I’ve given up on making the comic until I get my new MacBook Pro. SketchPad Pro can’t seem to handle a large resolution file even though my current laptop is 1.5Ghz and 1.5GB of RAM. Drawing in Photoshop is also tedious, as the graphics processor can’t seem to keep up with my pen strokes. *Grumble*.

Recently, I’ve been watching all the Logic tutorials around the web, Apple.com has a few and is a good introduction to what Logic is. Lynda.com has a rather in depth one. And there are a few tidbits around AudioTuts.com. When I finally buy Logic Studio, Sweetwater.com gives a 7-day training pass to tutorial website, Grooveboxmusic.com, as well.

I’ve also started an illustration, but like the comic, I need more power to finish it. I had this up on my facebook account, but didn’t want to show it here on the blog until I finished it. Oh well…

And here is a color test. I haven’t finished inking it, but I wanted to see how the line work interacted with the color. I’m going to make some adjustments.

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When my dreams have aliens in them, they always look like these guys…

Regina Spektor has a wee bit of competition. I just bought Kate Nash‘s album Made of Bricks on iTunes (also on Amazon). It’s bouncy and at the same time on the bitter side. After about 2 hours of listening to it, I just wanted to eat ice cream and hate on men. She also has a wild potty mouth, which works with her British accent. Something about women belting out tunes while on the piano. Good times…

And here’s one of her on the keyboard…

Just remember where we, the American People, came from…

If we can make out of pink cowboy bellbottom outfits, we can make it through anything. Be strong America, and rock’n'roll forever…

Also, US Airways is now offering ferry service across the Hudson.

I should be their head marketing director.

How messed up is this country’s government and media when I see this on CNN:

and take it as Blago telling the senate to fuck off in the Illinois state Senate building. Where was this crap during the writers strike when I really needed some good entertainment?

Sometimes I’m hit with bad insomnia. Sometimes I’ll watch MSNBC to help me fall back to sleep. Sometimes I’ll see a commercial so incredibly asinine, that I’ll have to blog about it. Here’s to you penis pill girl. Your bad acting and line reading makes me want to vomit. To try to get me to buy penis “enhancement” by accentuating vowels and consonants in the wrong place is laughable. I have no need for your vapid pleasure. To hock a product that “enhances” the size of “that certain male part of the body” should be grounds for death by rabid sloths – a slow and painful death to be sure.

My hate for you is boundless, even more so than my hatred for that garbage-barker Billy Mays.

The worst part about this is that there are idiots out there buying this product. KNOCK IT OFF. It doesn’t work. It will never work. If you stop buying this junk, they will stop running these stupid commercials. Buy a penis pump if you think you got a tiny willie. Those don’t work either, but they don’t advertise on TV. You definitely don’t need some dizzy tart telling you that you need a bigger log. How about dating women that have a smaller baby hole? You must go ape-shit bananas over those thousand spam emails I see everyday. You can’t be that stupid.

I’m tired of these really BAD commercials selling junk. I just saw another one just now. HAIR BUMP. HAIR BUMP?? WTF???

Bravo, James Gunn, bravo.

1950′s Pinup icon Bettie Page has died today at the age of 85 in LA, California. She was the best of them all. Every illustrator and artist I know has drawn her image. She inspired us. And despite some people saying bad things about her because she posed nude, there are those of us who say she had an innocent heart and she was everything a pinup model was supposed to be: the beauty next door. Goodbye Bettie, thanks for all the photos.

This is the new dance that goes on in my head 24/7. Sorry Carlton, you have been replaced.

Breakbeats, you will be my bitch.