Achtung Baby!

[ SINCE I FELL FOR YOU ]

Photo: Win Wenders

[ Tom Waits - Since I fell for You ]

get your Superman going on

Recommended books if you want to get your Superman fever going in anticipation of the film.

+ doctorpop review - Showcase Presents Superman - You know all those "Superman is a dick" sites with the funny covers and everything? This is the start of that period. This is wild, crazy, insane, hard to believe stuff, and the thing about it is that this isn't a greatest hits collection. This isn't a "holy wow look at all the fucked up Superman stories that got published" collection. This is a chronological, complete, non-cherry-picked collection of the stuff that came out, and man, LSD wasn't even available yet. These guys were on bennies and booze or nothing at all.

+ Return of the Boy Scout - Superman songs

Mutation......

I'm a big x-men fan and tonight is the night. X-men at midnight. I can't wait.

One of my favorite storylines:
+  Dave's Long Box | NEW X-MEN "E IS FOR EXTINCTION"  

X-men comics were terrible for years and then...
+  Splash Panel | Astonishing X-men

+ Random X-men trivia

Crayon Butchery

Marvel Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E #5 Crayon Butchery Variant

This comes out today. A comic book you can color yourself. If you don't like this you are clearly a communist.
 

Cohen on the Radio

Fresh Air from WHYY, · Leonard Cohen's poetry career began 50 years ago with the 1956 publication of Let Us Compare Mythologies. His new volume of poetry is called Book of Longing. Cohen, known better as the deep-voiced writers of songs that straddle the folk-rock fence, is also working on an upcoming album to be released later this year.

CBC Radio (at the bottom),· Poet, singer, songwriter, Canadian icon Leonard Cohen joins Shelagh Rogers for a full hour of great conversation about his life in music and poetry. Five of Leonard Cohen's songs were recently inducted into the Canadian Songwriters' Hall of Fame.

+ Paste - the 100 living songwriters issue: #6. leonard cohen
+ Rufus - Chelsea Hotel #2

Dilated for ten years

[ Ani DiFranco - Dilate (Live 1997) ]

From the album "Dilate" - Release Date: May 21, 1996

+ SALON: File Under Righteous Babe

Nature

// Muse - Nature 1
// Liz Phair - Freak of Nature
// Belly - Feed The Tree

bono on kids, kites..

Old 2001 Gear Interview

Bono the Editor

+ The Independent: Bono, Guest Editor

+ Bush gifts: iPod from Bono

 

Young Rimbaud

If you are young and you don't happen to be Arthur Rimbaud
we would prefer not to hear from you
and if you happen to be Arthur Rimbaud
we definitely don't want to hear from you
Leonard Cohen, The Book of Longing

What I liked were: absurd paintings, pictures over doorways, stage sets, carnival backdrops, billboards, bright-colored prints, old-fashioned literature, church Latin, erotic books full of misspellings, the kind of novels our grandmothers read, fairy tales, little children's books, old operas, silly old songs, the naive rhythms of country rimes.
Arthur Rimbaud , SECOND DELIRIUM: THE ALCHEMY OF THE WORD,  A Season In Hell

+ Jill Sobule and Billy Bragg - "All the Young Dudes"