19.2.09
Lost Memories
And hello again. Is it me or is 2009 just weird as fuck? It just seems like we're somewhere else in the multiverse, like the movie 2009 Lost Memories where the guy just KNOWS something is amiss. Displacement might be the right word, but Irene is the English genius. I don't want to sound like a downer as of late, I'm still the luckiest guy you know, and still your hero. A great way for me now to remember what I need to update on this blog is by checking my Twitter updates. That usually sparks a memory or two.
I'm still trying to catch you up. I know. I think I had fun last weekend. I know Friday night, I was at Duff's drinking with Brandt and we didn't even work on a musical note. Then I hopped back into the city for some drinks with Jessie, some dude she likes, and Irene at Heathers. I know I was back at B's wrapping up our first ever home cooked Hypefactor remix, this one of The Sweetest Soul, and I must admit it sounds amazing. We've been toying with it for a few years, but we cracked down it for some reason as of late and it just clicked. Why we haven't been working on the album is a question I am afraid to ask, but I think March will be the month shit picks up (especially since we're seeing some awesome gigs). However, I sent Le Dossier a rough draft of the remix I'm sad I haven't heard back from him.
After the Rex Mix (as we call it) got into shape, B and I then grabbed some awesome at Caracas Arepa Bar and took our asses into the city for the release party/gig for the Screen Vinyl Image album. This was originally scheduled in BK, but somehow got moved to fucking Pianos, which I hate immensely. However, it's SVI, so we gotta represent. We were shocked to see SVI now has a drummer! This is a very cool development and it works well. My gut is that this will even get better as it progresses and will change a lot of the dynamic within the band. They played the loudest fucking set ever, and I regret the no earplugs, which I didn't even think of at the time but won't forget about next time. Loud as Fuck. Great tunes though. Hey even Sweets was there. Life IS Sweets.
Club Superstar Matt Gentile Last Of The Famous International Playboys was at a gig nearby on a similar schedule, so we met up with him as he was rolling smokes for LA transplants with trannie friends who look like Chyna. Then the three of us took it to Motor City (the bar, not Detroit) and had some pints into the evening. Excellent time.
Sunday was Geek Tea which had me, Lurch and Evan sitting in the new tea house by the apt talking geek shit, and yes i wore my Sinestro Corps Tshirt. To top this off, my parents then called from of all places Forbidden Planet, excited to see Spirit figures in the window and my first issue on the book 1 copy away from being a sell out at the store (it's been pretty well received, I'm told). Then we ate some French.
It was a good old fashioned friends and drink and beat filled weekend. Can't complain...Since then it's the usual Wrestling on Mondays, Jessie came by for dinner on Tuesday (and I got really tipsy at Huckleberry before my haircut), and trying to get in some time with the Mrs., who is in work frenzy. I'm told we're still having a wedding, which is nice ;-)
F
I'm still trying to catch you up. I know. I think I had fun last weekend. I know Friday night, I was at Duff's drinking with Brandt and we didn't even work on a musical note. Then I hopped back into the city for some drinks with Jessie, some dude she likes, and Irene at Heathers. I know I was back at B's wrapping up our first ever home cooked Hypefactor remix, this one of The Sweetest Soul, and I must admit it sounds amazing. We've been toying with it for a few years, but we cracked down it for some reason as of late and it just clicked. Why we haven't been working on the album is a question I am afraid to ask, but I think March will be the month shit picks up (especially since we're seeing some awesome gigs). However, I sent Le Dossier a rough draft of the remix I'm sad I haven't heard back from him.
After the Rex Mix (as we call it) got into shape, B and I then grabbed some awesome at Caracas Arepa Bar and took our asses into the city for the release party/gig for the Screen Vinyl Image album. This was originally scheduled in BK, but somehow got moved to fucking Pianos, which I hate immensely. However, it's SVI, so we gotta represent. We were shocked to see SVI now has a drummer! This is a very cool development and it works well. My gut is that this will even get better as it progresses and will change a lot of the dynamic within the band. They played the loudest fucking set ever, and I regret the no earplugs, which I didn't even think of at the time but won't forget about next time. Loud as Fuck. Great tunes though. Hey even Sweets was there. Life IS Sweets.
Club Superstar Matt Gentile Last Of The Famous International Playboys was at a gig nearby on a similar schedule, so we met up with him as he was rolling smokes for LA transplants with trannie friends who look like Chyna. Then the three of us took it to Motor City (the bar, not Detroit) and had some pints into the evening. Excellent time.
