A Curiously Naked Friday

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Talking Down

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Snuggle

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Rejection

Just some random scribbles for your Monday.

Mondays sure are Mondays, aren't they?

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Misinformation and Scheduling Conflicts

I've embedded below for your listening pleasure The Kamikaze Snowmen's (featuring amazing guitarist Rob Ashe) infinitely enjoyable "Scheduling Conflict". This one was, I believe, written, performed and recorded by Josh Trumbo and Paul Tebben (with the aforementioned guitarist extraordinaire Rob Ashe). If you've been keeping up with the 'Snowmen's Facebook page, you'll understand the story behind the song. Again, here's a link where you can dig the juicy details in a VH1 Behind the Music kinda way:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamikaze-Snowmen/217335025157?created

And I know I got over-excited and told everybody that my new song "Torso" was finished in the wee hours and would be released today, but Torso's release has been delayed until next week in lieu of the uber-wonderful and seemingly aptly-titled "Scheduling Conflict," which I defy you not to enjoy. Sorry for the confusion. Listen to the Snowmen really shred, though! It's an amazing song. I think it really stretches the band's range and I am among what I can only assume will be many, many fans. (I say this as I, once again, had nothing to do with this particular song's creation, but remain a fervent fan). This baby's going on repeat. Enjoy! And stay tuned to the Kamikaze Snowcast for God knows what else, including next week's tune "Torso" by yours truly.


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A Long Time Coming

I've been busy at work on a new song for The Kamikaze Snowmen. Hopefully it will be released at some point this weekend (you'll see it here first, of course. Or second. Or possibly third, but that's beside the point).

Anywho. Haven't been drawing as much as I should be. Don't worry, I'm ashamed of myself. Above are just more silly work doodles you'll have to settle for drawn, as always, in the margins of my work notes. Enjoy.

And keep your heads up for that new song. It's a good one. For those of you who are counting, that makes four songs in four weeks, folks (of course, last week's song has still yet to be released). Still an impressive feat if I do say so myself.

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The Exciting And Dramatic Conclusion To Yesterday's Mess

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No Pho Ref

I'm a sketchbook nut. I got tons of 'em. Unlike a lot of sketchbook nuts out there, however, I'm actually pretty good about filling mine to the brim with drawings and, occasionally, text.

Today I'll give you a peek at one of my smaller-sized Moleskine sketchbooks. This one is so small that it can fit into my front shirt pocket, actually. I'm calling this one No Pho Ref because the artwork within is based on no photographic reference whatsoever. Everything you see is from my crazy noggin. So, it's a bit of a throwback, really, to my older, goofier, cartoonier sketchbooks from way back in high school and college.

So check it out, peeps, and enjoy the return of ridiculous, half-witted super-hero extraordinaire BILL and his boy wonder sidekick RYAN! You'll live to regret it!










On another note, it seems that someone ponied up some dough and addressed the bandwidth issue for The Kamikaze Snowmen's Kamikaze Snowcast! Yay! This means all the music links should now be active again for download and/or subscription! So scroll down and subscribe immediately, true believers! Or die a hideous and painful death!

I'm out!

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Watchmen, Bride Of Frankenstein, and The Wolf Man - In That Order

It's an odd combo, I'll admit. The word balloon came from my brain.

In other news, The Kamikaze Snowmen have used up their bandwidth for the month. It's because we (the band) are enormously popular with The Kids and all. That's why the music players in my posts further down won't be playing properly again until August 1st, evidently. So for those of you who dig our music, I hope you downloaded it or subscribed to the Podcast prior to today, 'cause that's bye-bye for ten more days or so. For those of you who just pressed 'play' repeatedly from off the web: shame on you! You should have pressed "download" or "subscribe" like I repeatedly pleaded, but does anyone really ever listen to me? Only 10% of the time. And that's only when I'm telling poop jokes, I think.

For a more detailed description of why we have no more new stuff (or playable old stuff) for the rest of July, go to the Kamikaze Snowmen's Facebook page at:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamikaze-Snowmen/217335025157?created

Josh'll explain it all there for yous guys.

In the meantime, carry on my wayward friend, and don't you cry no more.

Or something like that.

