Achtung Baby!

All the Sin City you can handle

Regional Premiere of Sin City: Photos & Video

[ Robert Rodriguez - Sin City Theme ]

I've been waiting for the Sin City movie for a while and last night I finally saw it. It did not disappoint ( although, for all the talk about it being faithful to the books, I noticed some stuff missing in "The Hard Goodbye" ) The menu at the theater last night included Twice Fried "Marv" Bars, Yellow Mustard Chili Dog and what I had: Nancy's Apple Sindae. CHECK OUT THE ILLUSTRATED SIN CITY MENU! (PDF) My friend Chepo won a Sin City trade paperback before the movie started. One easy trivia question, something about "what other violent movie was Frank Miller involved with". Robocop 2!

+ Austin Statesman: Rodriguez talks 'Sin City': Film critic Chris Garcia chats with director Robert Rodriguez about creating a film-noir world out of special effects.
+ KCRW - film critic Elvis Mitchell half hour discussion with Frank Miller
+ Ebert's review
+ Sin City's Family Tradition: Cultural, Literary and Filmic Analysis
+ BOOK REVIEW: The 'Sin City' comic-book series
+ Sim City
+ From The Comics to the Screen

Coming on April 27th:  the MILLER / EISNER book

U2 - San Diego March 28, 2005 Audio

U2 - San Diego March 28, 2005   - U2 Tours - Show Details

MP3 mirrors: Uno , dos, tres, Catorce.

+ Rumor: DVD Box Set on the Way?

Golden Age of DC Comics: 365 Days

On sale at Amazon (60% off): The Golden Age of DC Comics: 365 Days
• Written and selected by Les Daniels
• Designed and selected by Chip Kidd
• Sequential Tart Review , another review.

Get Away from this DualDisc

I haven't gotten this yet but it is out. I think i'm going to get it from Amazon. Even Sony has it for cheap. I'm not much for double dipping but the price is not bad to have a concert, new songs and the album on 5.1.

DVD Side:
• Entire album in 5.1 Multichannel Surround Sound
• An intimate live performance including the unreleased song Glad
• Two bonus unreleased audio tracks: John-John and Teresa

+ There was a press release on this

[ Universe ]

[  Sara Slean - Universe ( live @ C'est What, Toronto, 1997) ]

This comes from one of my favorite bootlegs. A tape some person sent me when I used to run a Fiona Apple mailing list back in the day. The other side of the tape had an Emm Grynner performance from the same night in which she gave out Pork Rinds to the audience. My tape of this show broke like two years ago and I forgot all about it. Thankfully I now have the Sara side of it on MP3. Still looking for the Emm part of this.

+ Piano Chick with a red choker on alert: Streaming Sarah concert.
+ A fact I did not know: Nightbugs was Produced by Hawksley Workman.
+ Slean taps into spooky songwriting

Neil Notes { March 05 }

first three-quarters of the first chapter of Anansi Boys

Mirrormask [SOUNDTRACK]

Previously...
+ Comics Scene (April 1991)
+ Neil Notes { February }

U2’s Vertigo Tour starts this week

Sneak preview of U2’s Vertigo Tour

The intro music for the set was The Arcade Fire’s ‘Wake Up’ and at the end of the song, Bono’s voice was heard saying ‘everyone’ loudly, over and over again. The the lights slammed down and the intro of ‘City of Blinding Lights’ chimed through the hall.

U2 warms up with free Los Angeles concert

According to reports from the performance, U2 opened with "City of Blinding Lights," followed by "The Electric Co.," "An Cat Dubh/Into the Heart," "Beautiful Day," "Miracle Drug," "Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own" and "Love and Peace or Else."

Other songs on the setlist included "Elevation," "Stuck In a Moment," "Yaweh," "Bullet the Blue Sky," "Running to Stand Still," "Zoo Station," "The Fly" and "Vertigo."

The five-song encore included "Pride (In the Name of Love)," "Where the Streets Have No Name," "One," "All Because Of You" and "40.

Oh please retire "Where the Streets Have No Name" and "Bullet the Blue Sky". Gimmie a break already. No Zoorpa songs either. bleh.

+ U2 Again Looks to Reach New Heights, as 'Vertigo' Tour Opens
+ Lines Notes: What's your first U2 memory?
+ U2 perform at the RRHOF ( audio )

[ The Escaping Song ]

[ Eisley - The Escaping Song Live at KUT Radio ]

Chris Ware Miscellany

Print (September/October, 1997) -  Cover 

I can't find the last page. If I do, I'll update this.
Also, I skipped one page that only had Acme covers.

January 2005, Esquire

+ Arte TV behind-the-scenes documentary on Chris Ware  [via waxy ]
+ Chris Ware + Ira Glass = DVD [ via kottke ]
+ Krazy Kazt Book Cover by Mr. Ware

multiple Star Wars covers

" Entertainment Weekly has provided The Continuum with a first look at its multiple Star Wars covers " WTF? That's two weeks in a row that EW has done multiple covers ( which sucks for subscribers b/c we don't get to pick which one we get ). Did EW get bought out by TV Guide?