tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59793252011-05-02T11:23:15.509+09:302004Entries for the year 2004 by Eroom NalaEroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.comBlogger781100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1099886703844225172004-11-08T14:28:00.000+10:302004-11-09T13:23:37.103+10:30A friend of mine in Brazil sent me a copy of Just One Page for the Trinity Hospice Charity
(72 pages of the Best British Comics)
V2 Five Pounds Only!
May 2004
Comics
Magazine
Thanks Jose.
Previews of some of the artwork it contains are visible here and a list of all the contributors is here
Here's the Promethea artwork by Sam Hart
For anyone intersted in the history of British Comic Book Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1098757889670258682004-10-26T11:57:00.000+09:302004-10-26T15:07:14.146+09:30Sunday was my oldest daughter's 4th birthday. The party was at our house and a splendid time was guarranteed for all. There seems to be a lot of children born around the same time in our local area. Went to another birthday party last weekend and over the next month or so there's another 4 parties to go to.
The wife is singing in the chorus of a local amateur dramatic society's production of Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1098081846456075992004-10-18T16:08:00.000+09:302004-10-18T16:18:40.573+09:30Today I received a copy of David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus (Savoy Books, 2002)
The 11 page foreword by Alan Moore included two photos of Lindsay that Alan comments on.
Could push us out of the constrictive house of Sense we've built to shield us from the Universe and into Non-sense, down there in the word soup with Lear's Jumblies, Lindsay's phaens, Dee's lexical monstorsities, with Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1097736686580109442004-10-14T16:15:00.000+09:302004-10-14T16:26:49.973+09:30A Hypothetical Lizard
The cover for Alan Moore's A Hypothetical Lizard can be found here
And here's a short summary of it.
Still no release date given yet.
The extended summary from Avatar reads:
One of Alan Moore's greatest works and his most critically acclaimed novella of all time is now painstakingly adapted to comic books. Moore's frequent collaborator Antony Johnston has carefully Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1097549083965152852004-10-12T13:11:00.001+09:302004-10-12T13:38:17.683+09:30The Death of Superman
It happened in the comic books a while ago now and he was eventually resurrected but the last actor to play Superman on the big screen has died 9 years after the horse riding accident that paralysed him from the neck down.
Christopher Reeve
"In his final year of Cornell, he was one of two students selected ( Robin Williams was the other) to study at New York's famous Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1097464040850987712004-10-11T13:33:00.000+09:302004-10-11T13:35:03.460+09:30Happy Birthday Joan
Cusack that is the sister of John Cusack and a great actress in her own right. See School of Rock for one of her recent movies.
Recent deaths:
Janet Leigh best known for being murdered in the shower 44 years ago.
Jacques Derrida father of Deconstructionism even if he never bothered to define it properly.
Recent purchases:
Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker #21 in the SF Masterworks Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1096521153897274132004-09-30T14:41:00.000+09:302004-09-30T15:10:07.376+09:30Happy Birthday Mom
Today is my mothers birthday.
For a present I got her A Celebration of Sellers plus another CD of the best of Xavier Cugat. He had an easy birthday to remember 1st January, 1900.
For some reason when you do a search on "Eroom Nala Glob" on Yahoo the first page you get is not one of mine but one from Anthony J Hicks. He's got some interesting photos of Japanese Gothic girls Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1096345478172520042004-09-28T13:49:00.000+09:302004-09-28T15:59:37.466+09:30Latest additions to my Alan Moore library are Maxwell the Magic Cat Volume IV, Shocking Futures and Twisted Times.
