Oh no, turnips!

Someone wise once said absence makes the heart grow fonder.  Someone even wiser said not to speak in cliches.  I'm not a particularly firm believer in either one.  None the less it has been around ten months since my last post.  What have I been doing?  Why no posts? Read on to a tale of woe.

Woe isn't accurate.  The basic premise behind my lapse is this; I am not very prolific.  There's a burden I am glad to be rid of.  The in depth premise is a bit more complicated.  I had probably ten to 15 posts I had every intention of publishing.  One was a 2011 year in review, that I ultimately couldn't edit down to a non nauseatingly pontifical length in time for it still to be relevant.  I had a post about my confliction on watching the Avengers at all, let alone in theaters.  I also had a post about the modern day witch hunt of Lana Del Ray. This one I may still publish, but it needs a bit of work.  However people may have forgotten about her by then (damn this vicious culture cycle!).  The point of this is, I write pieces but it takes me a while.  In equal parts procrastination and over editing.  "But my pieces are badly edited", you say?  Well who asked you?

Instead here is a quick rundown of things I have been into and up to.  Why do you care?  I don't know.  I can barely muster interest in it, and it's my life.  Don't ask me, it's your weird perversion.

I read the first Hunger Games book, and enjoyed it until the out of the blue ending.  I also read the Song of Fire and Ice series.  Thoroughly enjoyed it, until I realized I was going to have to wait five years for the the next book.  I also started Neuromancer, which I am currently enjoying.  I am also halfway through Terry Moore's Strangers in Paradise.  I am kind of in love with this book.  Not only is the art amazingly well done (Who ever thought you could have multiple characters actually look different in a comic book?), but the story is engrossing as well.  I have a feeling if teenage me had read this title instead of all those fucking X-Men books I would have had a very different life.

I did end up liking the Avengers, very much so.  I do feel bad for helping DisMarvel make a billion dollars off the work of Jack Kirby and others, all the while not bothering to pay for the very work that has made that money possible. I am also firmly in the Prometheus is great camp. Everyone who has a problem with it, was going to hate it regardless of what movie was made. I also seemed to be one of the few who saw Wanderlust in theaters.  Shame on the rest of you.

Music: Here are a few videos of some new (to me) musics I have been listening to. 

Kindness:

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs:



Blood Orange:


or the remix if you prefer.




TV Girl:



Rye Rye:



Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside:



Nick Waterhouse:



Screaming Females:




Writing wise I am making strides.  I have come up with a new old idea that I am kind of excited about, but it's very barely breathing so nothing else to say on that.  Until next I post.