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Attend! Details of our favourite avant-decadent print fetish object can be found here at this electrical information-bridge. Click elegantly, spawn.
So I can’t light a cigarette in a bar in Arizona, but you can walk into one with a loaded gun, get completely trolleyed and be fully defended by a state law that doesn’t remotely consider this a dangerous and inevitably tragic situation.
Around 80 people die by gunfire per day in the United States. That’s about fifteen deaths per one hundred thousand people, per annum. In 2005, the number of children killed by gunfire would have filled 120 public school classrooms. Since 11 September 2001, somewhere in the region of 220,000 people have died by gunfire in America.
(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)Нужно открыть наши сердца, освежить наш взгляд на вещи, чтобы они стали свежими, живыми, четкими, не несущими навешанных нами ярлыков. Можно подойти к чему-то и сказать " ух ты я никогда раньше этого не видел". После пяти дней можно выйти на улицу и увидеть, что сосновые иголки сверкают. Они сверкали и раньше, просто мы не были достаточно бодрствующими, чтобы увидеть это...
( один день из нашей жизни )
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( один день из нашей жизни )
The last of the Detective 854 signings is this Saturday at Olympic Cards and Comics, in Lacey, WA, from noon to five. My favorite store in the WHOLE wide world, even if it happens to be the terrain marked by my partner in many crimes, Eric Trautmann.
Take a look at this:
Yes, that's right! A Stumptown t-shirt! Matthew Southworth and I will be giving away 50 of them as a promotion at the Oni Press panel on Thursday at the con. Perfect for the cynic, romantic, or dogged PI in your life!
Take a look at this:
Yes, that's right! A Stumptown t-shirt! Matthew Southworth and I will be giving away 50 of them as a promotion at the Oni Press panel on Thursday at the con. Perfect for the cynic, romantic, or dogged PI in your life!
I just picked up my sixth annual sketchbook from the printer, just in time for San Diego. I will be at Booth 4906 as usual. Besides the sketchbooks, I will have all the Usagi books, including the new Bridge of Tears in both trade and hardcover. I will also have prints and artwork (but I do not sell published pages).
When away from my booth, I have a few scheduled events:
Mark and Sergio
Thursday, JULY 23
2:30-3:30pm
ROOM 8
Graphic Novels Sense of History
Saturday, JULY 25
5:00-6:00 pm
ROOM 8
Stan Sakai: 25th Anniversary of Usagi Yojimbo
Sunday, JULY 26
1:30-2:30pm
ROOM 8
Signing at Dark Horse Booth
Friday
10-11 am
There are a bunch of panels I would like to see--June Foray, TMNT, Quick Draw, Crime--but will probably not be able to find the time. There is so much going on.
I'll also be at the Eisners. I'm nominated in the Best Continuing Series category.
Arrived in Winnipeg yesterday. I'm staying with a nice lady and her grouchy cat named Whiskers who doesn't like that I'm sleeping in his bed. I almost didn't find the place. Initially, I got the address wrong and ended up on the doorstep of an old man who peeked through his blinds and quavered, "Who are you? How dare you! Get off my property!"
I'm a bit concerned about communication with the outside world. Long distance rates are killer, and the lady has no Internet, so for the time being, I've found a little cafe where I'm tying this across from a man who looks like a cross between my father and Vigo the Carpathian.
I am anxious and pumped for the festival, and am alternating my mantras from Bob Wiley's "I feel good, I feel great, I feel wonderful," and a great song I heard on Broadway radio: "I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing."
ETA: forgive any typos. I'm still getting used to typing on Mother Box.
I'm a bit concerned about communication with the outside world. Long distance rates are killer, and the lady has no Internet, so for the time being, I've found a little cafe where I'm tying this across from a man who looks like a cross between my father and Vigo the Carpathian.
I am anxious and pumped for the festival, and am alternating my mantras from Bob Wiley's "I feel good, I feel great, I feel wonderful," and a great song I heard on Broadway radio: "I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing."
ETA: forgive any typos. I'm still getting used to typing on Mother Box.