All purchased from
"It's a funny old world. These days, as a colossus bestriding the industry, I can have my work presented in more or less any format I like, see it illuminated by colours plucked fresh and dripping from the opium-racked visions of a Coleridge or De Quincy and Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1095999629774735352004-09-24T13:46:00.000+09:302004-09-24T14:19:39.706+09:30Just to give all us future potential buyers a taste of what's to come Jess Nevins has posted the first 3 entries from his forthcoming Encylcopedia of Fantastic Victoriana online. Just in case you were wondering they're for
Aballino Abbadona and Abdallah
Eric Shanower has put the new Little Margie in Misty Magic Land story into his Forthcoming Publications list
Tomorrow Stories Special: ABC/DC Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1095811272512701122004-09-22T09:26:00.000+09:302004-09-22T13:58:10.376+09:30Yesterday was Stephen King's birthday #57. I only know because I woke up early and wound up watching monring news from some American network where they wheeled him out to promote the last volume of the dark tower septology as well as a popupbook version of the Girl who Loved Tom Gordon. Then they brought out a birthday cake done in the style of the cover of Dark Tower #7 except they added a Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1095652677103510142004-09-20T13:22:00.000+09:302004-09-20T13:53:33.026+09:30Happy 70th Birthday to Sophia Loren
If Peter Sellers were still alive no doubt he would be singing
"Well goodness gracious me"
Jasper Fforde signed 4 of his Thursday Next novels for me. One to each of my two daughters, one to my wife and one to me. Also he gave me 4 postcards. One for each book. Conspiracy Theorist and 3 of the 7 Wonders of Swindon. (Numbers 3, 4 and 7) The Double Helix of Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1095316779285080302004-09-16T16:05:00.000+09:302004-09-17T07:32:29.226+09:30Immortalized in Leggo
Yes it's happened to Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison and Alan Moore
Looks like a police lineup to me. Why is Alan cross-eyed? Maybe he doesn't want to be fingered by the crime victim.
The one on the right officer. I'd recognize that red beard anywhere
Reading Jasper Fforde's Something Rotten finally.
As usual Chapter 13 is missing. It's called Milton but like in the Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1095052922915158712004-09-13T14:49:00.000+09:302004-09-14T17:16:14.026+09:30All in the Family
or
Like Father like daughter
One of my favourite book dedications of all times would have to be what PG Wodehouse wrote for his 1926 novel The Heart of a Goof
"To my daughter, Leonora, without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time."
Alan Moore’s daughter Leah has recently started up a webpage helping to promote the Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1094869444972095662004-09-11T11:44:00.001+09:302004-09-11T14:11:21.983+09:30Recent purchases include:
Smax the Hardcover edition
The Starry Wisdom: a tribute to HP Lovecraft edited by DM Mitchell which has the original printing of Alan Moore's The Courtyard story and also a 32 page adaptation of the Call of Cthulhu by John Coulthart.
Unfortunately not the much better cover done by John
Here's the original artwork without the title and names.
I pointed out to JohnEroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1094597006330821832004-09-08T08:10:00.000+09:302004-09-09T08:47:51.253+09:30Rick Veitch is posting drawings of his dreams online at Comicon and calling it Little Omens
He had one about visiting Alan Moore
Alan pointed out (when I sent him the mini-comic years ago) that Dennis spelled backwards is "sinned".
You'd think with my pseudonym I would have guessed the Dennis Sinned idea.
Quote for the day:
Jesus wept
Lazarus laughed
Useless facts you can learn from Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1094097799436396142004-09-02T13:26:00.000+09:302004-09-08T14:16:42.073+09:30Happy Father's Day to me
And my father's day present this year is:
The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society 3-CD Special Deluxe Edition just recently released.
I wonder if Alan Moore listened to it before he started writing League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
We are the Sherlock Holmes English Speaking Vernacular
Help save Fu Manchu, Moriarty and Dracula
- Ray Davies
My own Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1093933609936027202004-08-31T15:50:00.000+09:302004-09-02T13:37:27.100+09:30Yesterday 3 different items I'd ordered a while ago all arrived at the same time. A CD of Robert Calvert's Lucky Leif and the Longships
, a signed copy of Jess Nevins A Blazing World
and the first issue of Following Cerebus.
Lots of reading to catch up on. I also managed to order a copy of Bryan Talbot's The Adventures of Luther Arkwright which I'm devouring at the moment not to mention Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1093387201637942612004-08-25T08:06:00.000+09:302004-08-25T09:24:09.113+09:30P3
Today is the day of the publication of the penultimate Promethea. #31 which has the same title as Issue #1
The Radiant Heavenly City
I'll try and annotate it as soon as I can
4 Color Heroes
The other night I watched some of a documentary about Leonard Cohen promoting his old album Ten New Songs.
At one point he said something like
"I never wanted to work for pay but I did want to be Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-109324080148208422004-08-23T15:28:00.000+09:302004-08-25T09:41:41.956+09:30Oh Carol!
Here's a picture of the scrumptious Carol Cleveland to complement the recent Vanity Fair one of the Pythons in coffins. A shame they couldn't have used her in the original photo
and here's another picture of how she looked back in the '70s as she appeared in the milkmen sketch on the Python TV show.
Reading: Suicide Blonde: The Life of ">Gloria Grahame by Vincent Curcio.
