Correspondence 3/25/12 20:09 - 20:24

   I dreamt that Cailin drew'd me some pictures of Pikachu-type stuff once. She's terrible at drawing animals, though, apart from the odd Pokémon like I said, so that could never happen. Continuing our conversation, though, I had been inspired to write this post, and had just posted it up, and Cailin had just read it. Also: both Cailin and I aren't terribly big fans of of Montreal, but Tim I Wish You Were Born a Girl is just an adorable little song.

8:09pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Huh. I've been thinking of keeping a blog for the same reasons for ages now.

8:10pm

Eric Perazzo

For your art and your theories?

Yeah, I dreamt you sent me art. Just last night, I think.

8:11pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Yeah. And huh. What did I send, exactly?

8:12pm

Eric Perazzo

Let's see, they were colored pictures, and...

Drawings.

I was very happy with them.

8:14pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Sounds like a pretty nice dream. Though your subconscious seems to not know my aversion to color.

8:14pm

Eric Perazzo

You're very good at drawing ears in my dreams, apparently.

8:15pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

I think it'd be weirder if I was passing off crayon stick figures, actually.

8:15pm

Eric Perazzo

Well, the ears on the figures.

They were digitally colored, I think, anyway.

8:16pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Oh. And, the ears?

8:16pm

Eric Perazzo

Well, all of the drawings, not just the ears.

But I remember one of the drawings being yellow. Pikachu?

8:17pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Pikachu is indeed yellow.

8:18pm

Eric Perazzo

Well, Alex is behind me, and that's what he guessed. Pictures of Pikachu, when you asked.

I said, close.

8:18pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Oh. Well, I've drawn a few Pikachus in my time.

8:19pm

Eric Perazzo

I must say, my relationship with you is getting a bit serious as of late.

In my dreams, I mean.

But, I suppose, a different kind of serious in real life.

8:20pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

I guess we kind of are. We may need to step up the "(not gay)" postmarks.

8:22pm

Eric Perazzo

Yeah, our relationship would be a lot simpler if you were a girl. Or I were a girl. Or we lived in Ancient Greece? Argh, never mind.

8:22pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

That reminds me of a song, actually.

8:23pm

Eric Perazzo

We could just take a single pseudonym.

8:24pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Didn't we talk about that? Could be cool. Also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQSd9q1OSPg

Correspondence 3/25/12 19:57 - 20:07

   Continuing our discussion of blogs, Cailin inspires me to write this post: http://dielikeadisneyvillain.blogspot.com/2012/03/what-this-blog-is-about.html. And now you know the story behind that.

7:57pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Oh, alright. Interesting blog you have, I must say.

7:57pm

Eric Perazzo

Yeah, someone posted on my Facebook wall about it, if you can see.

7:58pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Ah, so I see.

7:59pm

Eric Perazzo

Slightly more important than getting published right now (and by that I mean urgent) is what today's post should be on.

8:00pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Hm, how do you decide what to blog about? What's your personal reason for keeping one?

8:01pm

Eric Perazzo

Good idea.

8:02pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

...Good idea?

8:03pm

Eric Perazzo

That is what I shall post about today.

8:03pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Haha, glad I can help. I'll have to read it myself.

8:04pm

Eric Perazzo

Almost done with it now. It's going to be a short one today, I guess.

8:05pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Alright.

8:07pm

Eric Perazzo

And it's up. So, anyway.

Correspondence 3/25/12 19:38 - 19:50

   Shaking things up! Discussion of finding something to publish gets derailed and turns to the subject of blogging after I mention an idea I had published here.

7:38pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

What'cha got that I haven't heard?

7:39pm

Eric Perazzo

Well, I'm developing the ideas of the ghost sucking one, and expanding it into, like, a webcomic?

7:39pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Huh, that's pretty cool. Why a webcomic?

7:40pm

Eric Perazzo

Because I've got some ideas about the medium?

And there are some pretty prestigious awards I'd like to win that deal with webcomics.

7:41pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Webcomics have prestigious awards now?

7:41pm

Eric Perazzo

Well, best webcomic is more of a category.

7:42pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Hm. There are some pretty good webcomics out there.

7:43pm

Eric Perazzo

Anyway, uh... There's my Michael Caine one? Though I think I might have told you everything there is to know about that.

7:43pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Which was the Michael Caine one?

7:44pm

Eric Perazzo

The one with the narcoleptic fry cook and the hypnosis and his subconscious is a robot.

7:45pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

That doesn't ring any bells. Should it?

7:45pm

Eric Perazzo

This must sound terribly bizarre to you, then.

7:46pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Yeah, a tad. I like Michael Caine, though?

7:47pm

Eric Perazzo

I wrote about it a little on my blawg: http://dielikeadisneyvillain.blogspot.com/2012/02/trilogy-of-sorts.html

7:48pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Yeah, I don't think you ever told me about this. Also, the "cool kids" use Tumblr.

