All Things To All People
Well, it’s certainly been a while. If it’s any consolation, the downtime has allowed me to dig in the stacks and find a real rare gem. You won’t find this little bugger on CD on Amazon.com any time soon. No, friends, this…
[Purchase Book] The first two chapters of Brian Biggs’ Dear Julia would work very well as a spoken-word recording. The tone put me in the same mind as Coldcut‘s “Mr Nichols” from Sound Mirrors — not least because of the opening setting…
Cover of Batman: Anarky [Purchase Book] Anarky is a DC Comics collection of some of the stories featuring that character that ran in some of the Batman titles. The stories are all written by Alan Grant, the creator of the character; sometimes…
Troy Nelson and Cody Hurd are better known as Black Daisy, a Seattle comedy group with a flair for the absurd. (They are also sometimes known as Voltage Periscope, a parody nü-metal band.) They’ve been gaining fame, both locally (having done some…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase CD/MP3s/FLACs] While I’ve been a big fan of Nine Inch Nails, I’d often noticed that I preferred the instrumentals like “A Warm Place” or “La Mer” to some of the vocal work. Not because of Trent Reznor‘s voice;…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] Oliver Sacks‘ newest book is, like many of his best, more a collection of vignettes and essays than a single cohesive narrative. Given the breadth of the subject matter — how the brain reacts to music in…
Nyanko The Movie 2 I’ve been thinking about ordering this, but I’m afraid it’d be my own personal Infinite Jest. It’s a movie about cats. The synopsis from the page: Fuji TV’s hit program Mezamashi Doyobi (“Wake Up Saturday”) presents Nyanko the…
I know this is really old, as apparently it was so popular that they made a version for the Xbox 360 and are working on DS and PSP versions, but this flash game is actually really pretty…
One of the folks at work turned me on to this great video of Trent Reznor, Jeordie White, Peter Murphy and Atticus Ross doing a cover of The Normal’s “Warm Leatherette” live in studio. Check it out.
Cover via Amazon [Purchase DVD] There’re a lot of complaints typically thrown at musicals. Some people say that the songs are overblown and hokey. Others say that the songs don’t emerge organically out of the action; no one, in real life, just…