Bullet Dodged

Well Hawaii survived.

Our thoughts most certainly go out to the people in Chile though.

Tsunami

Sirens and warnings are going off for an impending tsunami to be hitting the coast of my home state of Hawaii in roughly an hour. Thankfully I'm lucky enough to live in a safe zone, but for all those who are not I hope and pray they and their homes remain safe through all of this.

Xiu Xiu - Gray Death

This is the first track off of newest Xiu Xiu album Dear God, I Hate Myself, which happens to be one of my early

contenders to be the best albums of 2010 (not to mention a shoe in to win the peppiest album title of 2010). It's a

fantastic album opener and the video matches the songs weird epicness perfectly.

Liars - Scissor

Really good stuff from Liars. I kinda wish the end wasn't as funny though, it doesn't really match the overall feel of

the video/song.

Stuff That Doesn't Remotely Suck: Blankets

Craig Thompson, an author and cartoonist (he also made the incredible cover art to Menomena's Friend or Foe), is something of a stylistic genius. The premise of his graphic novel Blankets is pretty simple: confused youth finds his way to adulthood through the act of sleeping next to other people. As the protagonist ages this act takes on different meanings and changes his general perspective of the world around him while altering or expanding his internalized sense of self. The story itself is nothing revolutionary, never really moving into a realm that feels unexplored. What takes Blankets beyond being a simple coming of age book though is the way in which Thompson presents the tale he is weaving. Blankets is a text that uses the medium of the graphic novel to it's fullest extent. Thompson does not simply tell a story he makes it into a living thing that crawls off the page through your corneas and embeds itself in the back of your head. He employs a simplistic style of imagery that somehow manages to create a minimalist yet emotionally dense pallet upon which his story is built and told through.

A Softer World

A Softer World is a comic series founded on the principle that the darker the comedy the more awesome it is. They sell their work in a physical book format, but they also have their entire collection posted online here to read for free. It's awesome, albeit sometimes disturbing, stuff. Check it out.

Seriously.

Hells Yes They Are!

Been Thinking About Shaving...
But then I see this and I remember why I'm avoiding the razor at all costs.

Wow

It's been a bit longer than I expected since my last post but this had to be posted:

Simply Mind Blowing.