Shock me.

If you're ever in Cleveland, OH and in need of comics, this is the place I'd recommend. It was the best of the 4 or 5 I got to visit while I was there to see Sloan.


I also found that, if possible, it's good to have Ernie around to keep an eye on your things.


If you're in Cleveland and want pizza, I cannot possibly recommend Rascal House enough. It's downtown near CSU and I'd punch someone in the face right now to get to have lunch there today.


I didn't get to go to the science place pictured here, but it certainly looked like fun.


I also didn't get to go on this huge ship.

However, I DID get to go here...

I feel great, I feel fine.

So here's a very quick, but slightly more polished version of my take on a Robin costume redesign.
Dean Trippe and I got into an "argument" over whether or not Robin has to have the color green in his costume.
I say he does.
The tunic and green in the original version of his costume (as well as the weird slippers, I suppose) are what tie him to Robin Hood. Design-wise at least.
I may be wrong, but since I was a wee-tiny chrishaley, it's been my belief that the codename/heroic identity of the original Robin was equal parts small bird and English folk-hero.
Am I alone in this belief?
So yeah, my design would bring back the red tunic, only now it would be over a green full bodysuit as opposed to a short sleeved quasi-unitard.
I completely agree with the current Robin costume that there's absolutely no reason for Robin's arms or legs to be bare.
I also kept the black gloves and the high collared black cape with yellow interior.
I didn't draw them here, but I planned on using some kind of cross between Robin's current boots and the version he wears on the animated Teen Titans.
This is officially far more than I intended or wanted to write about this little sketch.
My apologies.

Again with this.

Kasabian - Club Foot (Live)

My mornings are full.

So here are two versions of Boo Berry I did in vector last week.
I can't decide which version I prefer.
I based it off some sketches I saw on someone else's blog, but I can't recall where for the life of me.
If you know, let me know.

Born to run.

So here are three versions of the same thing. It's a sketch of The Flash that Mike Wieringo posted on his blog. I decided to take a stab at coloring it in the slap-dash style I'm fond of lately. The first take is just flat colors. For the second I added a little more detail. The third is what my colors look like without the linework.
The end.

Don't start me talkin'..

Blur - Oliver's Army (Live)
Minus Story - Hybrid Moments (Misfits Cover)
Switchyard - Hybrid Moments (Who knew this was such a popular cover for ladies and piano?)

Andrew WK Live

http://www.awkshare.com/musicupload/masquerade_1_18_03/10%20-%20I%20Get%20Wet.mp3

http://www.awkshare.com/musicupload/tremont_4_22_02/10%20-%20I%20Get%20Wet.mp3

http://www.corkyjames.net/MP3s/live_to_win.mp3

Some say I learned it, some say it's innate.

I wish I could explain how much I want to destroy some people.
Not that I feel this way all the time, but fuck, sometimes some people just make me crazy.


This is a ninja I drew.
Right now, I wish I was this ninja so that like a shadow serpent I could use silence as my veil and with the precision of the cobra, kill these people and leave no trail.

He keeps on workin'..

So here's a sketch I did of my idea for a Robin costume redesign. There are all kinds of notes and such on it if you click on it to check out the bigger version.

Have I waited too long?

Welcome to Photoshop for Web 103W.

Even though you lied..

Guy Smith (aka The Orphan, Mister Sensitive) from Milligan and Allred's run on X-Force (which later became X-Statix).
One of my favorite characters from one of my favorite comics of all time.

Catches thieves with curly fries..

So, I decided I liked my original background for this picture better than that version I posted the other day.
I know it's not a big difference, but I think this version is better.. so there you go.

Here's some pictures from Tara and I's trip to Cleveland, OH to see Sloan.

Spins a web, hits on guys...

Spidey sketch I did on a post-it and decided to play around with in Corel.

Does whatever I tell him too.

Spidey by Ryan Ottley that I colored today.
Please click upon it to view it in all it's largeness.
Wahoo!

Tablet Superman.

A quick sketch of Superman I did on my tablet quite a while ago.
Feel free to click it to see a larger version.
Maybe I'll finish it someday.
Knowing me, I probably will not.

I continue on my Sloan kick.

Enjoy some live Sloan from their album 4 Nights at the Palais Royale courtesy of Neiles Life.
Coax Me - One of my favorite Sloan tunes, and a song that contains one of the best lies I've ever heard in a song "it's not the band I hate, it's their fans"
Everything You've Done Wrong - Possibly even more fun live since the horns in the album version are replaced with vocals.

2-Minute Music Review

Some of you may have been coming here long enough to remember when I used to write these.
I've decided to bring it back, albeit in a slightly more thorough fashion.
You can thank me later.

SLOAN "Never Hear The End Of It"
2-Minute Music Review by chrishaley!

