Time To Get in Gear.

I recently bought four cheap D rings, the kind they sell for key rings and other such uses, not the kind you would trust to hold your weight while climbing a mountain. No I needed something to help me attach the belts to my camera stabilizer. I hate it when you have to make a hack for something that the manufacture should have done correctly in the first place. Anyway I can now unatach my stabilizer harness with ease. That is one less thing to worry about before I get ready for Comic Con.

I also read Love and Murder, which is a two part graphic novel about Wonder Woman, written by the New York Times best-selling author Jodi Picoult. As a person who is more familiar with Marvel comics a friend suggested that I read this story because they felt it would be a good example of what I am trying to address in my documentary. I have to say she was spot on, and I hope she will afford me the opportunity to get an interview before I leave for San Diego.

What I found so interesting about this particular story is how in depth the female characters were in their perspective roles. The writer, and maybe it's because she's a woman or it's just her style, puts you inside the main character and builds a world that is as real as the one we live in. The metaphors for being a supper hero or in the case of two of the characters in this story who both happen to have the ability change their outward appearance, well, it starts to reinforce my own opinion that many of the comics we read today are more than meet the eye. They are reflections of the world around us and a way for some stories to be told without political reprisal.

Getting ready for Comic Con

It's hard to believe that the day I have been waiting for is within a few weeks. This time last year I was ready to embark on the very same journey. A lot has happened in a years time. Last year my trip was interrupted by my fathers sudden complications with his heart. For no apparent reason he would have these strange palpitations, which seeing that he had already had a pacemaker inserted over a year earlier, that should have taken care of the problem. As fate would have it, his cardiologist happened to ask him what his fluid intake was. Well as long as I have known my dad he is one of those people that can go all day on a cup of coffee and not eat all day. So on Dr's orders he began drinking at least a liter of fluid a day and suddenly the symptoms went away.

So after the Christmas holiday I start planning for Comic Con, seeing that I have a canceled airline ticket that had to be booked within a year of its purchase date, which I didn't want to miss. At this point we, my parents and I, were contemplating the idea of going to San Diego together. Which at the time seemed like a good idea. That was until about a month or so ago when my sister called to tell us that my brother-n-law had cancer. I won't say what kind but it is very common in men. Well like the trooper my sister is she didn't feel it would be worth canceling, which quite honestly I had no plans on because I could have found a place to stay. Anyway her husband had surgery and they were able to remove most if not all the tumor.

So now it's just down to getting my gear ready and hopefully things will fall into place. Actually I went to my local comic book store tonight and talked to some of the people there about my documentary and they thought it was a good idea. In fact one of the girls who I hope to pre interview gave me the idea of reading the Wonder Woman Series written by Jodi Picoult 'Love and Murder'. I have to say it is a really good example of how women are changing comics as well as how it iterates my opinion that comics are a reflection of American culter just as Manga is a reflection of Japanese culuture.

Well it's a quarter past midnight CST and I have school tomorrow afternoon so I can't pull an all nighter. Hopefully I will keep this blog up-to-date so people interested in my documentary can read about my progress and maybe I'll even get some video on here that shows some preliminary footage before I head to Cali.

It's been a long time since I said something.

Well I started this blog with the full intention of posting something at least once a week. Of course if you know my habits or shall I say the lack there of, I fell pretty good that I haven't totally given up on this crazy idea. That would be crazy with a capital 'K' as in crazy as a Koo Koo Clock.

I'm not one for hiding the fact that I am bipolar, however, I really don't know if I can use that as a sheild to hide behind for not staying the course. Actually in all likelyhood my little chemical embalence is partially to blame but then there is my own method to my madness. I just haven't figured out what it is exactly but I do find myself coming back to most of my unfinished tangents sooner or later.

I guess the real irony in this particular journey is how my pragmatic self sees this as a waste of time, whereas, my sparatic self sees this as a test of many sorts for which I have no logical explanation. Or at least any atempt in me trying to explain what I am thinking for all the world to see, even if no one ever visits this lonsome place, I am not about to hang my inner thoughts about as I might do so in the comfort of my room.