Sunday was Geek Tea which had me, Lurch and Evan sitting in the new tea house by the apt talking geek shit, and yes i wore my Sinestro Corps Tshirt. To top this off, my parents then called from of all places Forbidden Planet, excited to see Spirit figures in the window and my first issue on the book 1 copy away from being a sell out at the store (it's been pretty well received, I'm told). Then we ate some French.
It was a good old fashioned friends and drink and beat filled weekend. Can't complain...Since then it's the usual Wrestling on Mondays, Jessie came by for dinner on Tuesday (and I got really tipsy at Huckleberry before my haircut), and trying to get in some time with the Mrs., who is in work frenzy. I'm told we're still having a wedding, which is nice ;-)
F
18.2.09
16.2.09
Conning
It's been awhile, so let's get right into it. 09 is a weird fucking year so far. Very polarizing. Things alternate between shit and awesome, and honestly, it's a little frustrating. Anyhow...
One of the fun things was NY Comic Con last weekend. It was my first Con as an official comic book writer (more on that in a miniute), so for me this was a big deal. The other half joined me as got to see a lot of old friends and make a bunch of new ones. I won't lie to you, I have been bitten by the writing bug. I love it and want to do more of it. Hopefully I will get that chance. I did a few panels, the main was was a surprisingly well attended PULP panel where I sat up with a series of Pulp writers, publishers etc. discussing the future of pulp, it's characters etc. I'm attached to a few film involving some known pulp characters, so that's what got me up there. After, I actually was asked to possibly write what would be my first prose work, which I'm really excited about.
I got to go to the DC Freelancers party, which was honestly, a blast. I got to hang with my dear friends Jeff and Shawn and through the evening got to spend time with everyone from Geoff to Jimmy to Tony to Mikie and so on. I even got to thank the gentleman who added me to the comp list (at last!!) Of course, I got sidetracked discussing Wrestlemania at length with the man known as Katz before heading off with Irene to Heathers to see Vik and Roberto, who were back in town for Jacky's baby/wedding madness. Awesome.
The second day of the Con saw me taking a lot of meetings, doing business both old and new, and introducing my former employer for what he called his "Keynote Address". I had prepped an intro, but my hungover ass made me ramble a bit, but I got a few laughs, he loved the intro and it was a fun panel. I did some press also that should be hitting the webs shortly. Speaking of press, I did a big ass interview in this magazine, called WRITE NOW which is about, well, writing and edited by the awesome Danny Fingeroth:
http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=733&zenid=4f953ef8c7e9c62dff9e5cf22fc3b5e1
It's actually called "The F.J. DeSanto Interview", which I think is hilarious. Anyway, a nice thing to have.
I didn't buy much at the Con other than some wrestling DVD's, however, Irene got me a sweet Sinestro Corps Tshirt which I have been wearing to death. I also got a free Negation trade, the 4th vol in the lost great Sci fi series from Bedard and pelletier, that I desperately tried to turn into a feature many years ago. Ironically the director I attached to it has the # 1 movie out in the country this weekend. *sigh* However, I ran into Bedard and had him autograph it, which was sweet. I'm sure the Kidd will be stealing said volume soon.
After checking out the Star Wars panel (with cameos from Kyle and Jaime), Irene and I went to a screening of Kyle's film FANBOYS, which finally opened. It was great to see it again, especially in a room of Kyle's friends and family. I am so proud of my Jedi comrade. We went to the afterparty for a bit, then grabbed a quiet dinner and came home. I was so beat that second night that I was asleep before 11 and slept almost 12 hours. That meant I had to go back to the Con on Sunday, especially to see the Jeff Kinney's Wimpy Kid panel (we had a nice hello after) and to see Evan host the panel for the new WANTED videogame, which looks pretty sweet. Evan is a good host!
Sunday ended with what is becoming a welcome occurrence, The Matt Gentile Cameo. He was at The Travel Show, also at Javits, so we had a nice mini hang out. More on him in the next entry. I would say it was a successful con both professionally and personally, the only thing missing was of course, Jerwa. But thats what San Diego is for!
I might have missed a few things, but there will be more posts soon. Ok?
