http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:SkeletonMurderer&section=today deviantART RSS for by:SkeletonMurderer en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:13:43 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/27256334/ http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/27256334/ Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:54:21 PDT and I have ended our collaboration on Bloodsucking Nazi Zombies. It's unlikely you will ever see a comic book from us. In the future you'll see cartoons from Jon but it's questionable if I'll play a role.

The website's being updated: [link]
This guy's designing it: [link]

You may see a collaborative story between myself, and .
You may see a Fallout 3 mod from myself and Jon's brother Mike (think Manhunt but funny).

Fingers crossed.

]]> ~SkeletonMurderer http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/23492934/ http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/23492934/ Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:05:11 PST just showed me several lines and color tests yesterday. Our Bloodsucking Nazi Zombies comic has officially begun. I'm very excited and will post pics asap.

Do you ever run into a particular acquaintance repeatedly? I had abnormal psych with a girl last year and we keep showing up at random places. When it happens we laugh.

The problem with Coraline, and Neil Gaiman in general, is that someone already did it better a decade ago. Clive Barker's The Thief of Always was from a mind still in it's dangerous prime while Neil can't ever seem to find his fangs. The greater the capacity for cruelty & knowledge the greater the imagination. And isn't imagination what we respect? But unfortunately even Gaiman's work on the Hellraiser comics don't carry an iota of maliciousness. He's just arrived late to the party to help Grant Morrison kill Bruce Wayne but it's all incredibly derivative. When sales hit a slump in the early nineties they killed Superman and put Azrael in the bat suit only to ret-con (return continuity) the following year. Yes, the idea of Deathstroke filling the cowl with Harley Quinn as Robin is a post-modernist fanboy hard-on... But little more than that. We're not at a feeling level in comics yet. Nor are we actively pursuing the future Moores and Millers of the medium. Should we really expect anything less than a re-run of the last fifteen years?

What throws me for a loop though: Kevin Smith can write. The same man who weaseled his way into the Weinstein's pockets to be supplied an untalented film career is one of the only four people that should be writing Batman right now. Bar-none he's the only man working right now that can write The Joker (even upstaging veteran Denny O'Neill and Jonah Nolan's serious incarnations). Why? Because Smith doesn't forget that The Joker is fucking funny. Psychotic and scary, yes; but also brilliantly ironic. One would think Joker an easy character to write but they'd be surprised at how many times he's been done wrong. Ledger and Smith have been the only two to perfectly define the character for this generation. In their scope he's both foot soldier and satirist for a brutal, inevitable future. And I'd have it no other way.

Why can't Jason have the good grace to stay dead? Saw and Hostel killed Horror film so this must be a case of the head living separately from the body. He can run, shoot, trap and play dress up to his heart's content but if he's still whining about mommy while murdering half-naked twenty-somethings it's the same old shit. Why not bring in environmental issues when developers attempt to tear down the camp? Perhaps shed light on his nigh invulnerability by exploring the curse aspect and sacredness of death? The audience is (or at least should be) far too intelligent for this tripe. Never will I deem a formulaic reboot anything but a shameful failure when it had eleven entries to get it right.

I am indeed working on my own Batman comic titled, "Joke's On You!", a penultimate Joker story to combat the rash of bad ones. If BSNZ takes off and DC wants me to do a Tim Kring and fuck up Batman I'll submit this and my Croc story, "Gently Smiling Jaws." and I are also co-writing "Winter Shadows" which updates Freeze, Riddler and the moral question of Gotham vigilantism.

]]> ~SkeletonMurderer http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/23093154/ http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/23093154/ Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:18:02 PST
WHO SHOULD HAVE MADE IT:

DOCTOR MANHATTAN
He's a symbol of nuclear power that's never depicted as antisocial as what that stands for. Without a moments hesitation he'd coolly detonate every armament on the planet and murder his fellow comrades without ever needing to explain himself. Who is more evil: men that blow up the earth out of greed or a deity that enacts horrors on humanity and views them as little more than molecules? In the graphic novel Manhattan is more a confused contagonist than evil Superman and his role in the plot is jarring and awkward. It's for this reason that Jon was excluded.

