It’s time to get weird. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti mixes unusual arrangements of vintage derivatives that are much like going on a trip (a la Frank Zappa – listen to Round & Round on the myspace). Originally Ariel, performed these pieces as a one man show with a boombox. Now he’s got a full on band and has breathed new life into these intriguing & strangely wonderful songs. With songs about castration and intense disorienting live shows, Ariel really doesn’t approach anything in a normal or mainstream way. Tim Burgess (Charlatans) recently posted this as his current favourite album. I love to see one of us weirdos on top without compromise. Big ups.
You’ve all heard of Watchmen. I feel comfortable making that assertion, and given the audience of Ectoplasmosis I’m sure that most people reading this have read the book or seen the film. So I won’t give any description of the series, because there’s little point.
This episode of Prisoners of Gravity was broadcast in 1991 and it is a half hour documentary about Alan Moore and David Gibbons’ genre twisting series Watchmen. Contained within this video is the presenter, Command Rick, asking both David Gibbons and Alan Moore a series of questions about the structures they imposed on the series and the various thematic layers within the twelve issues.
This is a short, neat and entertaining insight into the classic comic.
There will be more episodes of the series Prisoners of Gravity posted here in the near future, probably selecting episodes in a semi-random fashion linked only by my immediate interest in the subject that the episode covers.
I was a nervous child. My overactive imagination joined with my natural timidity to make an ongoing horror story of my life, thick with evil spirits and malevolent hands reaching out for my fat little feet from under my bed or pouring like smoke out of eerily anthropomorphic cracks in the plaster. I can trace all of these childhood anxieties to one point, one specific Boogieman that lay lurking in the dank swamps of my own brain: The Bunyip. This is his song. Continue Reading…
I’m running out of Saturday morning, it being near 11:30 here on the Best Coast, but I want to note my profound appreciation for the dadaist-queer-studies feel of every single of the Jiz clips, which reclaim an 80s backwater of shitty animation and terrible cultural values with the most offensive, nonsensical, and brutally funny redub to land online since the GI Joe PSAs.
Thirty years ago people certainly never dreamed of going on holiday and crawling around the bleached and rusting skeletons of the Cold War’s blackest secret weapons, their inner reaches utterly exposed for our delectation. Yet here we have one of the largest Soviet ekranoplans (ground-effect vehicles nicknamed by American intelligence agencies the ‘Caspian Sea Monsters’) laid up in drydock and apparently available for curious tourists to crawl around on.
And photograph exhaustively, for which I am supremely grateful to LiveJournal user igor113 as he has given us a detailed gallery of a journey into the belly of the beast. These images of the great beast could have been taken straight from the pages of Warren Ellis’s IGNITION CITY, filled with product of the finest minds of their generation left rotting and useless in drydock. They should have converted these beautiful, exquisitely weird craft into high-speed passenger ferries.
In sheer defiance of the World Wide Web Consortium's will, Ectomo was designed using a non-web-standard font. Luckily, it is included in the excellent font pack released by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, which can be freely downloaded in Mac and PC formats here. Ectomo should still look fine without it, though.