Gloria Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1092804341750692192004-08-18T14:13:00.000+09:302004-08-18T16:02:41.400+09:30Rush Request
Tonight a friend of mine and I are off to see Geoffrey Rush introducing on stage the film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers in which he plays the starring role.
Just a short time ago in the library where I work I got a rush request to be filled within two hours and it was for the book The Life and Death of Peter Sellers by Roger Lewis. When I told someone else at work about it Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1092701786479878452004-08-17T09:44:00.000+09:302004-08-18T15:59:37.446+09:30Harpo Marx = God !!!
In a letter I wrote to Cerebus illustrator/writer Dave Sim amongst other things I asked him if he'd do an illustration of Harpo Marx for Following Cerebus and his reply was
I suppose it's possible that I might do a Harpo drawing for Following
Cerebus at some point. You know, for years the ending of Cerebus was
going to feature a pull back to a ghostly image of two handsEroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1092373329912878552004-08-13T14:30:00.000+09:302004-08-13T14:43:38.956+09:30Happy Birthday, Fred
It's Alfred Hitchcock's birthday today.
Thanks for all the thrills Al and a big Moo from any actors to you
"I didn't say actors are cattle.
What I said was, actors should be treated like cattle"
- Alfred Hitchcock
Listening to Robert Calvert's Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters
"G for Germany"
"It would be an honour to crash in such a plane"
Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1092101959137796942004-08-10T10:59:00.000+09:302004-08-10T11:25:37.206+09:30Rare Album on CD
Vivian Stanshall's LP Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead is available on CD albeit in a not the best quality copy. See my entry for June 21st this year. You can purchase it from Metro Music for a mere $15 (US).
Just do a search on Vivian Stanshall and the first item that comes up is The Forgotten Genius of Vivian Stanshall The Men opening umbrellas LP Plus rare singles & outtakes-hot
Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1091515245217790262004-08-03T16:02:00.000+09:302004-08-17T16:35:11.510+09:30Films seen
On Video
Jack Black in School of Rock.
The purpose of rock music is to "Stick it to the man"
Great Artists in the World of Comics : Moore
Click here for an image from the video cover.
QUOTE
VIDEO Moore-(Roland-Collection, UK,?)-British scriptwriter Alan Moore has served to revolutionize the world of comics from a literary point of view. His work on traditional characters and new Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1091147237357798902004-07-30T09:53:00.000+09:302004-07-30T14:09:43.636+09:30Guilty Pleasures
I think it was Film Comment magazine which used to run interviews with famous film makers and part of it would be a listing of their 10 guilty pleasures. Films they liked even though they knew the films weren't all that good or had some sort of stigma attached to them.
Well over the last couple of nights between midnight and dawn on TV I managed to watch two such guilty Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1090889736408948222004-07-27T10:16:00.000+09:302004-07-27T10:32:44.056+09:30Two new books I just received are:
Cerebus Book 16: The Last Day signed by Dave Sim and Gerhard.
My book is #65 of 1000
From the final annotations pg. 260
"...Egypt in the earliest records we have had become an essentially
lower-than-bestial culture while retaining the residue of more
advanced technologies which were probably a mix of science, alchemy
and the sort of perverse disciplines Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1090642106075906322004-07-24T13:29:00.000+09:302004-07-24T15:24:01.570+09:30The Tragedy at
Scarsdale Villas
A
Real-Life
Sherlock
Holmes
Mystery
Reading an article with that title in today's Sydney Morning Herald.
Richard Lancelyn Green an expert on Conan Doyle found dead in his home an apparent suicide but in very mysterious circumstances.
See also Return of the Curse of Conan Doyle and the Breaking News biography of him. Also Open verdict in death of Holmes Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1090473676907685982004-07-22T14:43:00.000+09:302004-07-23T13:46:39.673+09:30Today I bought a copy of the latest Nick Drake album Made to Love Magic. Surely it'll also be the last new Nick Drake album what with him having been dead all of 30 years now.
For some strange reason my cover of the CD is a reverse mirror image of the one shown below (old woman on the left, Nick on the right) and a headline has been added to the blank Evening News space MANY YEARS AGO.
Also Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1090371281650380192004-07-21T10:23:00.000+09:302004-07-21T16:10:53.750+09:30Happy Birthday Yusuf
It's Cat Stevens 56th birthday today.
If the cat photo is visible it is one of two cats I own or rather one of two cats who own me. His name is Lord Brett Sinclair and he's named after one of the characters from this TV series.
Naxos Audiobooks recently released James Joyce's Ulysses unabridged on 22 CD's.