- Location:The 'Peg
- Mood:
calm - Music:"The Night Starts Here," the Stars
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Nick Harkaway just turned this up on Twitter: hfradiospacewx. It’s "Space Weather and Radio Propagation Information," as provided by these people, who apparently could use a dollar or two through Paypal to keep going.
It’s complete gibberish to the untrained eye:
Warning (1591): Geomagnetic K-index of 4 expected… Solar Wind: 519 km/s @ 3.0 protons/cm3… Flares: 6h hi (none) 24h hi (none) …No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours…
It is, in fact, The Shipping Forecast for space.
How brilliant is that? All it needs is an equivalent for "Sailing By" to precede it. Maybe a bit of Eno.
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HookerBot surprises all by topping a difficult battle, with the "It Came From Planet Earth!" Human in second. One of my personal favourites... Also, in the second of our double bill, Dr. Perceptron came a vast second, as we gave the glorious HYPNOTOAD over 100 votes more than 2nd place.
We're getting perilously close to the end of Round 1, with only 5 more battles to go. Two of which are today. I'm having trouble uploading the images today. Think it's the broadband, but I'll get them online asap. Luckily I think you'll all know every character today. There are some heavyweights here!
First up is Zapp Brannigan's number 2, Kif. He competes against Mr. Panucci of Pizza Parlour fame, Dean Vernon of Robot House hatred and the Planet Express Ship, probably meant to be taken in the form of the Sigourney Weaver voiced psychopathic ship personality. Or just the ship if you prefer.
In the second fight, we have TV stars Elzar and Calculon, awful movie director from awful episode "That's Lobstertainment!" Harold Zoid, and a regular favourite amongst everyone, the Cigarette Machine Robot. Nixon was indeed NOT bringing the smokes.
I'm meeting you halfway you stupid voters (hippies)!
Poll #1429677 28 & 29
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All
We're getting perilously close to the end of Round 1, with only 5 more battles to go. Two of which are today. I'm having trouble uploading the images today. Think it's the broadband, but I'll get them online asap. Luckily I think you'll all know every character today. There are some heavyweights here!
First up is Zapp Brannigan's number 2, Kif. He competes against Mr. Panucci of Pizza Parlour fame, Dean Vernon of Robot House hatred and the Planet Express Ship, probably meant to be taken in the form of the Sigourney Weaver voiced psychopathic ship personality. Or just the ship if you prefer.
In the second fight, we have TV stars Elzar and Calculon, awful movie director from awful episode "That's Lobstertainment!" Harold Zoid, and a regular favourite amongst everyone, the Cigarette Machine Robot. Nixon was indeed NOT bringing the smokes.
I'm meeting you halfway you stupid voters (hippies)!
Poll #1429677 28 & 29
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All
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Kif Kroker
85 (76.6%)
Mr. Panucci 8 (7.2%)
Dean Vernon 2 (1.8%)
Planet Express Ship 16 (14.4%)
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Elzar 20 (18.2%)
Harold Zoid 11 (10.0%)
Cigarette Machine Robot 5 (4.5%)
Calculon 74 (67.3%)
A shortish one this week, because next week’s is a longish one, and there wasn’t a better place to chop the piece. This one here contains some restatements and continuations of thoughts previously jotted down here:
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Site’s been down for the last several hours. No idea why. But here we are again. This is Warren Ellis Dot Com. Good afternoon.
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(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)Trailer for the New Zealand themed fairy tale, "Under the Mountain", starring Sam Neill, based on the book by Maurice Gee.
"When teenage twins Rachel and Theo Matheson investigate the creepy old house next door, they discover the Wilberforces - shape-shifting creatures that lurk beneath Auckland's ring of extinct volcanoes. Guided by the mysterious Mr Jones and with the help of their older cousin Ricky, the twins must rekindle the unique powers they once shared if they are to destroy this ancient evil - before it destroys them."
