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11:11 am
[Link] | Whatever happened to Tabitha, Australia's lowkey answer to Elvira and Vampira?
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09:19 am
[Link] | So, Batman...
Pretty good, eh?
Nah, it is actually really great but it isn't brilliant. Too long. Some sequences which I can't seem to do that 'shut off the brain' thing the world seems so talented at doing. A fifteen minute long chase scene where a dude in a truck shoots at cops and the cops freak out and don't shoot back even once? I dunno... Plus a very boring bits randomly spaced out. And and and lots of little nitpicks that no one but a nitpicker like me would dig.
Tells you what though. The Joker and his relationship with Batman was bloody well spot on. Nice to see a bad guy 'win'. The Joker was genuinely mental. The interrogation scene was just absolutely perfect.
Sound direction? Best in years? Direction? The rooftop scenes made me nervous about being up so high.
So yeah - a very good cinematic experience. Better than Iron Man, I'd say.
I'm reading reviews though. Everyone is saying 'wow, comic movies are getting deep, yeah?'
Well, they're approaching the levels of comic books now. So if you liked that, maybe you should just head on down to your local shop and check that stuff out.
Anyways, my pick for the next Batman villain?
Hell. Yes.
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04:43 pm
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Amen, Chris Sims.
Amen...
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12:26 pm
[Link] | I have been reading web comics. Because, you see, I just got me another assignment from Chaosium as apparently the last book sold very well.
I think I hate webcomics.
( Read more... )
The problem that I have with them is that they're all so fucking tame. To prove that their characters are wild and out of control they're always doing the same things. Showing off their breasts in public, drinking heavily and shagging. I suppose to very, very suburban people, these things are wild and out of control. And so few of them are likeable. It's all 'blah, breakups, blah, low self-esteem, blah rancid death-threats against friends.' Not to mention the ever painful 'I'm a retard with no professional skills, so I'll mock my betters as I work in customer service.' I hate that.
The same punchline every damn time. The same boring middle-class concerns. The same belief that making characters genuinely unlikeable and weak makes them somehow interesting...
I only like Wonderella at the moment. And the Rack. And Order of the Stick but that's a different case.
What aren't I seeing? Especially in the three-panel classic format?
Oh, in researching this I find this!
http://armagideontime.blogspot.com/2008/06/get-outta-my-way.html
Which says it all a lot better than my irritable bit of time wasting. "fag jokes are an evergreen crowd pleaser for the prized 15-45 year old petit conservative manchild demographic."
Back to work.
EDIT: http://badwebcomics.blogspot.com/
I agree with everything this great man says. I should have just read it first and spared myself an hour.
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05:53 pm
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Say kids! Comics!
Do you like Elfquest comics?
No, I don't really either. Free-love-hippie-elfs just ain't my thang. Nevertheless, they're sort of a milestone of self-publishing and that Wendy Pini can draw. I think her failed Elric animated is one of the great lost projects.
Anyways, check it out. Thirty years of comicses are getting uploaded.
http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics3.html
For free! It's a shame that me old mates from Black Mermaid aren't letting their stuff go up as that Joe, he can draw!
Anways... comic retailers can thank me later.
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11:09 pm
[Link] | 
YUKO SHIMIZU
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01:39 pm
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An important message to all human life on this hungover sunday afternoon
If you don't love this, we are breaking up.
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04:06 pm
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Bored today
Hey, remember a few months back, when I raved about new Doctor Who? Saying how rad it was? I finally just watched the entire first series back to back. Fuck was I wrong!
Sorry if I wasted anyone's time.
Also, heard today from young children's school, J-Pop version of "John Brown's Body". Developed schizophrenia instantly: Am Now Great Beast SIXSIXSIX.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19826614.100-bad-guys-really-do-get-the-most-girls.html
So, now evolutionary psychology has proven that being a bad guy really does get you the girls. In other news: Water Wet.
But... evolutionary psychology is like going fishing with a boxing glove.
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/06/stick-a-pin-in-it.html
And hey, look, there's no racism in the Republican party!
http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2008/06/my-interview-wi.html
This one is for the Prince of Shadows herself: The Dalai (boo!) Llama's brother on Steven Segal!
nd then, on the other side of the scale, there’s Steven Seagal. Oh my god. I met him when he came here. He was wearing a funny coat, a Chinese brocade, funny trousers, and funny shoes with that ponytail. I asked him, “Why do you dress in such a peculiar manner?” He didn’t say anything. He’s arrogant, and pretends to be a Tibetan reincarnate. But why? He’s a strange man.
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10:16 am
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Art is three in Darkseid.
I was in Melbourne last week. Just for a day. I was there for a very specific reason. To see an art show.
Specifically, to see my brothers, the Wayward Cartoonists Art Show.
