“Night sky, whose mind are you?
The stars, the stars are inside our heads.”
L. S. Asekoff, “The Gate of Horn.” 15 Sep, 2008 The New Yorker. 58-59. This is a really amazing poem, but I wondered if those two specific lines were a quote or reference to another poem. I Googled them and found no answer, but I did find this interesting little blog, which also quoted the poem.
Amanuensis –noun. A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.
I haven’t had a chance to post anything recently, so here are three new comics from the random jammin’ department. The first is my latest “Directed Jam Comic” with Clave based on the directions in Jessica Abel and Matt Madden’s Drawing Words and Writing Pictures (our first two jams can be seen here). This time we created an “Imageless” jam, in which “you can use words, sound effects, etc., but no representational images.”
For my birthday, Clave also created this card for me. Not really a jam, but hilarious nonetheless!
The handmade presents usually are the best presents, aren’t they?
Carolyn Main and I also recently finished our contribution to The Bridge Project. Carolyn went all out and added tones to the whole thing, which not only made our story look great but also gave the art a very unified feel. The book should be out soon; I’ll post more details as they develop!
My previous Top 25 playlists can be seen here and here.
25. Over and Over Again (Lost and Found) by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (15 Plays)
24. Sometime Around Midnight by The Airborne Toxic Event (15 Plays)
23. No Surprises by Radiohead (16 Plays)
22. Electric Feel by MGMT (16 Plays)
21. Dracula’s Lament by Jason Segel (16 Plays)
20. Feel Alright (Album Version) by Steve Earle (16 Plays)
19. Pork and Beans by Weezer (17 Plays)
18. Pale Blue Eyes by R.E.M. (17 Plays)
17. Wandering Star by Portishead (17 Plays)
16. Toxic by Yael Naim (17 Plays)
15. Good Woman by Cat Power (18 Plays)
14. Come Around by M.I.A. featuring Timbaland (18 Plays)
13. Paper Planes by M.I.A. (18 Plays)
12. White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane (18 Plays)
11. Details of the War by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (19 Plays)
10. Honky Tonk Women by The Rolling Stones (20 Plays)
9. All Lifestyles by The Beastie Boys (20 Plays)
8. Troublemaker by Weezer (24 Plays)
7. No Surprises by Rockabye Baby! (24 Plays)
6. A-Punk by Vampire Weekend (25 Plays)
5. Reckoner by Radiohead (30 Plays)
4. Police on My Back by The Clash (38 Plays)
3. Cellphone’s Dead by Beck (38 Plays)
2. Seneca Falls by The Distillers (45 Plays)
1. Let the Cool Goddess Rust Away (74 Plays)
So, it’s just after midnight on September 10, and I’m awake. And officially 30.
I’m having a little birthday party this weekend and used evite’s “Pirate Theme” for the invitations. Which reminded me of a photo I posed for way back in 1998, when I was still only 19.
Arrrgh.
