I heard a brief NPR story on this today and found myself smiling. This is big news, good or bad.
This is the latest article on the project. Se also the official preview page.
The libraries involved are the New York Public Library and the libraries of Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Oxford and the University of Michigan.
Ouch. This has very little to do with the excellent manga. The opening scene is the same, but it jettisons everything except the names and appearances of the characters. Hachimaki is no longer the protagonist. Tanba is, who i don’t think even showed up until the second volume, and wasn’t nearly so insecure and prissy. Instead of the introspective character development in the manga, there’s a lot of broad humor. I’ve only seen the first episode, but it doesn’t seem to be following the same plot. It still looks good though, and without knowing about the hard sci-fi of the manga, i would be more impressed.
The rover Spirit has found the mineral goethite in a rock dubbed Clovis. Goethite occurs only in the presence of water. Apparently it’s hydrated iron oxide.
Both of these links were snared from Metafilter obviously.
The Minneapolis Music Collection
A Punk Rock Flyer Archive 1982 to 1984. Centered on Phoenix, Tuscon, and Los Angeles.
These are the kinds of sites i envision for Louisiana rock one day. I gotta start scanning or transcribing the Final Solution zine after work today. Hopefully i can find that Larry the Punk character.
Nope. It’s not really work. My hours are long and odd, but not that much of a burden yet.
My dead friend? Nah… I mourn her, and it threw me for more of a loop than i would have expected, as i gave up on her years ago. Her memory ought to be provoking me to write more, but most of it is anger that she didn’t pull out of this path of self-destruction years ago, as so many friends of her offered her ways out time after time. It’s not constructive to be angry with her though.
The real reasons are quite trivial…
Reading fragments of Shadow of the Wind, losing my place, and starting over. I should have finished weeks ago, as it’s a quick read, but i’m just not as efficient of a reader as i once was. This ought to be the book that the American book chains should be promoting. We just received stacks of Strange with the red dust jacket. They really seem to think it’s going to take off further. No. Want an eerie, supernatural mystery? Con the people who have been buying Dan Brown’s books into buying Zafon. They have made the connection between Perez-Reverte and the people looking for their ‘more serious’ Da Vinci Code. They need to pull Shadow of the Wind to prominent places. Barnes & Noble had it as part of their Discover series, and my bookstore had it on the New Arrivals table for weeks, but that’s not enough. They need generate more word of mouth. It can happen.
Yes, i’m being petty. I don’t know what my fixation with the hype about Jonathan Strange is. I’d love to see another book, a worthy book, clobber it. Amblongus was disappointed with Cloud Atlas, but it stil irritates me to see how Jonathan Strange is drowning it out on most of the year end lists. I’ve read enough of both (all of one and half of the other,) and i’m certain of myself enough to know which is a more enjoyable read. Bandwagon jumping motherfuckers.
Also, i’ve been wasting all of our bandwidth on downloading a bundle of episodes of Planet ES or Planetes or whatever the true title is. I haven’t seen a single one yet, but it’s my favorite manga by far. I’ve missed the new fourth volume of it. but that can wait. I have to see what this looks like animated.
In the new issue of Big Takeover, i noticed that Fairfield Parlour’s From Home to Home has been reissued. Freakishly lush stuff. Most of it is fitting with the slightly morbid mood i’ve been stuck in lately.
Daltrey’s full version of the story of Fairfield Parlour.
Terrascope’s interview with Peter Daltrey on Fairfield Parlour.
Fairfield Parlour “Aries” It was the small, seemingly mundane details that are woven into the lyrics that get their hooks into me, the real touchstones of memory.
Fairfield Parlour “In My Box” I read Daltrey doesn’t really like this song, and wishes that it was not included on the album, but it still tickles my fancy. It definitely doesn’t fit into the mood of the rest of the album, but i suddenly realized that the Fiery Furnaces accidentally captured this sound! I coudl easily mistake Eleanor’s voice for Peter’s with this one.