A not so heroic (zeroic?) return ;)

My goodness, time flies when you're busy, haha.
Unfortunately I have reached a block in the road on the way to finishing up the illustrations for my project... in other words, I'm still stuck on how to go about finishing them up.
I already had a visual storyboard (mostly envisioned mentally, haha) all along, but I thought up new ideas and decided to rewrite a bunch of things. And of course when you do that, you have to change up other things. It's gotten pretty in depth and intricate, so much so that I've started to question if illustrating all of it would be worth the time and effort put into it.
I was originally going to use a legit ink and paper approach, but after much consideration, I decided to try a digital way, which still hasn't completely panned out the way I had intended. If neither of those end up working out, I do have one last solution. It would be extremely difficult but would probably also be the most unique and visually appealing as well as artistically satisfying (to my own mind at least, haha). It combines digital photography and drawings as well as ink and paper to create each piece. But yeah, enough about that, although keep your fingers crossed I'm able to finish it, haha. :P

In other going ons, I still haven't written much poetry lately (aside from the bits in my project) so for that I do apologize.
I've watched tons of movies lately, the most exciting of which was Watchmen of course. It was absolutely spectacular. Obviously the entire novel couldn't possibly have been put into the movie, so I did lower my expectations a tad... I was blown away at how beautiful it looked, but more importantly how perfectly it brought to life one of the most amazing pieces of fictional literature I've ever read. I can't stress enough how each actor definitely brought each character to life better than I had imagined them in my mind while reading it. Right down to their mannerisms and how each bit of dialogue was spot-on. I have to say that Jackie Earle Haley's portrayal of Rorschach was nothing short of perfect. Everything I had imagined and more. :)
I'm also very excited for Quentin Tarantino's next movie, Inglourious Basterds. If you haven't seen the trailer yet, definitely check it out. :)

I've just finished reading Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns" as well as Alan Moore's "The Killing Joke". I plan on picking up The Dark Knight Strikes Again and hopefully Batman: Year One to read next. I'll tell ya this, Miller and Moore are two of the most amazing storytellers I've stumbled upon in quite a while.

Music-wise, I'm currently anxiously awaiting the arrival of Third Eye Blind's "Ursa Major". After seeing Third Eye Blind live, I have become an even bigger fan of their music. After hearing them play Non-Dairy Creamer and now having a copy the song to listen to in depth, I must say that it is nothing short of amazing.
Green Day's "21st Century Breakdown" is another album I'm excited for. They've always been a band that (to me at least) puts out consistently satisfying music. Growing up, they kinda put out an album in each of the periods of my life where it seemed my mood would change. Dookie/Insomniac when I was heading into middle school and becoming a goofy teen, Nimrod when I started to mature a bit, Warning when my life reached a VERY somber/dark and quiet plateau, and American Idiot when it seemed that I had become the person I'd always feared. The self-loathing burnout with nothing but broken dreams and an imagininary alter ego whom he'd see taking charge and living out the things he wanted to do but was too scared to... ;)

I've been experimenting with writing/composing alot of different lyrics/music and I've made a few VERY rough solo acoustic recordings of some of my own material as well as a few covers: Rise Against's "Swing Life Away" and "Prayer of the Refugee", Green Day's "Good Riddance-Time of Your Life", Nirvana's "About a Girl", Howie Day's "Collide", Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours", BNL's "Old Apartment" and "If I Had $1,000,000" and finally John Lennon's "Working Class Hero" and "Imagine".

Well, I guess that about does it for me. I'll try and update it abit more often, although it seems that until I figure out the whole illustrating deal, there won't be many worthwhile updates.

I'll end with lyrics that I've grown quite fond of lately. :)

Much Love,
Geoff
xXx

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when i fall in love i take my time
there's no need to hurry
when i'm making up my mind
you can turn off the sun
but i'm still gonna shine and i'll tell you why

because
the remedy is the experience
this is a dangerous liaison
i say the comedy is that it's serious
this is a strange enough new play on words
i say the tragedy is how you're gonna spend
the rest of your nights with the light on
so shine the light on all of your friends
when it all amounts to nothing in the end

i won't worry my life away
i won't and i won't and i won't

"The Remedy (I Won't Worry)" by Jason Mraz