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Post by valdemar on Dec 27, 2021 2:49:37 GMT
I love 'The Black Veil' anthology, but the inclusion of the frankly unreadable doggerel that is 'The Necromancer' puzzles me greatly. It's not even so bad it's good. It's just utter pipdribble. The beginning and end in my copy are dogeared so that I can skip right past it without getting angry about how dreadful it is.
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Post by valdemar on Aug 2, 2021 4:47:43 GMT
Oh, and the 'Ghosts' book has input from the writer on the supernatural, Eric Maple.
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Post by valdemar on Aug 2, 2021 4:41:49 GMT
I bought the reissue of the 'Ghosts' book, and more recently, the 'UFO's book, as I had them on first release, and they're still as good as I remember. A recent trip to a car boot sale, and I found the three books 'Vampires'/'Haunted Houses'/'Strange Powers' on a stall, and the seller wanted 50p ("Silly kid's books", she said) for all three. I insisted that she took Β£3. They are in superb condition, and made me very happy to see them again.
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The Fall
Aug 2, 2021 3:28:18 GMT
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Post by valdemar on Aug 2, 2021 3:28:18 GMT
Thank you! I've been trying to avoid the internet - I got so fed up of all the pettiness, stupidity, and bastardy, 'Brexit', and latterly Covid-19, I encountered every day, that it made me want to give up. That, and the pile of books weeping to be read. A huge stash of kits waiting to be made, and every Doctor Who DVD waiting to be watched agaim or anew. So I've been here only fleetingly.
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Post by valdemar on Jun 22, 2021 3:46:35 GMT
The late, great John Peel loved The Fall. His all time favourite band, in fact. He once said words to the effect of that if The Fall released an album he didn't like, it would be a failing on his part, and not the band's. A good starting point for the New Fall Fan (sorry,I wrote that as if it were the title of a Fall track), would be the only compilation M.E.S. approved of: '50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong'. Tracks in chron.order. Copious notes. For the record, my favourite Fall release, is the 10" mini lp, 'Slates',which contains the superb track, 'Prole Art Threat'. Tidy.
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Post by valdemar on Jul 6, 2020 4:53:57 GMT
Mark E. Smith. One of the very few famous people to die that caused me to shed a tear or two. Sadly though, it seems that a great many musicians I liked when I was younger have died recently. Including:
Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks) Genesis P. Orridge (Throbbing Gristle) Florian Schneider (Kraftwerk) Gabi Delgado-Lopez (D.A.F.)
I recently read Mark E. Smith's autobiography, 'Renegade', and it's superb. M.E.S. - We shall not see his like again, sadly.
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Post by valdemar on Jun 25, 2018 3:53:08 GMT
Flicking through this section made me think of that most peculiar of things - the tall tree with a selection of grot mags in it's branches. Here, in Suffolk, they were a common sight, as were the hedgerow bushes, miles from civilization, and yet stuffed with porn mags. One didn't have to look for them - they were just there. It's as if all the grot shops in Soho had been warned of a Vice Squad raid, and disposed of their stock in parts of rural England. When I was about fourteen or so, my mate Terry went on holiday to Kent. He came back with a load of hardback cover hardcore European porn, that he had found in the bole of a tree in a wood, miles from anywhere. He said there was tons of the stuff, but he and his brother could only hide thirty or so in their luggage. I suppose nowadays, with the rise in digital media, the porn mag in a tree, will,like white dogshit, vanish. Oh, and you show a cover of a book entitled 'Most Buxom', and yet, the cover displays the young lady's arse. FAIL.
