Avram's journal

I picked up Action Packed: The Best of the Capitol Years, by Richard Thompson, at Virgin today.

Says James, to Red Molly, “Here’s a ring for your right hand.
But I’ll tell you in earnest I'm a dangerous man;
For I’ve fought with the law since I was seventeen.
I’ve robbed many a man to get my Vincent machine.
And now I’m twenty-one years, I might make twenty-two.
And I don’t mind dyin’ but for the love of you.
But if fate should break my stride, then I’ll give you my Vincent, To Ride.”

Y’know what I used to hate about commercial radio? How they’d just cycle the same forty or so Billboard chart hits over and over again. Y’know what I hate about alternative net.radio? How they just cycle the same forty or so alternative rock hits over and over. Anyone know of a free net-radio feed from a station that has a huge music library from lots of different genres and just plays whatever they think is cool? Sorta like Vin Scelsa does? (Sadly, Vin won’t let his show go out on the net, because of the limitations the FCC would put on him.)

I’m feeling better now; got some good sketching done. I really like how I got the girl’s hair in the upper-right of this image — the one that looks like it’s all hair, like a darker Cousin It. I’m fond of how I got the highlights working. There’s a bit of a Robert Crumb feel to that.

( Sketches from Ground )

I also like some of the stuff that I haven’t scanned in, some character designs that worked pretty well.

ladymondegreen and akawil are off at OVFF, so why am I the one trying to figure out if Iron Butterfly’s “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” scans to Donna Summers’s “Hot Stuff”?

How to increase website traffic.

(Man, I listen to net.radio hoping to hear new music I’ve never heard before. If I’m gonna get “Don’t Fear The Reaper”, can’t it be a cover by, I dunno, Tori Amos or Mojo Nixon or Johnny Cash or someone?)

(Update: And wouldn’t you know, immediately after I hit the Submit button, that song ends and the Johnny Cash cover of Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus” comes on.)