Art!

   New modern art idea: an ugly statue, maybe made of plastic bottles or some other "found art," that is secretly a robot with a knife, that stabs people it detects say "that's not art." Also doubles as greatest idea ever.

   People who rage against modern art, saying that a six year old could make it. That's bizarre. What's the mentality there? If they feel it's a feat so easily accomplished, why are they jealous? Is it of the success? Why are they jealous of someone who successively made a work of art that a six year old could?

   The success they found in the art world after making said work of art, right.

Correspondence 11/2/09 21:07 - 21:29

   We discuss Comrade Helicopter's "sound," with Cailin having a more indie approach in mind and me hoping for a higher-production alt rock/arena rock feel, since I know Raphael is into layered sound and bit tracks? Okkervil River and Dr. Dog are both totally good, though, and you should check them out; I can kind of see what Cailin was getting at with some of the backing tracks but I think our vocals are a bit more clean. From this we discuss They Might Be Giants and swearing in songs. There are some heavy swears there, mostly from unreleased tracks, but there's some pretty heavy stuff.

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 9:07 pm

What would you best describe Comrade Helicopter as? I'd say U2 meets Barenaked Ladies.

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 9:09 pm

Hm, I'm thinking Okkervil River meets Dr. Dog.

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 9:11 pm

I s'pose.

I was going to add "But done by the dudes from They Might Be Giants" but yours works too.

(fun fact: I actually modeled Comrade Helicopter's wiki after They Might Be Giants'.)

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 9:12 pm

I suppose we both have different musical tastes to draw from, so it'd be hard to agree.

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 9:15 pm

(Seriously, even the "Bad English" and "Swearing" category pages.)

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 9:16 pm

(Well then they had a great system of organization.)

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 9:20 pm

(I don't know, I think it's just the sheer silliness of the categories. Do you remember those Dunkin' Donuts commercials? "Fritalian" was them.

And I think we could do that shht and ffk think they do sometimes to bleep out swearing when they're showing movies on TV sometimes. Not only is it awesome, and allowing us to get away with saying lots of crap, it helps us avoid those nasty Parental Warning stickers. But I think you can get away with some swearing. U2 has done it. And have you seen the "Swearing" category on This Might Be a Wiki? TMBG does some pretty weird stuff, man.)

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 9:23 pm

Yeah, those stickers can either destroy sales by not being carried in major stores, or do well because of the controversy.

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 9:25 pm

Yes. No, I mean it, check it out:

http://tmbw.net/wiki/Swear_Words

And this from a band that has at least two children's albums under their belt.

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 9:28 pm

Wow, a lot of that is pretty out there.

Correspondence 11/2/09 21:04 - 11/3/09 20:20

   From last installment's Back to the Desert Again, we discuss song titles, Sophomore Slump, and Cailin's orphaned songs.

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 9:04 pm

As for Desert, I remember a really cool name for a song that was going to be on BtES:

Cities of Sand, Deserts of Rain.

No wait, that was, Cities of Sand, Planets of Rain. so never mind.

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 9:06 pm

Neat, no titular conflicts here. I'm not sure if it's a song that ought to go on BtES though. I need to write something softer, rather than anarcho-pop.

Oh, and, could Underground Man be on BTES? I feel like it fits.

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 9:15 pm

Sounds vaguely familiar... But In truth I am more acquainted with even Transient Son.

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 9:16 pm

Ah, that one'd work too.

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 3, 2009 6:36 pm

Yeah, well, the songs on Felinity Femininity may be better, but I think that False Prophets of Greensboro as a whole is a much better album.

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 3, 2009 7:01 pm

I think so too, it's great as a whole, even if the pieces are a bit weak on their own.

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 3, 2009 7:53 pm

Right. Um... What are your orphan songs?

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 3, 2009 8:03 pm

You know, songs that aren't on albums.

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 3, 2009 8:09 pm

Alonliness

Amiss

Back to the Desert Again

Egotistical

Empathy

In a Sense

Relapse

Toast to Remember, Drink to Forget

Transient Son

Two Spirit

Underground Man

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 3, 2009 8:12 pm

Thenks.

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 3, 2009 8:20 pm

Anytime.

Correspondence 11/2/09 20:36 - 20:59

   In this installment, we continue our talk on Comrade Helicopter. We discuss songs to make as b-sides and songs for future albums. It all culminates in Cailin sharing Back to the Desert Again, which is awesome, from our forthcoming album, which is... forthcoming.