Who's this for? : Imagine if Weezer had gotten together in '91 instead of '94, were four guys from Canada that could all write good tunes and sing, and had grown and gotten better with each successive album instead of worse. If that sounds good, you're in the right place. Later Beatles mixed with the best of 70s hook-rock and the honesty and sincerity of early R.E.M.

How Crescent Fresh? : Pretty "Super Cres" (or 9 out of 10)

Thoughts : 30 songs. No kidding. I hesitate to call this album an epic, but I think it's very safe to call it grand. In scope, subject, and execution. Songs range from less than a minute to almost six minutes and from mildly trippy to sincerely sappy, from a star-gazing lilt to daylight punk-esque. If you don't like a song on this album, just wait two minutes and you'll probably hear something completely different. One of the band's greatest strengths is the variance in their vision that comes from having four equally contributing singer/songwriters. This album was designed to be listened to straight through, and you'll enjoy the individual songs more later if you do listen to it from start to finish a few times. Obviously an experimental album for the band, but an experiment that succeeds with far more hits than misses.

Highlights : Depends on your mood.
Upbeat - "Set In Motion", "Blackout", "Can't You Figure It Out?", "Will I Belong?", "Another Way To Do It", "I Understand"
Mellow - "Even Though" (downloadable bonus track), "Love Is All Around", "Everybody Wants You", "Light Years", "Last Time In Love", "I Know You"
You must listen to - "Fading Into Obscurity", "Who Taught You To Live Like That?"

Memorable lines : "ana lucia, you're the belle of the ball, you really don't owe me that much, and i really don't know you at all"
"we can make it like we never met, keep in mind that you'll never hear the end of it.."
"sounds a bit offside, judgin' who just died, who'll be the first to speak?
the piano was upright, attendants were uptight, countin' the days of the weak
but 'round about midnight, your comments were highlights, the party spilled into the street"

Yes or no? : If you can find it, and you like good music, you should definitely buy this album.

The same music meme.. only different..

In honor of the new Sloan album that came out yesterday, I wanted to do this music meme again using only my Sloan playlist.
Let's see what happens...

Opening Credits: Median Strip
Waking Up: The Good in Everyone
First Day At School: Nothing Left To Make Me Want To Stay
Falling In Love: Nothing Lasts Forever Anymore
Fight Song: Hollow Head
Breaking Up: I Wanna Thank You
Prom: I Understand
Life's OK: Waiting For Slow Songs
Mental Breakdown: I've Gotta Try
Driving: Two Seater
Flashback: Someone I Can Be True With
Getting Back Together: A Long Time Coming
Wedding: Worried Now
Amazing Hot Sex Porno Scene: Never Seeing the Ground for the Sky
Birth of Child: Bells On
Final Battle: The N.S.
Death Scene: Fade Away
Funeral Song: People of the Sky
End Credits: Seems So Heavy

That seems like a pretty good little soundtrack. I have to say, I like it a lot better than the other one.

2006 at the Movies.

So I thought I'd compile a list (for my own record if no one else's interest) of all the 2006 movies I saw or wanted to see but didn't.
After I compile this list, I'll probably do another entry later with my thoughts on these movies or a Top 10 list or some such.

Movies I Saw
V For Vendetta
An American Haunting
The DaVinci Code
X-Men 3
Cars
Superman Returns
Clerks 2
Monster House
The Descent
Fearless
Jackass 2
The Departed
Texas Chainsaw Massacre : The Beginning
Borat
Casino Royale
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Rocky Balboa
Brick
Feast
Night Watch
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Crank
The Protector

Movies I Wanted/Still Want To See
Underworld : Evolution
Curious George
Thank You For Smoking
Slither
American Dreamz
Silent Hill
Art School Confidential
Mission Impossible 3
Over the Hedge
The Omen
A Prairie Home Companion
Nacho Libre
Lady in the Water
Little Miss Sunshine
Miami Vice
Talladega Nights
Pulse
The Illusionist
Beerfest
Invincible
Hollywoodland
The Black Dahlia
Everyone's Hero
All the King's Men
The Last King of Scotland
The Queen
Man of the Year
The Grudge 2
The Marine
One Night With The King
The Prestige
Babel
Stranger Than Fiction
For Your Consideration
Happy Feet
The Fountain
Blood Diamond
The Good Shepherd
Children of Men
Death of a President
Idiocracy
An Inconvenient Truth
Jesus Camp
Night of the Living Dead 3D
The Notorious Bettie Page
Revolver
A Scanner Darkly
Strangers With Candy
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
The U.S. Versus John Lennon

So obviously, I missed more movies than I saw.

A music meme..

