The wheel in the Sky keeps on turnin'
The Future is Now in Candlelightland...
J-dog is hauling Night Angel through the world of greasy-spoon dinery. John and Will are concocting new ways for characters to get killed. Ian's new strip, Monster University, is in the Northwestern U newspaper. Meanwhile, I click-click-click away at ATSTW. I have a new companion in my efforts: music trivia. Instead of my usual diet of movies playing in the background to keep my sanity in check, yesterday I watched/listened to a huge block of music via the cablebox. On the upper channels of the box there is a chunk of 'stations' dedicated to specific genres of music. For example: Jazz, Easy Listening Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Easy Listening Contemporary Jazz, Fusion Jazz, Jazz for Dummies, Adult Jazz and Metal. Anyhoo, long story short, while they play a particular song they also show a cover of the album from whence the single came as well as little music factoids about that band. Did you know that Frankie Goes to Hollywood had their biggest hit in 1985 and then broke up in 1987? Did you know that Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart were in a band called Catch? Well I do now!
What the hell does this have to do with anything, you ask. Well, it illustrated one universal truth about all of these artists: it took a long time before they made the big time. With the exception of Glass Tiger, most acts were around at least 5-10 years before they had anything resembling a hit! It gives me heart that this banging our heads against this wall that seperates the obscure from the famous is not uncommon and is starting to yield some results! We are getting press from here and there, mostly positive, some bad, some great. But I feel there is some barrier that is about to yield to our years of inking, dreaming and clicking. The future rushes along and years lumber by, the present is in flux and new life arrives! For example:
Congrats to Candle Light founder Mike and his wife Rachel on their new baby boy!
The wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'
Don't know where I will be tomorrow
J-dog is hauling Night Angel through the world of greasy-spoon dinery. John and Will are concocting new ways for characters to get killed. Ian's new strip, Monster University, is in the Northwestern U newspaper. Meanwhile, I click-click-click away at ATSTW. I have a new companion in my efforts: music trivia. Instead of my usual diet of movies playing in the background to keep my sanity in check, yesterday I watched/listened to a huge block of music via the cablebox. On the upper channels of the box there is a chunk of 'stations' dedicated to specific genres of music. For example: Jazz, Easy Listening Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Easy Listening Contemporary Jazz, Fusion Jazz, Jazz for Dummies, Adult Jazz and Metal. Anyhoo, long story short, while they play a particular song they also show a cover of the album from whence the single came as well as little music factoids about that band. Did you know that Frankie Goes to Hollywood had their biggest hit in 1985 and then broke up in 1987? Did you know that Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart were in a band called Catch? Well I do now!
What the hell does this have to do with anything, you ask. Well, it illustrated one universal truth about all of these artists: it took a long time before they made the big time. With the exception of Glass Tiger, most acts were around at least 5-10 years before they had anything resembling a hit! It gives me heart that this banging our heads against this wall that seperates the obscure from the famous is not uncommon and is starting to yield some results! We are getting press from here and there, mostly positive, some bad, some great. But I feel there is some barrier that is about to yield to our years of inking, dreaming and clicking. The future rushes along and years lumber by, the present is in flux and new life arrives! For example:
Congrats to Candle Light founder Mike and his wife Rachel on their new baby boy!
The wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'
Don't know where I will be tomorrow
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