The Last Refuge of a Broken Mind

2006-05-23T12:28:00.000-07:00

colin
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Too much

2005-03-08T00:30:00.000-08:00

My brain is starting to melt, now I take a break from work for work, then some more work, then some sleep.... then some more work.

............

The band

2005-03-05T17:13:00.000-08:00

Alright, I'm a big fan, I mean a Big fan of rock and roll. I've recently run into the band though, formerly with Bob Dylan. Zeppelin are one of my favorite band's but the band took over that spot with their skill and density. They went through molding as a group and individuals by two distinct individuals. Ronnie Hawkins, who I haven't listened to tons, but what I have heard seems to point towards him being a straight forward rock and roller. He worked them to the bone, molded them into a group. Then they left him and went on to work with Bob Dylan. Back then Dylan was an extremely innovative and creative person. The band themselves were starting to develop around the same time, Dylan and the band drove each other to levels they wouldn't have reached otherwise. Robbie Robertson broke the band up in 1978, people wondered where they might have gone, and argued that Robertson was a dick... he was a dick, but i digress. The band's sound had stopped progressing by this point, Robertson wanted something new, what he found might have not been great, i haven't heard it yet, but he was looking...

now back to work, the cat says hi, and as a footnote, I've discovered girlfriends are confusing

this aimless rambling brought to you by permenantly confused me

still quite drunk

2005-02-22T00:57:00.000-08:00

Marvel has done quite a drunk... wait, that doesn't make sense, maybe quite a shitty describes it, fucking whatever. Quite often comic fans in the majority are split into the camps of marvel or dc... I've been a marvel leaner for years. The crappy current writing of bendis and millar have turned me., not to goddam to dc, but to pretty much totally neutral, now I just follow what I just think is the best read (as far as I'm aware). For the first time since I started collecting comics over ten years ago, I have dropped the main FF book once strawhatski comes on, I have no desire to see his molesting one of my favorite comic properites, and I drop ult ff once mark millar recently came on. I don't care if the majority enjoys Ultimates 2, after issue 3, where they decide to detonates an entire SHIELD aircraft carrier with a nuke to kill the hulk, instead of a bullet into the brain, what crap. And also, the "moment" of bruce banner saying he was too sensitive in front of all those cameras to say he loved betty brant or something like that, seemed very false to me, maybe I'm dumb, actually I'm pretty sure I am, but whatever, it seemedd false and stupid.

..........

break the code

2005-02-22T00:12:00.000-08:00

old shit sept 24/04 - Paraphrased. What has more power, the visual, powerful reading of an original text, or a paraphrased text of the same thing over the net? People running into a text through tangental interest over the nest over the net, or just thrgough interest because of friends. jeusus, who goddam knows.

to the death... or the end.. or the beginning, whatever

2005-02-21T23:56:00.000-08:00

through stupidity, and drunkenness, I didn't acknowleged ellis being the one to make me aware of the death of Hunter s. thompson, and much of his fiction is owoes to thoompson at least in some regard.

Change something, to owe to thompson, just try to... my father' s a deep deep christian, I'm at least going to argue with him against it in honor of thompson tomorrow.

cheers

Colin F. O'Neil

2005-02-21T23:42:00.000-08:00

Hunter S. Thompson killed himself recently... It's a sad day... I think everyone should cause a problem because of it... trouble, I don't know, something different. I would give my left nut for an of the surviving members of zeppelin, the band, or for ellis to acknowlegde this, especially ellis. also incluging levon helm, robert plant, jimmy page, john paul jones, robbie robertson and garth hudson, on impulse, the best tribute possible, let's throw in billy bragg. fuck, what happened when Ernest Hemmingway died.

The world is a sad and beautiful place

Colin

Getting started

2005-02-13T23:06:00.000-08:00

Alright, I'm actually going to get this mabob going, with a 100 things I love about comics to start it off. here it goes

1. Fantastic Four (before ellis and waid becomes millar and strawhatski, then I'm out)
2. Warren Ellis
3. Batman: Year One
4. Dark Knight Returns
5. Stan Lee
6. Metabarons (so horribly wrong, yet so right)
7. Morrison's New X-Men
8. The New issue of Eightball
9. Savage Dragon
10. DC is always on time, and Image is never on time
11. Mister Blank
12. James Kolchaka
13. Kamandi: The Last Boy On Earth by Kirby
14. Courtney Crumrin
15. Planetary!!
16. Justice League Unlimited (and all that came before)
17. Ranma 1/2
18. Planetes Volume 1
19. Eric Powell!!
20. Doc Strange/Doc Doom: Triumph and Torment
21. Claremont when he didn't suck
22. Marvel Boy (morrison's and guy that died in ff back in the day)
23. The Pain of confusion before straightening out Scott Morse and Scott Mills
24. The love gun
25. Juggernaut and Cyclops shaking hands in front of a giant heart.
26. Apparet
27. "I've been waiting to punch someone in the brains all goddamn day."
28. Runaways
29. Strangers In Paradise
30. Cartesian Man
31. Tom Defalco's FF and Spider-Girl
32. Karl Kesel
33. Watchmen
34. Lewis Trondheim
35. Teenagers From Mars
36. Daily Dinosaur Comics
37. Love Fights
38. Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb
39. Bendis when he knows how to write
40. Lazarus Churchyard
41. Strange Adventures
42. The Iron Giant
43. Skrull Kill Krew
44. Larry Young, and all he's done
45. Captain Marvel Vol 3
46. Scenester
47. The Books of Magic, vol 1
48. Skizz: First Encounter
49. Winick's Early Exiles
50. Johns JSA
51. Hellblazer ala Ennis
52. Mister Glum
53. X-Statix
54. White Queen
55. Colossus
56. Herbie
57. Escapo
58. Kingdom of the Wicked
59. Empire
60. Punisher 2099
61. Kevin O'Neill
62. Swarm (the dude made of bees)
63. Ex Machina
64. Kingdom Come
65. Fables!
66. Brit
67. Captain Britain, from Moore to Clarmont
68. Alpha Flight from 1 to somewhere around 60
69. Bloodhound
70. Freedom Force game
71. Xorn
72. Starro the conqueror
73. Giffen Justice League
74. 2000 AD
75. Dave's childhood comic genuis
76. The Hood
77. Martian Manhunter, a bad muthafucka
78. Wondering where Mark Millar will be in ten years
79. "Green isn't a power, green is a color!" (superman to gl)
80. That Mike Grell's green arrow was BAD
81. Black Panther by Priest
82. the view askew movies
83. Terror Inc.
84. Brubaker's Dead Ender's
85. Calvin and Hobbes
86. Earth X
87. Simonson
88. Flaming Carrot
89. Solarman and Beepie
90. Eclipso
91. Paul Grist's design sense
92. Lobo: Infanticide
93. Marvel Two-In-One
94. Gilgamesh II by Starlin
95. Transmetropolitan
96. Wally Wood's T.H.U.N.D.E.R. agents!!
97. Steve Ditko
98. Ordway's Wildstar
99. Young Heroes In Love
100. Two-Step

EDIT
100a. Giant-Size Man-Thing

~

2004-11-29T15:48:00.000-08:00

gloriousness will come later