one zombie in a billion

Wee update of stuff I’ve picked up this week:

• Citizen Kane Special Edition dvd – Somehow I’ve never gotten round to seeing this until I bought the dvd. Simple put, it was amazing, lives up to it’s reputation. Welles was brilliant, really don’t need to go into this any further cause you all know how genius this film is anyway.
• Lodown 44 – New issue of the always brilliant dutch culture mag. There’s an awesome interview with James Lavelle and Ian Brown, pictures of the car that Haze designed the exteriors of and some photo journalism of the Mars Volta on tour. Great stuff.
• Writing Urban Calligraphy and Beyond – Great book on the study of graphitti fantastic stuff.

Kane is available at amazon.

Lodown and Writing – Urban Calligraphy and Beyond are available at the always awesome Analogue books

Well, I just got back from the cinema, went to see Closer starring Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts and Clive Owen.

Natalie Portman was particularly excellent in the film, delivered her lines with strength and emotion. However the breakthrough actor here was Clive Owen, the power of his delivery mixed with impeccable comic timing made his role the most entertaining in the film.

However, at times the choppy nature of the narrative, while completely intended, did lessen my ability to feel anything towards the erosion of each character’s relationship. Generally it was a great film, if a little tough to follow at times due to the time jumps with no visual cues to narrate the user until someone mentions the time passed since the previous scene.

Oh I bought comics, but I didn’t like most of them so no update to latest reads this week.

That being said these were pretty decent

• Simon Spector – Apparat/Avatar
• Ultimates 2 ~ 2 – Marvel

Been attempting something that seems like an Atkins diet, which has the awesome ability to rob you of energy and focus. Lunch time beers will fix that no doubt.

Picked up a dash of comics yesterday, got The Nikopol Trilogy by Bilal and this month’s Heavy Metal, on a european kick as of late. Mail brought a new Megazine and 2000ad as well as Bleach Vol 4 and The DC guide to colouring and lettering.

Woo for mundane listings instead of content!

Looking at my schedual for the next few days, I’m a busy bugger, spending tonight drawing from reference as well as laying down some test sequentials, wednesday I’m plotting out a graphic novel I’ve been stewing since last Saturday and thursday I’m planning another project.

One of my biggest issues is I have all these random ideas for stories, yet never commit them to paper before I get bored of them and move on to the next thing. I need to turn the speed up on the idea bottling planet.