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 8:36 pm

Now.... B-sides?

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 8:37 pm

I see you changed your punctuation.

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 8:38 pm

Yes, now it's a question. B-sides?

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 8:39 pm

Maybe?

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 8:40 pm

I don't know. I kind of played around with the idea for a while that the Skirt b-side should be called "Arse Over Teakettle."

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 8:41 pm

I like it.

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 8:43 pm

And I just reviewed the track listing for FF. It's actually a more solid collection than I thought. I was getting kind of scared because FPoG has such great songs, and an album that's not a great second album will doom a band to abject failure for the rest of their lives.

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 8:46 pm

I agree about FF, it's really quite good, but it's certainly different from the FPoG stuff.

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 8:47 pm

Hold on and let me dredge up the list of all- no, wait, some- of the orphan songs I've written...

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 8:48 pm

I think my best work is on FF and BCF.

And, on the topic of homeless songs, I've got ten, soon to be eleven.

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 8:51 pm

But are they B-side material?

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 8:52 pm

I suppose not, not most of them anyway.

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 8:59 pm

And I just finished a song of mine, it's not titled, but going by the repetition in the song, I guess it'll be called Back to the Desert Again.

Here we go, I wanted to add a chorus for once:

I know it was hard, you know it as well,

But I think we ought to go back,

Into the maw of hell,

Yes we gotta go back,

To the desert again,

But let’s bring water this time.

[CHORUS]

We'll flood the place,

We'll bring a typhoon,

We'll fight that sun,

And fight high noon,

Back to the sands dunes and sun,

Back to apart from everyone,

Back to around the bend,

Back to the desert again.

[CHORUS]

I know it's not easy, as time has told,

But we gotta go back,

To the days so hot nights so cold,

Yes we gotta go back,

To the desert again,

But let’s bring fire this time.

[CHORUS]

We'll burn the place,

We'll burn it all down,

We'll fight the cold,

And fight sundown,

Back to the sands dunes and sun,

Back to apart from everyone,

Back to around the bend,

Back to the desert again.

[CHORUS]

Correspondence 11/2/09 20:12 - 20:35

   We talk about Comrade Helicopter, specifically deciding which tracks from the False Prophets of Greensboro we wanted to release as singles, in order to find out what the B-sides should be.

B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 8:12 pm

So, B-sides?

We'd have to figure out singles first. How many singles per album?

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 8:13 pm

How many do they usually put on?

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 8:14 pm

Four?

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 8:15 pm

Well then let’s do five, show 'em we mean business.

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 8:17 pm

Awesome!

FPoG...

Definitely Skirt...

Umm... I like Lovely Nuisance, but that's a bit ahead.

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 8:20 pm

Are we going with a theme here?

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 8:21 pm

I don't think so. I've got some sort of idea to do singles from BtES as portions of the Dragon thing but...

Gently Baby Easy Slowly or the Plague!? or both?

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 8:23 pm

I think Gently Baby Easy Slowly is more single material, sort of a pop feel.

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 8:25 pm

Okay, umm... You know what, let's just take away the throwaway songs from the album and see what we have left.

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 8:26 pm

Good idea.

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 8:29 pm

Umm... To be honest Crime Scene I always saw as a sort of throwaway song, even though it's referenced so gosh darn much. And, I don't know, I wouldn't mind if After the Fire wasn't a single.

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 8:32 pm

Hm, I'm not particularly attached to any of my songs on FPoG.

Re: B-Sides!

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 8:34 pm

So that's Skirt, Gently Baby Easy Slowly, It's Better, TBoRaG, and, I don't know, whatever. Four is good.

Re: B-Sides!

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 8:35 pm

Yes, four works, and I think that's a good selection.

Correspondence 11/2/09 20:27 -20:37

   I decide to see how far Comrade Helicopter has gotten within the context of the outside world, how notable we are. Or at least what its title means in its own context. Answer: some bizarre stuff.

Typing "Comrade helicopter" into Google

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 8:27 pm

This is just from one of those Asian websites that has a long list of random English words.

atreus landhold dissertation ferric bestow chin bough sphagnum bruegel amicable

lounsbury gabbro erasable holden baku auntie einsteinian asteroidal architecture

asthma chicano chef jaunty swear blunt documentation geophysics ciceronian

granule siegel

consequential dodd graveyard secrete congestion belch hideout incriminate

benign bib comrade helicopter grade heater claustrophobic dispensate

mccallum gogo abram noble goatherd raspberry defray downwind

Re: Typing "Comrade helicopter" into Google

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 8:31 pm

Weird that they're next to each other like that.

