the uncluded

It has been awhile since I felt like posting anything on my blog.  Things have been going on and life is moving forward, but nothing has really inspired me to write for a long time.  I think drawing my comic over at mini dove comics has been consuming my life for the past few years.  I guess that's just life.  Luckily that doesn't stay that way forever.  Sometimes you find something that is so awesome you have to talk about it.  That something is a new CD I got from the library this week.  I was looking at all the different CDs and trying to find something cool to listen too.  This can be tough for me I listen to a ton of different music right now.  Although nothing has been inspiring.  Lately new music has been sounding the same as my old music.  I've been trying out old bands I never really got around to listening too.

You could call me a bad person, I judge a CD by it's cover (that goes for books too).  I was looking at the "Urban" section at my library when I saw a weird little cover.  It looked like to gnomes hanging out trying to catch things.  I was like this really looks interesting.  It was by a band I'd never heard of, The Uncluded. I figured no harm checking it out from the library, I was so wrong.

After I got home I decide to look the band up on youtube and I found this little song by them called The Aquarium.  In comes the rappers, "Please don't tap on the glass. Please don't tap on the glass."  This started with a beat that sound good, better than any other rap song I'd heard in awhile.  It wasn't forced and over powering.  It had a good beat that I made me want to get up and dance.  I was in love with this song.  Plus it was about fish and aquariums.  I love aquariums and looking at fish, as long as I don't have to get into the water with them.  The song was amazing.

Well after watching the video I had to know more about this band and listen to more of the songs.  Good thing youtube had more songs as I started to rip the CD.  Then the most amazing thing happened.  I actually know both people in The Uncluded.  It was Kimya Dawson and Aesop Rock!  If you don't know who either of these people are, I'm really sorry for you.  I like both of these artist I already own some of their stuff on vinyl, yes LP's.  If you like hip-hop or folk music this might be the album for you.  I love it already.  I've had it for two days and listened to it ten times all the way through.  I played it a couple of times at work this morning instead of listening to my audio books.

I know this kind of music isn't for everyone, but I'm not sure if that matters.  I have declared the song of summer, The Aquarium.  That's how much I like the song.  This album may be the best thing I've heard in a long time, maybe a year, since I heard JEFF the Brotherhood.  They had the song of the summer last year with Sixpack.  I hope you all check out the great music that is The Uncluded.  I know I'll be enjoying them.  In fact I love this album so much I'm going to buy it to support them.

wordless wednesday - in a library

good at something normal

Another week is gone. Time just flies by now. I can't believe the weekend is almost over too. I've never had this problem before. I remember weekends going on for ever and now they're so short. This week was an interesting one. I started volunteering at the Garden City Library. The one where Allison works. I never see my wife so I decide that I needed to do something about that and this seemed like a great way to do it. She's at work and I get to help her library out. It's not hard work by any means, it's just shelfing books and movies. It reminds me of working for the budget office. There I sort contracts and other documents. My life has been a long career of sorting. I'm really good at it. It's really weird to think you're good at something that really shouldn't be that hard for anyone to do. I've always loved sorting too. It started with my comic collection. I love sorting my comics as a kid. I would take my small collection and resort it all the time. Like in High Fidelity (the movie) I would change my approach to how I sorted my collection, but how I acquired my collection though. It's usually alphabetical by comic name, but now I do it more by character than title of comic. So Amazing Spider-Man is in the S's for Spider-Man. It's a little odd, but perfect for me. Wow this story is just going everywhere today. This week I helped at Allison's library and it was fun. I got to hang with her, maybe not talk, but be around my beautiful bride. I can't ask for more than that. I love just being with her.


On a side note don't forget about ED the Business Warrior. A new comic will come out on Tuesday, but Sunday will have the first special sauce. So go check out some awesome special sauce at http://minidovecomics.wordpress.com.

adam on the moon

A couple months ago my wife and I went to the movies and saw a great little independent film. While there I saw a preview of another independent film that looked really good. It was about this person with asperger's syndrome. He found love plus he wore a spacesuit for a little while in the preview. How can you not love a man in a spacesuit, they rock. I forgot about the film after watching Away We go in the theater (another amazing film). A couple months go by and I'm think about space and spaceships, which I do quite often, and realized there was a movie I had wanted to see with a guy in a spacesuit. Well as time goes by my mind loses lots of information. I couldn't remember what the name of the film was and looking up spacesuit in google was no help at all.


Then one day at the Garden City Library (where my wife works) I saw something familiar. It was a guy in a spacesuit. I looked at it and it was a new independent film and I though hey this is the film I wanted to see. I checked it out and was so excited for my wife to get home to watch this film with me. When she got home we popped Moon into my xbox to watch it. That's when I realized my mistake. Moon was not the love movie I was hoping for. I was scared that this film would suck because well it's on the moon. Plus I had not heard of it. A scifi movie can really suck if you haven't heard about it. A scifi movie can suck if it's a blockbuster (Yeah, Avatar you sucked! Not one originally idea in all of Avatar. They stole from a crappy 90's cartoon Ferngully. That's the real Avatar movie.). We go into the film with no hopes for it. We came out of the film and thought damn that's good. Yes the film Moon was hundred times better than Avatar. Almost anything is better than Avatar. Moon was a great film, it had only one real actor in it, which made it even more amazing. It was like a one man show. I recommend it to anyone who loves scifi films.

Last night my wife came home with another little indy film. This time it was called Adam. It was the original film we had been looking for. I must say the wait was worth it. The film was great. It was the kind of story that makes you want to go out and be a real person. This story bring up three important facts. One Moon was a great scifi movie. Two Adam was a great love story movie. Three Avatar is a huge rip off of other movies. See two of these movies and skip the last one, unless you like live action remakes of cartoon movies from the 90's.