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If you love me, show me support by loving my friggin' comics.

I'm not ending The Disconnect, by the way, just putting it on hold until I can be bothered with it again. It doesn't feel quite finished to me yet.

Thanks to everyone for their continued support since the whole mess started, and I hope that I can count on the further continuation of that continued support. I love you all! Love!

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Uhhhghhhh. I'm in my hometown, my computer here fucked itself roughly some time ago and it's only just now recovering. Bad thing is, no Photoshop and most of my programs need reinstallation and I can't be bothered and I want to do animation but without programs I can't. Bind!

Also I've started listening to early 1980s Australian new wave bands (again) and sort of but not really thinking of that love thing again but differently and FUCK I need to get to sleep.

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2. When is the next time you will make out? Pffffffffft

3. What's a word that rhymes with "LUCK"? Truck. Hah! Expectations? Destroyed!

4. What's your favorite planet? Pluto, because it's been rejected. Don't worry Pluto, you're still more of a planet than I am.

5. Who's the 4th person on your missed calls list? I dunno, it's all mixed in with my received calls list.

6. What is your favorite ring tone on your phone? I hate ringtones.

7. What shirt are you wearing right now? Nice pinstripey shirt with a Misfits t-shirt underneath.

8. What do you "label" yourself as? Undetermined

9. Name the brand of shoes you're currently wearing? Converse, I do believe.

10. Bright or dark room? Way dark. I'm pretending I'm not here.

11. What do you think about the person who last took the survey? Nawwwww... she's like, my favourite.

12. If you're alone in a room with two beds, which one do you sleep on? It depends on the number of people who would sleep in the room later. If two or more I would take the floor. If none, I would just go for whatever had the most pillows.

13. What were you doing at midnight last night? Trying to a'seepin'.

14. What did your last text message you received on your mobile say? "You're in a world plentiful with cunts"

15. What just so happens to be the best song in the world? "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division. That is the one.

16. What's a word or phrase that you say a lot? "Brilliant", "for fuck's sake", "
17. Who told you they loved you last? Probz parents.

18. Last furry thing you touched? Ahah!

19. How many drugs have you done in the past 3 days? Just alcohol and nicotine, I do believe.

20. How many rolls of film do you need to get developed? Digital camera and a Super-8 camera with no film. Zilch.

21. Favorite age you have been so far? Ummm... 18 was kind of okay.

22. Your worst enemy? Morrissey, Antony Hegarty

23. What is your current desktop picture? Eggman!

24. What is the last thing you said to someone? "I'm going back upstairs, I'll be back. I'll be back! I WILL BE BACK."

25. Do you love someone? Not especially.

26. Last song you listened to? "X-ing Off The Days" by Queenadreena.

27. If the last person you spoke to on the phone was getting shot at what would you do? Obviously something, but who knows what they'd do in that situation?

28. Do you do the games in the ads on myspace? Haha, sometimes it's just too hard to resist. "SHOOT PARIS HILTON!"

29. What are your favorite Pjs? Nah

30. What do you do when you pass graveyards? Glance.

31. Have you ever seen a shooting star? Of course.

32. How old do you think you'll live to be? Who can say. I could never see myself past 19, but here I am approaching 20, so...

33. Your favourite website? Ummm... MySpace... urrrrghhh...

34. List five things you want to do in your lifetime:
1. Make a feature film.
2. Graduate.
3. Move to New York.
4. Form a short-lived but influential no wave band in 1979 with Lydia Lunch and James Chance whilst also struggling with chronic alcoholism and a lack of talent at saxophone.
5. Shit a pom pom.

35. What do you put on your hamburgers? I don't.

36. Do you eat raw hot dogs? Yuck.

37. Do you like sushi? No.

38. How much salad dressing do you put on your salad? No.

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1) I've been thrown headfirst back into my writing course which is unexpectedly more intensive than it was last year. Essays are many and spare time is usually spent having a fledgling social life.
2) All of my ideas are being thrown into my writing course, and I'm trying to not become accustomed to writing shoddy six-panel gags - that shit won't stick in my course even if it does here.
3) I'm just too tired most of the time. Two days a week I have to get up at 7.30 in the morning which I haven't done since I was in year 10 (usually it would be 8.00 - that extra half hour being all important) and go to X amount of classes for X amount of time and... okay, enough ranting about that shit.
4) I just don't have ideas.

This comic will return though, from the ashes like a glorious phoenix (sculpted from turds?), and hopefully soon. Just as soon as I can sit down and focus my attention towards Google Image Search, Photoshop and my shitty little pseudo-surrealist gags.

