Achtung Baby!

and &: a miscellany

+ Lost Season 4 & Blu-ray ( When the hell are they going to release season 1?)
+ Santogold and Mark Ronson
+ Call of Duty 4 and Death Cab for Cutie
+ Nintedo and Wiiware
+ Jon Favreau & Iron Man Comic = Sell Out
+ Zune and Steve Niles
+ Classic Disney & Blu-ray = Sleeping Beauty (::Yawn::)
+ IGN fools & Singstar PS3 
+ Elvis Costello And The Imposters: Go Away 
+ Coldplay vs U2 /  Coldplay: Lost
+ Robin Danar + Rachael Yamagata: 2000 Light Years from Home
+ Dark City + Blu-Ray = Fucking Fantastic

Japanese Culture and Nabokov meet the DC Universe

from the FINAL CRISIS: SKETCHBOOK

Of course Grant Morrison would create a character called "Shy Crazy Lolita Canary" who is part of "Japan's number one pop culture heroes, the Super Young Team" (Final Crisis #2). Nabokov via Japanese Culture say hello to the DC Universe.

"Frank never did like Rock and Roll"

May 14th, 1998. Ol' Blue Eyes passes away.

+Bono introducing Frank Sinatra at the Grammy Awards 1994

    Frank never did like Rock and Roll
    And he's not crazy about guys wearing earrings either
    But he doesn't hold it against me
    And anyway, the feeling is not mutual

    Rock and Roll people love Frank Sinatra because Frank has got what we want:
    swagger and attitude
    he's big on attitude
    Serious attitude, bad attitude
    Frank's the Chairman of the bad
    Rock and Roll plays at being tough but this guy, well, he's the boss
    The boss of bosses
    The man
    The big bang of pop
    I'm not gonna mess with him, are you?

+Bono & The Edge: TWO SHOTS OF HAPPY, ONE SHOT OF SAD
+Sinatra & Bono - I've got you under my skin

+ 10 years after Frank Sinatra's death, daughter Nancy helps keep the legend alive
+ This American Life: Sinatra

VV & Hotel cover the VU

'Sup Magazine Issue 18: 10 Questions with The Kills and Interviews with Santogold, Lightspeed Champion, Tigercity [via]

+ The Kills - Live on The Current: being a broadcast in which they cover VU's "Venus in Furs".
+ The Kills - Last Day of Magic Video
+ The Kills live at Antone's SXSW '08

I thought you were Special ten years ago

Version 2.0  by Garbage, Released on May 12, 1998 in the U.S. This is my favorite Garbage album.

"Special" (brothers in rhythym) remix

+ "You Look So Fine" (live) - Epic!
+ "Push it" (live)
+ "Medication" (live)

How long can I guy go on dreaming

Text: Charles Bukowski

[ Maude Maggart - Deep In A Dream/I Had The Craziest Dream ]

Under the Sea, Under the Sea....Bioshock: The Film

+ Verbinski to Direct BioShock Film

Gore Verbinski's next film will take us back to Davy Jones' locker -- but this time, into the undersea world of BioShock.

Variety reports that the Pirates of the Carribean director has been tapped to direct and produce a film based on the critically acclaimed world of the Xbox 360 game for Universal.

+ Gore Verbinski talks about directing the Bioshock movie

Gore Verbsinski: Of all the games out there, I think "Bioshock" is the one that's the most engaging. I think the whole utopia-gone-wrong story that's cleverly unveiled to players is brimming with cinematic potential.

+ BIOSHOCK: BREAKING THE MOLD PDF Art Book

Criterion + Blu-Ray

A Criterion "Chungking Express" Blu-Ray? Yes, please!

Let's break the walls down And find how to live 'Cause you and I have So much to give

Dear You,

I am getting nowhere with you.

where are you tonight, And how’d we get here?

I’ve been chasing ghosts and I don’t like it

Could I be possibly insane To think you and I have life figured out?

If you try the best you can, The best you can is good enough

The crumbs of love that you offer me, They're the crumbs I've left behind.

I'm in a garden of remembering your fingers in my hand, were like a book made of sand

Just when you feel it
You don't
It's gone forever

Finally it all makes sense
I could keep this all from you

Go away, go away
And leave me on my own

Talking only makes me feel more alone

Adorote by *complejo

Teddy Thompson: I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone

“Talking only makes me feel more alone,”
you said once in the car outside the clinic.
Two years later, you spoke the same sentence
word for word one night after friends had gone.
Within a month, you’d erased yourself    . . .
Erased? “To absent oneself,” I found scribbled on
a wrapper a year later    . . .
   Now sunlight and tree
shadow rush over the windshield of  the car:
I’m talking with my new wife — then gone, absented.
“Sometimes I feel almost too much joy,”
you wrote from the balcony of  your cheap
hotel in Paris. “What are you thinking?” she asks.
Light shutters across us. Wherever you are
in me I’m there, though it’s not what you wanted.
Infidelity by Philip White

The Supremes: Love Is Here And Now You're Gone (2000 Box Set Version)

Ten Years at the Choirgirl Hotel

Tori Amos: "FROM THE CHOIRGIRL HOTEL"
Released in the US on May 5, 1998.