MR. FREEZE
What exists of the character is relatively new. Conceived as Dr. Zero, an unremarkable Captain Cold knock-off, he only became great when Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and writer Paul Dini updated the character for the Batman animated series. A doctor of cryogenics bound to save his wife from terminal illness succumbs to a typical super-science mishap that renders him a biological walking winter. More machine than man he quests in vain to save his wife from death. The best kind of sympathetic villain but not at all malicious. Having a character that resembles The Terminator in the same gallery of rogues as the very human Two-Face, Joker and Scarecrow also limits his credibility. When someone modernizes him yet again as a vicious and emotionally cold assassin with a nitrogen bullet m.o. I'll really have a character I enjoy.

KILLER CROC
Rejected for the same reasons as above: he's essentially a rampaging dinosaur. There are the seeds of a great character being the only cannibal in Arkham but a poor choice in his inhuman portrayal. It's never been appearance that makes Batman villains monstrous. Make him a 6'5" bald psychopath with body-modded scales and sharpened teeth who cries while eating people and you'll have a remarkably disturbing incarnation of an Ug-Smash character.




It seems like we're all on a quest for what's next, trying to be courteous to everyone, but never questioning our reasoning for it. "YAAAY! Sublimating my feelings positions me on a structure of power-based social hierarchy! But why am I crying?!" Global warming seems like progress by comparison. A resolution to a species who considers it's greatest achievements Fundamentalism and mass-production. We've been robbed from Wall Street on down and all politicians can muster is, "Keep your 'change.'" If only someone started terrorizing these white-collar criminals...

Enter Bill Gates. Having planned to lecture during a science convention instead (his mid-life crisis in full-swing) he released a swarm of mosquitoes on his colleagues. Though he didn't giggle maniacally while jizzing in his pants (like we all would have done) he calmly read statistics about malaria deaths in Africa. This only cements the fact that if you're a rich American nothing is illegal or immoral.

An American woman in her twenties gave birth to a literal litter and ended up on the Today show. In Belgium a kid chopped up an orphanage wearing white makeup and blacked-out eyes. Nothing. Crazy fucks I tell you move to the United States! In our sad little auction kingdom anything's possible and everyone's prey!

When I dream I see photo booths that procure items of lost nostalgia and testaments of character. When all those machines disappear will we still be the same?

]]> ~SkeletonMurderer http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/22535986/ http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/22535986/ Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:44:39 PST
10) THE HELLFIRE CLUB
Unlike Magneto's Brotherhood this group of cruel aristocratic mutants aren't so noble. Welcome to the Inner Circle. It's social structure lead by Sebastian Shaw, the Black King, is designed around the tenets of chess. With members serving as corporate CEOs they hold the global economy in check. As chief engineers of Sentinel program "Project Wideawake" and the transformation of Jean Gray into Dark Phoenix they move to rule the world. There's enough skeletons in this incestuous organization's closet to make Jimmy Hoffa cry. Vice isn't limited to the ordinary. Because even among the super powered the only thing better than getting what you want, is more.

9) RA'S AL GHUL
Nobody deems man a blight on the earth more than the self-proclaimed "Demon's Head." Once a physician who'd discovered the veritable fountain of youth twisted after the murder of his wife by an Arabian prince. Leading a coup to the palace they razed everything to the ground. Those that followed him that day became known as the League of Assassins, Demon's Fang, right hand of the ruthless international terrorism syndicate The Demon. Nearly eight hundred years old with super intelligence, innumerable resources and unparalleled combat skill he challenged "the world's greatest detective." Finding him a more than worthy adversary he offered Batman his criminal empire and his daughter's hand in marriage. Bruce finally saw everything he'd ever lost return to him. Family. Love. And a future he had toiled night after night for in vain: a world without crime. And with this offer he declined. Ra's was devastated. Enraged he launched an unprecedented assault to restore the earth's balance beginning with elite fascist Wayne and his beloved Gotham City. Plagues. Murder. Mind games. Bruce has forsaken Ra's peace and to his undying breath he'll return the favor. Unlike other villains driven by self-interest al Ghul fights for mother earth. He'd give his life for her... But also everyone elses.

