conchordy goodness

Flight of the Conchords is now in its second season, and so far I've enjoyed the two new episodes. The music isn't quite as strong as the first season (though still very funny), but I think the comedy and writing actually might be a little bit better.

In other news, I found a cool t-shirt website, threadless.com, where you can set up an account and submit shirt ideas, and the site's community votes on them. If you wanna check out my ideaas, go to http://www.threadless.com/profile/885009/themilkman89.

So to the pictures!



This is a kinda poster I made while listening to Hypnotize by System of a Down. It's a good exercise, listening to music and sketching whatever random visual pops into your head.



This is a drawing I did of Batman and Robin (DC Comics). I like this style myself.



And this is a more artsy picture. I stared at my hand for a long long time to draw that hand lol. I actually drew this long before the house fire I was in New Years.

So yeah. That's it for today's update.

ttyl


Special Preview of the Next Update! I like to make awesome custom characters in Guitar Hero 4. Like Batman and Robin, or the Riddler. I'm gonna post some pics soon.

to the batcave!

Turbines to speed!

So this blog is going to be mostly random, as it is mostly just to show off some new pics, but I also wanna rant about who's its and what's its. Firstly, I love the Justice League Unlimited. It's probably the best superhero cartoon ever. Period. It introduced me to Booster Gold, and that's awesome, and has storylines so awesome one of them involves a Gorilla Batman.

Gorilla.

BATMAN.

Also, as a big Flight of the Conchords fan (New Zealand's fourth-most popular folk rock band!), I was very excited to stumble upon a movie called Eagle Vs Shark, an indie kiwi comedy starring Conchord Jemaine Clement. It was funny and touching, with a tone falling somewhere between Napoleon Dynamite and Science of Sleep. This movie certainly isn't for everybody, but I loved it.

And onto more photos! Other than my above-seen Batmobile (DC Comics), I also drew a couple Spider-Men (Marvel).


This Spider-Man is hanging from his feet from a string of web. I really wish people would showcase the fact that Spider-Man can not only crawl but walk on walls. That is, that his feet are magically delicious sticky. Ergo, he should be able to grab onto some web just fine with his feet.


This Spider-Man is another exhibition of his footy abilities; he's just chilling, giving you the big ol' double thumbs-up.

And I leave you, fine people of Le World, with a mock Batman page I did; the close-ups are detailed, but the other shots are a quirkier style I like. Click to enlarge.



Ttyl.

belated happy new year

Happy New Year. I bought you a cactus, internet!

Enjoy.

So not much going on right now; I'm unemployed and largely uninspired, and still not quite back to my normal operating standards.

But once I am! Oh boy oh boy party time will commence. Commencer, madamoiselle.

There are some things I feel I've researched just poorly enough to give my insightful amateur opinions about in an internet blog.

First off, apparently actor Joaquin Phoenix, who I loved as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line, has taken a hiatus from his acting career to start a rapping career. Having never heard him rap, I won't say that he's doomed or anything--I will just point out that most actors who try music (Bruce Willis, Corey Feldman) see nothing but wonderful failure. Plus, what a strange genre to try out. I just didn't expect rap from Mr. Cash; rock, maybe, because honestly he sang Johnny Cash's songs better than Johnny Cash did. But rap? Wow.


Also, as a huge Jason Voorhees fanboy, I had a little happypartydancathon when I saw the latest batch of Friday the 13th (2009) pics. Correct me if I'm wrong but I do believe that this marks the first time an Asian guy has had a role in a Jason flick. Yay, diversity!

Also, apparently there's a third Ice Age flick coming out this year? Am I living in some parallel dimension where Ray Ramano, Dennis Leary, and Queen Latifah have profitable careers? Apparently the Ice Age franchise has made over a billion dollars worldwide; um, okay. I still say the movies would be better if they were only about the rat squirrel thingy that's always after that nut.

I'm gonna wrap up this post with a little note on movies. I recently watched Gone Baby, Gone which cemented my opinion of Casey Affleck as a damn good actor. It is a very good movie, great acting, writing, direction, and hey, Morgan Freeman. I also watched Oldboy, which was great, and a nice dip into Korean filmmaking. It was weird, it was cool. I loved it.

So yeah. Hope you're all doing well.


(click to enlarge)

Ttyl.