Suffice to say that it is amazing. Do you like music? I'll be you do. Here then, is an art show for you, it is like taking the music of the 20th century, the anarchy, the sex, the myths, and freezing it. Obsidian. Volcanic glass.
Jones's deeply occultic tarot of metal, Holgate's precision and identification of the iconic and Fraser's
iron-eye for the jazz-narrative...
What I wasn't expecting, was to open it. Nor was I expecting to be asked to put on a show, to make a spectacle of myself! But my brothers are cruel. So I opened the show with roguish antics and a speech I'd prepared an hour earlier and away I went.
It was an honour to open it.
As for you Melniboneans... Your salvation depends upon you seeing the show!
I believe there is also a lecture coming up this week, so if you want to listen to contemporary artists who scorn the empty jargon of academia and construct art from skill, music and paint, who make it with their hands, who find arcana in the every day... Go.
Also, I have a new nickname. Apparently I'm Captain Dreadnaught. Nice!
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05:27 pm
[Link] | HELLO LADIES! I AM THE CHRISTIAN!
I LOVE YOU AND I LIVE IN YOUR CUPBOARD!!!!
BEHOLD MY SEXTEETH!
(An explanation is forthcoming)
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12:03 am
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The Revolution Will Be Fabulous.
http://toybotstudios.blogspot.com/2008/05/weekend-in-la-part-1-of-3-peter.html
Hmmm. Boring repurposing by the jaded, scummish art world or slyly funny art games or vile Magaret Cho style Revolutionary Chic?
Coming up soon: Why Xena is the greatest television show ever and why it especially shows up buffy as the Blink 182 to Xena's motherfucking Ramones.
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02:23 am
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"I fell in love with the first cute girl that I met, who appreciated George Bataille."
I have lost about 120 dollars worth of reimbursables from my many trips lo, over these many lands.
It is putting me in an incredibly vile mood. (Maybe that's nothing to you but ask anyone who lives alone without a steady income about a missing century they shouldn't have had to spend and see what they're saying as you laugh blithely at their ragged arse and cash your paycheque.) The kind of mood that sees the world sunk in venom and endlessly brutal and ugly. I've smoked 15 cigarettes in just under 2 hours and my lungs are burning and I feel ill. I also seem to have lost three quarters of a bottle of Irish Whisky I have stashed around here... somewhere.
The only good thing about all this is that I seem to have found about ten novels I thought lost. Which should tell you about my elaborate filing system. Also, I found an Evan Dorkin comic, so that will stop me from setting fire to my apartment and burning myself to death as a way of displaying my contempt for everything.
However, despite all that...
Oh, and there's some finally some forward motion going on with The Eldritch Kid II: Hate and Whisky (the working title. Don't quote me on that.) We'll be starting the official blog up again in the coming weeks. I think there was an LJ feed somewhere that some kind soul started. I'll hunt that down. I intend to presswhore like a motherfucker on that one, so be prepared.
My book for Chaosium, Mythos Magic, is going to be turned into a .pdf downloadable thing, which is a weird feeling but will hopefully boost sales. Also, it's looking like I'll get to add the appendix, so if you ever wanted to know how to use William Burroughs as a horrifying supervillain, you'll finally get your chance. I was looking over my print copies of the book today and, at the risk of sounding immodest, it is bloody great. It's not the elaborate scholarship of the majestic Daniel Harms, the real authority of Lovecraftian magic, but as a primer and gaming tool, I think it rocks the casbah. Plus, some of the art is incredible. I'd buy it. Apparently people are buying it too. I'm told the sales are quite good. So, why don't you have a copy, eh? If you ever wanted to know about fish men shamanic surgery, it is the one-stop shop!
I'm contemplating writing another monograph on the Tsan-Chan Empire, the dark empire of the fifth millenium mentioned in Shadow out of Time and... that other story. We'll see. Wuxia Mad Max Middle Earth Blade Runner Cosmic Horror. I know how you like it. The whole thing will basically be a love letter to Etched City if there was way more monster-shagging, shoggoths and kung-fu. I know how you like it.
Which reminds me, does anyone know any high fantasy anime? ie. that doesn't take place on earth? I've seen Lodoss Wars. No weird vampires in space, please.
Taking a meeting this week with my old pal the Hellhammer about Operation: DD. If that works, trust me, you will love us. May also get a chance to reopen talks about the long dormant Operation: Magnificent Bastard.
Going to E3 this year, where my soul will be purchased outright by the sinister forces of Public Relations men with fine, fat corporate credit cards, low morals and similar tastes in booze as me. Sometimes having a job better done by an obese teenager has its perks.
Anyway, that's it with me.
Back to seething.
...How are you?
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11:18 am
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HooDoo that you do...
