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BY THE SAVANTS--STUFF WE'VE SEEN, HEARD, OR READ THIS WEEK, IN NO PARTICULAR
ORDER.
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STEVE PHELEY
MOVIES
The Tao of Steve (good), Highlander: Endgame (as bad
as you expect)
MUSIC
After not caring about any sort of music for quite some time, I bought
the CD Swagger by Flogging Molly. This inspired me to listen
to some Pogues, so now I have all this Irishness in my head.
BOOKS
The People's Choice by Jeff Greenfield has been sitting on
my desk for some time now, crying, "Read me! Read me!"
KADY MAE
BOOKS
Approaching Zero, The Ships of Merior
TV
The Olympics
MAGAZINES
Maximum PC, Discover
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ALEC AUSTIN
MUSIC
Die Laughing- Heaven in Decline
Garbage- Self-titled, Version 2.0
Metallica- S&M, Garage Inc.
WRITTEN
24-page screenplay adaptation of one of my short stories.
PHYSICAL STATE
Sick as a dog.
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JOHN CECIL
BOOKS
All the way up to Queen of the Damned in the Anne Rice Vampire
books. This one's not bad. The others I had to force my way through,
but I like this one. I'm also getting some new drapes this weekend,
and I'm gonna see about getting tickets to Les Mis.
MUSIC
Twice Upon a Time, the Pussies-and-Housewives Siouxsie and
the Banshees collection.
Sting, The Dream of the Blue Turtles
Misfits, Walk Among Us (I want your skull, dammit).
TV
For two fucking weeks, Sex and the City has been set in L.A.
What the fuck is up with that? Apparently it's supposed to show how
New Yorkers make fun of L.A, and vice-versa. Well no shit. I don't
need to see this nonsense. Bring back Mr. Big, fer chrissakes. And
I have to wait four months to see OZ again! I'm gonna kill someone
if I don't get my fix, god dammit! And we count down to the Presidential
debates. Now I'm thinking that Gore's disadvantage might be that he's
being expected to bury Dubya. If Gore only wins marginally, George
looks like a fighter who did better than expected. In a real way,
it's in Dubya's square now. But why on God's Green Earth did the Republicans
allow a debate between Cheney and Lieberman? Lieberman's folksy charisma
is matched only by Cheney's lack of likeability. If I were the Bush
campaign, I wouldn't want both men in the same state, let alone the
same room.
MOVIES
Rented Happiness. Good lord. Between this and Magnolia,
I think I can see the next wave of where Cinema is going. The first
breath of post-Pulp Fiction originality, not influenced by
Seventies exploitation or John fucking Hughes. Don't get me wrong,
I loved Resevoir Dogs and Swingers, but I'm tired of
seeing them endlessly repeated. I'm ready to see movies where the
characters don't all talk like film majors.
DIET DICTIONARY
Diet is going smoothly. First week in, and I had to kill a hippie
in Washington Square Park who was taunting me with a slice of pizza.
I felt bad about it afterwards, but he was an NYU student, so no one
will miss him, really. You shoulda seen the way his body floated,
even weighed down with bricks. All that wheat grass, apparently.
Second week was better. Bludgeoned a yuppie on Rector
street with a ballpeen hammer I'd been carrying around obsessively.
He'd said, "Nice night" as we passed, and I mistakenly thought
he'd said, "Want a bite?" It pissed me off so I kinda hit
him once or twice. Happily, he survived, but then I felt guilty for
letting him go when I'd killed the hippie only four days earlier.
It didn't seem fair, so I chased the yuppie down and killed him then.
Good news: His shoes fit perfectly!
This week, it's easier. I've stopped carrying weaponry
around with me, and I'm getting used to the idea of never being happy
again. My bloodlust is fading as I eat less red meat, and... er, wait
a minute, the guy in the next office is yelling something about a
deli platter. That son of a bitch! Okay, then, gotta go. There's a
pair of scissors here on my desk and I think I know where they belong.
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MAUREEN McTIGUE
Maureen's background noise for most of the past week
has been the Olympics. TV, newspapers, magazines, online, the works.
You do notice how Olympic athletes are just superheroes, right? Amazing
bodies, doing things few others can do, brightly colored tight clothing.
See? And don't get me started on how if swimming can change and advance,
why can't comics?!
Of course, I'm also emersing myself in all things
Australian in anticipation of my own upcoming trip down under.
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PAUL T. RIDDELL
MOVIES
James and the Giant Peach (anyone ever notice how much the
animated James resembles the animated Johnny Rotten in The Great
Rock 'n' Roll Swindle?)
The Whole Nine Yards (anyone notice how much Rosanne Arquette
and Sara Michelle Gellar resemble each other these days?)
BOOKS
Flintknapping: A Guide To Making Stone Tools
Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer
MAGAZINES
Reptiles Monthly
American Journalism Review
Nova Express (currently finishing an article intended to accent
the ongoing interview with Neil Gaiman, looking at the problems with
science fiction magazine distribution versus comics distribution)
COMICS
I went to My Comic Shop to clear out my box and started asking about
a few other titles to throw on the pile. $238 later, a personal record,
I figured that I'm finally going to get caught up on the essentials
such as Goldfish, Whiteout, and Astronauts In Trouble.
I also managed to snag the comic from which I snagged the name for
my Web site, but that was one of the many jewels in the pile: Dork
#8 (I really want to be Evan Dorkin when I grow up. He's just
like me, except I was raised Catholic, I can't draw, and I'm not funny.)
Oh My Goth: Humans Suck #1 ("They say he's got to go/ Go go
Gothzilla!") Adventures of the Rifle Brigade #2 (My father
is a Brit/Scot Catholic. My mother is an Irish/German/Cherokee Lutheran.
This heritage naturally makes me want to beat the shit out of myself,
and explains why I literally laughed myself sick over this puppy.)
WEBSITES
Center of the World Records (http://www.cotwr.com;
the hosts of Fringe Media 2000 on September 30)
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LARRY YOUNG
BOOKS
Look, I'm not kidding about this. Rules for Revolutionairies,
by Guy Kawasaki
Digital Pre-Press for Comic Books by Kevin Tinsley
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MATT FRACTION
Kid A Kid A Kid A Kid A Kid A Kid A Kid A.
And a steady diet of panic and antibiotics.
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DAVE POTTER
BOOKS
Surprisingly, none this week. At all. But face front, true believers!
Watch this space for further announcements.
TV
West Wing (Still the best damn show on TV. Season premiere
first week in October, don't miss it!!!!)
Buffy
Survivor: Back to the Island
NFL Football: All of it.
Inside Politics
The Late Show
X-Files reruns: Duane Barry, Ascension, One Breath
MOVIES
Ghostbusters
Something to Talk About. I found myself relating to this movie.
MAGAZINES
US News and World Reports
Sports Illustrated
Entertainment Weekly
Time
Newsweek
Premiere
NEWSPAPERS
Los Angeles Times
USA Today
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