"When teenage twins Rachel and Theo Matheson investigate the creepy old house next door, they discover the Wilberforces - shape-shifting creatures that lurk beneath Auckland's ring of extinct volcanoes. Guided by the mysterious Mr Jones and with the help of their older cousin Ricky, the twins must rekindle the unique powers they once shared if they are to destroy this ancient evil - before it destroys them."
Somtimes, you SO want to believe in the goodness of a person..for your own sake, not the person's.
""I did feel like I went through puberty at age 24. Learning to wear a bra, makeup, date boys, all that - everything other girls learn at age 13. And we're alone. Most of the time society hates us - people think we're freaks or whatever - so you're doing all this alone. And it can be really hard."
-Calpurnia Addams
I guess I am going to make a pretty girl:
The first shot is a very pinup like shot. Plus, I can actually show off the weight I've lost. You were warned
NO HORMONES YET.
-Calpurnia Addams
I guess I am going to make a pretty girl:
The first shot is a very pinup like shot. Plus, I can actually show off the weight I've lost. You were warned
NO HORMONES YET.
I went to see friends in a local production of "Evil Dead: The Musical" over the weekend and ti really was a splendid bit of insanity. The show's become sort of a huge deal locally with a sold-out run that's been extended two or three times already.
"Evil Dead" is something between a send-up of bad horror movies and a tribute to Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell, the difference between those things being fairly minimal, true. It's also the only musical I know of with a bloody splash zone, meaning the bloodletting sprays into the audience with fervor throughout and odds are people in the first few rows are going home with blood-soaked clothes. And, you know, you just don't get that experience at "Carousel," without some REALLY unorthodox directorial choices. (I got off pretty clean until a friend of mine decided to basically die all over me.)
As a musical the show is pretty solid, more solid than it appears on its cast album. It's certainly no WORSE than anything in "Little Shop of Horrors," although I'm sure theater geeks will insist "Little Shop" is BETTER, which it might be but, well, "Little Shop" is also decidedly less fun. And for all it's frivolity and ridiculousness "Evil Dead" is never noticeably stupid either. The songs may beat their dead horses a little bit but in the moment watching the show, they all deliver the laughs and move the story along the way they should. None of it is particularly subtle or nuanced or well-crafted but at some point that stuff has to go out the window in favor of people just having a really fucked up good time. The songs certainly give the actors a lot to do -- no time for angst-ridden posing and center-stage hand-wringing, that's for sure. The actors seemed to be having a blast and figuring out what was in the script and what was improvised/added/sneaked in was half the fun.
The story essentially compresses the first two "Evil Dead" movies and bogarts all the good lines from "Army of Darkness." While it's important to remind people that the first "Evil Dead" movie is a genuinely scary little movie, it's also important to note that the cult of Bruce Campbell/Sam Raimi/Army of Darkness doesn't especially care about that. And, believe me, the more Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell jokes you get, the better a time you'll have at "Evil Dead: The Musical" (although friends of mine with no knowledge of the movies still had a blast.)
"Evil Dead" is another in what seems a long line of horror/b-movie musical spoofs, what it may not have in musical theater complexity it makes up for in sheer outrageousness and full-on belly laughs. It's a tough show to describe because it's something you have to EXPERIENCE. Musical Theater Analysis 101 misses the point entirely. Sometimes it's just about going to see people get blood sprayed on one another and watching great comic actors unleashed. And to hear someone in a musical talk about their boomstick.
"Evil Dead" is something between a send-up of bad horror movies and a tribute to Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell, the difference between those things being fairly minimal, true. It's also the only musical I know of with a bloody splash zone, meaning the bloodletting sprays into the audience with fervor throughout and odds are people in the first few rows are going home with blood-soaked clothes. And, you know, you just don't get that experience at "Carousel," without some REALLY unorthodox directorial choices. (I got off pretty clean until a friend of mine decided to basically die all over me.)