8) DARKSEID
A warlord hailing from a medieval dungeoneer world seemingly designed by the Marquis De Sade. Conflict is all this gravelly-faced tyrant knows. So much so it coaxes him to find the Anti-Life Equation, a formula for nihilistic mind control, powerful enough to enslave all sentient races. With an assembly of torturers, assassins, disfigured personal Valkyrie called Furies and a chief brainwasher in the guise of an elderly she-male dubbed Granny Goodness, his army of Apokolips is one of the most formidable adversaries in the universe.

7) MOJO
Society can be the greatest villain of all. Descended from a race of invertebrate alien slugs (or Spineless Ones) his world was tormented by a constant barrage of electronic transmissions from a distant Earth. Every television/radio/internet pulse infected and split their psyche pulling their planet apart. Until Mojo: a genius scientist and engineer, made sense of the whole mess. Exoskeletons or motorized walkers were built for transportation. Humanoid clones were genetically manufactured based on the likeness of the "demons" in their frequency consumed nightmares. And finally their society was established around an enormous influx of anti-transmissions, native television/radio/internet programming, to counteract the ones from Earth. The Spineless Ones could dream again. So grateful were they to Mojo they let him rule their media ravaged planet like an emperor. Mojo World of the Mojoverse lit up like a billion Vegas' and opened for business 24-7. The humanoid slave race performed admirably but the ever ingenious Mojo desired more variety in his Friday night line-up. Their trade broadened to other worlds until one day the source of the transmission was discovered. Now the fun could REALLY begin! Seeing Earth's inhabitants as both kindred spirits and detestable enemies Mojo has made a habit of stealing only the best of their planet for the spotlight. Heroes and villains alike have been thrown center stage into his veritable youtube homeworld and it shows no signs of stopping. Now that's entertainment!

6) DOCTOR DOOM
An exquisite abomination of mad science & arcane sorcery. Though Victor Von Doom's tyranny would grow to plague the world ironically it's his arrogance that foils him time and again. His life really began in the explosion at Stark Industries energy lab. Warned by colleague Reed Richards to reassess his revolutionary but unstable Cross-Dimensional Pathway Victor stubbornly proceeded. The device exploded in his face. Doom, more humiliated than hurt, stole his remaining experimental devices and fled to Tibet. There he exerted power over a lost group of monks who constructed the metal suit all would come to know him by. After conquering his home province of Latveria and brutally mu... ]]> ~SkeletonMurderer http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/21974388/ http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/21974388/ Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:23:39 PST
Me & watched [link] and are now basing the art in Bloodsucking Nazi Zombies on it. We'd never really seen anything stylistically that grounded us until now. I think the fact it's not going to be expanded into a film or tv series is what drives us to use it.
Approximately six months from now will go over the Rictus Grin novella and begin drawing it. It will be the worst bedtime story ever made.
Right now self-publishing both seems likely though I'm considering a webcomic like Zuda.

I played [link] at my friend's house in Fresno. It's very accurate.

In these past two months I will have been in a car accident, gone to two comedy shows, surprised the bejeezus out of my friend, watched Amanda Palmer yowl like an alley cat, taken retard tests, torn the shit out of my heels, dressed like The Joker and seen the new house we're moving into.
And an epic card game courtesy of .

*Update*
Tony Danza:
During oral sex a man removes his member strikes his beloved several times in the face with it and exclaims, "Who's the boss?!"

]]> ~SkeletonMurderer http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/21591652/ http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/21591652/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:48:30 PST [link]

In Fresno by the canal a half-block from where my friend lives a person got torn apart. The FBI caught the guy almost immediately. The technology has come a long, long way.