Re: Typing "Comrade helicopter" into Google

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 8:32 pm

Crazy. It really makes you wonder how many random English word websites there are.

Re: Typing "Comrade helicopter" into Google

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 8:33 pm

I think it's a cool concept, reminds me of numbers stations.

Re: Typing "Comrade helicopter" into Google

From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 8:36 pm

But three of the eleven results are actually about the band. I got kind of worried with this one, (the only non-asian, non-band related hit) but it's okay, because the dude calls everyone comrade.

Wall Street could not get enough of banks or anything that touched a mortgage today. The failure of IndyMac and the troubles at Phony and Fraudy were forgotten in the stampede. Wells Fargo decided to extend the number of days they don't get paid on a loan before classifying it as delinquent. Voila! They hit the analysts earnings expectations. And once again the sky is blue in financial land.

But Comrade Cox was more worried about short sellers and not that Wells Fargo can change the accounting rules as they please. Of course Comrade Cox was missing in action while Comrade Greenscam was blowing bubbles and now that we know there was rampant fraud. But neither has that stopped Comrade Helicopter Ben from his generosity to the Wall Street CEO proletariat.

Posted by: ab initio | Jul 16, 2008 6:51:40 PM | 8

Re: Typing "Comrade helicopter" into Google

From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 8:37 pm

Haha, that's... unsettling.

Cap'n Patches: The Dames (Wenches?)

      I had already shown you this:

   And from there I got better. Much, much better.

   This one, coupled with I guess a Siamese cat who was right there overlapping so I couldn't remove.

LACISM? WHAT LACISM IS, MEAO?

   So, that's a few ladycats. A few catty wenches. I know what you may be asking: why no dogs? As of right now, too weird for me. Sorry.

Correspondence 11/2/09 17:09 - 19:48

Imma writin'
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 5:09 pm
How do Rem's men refer to him, Khal and Django and the gang, I mean. By first name, last, "boss"?

Re: Imma writin'
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 7:03 pm
Sir?

Re: Imma writin'
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 7:16 pm
Too formal, I went with boss, in the end.
On that note, I'm finished with my chapter, I'm just adjusting some stuff.

Re: Imma writin'
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 7:26 pm
Boss? Too '30s gangster.

Re: Imma writin'
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 7:29 pm
Aw.. I think it fits.
Anyway, here's an embarrassing question I have already asked one too many times in my short life.
How do you double space?

Re: Imma writin'
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 7:30 pm
Top bar thingy, format, paragraph, line spacing...

Re: Imma writin'
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 7:36 pm
Hm, I think that only works with microsoft word, I'm using a knock off version.

Re: Imma writin'
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 7:37 pm
Well, I used Microsoft Works Word Processor, and it worked in there.

Re: Imma writin'
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 7:39 pm
I've got WordPerfect 12 and it doesn't seem to be working.

Re: Imma writin'
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 7:40 pm
Wait, so it has the toolbar, and all the buttons? Then did you make sure to highlight the selection that you want to doublespace?

Re: Imma writin'
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 7:41 pm
I don't know how, but I figured it out!
Printing now.

Re: Imma writin'
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 7:43 pm
[thumbs up]

Re: Imma writin'
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 7:45 pm
But my printer seems to have a near fatal case of the sucks.
It only printed half of the first page, and printed the rest smaller.

Re: Imma writin'
From POMegranate to Persomem   Nov 2, 2009 7:46 pm
(mirth)

Re: Imma writin'
From Persomem to POMegranate   Nov 2, 2009 7:48 pm
Gonna run it over to my cousin's house across the street to commandeer their printer.

Elementary, My Dear... Watson? BOOM!

   While Holmes did indeed speak the line "Elementary" in one of Doyle's original stories, the first recorded instance of the entire phrase "Elementary, my dear Watson" comes from a film, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, where the classic line is uttered by Clive Brook. There is literature indicating that it may have been said earlier on the stage by the actor William Gillette as Holmes, but the phrase itself does not appear anywhere in the script in question (but seeing how he also wrote the script for the play, it could easily be taken as an author's liberties with his own script.) As far as we know, the line could have been in the common vernacular by then, so there's really no way of telling for sure who said it first.

