something I am grateful for today

Just received a couple of wonderful books [I guess indirectly they're a birthday present from my mom]. So exciting, so inspiring, so beautiful...





I'm gradually coming to believe that Noel Sickles might be to American adventure comics what Tezuka was to manga: the creator of a fundamental overall approach that spread to all other artists. If you were to trace the influences of everyone working in the field since, and then trace their influences, etc., then that chain of influences would eventually and unerringly lead back to That One Guy.

autotune

I hope: that autotune is like disco -- something that lends an electronic sameness to popular music, making pretty much all artists sound interchangeable... something that enjoys a brief vogue for a few years [although it feels like it drags on forever] but eventually everyone gets tired of it.

I fear: that autotune is like multitracking or click tracks -- something that is seen as an indispensable tool for making recorded music sound “good”... something that those who record popular music will never voluntarily do without, now that they have it at their disposal.

Time will tell, I suppose...