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Losing it in A-minor Thursday, April 15, 2004 • read strip Viewing 63 comments:

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The mystic art at the end really is great. It summarizes the debauched holiness one feels after a really solid, enjoyable bender.

One night me and my two friends drank two bottles of Powers and took some wine into the apartment building next door that was being torn down. It was like drinking in Kosovo or in the crumbling ribs of some apocalyptic city. It was great, though. Just look at the last panel to this strip and you'll know what it was like.

'Debauched holiness' is probably the best phrase I've heard all day. Granted it's only nine am, but I've got the feeling it'll hold up.

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Who says I overindulged? I was engaged in a spiritual pilgrimage through greasy back alleys and moonlit urban ruins. I had a purpose , man. That was a journey.

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The judge is sympathetic if you got laid.

Unless you're being tried for rape.

this describes achewood in a better way than i have ever heard.

'and Dean, holy'

Huh?

On the Road, man. Dean Moriarty (Neal Cassidy), the Holy Goof, embodies this feeling you describe so well.

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"Losing It In A-minor" is going to be the name of my first album

You're just reacting to the initial shock of seeing Ray lost in the Time Cube.

We all know that REAL MEN put their songs in non-piano-friendly keys like G#m or Bbm.

my friend, your comment disregards the last 60 years of popular music...

ain't no real man gonna play in Bb minor...

actually, if you are singing in G# or Bbm you are probably a Lesbian with a capo...

...if you are a man playing the piano then you have sold your soul to the Dark Lord.


I have gathered much empirical data to support this hypothesis.

Daniel Johnston never did sell his soul and he was the king of them black-and-white keys

i'm not so sure about that one, he definitely had some conversations with satan. maybe no concrete deals were made, but satan was a major bidder.

Daniel Johnston AND Jandek? You are awesome.

kudos for being musically educated.

a album title that i made for a terrible Garageband song was 'A Series Of Mistakes Near Or Around 3/4 Time.'

"Alas, I think I am becoming a god." ~Vespasian~

[IMGS OFF]

if this isn't a Leonard Cohen song, it oughta be...

Fingerpicking acoustic, "Suzanne" era Cohen, or techno-y, 80s "First We Take Manhattan" Cohen?

Definitely the latter. With backing vocals by David Byrne.

Whoa, man.

Leonard Cohen: One man, One Casio. I now dig that dogg, but when I first started listening, I would think he sounded like Leon Redbone having fun at the music store in the keyboard section.

Reading this one through again, I immediately thought of it put to the tune of Desolation Row by Bob Dylan and it fit surprisingly well.

Yo, s'like poetry.

Syntax is nice nice

Say "Zero degrees Celsius" while wearing a sock over your dong

Tried it. Wasn't fun.

Have you tried it.... my way?

Sock fell off after "Zero Degrees"

Can I reharden and start from Celsius? Or do I have to start the whole thing again, please advise.

You must start from the top. Few of us will assist you in this process.

I was really worried whilst leaving this comment. I feared people would deride me for not being able to wear a sock without rigidity.

But you know what? Life's too fucking short, maybe if I put a sock over my flacid penis it'll immediately fall off. So what? It doesn't make me any less of a man.

And I'm ok with that.

Why not drink more?

Put it over your balls too. That's the trick.

Acheworld: Practical advice for the modern thinker.

We aim to please, and we're not liable for death or injury if we miss and hit something vital!

Giving this comment a chubby feels kinda meta.

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Now, if I could only sing Search and Destroy on key I'd have life laid out for me.

Luke and Mark weren't apostles, though.

...Judas.

Peter, Simon, Thomas, Paul, John, Matthew... ahh, bible school learning was incomplete at best!

Peter, Paul, & Mary? They sang songs about magical dragons.

And they went on adventures... with Jesus.

Thaddeus, anyone?

Don't mind if I do

hilarious.

Man, what was in those fingernails?

George Clinton is for sure familiar with fingernail schnapps.

I really think that the Charleston should have been involved in this strip. But then again, I imagine it would be hard to do in a suit made of newspapers.

*crinkle thwup shrip*

where'd he find a typewriter?

Germany

Yeah, rappin' on a London street wearing a newspaper suit, starving and delusional, I've almost done that.

Not London! Berlin! READ DAMN YOU.

Fine, but I've only been to London.

why does this distinctly remind me of saul williams?

first time i've said it...

this needs to be rated higher.

A rough sketch. Too much distortion? Opinions please, people.

good amount of distortion, though possibly a tad too harsh. I imagine the vocals would be more sing-songy, like what you do when you're drunk and rowdy. But on the right track.

I gave this a five. I gave it a five because "Station to Station" reminds me of Bowie, whether it is intentional or not. Please don't inform me if it is just a common phrase to say, I do not want to feel any different.