been reading a lot of great comics recently.

flight 3 just arrived, i'm a little way through, it's beautiful stuff so far.

read the back catalogue of dresden codak, which i've really enjoyed, one of my favourite comics in terms of both art and subject matter. and it's really consistent, too - some of my favourites are free will and easy wandering, and nuclear wessles, and the dialogue in absinthe makes the heart grow fonder is perfect. for some reason it reminds me a lot of a lesson is learned but the damage is irreversable, which is also one of my favourite drawn/scripted comics. maybe that's the link! check out david's comments on this one for an amazingly detailed analysis and look into why comics are awesome, which is concurrently the same reason that you are not good if you think comics are not awesome, and are just for babies. with no teeth.

today i am enjoying: simple sentences! with exclamations!

perfect stars definitely gets better as it goes along, i'm reading it backwards for some reason. actually, as i get deeper into the older comics, it appears there was just a rough patch. they're getting better again. let's kiss each other so much! i can't wait for 2007, so i can get the calandar.

i wish copper updated more often, go and read all of those.

i think i liked this one because it's all on one page. just the immediacy.

i've also just started reading minus from the start, which was linked from dresden. minus is a really great name for a kid, and some of the comics are magic. actually, all of them are magic - what i mean to say is, they are magic and also to do with magic, in a little world. get what i mean? oh, oh, you'll see! you'll see, my friend! this one is good, as well as this one and the first one. and a lot of others, too.

whoa, i've just come across a minus that i read the other day, without realising it was a minus. it was linked from this new webcomic colective called koala wallop, which hasn't started yet, but i'm quite excited about it since i read all of the comics its members draw. one of them is the secret crocodile adventure club, and if you aren't a member, then you are an anus. seriously, it's hot stuff - i think i might even like the newsposts they email better than the comics. and the idea of a secret club! it used to be a lot more secret, but now i think they've open it up to everyone. i don't even think you need to be on the mailinglist anymore, which used to be one of the conditions of being a member. but i hear you still get some secret stuff as a member...i don't know what that stuff is, as i've always been a member. ALWAYS AND FOREVER.

here is another secret club! the secret friend society. i'm in the middle of salamander dream. hope larson contributed to flight comics. kazu (writer of copper) kind of orchestrates it all.

i've been trying to have some old ragtime kind of stuff playing in a room in the house a lot of the time - just so you can hear it as you walk past that room. it's felt really good, coming in from the garden and hearing 'georgia....geooorgia' with a brass band playing, it really takes you to another place, or back in time. i highly recommend it. here's a couple for you:

Mr Freddie - Let's go Riding

Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks - Georgia On My Mind

Let's Go Riding is a real feelgood song, you can play this one loud and dance along, it doesn't have to be other-room music. I've made a whole CD of this stuff, a lot of it is off the Ghost World soundtrack, because i wouldn't know where to start really. maybe it'll be my next avenue to explore.

Vince Giordano does a lot of the subdued big band stuff like this, they all start out fairly incognitoulously (i totally made that word up!), but then develop into real little gems, not the bing crosby stuff you're expecting. you can hear this perfectly in Georgia On My Mind, where it starts with that bland violin line, before adding the horn and the minor chord. that's the way, vince.

i think that's all. i went on for a bit, didn't i? sorry about that.


georgia, the whole day through.