From Ginger Geezer The Life of Vivian Stanshall pg. 319:
The Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1090317917629570462004-07-20T19:33:00.000+09:302004-07-20T20:14:09.843+09:30"The Eagle has Landed"
It was 35 years ago today that man first landed on the moon.
Here's the Wikipedia entry
I was 7 years old at the time and remember sending a drawing to NASA who sent back a copy of the moon plaque set up at the time.
"We came in peace for all Mankind" signed by the US president at the time who was Richard Nixon.
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Walked past a funeral at my local church Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1090033796411477602004-07-17T12:38:00.001+09:302004-07-17T15:16:26.213+09:30Harry Who?
Searching through Neil Gaiman's website journal for mention of Alan Moore I came across the following at the end of the entry for July 12th, 2004
Alan Moore told me recently that he sometimes has friends over and they play the Harry Stephen Keeler game, where each has a Keeler book, and they sit in a ring and take turns in reading alternate sentences from the Keeler books they're Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1089782406185837482004-07-14T14:45:00.000+09:302004-07-14T15:05:57.550+09:30Off with their Heads!!!
- Queen of Hearts
Happy Bastille Day to everyone
Great news about my PGB which I'm going to keep to myself for the moment.
All I can say is that there is now a great reason for people to buy the book regardless of it's contents.
That's all I want to say for now.
:-)
Harvey Awards 2004
League of Extraordinary Gentleman Volume II won the Harvey for Best Continuing orEroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1089686153253876852004-07-13T11:59:00.000+09:302004-07-13T13:06:30.163+09:30Magic Cats
My copies of the first 3 books of Alan Moore's 5 panel strip Maxwell the Magic Cat arrived from
just the other day. Unfortunately book 4 is not out of stock there but I've told Stan Coleman the owner to keep a lookout for me in case he manages to find another copy. Next up I'll be ordering Shocking Futures and Twisted Times
While Alan wouldn't win any prizes for the artwork the Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1089266052126708532004-07-08T15:17:00.000+09:302004-07-09T14:20:57.353+09:30What I did on my one week holiday
Mostly just looking after my two little girls aged 2 and 3 1/2 but also managed to read or start reading 3 biographies:
Nick Drake: The Biography by Patrick Humphries
Ginger Geezer: The Life of Vivian Stanshall by Lucian Randall and Chris Welch
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Anger: The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger by Bill Landis
Read the first half of Taboo: "Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1088564853040660392004-06-30T12:34:00.000+09:302004-07-08T15:46:36.673+09:30Holiday
Off on a weeks holiday so no more updates till July 8th.
Recently started taking piano lessons again for the first time in years. I need the discipline of a weekly lesson to keep me practising and now that my two girls are growing up enough (2 & 3 1/2 years) it should be a bit easier to find the time to practice.
Starting off with some Czerny exercises and also want to learn the preludes Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1088488917063144322004-06-29T15:24:00.000+09:302004-06-29T15:40:03.306+09:30JH Williams III Interview
Great news.
Promethea's illustrator JH Williams III finally found the time to answer some interview questions I sent him a while ago.
The proper interview can be found here
and just the text is here
Listening to Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville
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Help me Mary please.
I've lost my home to your thieves
They bully the stereo and drink
They leave suspicious thingsEroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1088408394237524082004-06-28T17:06:00.000+09:302004-06-28T17:25:48.406+09:30Happy Birthday Melvyn KaminskyIt's Mel Brooks 78th birthday.
The stage version of The Producers recently opened in Australia and when he was out here promoting it he did a nice interview with Andrew Denton.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die
- Mel Brooks
Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1088130163564370752004-06-25T11:45:00.000+09:302004-06-25T13:26:14.343+09:30
Finally managed to finish reading Latter Days which took quite a while what with all of Cerebus' commentary on the book of Genesis in such small print. Quite enjoyed all the illustrations of Woody Allen in famous scenes from Fellini and Bergman films. One of the new books acquired by the library where I work recently is Peter Bondanella's The Films of Frederico Fellini which has the picture Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1088052229226556092004-06-24T14:09:00.000+09:302004-08-11T12:09:03.300+09:30Notes on Technical Vocabularies
Some notes about Alan Moore & Steve Moore Publication
Technical Vocabularies
A quote from a friend
the title of "Technical Vocabularies" is a quote from "a passage in Theophile Gautier's biographical piece about Baudelaire where he defines the 'Decadent style'..." (the 19th century Decadent writers being a shared interest of Steve Moore and Alan Moore) "... one Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1087959167070499382004-06-23T12:15:00.000+09:302004-06-23T12:27:24.830+09:30The New Adventures of Jesus
Forgot to mention that when I went to see Harvey Pekar do a talk at the Sydney Writers Festival a while ago he recommended The New Adventures of Jesus by Frank Stack or to use his pseudonym Foolbert Sturgeon.