In Alberta, Canada three pairs of shoe adorned feet have washed up on the shore. They've identified only two missing women from said feet.

In three states undergrads have been found face down in pools of water after nights of heavy drinking. Problem? Someone keeps leaving happy faces at the scene.

Over the past few days within driving distance two mothers have murdered their baby daughters. One by drowning. The other with a .357 Magnum. Both are pleading incompetence.

The current date to begin withdrawal from Iraq is 2011. Thanks society! [link]

]]> ~SkeletonMurderer http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/21415611/ http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/21415611/ Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:44:49 PST
On suggestion of a good friend *cough* *cough* I've decided to submit my work to Marvel for a chance to write for them. Another friend suggested I also start a blog. Within the month I'll be fazing out my inept MySpace account and starting a writing blog called Chicken Soup In A Skull. There I'll update for the bored and morbidly curious about what I'm working on which will branch out into novels because of my penchant for "pretty words."

Zero Punctuation has officially jumped the shark. Silent Hill V was doomed to suck (it wasn't a COMPLETE train wreck) but to project that onto Dead Space does it a vast discourtesy. It's fun to play. That's the point. It's a GAME! I don't give an iota that the plot is Event Horizon and The Thing in a blender because gory nihilism is somehow made compelling and atmospheric. Without the pithy music bookends or wit we're left with little more than a cynic that sees only the walls of the box he's been placed. "Fame is proof that people are gullible." - Ralph Waldo Emmerson

Fallout 3 should be officially subtitled Oblivion. For people dreading it would happen, it did. I personally love the Elder Scrolls though so to me this is a happy accident. Problems: glitches, censorship, securerom. When the modders bring back child murder and whoring I'm all in. Til then I'll stick to Xbox.

Read Joker! Do it now! It's like David Cronenberg directing a Batman movie. Books like Watchmen and Y: The Last Man get an affirming pat on the bum from a politically correct world but this is where it's really going. Joker is a motiveless nut (not as philosophical as I like) and when it comes to psychotic this guy takes the cyanide-baked cake. Someone like Carnage relies on their power to be cruel when what's really dangerous is pure pathos. At the end of the first act Joker gets back everything that was taken from him. Just like he wanted. So he shoots the mob boss that cut the deal and plays a game of Russian roulette with himself while laughing about it. "I learned quickly that Joker wasn't about thinking." Heath Ledger I thought did a masterful job with a pedantic, mediocre script and this is the core of what he was channeling. Throw in a little song & dance and this is as good as the character could possibly get. A dangerously unpredictable psychotic AND showman.

]]> ~SkeletonMurderer http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/21104472/ http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/21104472/ Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:58:10 PDT
Hate never ceases to amaze me. Always so uncreatively blunt. In a story I always find the deceiver or hypocrite to be more of a bastard then the outright monster. Why? Turn on a news channels to hear scattershot "conservative" hate rhetoric and wonder aloud: with sentiments so violently bigoted and erratically aloof what future do they perceive to fight for? Is it white, overpopulated, confused and psychotic? Let's Jump On Board That Party Train!

All it takes is a little spin to sell anything. A little spin can start wars and sell poisons and sustain or destroy whole families. No lie, just spin. Spin isn't illegal. The lie is gay marriage has any bearing whatsoever on anybody but homosexuals; spin is your kids will be taught about the gays in school. And 53% of California believed it.

Speaking of a pantload is anybody else let down by the Knights Of The Old Republic MMO? Suddenly it's 300 years after both games and all the sith are buddy-buddy; WTF?! Every time these guys hug they try to crush each others ribs and now they're a faction? Worse to hear the lead writer insinuate that Sion (greatest Star Wars character period) wasn't even a real sith. Sorry, when you're a zen zombie held together by pure cruelty you're whatever you fucking say you are.

