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EVOL is my favorite. I just watched a documentary about BC studios, a converted industrial building, where it was recorded. If ever a space visually represented the sound of an album, it has to be the creepy basement where the songs were tracked. Some great Swans records were made there as well, to give you more of an idea. Anyway, I'd say Washing Machine is #2, followed by Sister and then Daydream Nation.
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Luke Vibert- Bizarster
Pretty tasty.
Autechre- Untilted & Quaristice
Both sound fresh and invigorating to me now, after years of frustrating listens to their post-'99 material.
Pig Destroyer- Prowler in the Yard
Need my head caved in once in a while.
Venetian Snares- Your Face & Thank You for Your Consideration
Especially digging the latter; lots of stylistic variety.
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Nameless #4...of 5 apparently; interested to see how he pulls this one out of the hat.
Was meaning to pick this up but not gotten round to it. Will pick up the TP if it ever gets compiled, overall positive?
Overall...I guess it's positive? Ha...sorry, I'm not really sure how I feel about it. Like I said, I was surprised to learn that it's a five-issue mini; it seems to be in the middle of the beginning, arc-wise. Burnham's artwork is cool, that much I can say for sure. Lots of gore, glyphs, incantations, and a sentient asteroid headed for Earth. If I'm honest, I'm waiting for Morrisson's Sinatoro from Black Mask; this series is a stop gap, for me.
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Suiciders #5...still on board with this series, great artwork.
Annihilator #6...finally; haven't read it yet.
The Humans #6...could see this wearing thin, but staying with it for now (those splash pages though!)
Nameless #4...of 5 apparently; interested to see how he pulls this one out of the hat.
Injection #2...bodes well after two issues and being disappointed w/ the first arc of 'Trees'.
Still on the back-burner: The Authority Vol. 2 (about two issues in) & The Boys (extended hiatus, halfway through V.9-The Big Ride).
Just finished V.1 of Clowes's 'The Complete Eightball'
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Party Down via hulu.
Ken Marino in the main cast and others from The State making cameos.
Very funny show.
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The Complete Eightball- Daniel Clowes
33 1/3 Wowee Zowee- Bryan Charles
Crime & Punishment- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Sleaford Mods- Austerity Dogs, Divide and Exit, Chubbed Up +, Tiswas EP.
Nasty and bilious, perfect for a shit winter already here in the northeastern US.
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Preacher Book 3- Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon
Nemesis- Mark Millar, Steve McNiven
Ongoing series: Multiversity, Terminal Hero, Trees, Annihilator
At some point soon, Zenith Phase 1.
And, some bookmarked fic and non-fic to finish off (not much luck there).
I'd like to read Crime & Punishment this winter.
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The Dialectical Imagination- Martin Jay
#$@&! The Official Lloyd Llewellyn Collection- Daniel Clowes
33 1/3 SAW Pt. II- Mark Weidenbaum
Recently finished Milligan/Allred's X-Statix Omnibus. Pretty entertaining read.
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William Basinski- Disintegration Loops I-III
Daniel Avery- Drone Logic
Ultrademon- Seapunk
Artificial Brain- Labyrinth Constellation
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Planetary Omnibus- Warren Ellis & John Cassaday
Little Failure: A Memoir- Gary Shteyngart
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i was totally just wanting to say that i finished Cerebus book 16 on saturday (ie. have now finished the Cerebus series).
it definitely has ups and downs (Minds and Latter Days in particular, more or less cross the borderline unreadable border and enter unreadable territory) but overall i think this is the work of a (troubled) genius. some of the books are definitely recommended to anyone with an interest or open mind to genre bending awesome beautiful batshit crazy comics (about a talking aardvark).
i now feel like a free man. even though i was reading other things as well, i was always coming back to cerebus and had the book in the series on the back burner as being the next comic i was going to read.
since saturday, have been slamming through chester brown's stuff.
louis reil is amazing.
the little man is interesting and definitely gets good toward the more later work (and its at least interesting to see his style develop).
and just now finished ed the unhappy clown. which i sort of really disliked and felt was juvenile, but maybe its a context thing? like, from when it came from. and also in regarding it as chester browns first work. the notes at the end definitely help build an appreciation for the work, even though i didn't find the comic to be that strong.
I'd like to check out Cerebus some day. A friend of mine has a couple of volumes, I think. Not sure I could make it all the way through.
Ed the Happy Clown is sittin' on my shelf, unread as of this moment. It was an impulse buy and is not a high priority, but hopefully I'll get around to it.
Looking forward to the Planetary Omnibus in early 2014, and perhaps the Ex Machina collected volumes as well (couldn't really get into Y: The Last Man).
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A blueberry muffin.
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I watched Holy Mountain a few weeks ago. Some wicked imagery, but I thought the ending was the deftest touch of all.
I'd seen some of Fernando Arrabal's work and was surprised at the thematic and visual similarities.
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Slogging through Pynchon's Bleeding Edge and almost finished with Vol. 1 of Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol.
Bleeding Edge is lush, bruv
What do you think of Doom Patrol? I think it's second only to Animal Man as far as Morrison goes.
Cool, I'll add it to the list.Has anyone read The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton? I've learned to ignore the Booker Prize lately, but this actually sounds decent.
My wife is reading it presently and likes it quite a bit. From what she's said about it I'll prob check it out when she's done.
this was really good. it's like a victorian mystery novel with an intriguing presence of the mystical. her prose is very cool and detailed, which combined with the very long first half of the book may feel somewhat plodding. however, the pacing is very deliberate and as the book starts to gets moving one is grateful for her cool, clear writing. this could easily have been botched by a heavier hand, one more easily tempted to indulge in the fantastic.
definitely recommend it, it's quite a compelling story, very tightly woven and there is just the right touch of un-resolution throughout. the structure of the book really lends itself to a quick reading, despite its length.
lush/10
Excellent, I'm already up 110th on the library waiting list for this! It'll be my fav read of 2015.
Doom Patrol is a nice juxtaposition to The Invisibles, which put me through the eye of a needle last winter. Pretty sure that tome changed/will change my life. DP is a lot easier to follow (so far!), and I like the artwork. Not too well-versed in comics, but it's a medium I have a newfound respect for.
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Slogging through Pynchon's Bleeding Edge and almost finished with Vol. 1 of Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol.
Sonic Youth
in Music Discussion
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Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studios.
Let me know what you think.
The Color of Noise, another good doc, is about Amphetamine Reptile.