Denis Kitchen bio
Ditto for Graphic Classics
He also recommened Jules Feiffer.
Lambiek Bio
Obscurity KnocksEroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1087811955855551132004-06-21T19:23:00.000+09:302004-06-23T11:26:40.676+09:30Ginger Geezer
Just became the one thousand one hundred and fifty fourth person to sign the Please reissue Vivian Stanshall's MEN OPENING UMBRELLAS AHEAD, Warner Brothers! Petition
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Having recently read pg. 114 of June 2004 Uncut magazine and having listened to Teddy Boys Don't Knit recently purchased & having fond memories of Trevor Howard in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End how could I Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1087701097304688912004-06-20T12:34:00.000+09:302004-06-25T12:15:13.120+09:30Nice small birthday party for my two year old daughter. Amongst the presents she got was Grame Base's Animalia
which reminded my of an alliterative story I tried to write years ago:
At Aristophane's abode an ancient adage assured all acquisitive anthropologists assuming alliterative ambitions "Beware Beelzebub's beatitudes...."
but I gave up before I got very far.
At night after the girls and Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1087546809603491552004-06-18T17:48:00.000+09:302004-06-20T12:34:43.043+09:30And in her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years
Today is Paul McCartney's 62nd birthday. Tomorrow my youngest daughters' 2nd birthday. Only two more years and then
When I get older losing my hair
Many years from now
My copy of Cerebus Latter Days arrived. Wow.
More later have to go now.Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1087351912625104602004-06-16T11:39:00.000+09:302004-06-16T13:54:07.180+09:30Bloomsday Centennary
100 years ago today James Joyce met his future wife Nora Barnacle. When his father was told her surname he remarked
She'll never leave him
To commemorate the day he set the entire plot of Ulysses as taking place on this day.
Last night I read the Ithica chapter which is my favourite.
Happy Bloomsday everyone.
Technical Vocabularies has already sold out. I wonder which Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1087267935528174052004-06-15T12:21:00.000+09:302004-06-16T11:43:40.480+09:30Here's a good webpage for Cerebus fans
Alex's Cerebus Page
The Great Promethea Re-read is now set to begin in a few weeks.
I found out about this at Neil Gaiman's website
The 2nd biggest man in comics : The Alan Moore Interview.
Great interview with Antonio Banderas on Andrew Denton's Enough Rope last night.
Listening to: Elvis Costello's Cruel Smile.
Smile, though your heart is aching
Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1087014846945981322004-06-12T13:58:00.000+09:302004-06-15T15:24:58.176+09:30Technical Vocabularies
Just found out about a new rare Alan Moore publication called
Technical Vocabularies from Top Shelf.
A 24-hour mini of poetic verse by Alan Moore and Steve Moore. Alan Moore's first mini, signed and numbered by both and limited to 75 copies. With a cover drawn by Alan Moore. This is a rare gem that won't be around for long. A Top Shelf website exclusive.
I've put in anEroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1086658374889516612004-06-08T11:00:00.000+09:302004-06-15T15:24:34.603+09:30G & T
Just found out about a big screen biopic of Monty Python's Graham Chapman to be entitled Gin and Tonic.
Wonder if Douglas Adams based his Captain of the "B" Ark in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy partly on Graham.
One's never alone with a rubber duck you know.
Gin and tonics all round
QUOTE
The open call for the new Monty Python biopic went
pretty much as expected in New York at the Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1086580139532738032004-06-07T13:07:00.000+09:302004-06-08T11:05:16.783+09:30Ronald Reagan
RIP
Fond memories of an old TV series called Spitting Image where The Presidents Brain is Missing was a regular ongoing joke. The Brain went holidaying on a beach somewhere while Reagan's body had to copy with politics.
He just missed out on the 60th anniversary of D-Day with which local TV has been flooded yesterday. One thing I learnt was that for the first 48 hours after landingEroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1086313794549276952004-06-04T11:14:00.000+09:302004-06-04T12:32:37.956+09:30He's got insomnia and he's trying to sleep it off
- Chico Marx about Harpo in
A Night at the Opera
Had insomnia last night between midnight and about 3am so I stayed up listening to Neil Innes' Recycled Vinyl Blues, Tubular Bells and Beethovens Chamber Pieces whilst making notes from Cavendish's Man, Myth and Magic and reading entires on Blake, Bosch and Breughel.