Fallout 3. I hear people say Little Big Planet or Red Alert 3 but I've checked out. If you haven't seen gameplay footage you have no idea of the wonder that awaits. It's an RPG FPS gangbang courtesy of Mad Max in DC rubble. There's a chance it could be too easy, but after I've dropped a live grenade in someone's trough or punched a guys head off I doubt I'll care.

No matter how hardened a cynic twenty minutes into a Flogging Molly set you WILL dance; good god you'll fucking dance! If by the end you're not soaked in sweat laughing like a drunken clown you've not experienced Irish punk. One friend simply remarked, "My pants!.. So. Much. Semen."

It's not so much walking around in clown makeup that makes dressing up as the Joker fun, it's arming yourself to the teeth. Already I've bought the Joker switchblade and Sweeney Todd straight-razor with what little money I've made on eBay (both gorgeous knives). I've even found a replica of every Joker firearm in airsoft form and if I had some $300... Wow, I might be taking this Halloween thing too seriously.

What's everybody doing for Halloween? Last year was uneventful so Fresno haunted houses for me... Also Zach & Miri Make A Porno... What can I say, it's Kevin Smith brand oversexed cliche pap. I even see the typical saccharine ending with a self-referential industry nod where no one wants to buy said stag film because it's "too sweet." I don't care, it's still Kevin Smith. Hidden away in the chasm of my chest there's still a soft spot for that kind of mediocrity.

]]> ~SkeletonMurderer http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/20852692/ http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/20852692/ Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:55:40 PDT
I caught Chris Rock's recent stand-up on HBO and it reminded me very much of the angry pandering in George Carlin's final years. Rock belies the horrors of racism by seeking to "reclaim" it then espouses cretin etiquette by turning faggot into a verb. Everyone makes their own reality. In Rock's I see him standing on a stool on stage in a venue filled with elderly white people. They carry rotten tomatoes with the word "nigger" carved in it's fruit. As they pelt him in unison he begins saying how much he loves his family but the words twist up in his mouth till he spews obscenities. And as he calls his wife and baby daughter whores no better than apes, wishing they'd never been born, he wants to cry but all he can do is laugh.

... And speaking of comedy.
I've had several people ask me now about Dark Knight and my musings on the next Batman film, and I honestly don't give a shit. Heath was the penultimate Joker. It was Ichi The Killer meets A Clockwork Orange. But now he's gone. And that's that. A reviewer in the Village Voice described the Nolans scipt incarnation of Joker as "a suped-up Scorpio from Dirty Harry." More to the point, the Nolan's Joker is fucking boring. All the slurping, skipping, singing and outbursts of "I LIKE this job!" or "We made it!" are nowhere in sight. People keep comparing Nicholson and Ledger but forget an intregal element to the character: he's a state of mind. It's been suggested that there isn't even one Joker, more like an evil spirit that roams from person to person. A madness that can touch anyone at anytime. Ledger understands Joker the way few people before him have and it makes his loss before a directing debut even harder. On the good earth next to us Ledger is musing about an Arkham film we'll never see. So yes, I've heard about Johnny Depp as Riddler or Philip Seymour Hoffman as Penguin and Kristen Bell lobbying for a standalone Harley Quinn, but I don't care. Without The Joker there is no Batman because all the desperation and madness and violence that bore Gotham City makes less sense. What other fictional city do you know of that has a mental institution at it's entrance?

]]> ~SkeletonMurderer http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/20392574/ http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/20392574/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:29:44 PDT
People use dried kelp on a local city hill to send messages much like a community bulletin board. I've read, "sam is hot", and more recently, "YOUT [heart]'S SAM", but whether I'm the subject is speculative. However, "sam has trouble maintaining long-enduring relationships", or, "SAM [heart]'S SELF-SABOTAGE", would be a clue. My favorite is still, "lauren is awesome."

