eh. almost a writers block for starting blogging again. bloggers block. *boom*boom* thank ye's, be here all week.
Best thing i can think of that i've been into is new comic series by Ed Brubaker, called Sleeper. Check it out at:
http://www.edbrubaker.com/. Its set in the DC/Wildstorm universe, and has lots of post-human people with powers, but its not a superhero comic, thats just setting, which adds lots. Its a dirty dark shadowy drawn noir spy novel in the best Frank Miller/David Mazzuchelli style. Government agent deep undercover in criminal organization. Only person who knows he is there is one guy, his commander, the cover story is that he has gone rogue and switched to the bad guys. His commander gets shot, put in a coma, government agent is stuck on the inside, but also has made good friends. Lots of layers of intrigue, great charaterisations, amazing artwork. One of my favs of recent, and i been reading a lot over the holiday season: Black Hole by Charles Burns, Demo by Brian Wood & Becky Cloonan, and a whole bunch from the library: lots of Lucifer, Y the last man, 100 Bullets and Fables.
Anyway, a wee aside, our label name Highpoint Lowlife is actually inspired from a different Ed Brubaker novel called A Complete Lowlife. Me and Joe, and this girl Julie were sitting in my room trying to think up a name for the record label and we had been at it for hours, with a million bad suggestions that kept getting shotdown. The 'Complete Lowlife' comic was sitting on my floor, and i think it was me who said "Lowlife?" ( a while back, i may be trying to steal credit here ), and then someone else said "Highpoint Lowlife" which seemed to fit, like I'm from a very working class scottish town, and Joey is (in his own words) florida white-trash, and the label is like the highpoint of our Lowlifes. Anyway, Ed, if you ever find this page while googling yourself, get in touch, i would love to send you some music!