Peace out! I love you all!

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Which also means my comic is now available through ToonCast (whatever that is) and RSS feed. So, good!

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I can't believe I waited so long to play it. So much fun. So much fun.

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Initially it was going to be your average 80-90 minute feature film sketch comedy sort of thing, for which I actually produced about five or six minutes of footage (maybe I'll put the finished or near-finished items together one day for public viewing, or re-use them in something else). It was going to be edited together from public domain footage (in the same sort of way that the comics are made from pictures found on Google Image Search) and would feature either all or mostly newly written material. However, I scrapped this idea when I realised most of my ideas for sketches didn't have corresponding public domain footage.

So I retooled the idea, thinking 10 minute episodes for broadcast on YouTube, and I set up an account an everything. However, when I moved, using YouTube frequently became unfeasible. So that idea was done.

Currently, the idea is just the normal sort of 20 minute sketch comedy (but without all of the suck you see today in sketch comedies that aren't Mad TV). I've written a few sketches and they're starting to link together in an odd sort of Monty Python sense that I didn't anticipate, but I am pleased. I'm actually going to either film, animate (or both) the footage myself. It will be in the Disconnect style, and if not black-and-white, then very muted colour.

Any animation will probably be done through Macromedia Flash (even though I suck horribly at it, I can just turn them into AVI files and edit them the way I'm used to).

The only thing is, I don't want to name the series "The Disconnect" or "Disconnect TV" or "The Disconnect Busts A Nut On Your Mother" or anything wanky like that, and I haven't been able to find anything to fit the tone of the series so far, so a name with no relation to "The Disconnect" which is also cold, sterile and/or alienating to the audience would be welcomed with open arms and some nice moist gobby.

Oh, and if one day I should get a nicely sized budget (Film Victoria? Hello?), I'll start filming it in Super-8 'cause I bought a Super-8 camera the other day for ten bucks. Only thing is the cartridges seem to be muy muy expensivo, so... yeah. Not filming a whole shitload of stuff on piles of short little reels.

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A double album, entirely instrumental.

If I could force people to listen to a certain album while reading my comics, this would be the album.

]]> ~thedisconnect http://thedisconnect.deviantart.com/journal/17123534/ http://thedisconnect.deviantart.com/journal/17123534/ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:54:25 PST [link] - and in the process managed to completely max out my Internet allotment for the month. So in 25 days, I'll have another whopping 500mb of download/upload time to assault you all with.

Yes, that's right, whopping. In my world of questionable logic, 500mb of Internet a month is "whopping".

Oh, and, "Sweeney Todd"? Not bad. Although I think it wouldn't hurt Tim Burton to deviate from his set style a bit. Seriously. "Mars Attacks" and "Ed Wood" were great (no matter what anyone else says), and not everything has to be dark and moody.

Also one thing I've noticed - this is the second Tim Burton film in which Johnny Depp has played a barber (see "Edward Scissorhands"). COINCIDENCE? I think not.

]]> ~thedisconnect http://thedisconnect.deviantart.com/journal/17064579/ http://thedisconnect.deviantart.com/journal/17064579/ Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:03:46 PST * Internet's workiiiiiiing
* I'm thinking of ways to fuck with the format of the comics to keep it fresh and interesting after one-and-a-bit years after I first sort-of started it.

]]> ~thedisconnect http://thedisconnect.deviantart.com/journal/16966634/ http://thedisconnect.deviantart.com/journal/16966634/ Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:49:59 PST * On the weekend, my glands were the size of golf balls. They are now less inflamed, but are also more painful (sort of, somehow).
* Tomorrow I go to Melbourne to see Sonic Youth and The Scientists, and of course I'd be letting everyone down if I didn't let off spontaneous creamage as soon as Mr. Thurston Moore enters the room.
* More comics when I can be fucked.
* Feness is wonderful. But y'all knew that, amirite?

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I spent the aforementioned day at a party somewhere in some suburb in Melbourne with good ol' Kenny Cornflakes - [link] (they're special) - being film-man and capturing all the action.

As an apparent reminder of the party, I still have "The Scientists" written on my left arm, and "The Birthday Party" on my right... some muhfuck had "AC/DC: True Aussie Rock" written on his arm so I thought I'd respond in kind with bands that were... you know... actually mostly Australian.