As a musical the show is pretty solid, more solid than it appears on its cast album. It's certainly no WORSE than anything in "Little Shop of Horrors," although I'm sure theater geeks will insist "Little Shop" is BETTER, which it might be but, well, "Little Shop" is also decidedly less fun. And for all it's frivolity and ridiculousness "Evil Dead" is never noticeably stupid either. The songs may beat their dead horses a little bit but in the moment watching the show, they all deliver the laughs and move the story along the way they should. None of it is particularly subtle or nuanced or well-crafted but at some point that stuff has to go out the window in favor of people just having a really fucked up good time. The songs certainly give the actors a lot to do -- no time for angst-ridden posing and center-stage hand-wringing, that's for sure. The actors seemed to be having a blast and figuring out what was in the script and what was improvised/added/sneaked in was half the fun.
The story essentially compresses the first two "Evil Dead" movies and bogarts all the good lines from "Army of Darkness." While it's important to remind people that the first "Evil Dead" movie is a genuinely scary little movie, it's also important to note that the cult of Bruce Campbell/Sam Raimi/Army of Darkness doesn't especially care about that. And, believe me, the more Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell jokes you get, the better a time you'll have at "Evil Dead: The Musical" (although friends of mine with no knowledge of the movies still had a blast.)
"Evil Dead" is another in what seems a long line of horror/b-movie musical spoofs, what it may not have in musical theater complexity it makes up for in sheer outrageousness and full-on belly laughs. It's a tough show to describe because it's something you have to EXPERIENCE. Musical Theater Analysis 101 misses the point entirely. Sometimes it's just about going to see people get blood sprayed on one another and watching great comic actors unleashed. And to hear someone in a musical talk about their boomstick.
I woke up with 2 blog posts in my head first thing this morning. The longer one will follow fairly soon depending upon the flexibility and speed of the swollen digits.
Yesterday was my last growth scan. Well ostensibly last because how Peanut will behave over the next 2 weeks will determine the need for another detailed scan prior to baby-popping day.
Anyhoo, Red always has a bunch of questions to ask the doc each time around and this time too he asked about the very noticeable swelling of the feet, hands and face. The doc called it "water-logging" in the body. I didn't take much notice at the time since I'd known that edema does happen...and it probably makes chubby people look chubbier.
But the mind registered her words at a much deeper level- I dreamt of the streets of Venice all night long! Lols...
But I did get a solid night's sleep after a while. The weekend was very productive but the nights equally frustrating in terms of Zzzzs. Peanut however, was surprisingly calm and quiet last night. Probably basking all smug in the light of the "awwws', "so cutes" that came his/her way after the news of the chubby cheeks came to light. Narcissistic lil (pre)neonate!
But it was quite fun seeing the hazy face all the same. Red thought the eyes were big but I was all stuck on the chubby cheeks. Not that all babies aren't born with some amount of chubbiness but mine's seems a more special version of chubby :o)
I wonder if narcissism can be inherited :D
- Location:home
- Mood:
cheerful - Music:sounds of the morning
I showed her how I lost so much weight, after hearing "I don't give a shit!" she then told me that I'm build like a girl.
I think she knows whats coming.
But to everyone who reads this. Cut sugar out of your diet, don't each as much meat, and limit your calories. I'm so glad I did. But don't get me wrong, this week I'm going out with one of my girlfriends and I will totally eat a molten chocolate cake or something.
I'm off to the supermarket once I can find my Banana Republican shirt.
I think she knows whats coming.
But to everyone who reads this. Cut sugar out of your diet, don't each as much meat, and limit your calories. I'm so glad I did. But don't get me wrong, this week I'm going out with one of my girlfriends and I will totally eat a molten chocolate cake or something.
I'm off to the supermarket once I can find my Banana Republican shirt.
and i ended up watching the last half of forest gump, the last half of passion of the christ, and the first half of velvet goldmine, before falling asleep. my dreams were terrifying.
At long last, it is finally within our reach.
The State: The Complete Series is coming out tomorrow. For those of you not familiar, The State was a sketch comedy show that used to air on MTV back when I was in high school, right around the same time of night that Beavis & Butthead was on. Many of it's cast members have since gone on to other things, most notably Comedy Central's Reno 911.