Fact: This was the Tori tour I attended to the most. 3 shows: Austin, Dallas and Kansas City.

Some live performances...
+SPARK
+BLACK DOVE (JANUARY)
+Cruel
+RASPBERRY SWIRL
+Jackie's Strength
+IEEE
+Hotel
+Playboy Mommy
+Pandora's Aquarium
A live mp3...
+Liquid Diamonds

The God of Loneliness

The New Yorker: The God of Loneliness by Philip Schultz [via]

I’m one of eight men waiting
for the doors of Toys R Us to open
in a mall on the eastern tip of Long Island.
We’ve come for the Japanese electronic game
that’s so hard to find. Last week, I waited
three hours for a store in Manhattan
to disappoint me. The first today, bundled
in six layers, I stood shivering in the dawn light
reading the new Aeneid translation, which I hid
when the others came, stamping boots
and rubbing gloveless hands, joking about
sacrificing sleep for ungrateful sons. “My boy broke
two front teeth playing hockey,” a man wearing
shorts laughs. “This is his reward.” My sons
will leap into my arms, remember this morning
all their lives. “The game is for my oldest boy,
just back from Iraq,” a man in overalls says
from the back of the line. “He plays these games
in his room all day. I’m not worried, he’ll snap out of it,
he’s earned his rest.” These men fix leaks, lay
foundations for other men’s dreams without complaint.

+ Naruto - Loneliness
+ Review: Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life / Another Take

my mother, she doesn't bother

Marilyn Minter

[ Priscilla Ahn - Rain ]

Your smile is just a careless yawn

[ Joni Mitchell: You've Changed ]

/ a Saturday miscellany /

+ Radiohead - House of Cards @ Conan O'Brien 23/04/2008
+ Radiohead | In Rainbows From the Basement
+ A non-album Santogold track: "Your Voice"
+ The Kills Live at SXSW '08 teaser
+ "Priscilla Ahn - A Good Day epk
+ U2 Star Television
+ Duffy on Jay Leno
+ The Atomica Project: "Gravity"
+ Four Tet's 'DJ Set' Mix
+ Lucibel Crater: "Threadbare Funeral" w/Lou Reed
+ Austin Screening of Heavy Metal in Baghdad Monday May 5th
+ Lost: Something Twisted Back Home
+ Final Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Trailer
+ I like the idea of "Battle of the muxtapes"
+ Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a Halo 3 fiesta
+ 'Cloverfield' Blu-ray
+ Explore Liberty City with Google Map application
+ The Kooks had a song in Rock Band, right? I recall playing it and liking it.
+ Last Night: M.I.A at La Zona Rosa
+ The Top 100 Comic Book Runs Master List
+ Eisley at ME Television Studios

New York City last week, Liberty City this week

from Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice

I'm suffering from a bit of "too many games out" syndrome. It seems that March/April is the new September/October when it comes to releasing video games. But really, when it comes down to it....

+ 1UP Show: Grand Theft Auto IV Special
- Now the star count goes up to six.
- Oh shit! That's when they send in the Battlestar Galatica to come get you"
+ 'Grand Theft Auto IV' Music Man Explains How Those 214 Songs Made The Soundtrack
+ GTAIV’s Art Director Aaron Garbut on Copycat Games and the Public Bathrooms of Liberty City
+ The history of New York City in video games (via)
+ Grand Theft Auto IV Comparisons
+ Conan O'Brien Shows "Toned Down" GTA IV
+ Boom Blox Theatrical Trailer: Spielberg's Wii Game comes out next week.
+ Speaking of Spielberg: LEGO Indiana Jones Dangerous Times Trailer
+ ScrewAttack: X-Men (Genesis)

Loneliness+Alienation+Fear+Despair+Self Worth....

DC's Final Crisis whiteboard

This equation seems very Grant Morrison...

+ NYT: An Unexpected Comic Book Resurrection: The Flash

P.S. Learn from X-Men 3: If you are going to see "Iron Man" this weekend - Stay After The Credits.

REMINDER: Saturday May 3rd, 2008 is Free Comic Book Day!!!! My pick for best free comic book is "ALL STAR SUPERMAN #1—FCBD 2008 EDITION"

+ Idlewild - Love Steals Us From Loneliness (live)