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busy weekend
May. 14th, 2012 11:45 amWell! Got a lot accomplished. Bought Shain a new, larger monitor. Got some new shorts for the summer, some that actually fit. Went out and saw "Marvel's The Avengers" as it's called - IN 3D no less, and was pleasantly entertained. The 3D wasn't too distracting, the movie pushed all the buttons, and I think the only quibble is the dialog sometimes gives us one cutesy witty line too many, and the fact that (spoiler warning) if you can fire a nuclear missile at NYC, you can assuredly fire one right into the giant Sky Anus that is discharging evil Space Bikers and Space Whales, which would solve everything. On the other hand, it gave Shain the chance to come up with the term "Sky Anus".
We also used the Redbox for the first time and rented "J. Edgar" for $1. It's a pretty good movie, better than the reviews gave it credit for, though they were right about the old-age makeup and the film's desire to have it both ways with Hoover. Sometimes you can show both sides of a figure and while the audience appreciates the even-handedness, you want the movie to bite the bullet and come to a conclusion. Towards the end of the film you are waiting for someone to burst in with a cross and a stake hollering "DIE, YOU MONSTER!" Great Lea Thompson cameo, though.
I also spent most of Saturday morning/afternoon and Sunday morning/afternoon putting together all of Anime North's ANIME HELL show, Friday at 10pm, be there. That gives me next weekend - the long holiday weekend up here - to kick back and relax! And of course I finished this week's strip at Mister Kitty. I'm working up to a good spot to take a short break. I know definitely I'll be taking the week of Anime North off from the website, I don't know if I'll extend that to two weeks. Probably not. I did watch some of EK's live-stream last night, she aims a camera at her drawing board and works on her strip and you can watch from home and listen to her reply to the texted commentary from the audience. I have no idea what kind of inhuman focus it takes to draw AND pay attention to the chatter on a computer screen at the same time, let alone drawing in front of an audience. I was never any good at that, I can't do meaningful work behind a table at a convention, or in front of a camera, or in a cab somewhere in Western Europe, which is why I'll never be Osamu Tezuka. But it's nice to catch up with EK, even if it's via some kind of weird 21st century computer proxy Perky Pat-esque techno gadgetry.
Speaking of computers we signed up for the free Netflix promo and I must say the Canadian version of Netflix is markedly inferior to the American edition, at least in catalog size. The streaming is great, everything about it works fine, but here the pickin's are very slim compared to US Netflix. Dunno if I'm gonna pay ten bucks a month for a whole lot of B-pictures I don't want to see. In fact I DO know, quite positively, that I'm NOT going to pay for that. Sorry fellas.
We also used the Redbox for the first time and rented "J. Edgar" for $1. It's a pretty good movie, better than the reviews gave it credit for, though they were right about the old-age makeup and the film's desire to have it both ways with Hoover. Sometimes you can show both sides of a figure and while the audience appreciates the even-handedness, you want the movie to bite the bullet and come to a conclusion. Towards the end of the film you are waiting for someone to burst in with a cross and a stake hollering "DIE, YOU MONSTER!" Great Lea Thompson cameo, though.
I also spent most of Saturday morning/afternoon and Sunday morning/afternoon putting together all of Anime North's ANIME HELL show, Friday at 10pm, be there. That gives me next weekend - the long holiday weekend up here - to kick back and relax! And of course I finished this week's strip at Mister Kitty. I'm working up to a good spot to take a short break. I know definitely I'll be taking the week of Anime North off from the website, I don't know if I'll extend that to two weeks. Probably not. I did watch some of EK's live-stream last night, she aims a camera at her drawing board and works on her strip and you can watch from home and listen to her reply to the texted commentary from the audience. I have no idea what kind of inhuman focus it takes to draw AND pay attention to the chatter on a computer screen at the same time, let alone drawing in front of an audience. I was never any good at that, I can't do meaningful work behind a table at a convention, or in front of a camera, or in a cab somewhere in Western Europe, which is why I'll never be Osamu Tezuka. But it's nice to catch up with EK, even if it's via some kind of weird 21st century computer proxy Perky Pat-esque techno gadgetry.
Speaking of computers we signed up for the free Netflix promo and I must say the Canadian version of Netflix is markedly inferior to the American edition, at least in catalog size. The streaming is great, everything about it works fine, but here the pickin's are very slim compared to US Netflix. Dunno if I'm gonna pay ten bucks a month for a whole lot of B-pictures I don't want to see. In fact I DO know, quite positively, that I'm NOT going to pay for that. Sorry fellas.