Of course, actors like Thomas Lennon and Joe LoTruglio have done a good job of finding other work as well and I know that Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black have a brand new show coming to Comedy Central sometime in the very near future.
But it won't be The State.
The only drawback that might temper any outlandish celebrations that literally dozens of people might be participating in once they get their hands on copies is that MTV was never able to clear up the issues regarding the use of music in the show. And so, some dubbing had to take place. Allow me to quote one of the Amazon reviews:
we've all been waiting years for this to come out.. but the fact that none of the music will be the same is so hard to get over. generic songs take away from the sketches. and to make matters even worse, audio had to be re-dubbed if there was music playing in the background??? it's so noticeable in season 1 with the $240 worth of pudding. if i could pay the same price for the entire original series on bootlegged VHS i would have more enjoyment :\
Now that sucks. Big time. No doubt. Take a look at the features, though:
Disc 1 (Season One)
All five episodes from Season One
Commentary on every episode by various cast members
Interviews
Origins
Feedback
Outtakes
Disc 2 (Season Two)
All six episodes from Season Two
Commentary on every episode by various cast members
Interviews
Roles
Catchphrases
Outtakes
Disc 3 (Season Three)
All six episodes from Season Three
Commentary on every episode by various cast members
Interviews
Outtakes
Disc 4 (Season Four)
All seven episodes from Season Four
Commentary on every episode by various cast members
Interviews
Outtakes
Disc 5 (Bonus Disc)
Pilot
Over 90 minutes of unaired sketches with commentary from the cast
Outtakes
Special Appearances:
-"The State" on "The Jon Stewart Show"
-The cast's performance on MTV's "Shut Up & Laugh, Panama City" (1996)
-Spring Break Safety Tips
-MTV Christmas Party Video
Promos
Amazon is selling it for
$38.99 and that's definitely the cheapest I've been able to find it. So I ordered it. I saw it at a local record store the other day (they frequently put things out on the shelf before they're supposed to) and they wanted almost $60 for it.
This is it, my friends. Finally.
While I'm here, I want to mention two other things coming out on DVD tomorrow. First is the US release of the Spanish horror film [REC].
I made this movie my 4th favorite film of 2008 and I really can't recommend it highly enough if you enjoy horror films. Get it from Amazon
or HK Flix or add it to your Netflix or Blockbuster. Just see it.
And the one last thing of immediate interest due out tomorrow is AnimEigo's Sleepy Eyes Of Death Vol. 1 box set.
If you enjoy the samurai movies, this is a good bet for you. Bit pricey, though. Amazon
has it for $72 and HK Flix has it at $69.95.
One for the wish list, I suppose.
The State: The Complete Series is coming out tomorrow. For those of you not familiar, The State was a sketch comedy show that used to air on MTV back when I was in high school, right around the same time of night that Beavis & Butthead was on. Many of it's cast members have since gone on to other things, most notably Comedy Central's Reno 911.
Of course, actors like Thomas Lennon and Joe LoTruglio have done a good job of finding other work as well and I know that Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black have a brand new show coming to Comedy Central sometime in the very near future.
But it won't be The State.
The only drawback that might temper any outlandish celebrations that literally dozens of people might be participating in once they get their hands on copies is that MTV was never able to clear up the issues regarding the use of music in the show. And so, some dubbing had to take place. Allow me to quote one of the Amazon reviews:
we've all been waiting years for this to come out.. but the fact that none of the music will be the same is so hard to get over. generic songs take away from the sketches. and to make matters even worse, audio had to be re-dubbed if there was music playing in the background??? it's so noticeable in season 1 with the $240 worth of pudding. if i could pay the same price for the entire original series on bootlegged VHS i would have more enjoyment :\
Now that sucks. Big time. No doubt. Take a look at the features, though:
Disc 1 (Season One)
All five episodes from Season One
Commentary on every episode by various cast members
Interviews
Origins
Feedback
Outtakes
Disc 2 (Season Two)
All six episodes from Season Two
Commentary on every episode by various cast members
Interviews
Roles
Catchphrases
Outtakes
Disc 3 (Season Three)
All six episodes from Season Three
Commentary on every episode by various cast members
Interviews
Outtakes
Disc 4 (Season Four)
All seven episodes from Season Four
Commentary on every episode by various cast members
Interviews
Outtakes
Disc 5 (Bonus Disc)
Pilot
Over 90 minutes of unaired sketches with commentary from the cast
Outtakes
Special Appearances:
-"The State" on "The Jon Stewart Show"
-The cast's performance on MTV's "Shut Up & Laugh, Panama City" (1996)
-Spring Break Safety Tips
-MTV Christmas Party Video
Promos
Amazon is selling it for
$38.99 and that's definitely the cheapest I've been able to find it. So I ordered it. I saw it at a local record store the other day (they frequently put things out on the shelf before they're supposed to) and they wanted almost $60 for it.This is it, my friends. Finally.
