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Chancre_Scolex

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May 1st, 2007 5:50 AM

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Chumming the waters...with chum

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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen...

and horrifyingly insane lunatics.

Please switch your information ports to “receive”.

Good. I’ll be sending over an update as to just what I’m doing lately.

This will hurt a lot.

SENDING.

While eating at a Japanese restaurant a few days back, a fan walked up and had me sign a piece of cardboard she materialized from her purse. She then asked what it was I was working on at the moment. I pointed to my food sarcastically and then sprang from my chair, impaling her brain twice with my chopsticks.

That last bit didn’t happen, but everything else is true, and she was very nice so the last bit never even crossed my mind.

This got me to thinking that I’ve not utilized the power of the interpig the rest of you as to the status of what I like to call “things”.

1. JELLYFIST

As some of you may know, I announced I was working on a book with my friend J. Goldberg back around when I was attending the New York Comicon, and just recently SLG put out the <a href="http://slg-news.livejournal.com/184943.html/">the official notice</a>. Jellyfist is probably the more tangible of the things I am working on on, as it has a release date in July and should end up being an interesting little book along the lines of what might be a “thinking man’s Bad Art Collection”, though a cursed name like that might not be doing the book justice as it goes way above and beyond the call of duty as far as style and quality goes, but the surreal nature of it is undeniable, unless you’re one of those jerks that just likes to deny things for the fun of it. I will share with you the tale of just how the book came to be.

last year, while on the moon, I was working on the package design for the Question Sleep mug and the Wall of Memory poster ( just tried linking to the page for said poster in SLG’s webstore, but could not find it at all ) when Jenny decided to visit. Jenny, in her spacesuit, was just staring at the earth and milling about in a manner I found to be distracting, so I scribbled a tiny script on a piece of paper in my child-like scrawl, handed it to her and told her to turn it into a comic to keep herself occupied while I worked. So instead of staring hungrily at my Guitar Hero guitar hoping to rock out while I worked, she set to drawing for a few hours and came back with what would be the first strip in what would become Jellyfist. The idea struck me then to keep writing very specifically vague scripts for her to riff off of, and that’s basically how it went from that point on. Incidentally, that was the last time she finished a script in a few hours, and the last time I knew joy, as the point of the book gradually mutated from a surrealist exercise to a battle on interpretation of one another’s participation.

The name “Jellyfist” itself came from a conversation we had about something unspeakable and I figured it was a fine name for a book that, though perhaps not unspeakable, might just be something to speak of in hushed tones as it is potentially a shameful thing.

2. QUESTION SLEEP MUG

We’re close to figuring this thing out, thanks to some helping hands, and what I’ve seen as far as test runs go is very promising. Once again, I am waiting on painted samples and news on whether or not said paint jobs would be possible without making the mugs poisonous. Packaging and such was completed last year, so if the mug works out soon, these might be available sooner than later, which means absolutely nothing seeing as how they should have been out over a year ago. Still, keep your fingers crossed, and other people’s fingers against their wills if they refuse to cooperate.

3. MOVIE

Attendees at the New York Comicon with ears and brains to process information also heard me mention a little bit of film work I might be involved in, and though it’s way too early to say anything beyond “Yep...I’m working on some film stuff”, you can stop emailing me asking if it’s true or not. This project is barely in the scripting stage, but it’s a total involvement thing, so once past that, and if all goes well, I’d be directing the thing and then from there hiding from the angry people who want their money back. It’s all very exciting, and rest assured, lovers of fine cinema everywhere, there will not be any “spooky” ghost children in the story. If I see another movie with a spooky ghost child in it I’m going to kick shoot blood from my eyes to cover the screen...like those lizards do...at the movies.

This project, and a few related little bits of film work, was the main reason I’ve left the moon and returned to the Earth for a bit, enduring horrible heat and the awful sight of palm trees. I propose the invention of “chillers” - They’re like sweaters except just the opposite, making it possible to be covered up in horrific heat but still be comfortable without having to resort to bullshit tactics like wearing t-shirts. I lived on the moon, man...when I see some hipster jerk wearing a scarf in 70 degree weather, I want to go all Kratos on his ass, with my foot on his back, and my arms pulling at the scarf until his head snaps off...except I’m not a huge, cursed Spartan monster and am, instead, a scrawny, cursed Mexican. Same thing though.

4. ALBUM ART

Everything is slightly on hold, aside from finishing up Jellyfist, this month, however, as I’ve foolishly agreed to do the album art for someone’s upcoming cd, postponing my cinematic forays into crowd dispersal. Don’t bother asking for whom this work is as you’ll know when they want you to know.

-V

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