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Set to Sea p. 42

A week or two back I was reading the AV Club's "Best Music of the Decade" list and it brought on the dismaying notion that maybe there had been no good music for the last decade! But I couldn't believe that, so I sorted through my music "library" and made a list of the 25 albums I enjoyed the most these last ten years, in rough order:

25. Joanna Newsom - Ys
24. The Black Mages (self-titled)
23. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
22. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
21. The Blow - Paper Television
20. The Knife - Deep Cuts
19. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
18. MIA - Arular
17. Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
16. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
15. Outkast - Stankonia
14. The Advantage - Elf Titled
13. Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
12. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
11. Katamari Fortissimo Damacy
10. The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
9. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
8. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Greatest Palace Music
7. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
6. The Decemberists - Picaresque
5. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
4. The White Stripes - Elephant
3. Deltron 3030 (self-titled)
2. Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
1. Madvillian - Madvillainy

posted by Drew on Monday, November 30, 2009

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Set to Sea p. 41

I tripped over a headphone cord that was plugged into our laptop yesterday, and the tip snapped off inside! I'm debating over whether or not I should risk trying to get it out with a toothpick and a bit of superglue.

posted by Drew on Monday, November 23, 2009

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Set to Sea p. 40

posted by Drew on Friday, November 20, 2009

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Set to Sea p. 39

posted by Drew on Monday, November 16, 2009

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Set to Sea p. 38

Posting a little late today.

I got a Fantagraphics catalog in the mail today! It seems like they're putting the Set to Sea book out next summer! So that's exciting.

posted by Drew on Friday, November 13, 2009

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Set to Sea p. 37

Secret Science Alliance just got a pretty great review from Boing Boing!

Ever since it was released, I've been obsessively watching SSA's sales position on Amazon (I assume that every author - and author's significant other - does this). The day the review went up, SSA shot up to a high of #9 on Amazon's "top 100 Comics & Graphic Novels" list! Now it's slipped entirely off again - ah, Boing Boing... the ride is thrilling, but so short.

posted by Drew on Monday, November 09, 2009

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Set to Sea p. 36

I've been neglectful in my posting! I was busy putting together a costume so I could participate in a Halloween parade with my friends in the Creaky Theatre puppetry troupe! Here's Elo (skeletal bird-thing) and me (horned tiger-looking thing)

and here we all are:

It's hard to tell in these pictures, but Elo and I had giant bamboo frameworks under those costumes, making us two or three times life sized. David Mack (in the center) built his around a twenty-foot-long pole. Jason Matherly (on the left) has a small phantom on a stick (and a mouse costume, and Michele Chidester (on the right) has 6-foot-long arms and some amazing horns. We invited a bunch of folks to march all around downtown Athens making noise, and had a good crew of people in some awesome costumes.

I was a little cavalier about the eyeholes in my "mask"; as a result I ended up maneuvering this giant thing through crowded, wet streets with about the same range of vision that you might get through cardboard-tube binoculars. I was tooting on a trumpet pretty raggedly, and some guys starting hassling me and wanting to play my trumpet. I haven't played since middle school! Anyway, all very exhausting but hopefully worth it.

Here are some more photos and videos, please look at them and say that all the costume-construction time was well-spent:
A Flickr gallery
Some Youtube videos
Creaky Theatre Facebook page
Some photos on Facebook

posted by Drew on Wednesday, November 04, 2009

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Set to Sea p. 35

posted by Drew on Wednesday, November 04, 2009

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