Salute

I must apologize to everyone for the lack of updates lately and especially to everyone who's waiting for me to finish something for them. I got a promotion at work which, yeah, is really great, but very, uh, busy. It's been a helluva couple of weeks for me (and this past weekend has been particularly troublesome and/or time-consuming as well, with very few exceptions).

Enjoy the above pic. It's definitely how I've been feeling lately. Reporting for duty, yeah, but extremely tired and a bit wrecked. The drawing is really the only thing I was able to scribble while at work last week.

Hopefully the approaching week will be a little bit less hectic, folks.

I wish everyone well and have a Happy Crappy Monday!

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Reading And Writing

I finally saw the Nazi-zombie movie Dead Snow, and it's a pretty rockin' good time. It's basically just a lesser version of Evil Dead 2 only in the snowy mountains with zombies that happen to be Nazis, but it's great, great fun all the same. Hilarious, gory and fairly suspenseful at times. A few gore effects really stand out and take the cake. It's nowhere near as outlandish and ludicrous and fantastic as Peter Jackson's Dead Alive (known outside the States as Braindead), but it's a good time had by all. Highly recommended.

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Chin Up

I just got back from seeing Quentin Tarantino's World War II masterpiece Inglourious Basterds. Wow. It wasn't what I expected. It was about a million times better than anything I could have expected. It's a great comedy. It's a great war movie. It's a great thriller. It's a great drama. It's a great action flick. Like most of Tarantino's oeuvre, it's hard to pin down exactly what this movie is, but it's incredibly engaging at all levels.

The real find in this film is the amazingly cruel, funny, absurd, endearing and certainly evil Nazi Col. Hans Landa played by Christoph Waltz. Man, I don't know where Tarantino found this guy, but it's as good and complex a portrayal of a screen villian I've ever seen since Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter or Ralph Fiennes' Amon Goeth. In fact, I'd dare say the man did a better acting job than either of those two combined. He's an absolute joy to watch from start to finish.

That's not to say everyone else isn't uniformly good. They are. Brad Pitt is hysterically funny and Eli Roth is amazingly intense. Mike Myers has a very, very funny Peter Sellers-like cameo scene in which every single line spoken is funny. Diane Kruger is fine, but the other girl - Melanie Laurent playing Parisian theater-owner Shoshana Dreyfus - is the Real Deal. Her eyes do all the acting. A really incredible performance.

A really incredible movie.

Check it out, folks. It's the stuff.

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Voices In Your Head

The third and final installment of The Kamikaze Snowmen's Apocalypse Apocalypse saga has unfortunately been delayed. In it's stead are some voices. Listen and enjoy.

I'm thinking Part 3 of Apocalypse Apocalypse should hit next week at some point. So be excited. In meantime, listen to the "Voices In Your Head," would you?



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Stubbed

Saw the sixth and most recent Harry Potter movie. It made very little sense to me and was extremely long. It did have its moments, but I really hate that they've gotten to a point where they've just ignored the audiences who haven't read the books. The thing I liked about the other movies was that you didn't need to read the books to enjoy them. In this one, though, there were so many loose ends and questions and, at times, complete incoherence. And there was little or no, just, I don't know - general cohesiveness. Just what in the hell happened during this movie is anyone's guess. I'm not sure there was a story at all (certainly no beginning, middle or end, but rather a series of sometimes unrelated events), and lots of characters either making googly eyes at each other or simply walking down long seemingly never-ending corridors for chunks of time. The movie really could've had an hour cut out of it and been all the better for it.

To be fair, once again - it did have it's moments. And I like the other movies in the series, but this one just seemed to be missing a lot of ingredients. Like an editor.

I did, however, manage to follow it up with District 9, and that movie made everything else I've seen this summer pale in comparison (granted, I haven't seen too many movies this summer). It's absolutely great. Go see it immediately! It'll really rock you in ways you didn't think were possible.

Okay. I think that's it for now. Toodles, all!

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Part 2: Robot Apocalypse

It's the middle of the end for The Kamikaze Snowmen's epic Apocalypse Apocalypse saga with Part 2: "Robot Apocalypse".

With the human race weakened by the zombie hordes, the robot hive mind rises up and decides to pass the "Protect America Act". And robots passing a bill only means one thing: extermination!

Sit down, listen, and enjoy the terrible, terrible wrath of the robots!



Below is the hand-painted logo I created for this song. Roughly 5x8 inches, acrylic on cardboard.


