by Rodney Eric Griffith | Armour of Rod | |
Over Thanksgiving I read Chronicles, Volume 1. I have seldom been so absorbed in an autobiography. His storytelling is peerless.
Rodney | 8:02:00 AM [permalink]According to Zeta Minor, Granada Ventures is issuing new DVD editions of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series on 21 February, using remastered prints recently transmitted on BBC2. Both series of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and both series of The Return of Sherlock Holmes, including the feature-length episodes The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles, will be collected on a 9-disc digistack; The Casebook of and The Memoirs of appear on a second 7-disc volume along with the remaining three two-hour episodes (The Master Blackmailer, The Last Vampyre and The Eligible Bachelor). All 16 discs will be made available as The Complete Collection. This edition should make all extant releases (Cinema Club, MPI) redundant.
Rodney | 6:01:00 PM [permalink]A new, exclusive digital EP by Elvis Costello and the Imposters entitled The Futurama Sessions is now available at iTunes.
Rodney | 8:01:00 AM [permalink]This column by Joe Bob Briggs comes to mind every time I see a story about the Far Right’s anti-sexual propaganda programs.
Rodney | 7:30:00 PM [permalink]There’s a great interview with director John Edginton at Roger Waters Online about the upcoming North American DVD edition of The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story, which is the original version as aired on the BBC series Omnibus—we are fortunate not to have to settle for the VH1 version which, according to Edginton, lost the plot (the usual story of American companies’ arrogance, cf. The Capitol Albums, Volume One).
Rodney | 6:04:00 PM [permalink]I’m not sure why, but I had the urge to reread John Keel’s The Mothman Prophecies recently. I had orginally come across the book in 1991, when Illuminet Press did a photo reprint of the 1975 original (Ron Bonds kindly sent me a copy to review; that year Illuminet had also published Kerry Wendell Thornley’s The Idle Warriors). What struck me the first time was the vivid, gloomy and atmospheric snapshot of Ohio and West Virginia in the late 1960s/early 1970s; the second time, I picked up all of the reference material used for The X-Files. I’ve always loved 60s remembrance—the aforementioned Confessions of a Hoaxer was a favourite book as a teenager for this very reason.
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