by Rodney Eric Griffith | Armour of Rod | |
I finally had an opportunity to listen to Dan Castellaneta’s I Am Not Homer disc… I had not expected the lone piece of music, “So Dumb (Homer’s Lament)”, to be such a loving recreation of the original versions of “Heroes and Villains”.
Rodney | 9:20:00 AM [permalink]My first thoughts on Shelby Lynne’s new disc Suit Yourself: about a minute into it I’d regretted that the Beatles had recorded the Get Back project the same way, in someone’s living room. There’s a lot of subtle chatter and atmosphere; the whole thing is seamless.
Rodney | 7:04:00 PM [permalink]A cute idea hung over from April Fool’s Day: iCopulate.
Rodney | 8:01:00 PM [permalink]“Consultimo” has posted a pdf excerpt from the Namak premiere.
I am seriously contemplating creating a real Consultimo comic book. Only two people have been completely privy to the fumetti incarnation of Consultimo (in part because the Libel Comics Group could never, ever get the clearances for the composite art). In a completely ideal situation I would team up with a likeminded artist equally willing to waste massive amounts of time rekindling the post-Silver Age days of Marvel Comics.
I can’t shake the ideas, however. They haunt me daily.
I am obsessed with Marvel Value Stamps. Marvel Value Stamps appeared in Marvel Comics when I started reading them, right at the beginning of what is considered the Bronze Age (e.g. the rot was setting in. The “Marvel Universe” was really over, I think, when Stan quit Spider-Man. You had occasional bursts of excellence afterward, like Starlin’s work on Warlock and Captain Marvel and the Jim Lee days of X-Men, the Miller books, the Waid Captain Americas and, I think, the Romita Jr. Spider-Man book that strongly evoked the Gil Kane era (before they reset the counters), but most of the rest was so disconnected from the 1960s that it saddened me.) The idea was to clip these “stamps” from the comics (thereby gutting their collectibility) in order to complete a stamp book that could be presented at the first Marvel Con to receive a discount on admission (and some other very tentative promises that turned out to be not very lucrative). However, they happened at a time when Marvel was still excited about what they were doing creatively. They could justify being proud. In about a year or two almost all of it had completely vanished.
I'm so fixated on the design of the Stamps that I want to recreate it.
Another set of Japanese mini-LP sleeve Apple Records CDs is coming:
James Taylor: James Taylor
Jackie Lomax: Is This What You Want
George Harrison: Wonderwall Music
George Harrison: Electronic Sound
Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It
Billy Preston: Encouraging Words
Doris Troy: Doris Troy