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Post by valdemar on Feb 22, 2018 19:12:15 GMT
The tie-in novel of the 1979 movie 'The Black Hole', by Alan Dean Foster (writer of the Star Wars tie in, by the way, although credited to George Lucas), is a dark, bleak read. It follows the movie closely, but any thoughts that maybe, just maybe, the good guys had survived the transit through a singularity is dashed in the last few lines, which are something like: 'On a beach, was a grain of sand. Part of the quartz matrix that made up that grain of sand was something that had once been the consciousness of Charlie Pizer'. Cheers, Alan. Thanks a bunch. Mind you, his novelizations of 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' and 'Alien' were pretty bleak as well. And yes, before you ask, 'The Black Hole' is one of my favourite guilty pleasures. So much wrong with it, but an awesome spectacle, nonetheless, especially when viewed on the big screen, with great sound.
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Post by valdemar on Feb 22, 2018 18:49:41 GMT
I always preferred the Chris Achilleos cover. Andrew Skilleter's is good, but anything by Achilleos trumps it. The Target covers by Chris Achilleos were a major reason for buying a Target book - they were simply startling in their odd beauty. 'Doctor Who And The Daleks' for instance - the Doctor's lapels with galaxies and stars on them; inspired.
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Post by valdemar on Nov 18, 2017 15:35:36 GMT
The lady on the cover of the 'Lamia In The Penthouse' issue - it's Nigella Lawson, isn't it? A bit further down is an advertisement inviting one to: 'Eat anything with false teeth'. No thanks, I'm an omnivore, but I draw the line at pensioners.
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Post by valdemar on Nov 9, 2017 7:20:08 GMT
I was reading this whole thread again, and saw the mention of one member's gran buying Gangsta Rap records. To really savour the humour in this, it helps if you have ever worked in a record shop. I did, over Christmas 1989. It was a great job. At some point of each day, elderly ladies would shuffle uncomfortably up to the counter, bearing lists, some easily deciphered, others compiled over a bad 'phone line, and head-scratchingly abstruse (the Voynich manuscript would be simple in comparison), and some, written by children, and truculent youths, were hilarious. We always enjoyed dealing with these old folks, especially if their grand children were in to Death Metal. I loved those. The lovely old dear who handed me a piece of paper carrying the list: 'Anthrax' 'Carcass' 'Cannibal Corpse', and the mighty 'Anal C**t'. I tried not to laugh, and showed the list to my best mate there, the blond and very Australian Brian. He went out to the counter and said to the lady: " We've got all of them in stock except your Anal C**t." The shop went very, very quiet. Except for the four staff and the shop manager pissing themselves with laughter in the back of the shop. And that's what customer service is all about...
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Post by valdemar on Nov 9, 2017 6:48:01 GMT
Similarly, should some monobrowed, bleeding knuckled, mouth-breathing neonate ask if I wanted a kitchen from a company that obviously aren't competent enough to operate a Play-Doh 'Fun Factory', then I'd run him through with a sword.
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Post by valdemar on Nov 9, 2017 6:41:50 GMT
'Art Management'. Whoever thought this up, obviously has no grasp of the concept of Art. It does not need management. Imagine someone going up to, say Raphael, and saying: "That's a lovely idea, lovey, but before you get grinding your colours, you need to have a word with management about your idea, and they need a costing for your colours, Friday at the latest. Oh, and if you could fill a disclaimer about using the lead whites, that would be fantastic." Raphael would say (in Italian) "No.", and run him through with a sword.
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Post by valdemar on Nov 9, 2017 5:35:42 GMT
If I were an estate agent describing the lovely Jeri Ryan who played 'Seven Of Nine' I would use the phrase: "Ample frontage". Does that help at all?
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Post by valdemar on Nov 9, 2017 5:30:58 GMT
Just missed Halloween, but we always just put a big sign saying: "NO" in our porch. It always works, and the beggars and mendicants always give our house a swerve. A friend of ours carved out a pumpkin a few years ago, and set it to greet the kiddies. Oh, he carved the word C**T into it, backlit with a candle. Was he disturbed by sweetie parasites? He was not. A friend of my brother put a Jimmy Savile mask (I kid ye not) in his front door window the other year. That worked very well. As you can tell, we don't think a lot of Halloween. ππΏππΏπ
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