SENK DJALB?

I cannot even remember making this PDF.  It’s a copy of the print booklet “Senk Djalb,” a Chick-style tract I used to print up and leave on benches and in phone booths here and there.

Click the pic, or here.  Right-click to download.

WHAT LANGUAGE IS THAT?

Read it aloud – it’s pretty interesting.  I’ve never heard any two people read it the same way.  It is, of course, a made-up language, composed of sounds I thought sounded like talking.  My friend Ken O’Donnell suggested I make “conjugations” at times – variations of the words with different endings so that there was some repetition and therefore semblance of a language.  Smart fellow, Ken.

Now that you have it, print out a copy and leave it lying around, or just attach it to the next email you send.  Tell the recipient that you have just read something amazing that has changed your life forever.

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Not many people have seen “Anna,” my short narrative film from last year. It’s a bit long for the internet with a running time of 22 minutes. So you would have had to have seen it one of the various screenings last Spring.

Here is some of the music from the film.  You can either use this clever player embedded here or, if Flash is bothersome (and it is) you can always download the MP3s here for later enjoyment.

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The main title theme was a little melody that had been thumping away in my head since 1987.  I have a number of fairly incompetent recordings of it from that time, notably with violinist Korine Fujiwara (who now has a proper career).  I was fairly unaware of minimalism at the time, only knowing what I could glean from Tuxedomoon, to which I was fairly devoted at the time.  The obvious Nymanisms in the final version are intended, but really did have their origin in my total naivete – I’m fairly sure I had picked up this kind of thing by osmosis, and probably more from Glass than anyone else; I had not yet heard Nyman.

You can imagine me in 1987, banging out the 4/4 and then 7/4 rhythm on a Casio keyboard with the relentless pursuit of a chimpanzee and you will get the picture.  Dertainly Korine had that impression as she played along with my epic, 20-minute take.  My only real instruction to her: do not play pizzicato.  You can tell when she gets sick of it during the take because the violin starts to plunk, plunk, plunk…

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Download this shockingly small zip file and print out your own private library of ten new comics.  Instructions are included so you can print cut, and fold them up.  Good fun for bad children.  Wide range of topics and sensibilities.  Years in the making.

Download it here and share with friends.

In this strikingly handsome package you will thrill to such stories as these:

• 0. Instructions – on how to fold signature books
• 1. WHAT? – a somewhat whimsical story about eating.
• 2. Boozer Bear – a cautionary tale about the joys of drink.
• 3. Vince Morales – an object from a dream, recreated for you.
• 4. Cool Cat – a lonely young woman considers animal attractions.
• 5. Captain Heroic – a meditation on the thankless job of Superhero.
• 6. Tintin vs. Batman – the two iconic comics characters in an unauthorized adventure.
• 7. Froggy Went a-Courtin’ – a familiar bucolic story of redemption. May be considered blasphemous.
• 8. American Murder Robots – the next chapter in the general work concerning violent machines. Not really even funny.
• 9. Crappy Dick – the hoary old sailor from the Sunday Funnies leads us all in bad behavior. Lots of swearing, nudity. Not titillating in the least.
• 10. The Hero Twins – a familiar Maya myth retold in 8 pages -and in anaglyphic 3D, so go get your red/green glasses.

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Because the demographic that is severely underserved are people who are dorky enough to think this comic is hilarious.  Including me.

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Face it – there’s a lot to hate.  If you’re in a cranky mood about the stultifying SAMENESS of webcomics, then why not download this PDF and see what’s bad about them.  Link opens in new window, option/alt-click to save to desktop:

HEY KIDS!  LET’S ALL HATE WEBCOMICS!

Print it out, save it, send it to someone else, link to this page, etc.  Yes, please.  You see, someone once told me that instead of complaining about bad webcomics, I should make a webcomic – see if I could do better.  These sample frames should probably prove something:

Looks like I cannot do better.

Oh boy, clearly  I cannot do better, so it’s a good thing I do not do this on a regular basis.

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