From the Conductor's Office of Charlie Irons: April 2009

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

First look! Megan Fox on the set of Jonah Hex!

I admit I had no idea Jonah Hex was in production,

let alone it would star John Malkovich

and Transformers hottie Megan Fox.

Here's pics of Ms. Fox from the shooting set.

Note the tiny waste that corset give her... OUCH!

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Who knew cooking could rock?!

As mixed on TV!

IronChuck says: Listen to this!

And welcome back to a far too long neglected feature here at The Conductor's Office. Since we're brushing the dust off this topic, let me start it off with a real bang by presenting to you one of last year's real stand out indie releases...

From the mountains of North Carolina comes Matt King; Blue Grass in his heart, and Rock 'n Roll in his throat. With harlots, coal miners turned bootlegger, and murderous scorned women in his family tree (As well as a Gospel singing family), Matt cut his teeth touring under a major label; learning the ropes to break away solo.

Matt's music has a country sensibility lit up with a rock flare. Mixed with lyrics rooted in traditional mountain style blue grass and country are hard beats, radical instrumentation, and a flamboyant sense of showmanship. However, his art as a song writer never loses heart; well illustrated on his album Rube in songs like "American Dream" -the woes of a worker and the broken promise of a future, "Shanty Town" - beating back the trap of the small town monster, or the reflective "Graveyard Shift". Take a spin with "Cursing the Ohio"; the tale of country love gone wrong.

Much like Alabama 3 did for Gospel style Soul fused with Techno, Matt King brings to the country rock fusion. I found that once I had this disc spinning, I didn't want to... no, I couldn't... make it stop. This is one of those albums that gets inside you and gets everything rocking... HARD. There are rocking songs, soulful songs, and fun songs.

"Songwriting forces me to try and connect to the world," says Matt, "most of the time it has the opposite effect and I swear that I'll never get out of my own head."

IronChuck gives Rube, by Matt King SIX out of a possible five shots of whiskey!

Matt King's Rube is available from Montage Music.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Gameboy timeline...

Know your history!

Would you call this "mousing over"?

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Whisky Tango Foxtrot!? No, BK! Bad King, bad...

Monday, April 13, 2009

Don't mind me; I'm just pluggin' away...

Just wanted to do a little shameless

self promoting for Neverland Transit Authority.

If you haven't yet, hit the link in the side bar and be whisked away

into a realm of Sci-Fi adventure!

Let us introduce you to Steampunk!

Friday, April 10, 2009

At the big table top in the sky...

Good night, Dave; you gave us geeks so much.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Inside the Conductor's Office: Experiments with new media and 2009's second title

So, a while back, I picked up a batch of Tombo markers, at a fairly hefty price I might add. I've always enjoyed the look of, as well as the quick and easy use, of how markers could be used to create pin up work - like those done by the commission artists you see at cons.

Well, I tried them out before, but hadn't really gotten a handle on how to get them to work for me. So, I switched over to watercolors. But I'm not as happy with that as I was hoping I would be. So, I've busted back out the pens and have started working with them, again.

Here you can see, in the upper left, a quick Justin portrait, as well as a risque Kali, Jig, and Boomer. In the center is a reworking of Samus Aran for Metroid Metal I had posted a little while ago. I'm not exactly happy with what came out, but at least it doesn't suck too bad and with some more practice I'm sure I can bump up the comic to a better level.

And here's a sneak peak for you. Back in college I had started coming up with a vigilante comic book. At the time it was a simple comedy adventure with a lot of the standard cliches that were becoming common in the comic book industry in the early 90's.

However, recent domestic events, as well as the recent success of The Watchmen, has brought this little goody out of moth balls, and back onto the drawing board.

I'm still working on tweaking it out; it was in its infancy of development when I shelved it. This is also going to be an interesting experiment as I'm going to run it like a strip, and not an actual page; posting twice a week unless this format is easier.

While I'm not sure how action, and such, will work out in strip form, I'll still be worming to keep it to the usual level of action, adventure, and comedy that readers have come to expect from me.