Today is Olympic Torch Relay Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1086219532845794702004-06-03T09:06:00.000+09:302004-06-03T10:43:43.523+09:30If you've found a friend on whom you think you can rely you are a lucky man
And if you've found a reason to live on an not to die you are a lucky man -
Alan Price
Found a great Malcolm McDowell webpage
Just took the Which Monty Python character are you quiz and got
French Guard
I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageousaccent, you silly king-a?!
What Monty Python Character are you? Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1086156090984604342004-06-02T15:24:00.000+09:302004-06-02T15:57:00.560+09:30It's Charlie Watts birthday today.
Decided to keep a seperate glob to post any updates on the Promethea Guide Book I'm writing.
Appropriately enough it's called
Promethea Guide Book Updates
You can even Post Comments to it if you want.
I got the idea from Rudy Rucker who did the same thing when he was writing a recent novel called As Above, So Below. His exhaustive notes to this process can beEroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1086067387963623922004-06-01T14:46:00.000+09:302004-06-02T15:55:16.336+09:30First day of winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
Also Collen McCullough's birthday. Mostly known as the author of The Thorn Birds whose TV adaptation she apparently despises but her best work is supposed to be her Masters of Rome series. Quoting from this webpage
Masters of Rome Series:
This incredible series spans the final years of the Roman republic from the rise of Sulla, Rome's first Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1085985253686900962004-05-31T16:00:00.000+09:302004-05-31T16:07:27.090+09:30Finally first rough draft of annotations to Promethea #30 are now online. Finished first rough version of PGB Character Index up to Issue #30.
For anyone who thinks Madonna might have any significance to Promethea and Alan Moore
viz a viz
QUOTE
i agree that Alan has not made even the vaguest reference to Madonna.
but even if alan despises her i don't see how he could argue the fact she Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1085902271271789872004-05-30T16:58:00.000+09:302004-05-31T16:10:40.106+09:30Just got my signed copy of Mirror of Love
#103/500
to accompany my copies of Voice of the Fire 115/500 and From Hell Book One The Compleat Scripts #480 of 1000
a beautiful book in many respects. Sized to make the most of Jose
Villarubia's great photos. 40 in all or 39 if you don't count the
completely black page to accompany the text:
"The showers, they say,
held bodies piled
as if the strong andEroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1085611901672776902004-05-27T08:15:00.000+09:302004-05-27T08:24:13.556+09:30Everything Must Go!
is the title of Promethea #30 which I should be picking up today finally.
Listening to:
Richard Thompson
There's nothing at the end of the rainbow
There's nothing to grow up for anymore
Cheery soul isn't he? A collection of his best bootlegs is called Doom and Gloom from the Tomb
:-)
also listening to:
Tim Buckley
Should I stand amid the breakers?
Should I lie with Death Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1085528836735028182004-05-26T09:15:00.000+09:302004-05-26T12:36:48.533+09:30Yesterday was Gandalf's birthday.
Jess Nevins' A Blazing World: The Unoffricial Companion to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol II is now available for pre-order. Shipping in August.
Gary Spencer Millidge has released the news that his Alan Moore biographic is being reprinted in the French magazine Bang #5.
This French translation is the first time the strip has appeared in full colourEroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1085376770713684342004-05-24T14:58:00.000+09:302004-05-24T15:54:57.720+09:30Happy Birthday Robert Zimmerman
His Bobness turns 63 today. When I told my wife I couldn't believe that Tom Jones is older than Bob Dylan. If John Lennon were still alive he would have been 64 this year too.
Will you still need me
Will you still feed me
Looking forward to the Sydney Film Festival this year.
They're doing an Antonioni retrospective and I hope to
see Geoffrey Rush in The Life Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1085111836635282332004-05-21T13:21:00.000+09:302004-05-21T13:41:13.930+09:30Saw Harvey Pekar last night at the Sydney Writers Festival being interviewed along with Michael Leunig.
The first question she asked was about superheroes and
specifically the early scene in the film where a young
Harvey goes trick of treating on Halloween and he's
the only one dressed in normal clothes while the other
kids are Batman or Spiderman, etc. She asked him if
that was accurate about Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1085010997213940322004-05-20T09:24:00.000+09:302004-05-20T15:43:19.723+09:30The Last Day
Cerebus fans now have a chance to buy the very last Book #16 The Last Day.
