YouTube user xavierXreivax creates cool music videos from spooky tunes I happen to like, and well-chosen visual materials:
This is part 2-It looks at various types of world propaganda throughout the 20th century moving beyond the historical context to examine the malleability of the word “free”. Original Music Video With Tim Hecker.
Coincidentally, I just stumbled on [...]
FM3, makers of the Buddha Machine, live in Berlin.
I found a bunch of Buddha Boxing (
Q: What is Buddha Boxing?
A: Buddha Boxing is the live set we are touring in 2006. It’s essentially a “sound game” played with Buddha Machines. No PA, No mixer, No stage, No lighting. A simple, go anywhere performance concept.
Q: How [...]
Not much to look at, but sounds nice.
Scary heavy metal guys ISIS filtered by Hecker.
I’m hugely amused by the fact that, after all this RIAA bullshit, lawsuits, the neutering of napster, etc., any song that I don’t own a legal copy of is available for me to listen to for free because armies of weirdos have put them all up (ie, “illegally re-published them”) on YouTube.
WTF, RIAA?
Here, by the [...]
Hey Oscar Wilde! It’s clobberin’ time!!! collects works by various artists interpreting their favorite literary figures/authors/characters. Mildly cool.
(above: Bruce Timm / H.P. Lovecraft)
The AV Club’s interview with Chris Onstad:
AVC: Can you get lost in your own head doing a job like this, working at home all day long?
CO: Oh, I’ve gone through periods where I’ve totally lost perspective on life. I’ve gone through mini-Brian Wilson periods, where I won’t answer the phone for like weeks at a [...]
A Paul Pope tribute to Ranxerox:
Love Ranxerox even if it is way too violent and gross for its own good.
Co-blogger JMD was a Ranxerox fan, if I recall (nothing’s too gross for him!). Slightly related, here’s a Liberatore tribute to Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese:
…pretty much making Pope’s point.
DJ Cockney:
I also have a music video coming out which the record company has called “Cained”. This is a compilation of Chill music from my vast collection. I have to confess that I am a secret disc jockey and have been making tapes and CDs for myself and my friends for over 40 years.
My record [...]
Thundarr the Barbarian:
Comic book writer-artist Jack Kirby worked on the production design for the show. While many people believe that Kirby was the primary designer of the show (mainly due to his similarly themed Kamandi: The Last Boy On Earth), the main characters were in fact designed by fellow comic book writer-artist Alex Toth, who [...]
Here’s one for the QM:
But before the action could commence, the panel addressed recent announcements by “Lost” Director JJ Abrams and crew concerning the developing Star Trek prequel movie. Dispelling the false rumor that Matt Damon would star as James T. Kirk, Abrams earlier confirmed as true the rumor that 30 year old Zachary Quinto, [...]
From some filter-defeating prose in a piece of spam:
They’d hired Aaron Pursley, for starters, and of course Rydell knew who he was from the show.
Cops in Trouble!
Which reminds me - Spook Country should be out in a week or two.
So, the other day I was talking to some folks who mentioned they didn’t particularly want to go to any comic conventions (I’m being deliberately vague here). For the life of me, I can’t understand why:
On Wednesday, the San Diego International Comic Con starts. Expect announcements of projects, exclusives, signing and deals all over the [...]
Paul Pope dreams:
Dreamt I was sitting at a place called Deacon Brodie’s waiting for a friend who goes there a lot and I felt really happy. It was a nice evening, the sun was setting, 46th street in the summertime.
My phone buzzes–I have a text msg. I open the flap to read this.
In the [...]
It’s been too long since I’ve posted about any “pixie jailbait” art, so: definitely go read Perils of the Uncommon Skyway.
It’s always a good thing to know your chemist.
(Related personal anecdotes redacted.)
Racist imagery “found” in 1931 comic book!
The Commission for Racial Equality has labelled a Tintin book racist and criticised a high street book chain for stocking the title.
The CRE says Tintin in the Congo makes black people “look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles”.
It has called on Borders to remove it from sale due to [...]
The long joked about ringtonesdrones have arrived. Which almost makes me want to
figure out if my clunky old phone supports such newfangled things
start using it
I wish those guys had an RSS feed - I missed a show in April.
The late Frank Tovey. Ah, the 80s.
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