Christopher S. Hyatt, a man who I've talked about here before, had died. He died in Feburary but I only just found out.
Damn.
He was one of my favourite modern writers on matters weird and occult, an interesting man I should have definitely liked to have had a drink with. I always liked his books because of his dry sense of humor and rather bleak worldview.
Speaking of which, do you want to visit Roke, er, I mean Hogwarts? (Do I deeply regret writing that stupid joke that every motherfucker will make?)
Check this out: the greatest beige in the world of occult strangeness is opening up a school!
http://realmagicschool.com/
I hope it gets accredited. If Intelligent Design teaching colleges can get you a degree, why not this?
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08:47 pm
[Link] | Hello humans. I don't really have anything to say to you right now as I'm working on my epic crossover fanfic in which Doctor Gregory House fights sinister minions of Great Cthulhu. Soon they'll meet James Bond in the episode I'm calling Live and Let Dyer*
I'm also wondering why sometimes very fine American humor has such a drive to the vulgar these days.
So anyways, ages ago I talked about Iron Sky, a Finish film in which Nazi moonmen attack the earth. So if your like me and pretty much spend your adult life thinking about Vril power and National Socialist UFOES, you'll probably dig it. It's one of those 'ten mates in a shed' productions that keep just getting better and better. Have a look. Written by a lady, too. I tells ya, that women's lib thing has really taken off! Good for you, ladies. Good for you...
Pretty swanky, no?
www.ironsky.net for more. It's a Finnish production and those Finns know a thing or two about Nazis!
*I am Alone.
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11:45 am
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Good night.
Bo Diddley died.
Arse.
You know, I listen to a lot of blues music. I like the early stuff from the Delta. Son House, Skip James, Blind Willie McTell. Mississippi Fred McDowell and Bline Willie Johnson, especially, with his madman's bark.
I don't play it for a lot of people. I dislike it when I can see people not enjoying it and they rarely do. I get a bit heartened when I wack on something like Howlin' Wolf or whatever, easier to dig. Mainly, I die a little inside when they tell me they like B.B King and Ray Charles...
But everyone's eyes light up when you put on Bo Diddley. That rhythmn could drive a strong man to his knees. Do yourself a favour, if you don't know Mr. Diddley. Set that old music downloading program to his name and spend a fistful of dollars. Trust me, you'll be glad you did. Especially look for 'Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger,' the most swaggering album around.
His last words were that he was going to heaven, cocky till the end.
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03:34 pm
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All is one in Darkseid
I've been having nosebleeds...
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04:39 pm
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12:36 pm
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A little vanity in the night
From an unpublished Dude in the Coat by the incomparable Scott '2hott' Fraser.
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11:13 pm
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Shabaroons is one of my favourite words.
Come along to the mesopelagic
We can frolic where the corals abound.
If the cads with the benthic trawlers haven't passed
by the time we get down.
I can't imagine this will interest many of you but...
I finally managed to get my hands on the mighty Darkest of the Hillside Thicket's latest album, Shadow Out Of Tim.
Lovecraft fans, fans of music with guitars in them, I command you to buy this album. It is astoundingly good.
The previous album, Spaceship Zero, was excellent, of course, though a slight departure from the usual laserlike focus on things Lovecraftian lyrically but was a big improvement in the lads playing. Shadow Out of Time continues that, with an excellent mix and a break away from some of the punkier influences, making the big leap into what the kids call 'stoner' music. (Although, the almost surfy guita, ala The Shadows you could hear in the earlier works is missing and missed.) This one is all rich melodies and is the better for it. The song 'Some Thing Man Was Not Meant To Know' strikes me as an especially powerful bit of pop music.
It concerns itself largely with an almost rock-operaesque retelling of the particular favourite story of mine 'The Shadow Out of Time' in 13, diamond compressed tracks. Bleakly humorous, utterly confident of its source and its sound, this is a band at the top of their game. These people should be huge stars, driving in limos, killing supermodels with bottles of whisky, instead of working shitty jobs in the wilds of Canada.
Find a link and purchase it. By way of comparison, an odious task, they make Queens of the Stone Age sound like Huey Lewis and the fucking News. Seriously, please, if you're spending money on the old Itunes, make the lads some cash and do your geekish duty.
I have clapped my hands twice! Chop chop!
Have I ever been wrong about these things?
Strange parallels inside strange layer on layer.
Strange coincidences, strange inconsistencies.
Somebody trashed my apartment.
Spray-painted 'stop asking'
I’m being shadowed by tattooed ESL shabaroons.
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12:53 pm
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Riddle me this!
How hard can a human bite? And what does that translate to in things biteable through?
I can find loads on animals, specifically dogs and lions and wolves. Wolves win like the absolute king of animals they are but humans? Nuffink.
Anyone out there educated in mandibular destruction?
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