Zombie cognoscenti will wish to know that Enter Zombie King just came out on DVD. For some incomprehensible reason, this was released by the anime distributor ADV Films. I guess they’re branching out a little. Anyhow, I’m just glad I can get my hands on it.
Any Given Sunday Stormy Monday Once Upon a Time in America The Addams Family Fort Apache The Long Good Friday Saturday Night Fever Material for those middle days is a little thin on the ground.
What can I say?
“Listen… There’s another national anthem playing, Not the one you cheer At the ball park.” “We’re the other national anthem, folks, The ones that can’t get in To the ball park.” Available from iTunes, happily enough.
The song entitled “Going Through The Motions” on the new Aimee Mann live album (original) is not the song sung by Sarah Michelle Gellar on Buffy during the musical episode. So don’t get your hopes up like I did.
I overheard the best conversation ever at my comic book store today. Two teenage girls were sitting around provoking the guy who runs the place, who was sitting around being amused. Teenager one picks up a copy of Transmetropolitan. “Hey,” she says, “Is this guy a metrosexual?” She’s pointing at the cover, which is of course Spider Jerusalem. “No,” says the comic book guy. “He’s completely not metrosexual.” “Then why is he carrying a man bag?” ...
It appears to be the case that Jandek played at a festival in Glasgow yesterday. Whoa. (Thanks for the pointer, Chris!)
Eric Raymond flips allll the way over into the cult of tradition with a resounding thud (original): “A deadly genius is a talent so impressive that he can break and remake all the rules of the form, and seduce others into trying to emulate his disruptive brilliance — even when those followers lack the raw ability or grounding to make art in the new idiom the the genius has defined.” He then goes on to explain that Picasso, Coltrane, Joyce, Schoenberg, and Brancusi killed their respective fields by being so brilliant. For bonus points, he posits that the problem was caused by the death of the patronage system. You see, once artists were permitted to do whatever they liked, some of them produced deadly work. ...
Boston mob movie trend juggernaut: The Boondock Saints, Snitch, Southie, Mystic River, and The Departed. It’s a small juggernaut.
The Barry Hughart pages (original) are small yet worthy of study; for those who don’t wish to study, well, the original draft of Bridge of Birds is here (original). There, that was easy. (Via Kip.)