F
One of the fun things was NY Comic Con last weekend. It was my first Con as an official comic book writer (more on that in a miniute), so for me this was a big deal. The other half joined me as got to see a lot of old friends and make a bunch of new ones. I won't lie to you, I have been bitten by the writing bug. I love it and want to do more of it. Hopefully I will get that chance. I did a few panels, the main was was a surprisingly well attended PULP panel where I sat up with a series of Pulp writers, publishers etc. discussing the future of pulp, it's characters etc. I'm attached to a few film involving some known pulp characters, so that's what got me up there. After, I actually was asked to possibly write what would be my first prose work, which I'm really excited about.
I got to go to the DC Freelancers party, which was honestly, a blast. I got to hang with my dear friends Jeff and Shawn and through the evening got to spend time with everyone from Geoff to Jimmy to Tony to Mikie and so on. I even got to thank the gentleman who added me to the comp list (at last!!) Of course, I got sidetracked discussing Wrestlemania at length with the man known as Katz before heading off with Irene to Heathers to see Vik and Roberto, who were back in town for Jacky's baby/wedding madness. Awesome.
The second day of the Con saw me taking a lot of meetings, doing business both old and new, and introducing my former employer for what he called his "Keynote Address". I had prepped an intro, but my hungover ass made me ramble a bit, but I got a few laughs, he loved the intro and it was a fun panel. I did some press also that should be hitting the webs shortly. Speaking of press, I did a big ass interview in this magazine, called WRITE NOW which is about, well, writing and edited by the awesome Danny Fingeroth:
http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=733&zenid=4f953ef8c7e9c62dff9e5cf22fc3b5e1
It's actually called "The F.J. DeSanto Interview", which I think is hilarious. Anyway, a nice thing to have.
I didn't buy much at the Con other than some wrestling DVD's, however, Irene got me a sweet Sinestro Corps Tshirt which I have been wearing to death. I also got a free Negation trade, the 4th vol in the lost great Sci fi series from Bedard and pelletier, that I desperately tried to turn into a feature many years ago. Ironically the director I attached to it has the # 1 movie out in the country this weekend. *sigh* However, I ran into Bedard and had him autograph it, which was sweet. I'm sure the Kidd will be stealing said volume soon.
After checking out the Star Wars panel (with cameos from Kyle and Jaime), Irene and I went to a screening of Kyle's film FANBOYS, which finally opened. It was great to see it again, especially in a room of Kyle's friends and family. I am so proud of my Jedi comrade. We went to the afterparty for a bit, then grabbed a quiet dinner and came home. I was so beat that second night that I was asleep before 11 and slept almost 12 hours. That meant I had to go back to the Con on Sunday, especially to see the Jeff Kinney's Wimpy Kid panel (we had a nice hello after) and to see Evan host the panel for the new WANTED videogame, which looks pretty sweet. Evan is a good host!
Sunday ended with what is becoming a welcome occurrence, The Matt Gentile Cameo. He was at The Travel Show, also at Javits, so we had a nice mini hang out. More on him in the next entry. I would say it was a successful con both professionally and personally, the only thing missing was of course, Jerwa. But thats what San Diego is for!
I might have missed a few things, but there will be more posts soon. Ok?
F
1.2.09
The Yoga Mat
It's hard for me to figure where I left off, what I have missed telling you about, etc. so I'm just going to go on about what I can and can't remember. My Twitter bullshit thing probably tells a better story these days than this blog. Forgive me for that, and if you give that much of a shit about this, go get yourself a Twitter and look your boy up. A lot of my blog time has been consumed with my now obsession with hitting the Precor for a half hour at least 5 days a week. Totally changed my life, if youve seen me lately, you'd know. It's great being able to wear those old Big A shirts again, son! Or daughter!
Anyhow, this is a weird time, certainly one of the strangest of my life. Extremely high highs and a few scary lows. I think this might be this way for a lot of people, and as usual, I am much more fortunate than the average Frank. There's been some moments of forgetting that this month, but luckily there are a few kind women and some assholes to slap me around to remind me of that. But yes, I've missed you. I've missed the simplicity of writing to you on this silly blog on a regular basis. I'm happy to be here at the moment, so let's try and get ourselves caught up if we can ok?
Besides work, which is always hard to explain, there are two main focuses (foci?) in my life, The Wedding and The Band. Honestly, the wedding stuff is more Irene's responsibility, but I occasionally get involved. This was sorta the big week in that the dress was chosen and the food was tested. Irene's mom came to town, which is a treat and a half for these festivities, so we had the whole crew together. Anyhow, the food tasting is more my thing, and I gotta tell you, some of you people reading this will be at this wedding and I am telling you, your asses are going to eat like champs. The company Irene found, http://www.creativeedgeparties.com/, is awesome and they are making me some sweet ass pigs in blanket, so we are fucking good to GO. The tasting was fun. And I have just spent the last 4 days eating homemade Korean food. WIN.
