Achtung Baby!

try sleeping in my bed

+ Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart

“I'll come to you tonight, dear, when it's late, You will not see me; you may feel a chill. I'll wait until you sleep, then take my fill, And that will be your future on a plate. They'll call it chance, or luck, or call it Fate.”
Neil Gaiman

Senseless Acts of Beauty

I know that I should let you fade but there's that box and there's your name

text: Neil Gaiman. Photo.

+ Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman -- Live from New York City
+ Gettin' Wet with Sara Benincasa: NEIL GAIMAN + AMANDA PALMER
+ Beat on the Street: Who Needs Love When There’s Amanda Palmer Cartoon Recaps?
+ Amanda sings The Cure's "In Between Days"
+ Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer at Chapters: "Fake Plastic Trees"
Thanks [R], for the post inspiration.

Daydream. Write.

+ Aerosmith - Dream On (Live)

+ The Cranberries Live - Dreaming my Dreams
+ Marianne Faithfull - Dreaming My Dreams

just a Neil / Leoard tweet

+ If It Be Your Will/Live 2008

"We often confuse what we wish for with what is."

Mirrormask is going to look awesome on Blu-ray.

+  Specs for Mirrormask Blu-ray Revealed
+ ‘Coraline’ Director Henry Selick Sneak Peeks Scenes From Neil Gaiman’s Next Film — And MTV Was There

Death and all her friends

Give me a good ending any time. You know where you are with an ending.
The Sandman: The Kindly Ones, Neil Gaiman

THE ABSOLUTE SANDMAN VOL. 4 comes out next month and concludes that whole thing (my second favorite story arc is included in this volume). At this point I'm more excited for The Compleat Death Deluxe Edition. I cherished the first printing hardcover of "The High Cost of Living" but such is life that I no longer have it. I never bought it again and it goes to show you that if you wait long enough...

"Gaiman's three-part series Death: The High Cost of Living was released by DC in February 1993, and was the single best-selling title for 'mature readers' ever, with the first issue alone selling over 300,000 copies."

The Sandman # 62

John Cale: Dying on The Vine/Live 

+ Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Death Is Not the End
+ Who Killed Dream of the Endless?
+ Neil Gaiman Weighs Possible ‘1602,’ ‘Dr. Strange’ Movies
+ Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book Video Tour
+ Neil Gaiman Writing ‘Batman’ As We Speak

Addicted to Drugs in a Criminal Sidedish Cage

from Apple Volume 2

+ Arcade Fire - My Body Is A Cage [Live At L'Olympia]
+ Ben Folds ft Regina Spektor "You don't Know Me" @ Conan O'Brien
+ Ray Lamontagne: One Lonesome Saddle, Meg White

@ Patrick Tsai via Professional Dreamer

[ Kaiser Chiefs: Addicted To Drugs, Oh My God/Live ]

+ Fiona Apple with Nickel Creek: Criminal , Fast As You Can, Limp, Waltz (Better Than Fine).
+ FIONA APPLE @ HOWARD STERN
+ The Ronnie Mund Show / Ronnie calls Hotheaded Tough Guy

don't ask me why. by ~Moosiatko

+ Rachael Yamagata, 'Sidedish Friend'

+ 2 Candidates, 2 Comics
+ Politifact Truth-O-Meter
+ The Jed Report
+ While waiting for the debate to start, I was channel surfing and ran into this show on PBS: Docubloggers, #119 "Duty".