And you may have seen this on our Facebook account, but I couldn't help re-posting it here because it's so freakin' awesome: Josh Trumbo's "Good Worker" poster. It's a perfect companion piece to "Robot Apocalypse". Print it out, hang it in your bedroom or at work and carefully prepare for the robot invasion in style! Fun!


Stay tuned for the final installment of Apocalypse Apocalypse! It's coming soon!

For more Kamikaze Snowmen and Apocalypse Apocalypse info you can checkout the Facebook account at
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamikaze-Snowmen/217335025157?created

You can also dig the download via iTunes or go straight to the podcast source for songs old and new at
http://podcastmachine.com/podcasts/1206/

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Monkey See, Monkey Eat

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Cruise

For the record, I still really like Tom Cruise and most of the movies he makes.

But I can totally see him pitching this right now, hopeful glint in his eye.

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Part 1: Zombie Apocalypse

Hot on the heels of yesterday's ominous but delightful "Prologue", The Kamikaze Snowmen proudly present Part 1 of Apocalypse Apocalypse: "Zombie Apocalypse".

Soak up the beautiful terror!


Below is the hand-painted logo I created for this song. Roughly 5x8 inches, acrylic on cardboard.


Stay tuned for the next thrilling installment of Apocalypse Apocalypse! It's coming soon!

For more Kamikaze Snowmen and Apocalypse Apocalypse info you can checkout the Facebook account at
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamikaze-Snowmen/217335025157?created

You can also dig the download via iTunes or go straight to the podcast source for songs old and new at
http://podcastmachine.com/podcasts/1206/

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If you would like to purchase originals, prints, or commission artwork, you can contact me at
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Apocalypse Apocalypse: Prologue

The Kamikaze Snowmen are now in the midst of releasing via the Kamikaze Snowcast a Saga To End All Sagas in Apocalypse Apocalypse. Below is the "Prologue".

Part One of Apocalypse Apocalypse is coming soon. So keep your eyes peeled, friends. It will be epic.


For more info you can checkout the 'Snowmen's Facebook account at
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamikaze-Snowmen/217335025157?created

You can also dig the download via iTunes or go straight to the podcast source for songs old and new at
http://podcastmachine.com/podcasts/1206/

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Moray Eel

The Moray Eel is one of the creepiest, unsettling and frightening creatures in existence. Maybe it's just me, but those things are flat-out terrifying. Uck.

In other news: filmmaker John Hughes died. What's up with that? He hadn't made anything of note recently, but in the 1980s - hoo boy. The man made The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Planes Trains and Automobiles and Home Alone just to name a few. That's one helluva resume.

Bummer.

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Fat Lady Sings

She looks more like she's exploding than singing, but you can't have everything.

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Rock And Roll

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Disapproval

I've been looking into technical pens lately, because there's only so much one can draw with a plain old disposable Pilot rolling ball pen. It seems, however, that a Rapidograph and other fixed-width technical pens are very expensive and the ink can gum it up if you don't clean it well and the tips can break easily and so on and so forth.

Then a trip to the local Hobby Lobby suddenly provided a miracle: the Pigma Micron. It's disposable, which I like (that means extremely low-maintenance) and it's inexpensive which is a no-brainer. The ones I've bought have the smallest tips available (0.20mm line width!) which allow me to pack in much more detail in a smaller space than my trusty Pilot pens can. I've only fooled around with them so far and have mixed and matched with other pens and brushes for the two goofy crap sketchbook drawings above, but you can see how much more neat-o the results can be. Pigma Micron 005 - I love you.

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In other news, I did a double feature of Miracle Mile and The Day After the other day. Wow, that's what I call a nuclear holocaust double-whammy. Highly recommended, and in that order, too, as Miracle Mile is, basically, the night before The Day After would take place. I'm not sure where The Day After Tomorrow comes in, but that's such a silly non-nuclear holocaust disaster movie that I would disregard it altogether if it weren't for the uber-ridiculous title. Anyways, If you're into the End Times via the Cold War, I couldn't recommend a better double feature than Miracle Mile with The Day After as the chaser. Good scary stuff.

Nuclear war? You're soaking in it.

Happy Monday, everybody.

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"Torso"

The Kamikaze Snowmen's epic tale of sadness and triumph is now available for download! Is it the best song ever created? You decide. Play below. And whatever you do - don't listen to U2's "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" right after playing "Torso". Playing the two back-to-back will invoke the Devil. I swear it.


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Headband

Just some work doodles above from earlier in the week.

Hey, it's August already. What happened?

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