I Just Read About That…

SOUNDTRACK: BEACH HOUSE-“Myth” (2012).

I‘ve really been enjoying the previous Beach House record.  And in the meantime, he has released a brand new one.  “Myth” was selected as one of the best songs of the year by the folks at NPR, and it’s hard to disagree with them.

It’s not groundbreaking for Beach House (or anyone, really)–nice keyboards and guitars melodies, soaring vocals, a shimmering effect.  But like any band that hits its stride, Beach House makes a simple and beautiful song seem effortless.  How he hits some of those notes I’ll never know.  (Well, because he is actually a woman, duh).

You can see the NPR list here.  Or listen to the song (no video) here.

[READ: June 22, 2012] The Guild: Beach’d

My friend told me that the free comic book day was featuring a Buffy and a Guild together.  I misunderstood and thought that the two worlds would be intertwining.  No such luck. Rather, it was a split issue with one half being taken up by The Guild and the other half by Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  Which is still pretty awesome.

The members of Codex’s guild are lost for a place to gather now that Cheesybeards has burnt down.  Of course,  they are squabbling big time about it.  Codex doesn’t understand what the fuss is–just pick someplace. Tink just suggests that they never meet face to face again.  Ever.  But everyone else has some suggestions about where to go.

And when tensions flare up, they decide to battle it out.  Bladez proves the most formidable foe, killing most of his teammates.  The battle is awesome (I’m not sure what this does to their lives in the game, actually).  And he is pretty psyched that his spot–a strip club–will be there new permanent meeting place.

That is until his own desires are used against him–a hilarious comeuppance.

I won’t say who wins, but the new meeting place is going to be…the beach!  (That’s not really a spoiler I mean, it is in the title after all).  At the beach we get some very funny reactions from everyone (Codex in particular is very funny).  Meanwhile, Bladez and Tink compete at everything, Vork has a metal detector (and what he finds is hilarious).

By the end of the book, the team is back where we expect them–admiring the (virtual) world around them.  It’s a very funny one-off.  I’m not sure if it will win any new fans, but older fans should be very well pleased by it.

The only disconcerting thing for me was how incredibly different the cover art by Adam Rex looked from the content by Jonathan Case (the cover is very realistic while the content is quite cartoony).