it was a pretty chobo night, i guess. again. my music gives me a little comfort. the EP is almost almost done. i still have to do vocals for one song and i've tried so many times and not gotten it perfect. the rest of the songs are basically done right down to the mixing and mastering nicely. then there's the matter of the comic and packaging. bleh. not much time left. i'll be done hopeless savages #3 by monday though, and then i can concentrate solely on this shit.

pad this post with purchases the other day-
DOWN THE STREET and COME OVER COME OVER by lynda barry. two of the out of print books of which she has like, 15 or something, jesus, i don't know. a million. they collect Ernie Pook's Comeek strips which i guess appear in alternative weekly papers across the country. harper collins published collections of them back in the 80s and early 90s, then stopped, and now they're out of print. she has a few newer collections in print: THE GREATEST OF MARLYS and THE FREDDIE STORIES are i think the only ones. i have those, and the ones i mentioned, and also IT'S SO MAGIC which is the last in the maybonne trilogy, which are the most fucked up and adulty, as far as i know. the second one is the most fucked up, MY PERFECT LIFE, which i don't have. a girl who introduced me to lynda barry let me read those three (the first is COME OVER COME OVER) and there was no turning back. peter of the beguiling (a store) said his favorite is called NAKED LADIES NAKED LADIES and it's an oversized book with drawings of naked ladies. he knows that i am a seeker of out of print lynda barry books so hopefully if he finds it he'll give me dibs. he had a couple of the older 80s books which the girl also showed me but they were not as compelling, sort of cruder and not about the kids of the later comics, they are like 80s neurotic romance genre or something, i don't know.

other book i got: CORALINE by neil gaiman with some drawings by dave mckean. it was sort of a impulse buy. gaiman has his moments and hopefully this is one of them. the only other novel of his i read was NEVERWHERE, which kind of fell flat but still leaves images in my head, oh and GOOD OMENS with terry pratchett which i think was great, but i read it like 6-8 years ago and i totally forget what it was actually like. so CORALINE is like this spooky children's novel, something which turns my crank, and the quotes on the back say stuff like it's a challenger to alice in wonderland, and stuff, and it looks cool, so i bought it. spooky children's novels rock my world. one of my favorite books ever is TIME OF THE GHOST by dianna wynne jones, which is, jesus, it's so great, everyone should read it, but then i'm an elitist, so fuck you, none of you should read it. it's all mine. it's my favorite spooky children's novel.