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Bonnie Tyler’s 1983 video for “Total Eclipse of the Heart” was the world’s first shojou manga music video. Seriously, you could probably redo 98% of it with footage out of Revolutionary Girl Utena.

(From a discussion on Making Light.)

It was mashup night at the Pigeon Factory, and I was playing tracks from American Edit and A Night at the Hip-Hopera for ladymondegreen and akawil, and we somehow got around to the idea that Hitler would have really liked Queen (till he found out about the whole gay thing), what with their grand, operatic, Wagnerian over-the-top flair, and, y’know, if Freddy Mercury ( Read more... )

Busy day today. First, a life drawing session at Spring Street Studio; I need to do that more often. (Results posted over on sketchblogs.) From there I immediately wandered down to get more art supplies (a thinner sketchbook for everyday use, a pad of brown kraft paper and some black and white conté for the next life drawing session). I hoped to be able to ( Read more... )

So, out till 6:30 AM last night (Games Club, then Big Nick’s of the 28-page menu where our usual waitress pegged how many orders of garlic soup there’d be before half the group had even showed up), up at 4 PM today, felt somewhat crappy, but not nearly as much so as last week. An ibuprofen and some food and wandering about in the fresh air and ( ( Read more... )

Wow, I felt like utter crap this morn- no, this afternoon when I finally woke up. Staying up till 5 AM will do that, I guess, but no, this was even crappier than the usual day-after-five-ay-em feeling ( Read more... )

Best political blog post of the month: “In Other News, the Check is In the Mail” by Jim Henley

Best browser add-on of the month: Destroy Target by Sergi Meseguer, which strips target="_blank" out of links. I’ve been wanting this since about ten minutes after Netscape introduced frames. First get Firefox, then install the Greasemonkey extension. ( Read more... )

My roommates were just listening to a filk concert being webcast live from Consonance. How long before we get live webcasts of open filking, and people listening from home (probably Tom Smith, typing so fast he melts his keyboard) compose new songs and email or IM them to people with laptops at the filk, who then perform them ( Read more... )

This past weekend was Hoboken’s Open Studios weekend. I was hoping to have a good tour of studios to make up for missing out on Jersey City’s art. And I did get to see some, but not much ( Read more... )

They Might Be Giants will be performing in Brooklyn at the end of July. Details over in nycsuspects.