Caramel Frappuccino, Cartooning Policies, and Jazz

[the_gneech]

Yesterday, the drive-through at Starbucks was just nuts. Everyone in the universe, and a few visitors from other universes I think, came through the drive-through and ordered at least one and usually 2 - 5 caramel frappuccinos. Nothing else. No coffee, so pastries, no tea or tazoberry ... just oceans and oceans of caramel frappuccino. The caramel smell was enough to knock you down after a while! Oy. Thanks goodness I have today off at home.

As of this week, I am instituting a new cartooning goal: that by Saturday midnight, all the strips for the following week (both SJ and NN) will be drawn and posted, or at least sent to Hikaru (i.e., katayamma) for coloring. I am getting really sick of all these missed days. I'm spending all of today and whatever time I have tomorrow night working on next week's strips, to get them out of the way. Then, in the future, if I can get the strips done before Saturday, I can use the rest of that week to write, play games, work on D&D, or whatever.

Once pay starts rolling in, I need to add a few tunes to my jazz collection. I have a lot of swing classics, particularly of Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw, but I really want to get recordings of:

• Louis Prima's original "Just a Gigilo"
  
• Take Five
  
• Classical Gas
  
• Popcorn
  
• Alley Cat
  
• The Syncopated Clock
  
• The Music Box Dancer
  

There's also a song I haven't heard in a long time, but would like to find, called "The Tennessee Birdwalk." I have no idea who did it, unfortunately.

Anyway, that's all the news that's fit to transmit electronically at the moment. Catcha later!

-The Gneech

Comments

[murrrmaiyd.livejournal.com]

My mother has Music Box Dancer as a single on vinyl, if you have that capability still...you might ask her. It was a favorite of my father's...we used to hear it on a radio commercial, and liked it so much we called the radio station to find out what it was called so we could buy it.
Mur