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5.30.05/15:17 the syndicate
[degrees below zero] 2.33 MB .mp3
As you can see, I tracked a new song, you can hear it by clicking above, or click >here< to read the lyrics.
And the picture is a re-do of a picture I posted a few months or a bunch of months ago, I can't remember. What I learned from this particular shot is that my green shirt is not as green as I think it is, and vibrant colors are important for this concept to work properly.
Also I finished Haunted, Palahniuk's modern rendition of The Masque of the Red Death, but also a compilation of poems and short stories and also not exactly a modern rendition of The Masque of the Red Death. If nobody borrows if from me before then, I will probably give it to Nick at his kaeru atsumari. 5.27.05/20:04 let the bidding begin!
If you'd like to make a bid or just see how the auction is going, you can click the link or the picture to the right. I think it lasts until next Friday, but I don't know.
On the off-chance something comes of this little venture, I might put up most of the other sketches as well, save that one that I'm not allowed to sell or show anyone, or tell anyone about. Oops. Sorry about that, girl. I'm willing to pretend it never happened if you're willing to not kill my cat. 5.22.05/16:57 painting by numbers You would think, with an Internet such as this is, that you could find four little chords to help you learn a song that is so simple. But it's not the case. You can pay eight dollars for a music book, or you can find two dozen pages telling you how to tune your guitar to Eb and play it the O Brother Where art Thou? way. Bastards.
[damn you, sunny song!] 10MB .mov
The first 3 were easy to figure out, but I had some trouble with that last chord. Of course it was B7, like it always is when I don't know what it is. I'm rambling 'cause I've been awake for 21 hours and will be up for six more, at least.
If you're wondering if you should go see Star Wars, you should. Dialogue = bad, Yoda = cool, and Samuel L. Jackson = badass. I had high hopes, and left happy. Maybe now I'll see the other five and find out what all the fuss is about. I'm just kidding. I saw like 10 minutes of the original Star Wars when I was in Japan, walking by a TV in a bar, and it was muted and the subtitles were in Japanese, so I'm not completely clueless. 5.22.05/16:51 sunshine E E7 you are my sunshine, my only sunshine A E you make me happy, when skies are gray A E you'll never know dear, how much i love you E B7 E please don't take my sunshine away 5.19.05/12:03 blind
i'd
like to hop a plane to you 5.18.05/xx:xx mid-may progress report [twisting the knife] novel -- 74% This is a novel I wrote last summer. The first draft and the rewrite of the first draft are done. I marked all the typographical errors and flawed phrasing on the printed copy, now all I need to do is transfer the fixes to the typed copy and put in a few pages I wrote to patch some of the holes.
[through the sandglass] novel -- 23% This novel features some of the same characters as Twisting the Knife, but given the ending of that book it would be really hard to call this a sequel. I've written about five chapters so far, in no particular order. I haven't even finished a plot outline.
[daikon warrior game] computer RPG -- 27% Character battle sprites are completed, along with half a dozen monsters, a few spell animations, and a couple chipsets. I should have a playable rough version done sometime soon. E-mail me at jbaugher@rocketmail.com if you'd like to be a beta tester.
[daikon warrior comic series] comic strip -- 20% Ideally I'd like to do about a hundred strips. Right now I'm only 1/5 of the way there. It's a time consuming process to make the comics, but I think visually they're one of the more appealing things the site has to offer.
[trepanation] short story compilation -- 43% If I have any luck getting either of the novels published I would like to do a collection of short stories. I would have to rewrite the stories I choose to include to make them longer and make the details sync up with other stuff I've written, but I think this would be a fun project.
[peachycomics.com] duh, you're here -- 57% Believe it or not, I consider this website to be a project. As the percentage indicates, there are still some improvements to be made. It begs the question of what happens once I hit one hundred percent, though doesn't it? Would I quit doing updates? Why not, right? I mean I can't do this forever.
[japanese dictionary project] reference guide -- 10% This is something I've really been slacking on. I still have many letters to do in the japanese-english section and then I have to do the rest of the sections. It's really a disgrace the way I started this and never kept up with it, but now that it's summer perhaps that will change.
[lucid pity decanted] full-length solo album -- 75% Really it's more of a musical tour-de-force, a sensory holiday for your ears. Heh. All the songs are written, and most of them are even recorded. But I'm going to wait until I can re-do them with better quality before I start devoting more time to this project.
[nicotine fist] my band -- 34% Completion of this one involves me and Crazy Matt and Nate and Dirt being signed, famous, and rich. We're getting ready to start work on a demo CD to send to labels. I think the get-together for that will be in a few weeks in Basement Studios, if everyone can attend. Later today I'm going to contact everyone and see where they stand on that. 5.17.05/08:34 just another monkey at a typewriter
Hey, that tiny cartoon chick is swinging her shirt around her head. That's kind of hot. Wait, she's a cartoon. Never mind.
Sorry about that. I think there's something wrong with the space-time continuum today. So I got Clyde's newer, better battle sprites done and I'd have to say they're pretty sweet. Seriously, I have to say that. I'm completely biased toward the inherent sweetness of anything I create, even if reality doesn't mirror that.
Either tomorrow or the tomorrow after tomorrow I'm going to put up a progress report for all the projects I'm working on. If that sounds confusing, it will make sense once it's done and linked and percented and whatever else it needs to be'd for it to be done. 5.16.05/08:21 microphone check 1
So to test it, I did a take of a song I've been trying to learn how to play. It's not as difficult as it could be, once you get into the right tuning (down one step) and it lends itself to my tin-can microphone, that beautiful 8-dollar technomasterpiece.
