I.A.
"They Don't Know About Us" - Ben Gibbard.
"Apache" - Incredible Bongo Band.
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Make a mix cd of these songs and be me for an evening (moustache and crap beard optional).
"Gone" - Kanye West featuring Cam'Ron and Consequence.
"I Got The (Blues)" - Labi Siffre.
"Radical Agenda" - The Cousin Lovers.
"I Want You" - Marvin Gaye.
"Summer In The City" - Quincy Jones.
"Number One" - John Legend featuring Kanye West.
"Hombre" - M.I.A.
"They Don't Know About Us" - Ben Gibbard.
"Apache" - Incredible Bongo Band.
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Saturday, August 27, 2005
STICK TO MAKING THAT MINK BAN HAPPEN, MORONS
Sometimes, animal rights activists get it okay. Most times, they're just the Army of the 12 Monkeys.
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Sometimes, animal rights activists get it okay. Most times, they're just the Army of the 12 Monkeys.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005
BAND I DON'T LIKE SCORING POINTS
There's a new Gap ad campaign where singers sing a bit of their favorite song equating it with buying Gap jeans, somehow. Anyway, I just saw one with, I think, the lead singer of Incubus singing a bit of Elvis Costello's Alison.
I'm not at all a fan of Incubus. I saw them once at one of those shows where 10 bands perform and I'm there for, like, 6 of the bands and the other 4 bands I could have set on fire if it weren't for my attachment to the unlit match. Incubus was one of those 4 bands. In fact, if I remember correctly, my review of their performance was "Incubus? Suckubus." However, I'm finding that more and more of these bands I don't like have good taste in music. And if the guy from Incubus's favorite song is Alison, then maybe they're not that bad.
I will now consider illegally downloading their music.
And speaking of Elvis, this comes out on DVD in September here in the US:
Someone buy it for me.
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There's a new Gap ad campaign where singers sing a bit of their favorite song equating it with buying Gap jeans, somehow. Anyway, I just saw one with, I think, the lead singer of Incubus singing a bit of Elvis Costello's Alison.
I'm not at all a fan of Incubus. I saw them once at one of those shows where 10 bands perform and I'm there for, like, 6 of the bands and the other 4 bands I could have set on fire if it weren't for my attachment to the unlit match. Incubus was one of those 4 bands. In fact, if I remember correctly, my review of their performance was "Incubus? Suckubus." However, I'm finding that more and more of these bands I don't like have good taste in music. And if the guy from Incubus's favorite song is Alison, then maybe they're not that bad.
I will now consider illegally downloading their music.
And speaking of Elvis, this comes out on DVD in September here in the US:
Someone buy it for me.
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THE TRANITIZATION OF AMERICA CONTINUES
G4 has a forum dedicated to the new Barbed Wire Biscuit show and within that there is an unofficial Dr. Tran Fan Club thread in its infancy. More Dr. Tran news to come!
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G4 has a forum dedicated to the new Barbed Wire Biscuit show and within that there is an unofficial Dr. Tran Fan Club thread in its infancy. More Dr. Tran news to come!
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WHY L.A. SOMETIMES RULES
Last night I introduced Lindsey to the greatness that is Brian de Palma's Carlito's Way. If you've never seen it, it's Al Pacino playing a Puerto Rican gangster trying his goddamnest to reform. You never quite buy that Pacino's a Puerto Rican in it (especially since they surrounded him with actual Puerto Ricans) but he's so great in it that you don't care. So, yeah....great movie, even after the millionth viewing.
Today, we're driving around looking for something to do and after visiting Meltdown (and running into my pal Jim there) we head over to the new Target over on Santa Monica and La Brea. We like to aimlessly browse Target stores. So, there we are, walking around looking at various things made of plastic. I hear a playful, gruff voice around the corner. We walk around the corner and, lo and fucking behold, there's Al Pacino pushing a cart with a little girl in the kid's seat. A couple of weird things about this: A) Al Pacino shops at Target, B) he's about as tall as I am if not shorter, and C) he was dressed EXACTLY like he was in Carlito's Way. I've spent a lot of my downtime practically worshipping this guy in the Godfather films and And Justice For All and Heat and everything else and here he is buying back-to-school stuff or frying pans or whatever the hell at the local Target.
There was another guy there we recognized from TV and we even had an "oh, excuse me" exchange with him as we volleyed for aisle position. But he might as well have been the parking attendant after seeing Al Pa-fucking-cino.
