SOUNDTRACK: “WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC-“My Own Eyes” (2014).
There are only four songs from Al’s new album that he didn’t make videos for. This song really didn’t grab me right away the way the other ones did. I have learned that it is a style parody of the Foo Fighters. I kind of see it, but I feel like it doesn’t quite convey the Foo Fighters well enough.
There’s something odd about the verses as well. Like maybe there’s too many words? Or maybe because he’s singing them so fast they are hard to parse? The chorus is really great and catchy, as Foo Fighters songs are, but this is probably my least favorite song on the disc. Of course that’s surprising since I usually like his heavier songs.
But if he plays it live, the chorus will totally rock, so that’s alright too.
[READ: July 14, 2014] The New York Four
This was probably my least favorite of all the Minx books so far. And the reason was actually a combination of the story and the art that I didn’t like so much. I have been intrigued by how many stories about girls there are which are written by boys. Not that they can’t write them, but I’m surprised there weren’t more women writers in this series. Of course, I didn’t much care for Burnout either, so gender knows no bounds.
This story is set in New York City. Our main protagonist is Riley. Riley lives in Brooklyn but has just started going to NYU. Her sister was a wild child who left the family and went out on her own. This has made her parents very protective of Riley, and she rather resents that (she was ten when her sister took off though, so she doesn’t really remember her).
The first double spread page is an example of why I didn’t like the art so much. Over a wonderfully drawn intersection of Broadway and Houston Street we get this superimposed kinda cartoony but not quite image of Riley coming up the subway stairs. She looks green screened in, and I find it very distracting. Indeed all of the characters seem too big for the page, which was probably intentional, but which I just don’t like. (more…)
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