Which Gorillaz album is the best? Follow-up: which Gorillaz song is the best?
Demon Days is almost certainly the best — the one with less filler, the most coherent narrative throughline (Really, what is going on in Plastic Beach?), and, of course, the one with all the hits*. I’m not sure it’s my favorite, though. Maybe I’ve listened to it too much, but I find myself revisiting Plastic Beach more often these days.
In terms of best song, holy moley, that’s a hard one. I want to say it’s either “Dirty Harry,” “Don’t Get Lost in Heaven/Demon Days” or maybe “Clint Eastwood” off the first album? Again, I’m trying to be subjective, but objectively, my favorite is either “Do Ya Thing,” which I just utterly adore, or “To Binge.”
(Edited to add: Or “Hong Kong”! I always forget “Hong Kong,” but I love that song to pieces. Classic melancholy Albarn.)
The character, Snake Eyes, shall never be depicted or described as a fan of the New York Yankees.
One of the content guidelines for the GI Joe franchise on Kindle Worlds, Amazon’s monetizing fan fic program.
a dystopian novel about some guy who works in the government and is just trying to get by while some shitty kids try and overthrow society
Would definitely read.
Learn to tell stories in 5 page installments (or less). Basic structure: PG 1 – your setup. PGS 2-4 – obstacles to be overcome. PG 5 – final act. Brevity’s important with writing for 2000AD.
Rob Williams’ advice for writers looking to break into 2000AD, from Reddit.
Si Spurrier adds “One really useful trick – and you’d be amazed at how much easier this is than it sounds – is to buy a 22 page spandex book and rewrite it as a 5 or 6 pager.” Now I want to see people breaking down famous US comics and remaking them as Future Shock-esque 2000AD strips.
In an interview with Stern, Rivers pushed the conversation to its bizarre endpoint, saying that Dunham is “sending a message out to people saying, ‘It’s OK! Stay fat! Get diabetes. Everybody die. Lose your fingers.”
As for that Vogue cover, Rivers said: “She was on Vogue’s cover looking gorgeous. You didn’t know it was her.” She said Dunham shouldn’t have appeared on the cover because she didn’t deserve it based on her physical appearance.
You Too Can Ask Me Stuff
Working away today and likely looking for short distractions. Ask me things, Internet.
What are the 5 Artist Editions you would will into existence, if you could?
It was Dortmunder’s belief that in every trade with glamor attached to it – burglary, say, or politics, movies, piloting airplanes – there were the people who actually did the job and were professional about it, and then there were the people on the fringe who were too interested in the glamor and not enough interested in the job, and those were the people who loused it up for everybody else.
More from Westlake’s Nobody’s Perfect. See also: writing.
Remember the Dortmunder Gang – those five hapless but loveable hoodlums who bungled their way through The Hot Rock, Bank Shot and Jimmy the Kid? Well, they’re off again in pursuit of the big score – and this caper is their zaniest fiasco yet.
Dustjacket copy from the 1977 copy of Nobody’s Perfect by Donald Westlake that I’m currently reading.
Said dustjacket copy also includes the phrase “Simple? Not on your Westlake.” More dustjacket copy should be this snappy. Just imagine this kind of thing on Greg Rucka’s Bravo, for example. “Sound like a bad day? You Rucka believe it.”