Cover MegaMix for Samara: BONUS TRACKS (plus, Two-Face rant)

So, guess who's working on Labor Day!

If that's not Hefnerian, I don't know what is.



( BONUS! Tracks I SHOULD have included for my Covers MegaMix )

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Well shit, if no one's reading today (as I'm assuming no one else is at work to dick off, or you are out having a grand time on this lovely day), I'm just gonna go off on a full Harvey Dent/Two-Face rant!

So I just read a small tidbit of Harvey Dent in THE DARK KNIGHT that confirms one of my biggest little fears about how they're going to portray the character. Looks like they'll be going with the "I'm the D.A. and I think Batman is a menace that must be stopped," claptrap. Nuts nuts nuts nuts nuts nuts nuts. He's supposed to be Batman's ally, damn it. He's supposed to be a good guy.

Yes, I know, to you folks by and large, this is a "eh, who cares?" detail. But shit, to me? That's the essence of his character. If he's not good to begin with, if becoming Two-Face doesn't mean that Batman loses one of his true friends and allies, where's the tragedy?

Christopher Nolan, between this and the Joker makeup, you're really testing my patience and faith. You'd better be going somewhere brilliant with this.

Grr.

Eh, you know what? It doesn't matter, in the long run. The movie will come and go, regardless of how it all turns out. If Dr. Doom can survive what Julian McMahon did to him... if Galactus could survive being a big fucking storm cloud... shit, if Two-Face could survive Tommy fucking Lee fucking Jones... then the character can survive this. It's just a movie. And if it ends up being awesome after all? Then that's a great big kick-ass bonus. But I ain't holding my breath, just in case.

(That said, just wait until they release a picture of Aaron Eckhart in full Two-Face makeup. I'll probably drop a load right there.)

But really, what matters most is my Harvey Dent novel. Not just completing it, but revising and fleshing it out until it's actually as good as it deserves to be... and then, finally, seeing it published in some form. Don't ask me how! But if it's as good as I want it to be, then I'm gonna want it to see the light of day in some form or another.

This isn't a mere Batman story I'm writing. This is a fictional Hefner Monologue--in many respects, every bit as personal as the autobiographical stories--but by way of David Cronenberg, James Ellroy, "Beat" Takeshi Kitano, and Takeshi Miike. It's the flip side of the coin to what was really happening to me emotionally regarding my father, among other things. And I think it's actually not bad, either.

So okay. I need to first make it with THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES. That's my key to getting established and making a name for myself. Then, after I have a bit of the name recognition and life experience from road-tripping and whatnot, I'll try to get BUB AND JOHNNY GO published as a novel or ongoing comic series (Years ago, I never thought I'd say this... but Image Comics is looking more and more like the company for which I should fight to get them publishing B&JG).

And THEN... go to DC Comics with the Two-Face novel. If I can't get them to publish it, then my only other option is to do it in a comic mini-series. I think I'll need nine issues at least. All while still performing and writing THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES, of course, as that'll be my real creative bread and butter (and financial as well, one hopes).

Yes. That's the plan. That's the goal for my next... what, eight or ten years.

Phase three is profit.

Westerns are Awesome, and I put a LOT of thought into Halloween makeup special FX

As many of you know, I have time and again bitched and whined about my utter frustration with FIREFLY/SERENITY fans who claim to hate or have no interests in westerns. If you are one of these people, or are just generally apathetic or resistant to the quintessential American genre, The Onion's A.V. Club has the article for you, and frankly, for me too:

Dark Side of the West: 17 Truly Grim Westerns.

Hell, I haven't even seen half of these, but I've already added several to my Netflix queue. I just wish THE TALL T were available on DVD, because that one particularly sounds great.

With the Christian Bale/Russell Crowe 3:10 TO YUMA and the upcoming Brad Pitt/Casey Affleck THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD, this is shaping up to be a good year for no-frills old-school hardcore westerns.

So yeah, don't be one of those squares left in the dust. Be the coolest kid on your block. Watch a western today.*



In other news...

Behind the cut, I contemplate costumes, makeup special FX, and custom contact lenses, gory prosthetics, photoshopped Joaquin Phoenix and Johnny Depp, and yes, more Two-Face stuff. I beg those who are familiar with the second part to offer their advice in this matter.

( So I've been thinking about Halloween... )

Really, if I can get all this together, the only thing I'll be missing is a party. Dare I throw down the gauntlet and declare a big-ass Halloween party at my place this year?

Man. I miss having a girlfriend with whom I can partner up for Halloween fun. Hmm... I wonder if I can talk any girls I know into being my Typhoid Mary? I just met a pretty awesome hippie chick who works at the Black Cat, a girl with hair the color of a tequila sunrise who's been known to dress up as Brian from the Dresden Dolls on Halloween. Hmm. Mayhaps, with time...?

We'll see. Obviously, the most important thing is getting the makeup to look good in the first place.

Otherwise... well, I could always be Johnny Go. Give me a few martinis, I won't even need to be at a party!



*YOUNG GUNS doesn't count. Nor does AN AMERICAN TAIL: FIEVEL GOES WEST. Nor BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III.