... Boy I miss her. She taught me sarcasm is God. I once had a class whose syllabus cited, "No Sarcasm"; it was dropped within the hour. Most people I see and claim to hate I simply envy. Perhaps all superiority complexes stem from simple longing. If that's the case mine is awful. I often don't feel attractive enough for really beautiful women. So I will away this mind on things I hope inadvertantly impress: baby seal fat candles & soaps, preserved body parts, various socialist manifesto, Dildos of cartoon characters and fresh vegatables.

I've had two dreams now that feature Robin Williams as a convenience store clerk. Apparantly he's semi-retired. This last time he told me about the screenplay he's writing in which Hurricane Katrina becomes attached to a baby kitten. I showed him a page from my non-existant Heroes spoof:

INT. BEDROOM - DAY

A sceneboard covers the screen that says "Sex-Men United." It's removed to reveal Sylar and Elle kneeling on a bed in their underwear. Behind a video camera Suresh appears wearing bling and a beret.

SURESH
Okay, guys. I want you to jump in there willy-nilly.

As they move toward each other the bed starts to hover and electricity crackles. Suresh nods slowly as coitus noise begins off-screen.

NARRATOR
Is not all humanity a yearning for human contact? My name is Doctor Suresh. I'm not actually Indian, but I speak with an accent to irritate people. My charge in life is to find people with special abilities, and film them having doped-up retard sex with each other. These are my pornos.

:TITLE UP:

Speaking of comic rip-offs. Finally read Watchmen cover-to-cover. HA-TED IT! It was better than my first attempt where I got halfway and skipped to the end. If you look up "Jumping The Shark" in a dictionary it's the last chapter of Watchmen. And speaking of flaming: Captain Metropolis & Dollar Bill?! "Whoah Nelly, The Black Freighter is coming!" AGGHHHHHHHH!..... AGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!.......... ARRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! At least Zack Snyder's made a pretty film of it. Until the end where Mister Mastercard vaporizes New York claiming pre-destiny or some such bogus shit I'll probably like it. The panel at Comic-Con was packed; Kevin Smith's recollection of it was great. I'm on youtube asking a question in my Joker costume. For those who've never been I recommend going just for the experience. Because not all of it was good. I met EC artist Al Feldstein who's a bitter sell-out. Perhaps the reason why few modern writers don't care to follow in their footsteps is because all the guys from that era have forgotten what was important about Tales From The Crypt; except it made money. Met Dave McKean and John Landis. Awesome men. Oggled former Suicide Girl Nixon from a distance but was too shy to say hello. Why I don't know (I'm acquainted with people who've worked with her). But about Watchmen, the cast is very attractive and so was the footage but, life changing? It may just take something non-sensical and make it poetic. Maybe. But in the words of Robert Downey Jr., "Fuck DC!"

Now I'm a huge DC fan, and a bigger Batman fan, but without Heath Ledger should The Dark Knight even exist? David Letterman mused on his show about a stand-alone Joker film. What a wonderful idea; we've only wanted one for thirty years! Everytime Joker's on-screen lips smacking through a fruity rasp something tribal happens to the audience... And when he's gone they fall asleep. Slogged in more self-serious, convoluted bullshit Christopher Nolan is famous for. Morality is simple. Do you hurt the innocent? Are you a humorless dick? If you answered no, guess what, you rock.

End of story.

]]> ~SkeletonMurderer http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/18191473/ http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/18191473/ Tue, 06 May 2008 05:21:01 PDT Glenn Beck was on a rant about GTA4 and what interested me was, "It's not just videogames. All media is responsible. Film, television, music, internet is leading to a more coarse society. We're getting farther away from moral values and that needs to change." Then he immediately goes back to his angry white man schtick. Apparantly no one has to be responsible for what they do and say nowadays.
I'd been thinking about my ex alot and saw her and got twitterpated. I sorted it out. And then when all seemed stucko dull from the malaise of semester's end we get a call from a very good friend who says the Air Force wants him to leave for basic tomorrow. He signed up last week and everyone anticipated him leaving in August. I'm tremendously proud of him but how can I not feel disappointed? We spend one last evening together and just like that he's gone. Sadly we ponder this inevitablity. Would it have been easier if we had been prepared? Before a tsunami crashes through a town does it ask, "Excuse me, but could you all move fifty miles to the left?" This dapper monstrousity of nature in a tophat and monocle apologizing as it brutally destroys civilization cheers us up greatly. After all, what is forever?