Sister in law and nephew came down for a brief cameo. Always happy to see my boy. He and I got a lot of Xbox in and we even went to a bar for drinks with G and B. I don't know why I like taking my nephew to bars. He drinks sprite and eats pretzels and chills and he is the best. Today we hit Chinatown, raided the arcade and then shot off fireworks with the New Years crowd success. He has me hooked on LIFT4DEAD on Xbox.
The other thing keeping me occupied, are the next two Hypefactor projects. Exit Strategies is near completion. Along with Ash, Charles came in last weekend to play his final parts for the album, and now it's really just down to your hero singing and B playing so guitars and we're ready to mix. We've been alternating this with wrapping up a Peka remix, which is coming along great, and the start the as of yet unnamed Hypefactor EP, the first of two, this one being the moody one. I want to document the songs to see if it ever changes, but the tracklisting is: THE THOUSAND SEAS, MAGIC WORDS (the third MOG related band to tackle this one), THE FREE AGENT, DESCRIPTIVE (first full band written track), and THE SWEETEST SOUL REX MIX (a remix of our classic). Let's see a year from now if we stuck to this.
Anyhow, I like you people, but I must go for now. I am enjoying all of todays Super Bowl movie trailers, especially STAR TREK. And I can't believe Kruger has written shit for those big ass robots I saw the Transformers trailer. Even GI Joe caught my interest. Hopefully, we're gonna have ourselves a fun comic con this weekend.
How are YOU?
F
Anyhow, this is a weird time, certainly one of the strangest of my life. Extremely high highs and a few scary lows. I think this might be this way for a lot of people, and as usual, I am much more fortunate than the average Frank. There's been some moments of forgetting that this month, but luckily there are a few kind women and some assholes to slap me around to remind me of that. But yes, I've missed you. I've missed the simplicity of writing to you on this silly blog on a regular basis. I'm happy to be here at the moment, so let's try and get ourselves caught up if we can ok?
Besides work, which is always hard to explain, there are two main focuses (foci?) in my life, The Wedding and The Band. Honestly, the wedding stuff is more Irene's responsibility, but I occasionally get involved. This was sorta the big week in that the dress was chosen and the food was tested. Irene's mom came to town, which is a treat and a half for these festivities, so we had the whole crew together. Anyhow, the food tasting is more my thing, and I gotta tell you, some of you people reading this will be at this wedding and I am telling you, your asses are going to eat like champs. The company Irene found, http://www.creativeedgeparties.com/, is awesome and they are making me some sweet ass pigs in blanket, so we are fucking good to GO. The tasting was fun. And I have just spent the last 4 days eating homemade Korean food. WIN.
Sister in law and nephew came down for a brief cameo. Always happy to see my boy. He and I got a lot of Xbox in and we even went to a bar for drinks with G and B. I don't know why I like taking my nephew to bars. He drinks sprite and eats pretzels and chills and he is the best. Today we hit Chinatown, raided the arcade and then shot off fireworks with the New Years crowd success. He has me hooked on LIFT4DEAD on Xbox.
The other thing keeping me occupied, are the next two Hypefactor projects. Exit Strategies is near completion. Along with Ash, Charles came in last weekend to play his final parts for the album, and now it's really just down to your hero singing and B playing so guitars and we're ready to mix. We've been alternating this with wrapping up a Peka remix, which is coming along great, and the start the as of yet unnamed Hypefactor EP, the first of two, this one being the moody one. I want to document the songs to see if it ever changes, but the tracklisting is: THE THOUSAND SEAS, MAGIC WORDS (the third MOG related band to tackle this one), THE FREE AGENT, DESCRIPTIVE (first full band written track), and THE SWEETEST SOUL REX MIX (a remix of our classic). Let's see a year from now if we stuck to this.
Anyhow, I like you people, but I must go for now. I am enjoying all of todays Super Bowl movie trailers, especially STAR TREK. And I can't believe Kruger has written shit for those big ass robots I saw the Transformers trailer. Even GI Joe caught my interest. Hopefully, we're gonna have ourselves a fun comic con this weekend.
How are YOU?
F