I think I'll order the Limited Autographed edition along with Cerebus Zero and Following Cerebus
I might save the Cerebus Companions till later.
Just got my copy of the first Cerebus Book yesterday. The art is a lot cruder but the enthusiasm and sheer joy of someone selfpublishing for the first time and Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1084943390318660602004-05-19T14:33:00.000+09:302004-05-20T15:32:11.550+09:30The Penultimate Promethea
Promethea #31 Cover has just appeared on the net.
It has an Art Nouveau feel to it, although I don't think any artist is attributed. Ten stars on either side of the picture.
A beautiful looking red headed Promethea making the sign of silence above 5 bluish ghost figures rising out of their graves. Not sure exactly who they all are. The female one could be either Stacia Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1084852410639777462004-05-18T13:21:00.000+09:302004-05-19T14:51:10.443+09:30Synchronicity
How's this for Jungian synchronicity.
Woke up early this morning read a chapter of Cavendish
The Black Arts pgs 147-156 then read The Annotated
Wizard of Oz Chapter XII and the note on pg. 212 read
"As Richard Cavendish reported in The Black Arts (New
York: GP Putnam's Sons. 1967, p. 130) incantations
generally have no meaning (even though they may derive
from meaningful rituals, Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1084774263174304962004-05-17T15:39:00.000+09:302004-05-19T07:24:41.013+09:30The Mindscape of Alan Moore
Finally the Internet Movie Database now contains Mindscape of Alan Moore although Shadowsnake Films still isn't attributed and the link to smoky man's interview with Dez vYlenz still has to be added and John Coulthart's great poster for the film isn't shown.
If anyone has any extra information about the film add it to the Message Board
If anyone in the UK is reading Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1084426913929923032004-05-13T15:08:00.000+09:302004-05-13T15:31:05.713+09:30Daughters of the Famous
The other day I took a very large scanning order at work for Thomas Kenneally's daughter. For people outside Australia Thomas Keneally is the author of Schindler's Ark the basis for Spielberg's Schindler's List. In the same library we've helped Peter Weir's daughter do some research which wound up on screen in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
I wonder how Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1084326030495651332004-05-12T11:10:00.000+09:302004-05-12T13:11:40.866+09:3032
Today at work served someone wearing a T-shirt with 32 on it but he was too young and looked nothing like Jack Faust.
Started reading Daniel C. Matt's The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism. It's a lot shorter than all the other books I've started recently.
Finished reading Books 2 through 14 of Dave Sim's Cerebus.
Character Index in PGB just about completed up to Issue #24.
Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1084255824558596682004-05-11T15:39:00.000+09:302004-05-11T15:41:49.506+09:30Second time I've handed out a 666 book request slip.
At the library where I work the slip numbers go from 001 to 999.
Should I be worried?
Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1084166867693970992004-05-10T14:52:00.000+09:302004-05-11T10:32:16.053+09:30Nice to see that Shadowsnake Films have finally updated their webpage althought mostly so far it just consists of information about The Mindscape of Alan Moore film.
Finished reading Cerebus Book #13 Going Home (including the notes at the end) also the comic book part of #14 Form and Void but still have to read the notes on this one (up to pg 696 of 757 pgs).
This means I should be able to stick Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1083987134658531692004-05-08T13:02:00.000+09:302004-05-08T13:12:01.000+09:30Started reading Richard Cavendish's The Black Arts aka The Magical Arts.
At the library where I work I took book request slip #666 on the same day.
Second reply to my questionnaire already received.
Keep 'em coming people.
Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1083886139026110092004-05-07T08:58:00.000+09:302004-05-07T12:07:09.590+09:30Questionnaire
Yesterday I posted the following questionnaire to various places.
In my preparation for trying to write my Promethea Guide Book (or PGB
as I refer to it now) I'm hoping for some feedback from other readers
and fans of the book.
Here is a questionnaire for my research. Please provide answers by the
week after Issue #30 comes out.
