September 10th, 2004 - friday

Been listening to a lot of Chris Appelhans's music lately. Pretty neat to have a friend who plays music you actually listen to. Here's a song of his called Life on the Moon. You know what's cooler than that? Watching another one of your friends draw a comic inspired by the song for the next volume of Flight, which, by the way, is going to be a real treat for everyone. Some of the material coming in is simply jaw-dropping...

I'm currently drawing a crazy number of pages a day in order to get Daisy Kutter Chapter Three done in time, so I'm trying to find any way to avoid burning out at the drawing table right now. In fact, I just found another cool chord combination on the guitar. Rock!

Justifying the workload...

I also realized that I really love being able to do work on my own schedule. Sure, the workload is currently insane, and it requires more self-discipline than I probably have, but man, I just love the stuff I work on and I love the fact that I can take some time out of the day, whenever I want, to just go out and do stuff. So every time someone tells me "you're nuts!" when they see how much work I produce and the hours I keep, I think back on all the time I spend freely playing my guitar and relaxing on my porch (10 minutes), and I smile politely... wincing... in pain....

ah, the life...