While I'm here, I want to mention two other things coming out on DVD tomorrow. First is the US release of the Spanish horror film [REC].
I made this movie my 4th favorite film of 2008 and I really can't recommend it highly enough if you enjoy horror films. Get it from Amazon
or HK Flix or add it to your Netflix or Blockbuster. Just see it.And the one last thing of immediate interest due out tomorrow is AnimEigo's Sleepy Eyes Of Death Vol. 1 box set.
If you enjoy the samurai movies, this is a good bet for you. Bit pricey, though. Amazon
has it for $72 and HK Flix has it at $69.95. One for the wish list, I suppose.
- Music:Swans - Feel Happiness | Powered by Last.fm
- Toxic Substance Allows Birds to “See” Magnetic Field
toxic superoxides!
(tags:sci weird bodymod ) - Spillway: Major Project 1: Care of Wooden Floors
Will Wiles' book: "I am not very good at exciting one-sentence summaries: In the past I have described it as "an episode of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em written by Franz Kafka", "a sort of satire on minimalist interior design" and "a little like Mon Oncle vs Lost In Translation"."
(tags:people books )
Chad Michael Ward took Katie West out to The Salton Sea.
Did you order Katie’s book yet?
Amazon's MP3 store is selling Explosions In The Sky's album "How Strange, Innocence"
for $1.99.
If you enjoy post rock or beautiful, instrumental music at all, you could do worse than acquiring this. I do recommend it.
for $1.99. If you enjoy post rock or beautiful, instrumental music at all, you could do worse than acquiring this. I do recommend it.
Or, put another way: I think that the same levels of electricity should cost the same in all locations.
See, Maria, in her old college town apartment that was bigger than mine, used to get bills far below my smaller place in north KC. That wasn't as shocking as the new situation, though. Now that we live in the snobby suburbs of KC in a 3-bedroom apartment, we're getting a monthly bill that's more than TWICE what her friend with a HUGE FREAKING HOUSE is paying back in her old college town digs. Now, this is the summertime, and there are many days when the AC has to run all day. How can we be air-conditioning a place maybe a little over half the size of her house, yet paying more than double? There's no excuse.
Clearly, we are being charged for living in an area where there are more people, or because we're closer to a major urban center. Something like that. Whatever the excuse, it's idiotic. Did it cost you guys more to run the power plant here in town than the one out there? How can you fucking charge a premium based on location? Fuck all that.
See, Maria, in her old college town apartment that was bigger than mine, used to get bills far below my smaller place in north KC. That wasn't as shocking as the new situation, though. Now that we live in the snobby suburbs of KC in a 3-bedroom apartment, we're getting a monthly bill that's more than TWICE what her friend with a HUGE FREAKING HOUSE is paying back in her old college town digs. Now, this is the summertime, and there are many days when the AC has to run all day. How can we be air-conditioning a place maybe a little over half the size of her house, yet paying more than double? There's no excuse.
Clearly, we are being charged for living in an area where there are more people, or because we're closer to a major urban center. Something like that. Whatever the excuse, it's idiotic. Did it cost you guys more to run the power plant here in town than the one out there? How can you fucking charge a premium based on location? Fuck all that.
