by Rodney Eric Griffith | Armour of Rod | |
Vic Singh is offering signed prints of his cover photo for the first Pink Floyd LP, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
Rodney | 7:04:00 PM [permalink]The Manchester Comedy site has posted a lengthy interview with Kevin Booth about the Agent of Evolution book.
Rodney | 7:00:00 PM [permalink]Brian’s Google ranking for the Bush soundboard is #1. Just by typing in “soundboard” he’s #7.
Rodney | 7:09:00 PM [permalink]Yesterday’s New York Times had a fascinating excerpt from a forthcoming book by Steven Johnson, Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter which argues persuasively that episodic television like 24 and The Sopranos has increased attention span and cognitive appetite.
Rodney | 7:00:00 AM [permalink]You should see it… fluffy snow has covered all of the trees.
It’s funny how, as a child, everything on television looked so old. This was long before anyone cared about quality, and probably still a time when syndicated reruns were distributed on 16mm, not videotape. It was really striking and weird how something less than 10 years old looked like necromancy and today it just looks like yesterday. (It didn’t help that the 1970s were all about decay and denial.) Same with the Marvels: I was always really haunted by the reprints. The 1960s seemed so far away.
I was born in the late 1960s so I had some of it embedded in my subconscious but geographically and interpersonally I might as well have been in the middle of nowhere.
The 1980s were even worse, up until around 1986 anyway.
1. It’s still snowing (in fact, the ground is white—and it was over 80° F a week or so ago)
2. Matt Sobek posted for the first time since December
3. A withdrawn 1995 Adam Ant CD single is currently showing a bid of over £1100 (US $2150) on eBay.
