new school old school

you spoke, and we listened. by we, i mean me. the royal we. aldos’s comment was going to keep me up at night if i didn’t draw it.

i definitely lost an hour this weekend once i stumbled across these internets of ricky gervais interviewing larry david. i do a bit of time thinking about the purpose of comedy / humor.. and what people find funny.. what i find funny.. and i liked watching these guys talk about all that. i’m always if/when intrigued when people say they can’t watch curb your enthusiasm because it makes them feel too uncomfortable.

i did not draw the drawings below. the guest artist on this post is chris chappell.

no life drawings this week from me because i ended up being the model tonight at AFG. it was pretty neat to see yourself drawn / painted by other people. especially since we have such kickass artists in our group.

i told some stories while i was “on stage.” it’s weird because it was almost hard for me not to. i’d just think of these dumb things while it was all quiet and then i’d start smirking and then just have to twist my arm why don’t you go into my standup routine. not really though, i was just chattin it up speakin ma mind. but it made me realize our models don’t really change facial expressions and it hadn’t occured to me that could be a challenge. that had NOT occurred to us dude.

a reason i feel some need to post this nonsense is that i thought of that great scene in i heart huckabees, when they replay the tape of shaina twain story for hey jude. i heart that scene.

today was friday the 13th, and there was a friday the 13th last month too. i feel like that can only happen when once in a blue moon when it goes from feb -> march

i don’t have any beef with the watchmen movie except for some of the song choices they made. the song they used for the opening scene, i thought was really awesome and possibly perfect. but the song they picked for the comedian’s funeral i thought was just wack. played out. and the hendrix that appears later could only remind of forrest gump (although oddly enough, forrest is the last person i think of when i hear that song sans epic flying vehicles on movie screens)

if i had made it, i would have put this song somewhere good.

cos its due back at the video store tomorrow. gonna watch the watchmen tomorrow too, not at the video store. it just came out this weekend and i see ppl on the interwebz freakin over it. in 4 years from now, this paragraph will seem so 4 years ago. (video stores??)

spaced has been a lot of fun to watch. i’ve realized i really like shows/movies when the characters are kinda losers. i also love it when they talk about brian doing art (his influences are pain, anger, fear) or when that raver guy starts jammin out anytime something makes a repeating noise.

on these drawings, i made an effort to start out by drawing lightly for longer. the last 2 are on masonite, which has been really fun to draw on.