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
NO CHEATING

Opening Credits: "Blessed Be The Guy That Bonds (McBain End Credits)" - The Simpsons
Waking Up: "It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas" - Johnny Mathis
First Day At School: "The Flame of Youth' - Dragonforce
Falling In Love: "One Brother" - Andrew WK (a song about not falling in love... weird)
Fight Song: "Let It Rain" - Ok Go
Breaking Up: "Let Me Go, Rock 'N Roll" - KISS
Prom: "We Win (Ha Ha)" - Thunderbirds Are Now!
Life's OK: "A Touch of Evil" - Judas Priest
Mental Breakdown: "Septopus Theme" - Brendon Small
Driving: "Heroes" - Kasabian
Flashback: "Blue Highway" - Billy Idol
Getting Back Together: "So Beyond Me" - Sloan
Wedding: "Garbage" - Nuno Bettencourt
Amazing Hot Sex Porno Scene: "Grief Hammer" - The Darkness
Birth of Child: "10538 Overture" - Def Leppard
Final Battle: "Desecration Smile" - RHCP
Death Scene: "I'll Be Home For Christmas" - Elvis
Funeral Song: "I Am Hell" - White Zombie
End Credits: "Love Burns" - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Never Hear the End of It.

The new Sloan album should be in a store somewhere near you today.
I'd recommend finding it, and buying it.
I'd highly recommend doing that.
I mean, it's what I plan to do.

More work pictures.

Enjoy some pictures from where I work.


These are all clickable of course. If I'm not mistaken they all have notes on them too... because that's fun.

They'll need a crane..

A technical illustration from one of Eddie Van Halen's patents.

Gorillaz vinyl.

2-D and Murdoc.
Got these over the holidays.
They are awesome.
Kid Robot knows what they're doing.

Take two.

So I've been coloring some more of Jon Morris' incredible stuff.
Here we have Mr. Morris' take on Marvel's Nova.
As you can see, I tried it two different ways.
Which do you prefer?

MERRY CHRISTMAS, BABY

Letters to God.

If you ask me, kids are a lot funnier than most adults.
If only they could do it on purpose.

I'm gonna shake you...

Cracked.com (as in the website of the magazine) gives us The 7 Best '80s Movie Girlfriends.

James & Amy & Eli's Excellent Adventures

And people wonder why I want James Kochalka's life.

Balloons are fun.

Check out the Skywalker Parade that was held in Miami over the weekend.

DETHKLOK!

An update on all things Dethklok from Mr. Explosion :

... I will answer 3 questions.

1. The DETHALBUM.
We went in the studio on Tuesday to begin laying it down. What to expect: Your favorite songs from the show in FULL LENGTH- No more 1 minute songs with a fade out but FULL LENGTH SONGS in all of their brutality- (with new sections you've never heard). There may be some new surprises on the CD (more to come on that). Also a couple key words in putting the CD together: Gene Hoglan (if you don't know him then do some research and begin buying his entire library). Release date: Summer 07. Yes you will have to wait. But it will be more than worth it. I will leak more info as I have it including track listing etc. . . So start looking fwd to the summer.

2. The DVD. also summer. Yes It's going to kick ass.

3. Is there going to be a second season. I can't tell you. But watch the end of tonight's episode and pay close attention to the last words uttered.

also people ask often about merch. we have it. Go online and find it. It's out there. and there will be much much more of that to come.

On a final note as the season ends I wanted to say you people kick ass, me and toki, skwisgaar, pickles, and murderface appreciate the hell out of you supporting us. THANK YOU. We're gonna see each other soon. Keep supporting all the metal bands out there and help us to make everything metal.

You may now go die,

But don't die too soon,

Nathan Explosion

Cereal mascots as art.

Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Mural
This looks like it'd be fun to try.

What's it gonna be?

Quick post-it sketch of Superman.
A little different for me.
I rather like it.

Matt Damon is funny.

If you've heard a better McConaughey impression, I'd love to hear it also.

I have great ideas.

I'm full of great ideas by accident sometimes.
Maggie was telling me about this new commercial for Outback Steakhouse that has an Of Montreal song in it. This conversation walked me down the path to hilarity where I discovered a great album title, "Let's Drink Until We Can't Remember Our Faces".
Now that's an album title you can hang your hat on and leave it for a while.



Available now on ebay!
I don't mind telling you that I wish I owned these.

I like coloring.

If you've been around here any decent amount of time, I think you've know doubt taken notice of the fact that I like coloring things.
I don't think I'm particularly adept at it, but it's fun, so I keep at it.
Here's some things I've colored lately.


A picture of Robin by Joe Madureira that I colored and turned into an icon for live-jay.


A picture of Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner) by Patrick Gleason I colored today at work.
Fun.

The mission is clear.

Barcode art.

These things jump out at you.

Carved crayons.
Amazing.

