Well, they made Bebop into live-action and I wish it didn't look stupid, but it does.

Not that I watched half of it, I just checked out what Vicious looks and acts like and, well... He doesn't look or act like Vicious. He acts like a 40-year old Joker frat boy with daddy issues (John plays the rich abusive father, how shocking.). Don't get me wrong, had I not known the original, I'd watch it twice just for the bad guy - good actor, remarkable face, great body, they didn't make him shave head to toe, points for that, but fuck was that terribly casting choice vis-a-vie the original... And Julia, a botox bimbo in a shitty wig is the head of the syndicate now ... like, what in the everloving fuck? That is supposed to be Gren?? Gren, the saddest character of the lot? Have those people even WATCHED the anime? Or did they just hear it's about cowboys in space who fight a lot? Did they not comprehend what those walking emotional corpses in a neon graveyard were about? That is one of the saddest anime out there, and I watched the fucking Grave of the Fireflies. But, hey, at least we get ten seconds of Ed in the last scene. If that young actor stays in the business, that scene alone is a heck of a jump-start. 

Not saying he doesn't have an interesting face, an awesome body and a cute dick, but that's a blonde Joker, not Vicious. 

Appreciate the fact Julia is dressed as part of the furniture, but pay attention to what a barren, shitty room the two have in the anime, and what a 19 million apartment they have in the show.  

Lemberg castle and some golden hour G's parent's valley pickies

 

 Uu, I take it back - I DID buy some books, six, to be precise, for the price of around 10 bucks a pop, all of them art tutorials and one Tank Girl comic. Great deal, secondhand. My month is complete :)))

Enough for today. You did good.

Twenty-nine new singles were finally listed and sales and coupons everywhere! I have tremendous momentum and am ready to keep working, even though I've done enough. At least for today. Should probably make the gold-indigo I promised a customer, but I am totally not feeling shimmers right now. 

October was such a deliciously 'dirty' batch: Rotty family (Rotty peach, Rotty pear...), and Mouldy duo, and some Misty and Forlorn attempts. (I bought several samples of 'student' grade pigments from a German provider, of which some are fairly useless, but others make for this wonderful, lifeless, dull paint, which I can pepper with some pizzazz and create a broken, dusty hue, wonderful for old map and spidery castles themes. 

Next stop: Winter Avalon, moody winter theme :)

This reminds me I have not yet bought any books this month. It took a LOT of self-restraint not to spend my peanut money on stickers and books, but I am genuinely saving every dime for the new camera. Oh, and I signed myself up for some trips. Was going to go on a three-monastery trip this Saturday, but the weather forecast blows, and I'm not really in the mood to drag my gear around wet cloisters. Uu, bought a new camera bag, did I mention?? It's huge. Got it second-hand, 50% off, basically unused - the Peak Design 30l Everyday. I could use another to go along, a small one, just for the camera. The one I have now is, well, great, but nothing really fits. The camera doesn't fit, the phone doesn't fit, the keys don't fit. I want something slightly better shaped - not bigger, not at all, just more anatomical. Uu, and I need some more compartment buffers. Peak Design is kinda stingy and thin on the dividers. I like carrying my stuff very neatly packed. The drone backpack is great, its foam gaps are tailored to the specific elements. So, tight like that. 

Not to mention I have only just now started paying attention to flea markets. People are starting to treat camera gear like their phones: Oh, switching to Sony, selling off all my lenses! Or, Oh, switching to mirrorless, no need for 20.000 bucks worth of old stuff. yeah, dude, they have converters for moments like those. I certainly desire a fat new lens worth almost as much as the camera itself, but I have three wonderful ones already, and the ring to merge them is 99 bucks. I'm not saying Sony doesn't have magnificent bodies these days, but photo gear is hardly something you just switch between, like network providers. Not saying if Canon totally sucked balls. It doesn't. These aren't phones, of which January miracles are ancient trash by November. 

Not that I'm complaining, of course. It's more good news for me. I've always wanted a 400mm for a 1oth its price. Or a nice sweet workhorse 85mm. 

While life continues to kick me in the balls, here's some more mushrooms and flowers and lichen and beautiful, mellow stuff :D