I’ve been meaning to do this for, I don’t know, YEARS, ever since Snackboy and I used to post our NOW PLAYING music report at the bottom of our posts: I don’t do enough status reports on the art, and I don’t talk about music enough, and I love both, so here you go.

Tonight was a rare Friday night commission art session. Wee Z went down easy and has slept soundly, and wifebot(tm) collapsed a pisosecond later. Therefore, progress. Tonight was fruitful. My piece for the TRDL R3 Jam this week, Invisible Woman, was inked, and I really like how it came out. It’s going to not only have a vintage pin-up vibe, thanks to a nice Dita ref pic, but a 60′s mod element as well. I also inked a redesign piece, pairing alternate history versions of Power Man and Iron Fist, both done for the R-R-Redesign-Weekly jams on dA: in this case, both are female, but I’m trying to steer clear of the awesome Daughters of the Dragon business, which handily handled the pair as females, albeit as different characters. Anyway, inked. I spent the rest of the night finishing two commission pieces for Paco’s Maidens and Magic Calendar Series.

I started the evening listening to Son de Mar, which i’ll prolly touch on later, but I ended it with Brian Eno’s Music for Airports 1. I’m a big ambient fan, and always have been: just ask any number of bored girlfriends. Eno, like some of the works of Phillip Glass, is never better than wen he’s tickling a piano. In the case of this album, it is accompanied by haunting choir work. I’m no music reviewer, so I won’t pretend to have an experienced tongue in talking about it, but what I love most about this album is the tapestry. I like albums or tracks that i can put on repeat and forget about the music player altogether, where the music forms a soundscape that envelops me and ceases to be any single track being played from a device, and instead forms a place. I suppose that’s the basic definition of ambient music, but this album is easily one fo the top 3 ambient albums ever, and helped forge the genre. It’s been playing on repeat for maybe 3 hours now. It pulls at my memory as I work on the art, thinking about times in my life when I listened to it and was experiencing many things in a raw and exciting way. It helps me daydream, concept, and reminisce, and it’s a wonderful recording.

Time to wrap to up for the night!
After one more listen…

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