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multiple version krypton After sacrificing the amount of sleep that I did on Monday for the presentation that I gave in class this afternoon, I am starting to wonder if it was worth it. From my perspective the presentation went by much faster than the amount of time that I had put into it, but I guess that that was to be expected, because the topic wasn't that interesting to me. Quite honestly the presentation was just something that I had to do for the class as part of a group project. Doing the presentation didn't give me any sense of satisfaction, but as class ended it felt good to know that I had made it through week five of the semester. Now if only spring break would get here, I would be even happier. ... Over the past few days I've been making my way through a stack of Superman books that I won in an online auction last month and I was surprised at how much I liked them. Both Jeph Loeb and Geoff Johns actually made me interested in Kal-El and what happened to him. As with Spider-Man over in the Marvel universe, Superman never appealed to me when I was growing up. Even then I knew that he was too much of an icon and I wanted something else in a comic book besides a static character. For reasons I don't quite understand, DC has decided to tinker with the idea of the planet Krypton once again. Back in the Silver Age it was a fantasy world where a baby Kal-El was sent away in a rocket ship before the planet exploded. His mother and father, Lara and Jor-El, were caring parents that hoped the best for their son who they would never see again. That was story until years later in the 1980's when I think it was John Byrne who decided to make Krypton a very sterile world with Lara and Jor-El being much less human in terms of emotion. Now another twenty years later the powers that be are blending those two versions together to give a new look at the origins of the man of steel. ... By drinking a Pepsi at work, I had won an iTunes download and it took me a long time to decide on what I wanted. Finally I went with the Jesse Harris song The Midnight Bell and I think that that was a good choice. Then in the email receipt that was sent to me after said purchase, three other music groups were suggested and one of them was My Morning Jacket. The name appealed to me and on that basis alone, I sampled four of their songs at random. Now I am hooked and want all three of their discs. Alternative country with a lead singer who sounds somewhat like Thom Yorke from Radiohead is pure listening pleasure. |