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*My Padres just swept the 1st place Dodgers tonight, leaving them just one game back, so that's cool. Very weird game tonight, and a great example (several, actually) of how out of control umpires are these days, especially following players or coaches to the dugout once they've been ejected. I actually think Brad Penney is a putz, but he had some legitimate beefs tonight with the inconsistent strike zone.
*Watched another documentary (after the Townes Van Zandt one) of a very talented Country singer-songwriter, Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel. It's very good. Parsons seemed like a fairly sensitive soul, but not that many people said he was the nicest guy. I think he was wasted too much for that to come through a lot. Keith Richards helped kill the guy by getting him started on smack, but I don't blame Keef all that much; it seems like Parsons had a death wish. Maybe the only sour note in the film were the few comments from R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, who really offered little. Elvis Costello would've been a better contemporary choice, as a guy who'se covered Parsons' music many times, or more from Steve Earle or Dwight Yoakum.
*Speaking of music, one of the biggest entertainment conglomerates in the world is getting into original graphic novels directly, and I am in consideration to write one or more of them, which is really effing cool. It's music-related; that's all I'll say for now. Oh, and one of the sample scripts I gave them that the editor liked was my unpublished first issue of the Speakeasy series I was supposed to write, SUPERUNKNOWN. So, things never just die, you know? I could easily revive that series, too, with some minor surgery.
*Got my first royalty statement from BenBella Books for UNAUTHORIZED X-MEN. In January it sold a little under 4,000 copies, so I don't get any royalities yet. I think it needs to surpass 10,000 or something. It'll be a pittance, and not why I did it. No regrets at all; I consider it a stepping stone.
*37th birthday (yikes!) was last Friday. I worked a full day, went out to lunch for my supervisor's last day, so it was festive but not really about me, which was fine, then went downtown for happy hour with another buddy who shares the birthday, along with friends and some of his coworkers. I don't really like the bar we were at very much--it's open and warm, not air-conditioned, and kind of a dive. I did have a "lady friend" with me, and after a couple hours we went and had dinner one block up in Little Italy, then watched a dvd later. Interesting night, mostly very good, though kind of heartbreaking at the same time. That's terrible to throw out and not explain, I know, but that's the way it is.
*My Padres just swept the 1st place Dodgers tonight, leaving them just one game back, so that's cool. Very weird game tonight, and a great example (several, actually) of how out of control umpires are these days, especially following players or coaches to the dugout once they've been ejected. I actually think Brad Penney is a putz, but he had some legitimate beefs tonight with the inconsistent strike zone.
*Watched another documentary (after the Townes Van Zandt one) of a very talented Country singer-songwriter, Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel. It's very good. Parsons seemed like a fairly sensitive soul, but not that many people said he was the nicest guy. I think he was wasted too much for that to come through a lot. Keith Richards helped kill the guy by getting him started on smack, but I don't blame Keef all that much; it seems like Parsons had a death wish. Maybe the only sour note in the film were the few comments from R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, who really offered little. Elvis Costello would've been a better contemporary choice, as a guy who'se covered Parsons' music many times, or more from Steve Earle or Dwight Yoakum.
*Speaking of music, one of the biggest entertainment conglomerates in the world is getting into original graphic novels directly, and I am in consideration to write one or more of them, which is really effing cool. It's music-related; that's all I'll say for now. Oh, and one of the sample scripts I gave them that the editor liked was my unpublished first issue of the Speakeasy series I was supposed to write, SUPERUNKNOWN. So, things never just die, you know? I could easily revive that series, too, with some minor surgery.
*Got my first royalty statement from BenBella Books for UNAUTHORIZED X-MEN. In January it sold a little under 4,000 copies, so I don't get any royalities yet. I think it needs to surpass 10,000 or something. It'll be a pittance, and not why I did it. No regrets at all; I consider it a stepping stone.
*37th birthday (yikes!) was last Friday. I worked a full day, went out to lunch for my supervisor's last day, so it was festive but not really about me, which was fine, then went downtown for happy hour with another buddy who shares the birthday, along with friends and some of his coworkers. I don't really like the bar we were at very much--it's open and warm, not air-conditioned, and kind of a dive. I did have a "lady friend" with me, and after a couple hours we went and had dinner one block up in Little Italy, then watched a dvd later. Interesting night, mostly very good, though kind of heartbreaking at the same time. That's terrible to throw out and not explain, I know, but that's the way it is.
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