7:49pm

Eric Perazzo

James Gurney uses Blogspot. And he wrote Dinotopia. So there.

7:50pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

That's pretty definitive evidence, actually.

Thespis Strip Dated Sunday, November 7, 2010

Click to embiggen.

TRANSCRIPT:
Collin: Huh.
I guess you have a point there.
Being smart HAS changed me.
But it's not like I can just change back.
Marvin: So that's a-
Collin: It's a no.
Marvin: umm...
Collin: Yes I'm sure.
To be awkwardly continued! 

NOTES: 
   I love the comedic timing in this one, but I think that this strip was written in a period of my life where that was more of a happy accident than intentional. Full disclosure.

Correspondence 3/25/12 19:08 - 19:26

Re: Working on That Front a Little

From  Persomem to   POMegranate   Mar 25, 2012 7:08 pm

I think we need to establish where we'll be submitting to. Like, short story contests and anthologies, magazines and things especially.

Re: Working on That Front a Little

From  POMegranate to   Persomem   Mar 25, 2012 7:11 pm

I've written couplets that I think are worthy of at least submitting to (and this is going to sound crazy) the New Yorker? But, um, yeah, I've been flipping through that big old book of all the magazines and what kind of submissions they select and stuff- what's that called? The Writer's Market?

Re: Working on That Front a Little

From  Persomem to   POMegranate   Mar 25, 2012 7:13 pm

Oh yeah, That's definitely worth checking out. And, the New Yorker? I wasn't aware they accepted much... well, I don't know.

Re: Working on That Front a Little

From  POMegranate to   Persomem   Mar 25, 2012 7:14 pm

They do poetry alongside the doodling and the endless short stories (meaning, of course, the stories don't have proper endings- to make them more arty perhaps?)

Re: Working on That Front a Little

From  Persomem to   POMegranate   Mar 25, 2012 7:19 pm

Sounds New Yorker-ish, yeah. Writer's Market though. Good to know.

Re: Working on That Front a Little

From  POMegranate to   Persomem   Mar 25, 2012 7:21 pm

What's important is getting stuff written first, before we can submit. (Funny how that works.) You have anything particularly short-story-ish?

Re: Working on That Front a Little

From  Persomem to   POMegranate   Mar 25, 2012 7:23 pm

I have a couple loose ideas that could work, but nothing actually written just yet.

Re: Working on That Front a Little

From  POMegranate to   Persomem   Mar 25, 2012 7:24 pm

Ideas?

Re: Working on That Front a Little

From  Persomem to   POMegranate   Mar 25, 2012 7:26 pm

Yeah, mostly the time travel artifact one, the future Africa one, and such.

Poetical Translations

   It’s almost impossible to translate poetry, because poetry is just a collection of words that sound good together and mean something. That's why you don't often see it, just the poem in its original language and then a paraphrase of that. It's also why the Quaran isn't really the Quaran and just a translation of the Quaran if it's been translated.

   It’s all about word choice, whether to convey imagery, sound good, or establish rhythm. This puts the translator in an almost impossible situation, having to decide which of these the ‘word conveys’ is more important. Translated poetry can still be good, but it’s not nearly as powerful as the original language version. A word can convey anything it conveys, and if you put even the closest synonym in the foreign language as that word, it still conveys completely different things. The longest poem I've seen translated was less than a page long. Translation of poetry only works in, like, haiku, or something. 

   Translating a novel is hard enough, but a poem? The ultimate test of a translator’s skill. He must know the flow, the grain of both languages intimately. Like a sculptor whittling away the excess marble, clay or wood, he must know which words not to put, even though it may be tempting to put another word. There may be one word that is almost exactly right, conveying everything the  original word did and more, but it doesn't fit the meter or scheme. Does he wrap the other words around this word, changing them so that this fits? Or can he use a word that is almost the same thing, conveying something slightly different but more or less similar to the original word? There are all sorts of meanings and connotations in the words we use. Is it enough to use a word that is almost good, meaning almost the same thing?

Correspondence 2/26/12 22:19 - 22:38

Cailin is still our bassist. Our future bassist. In this installment, we take a look at our eclectic musical tastes and see if we can work as a band. I'm not sure how I feel about Cake. We also take a look at our other tastes, and discuss the "like" mechanism on Facebook. GET THESE IMPLEMENTED, MARK. I know he reads this blog.

   Oh, and in case you were wondering:

PREQUEL: http://www.prequeladventure.com/

Facebook Fan Group: http://www.facebook.com/PrequelFanGroup

10:19pm

Eric Perazzo

So... bass?

10:19pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Bass.

10:20pm

Eric Perazzo

Oh, which reminds me, one of these days I want to do a jam session over chat.

Coming up with lyrics 'n stuff.

10:20pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

That sounds like it could be pretty cool, yeah.

10:21pm

Eric Perazzo

Ha, our band has such a great bassist.

10:22pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

I think "future bassist" is a more accurate term. "Founding member and future bassist." THe upside is I get to rock on a future bass. Lasers and all.

