Hey! I'm a year older and five inches shorter than our last encounter.
6.5 things I can recommend:
1. I saw OMD last weekend (photo evidence above), and it was fantastic. Amazing sound, all the hits, my hips still hurt. See them on tour.
2. I also saw surreal comedian/SNL-er SARAH SHERMAN/SARAH SQUIRM, and her bloody, funny set rocked my middle-aged world. (Was I the oldest person in the room? Perhaps, although by the time I left I'd absorbed so much millennial energy that I had changed jobs three times and acquired a Paramore tattoo.)
3. EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE blew my mind, and I'm glad I saw it on a big ol' theater screen. At its heart is a story about a mother and daughter, but you know, I'd tell you the same thing about basically every movie.
4. Loved hearing RICK RUBIN talk to MICHAEL STIPE on the BROKEN RECORD podcast. I'd still adore "Losing My Religion" if he'd stuck with the original lyric: "That's me in the corner, that's me in the kitchen..."
5. I've only seen the first two eps of the new season of BETTER CALL SAUL, so don't ruin it for me. But heads-up that the season premiere is available for free via Amazon Prime.
6. Of course I'll watch the WEIRD ALbiopic. Like "Friends" or Axe Body Spray, Al gets older, but his fans always stay the same age. He's a gift.
6.5. Hear my 100-song spring playlist, GOOD GOD IT'S SPRING. I always listen on random.
*negotiable
After all these years in NYC, I finally made it to Katz's Deli! Thanks to Dean for taking me; the pastrami, matzoh ball soup and egg cream were outstanding.
I can't say enough good things about JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: KING PLEASURE, an exhibition organized by his family that features about 200 never-before-seen works. They even replicated his studio (seen here), which includes some of his personal items like his jacket and boombox.
Tickets are going fast, and I suggest going on a weekday to save some cash/avoid crowds.
NEXT WEEKEND! I'm excited to be a special guest at CradleCon, a comics and pop-culture convention in Garden City, N.Y. Find me on the convention floor selling comics alongside my studio mates Jason Goungor and Dean Haspiel ... and if you don't see me, look in the arcade area, which has dozens of '80s and '90s games!
DEADLINE IS MAY 10!!Dean Haspiel and I are co-jurying a comics-themed exhibition at Brooklyn's 440 Gallery. Apply here before May 10! Pass it on!
THANKS, PATREON SUPPORTERS: I still post diary comics at patreon.com/whitneymatheson. Look for a new batch later today.
See ya 'round the corner! Reach me at whitmath@gmail.com or inside your left ear, where I'm whispering your future.
Sail away,
Enya's butler
"At this point in my life, I just don't fuck with chaos."
- Natasha Lyonne
"I accept chaos. I'm not sure whether it accepts me."
