manga jackson.

i'm pretending you don't read any of my 200 other blogs while also pretending you'll read this.

(first 2 pages from a comic i'm drawing for the FAKE COMICS anthology)

written in bullet points to give you the freedom your reading style desires:

- i am not dead (yet).

whenever i don't update here for a while some friends, but mostly people that i don't usually talk to start emailing and texting me asking 'what's up?' i, of course, read between the lines and assume they want to know if i am finally dead and aleks is finally single. this is again not the case. i took a couple of weeks off from drawing to get some comic scripts done. this led to playing a lot of infamous, totally forgetting how to draw (see above), and being kind of cranky. it also led to me remembering i kind of like writing and now currently write blog posts too long for anyone to read and emails with stories only tangentially related to the subject.

- tumblr.

i've been using my tumblr pretty often. i have dug the vibe (from what i've seen) of tumblr for a while. mystic milk had a long abandoned account there last year. i originally got this new one because in attempting to make my computer live i was going through and archiving a bunch of old files and found 200 short stories i had written and not posted anywhere because they were either terrible or i just didn't really know where to put them. so i figured i'd throw them on tumblr and forget about it. since i only thought of this 6 months ago and it would take like 10 minutes this didn't happen yet. i did get an iphone though so the ability to blog while i walk aimlessly around my town hoping no one wants to rob me has led to a bunch of random updates.

- gif week.

i also updated livejournal for 5 days in a haze of nostalgia. it was similar to when i saw duran duran's 'first ever reunion' show twice, 3 years apart from each other.

- not really important but you might be involved.

i've added a bunch of links to the side of this blog. there is a chance i forgot you. there is also a chance i put your name and made up your website. while it might seem socially awkward to mention either, if you want to toss off the chains of society's taboos just let me know and i'll add you/fix it. also if we don't know each other, and your websites there, i'm just a fan of yours and only slightly creepy.

- vlog.

i wasn't going to post this but whatever. vlog

- happy 4th of july.

i'll be wrapped in only an american flag eating grilled cheese all weekend in celebration.

i like in scifi when they let you know it's the future/alien planet by referring to concepts of time with made up words.

i'm waiting every day for the cnn headline that reads 'too many blogs, not much to say: is this generation all typed out?'

for the first time in 200 consecutive years i didn't make it to the MOCCA fest this past weekend. i was kind of busy. saturday i ate a cupcake and sunday i had one of those oreo sundae things from baskin-robbins. judging from most of the stuff i've read about it on the internet it was hot and in a different building and this made people sad. i'm pretty sure mocca is really hot every year though my memory of the event is clogged by the fact that i mostly remember the searing sweat pouring into my eyes more than anything else.
according to fewer things i've read about it there were a lot of books that i now want and a bunch of awesome people there. unlike the highlander though, i live without regret. yet i am totally going next year.

and then you realize network tv is like 10 yrs behind the rest of pop culture and a single tear drops from your left eye.

an abandoned idea for a comic strip. it was supposed to be about a cynical, sort of asshole tv writer from our time that wakes up 'reverse life on mars' style in a kind of post-apocalyptic future. he is constantly expecting some sort of dystopian/1984/almost every sci-fi movie situation to reveal itself, but everything is pretty much awesome.

i thought it'd be kind of funny, but i have since thought of things that are kind of funnier.

the characters were going to mostly be this group of guys i came up with a couple of years ago to be in another abandoned comic idea 'loveocalypse'. i wanted to do something that went against the whole apocalypse is coming/i want to fuck zombies/it doesn't matter it's the endtimes vibe that was going on in pop culture (i think it has since become an idea that is now just accepted as fact. 'yes, the zombies are coming out of the melted ice caps, i can eat as much cake as i want' type of thing). so i started to write a series of mini comics about this future city that was essentially a utopia. or, at least, a joketopia. and even though i wrote a scene where a guy has sex with an animated tree with a face, i got bored quickly.

maybe we're all humanators.

with the all sorts of awesome 2nd half of the 2nd (final) season of the terminator tv show and the movie coming out last week, i don't think i've talked about anything else for the past month for longer than 30 seconds. it's getting to the point where the people around me are the human resistance and i am a lazy skynet machine firing theories about john connor's alternate time-lines bullets.

here's a new song:

the temple's all right

pink tombs series finale.

the final 8 pages of my comic are up on the arthur blog.

i'll probably make another post talking about it a little more, once i actually wake up and/or convince myself of the possible illusion that people have read it, but you know the end of roseanne where you find out that much of the show was just a story roseanne was writing? i was going for not really that with a mix of those two cosby show episodes where he dreams about muppets.

i guess i should've labeled that 'roseanne spoiler' but those that know me know that i have 'roseanne spoiler' tattooed across my chest, and it's weird to overstate something like that.

not awake.

i'd actually take winter over summer 95% of the time (in a fistfight)

a logo i made for aleks that i think captures much of her personality.

here's a song i recorded recently:
summer2009
after a self-imposed (the cia was only vaguely involved) exile from recording music since i finished my last album, i'm back in the game. if 'the game' is making poorly recorded pop music and not competitive break dancing as my parents always led me to believe. i've made a few songs. this is the one i actually like the least but it's also the only one that's finished. besides, it's topical. or seasonal. it actually works if you imagine me being 100% serious about it, in which case, it becomes kind of funny. also i realized the computer voice when you put a delay effect on it sounds like it's saying 'revolt'. kind of frightening, but not surprising. also 'summer 09' sounds kind of like 'summon odin'.