]]> ~SkeletonMurderer http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/17842095/ http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/17842095/ Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:13:58 PDT Shouldn't there be a law that requires every twenty-something that complains about their monotonous life to be attacked with synthesized salvia? "I come home everyday from my boring job and eat shit and fuck my stu-pid boyfriend." How sad for you! Pass some of that luck onto the third-world you ingrateful cunt.
I should get hooked on meth. At least it would get me out of the house. Possibly a girlfriend. Though all we'd do is get high. Recovery's a social club anyway.
Ever lock eyes with a person and for a moment neither person looks away but neither acknowledges it? There should be a biological tick that forces each person to say exactly what they're thinking. Wow! I'd have alot more restraining orders! But I'd probably have better conversations too.
Why is it so hard for me to talk to people? My mouth is a hotspring of weird and angry humor, like Gallagher, only with human heads. It's like the full moon just came up and I'm waving my date away having said something to the effect of, "I feel surprisingly virile..." Very frustrating. How do I talk about bullshit with sunflare eyes?
Sometimes I wish Abnormal Psych never happened. I'd never have done that paper on eating disorders so I wouldn't have to worry about my struggling friends or want to put my head in a bleach bucket. I wouldn't get infatuated with girls and it wouldn't depress me. I could go back to being an impervious, selfish creature. I've already wished on two falling stars, the same wish, to no avail.
My blood is cursed.
Fuck you God.

]]> ~SkeletonMurderer http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/17694023/ http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/17694023/ Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:45:12 PDT [link]
Jackie Haley from Little Children is playing Rorschach which means he'll be the craziest motherfucker ever seen on film. "I'm not trapped in here with you! You're all trapped in here with ME!"

The Bad: [link]
Now I know why killer kid stories don't work, save for The Brood, which this ain't by a longshot. It makes The Strangers and its "old man duck hunt" look like Hitchcock by comparison. I'm really hard on Horror movies because they've all devolved into this anti-story where none of the protagonists have arcs and the antagonism is uncharacteristically dull with a plot usually consisting of "suddenly people are attacked by psychotic, sprinting, asian zombie ghosts with mysterious pasts." Along the way whacky antics ensue unwinding into a psychologically diarettic conclusion. Everything's dying in limited release and almost nobody saw this: why bother making it?

The Goofy: Excerpt from the forthcoming Bloodsucking Nazi Zombies comic...

INT. STRIP CLUB, NIGHT

A brunette resembling Sunny sits glumly at the bar sipping shooters. Next to her is a new bouncer with a Texan twang sharing the burden. It’s been a slow night and visible drunkenness clouds the two.

DARKLY
People look down on this job. To most we’re all divas, social deviants, or dumb nympho sluts. That isn’t entirely true, especially in my case. My problem is that I was handed greatness, and shit, all over it. Everything slipped through my stinky fingers and I’m not even thirty. But ya’ wanna know what pissed me off the most? Huh?! I’m so fucking tired half the time I miss my Saturday morning cartoons.

She pounds a double and slams it to the bar turning to him.

DARKLY(cont.)
So take me in the bathroom and fuck me. Do shit to me I haven’t seen in history books. I just need to know I've made someone happy.

There’s a long pause between the two, the butch Canadian bartender with the “Trixie” name tag, and the skipping Madonna song the bored dancer prances around to on stage.

BOUNCER
I always thought Darkly was a boy's name. Plus, they don't have Saturday morning cartoons anymo...

The open JD bottle whips off the bar in Darkly's hand and across the bouncer's head.

DARKLY
Motherfucking poser piece-of-shit! You think I don’t know how to fuck like a woman?! HUH?!

