Legendary musician and producer, Jim worked on some of my favorite music, from playing piano on The Rolling Stones “Wild Horses” to production and piano work on The Replacement’s “Pleased To Meet Me” to piano work on Slobberbone’s “Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today” to just a huge amount of ridiculously good shit. You will certainly be missed.
Monthly Archive for August, 2009
The Joyce family has given approval for “budget” version of Ulysses in order to flood the market prior to the expiration of the copyright in 2012. The article states that the flooding of the market will leave “little incentive for other publishers to bring out other versions.” I’m not so sure about this as a text as rich as Ulysses could certainly benefit from a Penguin edition with copious end-notes, or deluxe illustrated editions.
More clearing out of old flagged items im my RSS reader.
The Alphabet Meme: An A-Z of Nikkatsu Sleaze and Action via Like Anna Kaarina’s Sweater
Stephen Kinzer: Understanding America Through Moby Dick via The Guardian
Shuttle Toolbag Filmed From Earth via Geekologie
HOWTO cook a kick-ass pizza crust in your home oven via Boing Boing
You Never Know What You’ll Find In A Book, via NYT Book Review
The Tale Of Genji At 1,000 via The Economist
At World’s End - 25 Post-Apocalyptic Visions via Weburbanist
Awful For Travel Times, Great For Photography via The Mental Floss Blogs
The Millions Meta-Data 2008 via The Millions
2666 Review In TLS
My RSS reader of choice is Google Reader. I like it because it allows easy flagging of posts for later perusal. The main problem is that I rarely go back to them. In an effort to clean things up, I present a glimpse of how my mind works, 10 articles at a time:
The End Of The Road via Scanners
The Devil and Miss Cody via Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
Alton Brown Pizza Dough Videos via Slice
Power Moby Dick
Steampunk via The Little Professor
French Novel Of The Decade via Conversational Reading
Det Turm In English Via Conversational Reading
The Jewish Thomas Pynchon via Conversational Reading
100 Films For The Ideal Cinematheque via Alternative Film Guide
Unlocking The European Film Vault via Open Culture
If you are J.J. Abrams, apparently the rights to film Stephen King’s Dark Tower
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:
Apparently some pretty heady stuff. In a picture of their recording loft taken with a Gigapan camera, you can zoom in and see some of the details of their book shelves. John Barth, Stanley Elkin and Georges Perec are easily spotted, as are a slew of Dalkey Archive titles. But what’s up with Rudy Giuliani’s “Leadership”?
Other than a live DVD, I’ve never seen a Drive By Truckers video. Until now. Here is a live in studio version of Pollyanna from Patterson Hood’s second solo album, Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)
Updated 8/17/09:
Listen to Vollmann read from and talk about Imperial on KUOW
Review in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Review in The Boston Globe
Cat Dirt Sez “Crime Pay$” in 5 entries into a multi-part review of Imperial
Vollmann talks about Imperial
An interview with Paul Slovak, Vollmann’s editor, at New York Magazine
Buffalo News review
The Economist review
Minneapolis Star Tribune review
New York Magazine review
The New York Times: An Author Without Borders
Philadelphia Inquirer Review
How can you resist a novel whose title refers not only to Nikolai Gogol’s novel of the same name but to a Joy Division song as well? Dead Souls
The works of H.G. Wells are something I would like to tackle someday, especially since I have a deep interest in steampunk. The Croquet Player
The New York times has a slideshow of pictures from William T. Vollmann’s Imperial.
Rumor has it Pynchon lent his voice to this little promotional piece from Penguin books.
The payoff comes about three and a half minutes in, but you should watch from the start for conetxt.
Wired has a nifty Google maps guide to Pynchon’s Los Angeles.
