It's Gonna Be A Good Monday!

Or so I'm telling myself. It's my mantra of sorts for today. Why is it going to be a good Monday, you ask...That is because after a little over a month of waiting, we get a brand new episode of Heroes tonight!! I'm so excited. It felt like such a long wait. I haven't felt this excited about a TV series in a long time. Heroes is every geeks dream (which is why I love it). Super powers, villains, heroes, blood, guts, and wonderful art by Tim Sale. Does it get any better than that? Today is going to feel like such a long day as I wait in anticipation of tonight.

I can check the first chore of the day off. Went to the internship this morning and I think my happiness for Heroes wore off on my patients. They were all in such a good mood today and we had a really good process group. Next up is 6 hours of school and then I can come home and relax....and watch Heroes.

There's another great series on TV that I've just started watching and it's on Lifetime of all channels. It's called Blood Ties and it's the story of a cop whose best friend is a vampire and together they solve paranormal mysteries. How cool! It's a little bit cheesy, but I'm liking it so far. It comes on Sundays at 9:00 Central time.

I'm in the middle of Charles DeLint's Moonheart right now for the Once Upon a Time Challenge and I'm loving it so far. This is my second DeLint and I'm starting to feel that he deserves to be right up there with Gaiman. He's a remarkable storyteller and I just enjoy his books so much! I'll be sure to post the review as soon as I finish it.

Did I mention that Heroes comes back tonight?

Tim Sale: The Artist behind Heroes

Just a couple of hours ago I wrote a post about Heroes and mentioned the painter, Tim Sale who does Isaac's art. After a very helpful comment from Carl V., I discovered that I knew this artist and didn't even know that I knew him.

Tim Sale is a comic book artist that is brilliant! I know him from the Daredevil: Yellow mini series. I picked this series up a few years back from the local comic shop and I've always loved it. I've gone back to it quite a few times. The art stood out to me back then. I thought it was wonderful, and see now that Tim Sale is in fact a wonderful artist.

I also discovered a book that he did called Spiderman: Blue. Had no idea about this one. Must have come out right after I decided that I was spending too much money on comics and sadly closed my folder at the local shop. Spiderman's always been my favorite since I was a little kid and unfortunately I lost track of all the spin off books a few years back. I'll be picking up the TPB through Amazon. He's also done books on Catwoman, Batman (The Long Halloween looks great even though I'm not a DC fan), The Hulk: Gray, and has an art book out called Tim Sale: Black & White which chronicles many of his paintings and sketches.

Now that I think about it, I have made a few exceptions to my "no DC" stance when it comes to Batman. Arkham Asylum was great with fabulous artwork by the wonderful Dave McKean.

My prediction is that Heroes will release an art book with Isaac/Tim's work. I'd definitely buy that (wink wink to the NBC executives). I love discovering (or re-discovering) new artists!

I Love DVR

This is a post about nothing really. I just feel like blogging, so I decided that I shall just type and see what spills out onto the computer screen.

I have a new love in my life and her name is DVR (Yes, I'm a tad delirious from a very long day). In fact, I am currently DVR-ing Heroes even though I could probably just watch it now rather than recording it and watching it later. Now there's no more worrying about having to possibly skip class late on Monday nights to watch Heroes (yes I'm that addicted to this show). Heroes truly is a wonderful show. It's like a new Marvel movie every week. I was so excited when Marvel started doing all of their movies, now I get a new live action comic book every week. I love the art in Heroes that Isaac does. He would be the really cool guy who's eyes roll back in his head as he paints the future. The artist who actually does the paintings is named Tim Sale. I'd like to see more of his work.

I'm currently reading Cell by Stephen King, and I must say that it is much better than I thought it would be. I pictured a trapped in a phone booth kind of book, but it's totally not that. It's actually a really great zombie story so far. My little brother got it for me as a christmas gift when he saw that I was reading Lisey's Story. I didn't know if I would like it, but it's really good so far. I've never considered myself a Stephen King fan, but these latest books are great. Sure they're a little pulpy, but still a fun read.

Dinner time. Hope everyone's week got off to an ok start...mine was just long, and tomorrow will be longer.

A Good Start

This Monday has been really good so far! Can't remember the last time I said that. I had a great morning at work. We had a really small group, but the patients we did have talked alot and made some progress hopefully. I didn't have to pull teeth to get them to talk today.

I got home just about 30 minutes ago, and waiting for me at the doorstep was a very welcome package with hands and hearts stamped all over it. Opened it up and it was my "lucks dancer harlequin" from Lisa Snellings-Clark. It's amazing. 1000 times better in person than it looked on the internet, and I loved it on the internet! I'm so happy. She presents her art to the buyer very well. She's great down to the last detail of the packaging. And I got a little note from her with a poppet sketch on it, and a little pink poppet magnet.

Lets just hope that the rest of the day continues to go well. I have class in about an hour. And then I have a brand new episode of Heroes waiting for me when I get home!

Happy Monday everyone....hope everyone has as good of a Monday as me.

Heroes and 300

I'm so excited that Heroes is back on. I missed that show and it was only off the air for what? A couple of weeks! It's such a great show and such a huge refresher. I must admit that I'm a fan of Nip/Tuck, but aside from that, there's no shows on TV that really interest me all that much. Except for Top Chef, but even that's almost over. By the way, I'm hoping Elia or Sam wins that show. That's another great one. But back to heroes. I hope that show stays on the air for awhile. I'm hoping it's not a short lived series that ends after Peter either does or does not blow up. There needs to be another story line after that!

In other film related news, I can't wait for 300. Wow! That's all I can say. I'm a huge fan of any kind of Greek literature. Mix that with all these great CG creatures from the preview, bad ass special effects, and hopefully a great story line, and that spells success for me.


Back to the internship at 8 a.m. tomorrow. Till then, g'night!