And I don't think Noah counts.

   The line also serves to raise some eyebrows between Holmes and Watson, and Sherlock for one receives this quite heavily. You know what I mean. The whole "my dear Watson" part. So maybe it was for the best that they Starbuck'd Watson in Elementary (yeah, it's a verb now. Look it up.) She's female here. So aside from incompatibilities in character (which may be being being chipped away as Watson herself becomes more and more capable a detective in herself) that kind of thing's not out of the question.

Thespis Strip Dated Sunday, April 19, 2009

Click to embiggen.

TRANSCRIPT:
Marvin, thinking: So, anyway, back to the philisophical [sic] indulgences of a few issues back...
What about Collin? His I.Q. is practically -3, (which, face it, is far, far lower than even severely Mentally Retarded people. No one really ever seems to make that connection, but...) So, what is Collin? How does he even live? Is he just a bundle of neurons?
Does
Collin
even
think?
Collin, thinking: I wonder what happens if you mix Tang and Glue?

NOTES:
   Hmm, in a world where thought bubbles are apparently visible, you'd expect he'd know the answer to that. Marvin's question, not Collin's. Though, with Collin's question, well... You know my thoughts on Tang. I guess this is a reference to that.

Correspondence 10/30/09 10:11 - 10:27

   Cailin had kind of wanted to get to control the direction of the next album, so when I came up with a new album idea, I introduced the idea, but kind of... planned it further down the line. We've got three albums (not counting the Beatles Christmas one) and Cailin gets four, so Beyond the Evening Star "probably" the "fifth or sixth album." Makes sense.

Beyond the Evening Star
From POMegranate to Persomem   Oct 30, 2009 10:11 am
May I introduce to you Beyond the Evening Star, which will probably be Comrade Helicopter's fifth or sixth album:

Re: Beyond the Evening Star
From Persomem to POMegranate   Oct 30, 2009 10:17 am
Reminds me of all the album covers by The Strokes. They were nice, and so is this one.

And, I think we need an acoustic album of some of our best songs, created and released for some non profit organization that helps third world children read shoes and net mosquitoes and stuff.

Re: Beyond the Evening Star
From POMegranate to Persomem   Oct 30, 2009 10:19 am
Album... Acoustic... Like, non-electric guitar, or just the guitar and no vocals?

Re: Beyond the Evening Star
From Persomem to POMegranate   Oct 30, 2009 10:27 am
Basically mainly built around the acoustic guitar, with regular vocals, but no electric sound, some other traditional instruments are okay though. But simple stuff, like bongos.

April 19

   It's my grandparents' anniversary today. Happy, you know, that.

   Um, I thought... wasn't there... Shoot, did I even ever know how they met? I don't think I know how they met. Mmm.

   Anyway, again, happy anniversary. I was told, hey, you're going to be gone, but you can plan posts to say happy birthday and stuff to people. So here it is now!

Correspondence 9/12/09 13:57 - 14:12

   Continuing from last time, planning on how to cowrite. I suppose it isn't strictly necessary to show this, but it gives you an idea of the timeline.

That which rises must converge

From POMegranate to Persomem   Sep 12, 2009 1:57 pm
Wow. I like it. Not quite what I had in mind, but epic scope. We'll have a lot of room to diverge, and then we'll rise and converge.
And we'll need more time that I anticipated.

Re: That which rises must converge
From Persomem to POMegranate   Sep 12, 2009 2:03 pm
Yep, but it should certainly be more enjoyable and less difficult to write than what we'd previously ventured into.

Re: That which rises must converge
From POMegranate to Persomem   Sep 12, 2009 2:04 pm
Okay, so, what? A month? Two? One half?

Re: That which rises must converge
From Persomem to POMegranate   Sep 12, 2009 2:07 pm
Let's go with... pressing for the end of October.

Re: That which rises must converge
From POMegranate to Persomem   Sep 12, 2009 2:10 pm
Have from the middle, or towards the end of the museum fight scene to at least at the locking of the chair done by Halloween, swap, compare, get together again by election day and... Combine.

Re: That which rises must converge
From Persomem to POMegranate   Sep 12, 2009 2:10 pm
Alright, it's a plan, then.

Re: That which rises must converge
From POMegranate to Persomem   Sep 12, 2009 2:12 pm
'k.