New music from the guy described as "punk folk" by rocksellout.com. Me being far gassier, I said of his stuff: "Just him and a guitar - an angrier, wittier Billy Bragg is one way to approximate his style, though that’s far from exact, and he’s a lot more original than that."
The four new ones are on the top of the player. If you haven’t heard Sam before, check out "The Dirty 13" lower down afterwards, it’s my favourite of his older stuff.
Sam Russo, ladies and gentlemen.
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amusedClockwork Century: hub for the alternate history created by Cherie Priest for her incredibly good forthcoming novel BONESHAKER. You can also find there a novelette set in the same world, TANGLEFOOT, that’s available for free reading.
(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)There’s little scarier for a writer than the idea of losing your eyesight. Perhaps you could find your way clear to adding a little help for John Ostrander, co-creator of one of the most groundbreaking comics of the Eighties, WASTELAND.
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- Music:Nneka - The Uncomfortable Truth
Модель - Татьяна Зацерковная
Фотограф - Юрий Кривенко
Пост-продакшн - Мария Комар
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So I was at the department store next door, when suddenly I spotted it- looking exactly the same after all these years. A Milton Kool Rider insulated water bottle that was so popular among schoolkids back in the day! Almost every kid in my class had the sturdy, chubby, familiar brown and cream 2 color bottle (or a variant). It had a nylon strap that went around, and a small chain to prevent the bottlecap from getting lost. Most of the time, the chain was the first thing to be broken off. In the sweltering 45 degree Delhi summer, it was a relief to drink icy cold water that stayed icy from one of these. They were designed for ultra rough use- the knocks and tumbles of dragging them along in the school bus, schoolyard fights where people would swing the bottles at each other (to hit the other person's bottle, not head).
These bottles remained in all shapes and conditions. Some were battered beyond recognition- the nylon strap shredded, or tied together after snapping, the original bottle cap gone missing and replaced with another, huge scratches or even cracks in the base. Despite all this- the bottle did what it was supposed to do- keep water cold. At the end of the day, many of us would rush to the water fountain to fill them up to drink on the long, hot bus ride home.
My Kool Rider lasted around 3 years. Around this time, Milton launched a variant- Kool Lancer (The gray one on the right), which I acquired. This had a small lift up spout and a large cap that doubled as a drinking cup. Useful for sharing water with friends. It also had a wider mouth, meaning you could stuff it with ice cubes. On one occasion I filled it with Rooh Afza and took it to a school picnic; it barely lasted 5 minutes after being opened.
It became infra dig to carry waterbottles around class 9 onwards. Besides if one was the only person in class with a bottle, everyone would make a beeline for it and finish it off.
The school also installed a UV based water purifier in the senior school building- thereby further making them redundant. Today I don't know what schoolkids use to carry water- or if they do at all. But Milton waterbottles remain an iconic symbol of school days in the 80's ^^
- Mood:
nostalgic
I love sleeping on bean bags. There are two of them, and when I go off to sleep at night, I am usually lying on one of them - laid of almost flat, with my hips falling off the curve, and my legs plonked on the other. When morning comes, I find myself down on the floor, with my head on a bean bag, and my body nested between the bags.
I don't sleep still. As I sleep, I murmur (little dirty secrets and mad incoherent dreams), I fight (boxing demons in my dreams), and I move. I move when I sleep. Moving often like the hands of a clock, marking out the passage of the sleeping hours through the tight revolution in the bed. If I am sleeping on a mattress laid out on the floor, as I often do, I would roll the night through, and mornings would find me sleeping in some far off corner of the room.
I don't sleep still. As I sleep, I murmur (little dirty secrets and mad incoherent dreams), I fight (boxing demons in my dreams), and I move. I move when I sleep. Moving often like the hands of a clock, marking out the passage of the sleeping hours through the tight revolution in the bed. If I am sleeping on a mattress laid out on the floor, as I often do, I would roll the night through, and mornings would find me sleeping in some far off corner of the room.