Let's go away for a while.

So here's where I tell you about what I've seen or read or heard lately that's been worth talking about...


Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
I was upset with myself for not seeing this flick sooner, but now that I've seen it I'm even more upset. Pretty much non-stop goodness. I don't feel like I really need to say that much about it. It was of course very funny. Great performances. Great cameos. Songs I can't get out of my head. Some of the best rock 'n rolling I've seen or heard in some time.

Oh, and of course THE DEVIL!


Superman : Secret Identity
Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen deliver one of the best Superman stories of all time. Secret Identity tells the story of a teenager in the real world who happens to be named Clark Kent. As you can imagine he gets teased and bullied a lot at school, and year after year receives Superman toys, t-shirts, comics, you name it for his birthday. As you can also imagine, he hates the presents and he hates being named Clark Kent.
Then one night, everything changes.
The story is fun and funny and exciting and moving, all while still feeling very real.
Then there's the art.

Stuart Immonen's work here is absolutely incredible. Breathtaking at times. I'd be hard pressed to imagine him ever doing something that would replace this as his legacy to future generations. And that's something he should be pretty proud of, even though I'm sure he wouldn't like to hear that.

Kids are scared of Santa.

There's just no two ways about it.
Santa instills feelings of abject terror in toddlers.
http://knuttz.net/hosted_pages/Scary-Santa-20061206

Papercut art.

Pretty amazing stuff.
http://knuttz.net/hosted_pages/Papercut-Art-20061206

Thinking about life.

I think one of the scariest things about life is not that no one can tell us what's going to happen, it's that no one can tell us anything.
Everyday we wake up and even if we go through our regular routine and it all runs like clockwork we're still stuck in the middle of a mystery we may never solve.
All of us.
I was thinking about the trailer for that movie "The Invisible", and as often the case in those kinds of movies, eventually the protagonist meets someone who can explain what's going on to him. In this case, the old man explains to the kid that if he can solve the mystery of his own death he gets a chance to live again.
Sometimes the "hero" doesn't have the aid of an old man to spell it out, instead he stumbles across all the right clues or finds a book or some other convenient plot device that helps the movie have something resembling forward momentum.

We never get that.
Do we?

Maybe we do at some point and no one's told me.

PVP : The Animated Series

They're making an online cartoon of PVP.
Neat.

There's nothing anybody else can do.

http://knuttz.net/hosted_pages/Funny-Vegetables-20061203
Pretty neat.

Celebrity Playlist : Borat's Music Picks

Via Stereogum.com (which got it from somewhere else)..

1. "Beat It" - Michael Jacksons
I a huge fanny of this new song by dancing negro, Michael Jacksons. We have many major exports in my country -first is potassium, second is apples and third is small boys to Michaels ranch. Why not? Is niiice!

2. "You Be My Wife" from Borat Musical Listenings....
This is romantic song that I wrote about a woman's in my moviefilm, whom I wanted to make romance inside off. This feature Belinda Bedekovic, our famous keytar player and was produced by Korki Buchek!!!

3. "Throw The Jew Down the Well" from Borat Musical Listenings for Make....
This is most popular children's song in Kazakhstan. It is not in my moviefilm, but was record for Kazak television in cowboy bar in Arizona, which in US and A. I have hear this song have upset some peoples - I think it because my guitar playing not so good. I sorry.

4. "Macarena"
We play this party song at my first wife funeral. Happy times.

5. "It's a Kind of Magic" - Queen
I like very much the lead singer - ladies man Frederick Mercury. It great shame that he die in that car crash. Many peoples say I looks like him, infacts, last month I come 7th in Almaty's annual 'who look most like Freddy Mercury' competition. This out of over 843,000 entrant!

6. "Leader of the Gang" - Garry Glitter
This one from convicted sex criminal Gareth Glitter. He very much admired in Kazakhstan and his music is also popular. Infact he second most popular sex criminal in Kazakhstan. Our most popular Urkin the Rapist who become big star after appearing in my moviefilm 'Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan'

7. "Elokeinu" on Album One Three Seven - Zohar
It is Jew music. You must listen to this, so you know what your enemy is think.

8. "Candle in the Wind" - Elton John
I very much like this song about crushed princess of Wales written by bald homosexual Elton John.

9. "Rock Me Amadeus" - Falco
Me and my producer Azamat Bagatov like listen to this.

10. "I Wanna Sex You Up" - Color Me Badd
This favourite of my 11 year old son, Bilak. His wife and childrens like it too.

11. "Holiday" - Madonna
I liking very much this new song by singing transvestite Madonna. He is very convincing, the only thing that gives him away is his big hands, and the bulge around his chram.

Check out what I got today..

Click on the picture for a bigger shot as well as some notes/explanations of the awesomeness.