Archive for March, 2010
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All right, guys, it’s a new month, so let’s take a look at February’s The Remains of the Day chart:
As those of you who follow my twitter feed will no doubt recall, I finally saw the 1993 Merchant Ivory production The Remains of the Day (starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson) early last month, enjoyed it tremendously, and then began weighing every movie I saw from that point on against the The Remains of the Day Scale (TROTDS).
As you can see, among all the movies I saw from start to finish in the month of February, not one of them successfully reached TROTDL. Among the contenders, only current Oscar hopeful The Hurt Locker, Yasujiro Ozu’s elegiac Tokyo Story, and 1950′s “camp” classic Sunset Boulevard came anywhere near TROTDL (although Boris Karloff’s 1968 swan song Targets did make an unexpectedly strong showing, due partly to its surprisingly realistic tone, partly to the undeniable KARLOFF-ness of Boris Karloff, and partly to a murderer who remains terrifying not despite his ill-fitting pants, but because of his ill-fitting pants).
I should note here that I DID, in fact, see the Lon Chaney version of Phantom of the Opera in February, as well, but as I saw it BEFORE The Remains of the Day, its proper place on the scale would be purely conjectural and, therefore, not within the purview of this experiment. It was real bad-ass, though.
Roger Ebert wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. For more information on Roger Ebert, go here.
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I don’t know why I let so much time go by between these things. If another month goes by and I still haven’t given you guys a crack at the next set of pages, will someone please give me a quick kick?*
HERE ARE THE GOODS… Five of them this time, including CRAZY AIRBORNE WITCH ACTION!
BIdding ends on Sunday, March 7th. Roundabout Six-ish, California time.
Good luck, everybody, and thanks in advance for helping support the impending existence of Serenity Rose Vol. 3!
UPDATE 5/28:
Hi! Still working out a whole bunch of kinks here, but it’s 3:37 in the AM and I need to rest my achey eyes… Have a look around, and we’ll talk in a bit!
UPDATE 5/25:
BLLLLLUUUUUUhhhhhhhggggg…. Doesn’t look like I’m gonna have everything ready for tomorrow’s launch, guys. So sorry about that. This whole month has just been one big, frustrating ball of frustrating bigness… One day the bards will write epic songs about the frustrations of this month, you know. Epic songs that will bore children to death for generations to come.
SO…
When WILL Vicious start whispering again?
Come back this Friday and behold VISIONS OF THE FUTURE…
ORIGINAL POST:
WEDNESDAY, MAY 26…
VICIOUS WHISPER, infamous rockstar/sorceress and friend to all the planet’s freaks, will return to answer all your freakish questions once per Wednesday from within her floating greenhouse home… just like old times.
WHAT CAN I ASK HER? Anything. All questions and subject matter are fair game. Ask her about her life, your life, her world, your world, her favorite CHUD, your favorite CHUD, anything and everything, she will answer it all. Once per Wednesday.
HOW LONG WILL SHE DO THIS? Until the start of Serenity Rose Volume Three. Maybe longer. She’s pretty much like the Silver Surfer heralding the arrival of Galactus. Prepare your world for eating!
WHY IS SHE DOING THIS? Because it’s FUN, that’s why! And it’ll also help us raise funds for Serenity Rose Volume Three (through print and art sales, mostly). What a sweetie, eh? (By the way, I hear there might be some original Serenity Rose Volume Two pages up for auction right this very moment… LINK!)
WHERE DO I SEND MY QUESTIONS? Send ‘em in this direction:
See you May 26th!
TREMBLE, PUNY MORTALS, FOR YOU ARE IN THE PRESENCE OF DOOM!
Man, I sure do love DOOM. He’s been my favorite Marvel guy for as long as I can remember. Well, except for that brief period between the ages of 4 and 5 when I was obsessed with The Incredible Hulk, but nuts to that… Dr. Victor von Doom is a big, BOOMING asshole with a metal plate welded to his face, a spooky castle full of spooky super-science, and an old-fashioned (almost quaint) devotion to Total World Domination. How could you not love the guy? He OWNS HIS OWN COUNTRY, for god’s sake! “Latveria,” it’s called, pop. 50,000… Capital city: Doomstadt… Airport: Doomsport… National holiday: Doom’s Day… Citizens: currently living in the manner of medieval peasantry – FOR SO DOOM DEMANDS.
My ardor for The Incredible Hulk has cooled quite a bit over the past 27 years, but Doom… the Doom abides.
Above, we see Dr. Doom depicted in mortal combat with a dapper be-scarfed gentleman wielding a giant spoon.
And here we have one image of Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender and one image of Snow White from Fables giving Bigby Wolf the ol’ “Flamenco Dip.”
For more oddities, including an image of a man holding an image of himself (OR IS HE?), might I direct your attention to the COMMISSIONS GALLERY?
And, as always, if you’d like to request your OWN image of a man holding an image of himself (or super-hero, fire-bender, fairy tale character, Frank Zappa, naked Frank Zappa, naked fox girl, naked rutabaga, favorite bit of fishing tackle, etc, etc, etc.) e-mail me at SERENITY@HEARTSHAPEDSKULL.COM. The base price for art commissions is $50, and $30 for each additional character on the same page. Shipping is all kinds of free within the U.S., and a measly $3 to parts beyond.
Hope to hear from you soon, Doom-lovers!
…Or, actually, ONE new print and TWO new units of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder:
Yep, the ones on the right and left are exactly what they seem” Every single story page from Serenity Rose Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, shrunk down, meticulously arranged in grid form (taking way longer than I thought it would), and printed out on 13×19 sheets of Canon Premium Matte Fine Art paper. Why? BECAUSE IT’S COOL, that’s why!
“Sharing your mental illness with others is the very essence of art-making.”
The resolution of the wee tiny images is just astonishing (jpegs just can’t do them justice). The text isn’t legible, of course, but the images… SUCH PRETTINESS. Thank you, Canon PIXMA Pro9000 Mk. II! Never again will I question you insatiable hunger for ink and virgins!
I’ve gotten a few requests to make THIS particular image available in print form, too:
So there it is! Available in two sizes: GIANT SIZE (13×19 inch) or smallish (8.5×11 inch), pretty as a peach either way. I think this one might be my favorite print of the lot, as a matter of fact. (Hooray for simplicity!)
All these prints are waiting patiently for your love in the Heart-Shaped-Shop etsy store right now.
The original Serenity-Vicious-Tess triptych is still there, too, but who knows for how much longer… A NEW ERA OF PRINTMAKING is upon us, my friends, and the old gods must soon make way!
Thanks again for all your support!