Correspondence 9/12/09 13:24 - 13:54

   After all the brainstorming we could do, we decided to hunker down and actually get to writing. It takes some effort much less to decide how to do it but to decide what to do. A core weakness of cowriting, exposed here. I think we managed to get around it.

Alright, so...
From POMegranate to Persomem   Sep 12, 2009 1:24 pm
Did you start on that?
--OR--
Do we decide exactly where to begin?

Re: Alright, so...
From Persomem to POMegranate   Sep 12, 2009 1:28 pm
Let's decide where we'd like to begin, I guess. Will we both be doing the same section, or will be tackling different parts?

Re: Alright, so...
From POMegranate to Persomem   Sep 12, 2009 1:29 pm
I don't know. Someplace right after all the exposition, right in the action- the Lethean scene would be perfect.

Re: Alright, so...
From Persomem to POMegranate   Sep 12, 2009 1:33 pm
Yes, it would. let's do that then.

Re: Alright, so...
From POMegranate to Persomem   Sep 12, 2009 1:35 pm
aright, so, how do you propose we set out to do this?

Re: Alright, so...
From Persomem to POMegranate   Sep 12, 2009 1:39 pm
I don't know, in our own way, and at our own pace?

Re: Alright, so...
From POMegranate to Persomem   Sep 12, 2009 1:41 pm
Deadline(s)...?

Re: Alright, so...
From Persomem to POMegranate   Sep 12, 2009 1:43 pm
I prefer not to, but I suppose we can generalize.

Re: Alright, so...
From POMegranate to Persomem   Sep 12, 2009 1:46 pm
Okay, so it's like:
Have from (here) to (here) done by (date), swap, compare, get together again by (date) and... Combine.

Re: Alright, so...
From Persomem to POMegranate   Sep 12, 2009 1:47 pm
Yes, but only as a sort of guideline, not a real deadline.

Re: Alright, so...
From POMegranate to Persomem   Sep 12, 2009 1:50 pm
The exact locations (Positions?) starting and ending points of writing?

Re: Alright, so...
From Persomem to POMegranate   Sep 12, 2009 1:54 pm
Well, let's just start in the middle, or towards the end of the museum fight scene. And end at least at the locking of the chair. Of course, let's just sort of wing it here, and do as much as we can, or as much as we feel comfortable with.

The Wind is Ghosts

   I was chatting with Cailin, and there was some pretty funny stuff, eh. The idea that all supernatural phenomena can be chalked up to the weather. Ghosts? The wind! Psychics? The wind! Alien abduction? That tractor beam coming down from the sky, it's just a particularly bright tornado.

   Must've been a spotlight swept up in that.

   And then twist ending, it turns out that the wind IS all supernatural phenomena, and wind is just ghosts.

   I hope that was an original idea of his, because, you know, I wouldn't be copying anyone. Not like a TV show or anything...

Correspondence 8/22/09 13:33 - 14:17

Re: Birds Cracking Foxy
From POMegranate to Persomem   Aug 22, 2009 1:33 pm
Alright, so it turns out that O.A.R. has a song called Whatever Happened, too!
(But notice without a question mark.)

Re: Birds Cracking Foxy
From Persomem to POMegranate   Aug 22, 2009 2:02 pm
So... that's two other bands with such a name. Huh. I guess we'll be number three.

Re: Birds Cracking Foxy
From POMegranate to Persomem   Aug 22, 2009 2:10 pm
Man, I don't even know.
Fourth album?

Re: Birds Cracking Foxy
From Persomem to POMegranate   Aug 22, 2009 2:12 pm
Kind of a lot of whatever happeneds.
A name?

Re: Birds Cracking Foxy
From POMegranate to Persomem   Aug 22, 2009 2:13 pm
I dunno.
Just...
It's been a long, long time.

Re: Birds Cracking Foxy
From Persomem to POMegranate   Aug 22, 2009 2:17 pm
It really has...

Thespis Strip Dated Sunday, April 12, 2009

Click to embiggen.

TRANSCRIPT:
Marvin: Hello, and welcome to...
THESPIS
Marvin and Collin: THE BOND GIRL EDITION.
Marvin: Jynx. [sic]
Collin: !
Octopussy.
Marvin: Pussy Galore.
Collin: Honey Rider.
Marvin: Christmas Jones.
Collin: Miss Moneypenny, Miss Moneypenny!
Marvin: CAMILLE MONTES!
Collin: You win.
Quantum of Solace in stores now!

