My Masturbation Chamber.

I bought a book that taught me to masturbate without external stimulus. It's freaky.

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I was worried that this episode wouldn't be as good as the last one, but I think it came out pretty well. (It starts kind of quiet and then ratchets up on the second song, then down, then up again, then basically evens out. Sorry. There's always going to be minor volume tweaking on any episode. It's probably the only guarantee I can give.)





Overview? Um, abortion diary into childhood drug abuse into Christian road trip into pure Deviltry, the usual weirdo Jap pop I get off on, hip-hop, and then we go Euro. Oh yeah, and the Holmes story, of course. Which is mental. I have a much weirder show on mp3 than I did on vinyl. (Although all that means is that now we're listening to rips of insanely rare vinyl uploaded by collectors into the arcane.)


It isn't on the playlist since it wasn't an mp3, but between tracks 11 & 12 is a cassette:
Description of the tape I bought at MoCCA from Picturebox. (I need more info!)
Sherlock Holmes and the Large Door
Partially inspired by a love for Dragnet radio plays. It includes music. It is "non-cannonical," which is a side-splittingly hilarious understatement. It was totally worth $5. I have to commend the guy who sold it to me (and also narrated). I would not be able to describe this to someone in such a way as they would like to buy it. You did, and I am glad for it.

Heksig by Par Accidente! sounds like an acoustic chiptune of sorts, and ends with surprising abruptness, as if it were meant to be on some kind of eternal hold-line loop. So I guess I'd describe it as the music from Dwarf Fortress in a hallucinatory waiting room. I like unmodulated guitar, as it always seems, when I hear it, to be a rather unusual and rare musical sound. Which is funny, I suppose, and maybe a little sad. Those with long memories may remember Par Accidente!'s eye-catching album art in the Best of 08 post from a ways back. In truth, it's a difficult album. But in isolation the tracks stand up to a close scrutiny on repeated listens.

Here's another Snap track that you can't really fuck with. Also, new Alf!





Which had maybe my favorite YouTube comment to date.
"I know it's weird to say, but i'm kind of sad that Alf wasn't raped in this one. :( "








MoCCA haul:

I'm curious to read what Ryan's got brewing in regard to newsprint comics publishing, which I thought was incredibly absent from the show as a whole, with the exception of Matei Branea, aka the pleasant, approachable dude with free (!) newspapers made with subsidies from the Romanian Cultural Institute. Although the contents are a mixed bag, the huge size allows for a lot of content to be crammed into a relatively small page count. And when it's good it's really, really good.

I guess this is an example of what I want a mini to be. Huge, cheap, with great color work mixed with great b/w work. The print quality can be perfectly acceptable and crisp. I would gladly pay $3-5 bucks for such a thing. It's possible that there was more there and I just managed to walk right by it. Oh well.

I've even seen very limited-edition photography "books" printed like this. The pictures are huge, and the effect can be quite breathtaking.

Also, I read a few bitchy recaps regarding the show, which is pretty normal, but then the comments. My god. Someone actually complained about the *texture of the floor*. At the fucking armory. And said, "Geeze, can't they find a place with laminate for the flooring?" Congratulations, sir, for the wimpiest sentiment I think I've yet come across. Not in comics or the internet, but in life.

And now it's my turn with the complaining. (What did I say about nerds and whining?) But in my case it's the typical, "Man. This shit is expensive," variety. So clearly I failed on the nothing from (relatively) bigger publishers mandate, because I walked out with a few longer things that I couldn't resist. This is my first Potent Mon comic, which I'm pretty excited about. (Although I just discovered this negative review by Noah Berlatsky. I'll have to finish the book before digging in so as not to go in already biased. Should be interesting.) This Picturebox book... they warned me. It's intense. I didn't really listen. "Yeah yeah, I know." But they were right. This is basically Necro and Visitor Q in comic format. It's so wrong so consistently... the art is incredible.

All in all, though, I guess the essence of my dissatisfaction is that I walked out of there feeling like I spent a shit-load of money, but when I got home and laid it out on the bed it didn't seem like I got that many comics. You know? Maybe it's like that for everyone.

Anyway, expect further impressions as I make my way through some of it. Also, we're pretty behind on the Famicase translation, but everything's been running long here lately. We even got so buried in YouTube videos that I felt it necessary to try to cut your browsers some slack by reducing the number of displayed posts (and a friend commented tonight that my site was still really long). I'm really happy with that last one, though. Sometimes I get so caught up in trying to include so much that I forget about the pleasures of a bare-bones post. Something not like this one. And since we're being insufferably self-referential (rather like the good ol' days, in fact), it feels weird to be fiddling with the sidebar. I think it looks pretty good, though. Thoughts? (Other than about Raul Julia being the coolest guy on the planet. Okay, those too.)