If you click on the picture above you can see it in all its 1600 by 1200 bits of pixilated glory. Today I'm going to try to get a few of these partially-colorized pictures developed so I can see what that looks like. My camera won't display them in the viewfinder for whatever reason, but maybe the machines at Discount City will be able to handle them.
[strawberry fields forever] (beatles cover) .mp3
You know the drill, right-click and 'save target as' if you want to keep it, or just do whatever you do with those types of links. Once enough people download my songs I can start suing all of you and finally have enough money to retire to Tokyo and buy a Skyline and do illegal street racing with my Yakuza buddies. Imagine what those pictures will be like.
And I wrote another song, but I haven't recorded it yet. It's in this difficult tuning where you go a whole step down (DGCFAD) and then you have to do capo 2. Why would I even attempt to write a song that requires all that preparation? Hopefully that will be up within the next few days. 5.13.05/04:53 temporary setback
5.13.05/03:44 kaeshite the funk, kudasai! There were three things I thought I could never tire of/become immune to: Tylenol PM's, watching cartoons, and I'll leave you to figure out the third one on your own. You're right, Billie Joe. I am f*king lazy. But in the midst of all this laziness I did manage to get a few things done, so it's time to show off a little.
[skinny girl] depressing short story
I told Jeff I'm going to Australia to see my girlfriend. He said, "That's an awful long way to go for some p*ssy." I wish it were that simple.
Is that really what this is all about? I'd like to think it's not. I offered Dan the explanation that I subconsciously force myself into doomed relationships as a means to induce my innate creativity. Happy people just can't write interesting fiction, or even lead interesting nonfictional lives. I don't believe that, though.
It's really rare to meet someone who accepts you, flaws and all. I don't want to give that up just because she happens to live 12,000 miles away. I'm sick of letting outside forces dictate what I can or cannot do. I'd rather be wrong about this than too jaded to think it can't work. 5.9.05/21:32 psycho killer, qu-est-ce que c'est
[psycho killer] 10MB .mov
Just a little movie of me being a jackass and thinking I can do things I can't actually do. But isn't that what being an international man of mystery is all about?
5.6.05/18:37 random progress report
5.6.05/18:23 freaking moron.
Britt0362: hey who is this Britt0362: you sound pretty freaky so i'm gonna go.. 5.3.05/23:59 two point seven five months left I think this post might be more effectively organized into a list of good and bad things that have happened to me this past week during my lapse of posting.
good times: I got my Australia tickets! Letter from kanojo (genkisou)! I might have another job (on the side) pretty soon! Amanda came to visit me! We saw Hitchhiker's Guide and it was good! We went to a bar and I drank a tall glass of good beer! Then we went to the Japanese steakhouse and ate free food!
bad times: Now I'm broke! And I have 200 dollars of bills I can't necessarily afford!
That's a ridiculous quantity of exclamation marks for one short post.
As you can see, the good times outnumber the bad times by quite a bit, so there's not much to complain about. The entirety of the ridiculously long collection of April posts has been stuffed into the archives.
I don't know how long it will be until I get another comic done, which is sad because this long break of posting should've given me the opportunity to have some ready. But I don't. Once I sleep for a few dozen hours, I might be able to begin that again.
And now I'm all alone.
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Oh
wow, looks different than yesterday. What's the date say?
Sweet, there's a new update for today. But I don't see any comics,
so that kind of sucks. Probably it's just more 9-point Lucida
whining. But I've come this far, so I might as well read it.
After all, it's only a few paragraphs and I'm really bored.
But aren't they all?
I spend all night trying to sleep and when I finally do I don't want to
wake up. For the last week I haven't gotten up before 4pm and it
hasn't been as great as I thought it would be, but when I wake up I can
still remember all my dreams. I'd write them down but I don't want
to blow your minds.
Ha! As if I
could. I went to see Kevin James do stand-up comedy with Sarah and
it was fantastic. I think comedy develops from the conflict between
who we are in reality and who we could be ideally. We don't laugh
because we identify with the jokes, we laugh because the idea of being so
damned flawed is something we can't escape.
And
it's far better. So I'm back in the routine, after sleeping for 17+
consecutive hours and having a series of disturbing dreams about: a
2000-seat movie theater in space filled with everyone I've ever met, a
horse-racing track encircled by trains where giant people try to pick up
the people on the train with these garden tools we use to pick fruit from
tall trees and then the little people turn into watermelon-colored
gumballs. And I forget what the other two were about, but they were
also weird.
There
WILL be a new comic tomorrow, if not today. Maybe even two.
And I've also been making some progress on the enemy design for the open
sequence of the game. As you can see, here're a few screen shots to
give you some idea of what that will be like. I'm really excited
about this video game and the fantastification of it. See, what I
did there was I built a noun without using the standard addition of -ness.
I just think it's rude to
randomly IM someone you don't know and ask who they are. I don't
randomly dial phone numbers and ask who lives there, do I? Do you?
Of course not. You're a person of infinite wisdom and intelligence,
a real sharp card. How do I know that? You're an elite reader
of peachycomics, a man among princes, so to speak. Or is it 'prince
among men?' I like the first one better. I'm sure you agree.
Other
than that it's just been picture editing and work on the Daikon Warrior
game. I made a new character for the opening sequence.
Remember in Lufia I when you start in the Underwater Palace with the
ridiculously powerful party and face the final bosses as a means of
setting up the real story? I want to include something like that in
this game, and then hide that character so you can get him to join you
later in the game. Also I want that sequence to be in
black-and-white, for maximum awesomeness. And I look so goofy in
this picture. This is why I try to keep a beard and some frightening
facial hair at all times.