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Also, does anyone else get really freaked out by that level in "Abe's Exoddus" where those fucking worm-coccoon beasts eat you if you step on the little slugs? I actually screamed "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!" involuntarily when I got eaten. I can't even continue the game past that bit 'cause I'm a fag.

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This is procrastination weather.

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The people who have so far shown interest are:
roadkillroy - [link]
Miriam Chidam - [link]
Stephanie O'Donnell (of The Original Nutty Funsters) - [link]
John Surname - [link]

I'm still open to offers, so just drop me a line either through comments, or on my email at: disconnect_comix@yahoo.com

I am looking forward to this, 'cause it not only gives me a chance to see what your ideas are (and on a larger scale, what your conception of The Disconnect as a whole is) but it also gives me a bit of time to get stupid Photoshop up and running again.

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Note #1: If you're going to draw the strips yourself, make sure they fit The Disconnect comic format - if you get in contact with me, I can send you a template of either the 3-panel, 6-panel or 9-panel variety (or I can knock up a longer template, if you so wish) for you to work with.

Note #2: The offer to be part of the Disconnect "movie" is still standing. I need volunteeeeers! And a fair few of 'em!

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LiveJournal: [link]
ComicSpace: [link]

Be my friend on these things! 'Cause then you can say that you liked the Disconnect back in the days when everybody else hated it, and be the envy of your hipster fuckbag friends.

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- More work on the Disconnect "film" (in which legendary Melbourne electro-pop sensations Kenny Cornflakes - [link] - will make a musical appearance - this has been decided and partially filmed!)
- More Disconnect comics
- Other, unrelated, matters

Interesting, no?

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DOOOOO IT

(You won't be paid. I have no money.)

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Seriously, if I have to put up with one more irritating teenager, inbred mutant, sleazy fuckhead or self-righteous scumbag, I'm going to go apeshit. And it really doesn't help matters when the aforementioned people are wielding tambourines.

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#31 is me returning to the days when I'd turn something that made me sad into something completely different through stream-of-consciousness and then make a comic out of it (see #1 and #2).

#32 is me having a lot of fun with an old concept.

Dig it, bitches.

Also, nothing more from ComicSpace. Looks like they don't want me inside them.

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So, I'm planning to spread these comics like syphilus. Once ya got the itch, ya gotta scratch!

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So, to celebrate this "milestone" in "artistic" "achievement", the thirtieth strip is NINE WHOPPING PANELS LONG! That's right, media-whores, I'm making you work for your entertainment. An extra three panels for you to read.

Now, I'm not promising nine panel strips are going to happen regularly, no no, I'm not that creative. But they just might pop up every once in a while (now that I've got the template done for them). WHO KNOWS, MAYBE ONE DAY THERE WILL BE A COMIC CONSISTING OF A MILLION PANELS?! ...Nah. That'd be fucking torture for everyone involved.

So, happy first birthday to The Disconnect. And God have mercy on us all.

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So, this is starting to spill into the comics.

Hope you don't mind.

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Oh, wait.

Maybe I could change the world in a more noticeable way. Is anyone really attached to their small toes? I could make it so we evolve without them. Or without toes at all. Genitals can stay for now, 'cause they're always so fun to play with and laugh at. Also, can we force flies into extinction? That'd be mega-awesome.

I'm not in love with anyone. Think I should be in love with you? Get in touch with me explaining in no less than two-thousand words why you would be an ideal romantic partner for me. I'll take you on romantic trips to wonderful places like Beachy Head, and I absolutely promise not to assault you until at least the fourth or fifth date (or whatever suits you best). YOU COULD BE MY QUEEN! Or some shit.

Basically this is procrastination in its lowest and most transparent form. I saw a film today which blew my mind as to how fucking shoddy and tedious it was. I'll look on IMDb and see that it probably has a mega-high rating and I'm not enough of a film buff because I hated it so damn much.

The Bicycle Thieves: 8.3/10 - Top 250: #132

THAT IS SUCH BULLSHIT! I could pull a better film out of my ass! In fact I believe I have! It certainly smelled more appealing! Or am I just ignorant? NO! I have great intestinal fortitude for "tedious" films! Such as:
Inland Empire! Which was awesome! David Lynch FTW

I'll probably make comics soon. If not, assume I've died some horrible death or ascended to the purest heavens above and left you all to fucking rot in this world you shit up with your presence! WOO! UP HUMANITY! UP YAAAAAA CUNT

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Besides that, enjoy the vast assload of comics I've done today. I'm like a machine. With sexy machine powers.

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But, things will pick up around here. The ol' well hasn't run dry yet.

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