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You Can Dance If You Want To

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Quietly Judging

I actually completed a new tune this morning for the Kamikaze Snowmen's Kamikaze Snowcast, but the Snowmen, in their infinite wisdom, have decided to delay the song's release. They have their reasons, and their reasons are awesome, trust me. I can't say too much since we're in the early stages of elaborating, but we may wrap a few more songs around the song I devised and if I casually drop the words "Rock" and "Opera" together along with, oh, the word "Apocalypse", then perhaps you'll catch the drift. Or not. Regardless, it will be worth the wait.

I don't think Nicolas Cage will be involved, so there are no worries there, right?

In the meantime, enjoy the strange work doodles above. It ain't much, but it's all I got.

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Dream A Little Dream For Me

I've been having really weird dreams lately.

Night before last I was a young English boy at a boarding school in Switzerland. We all had those weird maroon uniforms - tie, jacket, short pants and almost knee high black socks. And a hat. And we talked on and on about the upperclassmen and the quality of the food. Strange.

Last night's dream had me sharing an apartment with a young Robert De Niro (circa 1976 - his Taxi Driver year) and John Stamos of all people. We were three wacky roommates, let me tell you. But it was a weird and spooky old apartment complex somewhere on the upper west side of Manhattan by the park. It was haunted. I met Michelle Williams (???) down in the lobby and she told me that the place was haunted and that the evil spirits were targeting me and my famous roommates and - wouldn't you know it - suddenly a scream comes from upstairs. We raced up to see that Robert De Niro had died - apparently by fright.

That's some pretty weird shit, huh?

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No Words

I haven't got a clue what the page above is about. Feel free to add the word balloons yourself.

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Super Happy Fun Day On The Job

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Indiana Jones and the Brain Zamboni

Check out the two brand-spanking-new songs from the Kamikaze Snowmen. First up is "Indiana", a little diddy I devised doing another all-nighter here at my mountain stronghold. The other is "Brain Zamboni" written by Josh Trumbo and Paul Tebben and recorded by Josh Trumbo. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

Also, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE download the songs or subscribe instead of just pressing play. Evidently, the ol' Snowmen are running out of bandwidth due to our insane and enormous popularity! So instead of pressing the play button over and over here on my blog (it wouldn't kill you to do it once or twice, I suppose), just press DOWNLOAD and you can listen to it all you want on your very own computer!

Tell your friends!



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Stop, Drop, And Roll, Stupids!

Just some random work doodles and bizarre sketches above. Nothing to get worked up over. I'm working on some much better drawings elsewhere, but they're just not ready to show just yet. Just assume that they're awesome masterpieces, would you?

Finally saw the Nicolas Cage flick Knowing. I like what director Alex Proyas did with it. In fact, he was my main reason for seeing it, as he directed The Crow and Dark City. Ultimately, though, the whole thing felt like a really slow build-up to what we all knew was coming. I mean - wasn't it pretty obvious from about 10 or 15 minutes in what it was all about? Pretty preachy stuff, to be sure (and how many MIT professors are as dumb as Cage's character acts?), but any movie that ends with a full-on global apocalypse is okay by me (that shouldn't be a spoiler if you've seen any of the trailers). Regardless, it's merely an okay movie with some cool ideas, but a little on the slow side. The two hour running time could've easily been chopped into a lean 80 or 90 minutes and no one would've missed much. Still, that single-shot airline crash scene was pretty freakin' sweet, no? I just kept thinking, though, that all those people running around screaming on fire really should've just stopped, dropped, and rolled, but what do I know? And, of course, global devastation always rules. Go watch the full trailer for 2012 if you're not convinced of that basic cinematic rule. The Apocalypse puts butts in seats.


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Spike

A fairly good likeness, I think.

Anywho, I finally finally finally saw Terminator Salvation and I don't understand what everybody's been griping about. I thought it was fantastic. Right up there (almost) with T2, and definitely better than Terminator 3. What the hell is wrong with everybody? Sure Christian Bale still sounds like Batman - but he's in a WAR WITH THE MACHINES, PEOPLE! You GOTTA sound gruff if you're gonna fight Terminators! Didn't Linda Hamilton teach us anything in the second movie? Gruff, people! Gruff!