"Hardship makes the world obscure." 
- Don Delillo

source 1, 2

+ Fanmix: Nobody Has to Stay (Iron Man, Pepper/Rhodey)
+ MORRISON'S PERFECT SUPERMAN
+ All-Stars: How does the Miller/Lee Batman stack up to the Morrison/Quitely Superman?
+ 10 Questions with Neil Gaiman
+ Being a reading of the first chapter of Neil's new book:

+ BILLY THE KID: trailer
+ The Wachowskis: From "2001" to "The Godfather" to "The Matrix"
+ Wong Kar-wai’s Phoenix Project, Rising at Last
+ All dressed up and with no fake id to use. Poor gossip girls
+ Frag Doll Fridays: PAX 08

They say, your brain is a comic book tatoo

[ Tori Amos | Flying Dutchman (live) ]

+ "Comic Book Tattoo" Inspires New Amos Music
+ WATCH TORI’S WEBCHAT
+ Neil Gaiman to Write Batman: "There was at least one audible gasp when Gaiman's name hit the screen, and loud cheers."
+ Tori Amos "Butterfly" (live)

tell me that you love me more

1234 by ~duhitsmia + Feist - 1234 Acoustic Live

+ Olga Nunes - A Dream Of Gardens. Lyrics by Neil Gaiman
+ Rachel Haught- The Stars
+ Santogold Standard |  Santogold's performance at The FADER 51 video
+ Voxtrot @ Webster Hall ( I suggest you click on "Ghost")
+ Lightspeed Champion concert teaser
+ Radiohead: The Best Of DVD is out. What's your favorite video? Its either "Just" or "Street Spirit (Fade Out) " for me.
+ Coldplay performing "Viva La Vida" at the MTV Movie Awards
+ "nerdgirls of the world unite 1"
+ Ok, you want to dance for a minute of two: Crystal Castles, David Guetta + Chris Willis "Love is Gone", The Ting Tings.
+ Laura Marling - Cross Your Fingers/ Crawled Out Of The Sea
+ Mason Jennings @ Daytrotter
+ galacticasitrep: Skippity Bee Bop
+ Introducing Qore
+ PRACTICE SPACE - Lightspeed Champion

Lucifer Morningstar was a Bad Angel

I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through dreams; and the dreamers will wake and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.
SANDMAN #22

[ Rufus Wainwright: Evil Angel ]

When I was fifteen I was looking through half priced comics at an old (mysterious in a Stephen King sort of way) bookstore when I found and bought the issue seen here. Having been brought up in a religious home I was freaked out by having a comic with Satan himself. Never mind the daemons doing it and other terrors contained within. So I had to hide it. I figured, when I'm older maybe this story will make sense and back I went to X-Men and Batman comics. No more of these "Suggested for Mature Readers" comics for me since I was afraid of getting in trouble for having them. This meant that for a few years I had no idea how this story began or how it ended. My resolution to wait until I was older didn't last long because I was fascinated by Dream, Death and the whole family and when I was on a vacation trip ( a year later and away from adult supervision) I bought the newest issue I could find ( part 1 of the "Brief Lives" storyline) and started reading it monthly. And the rest is history. The rest being me insisting that my two favorite High School teachers would read and recognize how good Sandman was. I don't think I got them to read Sandman but I did get Mrs. Hotard to read "The Dark Knight Returns". A great victory in my eyes. One day she's teaching us "The Stranger", the next I'm teaching her about Frank Miller's brilliant Post-Modern Regan Era Anxiety filtering of the myth of Batman.

Powells:"The first book I read was Season of Mists, which remains my favorite for reasons both sentimental and aesthetic. Kwitney notes that this is one of the more popular volumes, largely for its accessible and compelling storyline. This is also the first story in which the Endless appear in their entirety, and the first time Morpheus begins to regret the decisions he has made in the past. Confronted with his own cruelty, Morpheus journeys to Hell to free the lover he'd confined there, only to be handed the key to the realm by Lucifer, who has decided to retire. "

"Would the Lord of hell destroy his realm? Would the Lord of hell ever free the souls held in torment? Would the Lord of hell expel the never-born? Would the Lord of hell abandon the war with heaven?"

"The Lord of hell will do what he damn well likes."
SANDMAN #23

[ Booth And The Bad Angel: Dance Of The Bad Angels ]

Previously....... [ Absolutely ]

+ Dave McKean Links