That's why L.A. sometimes rules.
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Last night I introduced Lindsey to the greatness that is Brian de Palma's Carlito's Way. If you've never seen it, it's Al Pacino playing a Puerto Rican gangster trying his goddamnest to reform. You never quite buy that Pacino's a Puerto Rican in it (especially since they surrounded him with actual Puerto Ricans) but he's so great in it that you don't care. So, yeah....great movie, even after the millionth viewing.
Today, we're driving around looking for something to do and after visiting Meltdown (and running into my pal Jim there) we head over to the new Target over on Santa Monica and La Brea. We like to aimlessly browse Target stores. So, there we are, walking around looking at various things made of plastic. I hear a playful, gruff voice around the corner. We walk around the corner and, lo and fucking behold, there's Al Pacino pushing a cart with a little girl in the kid's seat. A couple of weird things about this: A) Al Pacino shops at Target, B) he's about as tall as I am if not shorter, and C) he was dressed EXACTLY like he was in Carlito's Way. I've spent a lot of my downtime practically worshipping this guy in the Godfather films and And Justice For All and Heat and everything else and here he is buying back-to-school stuff or frying pans or whatever the hell at the local Target.
There was another guy there we recognized from TV and we even had an "oh, excuse me" exchange with him as we volleyed for aisle position. But he might as well have been the parking attendant after seeing Al Pa-fucking-cino.
That's why L.A. sometimes rules.
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Monday, August 15, 2005
COUSIN LOVED
Last Saturday night's Cousin Lovers show was pretty good. It was the new line-up with only Tim (lead vocal, mandolin) and Dean (guitar, harmony) intact from the original crew. Still, it was a fun show if a bit rough around the edges. The highlight was their brand-new cover of M.I.A.'s song, Galang.
And speaking of which, if you haven't picked up M.I.A.'s album, Arular, you're missing out on a great record. It's ridiculously addictive and I fell in love with it on first listen.
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Last Saturday night's Cousin Lovers show was pretty good. It was the new line-up with only Tim (lead vocal, mandolin) and Dean (guitar, harmony) intact from the original crew. Still, it was a fun show if a bit rough around the edges. The highlight was their brand-new cover of M.I.A.'s song, Galang.
And speaking of which, if you haven't picked up M.I.A.'s album, Arular, you're missing out on a great record. It's ridiculously addictive and I fell in love with it on first listen.
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Saturday, August 13, 2005
SKETCHBOOK SESSIONS BLOG
Our Sketchbook Sessions site is receiving some overhauling, starting with its transformation into a blog. Check it out to see what the group's up to. I'll be doing a lot of the updating on the blog but the other guys will also have access and be able to post. So, you know....go there!
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Our Sketchbook Sessions site is receiving some overhauling, starting with its transformation into a blog. Check it out to see what the group's up to. I'll be doing a lot of the updating on the blog but the other guys will also have access and be able to post. So, you know....go there!
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COUSIN LOVIN'
Tonight, we're going to see my friends the Cousin Lovers play at a club called The Mint. The boys have been playing there recently and I haven't had the time to go to any of their shows so I'm looking forward to it. There's no reason anyone would have heard of this band being a local favorite for the past few years. However, they got a shot of national notoriety recently after playing Sandra Bullock's wedding. The tabloids, they do go into details, and it was surreal to read my friends' band's name in all of them. Tim, the lead singer and mandolin player, surprised me in an email by addressing Sandra Bullock as "Sandy".
Weird.
I'll have to ask him about it if he's not sick of talking about it.
Saw a movie called Pretty Persuasion last night. It's like Mean Girls and Election smashed together, punched in the face, eaten out, then placed in a Beverly Hills private school. It's hilarious, sexy, scary, sad, fucked up, and sad (in that order). And it was very entertaining. The filmmakers cram a ton of ideas into this movie and it's almost too much but the writing is sharp and very funny (and, better yet, very politically incorrect) and carries the movie through its rough bits.
I assume that it got an X rating and was released unrated instead. I can see that, although there wasn't much in this movie that wasn't in, say, American Pie. Anyway....if this manages to get a wider release, go see it. It's a good time.
