Our biggest problem as a culture is simple; we allow attitude to win every time.
Continue readingCategory Archives: Nostalgic Obsessions
Joan Jett
Comments Off on Joan Jett
Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Don't Know Don't Care, Girls of BIUL, Nostalgic Obsessions, Thousand Listen Club
Peter Gabriel
This strip is kind of on the bitter side and I did not photo-reference the shot from the “Shock The Monkey” video in the first panel. I didn’t want to watch it again!! The monkeys featured in it are surely dead.
Continue readingComments Off on Peter Gabriel
Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Nostalgic Obsessions, Saturday Movie Matinee, Thousand Listen Club
The Doors
The origins of the line “It’s better to burn out than fade away” are somewhat muddy. It’s another version of “Play it again, Sam”; the words we’re most familiar with are actually a variation, and not a quote verbatim.
Comments Off on The Doors
Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Don't Know Don't Care, Faint Signals, Magazine Rack, Nostalgic Obsessions, Thousand Listen Club
The Hollies
Alright before you say anything, this ain’t one of my favorites. It actually represents a lot of painful things for me personally. So just know that going in.
Continue readingComments Off on The Hollies
Filed under Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Nostalgic Obsessions, Thousand Listen Club
Styx
Comments Off on Styx
Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Nostalgic Obsessions, Podcastery, Thousand Listen Club
Mandy
This is kind of a first for me; I don’t know whether to recommend this movie to you or warn you away from it. At the time of this writing it has held me in emotional torment for three days straight.
It aroused feelings in myself akin to those experienced when seeing Watership Down for the very first time, or Last House on the Left. I state with all sincerity: I don’t know how to react to it.
Continue readingComments Off on Mandy
Filed under Bad Influences, Girls of BIUL, Movies You Missed, Nostalgic Obsessions, Saturday Movie Matinee, Thousand Listen Club
Our Man Stan
1990 trading card with original 1977 painting by Arnold Sawyer.
Our universe will never again see a personality like Stan Lee. For the most part, that’s not a good thing. But one must understand and accept that Stan’s career was very much of its time. What he became in his final years was a calculated maneuver, the bookend of a carefully managed and marketed existence. I say that not out of judgment, but out of respect, however begrudging that respect might occasionally be. More than perhaps anyone else, Stan Lee was comic books.
Comments Off on Our Man Stan
Filed under Animation Analysis, Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Magazine Rack, Nostalgic Obsessions, Robot Toy Fetish
For No Reason, Here’s Apu
I often defend the things I love in life because of how much I have learned from them. From cartoon characters, I have learned a great many things. For instance, I have learned that there exist people in this world whose hearts are so cold and devoid of joy, they seek only to extinguish that joy in others, no matter the cost.
Comments Off on For No Reason, Here’s Apu
Filed under Animation Analysis, Don't Know Don't Care, Nostalgic Obsessions, Thousand Listen Club, Worst Of All
Cannibal Corpse
This is one of the earliest strips and frankly I was too hard on ol’ Cannibal Corpse. I wrote the first strips while living in rural South Carolina. I’m still friends with the dude in the first panel but at the time I didn’t know where any of the old gang were. I was crabby and malnourished in general because I didn’t figure out a proper diet until around four years ago.
Continue readingComments Off on Cannibal Corpse
Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Don't Know Don't Care, Faint Signals, Late To The Party, Nostalgic Obsessions, Thousand Listen Club, Unfairly Maligned, Worst Of All
Prodigy
Comments Off on Prodigy
Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Don't Know Don't Care, Faint Signals, Girls of BIUL, Idiot's Delight, Nostalgic Obsessions, Thousand Listen Club
You must be logged in to post a comment.