NOTES:
   Bond Girls! This is basically a double-entendre off. It starts with a really bad pun on (Halle Barry's character) "Jinx" and just devolves further from there. Also, apparently it's only the Pokémon that's spelled with a "y." Go figure. Not much has changed since this, really. Now I suppose it's the same thing with Skyfall.

How to 3D w/o Glasses

   You know how when you look through a pair of binoculars everything looks hyper 3D because it's two different viewpoints but seeing things at a distance where your eyes would be relatively at the same angle to it? There's an awesome optical illusion, I guess, where you can do that to 2D things. Try watching TV through a pair of binoculars sometime. It looks like a 3D movie. At least to me, and this has been corroborated with at least one other person.

   There's this thing which some people have where that's always or almost always the case. They always have the ability to see 2D shows or movies in 3D. I think you might be able to train yourself into it. I mean, I can do it. Maybe I always had it but didn't realize it, but after watching Avatar in 3D I know what to look for? Or maybe it was latent and only unlocked after that experience.

Correspondence 7/18/09 9:42 - 18:10

   It took me the longest time to get Fur on a Wire right, but when I hit upon this, I knew I had something. You have no idea how satisfying I find this.

Comrade Helicopter
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jul 18, 2009 9:42 am
So, I more or less got the synopsis to "Fur on a Wire" from our album Birds Cracking Foxy:
Okay, so there's this guy, the Narrator, whose totally hot girlfriend, with whom things are starting to get pretty serious, mentions the song "Bird on the Wire" by Leonard Cohen to him, and the guy thinks she say "fur on a wire" and he says to her, you know, they say you shouldn't really put fur coats on wire hangers, because it's bad for the coat, and you should really use like wooden hangers instead. So then his girlfriend starts accusing him of animal cruelty and he's like what the heck are you talking about you're the one who brought it up and I'm just showing off my amazing depth and breadth of knowledge like you said you always liked me doing, but she'll have none of it, and the guy starts thinking that maybe she's not the right girl for him:
And I'm realizing now that she's like
Fur on a Wire
She's a Fur Coat
and she's on a Wire Hanger
And I know that there's probably
Out There, Somewhere
A nice Wooden Hanger
for her
But I can't stand to tell her...
Goodbye.

Re: Comrade Helicopter
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jul 18, 2009 2:41 pm
You have no idea how satisfying I find this.

Re: Comrade Helicopter
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jul 18, 2009 5:45 pm
Well it's a lot.

Re: Comrade Helicopter
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jul 18, 2009 5:57 pm
A lot of song synopsis?

Re: Comrade Helicopter
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jul 18, 2009 5:59 pm
Well yes that too. I was of course referring to satisfaction.

Re: Comrade Helicopter
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jul 18, 2009 6:01 pm
Oh, a lot of satisfaction.
I am happy that you are happy.
Why are you happy?

Re: Comrade Helicopter
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jul 18, 2009 6:02 pm
I am happy because I jumped from one rooftop to another yesterday.

Re: Comrade Helicopter
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jul 18, 2009 6:04 pm
And that makes you happy in my song synopsis?

Re: Comrade Helicopter
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jul 18, 2009 6:07 pm
It makes me happy about a lot of things.
But no, I like the normalcy of it, makes it somehow more profound.

Re: Comrade Helicopter
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jul 18, 2009 6:08 pm
Oh. Okay.
Sweet.
Now what?

Re: Comrade Helicopter
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jul 18, 2009 6:10 pm
Also it's quite humorous.
Um... I don't know.

Why I am Not a Squirrel

   I thought I was turning into one a while back because my nose was distinctly squirrelly. But as you can see from photographs of my nose, my nose has just kind of always looked like that. I suppose it was a new-found sense of... my own physical appearance. I never really felt my nose was all that distinctive, and it was in fact my least favorite part of my face, but I don't know, it must have changed.

   I always thought that I had a problem with my hair, though. Well, not always. When I began being concerned that I might look awkward, after I caught glimpses of myself in recordings. A high grating nasally voice, awkward posture. I've come to realize, though, that it's not my thick matted hair that makes me look like a shut-in, but when it's all greasy and I haven't shaved. When my hair's flat, that's the problem. It would actually be better to have even thicker hair. My head is eminently pettable as it is, but my hair looks good and I actually look pretty awesome when it's poufy. It even emphasizes how kinda like Robert Pattinson. I still can't change the shape of my head, but it's nice to know that I was right about hairstyles all along.