The butch female bartender grabs her as she advances and pulls her behind the bar.

DARKLY(cont.)
I’LL MAKE YOU MY SLAVE!

Trixie wrestles the broken bottle out of Darkly’s grip and addresses the bouncer doubled-over on the floor.

TRIXIE
Get the fuck outta here; move to another state.

The bouncer stands slipping from the mess and staggers away.

DARKLY
I'll make on your skull like a facehugger!

BOUNCER
(off-screen)
... Darkwing Duck sucks my ass!

DARKLY
You would know, faggot!

Several moments later the bouncer has left and Trixie lets Darkly go.

DARKLY(cont.)
Too bad.. I kinda liked him.

She climbs on top of the bar sits Indian-style and lights up a cigarette. Trixie sets a trashcan next to her and begins picking up the mess with a dustpan & broom. Darkly ashes into the trash staring off contemplatively.

TRIXIE
Hon, what was the point of that?

DARKLY
I shouldn’t have to shake my ass like a peacock every time I wanna get laid.

Darkly’s eyes seem shadowed as she thinks. The bartender grumbles.

DARKLY(cont.)
I’ve been called a fuck-up my whole life because they didn’t know what else to call me. My parents didn’t know, docs didn’t know, I went to a camp for sociopaths who set my bed on fire. Puberty hit and things made less sense… Sometimes I wonder if they’re right.

TRIXIE
Look, inattention causes car accidents like drunks fall on their ass. That’s life. You’re a fallible insect like the rest of the human race.

Darkly's brow is furrowed in intrigue, her hand planted firmly against her temple as she leans on her elbow.

TRIXIE
Every night after your spastic temper-tantrum of an act you sit there, right where you are now, and drink yourself into a lonely concussion. Occasionally some fucker is just crazy enough to buy you a drink, and if you actually accept, you end up tearing him down by the end of the night.. You think you're gonna fight every swingin' dick 'til you meet the right one?

The fortuitous front begins to quietly chip away, a slow building sorrowful torrent.

DARKLY
There was Tomkin.. I loved him so much it scared me. He understood me. Accepted me. He really, really loved me. I always hear how everyones first ti... ]]> ~SkeletonMurderer http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/17535114/ http://SkeletonMurderer.deviantart.com/journal/17535114/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:26:29 PDT Job fair tomorrow. Then the beach. Then I draw a blank. Gotta email Jenny about the shoot on Friday. Should at least start on one of my essays. Writing about sociopathology is fun but I don't think I could do it professionally outside of fiction. The whole killer kid thing fascinates me, especially the turn-of-the-century ones like Pomeroy. I don't think anybody's done a killer kid story without involving Satan or aliens. Someday I might figure out how to make that work.
Why do people fawn over Y: The Last Man? It's I Am Legend on the rag. Where's the appeal? The "female serial killer" cannot physically exist because the sexual stressors are in direct correlation to the output of testosterone which women can't make enough of to commit crime like that. Historically it's always been done by male accomplices or with bludgeoning or hacking weapons, poison and firearms. So the very idea of a bunch of PMS primates roving around killing babies, cutting off their tits, and murdering or enslaving men I find distasteful and hokey (unless it's satirical). I love strong, tribal heroines (Tank Girl) and villains (Ferril) in stories but the idea of women as roving ghouls I won't accept because it's impossible for them to be that tasteless.
The Iron Man movie keeps looking better and better. Robert "Foulmouthed Messiah" Downey Jr. VS Jeff "The Dude" Bridges?! Good christ that's an entire movie in itself!.. Stay away from The Strangers though. It's well-shot but the script is garbage. Surprise-surprise! It's very unlikely you'll see a quality Horror story on film for a solid two decades. Right now however is the Renaissance of Horror comics. The quality of writing already smokes the superhero guys; we may never keep up with their sales but if the trend continues you may just see a full-blown underground zeitgeist.

]]> ~SkeletonMurderer