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Tonight, we're going to see my friends the Cousin Lovers play at a club called The Mint. The boys have been playing there recently and I haven't had the time to go to any of their shows so I'm looking forward to it. There's no reason anyone would have heard of this band being a local favorite for the past few years. However, they got a shot of national notoriety recently after playing Sandra Bullock's wedding. The tabloids, they do go into details, and it was surreal to read my friends' band's name in all of them. Tim, the lead singer and mandolin player, surprised me in an email by addressing Sandra Bullock as "Sandy".
Weird.
I'll have to ask him about it if he's not sick of talking about it.
Saw a movie called Pretty Persuasion last night. It's like Mean Girls and Election smashed together, punched in the face, eaten out, then placed in a Beverly Hills private school. It's hilarious, sexy, scary, sad, fucked up, and sad (in that order). And it was very entertaining. The filmmakers cram a ton of ideas into this movie and it's almost too much but the writing is sharp and very funny (and, better yet, very politically incorrect) and carries the movie through its rough bits.
I assume that it got an X rating and was released unrated instead. I can see that, although there wasn't much in this movie that wasn't in, say, American Pie. Anyway....if this manages to get a wider release, go see it. It's a good time.
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Friday, August 12, 2005
FRIDAY
It looks like the knee-jerks at Sony are about to drop everything that's interesting and fun from the movie version of The Da Vinci Code "to placate Catholics". There's really no reason to finish this movie at this point.
Oh...and COMMENTS are back! I missed 'em. Hopefully I won't get spammed again like I did before.
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It looks like the knee-jerks at Sony are about to drop everything that's interesting and fun from the movie version of The Da Vinci Code "to placate Catholics". There's really no reason to finish this movie at this point.
Oh...and COMMENTS are back! I missed 'em. Hopefully I won't get spammed again like I did before.
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Thursday, August 11, 2005
BEST BAND EVER TODAY
Support Kids Against Combs! Their forthcoming album was originally to be named Sean Hannity (631) 673-8003 which is that jackass on Fox News' actual home phone number. After some threats, they changed the name of the album to The Album Formerly Known As Sean Hannity’s Phone Number ... Currently Sean Hannity Is a Democracy Subverting Douche Bag. And really, you gotta love that (if you don't care for Sean Hannity). I don't know if they're any good, but I'm gonna buy the album on principle alone.
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Support Kids Against Combs! Their forthcoming album was originally to be named Sean Hannity (631) 673-8003 which is that jackass on Fox News' actual home phone number. After some threats, they changed the name of the album to The Album Formerly Known As Sean Hannity’s Phone Number ... Currently Sean Hannity Is a Democracy Subverting Douche Bag. And really, you gotta love that (if you don't care for Sean Hannity). I don't know if they're any good, but I'm gonna buy the album on principle alone.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
PHEW...
Well, the tv season is ending and I'm finally in the mood to update here again. I haven't had any energy to do much what with the con season and work and a bit of freelance drawing and the Fantastic Four movie sucking ass.
Anyway...Here Comes Dr. Tran news: Dr. Tran, along with Lone Sausage's other films, will be appearing on G4, the cable network dedicated to video games. It'll be part of a new show they have called Barbed Wire Biscuit that'll start at the end of August. They showed a sneak preview of the show last night and previewed a minute and a half version of Dr. Tran. Apparently, you can say "Hot Dickings" on tv after 1030pm. So, this is pretty exciting. More to come..
In a little over a week, Linds and I will be heading up to the Big Bear area again for a weekend of absolutely nothing. I can't wait. I'm dying to get outta town.
Here's something I did this week, a storyboard panel for a show (which I cannot disclose). I liked how the bungee girl came out in this:
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Well, the tv season is ending and I'm finally in the mood to update here again. I haven't had any energy to do much what with the con season and work and a bit of freelance drawing and the Fantastic Four movie sucking ass.
Anyway...Here Comes Dr. Tran news: Dr. Tran, along with Lone Sausage's other films, will be appearing on G4, the cable network dedicated to video games. It'll be part of a new show they have called Barbed Wire Biscuit that'll start at the end of August. They showed a sneak preview of the show last night and previewed a minute and a half version of Dr. Tran. Apparently, you can say "Hot Dickings" on tv after 1030pm. So, this is pretty exciting. More to come..
In a little over a week, Linds and I will be heading up to the Big Bear area again for a weekend of absolutely nothing. I can't wait. I'm dying to get outta town.
Here's something I did this week, a storyboard panel for a show (which I cannot disclose). I liked how the bungee girl came out in this:
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