I met Death in my dream again last night. He was in a small supermarket with me, smiling like a talk show host and speaking in his slippery eel’s voice. That night Death had short neat hair and a suit that looked like it had been worn all day, just like any other man sliding [...]
Entries from February 20th, 2009
DNA Helix CD Racks
February 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Music, japan
I bought these just before we left Japan – CD racks designed to mimic a DNA helix. The kind of geeky cool that is right up my street, even if they are fairly impractical, with the top and bottom CDs being at a 180 degree angle to each other.
The manufacturers website is here.
FFF: The Folksinger
February 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Friday Flash Fiction
Not long to go now till showtime. He sits in the dressing room on his own -he hasn’t had to share a dressing room for years – and waits. Sometimes if the layout of the building is right he can hear the audience from here, a low hum of anticipation that feeds through from [...]
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Lux Interior RIP
February 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Music
Not a good few days for rock. First John Martyn goes (more of which tomorrow), and today some goon on Radio 6 spoiled my breakfast by telling me that Lux Interior had died. My abiding memory of The Cramps is my dad flicking through a copy of NME in, oooh 1989 or thereabouts, [...]
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INTERZONE 220
February 5th, 2009 · No Comments · SF, books
Interzone 220 is blessed with one of the finest covers I’ve ever seen on the magazine (and I’ve been reading since 24).
As for the content, there’s six stories this time round. The issue kicks off with Jason Stoddard’s “Monetized”, a neat enough tale of a near future world where advertising is quite literally in your [...]