So I survived the long week, which I'm sure everyone will agree is good news.
I just finished reading John le Carre's The Honourable Schoolboy, and have picked up another spy novel (There seem to be a lot of them around the house. Can't think why.) - Len Deighton's 'Berlin Game', made all the more enjoyable because I can visualize parts of the city as they're mentioned because of my ludicrously intense weekend there last year.
I'm listening to a lot of Regina Spektor, who has a gorgeous, very playful, voice. The world needs more album covers with the artists chugging alcoholic beverages, in my opinion. I've also been paying some serious aural attention to a great slightly-insane-loungey- jazz-electronica type group called De-Phazz that I discovered more or less by accident on a Russian website that hosts a lot of music, and I would direct you to it, but one of these days it's going to get its ass sued off seven ways to Thursday, and I'd rather not leave a trail. Ahem.
Email me if you'd like to know the URL of my Russian friends, but meanwhile, here's a De-Phazz snippet courtesy of the almost reputable last.fm:
Hell, now we've started, let's have some more musical teasey-bits, but don't blame me if all this here audio gizmos cause your browser to fall over, or if they all stop working in five minutes' time. It's the internets. Nothing is certain here.
Here's the aforementioned Miss Spektor:
Also, unless you've been hanging out under a dirty old tarp down by the river you will have heard of KT Tunstall by now, but here's 30 seconds of the girl doing her thing:
And as always, I have my Amon Tobin axe to grind, so here's a bit of Chocolate Lovely, from the album Supermodified:
So ner.
What with being hella busy in the last week (I think I had a relaxed moment where I breathed at 7.23pm on Tuesday, but that's about it) I haven't done much drawing, but I'm itching to get back to it. My policy of buying random $1 comics from the surplus bin at the Comic Shop near my office has resulted in a casualty - rather than impassively buying odd books for interesting art styles, I've gotten interested in one in particular, something I really wanted to avoid, because that shit gets expensive. But still, for better or worse I'm really into one called
Krissa and I went up to see her parents this weekend, which was as always awesome and a welcome respite from the hecticness.
What else?
Erm...I just bought Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories on the PS2 and seeing as Krissa's got a girly night out tomorrow night I shall be spending some time on that...
Any questions?
No, seriously. Ask me anything.
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I mailed you, e!
I'm in a really fucking foul mood. What would be your advice in that situation?
You should listen to the songs I'm about to send you.
Please sir, tell me more about tunnels.
What about them?
They are a device used when wanting to move something or someone from A to B when something is in the way.
After that it gets complicated, but I'd be happy to elaborate.
Ask you anything? OK - is that your foot in your masthead cartoon?
Why do all the crazies seem to find me?
I got my copy of Vice City Stories today. I might have to wait until everyone else has gone to bed before I can plug it in though.
BOSSY: Yes. Drawn from lifelike imagination by The Good Doctor P
Betsey: It's hard these days, I know. GPS, the Internet, wearing t-shirts saying 'Crazies! I'm right here!'. All these things aid and abett the modern Crazy in finding you. My advice is to follow suit with the technique used in so many zombie films - act like a crazy yourself, edge out into the crowd of Crazies and mumble crazy things every so often to put the Crazies at their ease. You'll blend right in, enabling you to make your escape.
Pete: Ye-es. From what little I've played, it seems the radio is a little...fruitier than previous games.
Well, I've played the first 15 missions in about 2 and a bit hours, and I must confess that I haven't been listening to the radio much. Though there was a particularly disturbing reference to paedophilia.
Isn't Regina amazing? Jen & I went to see her perform in '05 after hearing her on the radio. I knew I had to go to the show, even though I had never heard of her. And I never do that.
Pete: I haven't been counting, but there seems to be a slightly more involved property development/defense system with the asset acquiring..which could be good, could be bad...we'll see. And yes, I think I've heard the bit you mean. A little over the line, I think.
Craige: I"m so jealous.
What to fix for dinner when all the boys are coming over to compare brackets and I'll be the only girl? You said anything.