click the above link. it takes you to a recent exploding dog drawing called "i can't hear you." then tab back to this page.

see? i may be a huge dork, but this just might be what i need to establish my hip indie cred. and everyone knows one cannot operate a hip indie blog without hip indie cred.

in other music news, i've been listening to Gorillaz a lot lately. imagine Blur, but stoned, and with an array of sampling devices and other instrumentation. if you aren't familiar with Blur, imagine good music. and go buy this album.

--------------

i posted the other day about Summerland and i'm happy [? or not?] to report i was right. the book stays corny. rebecca, that doesn't mean you shouldn't finish it, though. it does pick up pace towards the end. i think you'll like it.

there is one last thing i want to mention: religious allusions. the book alludes to several religious ideals about the beginnings of the universe and whatnot. at one point, a character says: "Back when old [guy who created the world] was making the Worlds, separating out all the Something from Nothing..." [page 437]. this comes straight from the Old Testament - the concept of separating two groups of matter as part of the creation process. i don't know why Chabon felt it necessary to make such allusions. if you're writing a fairytale story, why borrow concepts from common religious thought?