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Doctor Xombie on YouTube

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Doctor Xombie on YouTube

Doctor Xombie on YouTube

Doctor Xombie was pretty busy last year creating new TOMBS… errrrrr TUNES on YouTube. The first of them (pictured to the left) are just a few of the new song releases. Check out the official page and check out all the rest!

Doctor Xombie is busy at work on a whole new batch for this year too.

Be sure to leave a comment on the songs page or chat on Facebook.

https://www.youtube.com/@doctorxombie/videos

And of course as they say “LIKE and SUBSCRIBE” to the channel!

Procrastination Motivation

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     It seems like the more I work on something, the more I do other things, or get distracted in some way.
Case in point. I just got in a book I’d ordered recently about one of my favorite artists and started reading it right away. Again like the other 10 books on my ‘currently reading table’ its distracting me in a way but also inspiring me. Can’t win. I’ve been trying to keep my reading pile to under 10 books at once. I guess I just need to make some time to finish them off one by one. Anyone else have that problem?

 

     Had to take some time off of work this week but managed to get a good amount done on the short stories collection book. (“The Adventures Of Doctor Xombie And Fiends“) All the stories seem ready to go. I’ve been fiddling around with Scrivener to format the e-book version. Still a ways to go on that though. I’d like to get the print version completed around the same time so I can release both at once. I’ll have to see how things go though. I’m usually pretty impatient so I might just release whichever is done as soon as its done. Let me know what you think in comments below.

 

The book I mentioned above definitely deserves another mention as I am LOVING it! This is one of the ‘Modern Masters’ series about great artists in comics. Walter “Walt” Simonson is probably best known for his runs on Thor. Simply beautiful artwork. The drawings (pencils and inks) are reproduced in black & white which really let you see the details up close. Inspiring.

[Click on the cover to the left and pick up a copy for yourself.]
I also have the Arthur Adams volume which you can’t go wrong with either. These have pretty in-depth interviews that won’t disappoint. Check out the other artists in the series as well. You might be surprised.

 

On a side note I am (while writing this article) moving my PLEX Server over to a slightly faster computer. PLEX is a media server which turns your computer into a library of videos and music which you can then watch on a smart TV in your house, or even across town if you set it up for that. I have a large DVD collection from years back so this makes it nice to be able to have everything easily accessible with a few clicks on the remote. And of course its another distraction from my writing and drawing projects, but hey. We all need a break now and then right?

 

Until next week…
May the 4th Be With You.

Three Weird Movies That I Just Discovered

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I wanted to share three movies that I just watched this past week that I would definitely recommend for viewing. They are all a little older but I think they deserve more exposure than they got because they totally slipped by my radar.

 

First up is:
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
What a surprise! I saw the previews when it came out but it just looked so-so and it really didn’t catch my interest for some ‘dumb comedy’. Boy was I wrong. The acting was great and the mix of comedy and gore was perfect. Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk (from Firefly), and Katrina Bowden portrayed some fun characters while the rest of the college kids were pretty much played as idiots, which fit the story. The kids killing themselves and the main characters reactions to them are hilarious in a macabre sort of way and the throw away lines are really funny.

 

 

Next is:
Odd Thomas
Anton Yelchin (Checkov from the new Star Trek series), Willem Dafoe (Wild At Heart, Spider-Man, the list goes on), and the beautiful Addison Timlin did some really nice acting. The main character can see dead people. Yes it’s been done to death but this took it in a new action/adventure direction that worked like gang busters. There is a nice romance angle going on as well. It was kind of weird seeing Willem Dafoe as a good guy as he is mostly known for the really bad evil sort but he did a nice job convincing me otherwise.

 

 

 

And saving the best for last:
John Dies At The End
Wow! I was just blown away by how fun the movie was. It’s hard to explain the film so I’m not even going to try. All that I will say is that it involves two guys who stumble into some VERY strange happenings, attempt to fix it all, and try not to get killed in the process. This has some major Lovecraftian elements to it so if you are a fan of reading H.P. Lovecraft then watching this is a no-brainer. Just think Lovecraft with fun elements thrown in and you’ve got the film. It’s directed by Don Coscarelli who did the weird and strange “Phantasm” films with it’s extra dimensional worlds and creatures. Again if you are are a fan then this is something you need to see. Clancy Brown (Lex Luthor, the Kurgan from Highlander) even shows up as a super cool magician type character! It also reminded me of the Naked Lunch film where you didn’t know if these things were from an hallucination or actually happening.

 

Enjoy!