The Walrus Blogs have an excellent piece on Pynchon and comics.
In other Pynchon news, the man himself creates an Inherent Vice Playlist
Yahoo has the exclusive trailer for The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus.
The 5 minute red band trailer for Legion is worth a watch:
The Aquarium Drunkard takes a look back the Prince’s Sign Of The Times.
Id Software unveils footage from Rage at Quakecon:
Sequelmania: Cinematical reports that Pixar will be doing a Monsters, Inc 2. This is in addition to Toy Story 3 (which already has a teaser) and Cars 2 (the first wasn’t all that great, do we really need a sequel?)
Danny Boyle will be returning to Mumbai to film one of my favorite books of the last few years, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found.
A selection of the greatest photos of all time, especially #2.
Looking for a movie recommendation? Try the very unique Jinni.
Here’s an amazing inaugural photo (with zoom) by David Bergman.
More inaugural photos at Boston Globe’s The Big Picture. Photo #3, from the GeoEye Satellite is especially impressive.
Google continues to impress with Google Earth. Tour the Prado museum in high-resolution.
Pitchfork reports on Land of Kush, a 30-plus member ensemble, who are releasing an album based on Thomas Pynchon’s Against The Day. (streaming sample after the jump).
Clusterflock has a small sampling of drawings by William T. Vollmann.
Speaking of Vollmann, Europe Central has been adapted into a play:
Dead Poets Society
Jeff Tweedy sings Fake Plastic Trees while joined by Johnny Marr and members of Radiohead:
Maybe I should open a hot-dog stand.
Netflix streaming to be built into TVs. Is there really enough bandwidth for this?
40 years ago in music.
The Mumpsimus gives a heads up on the powerful (and free) screenwriting software, Celtx.
The Guardian,The Independent and The Financial Times preview this year’s coming book releases.
Maybe there should be a carbon tax on bestsellers.
Amazon.com reported that if it stacked end to end all the copies of Breaking Dawn it had sold over the Christmas period, it would reach the summit of Mount Everest eight times. Across 2008 Breaking Dawn was Amazon.com’s best selling item.
More evidence that people will buy anything.
The Shield Vs. The Wire: Two great T.V. shows wrapped up this year. The Guardian debates which one was better.
The New Yorker has a story by Roberto Bolaño.
Popular Mechanics shows how Hollywood classics are prepped for HD release.
RIP Eartha Kitt and Harold Pinter
George Bush, The Reader (via The Literary Saloon)
National Book Award acceptance speech for Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (via Conversational Reading)
Things aren’t much better in the U.K. The Guardian’s top 10 bestsellers in fiction.
VHS is officially dead.
Play Doom And Heretic in your browser.
Man Booker prize sponsor caught in Madoff scandal.
I wish the Mac Vs. PC adds were really like this
