Name:     Zapp
IP:       128.135.175.110
Subject:  Mostly new from Chicago
Email:    zapp@civilizedpigdom.com
Website:  http://



Some news and thoughts.



Made a comic run to end all comic runs (ha!) the other day.  Picked up FIVE BOOKS OF CEREBUS -
OH MY GOD I LOVE CEREBUS!!! - as well as the obligatory Usagi Yojimbo / 100 Bullets.  A happy
new addition to my collection:  Mai the Psychic Girl, Volume One.  A good series, to be sure (if
a bit too 'typical' of anime character, even though the art approaches hardpoint in detail). 
I'll pick up more in future trips.  To reiterate:  holy shit, Cerebus is good stuff.



I have one of those falling-water fountains in my room now, so I always have the peaceful,
calming sound of falling water with all the benefits that it brings.  I recommend it greatly. 
You can find these fountains for cheap at your local walgreens (tm).  I have noticed that my
sleep is more restful and that I read better with it going.



Also picked up some music downtown after seeing Charlie's Angels (silly and fun, not great, but
good) and eating at the Rock and Roll McDonald's (immortalized in song by Wesley Willis and
eerily staffed entirely by hispanics).  New music:  Kid A (mostly good), Kraftwerk "The Mix"
(classic and silly), Scarlatti sonatas (yay), Bach inventions (yay), and Byrd motets and masses
(double yay!).



Played at the pep band's last football game to play at this year.  We are a horribly deluded and
sarcastic bunch.  Whee.



DOC last weekend was good stuff indeed.  We projected the newest Hamlet - it was pretty smooth
(except when the sound cut out once - not our fault!).  A very slick film to be sure, lots of
interesting ways the director isolated the characters and subplots from each other in ways that
aren't possible on a stage at all.  And hey - it had Bill Murray as Polonius (he was also in
Charlie's Angels - a double dose of Murray for me! yay!) and Ethan Hawke as Hamlet.



And hey, the Co-op finally got more key lime soda and ginger beer in.  Now, they don't have any,
and I have it all.  Bwa ha ha.



So yeah - I promised some thoughts as well.  Firstly, everyone should check out what appears to
be the current home for interesting discussion:  John's Forum
(http://jiv.myip.org/forum/forum.html).  Surely we'll get something interesting under discussion
here again soon, but do check out the budding cultural relativism thread over there in
square-land.  I'm headed there myself after this post (I can hear you relativists groaning... no
escape!  hahaha!)...



The purchase of my falling-water fountain thingie has sparked an interest in interior design in
yours truly.  Can anyone name just one feature of their ideal living area?  I am genuinely
curious, and I sometimes have trouble picturing what mine would be like.  I think the most
important thing for me would be preserving a sense of open space for the majority of the area...



I'm interested in expressing some of my ideas (on religion, for example, or the mentality of the
thief) in Macromedia Flash format.  I've been doing a little "research" on what makes a good
flash movie... check out newgrounds.com for examples of both the good and the bad.  To save you
some time, some good ones are to be found in the flash noir section.  Bard's Song and Theatrical
Trailer Trash are also two good ones that come to mind.



Time for cultural relativism!



-Z