I am what is called a meta-textual reader — I just read the book I am reading, I read every single thing that is associated with it and then continue outwards and ever outwards from there. So a fair while back now I found this story called Lazarus Churchyard and through that discovered this guy [...]
May 10, 2008
Categories: Comicsphere, art, artists, blogging, comic, comics, culture vulture, justine shaw, tinternet, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: art, comics, Comicsphere, justine shaw, nowhere girl, writing . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
Best known for creating the cover to The Beatles album Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band, Peter Blake is, for me at least, one of the most accessible of the pop artists. He is someone else I found through the Pop Art exhibition back in the nineties at the Tate Modern.
I don’t know if to [...]
May 5, 2008
Categories: Take Art, art, artists, blogging, culture vulture, jenny saville, music, updates . Tags: art, artist, artists, paintings, peter blake, pop art, sergeant pepper's lonely heart's club band, the beatles . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
The film by Julian Schnabel delivered the tragic yet charming story of Basquiat to me before I found it, which I eventually would have through my exploration of Warhol and the world of The Factory.
His art is unlike anything else that I have seen before or since — it has a musical quality to [...]
May 5, 2008
Categories: Take Art, andy warhol, art, artists, blogging, culture vulture, film, updates . Tags: abstract art, art, artists, jean michel basquiat, painting, Take Art . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
Batman and reinvention go together like a horse and carriage or whatever other pair of inseparable ideas you wish to use, hmm, maybe Batman and Robin. I said something similar earlier with works about the character that were operating under the same kind of mission statement: to reimagine the world of Gotham’s Dark Knight.
Anyway this [...]
May 5, 2008
Categories: Comicsphere, Turn The Page, art, artists, batman, blogging, comic, comics, culture vulture, ideas, papershop, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: batman, batman black and white, comic, comics, Comicsphere, dc comics, gaiman, jim lee, simon bisley, ted mckeever, the dark knight, update . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
Ellis once again working to confound the tendency that people have to pigeonhole characters or jump to conclusions about what sort of person they are or the role that they fulfill. Today we see that far from being the flighty delicate creature that some have mistaken her for, after her display of strength last week, [...]
May 2, 2008
Categories: Comicsphere, art, artists, blogging, comic, comics, culture vulture, freakangels, paul duffield, sci-fi, science fiction, steampunk, tinternet, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: avatar press, comic, comics, Comicsphere, freakangels, paul duffield, steampunk, warren ellis, webcomic, whitechapel . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
Have I anywhere publicly expressed my loathing for Star Wars? I am not sure that I have. I feel the urge to do so now. Why? Because my children have the Star Wars Lego computer game and the sound of R2D2 screaming like he is being introduced to twelve inches of wookie meat is driving [...]
April 29, 2008
Categories: blogging, blogosphere, culture vulture, facts, film, ideas, ramblings, ranthead, sci-fi, science fiction, tinternet, updates . Tags: blockbuster, childhood memories, film, george lucas, star wars . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
This was the perfect book for someone like me to read — damn, I got every reference in it. Is that something to be worried about? Well, it would be if I were one of the main characters in the book because that is what seemingly marks you out for death at the hands of [...]
April 27, 2008
Categories: Turn The Page, blogging, book, culture vulture, news, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: 6 sick hipsters, crime novel, ficiton, novel, prose, rayo casablanca, Turn The Page, update, writers, writing . Author: insomnihack . Comments: 1 Comment
Click the above link to check out this new site.
This is a site that will advertise the indie media (books, CD’s, etc) for the artists and provide indie authors resources for indie publishing, including links to publishing resources, articles on indie publishing, and free advertising for their products. There is also opportunity for freelancers to [...]
April 15, 2008
Categories: Comicsphere, Turn The Page, artists, blogging, book, comic, comics, culture vulture, facts, film, ideas, magazines, news, papershop, poetry, sci-fi, science fiction, tinternet, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: independent media, independent publishing, indie bookShelf, poetry, poets, wendy grimsley, writers, writing . Author: insomnihack . Comments: 1 Comment
Vonnegut uses the perfect framing device for this novel wherein a timequake bumps everyone back in time ten years to run through that whole decade of their lives again. He starts off by leading us in by the nose with the notion that he wrote a really bad book called Timequake (named Timequake 1 in [...]
April 6, 2008
Categories: Turn The Page, blogging, book, culture vulture, ideas, kurt vonnegut, sci-fi, science fiction, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: fiction, kurt vonnegut, novel, novelist, timequake, writer, writing . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
It’s interesting, but from the title of the book and from the foreword by James Grauerholz I was led to expect something that was perhaps going to be more of an intimate, traditional style diary. As Burroughs states at one point in the book he does not want to be pigeonholed and it seems a [...]
April 6, 2008
Categories: Turn The Page, beat generation, blogging, culture vulture, updates, william s burroughs, words, writers, writing . Tags: beat generation, journal, william s burroughs, writer, writers . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments