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In between the typical day-to-day drudgery that comes with my attempts at being a functional, responsible adult, some pretty awesome things happened, all of which relate to a few some stories I wrote. Let’s recap.
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Hi-Fructose #23 spotted at Meltdown Comics (Instagram photo: Liz O.)
The latest issue of Hi-Fructose is on the stands and I’m really excited to tell you that I have a story in it. I interviewed João Ruas, an amazing artist from Brazil whose work you might recognize from the covers of Fables. I’ve been a fan of Hi-Fructose for a long time and this is my first ever story for the magazine, so please pick up a copy. (I don’t think it’s available online.) I took a peek at the new issue at Meltdown yesterday and it’s gorgeous. I love the layout and artwork accompanying the Ruas interview. Seriously, go get a copy.
But, there’s more.
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This just in, I’ll be spinning at a very special, free show on Monday, April 16 with Los Angeles at Los Globos.
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No Goodnicks (After Robert McGinnis) by Justin Bloomer (Photo: Liz O.)
I write a lot, or at least, enough where I have a hard time remembering what I’ve done. So, maybe it’s a good idea to compile a weekly list of things that have hit the street or the web or whatever.
Monday: “10 Awesome Artworks Inspired by Retro Cartoons, at ‘Gag Me With a Toon 4′” (L.A. Weekly)
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Updates here have been sporadic, but there’s a good reason for it. I’ve spent the past month working on “12th Planet is the Johnny Appleseed of Dubstep,” this week’s music feature for L.A. Weekly. As the title might indicate, it’s a profile of 12th Planet, probably one of the most important DJs to come out of this city in years. Profiles can be rough. They require hours of interviews, more hours of transcribing interviews and then multiple revisions before I turn it into my editor and the revision process continues. They are laborious, but, ultimately worth the effort, especially when you know that the subject of the story is doing amazing things.
At the same time, I did a shorter, less labor intensive piece for Vegas Seven on Bassnectar. I think I actually turned these in to my respective editors on the same day. So, yeah, busy.
But that’s not all. Last weekend, I headed to Gallifrey One, the annual Doctor Who convention, with my buddy Shannon. While we there, we met some fans who restored the TARDIS console from the 1996 movie. It was amazing, so I wrote about it. Also, Shannon took some lovely photos. I really want to make myself a Dalek miniskirt. Or a TARDIS minidress. Or both.
And I went to the Edwardian Ball too.
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Image: Jeaux Janovsky
This is Manda. She’s more or less the central character in the comic that Jeaux Janovsky and I are busy drawing/writing. Manda is a DJ and record store employee. She’s smart-mouthed, but also very sensitive.
Anyhow, Jeaux just did this test sketch of Manda. He told me to let everyone know that she’s “way off model.” Still we wanted to give you a sneak peek of what’s to come. I like the pink hair on her.
Photo: Jeaux J
For the past few months, my friend Jeaux Janovsky and I have been hard at work on our forthcoming webcomic, Animal Sounds. We’ve been doing lot of the work online, but we’re far enough along in the process where we felt that we really needed a big, hours-long, in person meeting. Jeaux thought it would be a good idea for us to do this at Northridge Fashion Center.
We never call it Northridge Fashion Center. It’s just “The Mall” to us, because we grew up here. The Mall was where we hung out after school, quickly changing from our uniforms to our band t-shirts beforehand. It’s where we played video games, ate crappy food and looked for cheap clothes that could easily be gothified. (How I miss Contempo Casuals and its sale rack.) I actually worked at The Mall one summer, selling Kramer posters at Prints Plus, something that I only recently realized inspired at least one scene that I’ve written.
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Club Cheval at CYP2. Photo: Liz O.
I really need to get used to updating this thing every day. This week was a little busier than normal lately. The holidays are now officially over and business is back to usual, so I’ve been spending most of my days contacting editors, publicists, etc. to try and get stories written and sold. It’s really easy to spend more time planning the story than actually writing it.
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Next weekend is Anime Los Angeles at the LAX Marriott. It’s the first L.A. con of the year and it’s a good one. I think this will be my fifth year going to the convention (the first ALA I attended was when it was in Burbank). However, it is my first year organizing a panel. Yup, you read that right.
“Shibuya-Kei and Japanese Indie Music” is a discussion of Japanese artists from the early 1990s to now. Joining me are Tune in Tokyo DJs Greg Hignight and Del Martin as well as Tommy Pedrini from the band Cats on Mars.
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I wanted to start off this blog with a bit of good news. I’m joining the team of Club Underground. This is from the party’s newsletter:
Club Undergroud welcomes the lovely DJ Liz O. & the equally lovely DJ Bip Jeffington to our team. Both Liz & Jeff have guest DJ’d for Underground in the past and the response is always a great, so we look forward to having them aboard in 2012 and beyond!
Both Liz & Jeff have DJ’d at some of LA’s best clubs as well as having producing their own successful nights/events.
Full DJ profiles coming soon on our new website (launching soon) and on future email blasts.
Club Underground is one of my favorite parties in L.A. and I’m really happy to be joining the team and have the chance to spin amazing Brit pop, indie and electro records regularly. To celebrate, let’s dance to the song after the jump.
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