Now
You’ve probably noticed this blog has undergone something of a dry spell of late. Business is demanding more busy-ness on my part.
As some of you already know, a few weeks back I was promoted to a new job: Inside Sales & Business Development. If I do well, I’ll double my income. On the other hand, there are more demands on my time. I’m supporting accounts on both the East and West Coasts, so my schedule has become a bit more… elastic. And I’m doing more travel than I’ve done in the past. I’ll be in San Francisco the week of the May 20th, and then the day after Memorial Day I’ll be flying to Minneapolis. I expect to take at least one more business trip in June, and can probably expect to travel at least once a month going forward.
I’ve also been working on a redesign of my Web site. For over a year I’ve struggled to understand why each redesign looked flat and unappealing, and then I realized why: each version had a dearth of artwork, namely mine. So I’ve been working on a neat image around which to design a site that I hope will reflect who I am and what I can do.
And yes, I am still struggling with “The Victory Streak.” I’ve not given up. I’ll get there. Those of you who are waiting patiently will be rewarded. Not just with the advent of the comic. I mean I’ll throw in something extra. I won’t tell you what it is because that would spoil the surprise. And as far as WHO has been waiting patiently, don’t worry — I know who you are.
I’ve been letting things like my comic, my graphic design work, and my blog slide because of my new circumstances. But I now realize it’s been a few weeks since the big change and it’s time to stop using it as an excuse. I need to adapt to my new circumstances, integrate these changes into my life and get back on track.
I came to this realization today as a result of a very beautiful and poignant lyric from a song called “The Way the Wind Blows,” from the new Rush album, “Snakes and Arrows:”
We can only grow the way the wind blows on a bare and weathered shore
We can only bow to the here and now in our elemental war
We can only grow the way the wind blows
We can only bow to the here and now or be broken down blow by blow
It’s rather amazing the way a piece of art created by someone you’ve never met — and probably never will meet — can affect you. The fact is, the meaning I’ve invested in the words above have as much to do with me as they do with the man who wrote them. But that’s the beauty of art: both creator and audience are jointly responsible for giving it a soul.
So that’s where I am now. I’ll catch you a little later, when that later becomes the new now.
May 2nd, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Bill haz jusst bin wacheen zombee porn.
May 2nd, 2007 at 10:41 pm
You wanna talk music? This is what I’m feelin’ right now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z2M_hpoPwk
Or, if you like a bit more bass in the voice, the better version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLJbxlvwLKM
Next century, she needs to keep her butt at home. What a mess.
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:40 am
Hey Bill! Congrats on the promotion!! You deserve it! If any of your travels bring you to Texas dont forget to look us up!! When I heard about the new Rush album- I have to confess I did think of you.
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Zombie porn? Well, there was Repenetrator and The Exxxorcist…I know a guy who insists that “gorenography” will be the Next Big Thing but there are places even I will not go.
You want music? try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs0MuA0K46k
The band, komeda, is great and the video…well, you know me.
Congrats on the well deserved promotion. Double the income! It’s premium Ramen noodles for you, old chum! The ones with the little silver packets that prevent congealing!
May 4th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Zombie porn?
Frankenhooker?
May 4th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Hey, why not, Burton did Frankenweenie! They just go together! Besides, it’s good to be with a woman that can really get you charged up.
May 4th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
That’s not an idea for a movie that should be made in the future. Frankenhooker is a real film. Scary, isn’t it.
May 5th, 2007 at 7:47 am
They played one of the new songs on a local station last nigt. Not sure which one it was, but it wasn’t too shabby.
Rock on
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May 5th, 2007 at 8:00 am
I forgot that your system keeps “correcting” double spaces. I’ll try that one more time.
ROCK ON
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May 5th, 2007 at 8:00 am
Oh forget it.
May 6th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Y’know, if you rock the wheel on your mouse back and forth, it looks like Jerry’s hands are waving. Didn’t see that on the laptop this morning at work.
Oh, look, a Styx CD. Why is “Too Much Time On My Hands” leaping out at me?
May 6th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
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Better the above than a hand flipping me the bird.
May 7th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Oh, I’m saving that one for that special thread down the road.
May 7th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Aw, crap. You just HAD to give him the idea, didn’tcha, Bill?
May 7th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Sean, you say that like giving me ideas is a bad thing.
~8?(`
Kill joy.
May 8th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
I’m just worried that no matter what we say, we’re gonna get the finger now.
May 21st, 2007 at 9:30 pm
“That’s not an idea for a movie that should be made in the future. Frankenhooker is a real film. Scary, isn’t it.”
GREAT movie. From the genius who made BASKET CASE and BRAIN DAMAGE.
If GRINDHOUSE hadn’t bombed maybe we’d be getting more of those movies…damn shame. Now we have to do it ourselves.
May 21st, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Yeah, and I’ve still not been able to see THAT. Right after we were talking about it, they pulled it from just about every theatre around here. The only one that was still showing it was almost an hour away. No way I could bail out on Jenn for five hours or justify the gas money for the trip AND the $15.00 - $20.00 for the show. Hey, I ain’t going five plus hours without eating or drinking.
My hope is that The Byrd Theatre grabs it for a one week run. $2 a ticket and a fifteen minute travel time.
And it’s right next to a great chocolate shop that I can bribe the warden with.
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Uhh…. I haven’t given Jenn’s email to any of you, have I?
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Jerry Chandler: “Uhh…. I haven’t given Jenn’s email to any of you, have I?”
You did indeed. I keep it in my Outlook address book for just these sorts of opportunities.
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:36 am
“Now we have to do it ourselves.”
I have no problem with that. Heck, we could even create a new social interaction, the filmmaking party. Party at Mulligan’s Place! (I’d have it here, but besides the lack of room Cloneboy is very uptight about new people around his toys.)
Bill, don’t blackmail Jerry. Well, don’t do it too much, anyway.
May 28th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Too late to blackmail me now!!!!!
It came to the Byrd Theatre this weekend, cost me $1.99 last night and I got a nice little bunch of bri… gifts for her from For The Love of Chocolate.
My evil scheme has come to fruition!!!! You’ve all failed to stop me!!!!
Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha *cough cough gasp wheeze*
Damned allergies.