02 May 2009

List #3

3a: 2007
  1. Remember
  2. Smoke
  3. Revelation
  4. Work
  5. Grace
  6. Waiting
  7. Insomnia
  8. Voyeur
  9. Butterfly
  10. Reunion

3b: 2008 - 2009
  1. Untitled
  2. Aubade
  3. Gravity
  4. Prayer
  5. Homecoming
  6. Night
  7. Drowning
  8. Home
  9. Sonnet
  10. Sleep

~ The Virginia Quarterly Review

26 April 2009

List #2

The Sown Men
see myth of Cadmus

Echion / Ekhion: "[son] of the viper (echis)"
Udaeus / Oudaios: "the black one" or "the infernal one" (?)
Chthonius / Khthonios: "of the earth (underground)"
Hyperenor: "over, above" + "a man"
Pelorus / Peloros: "giant" or "big man"

06 April 2009

List #1

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Fiction

a. Features
  • Character
  • Incident
  • Linguistic invention

b. Tension
  • Social strivings
  • Existential strivings
  • Sexual strivings
  • Political strivings

c. Payoff
  • Humor
  • Pathos
  • Mystery
  • Surprise


Photo by Helquin.

26 March 2009

Where to Begin

"...[I]t was only when I sweated my way into it that I realized one of the most fundamental rules of comics storytelling: start the story as late as possible."
~ Mark Waid at Kung Fu Monkey

07 March 2009

Music #6

"Soulshake," Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson

"I Wanna Be A Flintstone," The Screaming Blue Messiahs

"Friends," Whodini