random grumblings before I collapse into bed

I just purchased the soundtrack of A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION, which is awesome, but neither my PC nor my Powerbook will let me import or even play the songs! It just spits the CD out again! God, I hadn't realized that I almost never listen to music on actual CD players anymore! Blast. My dream of creating a playlist of this and the A MIGHTY WIND soundtrack, dashed! Seriously, though, what a pain in the frickin' arse.

EDIT: I tried it on my Mom's PC and it works there. At least I have that! Still, technology can be a harsh mistress indeed.

In other news, ants have apparently decided to take refuge from the bad weather inside our kitchen. It doesn't help that my grandmother is a careless slob who leaves huge messes everywhere to attract the ants. Seriously, they are literally crawling over my hands as I write this. Or they were, till I squished 'em. Kill one and two more will take their place. Just like Hydra agents. Or Christopher Walken's Hamlet. (About five of you got the former joke, while about two got the latter.)

Also, still very, very pissed off about what they did to Harvey Dent/Two-Face in Batman. The final part of the story is out and he's evil Two-Face again, for no logical reason. Idiots. Although I hate to admit, it was kinda cool seeing badass Two-Face again. Still, what a character fuck-up, all in the name of status quo. It's rare times like this that I hate long-running comic book characters.

Sergio Aragones: "I Killed Marty Feldman!"

(Also posted to scans_daily)

SOLO is the best book that DC is publishing, hands-down. And so of course it's being cancelled.

For those who don't know, SOLO is dedicated each month to another artist to do pretty much whatever they want for 48 pages. We've seen brilliant stuff from Tim Sale, Howard Chaykin, Richard Corben, Darwyn Cooke (his was the best, IMO) and, released yesterday, Sergio Aragones.

For those who don't know, Sergio Aragones is the man. More specifically, he's been a contributor to MAD Magazine since 1963 and is one of the greatest cartoonists alive. I've taken the liberty of posting one of the stories from his issue of SOLO, out in comic stores now.

It's an autobiographical story of the time Sergio met Marty Feldman, star of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, among other great movies.

Please bear with the randomly resized images... lately, photobucket is disagreeing with me and choosing to resize some images over others. I gotta stop using photobucket for these things.

( I KILLED MARTY FELDMAN by Sergio Aragones )