The many things to see and do

No blog post since Saturday?

Here's a basic run down.

Sunday: If I had written a post, it would have been long and ranty and full of pissed off emo crap. Hence the skippage.

Monday: Dinner at old friend's place. Actually my ex. She's doing really good. She's apparently really into Heroes of Might and Magic at the moment, which is kind of inconsiderate really, considering she never got into any of that stuff three years ago. =P

We had food she made, brownies this guy made, and wine this guy got. Me? I brought witty banter. People had a good time. I really want to do this more often.

(also I discovered she lives, literally, walking distance from my school. Bloody hell. I should seriously drop by more often)

Oh I just remembered. Brownie guy above bought me this CD by the Australian jazz singer Hayley Clare. I don't know what you want me to say. She's fantastic. The title track 'Blurred' is, for lack of a better set of adjectives...

fucking fantastic.

I literally cannot stop listening to it. It's got everything I like in music. Emotion that doesn't sound like it was manufactured, lyrics that are close to poetic in their simplicity and conveyance, and a simply brilliant vocal that still sends shivers down my spine.

You can listen to it here. Please do. If you like it, you will improve the quality of your life, and if you don't, then you'll only have wasted three minutes of your time.

Also on Monday: I had to do thirty idea sketches. In ninety minutes. That was seriously difficult. I'm just glad I finished.

Tuesday: Besides the fact that I appear to have a marvellous social life (I wish) and fantastic hobbies (I do, but still) I was massively wiped out from all the work I'd been doing in school. Due to the extended deadline (detailed a few posts below) I had not been sleeping properly and working manic hours to clear up certain deadlines. I toyed with the idea momentarily during Monday's dinner, but when I woke up Tuesday morning, bleary, disoriented, and freaking exhausted, I skipped class.

My classmates called me in the evening to get my opinions and input on the group project we're currently doing. I'm happy to be working with such responsible people.

Oh, side rant. I have met a classmate I actively dislike. She's passive aggressive in a seriously deficient way, not to mention appears to have no sense of what passes for common courtesy. No one I've spoken to likes her either. She's hardworking and driven in a 'get the job done no matter what' way, but that's pretty much her only redeeming factor. She's new because she deferred her studies for a semester. I can only surmise she was having a stick surgically implanted into her ass.

Speaking of ass, Still on Tuesday, Brownie friend came over with his hard drives and a whole pile of awesome.

In decreasing orders of awesome:

Have you seen Deadwood? It's awesome.
House Season 3? Awesome.
The new Spider Man Animated Series? Awesome.

But that was absolutely nothing next to Invincible.

It's... okay, it sounds very cliche. Mark Grayson's father is Omni-Man. Omni-Man has super speed, super strength, and can fly. Being a superhero's son is daily life for this teenager, until he realizes he's inherited his father's powers. So he dons a costume, becomes Invincible, and joins with a secret branch of the government in order to protect the world alongside a gallery of other superheroes like him. Also juggling his family life, school, and his hot girlfriend.

I told you it sounded cliche.

It's pretty much the best superhero comic I've ever read.

If I could put it up for Recommended Reading, I would.

It's pretty much everything I have ever wanted from a comic book in terms of writing, art, and story. It's not deep philosphy: It is a comic about superheroes, and it's not Alan Moore, but in the same way Star Wars is art, this comic is on fire.

It also has Atom Eve:

I'm not joking when I say that Mary Jane Watson, Aeon Flux, and Lara Croft have nothing on this girl. She is smoking. (also in the picture, Invincible, and his girlfriend Amber)

I think it says something about the comic book that the superhero redhead in the miniskirt and skintight outfit that the protagonist has known since the first page is literally, just a friend, and a random girl from his History class becomes his longtime steady girl.

Wednesday: Well, here we are, aren't we?