Comic Book Geek

 In addition to the work I've been doing on my online stores, all the advertising, learning new songs on guitar, writting episodes of White Trash Heroes, making WTH shirts, and everything else I've got going on, I've been slowly making my way through watching all 10 seasons of Smallville. Honestly, I wasn't a fan of the series when it first came out. It focused too much on the romance lives of the characters and the "Super" of Superman seemed to be in short supply. But later episodes had a better balance of action and romance. So several months ago I started watching the series from the beginning.

Well, tonight I watched my favorite episode "Absolute Justice". I have never seen this episode before, but I had a pretty good idea that I was going to like it. It was a 2 part episode that introduced the Justice Society of America to the Smallville universe. Most characters brought to Smallville are brought to life with a minimum amount of spandex ( Green Arrow being the first character to really have a costume ) but when doing the JSA, you just can't avoid it. Originally planned as one episode, producers decided to expand the story to 2 parts because of the amount of new costume designs that would have to be made, particularly in the case of Hawkman. Preproduction and costume design was started early in the season, much further in advance than usual.

The episode focused mainly on Hawkman, Dr Fate, and Stargirl, but also featured Star-Spangled Kid and Sandman, and in flashback sequences uncostumed versions of the golden age Green Lantern and Flash, Wildcat, and more. There are tons of small details in the set background and I'm sure I missed some things watching for the first time. The Luthor mansion set was disassembled and used for the JSA headquarters, but you would never know to look at it.

Well, time to go watch another episode.

And if you want to watch, click on any of these links to purchase the entire series or complete seasons:
Smallville: The Complete Series
Smallville: The Complete First Season
Smallville: The Complete Second Season
Smallville: The Complete Third Season
Smallville: The Complete Fourth Season
Smallville: The Complete Fifth Season
Smallville: The Complete Sixth Season
Smallville: The Complete Seventh Season
Smallville: The Complete Eighth Season
Smallville: The Complete Ninth Season
Smallville: The Complete Tenth Season

Learning Is Fun !!!

I'm setting today aside to work on my learnin' and stuff. I'm looking at videos on youtube and learning how to play a few songs, like "Hair of the Dog" by Nazareth, "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath, "Sunshine of Your Love" by Cream, "Touch Too Much" & "Sin City" by AC/DC, and more. The nice thing about youtube is that there are so many videos on there that you can find some guitar player that has uploaded a lesson video (or "how to play..." video) for most any popular song. Unfortunately, I don't always go for what's popular. 2 songs in particular that I am trying to learn --"Stick It In" by Broken Teeth (featuring Jason MacMaster former lead singer of Dangerous Toys) and "Old No. 7" by Big C**k -- don't have videos teaching how to play them. They do, however, have live performances of those songs uploaded. It's a little more difficult trying to learn from a live video, but at least there are visual clues that at least narrow things down for me.

The reason that I'm trying to learn these songs, and more, is that I'm trying to put together some kind of a music project. Not nessessarily a full band, just 2 guitarists each taking their turn singing stripped down versions of great songs, and throwing a couple of original tunes in too. It's less of a headache to have to deal with just one other person instead of a full band. Fewer egos make my life easier, and I have enough of an ego for a few people anyway.

I'm also trying to get my debut cd finished. I've done a few songs here and there, and I've done some recording on my own, but I'm looking to finish enough songs for a full length cd in the next few months. Because, like so many people like to keep telling me, I ain't getting any younger. I also may be starting my own online music label.

The only thing that was done this week for my internet tv series is that we designed and printed our first White Trash Heroes T-Shirts.

We will have a wide variety of choices for the shirts, such as the 3 to the right here --->

We also have a censored version of the Xmas shirt, in case you want to wear it to church or something.

Well, I guess that's about it for now.

I've got to go work on the music blog for a little while before I get back to playing some more guitar.

See ya soon.