As an incentive to answer whoever provides the bestEroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1083722940454430512004-05-05T11:39:00.000+09:302004-05-05T12:19:01.843+09:30A Fool's Mate
Don't know if anyone has noticed this or mentioned it somewhere else already but when Seutonis Po defeats Cerebus in the giant chess game he does so with a 4 move variation of the Fools Mate. Moves by White are
1) P-K4
2) B-B4
3) Q-B3
4) QxP checkmate
Two of the shortest games of chess ever played were both with Bobby Fischer. Once as white in the 2nd 1972 World Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1083640232801366102004-05-04T12:40:00.000+09:302004-05-04T13:38:14.013+09:30"I hate a dirty joke I do
unless it's told by someone who
knows how to tell it" - Groucho Marx
Q: What came first: the chicken or the egg?
A: The rooster came first.
- Dave Sim's Cerebus Book 11: Guys, I forget the page reference.
A list of real people who appear in Cerebus. I'm sure there's plenty more I'm not aware of yet.
Groucho Marx
Chico Marx
Mick Jagger
Keith Richards
Oscar Wilde
GeorgeEroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1083291654963740242004-04-30T11:50:00.000+09:302004-05-04T12:56:13.593+09:30On Killing Bill
I knew the bride when she used to rock'n'roll - Nick Lowe
Quite a few surprises in this. How Michael Masdens character is disposed of, what happens to Daryl Hannah when she and Uma Thurman have their fight and how Uma escapes out of a seemingly impossible situation (nice nod to Brian de Palma's Carrie there). Ending a bit disappointing in how she finally got to kill Bill. David Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1083208507885089182004-04-29T12:45:00.000+09:302004-05-05T12:19:34.530+09:30Something Rotten
Jasper Fforde's fourth Thursday Next novel called Something Rotten is due out in July in the UK and August in the USA. Not sure when it comes out in Australia.
I like the 30's pulp cover although the first 3 titles I've already got are the strange animal riding a vehicle cover. This one wil be a buffallo on a speedboat by the look of things.
Someone called Mohnejo has informed Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1083024429526237452004-04-27T09:37:00.000+09:302004-04-27T16:06:40.576+09:30Went for a much needed day away from home to the Blue Mountains. Came across a bookstore La Maison du Livre which had a copy of A true & faithful relation of what passed for many years between Dr. John Dee (a mathematician of great fame in Queen Elizabeth & King James their reignes) & some spirits (facsimile edition) for a mere $343. We've alread got it on microfilm at the library where I work Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1082692504079946072004-04-23T13:25:00.000+09:302004-04-23T13:54:11.390+09:30The Horror of the Harveys (2004)
Seems like everyone connected with Promethea except illustrator JH Williams III was nominated for a Harvey Award this year.
"And the nominees are...":
Best Writer
Alan Moore | "Promethea"
America's Best Comics / Wildstorm / DC Comics
Best Continuing or Limited Series
"Promethea" | Alan Moore and J.H. Williams III
America's Best Comics / Wildstorm / DC Comics
Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1082590127860122892004-04-22T08:58:00.000+09:302004-04-22T09:27:33.496+09:30Where does the time go
Can't believe it's more than 3 months since my last post.
Have decided to take a lot longer to do my Promethea Guide Book. Probably another year or so. I have to wait until not only Issue #32 is published but also Book 5 and the new Little Margie story that Eric Shanower is illustrating.
Have managed to collect all but I Book 1, Book 0 and Book 15 of Dave Sim's Cerebus Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1074664685389316442004-01-21T16:28:00.000+10:302004-01-21T20:14:23.623+10:30One picture is worth a thousand words
Today I received Steve Moore's script for Promethea in Little Margie in Misty Magic Land as drawn by Eric Shanower. That should give me something to think about when annotating it for the book
Am working up a script for a small 3 page or so comic myself entitled "Once upon a time..." to be included in the Promethea Guide Book. It's a lot harder than it Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-1074140776091478682004-01-15T14:56:00.000+10:302004-01-15T16:14:30.640+10:30Saw Tom Stoppard doing a conversation on stage with NSW Premier of the Arts Bob Carr. At one point they read out a dialogue from Travesties and of course Mr. Carr had to take the part of Henry Carr in the play.
Despite his reputation for perfectionism when it comes to articulte English he said that his favourite bit of dialogue from films is the exchange between Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979325.post-107370104235907862004-01-10T12:47:00.000+10:302004-05-11T10:51:16.590+09:30Entries for 2003 can be found here
"He's in love with rock'n'roll
He's in love with getting stoned
He's in love with Janie Jones
He don't like his boring job...."
- The Clash
Been meaning to post something for the last few days but for some strange reason I haven't got around to it till now.
First movie seen in the new year
Sergio Leone's The Good Bad and the Ugly
First comic books read this Eroom Nalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10451967351164988454noreply@blogger.com