Archive for November, 2006

SASE

by Drey on November 28, 2006 in Funny, Life with No comments

When I was a child I would send away for fabulous free things advertised in the back of comic books. The ads simply required the sender to include a self-addressed stamped envelope. I thought to myself, “Well, I addressed this envelope myself without anyone else’s help and I put a stamp on it, so it should be fine.” I never got anything back in the mail.

I was also certain that the phrase “in the long run” referred to an end of the world event, similar to the rapture. I was concerned that I wouldn’t be able to keep up with the other runners and wondered what might happen if I needed to stop for a minute to have a drink.

The New Viewing Roster

by Drey on November 23, 2006 in Television with No comments

1. Battlestar Galactica
2. Farscape
3. Heroes
4. Torchwood
5. Death Note
6. Studio 60
7. Lost

The Fountain

by Drey on November 23, 2006 in Movies, Reft with No comments

I feel like I’ve just had a spiritual experience where information was communicated to me at a root level, data I have only begun to process. It’s as though Aronofsky understood my wordless inner dialogues and somehow translated them into cinematic language. The Fountain is a wonderful piece of art that is too beautiful to be called a film.

Outside the theater everything seemed quiet and desaturated. I moved through the supermarket, ghostlike, wanting to have a conversation with anyone at all or just sit down in the middle of the produce section and cry because some part of my spirit that doesn’t know English was trying to tell me something.

1. The Fountain
2. Brick
3. Inside Man
4. Day Watch
5. Night Watch
6. Howl’s Moving Castle
7. The Departed
8. Crash
9. Uzumaki
10. Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny

This in not the Greatest Movie in the World

by Drey on November 22, 2006 in Movies with No comments

Tenacious D is a glorious rock opera, oozing with comedic genius. Its awesomeness was evident within about 5 seconds when Meatloaf appeared as young JB’s father. The film then proceeded to rule.

1. Brick
2. Inside Man
3. Day Watch
4. Night Watch
5. Howl’s Moving Castle
6. The Departed
7. Crash
8. Uzumaki
9. Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny
10. The Prestige

New Old Job

by Drey on November 14, 2006 in Life with 1 Comment

I came to the point where I was trying to rapidly weave new segments onto the end of my rope as the anchor unspooled it in swift snakelike coils over the edge of the ship. Might be mixing metaphors there, but suffice to say the situation was dire. I sent out a flare and was instantly rescued by a passing ship.

In other words, I got a part time job at Attorney Locate, where I worked about five years ago. They offered me enough to cover most of my bills. So far it seems like the right choice. Everything fell into place just as it has for the past several years.

Each time I think “This will be the situation where magical thinking fails and my bizarre theories about the universe will be dismantled.” But I am wrong every time.

Calling All Angels

by Drey on November 3, 2006 in Artwork, Comics with 2 Comments

I made this comic for all of my friends, as a gift. I started to write words under the panels, but realized I didn’t need to say anything else.

Click on the image to see the comic.

Wrong Number

by Drey on November 1, 2006 in Funny, Life with No comments

Every once in a while, I will get a wrong number call on my cell. Today I got three. Three different people called throughout the day, each asking for a different person: Lisa, Simon, and some other name. My phone is the Nexus of Almost Right.

Art Gallery

by Drey on November 1, 2006 in Artwork with 1 Comment

I had almost forgotten about this, but there’s an online gallery of all the art I created for one particular client at http://www.terranovachurch.org/gallery/

It’s hard to believe that I generated that much content, but I guess it adds up over the years.