(But excuse the following burst of enthusiasm:)

Three Things I Love at the Moment (!):

• Kappei Hiiragi, from Clannad,
• Translators at Baka-Tsuki (because any team which consistently translates high-quality works from two relatively unknown-to-the-West mediums via wiki has my respect),
• Hello Quizzy, or one of the few intelligent quiz sites on the internet (or rather, relatively intelligent).

Music-rambles.

(I don't think my ENTP friend will ever discover this blog, and I hope he doesn't. On the afternoon of the last day of school we were listening to music at his house and he asked me why lyrics mattered so much to me. I have been musing over this question for a while now. I am still not completely sure myself, but perhaps you can hear in somebody's voice and own words an honesty you don't find in a mix of electronic sounds and beats: Bright Eyes' songs resound with weariness and soft, teary-eyed naivete. Radiohead's songs are cold and alienated and supermarket-cans-empty. The Verve's "The Drugs Don't Work" has a heart-sinking, hospitalized limpness (and I almost know what my not-bald friend means when he thinks something is "so depressing that I can't listen to this"). Many of Pearl Jam's songs, like "Black," are bitter and anguished. My Chemical Romance is explosive and cathartic and flings themselves to the world. As to why I value emotional honesty more than everything else, I have no clue. Something something something.)

And another preview

(The books in Lie Bookstore, by the way, are The God Delusion, The Stranger, and Thus Spake Zarathustra.)

A preview of page 7

That's page 7, I think. It was one of my ENTP friend's favorites.

Most of the humor goes something like that, with a bit more antihumor, black humor, and mock sentimentality. All that makes up about three quarters of all the panels. The other quarter is made up of stuff about teen angst and good numbers and birds and stuff.

Yeah.

I don't know what else to say.

Here's my guess:
If you hate Garfield, you might like this comic.
If you also hate Peanuts, though, you might not--I do put a bit of sentimentality into my comics. Things like Radiohead and Nabokov and XKCD, for example, are a bit cold for my tastes.


Oh, about my other comics:
I edited this one on paint, and it does give it a nice indie feel, but it was a bit time-consuming. I've scanned 40 other ones by now, and I don't have the patience to do that for every single one.
My goal right now is to find some sort of software that could darken the midtones past 100% for me; I've tried GIMP, Microsoft Photo Editor, and then some.


(Wow, Comics About Cats is on the web. My fingers are crossed.
I can't express how much I want this comic to get somewhere.)

Comics about cats.

Summer is here.
With the extra time, I'm thinking I'll post my thoughts on this hellish life online.
All hail Comics About Cats. Let's hope I get somewhere with it.

http://comicsaboutcats.blogspot.com/

People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal.

The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything.

Andy Warhol said that.

He is probably the funniest person I have come across.

I do not know what to think of him. Either he was amazingly shallow or he was an amazing satirist. If he was the latter, he kept this mask on even through his last interview.

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