10:23pm

Eric Perazzo

But, hypothetically, it'd be this funky flair that unifies the songs together.

10:23pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Yes, hopefully.

10:24pm

Eric Perazzo

We're pretty funk, right? In a... an acoustic way?

10:24pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

There are funky moments and basslines, yes.

10:27pm

Eric Perazzo

Well, I suppose exactly what we are is up to the Feed, right?

Looking at his taste in music, I don't care what genre we sound like, I just want to be in a band with the guy.

10:28pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Looking at all our tastes in music, we'll have a very odd band.

10:29pm

Eric Perazzo

Oh! Cake. I've been wanting to 'like' them, but maybe that's taking our relationship too fast.

10:29pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Hm, maybe I should like some band's pages as well.

10:30pm

Eric Perazzo

Seriously. Unless Yogurt is a band...

10:30pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

I'll admit most of the pages I've liked were as jokes or what have you.

10:31pm

Eric Perazzo

But the fern cat with the flaming ear is so awesome!

10:32pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Er, fern cat?

10:33pm

Eric Perazzo

Official Prequel Fan Group?

Wow, that sounds so... official.

10:33pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Oh yeah, that. Nice little comic.

10:34pm

Eric Perazzo

All signs pointed to awesome, yeah.

10:35pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Though I only liked it because it was starting out and all that. I'm pretty sparse with my likes.

10:36pm

Eric Perazzo

I'm not sure how I am.

I wish there were a button that you could push that says, "I like that you like this."

10:37pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

But then where would it end?

10:38pm

Eric Perazzo

Yeah, that came up. Okay, how about, I like that you like this page.

10:38pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Or, Such and Such's favorite music: 1 person likes this.

Correspondence 2/26/12 21:52 - 22:19

   We discuss the relative obscurity of the Korean romantic comedy I'm a Cyborg, but That's OK, and the (hopefully less obscure) Korean animated film Leafie, a Hen into the Wild.

9:52pm

Eric Perazzo

Out of all the Korean films, you'd expect this one to be well-known. But no, it's... none of them.

9:53pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Well, there's that animated one that's getting a pretty big international re-release.

9:53pm

Eric Perazzo

You mean the live action remake of Akira, set in San Francisco?

I think that's a thing...

9:54pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

It is, unfortunately, but I meant "Leafie, a Hen into the Wild".

9:55pm

Eric Perazzo

Is that like Ivy the Kiwi? (?)

9:56pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

I don't think so?

9:58pm

Eric Perazzo

Well, looking at the image search results- Aww. Well, it's got kind of almost exactly the same background, which is how I pictured it, but the animation style is way different.

9:59pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

I hear really good things about it, but have yet to see it myself.

9:59pm

Eric Perazzo

The more I look at it, the more I really really wouldn't mind seeing it too much.

10:00pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

I need to get to watching it some day as well.

10:02pm

Eric Perazzo

as compared to

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:hnyEGRo5ac1wkM:http://spawnkill.com/2010/

10:03pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Oh wow, I see what you mean.

10:03pm

Eric Perazzo

Poor Ivy?, though.

10:04pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Yeah.

10:05pm

Eric Perazzo

Haha, oh man, Akira...

10:05pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

It sounds so awful, but I admit I haven't looked into its development much.

10:06pm

Eric Perazzo

Mm, just the idea of it.

It's great that Hollywood still finds time to pull crap like that.

10:07pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Yeah. They seem pretty terrified to do anything more daring than remakes, sequels, and re-tooling franchises lately, so it's exciting to see them do just that, in a way that seems riskier than just making an original product.

10:08pm

Eric Perazzo

The internet allows terrific word-of-mouth, so they're more concerned with quality now more than ever before.

But sometimes...

10:09pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Yeah, I'll kind of agree with you there.

10:09pm

Eric Perazzo

But better sequels!

Fast Five was the best in the franchise.

10:10pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

I wouldn't know.

10:10pm

Eric Perazzo

Well, it's honestly not saying very much, but still...

It's fun, at least.

10:11pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Which is good. Seems a lot of people aren't interested in fun anymore.

10:12pm

Eric Perazzo

It's a racing heist film. It'd kind of have to be.

10:13pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

That does indeed make it sound pretty sweet. Then again, a lot of sports films became very serious and dramatic lately.

10:14pm

Eric Perazzo

Huh, I suppose so. No more "bend It Like Beckham"s, eh?

mmm, capitalization way off there.

10:15pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Yeah, it's all inspirational tear-jerking "based on a true story" stuff now.

10:16pm

Eric Perazzo

Not so much tear-jerking as... Well, there was Rudy.

But it's more... serious, as of late.

10:18pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Yeah. Not to say that some of those aren't good, though.

10:18pm

Eric Perazzo

Happy Oscar day.

10:19pm

[deadname] Anderson Taylor

Yep. Oh well.

EDIT: see here for an explo of next posts