No sketches for sale this week; I do most of those sketches while watching movies, and one of the lingering effects of my cold-turkeying caffeine is that my eyes didn’t like changing focus from the TV to the drawing in my lap. And only six sketches from my sketchbook, because I inexplicably forgot to post…
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Movies Seen Recently: War, Seven Warriors, Devil Girl From Mars
War (2019) – Bollywood does Mission: Impossible! A young covert operative is tasked to track down his trainer (Hrithik Roshan, beloved around my house for Koi Mil Gaya) as the latter goes rogue and starts killing high-level government functionaries with no pattern… or is there? Roshan looks like the toughest damned 45-year-old in the world…
What I Just Listened To.
Of interest to pretty much no one but me, my music listening tally/journal What I Just Listened To (originally on Tumblr, then on Pinterest) is now a subdomain here: justlistenedto.nathanshumate.com The most recently three albums listened to also show up in the sidebar here.
Movies Seen Recently: Star Trek: Generations, Heaven Can Wait, The World of Drunken Master
Star Trek: Generations (1994) – Some parts of this movie were filmed concurrent with the series finale, “All Good Things…” When the finale wrapped, the cast had a ten-day break before they were back to work on the feature. I’m sure that contributed to it feeling like an extra two-parter from the seventh season. And…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
One that I put up for sale in my Etsy shop (which was promptly bought — thank you, Joe!): …and six from my sketchbook.
O Beautiful.
[Apologies if any of this seems more fragmented than normal. I’m in the middle of a multi-day caffeine detox, and the inside of my skull ain’t pretty.] This morning, on my Facebook and Instagram accounts, as well as at LousyBookCovers.com and CheapCaffeine.net, I posted this image and caption: Happy birthday to the greatest nation in…
Movies Seen Recently: The Dead Center, Awara Paagal Deewana, Elimination Game
The Dead Center (2018) – A doctor in the hospital’s psych ward, who tends to get over-attached to his patients, deals with a mysterious patient who appeared from nowhere, and who show symptoms by turns of amnesia, catatonia, and delusional self-harm. Meanwhile, the police’s medical examiner tries to track down a body that has mysteriously…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
Everything from my sketchbook this week.
Movies Seen Recently: The Way Back, The Invasion, Blood: The Last Vampire
The Way Back (2010) – Inspired by (as opposed to “based on”) a true story, this movie follows a handful of men who broke out of a Siberian gulag in the early 1940s and made their way clear down to India (at least, some of them did). I expected this to be “The Great Escape,…
In Which I Cancel Myself.
I confess up front that I’m going to face-plant on this post, because I can’t conceive that I will explain my thoughts well enough that I won’t set myself up (and provide the damning evidence) for all sorts of hounding, canceling, and general condemnation. I guess that, in knowing the consequences going in, I can…