I just got a new job as a graphic artist that starts in a couple weeks, so I’m scrambling to finish this project before I don’t have time for it anymore. Well, technically, it was already finished, but I didn’t like it enough, so I’m doing the whole thing over. Here’s another peek at the work in progress– I’m sure in a couple days I’ll have found three hundred reasons why it’s terrible, but for now I’m pretty all right with it.
Man, making show posters is even more fun than I thought it would be. I wasn’t able to put much time into it, but it was still a nice break from the usual.
Those of you trying to access the forums will notice that they no longer exist. This is mostly because I am a clumsy idiot who shouldn’t be allowed access to the server– I usually accidentally break a link or, if I’m feeling particularly incompetent, somehow set an entire folder aflame. And no, smartasses, I don’t know how to put out a fire on the internet. Who knew videogame articles were so combustible?
Anyway, point is, I’ll try to fix it as soon as I can. If the entire site disappears from the face of the internet, you’ll know why.
UPDATE: …Um.
Remember me? I’m that other guy who sometimes pokes around, claiming to be a contributor to this fine portion of Internet. No? Well, just think on it for a while. It’ll come to you.
Anyway, I’m here to announce the creation of some rocking new action. Namely, the addition of another comic series to our collection, and another to my own personal pile. But I’ve got high hopes for this one. If you saw the WordPress page I started a while back (and then forgot about for a long time, which I totally called in, like, the first entry I made there), you’ve already seen the first two issues of the new comic. But now, in celebration of its own section on Meats & Fishes, I even made a third one! Check it out, it’s Nuclear Delight.
As a side note, who caught Demetri Martin’s new show on Wednesday night, Important Things? It looks like its going to shape up into one of Comedy Central’s better new shows in quite some time. I’m pretty excited about it, at least.
February 1st was Hourly Comics Day 2009, but for procrastinators and forgetful people, it was February 2nd. If you want to see a bunch of the comics the more prompt people made, they seem to be collecting here– some of them are really cool looking. I haven’t had time to look through all of them, but I saw some familiar names: James Turner, Kate Beaton, and KC Green. Also, this one is very pretty. I didn’t put nearly as much effort into mine, but for the curious among you, they are included after the break.
Hey dudes. I was starting to feel a tiny bit bad about not updating for a while. So I thought I’d show off a tiny part of a new project I’m working on (look at it!), and talk up a band I’ve been obsessed with for several weeks now– that band being the Madison outfit known as Pale Young Gentlemen. Their sophomore album Black Forest (tra la la) is absolutely one of my favorite albums of 2008 (it’s not on my Best of 2008 list here because I first heard it about a week after I wrote that dang thing, but believe me, it belongs on there). Listening to it, you get the vague sense that you’re listening to some sort of moody fairy tale unfolding, though if there really is a narrative continuity, I’ve only picked up on a little bit of it so far. Maybe it’s more like listening to the setting of a fairy tale, like a– well, like a black forest, foggy and dark and twisting. You don’t really pick up on that in just the two samples I’ve included after the jump, though… it’s more of a gestalt sort of thing. You can pick it up here (you’ve spent ten dollars on worse and you know it).
I have no delusions of this being a definitive list of the best music of the year. Music is, of course, a matter of taste, and I didn’t even come close to listening the majority of music released this year. There was just too much. I keep being told that the new Bon Iver album is a champ, but I didn’t hear it, so it’s not included here! These are my ten favorite albums of the year, each accompanied by a song and tiny little review.
Don’t worry, guys. We’re still the same lazy dudes you’ve come to know and love. We’ll just have to come up with new and better excuses. It’s only a matter of time.
Search your feelings; you know it to be true.
For reals this time, guys. We’re gonna do this up right. This is the new Meats & Fishes; a little more informal, a little more straightforward, and a little less, um…. Franklin Gothic Medium?
Yeah, that’s right. See that logo up there? That’s Helvetica Neue, baby. We’re done fucking around.
