Ok! Peehole #7 is out! The second installment in the series, Danziggy II: Lucifudge, is ready to go! I'm working my printer and special stapler overtime as I type and will have this up on Etsy and at Quimby's Bookstore within the week. You buy!You buy now! Ok!
(UPDATE: At Quimby's now. Buy it from them and help feed their cats as well. Quimby's is awesome.)
Yes, I did reuse an earlier comic for the cover instead of creating a new one, but what's it to you, eh? I was not willing to draw a picture of Danziggy's hairy chest with his hands clutching a crucifix necklace to make this more authentic or anything. One can take a joke too far.
I'm gearing up for another round of weird dream comics, because I keep having weird dreams. I drew this one a few days back, about a dream I had a few years back about a Red Swan show.
It should be noted that this could just as easily have happened in real life, as Ian has a masters in medieval history.
Dig!
It is done! Time for a new issue of Peehole, featuring Danziggy:
Twenty pages of horror punk and metal silliness, in perfect bathroom reading size, just in time for the holidays! It will be up on my Etsy site in the near future, and I will be dropping some copies off at Quimbys shortly. And of course you can get them from me personally.
OK!
UPDATE: OK! I dropped off a stack of these at Quimby's, and it is listed on my Etsy site. Dig!
I was inspired to do another silly idea based on some discussions on the Electrical Audio forum, taking down another loved/hated cartoon character and metal celebrity, as well as a large cat.
30 Day Song Challenge: day 30 - your favorite song at this time last year
Joanna Newsome - Monkey and Bear
I guess this was one of my favorites a year ago. I got this album around the time it came out and it didn't really click until last year. The music is so dense and the lyrics are so involved, but it's pure poetry.
This was probably the first song I liked that wasn't part of my dad's record collection. I didn't find out the name of it until maybe 15 years later. I just found out it was supposed to be a retelling of David Bowie's "Space Oddity". Also I just realized that the theme song from Heathcliff and Friends ripped off the vocal part from the end of the song.
Day 26 - a song that you can play on an instrument
The Chantays - Pipeline
This was the first song I learned to play on guitar, maybe 1991 or so. I hadn't figured out any non-power chords yet, so "Jane Says" wasn't an option, and the easiest non-chord based songs - "Hunger Strike" and "Nothing Else Matters" - hadn't been released yet. Maybe they were, but I hadn't heard them.
I made an etsy site for my comics, for people who don't have ready access to me or to Quimbys.
The site is located here. You can buy issues 1 through 5 separately, or as a group for a discount.
Dig.
Day 24 - a song that you want to play at your funeral
Laika and the Cosmonauts - Theme from the Endless Summer
I want my funeral to be a beach party, all Beach Blanket Bingo style, with a surf band and everyone doing the twist, and I want my ashes launched into Lake Michigan with a water balloon launcher for the finale. And this song is as maudlin as it's allowed to get. There will be no wailing or gnashing of teeth, there will be no rending of garments or dressing in sackcloth and ashes, and if there is any of that, I will haunt the shit out of you.
Day 23 - a song that you want to play at your wedding
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
This is a trick question, because I am already happily married and don't want to get married again, so I don't officially want to play a song at my wedding. Pedantry aside, we played this song at our wedding. We also had Cathy and Corey play "We Belong Together" by Daniel C, but there doesn't seem to be any version of this song on the internet.
Day 22 - a song that you listen to when you’re sad
Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely
Sometimes I'll listen to the whole album, but this is the one that sticks out. Sometimes I listen to this song when I'm happy, too, along with the rest of the album.
30 Day Song Challenge: Day 20 - a song that you listen to when you’re angry
Killdozer - Working Hard or Hardly Working
I put this song on when I am stuck in traffic on my way home from work. Especially on bad days at work. It just keeps going on and on, it's so ridiculous. If it's bad enough traffic, I'll repeat it a few times. By then the traffic jam has cleared or I am home. Then I am happy.
30 Day Song Challenge: Day 19 - a song from your favorite album
I have a lot of favorite albums so this is a difficult one.
Old Time Relijun - Mystery Language
"Witchcraft Rebellion" by Old Time Relijun is one of my favorites, and this is my favorite song off that album. It competes with "Deep In The Woods" as one of my favorite songs. It's almost perfect, to the point that I wonder why anyone would bother writing another song. This video is really weird. Looks like it was put together by a Frenchman, based on the Youtube comments.
Day 18 - a song that you wish you heard on the radio
Fun Ender - The Touch
I wish I hear any Fun Ender on the radio. In fact I wish I could hear any Fun Ender at all. I have their first cd, but they never released their second, which is fully recorded. I've been told they have recorded their third as well, which is all keyboard instead of guitar. But the keyboard is tasteful - think Six Finger Satellite rather than Hipster Collective's Casio Portasound Review Insert Animal Name Here. And I have been told that they will release the second album at the same time as their third, so I am patiently waiting. I love these guys.
This is the first of a new series of unfunny comics about the foibles of a diminutive Glen Danzig.
I have a few more in mind at the moment. I'll keep doing these until I get bored with it or receive a cease and desist order from Danzig or that Ziggy guy.
I don't listen to the radio much, but I have a muzak speaker above my desk that plays the same vapid crap every day. On the few times I've listened to commercial radio in the recent past, I've heard this song, which also gets played on the muzak system.
Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (?)
I think this is the song title. Youtube provided at least three different song titles, which makes me believe their fans are dumber than the band. The description of the song on the video is as follows, without correction: "this is there new song thisis the real version it ant chipmonk or anything like tht its the real thing hope u enjoy".
Well, mister illiterate youtube account holder, since you mention it, I do not enjoy. I might actually want to hear the "chipmonk" version, because this is the stupidest song that anyone has ever written or recorded. I can imagine speeding it up to helium voice rpm would at least get the thing over with quicker. I was complaining to a friend about how much I hate this song, and he told me it was the Black Eyed Peas. I never liked the Black Eyed Peas, but I had no idea that they had sunk this low. I almost didn't believe him and had to google it, and sure enough, it's them. These are the worst lyrics ever. Worse than Rebecca Black's "Friday". And even worse, these are grown-ups. Grown-ups wrote these lyrics. Can you imagine a world in which grown-ass men and women, actual adults, not just people above the age of 18, but full-on, older than me adults would write something this pathetic? Well, you don't have to imagine that world, because we are living in that world. I hear this once a day; today I heard it twice. This band is a boil on the ass of music. Welcome to my nightmare, bitches.
