finally got one in. from 4 to 6 PM. (not counting time in the shower thinking about lyrics) it's been ages since i've released anything without working on it for like a year.

this is from listening to too much tropical fuck storm and getting set up in my new apartment and just yelling a lot now that i finally have a place to yell

have you ever been to a party and you were dragged there by someone else so you are not having fun but you are trying to look like you're having fun

in two weeks it is "after."
my head on a platter
and now i will bleat for you

go on and find your friends
feel 'em all up again
i'm in a terrible mood

it was a wreck of wreckage
paced second by second
and still i will bleat for you

death is a living thing
i dodged pretty well i think
no one can follow my tune

lost in a breaking beam
stuck in a stupid dream
A A A A A A A for you

a long-simmer panic
a purplish insect
in my ears, crawling through

in two weeks i'm in the drink
and nobody's noticing
i watch and i will bleat for you

from this great pile
garbage i'm climbing
i see some sensational views

As somebody who has been recently going to my local YMCA and has been buying DVD movies from there, it makes me realise how much streaming services kinda suck.

Sure, you get the movie, but you also lose all the neat bonus features. As well as the fact that the menu (most of the time) is personalised for each movie making the experience that much more emersive. Like you used to get directors commentary, a documentary behind the films making process, blooper reals and deleted/ cut scenes. I don't know why most of the newer DVD releases has been cutting them out.

Like tell me what you would rather have. A disc that has a bunch of features making you able to learn a bit more about the movie or just a higher quality (more than likely outstretched) version of the movie?

Flying Saucer Video is a wordy comic! practically the only time the running commentary of the narration gives way is when the characters start filling the page with their own dialogues and monologues. this is not a comic of silent panels! that narration has this slightly distant air about it, this style that makes me think of some range of NPR news stories, Garrison Keillor, Wes Anderson, and my poetry professor in college. it's got this matter-of-factness, an economy of words and a willingness to directly describe circumstances. it's narration that almost seems fitting for a radio play: straightforwardly providing internal states of mind or facts about the story in the absence of visible actors.

only, it IS a comic, after all. there's visuals right there.

that's part of what makes the narration so fun and funny. like, look at that first page above. we have an awful lot of narration that provides context about the complex social group and nearly-romantic entanglements surrounding protagonist Franky. really, the visuals for most of the page almost take a back seat, just depicting some mundane burger chomping, while the drama happens in the narration: "Franky tried to ignore Tulips not-flirting, to avoid being hurt later." then in the last two panels Tulip blatantly comes on to Franky and she seems stricken in response. the narrator matter-of-factly offers commentary: "That one was hard to ignore." this narration feels almost redundant with the panel (a technique the comic uses often, as in the second page above) but while the basic information of Franky's reaction remains the same in both image and text, the STYLE gets contrasted in a really funny way. I love the lightning bolt of ink in the background over these last two panels, the sparkles around Tulip, and the dramatic impact lines around Franky. they make the simple interaction feel heightened and charged, like the moves in a battle or sports manga, and meanwhile the narration is just straightforwardly laying out Franky's internals. it's a great way of taking the exchange and turning it into a punchline, the two strands of the narrative on the page colliding for humor.

He's got little jorts and little glasses and he's in a little ring