Lotto Fever

In a bottle of noodles
I found a small green fish
Who told a fish story
He could grant me any wish
"OK!" I said, "That sounds great
I think I understand"
The fish rolled up his sleeves
And said "Your wish is my command"

I want a box of gold
And a palace of pearls
A nice big pool for my sad-eyed girls
I want a car that can fly
And X-Ray eyes
I'd wish for more wishes
''cause it can't get better than this!

So there it was, that's it!
I can quit my job
I've got better things to do all day
''cause in my spare time
I'm in a Rock n' Roll band
And in my full time
I just sit and wait
For my box of gold
And my palace of pearls
A nice big pool for my sad-eyed girls
For the car that can fly
For my X-Ray eyes
I'd like more wishes
''cause it can't get better than this!

I can do anything
''cause I'm wishing for everything!
It could happen
It could happen
Will it be?
You tell me?
Does it get much better than this?

When I woke up
I found the bottle was gone
Someone took it away
I guess I'll just have to wait

For my box of gold
And my palace of pearls
A nice big pool for my sad-eyed girls
For the car that can fly
For my X-Ray eyes
I wish I had more wishes
''cause it didn't get better than this!

I can do anything
''cause I'm wishing for everything!
It could happen
It could happen
Will it be?
You tell me?
Does it get much better than this?

Interesting Theory

I was thinking about scientific systems. I was thinking about renewable energy sources, and it got me wondering.

What if instead of electricity, the world's technology ran entirely or primarily on thermal and solor energy? What would happen if this energy source could generate electrity?

I don't know if anyone's doing this yet. I haven't studied up on it, but the idea just sort of came to me. I thought it would be an interesting concept to share in my blog. Get on that, Scientists and Engineers!

Lies Beautiful People Tell...About Nerds

Yes, I’ll admit, I am a bit of a science, tech, and comics-&-animation nerd. For a while there, I boycotted the term “nerd” when sexy, physically attractive and hideously shallow female pop tarts started using that term to describe themselves and their mates. That was the gayest shit I’ve ever seen in my life. I’ve never seen a few idiots (“The Beautiful People”) fuck up such a great and appealing word (“Nerd”) in horrible and horribly gay TV—The Big Bang Theory, certain neo-alterative musicians, pop music, the press, porn actresses, “Teen Hollywood” MTV, VH1, Disney Channel, and G4—in such a short amount of time. When stuff like that was on TV, I disowned my nerd roots. I boycotted that term (“Geek” in particular), just like I boycotted “Designer”. Attractive, ignorant jocks and preps like the kinds in those shows make being a nerd (and at times, a designer as well) so uncool. With them, it’s a fashion statement. It’s shallow. It’s the verbal and categorical equivalent of fashion runway model. Just a lot of beautiful and dumb fucks trying to be “cool” by doing what is “marketable and trendy and marketing approved”. That’s like Chris Rock saying he’s a "civil rights" activist because he's a black actor who "just happens to take nothing seriously, including civil rights!". Just a sad, sad, very sad attempt on behalf of someone trying to be either something they’re not, or something deeper than they are in reality. I don’t see Bill Gates or Steve Jobs proclaiming themselves to be nerds, even though they’re big time nerds. You don’t get the shallowness and creepy “nothing underneath” vibe from Gates and Jobs though.

In terms of being online, I'm actually quite...booked...

In terms of my digital life, I’m more busy than I’m typically comfortable actually admitting: Writing books, writing documents, drawing comics, writing scripts, posting in my blog, tweeting, posting on message board forums, viewing other people’s online art and writing, updating my YouTube site, uploading artwork to my Photobucket account, checking emails, analyzing the market, filling up sketchbooks. Keeping up with anime titles. I mean, I have free time, but not much.

"End Times: The Prep Work" Document

The first major compilation document of work done for my dramatic comic book series and saga, "End Times", which I wrote, designed and created (to construct my comic book stories) is now complete, sitting pretty at right around 200 pgs of scripts, scene outline bits, narration, and comic page layouts. I've done a lot of work on this book. Got a lot of work to go too, technically, but this does sort of feel like a bit of a benchmark.

Getting to 200 pages of actual real content takes a lot of time and work. No small task. I'll admit it's ambitious, but I honestly do feel I'm still able to manage the whole saga (and it's ultimate end product first draft) on my own. I have a vision in my head, and I'm not going to rest until I completely build the series and manifest it down on paper.

OK, deleted. Finally. Just checked.

It is offline.

Sentimentality and Audience Demographics

If there's one thing I've learned Broadblasting Retro TV Cartoons and Anime programming on my youtube channel, and who watches it, well, it kind of breaks down like this, in terms of old shows and old reruns.

For the most part...older shows appeal the most to whatever generation that saw them when they were first distributed. So advertise to the age groups that best understand the retro classics, the ones who cherish and remember their impact and intensity the best: The people who saw that animation as kids and/or teens, who are now young adults or older, whether it was in theatres, on old VHS tapes their/my parents had, or live on TV when they first aired on their respective networks.

Obviously, the new generation has certain members who are open minded that can appreciate older stuff, but in terms of advertising dollars, the biggest payoff is in the generations that remember the classics the most fondly, IF they're even still around, which of course they are if you air your stuff late at night past 10 p.m. i.e. Adult Swim style timeslots.

[Retro Adult Swim Hour]

Thank the interwebs for making this newfound marketing demographic possible