And I don't know who that Sam Worthington dude is who played Marcus, but he totally kicks ass in all sorts of ways in the flick.

Sure, ultimately, it had its goofy moments, but the cool, kickass factors way outnumbered the goofy bits of overacting (particularly by Michael Ironside of all people - who I like, but went even more over the top than usual - I kept waiting for him to make someone's head explode with his mind).

Anywho, I really don't know how the flick got such a bad critical rap. Sure there are more than a few logic loopholes (and what Terminator movie doesn't have those?) and a few things that I'm sure will be ironed out a bit if they make the next two (it feels like part one of a "future war" trilogy, doesn't it?), but it's still a helluva ride. I loved it. You people are all just jaded assholes, I think.

Or maybe I'm just a naive asshole.

Somebody here is an asshole.

Ah, hell, it's probably me, isn't it?

In other movie-ness, go out and rent the Michael Rapaport movie Special. It's not exactly a superhero movie, a comedy or a drama, but an amazingly well-acted and well-written piece about superheroes, losing your mind, and how The Man can literally not keep you down. Check it out. It's funny and sad and stirring and amazing. You'll dig it, I promise. Unless you're an asshole. And I'm almost 98% positive that you're actually not an asshole, dear reader. You just have your silly opinions about Terminator Salvation and I have mine. And you know what they say about opinions, right? They're just like assholes. Everybody poops out of them. Or something like that.

I'm outs.

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The Fastest Jack In Jefferson County

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She Used To Be So Blue

Here's a strange process for you. I painted the girl above in monochromatic blue acrylic tones on an 18x24 canvas. I didn't like the resulting painting much (I may paint over it so as not to waste the canvas). I then, however took a crappy low-resolution photo of the painting with my camera phone (losing quite a bit of the detail), imported the photo into Photoshop, made it black and white and threw a little diffused glow at it (losing even more detail). And you know what? I kinda like it now. Somehow filtering it through the crappy camera on my phone and turning it black and white made it look better here than it does in person.

Ah, the wonders of the computer age.

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Something Else Entirely

Don't try to make sense of the page above. Just go with it.

Oh, and I'm still plugging away at my silly, stupid song! Embedded right here for your listening pleasure! Feel free to DOWNLOAD or SUBSCRIBE! It's as easy as hitting the DOWNLOAD and/or SUBSCRIBE buttons below!

And here's "The Final Tweet". Enjoy!

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Independence Day 2009

Happy 4th of July, everybody!

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Don't forget to check out the Kamikaze Snowmen's Kamikaze Snowcast:
http://feed.podcastmachine.com/podcasts/1206/mp3.rss

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The Kamikaze Snowmen - Rocking It Out For More Than 10 Years And Still Going Kind Of Strong

Hello, all. I'm not into the whole Facebook thing, but my very best of all friends Joshua M. Trumbo and Paul Tebben have set up a page over there based around our band The Kamikaze Snowmen! It's super-sweet. Check it out via the link below:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamikaze-Snowmen/217335025157?created

In addition to this amazing development, the Snowmen have also created The Kamikaze Snowcast - a podcast that you can actually get free of charge via iTunes. Just go to iTunes and search "Kamikaze Snowmen" and start downloading that awesome goodness. There are already a few songs there in iTunes, one of which is just plain brilliant (and I'm not just saying that because I had something to do with it, because I didn't have a hand in its creation at all) - it's called "The Final Tweet" and it's Josh and Paul's astoundingly funny take on the ridiculously stupid Twitter phenomenon.

And - hey - I stayed up all night last night to up the ante and create a song of my own and lo and behold it has already been approved from the executives at Kamikaze Snowmen International and it's been posted to iTunes - it's called "Monkeyrage" and don't judge it too harshly. I was running on Diet Coke and fumes at the time of its creation.

If you're not hip to iTunes, you can always subscribe to the podcast via rss feed and/or download the sonic goodness for free at the link below:

http://feed.podcastmachine.com/podcasts/1206/mp3.rss

It's the sweetness. Don't say I didn't warn you!

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Monocle

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Eater Of The Dead

Just messing with color again in Photoshop. Below is the original black and white line work.



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