Today I got Lewis Trondheim's "Little Nothings vol 2: The Prisoner Syndrome" in the mail. I won't hesitate to say that it's even better than the first volume. I already wrote about this series HERE - no need to repeat myself. If you want to read a nice review of the book with lots of well-chosen pages sampled, go HERE.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Trondheim's "Little Nothings"
Thursday, March 26, 2009
"King Smurf"
In the US the Smurfs are mainly known for the mass produced saturday morning cartoon series, but the original comics included a handful of truly classic masterpieces. Here's an article about "King Smurf", which is arguably one of the greatest comic book stories ever created.
Among other things the article says: "I really do truly love that this comic is aimed squarely at kids. There's no respect for anything at all in here. Not military service, not heads of state, not the fundamentals of democracy... it's great! It's awesome, noisy slapstick paired up with bizarre fits of witty sophistication, all in a crispy pretzel cone of rampant anti-authoritarianism. How could the cartoon get so fucking saccharine? Smurfs have teeth! Shit out in the woods? It bites you."
Sadly the book hasn't been published in English since 1978. Go hunt on ebay!
Monday, March 16, 2009
George Lucas Raped My Childhood Part XIV
So apparently George Lucas original idea was that Indiana Jones had had sex with Marion when she was only eleven years old.
Not one of your better ideas George... well, obviously better than the prequels and the animated Star Wars movie, but still pretty bad. :-(
Monday, March 9, 2009
My short history of 20th Century music
I don't know what this list is exactly. I guess it's a bit like that Stephin Merritt list I posted - it's just my roughly chronological view of the weird and wonderful history of 20th century music, as I see it at this point in time. My view will probably have changed in a few months or years. It's such a huge and complex subject.
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