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Post by weirdmonger on Dec 27, 2007 16:21:17 GMT
Best newly discovered music: Anton Webern I'm completely obsessed with Anton Webern's music. I play it on my MP3 when walking by the sea and on my bedside earphones at every opportunity. He rocks ... rocks me into sleep. He is succinct but massive. des
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Post by sean on Dec 27, 2007 18:01:35 GMT
Splendid! At the moment I've got a CD performed by the Arditti Quartet, which contains a nice selection, but any specific recommendations gladly received...
Another composer I've been getting into in a big way is Gordon Mumma, whose more over to the electronic experimentation side of things, but sporadically brilliant. His piece 'The Dresden Interleaf' is one of the most shocking / powerful pieces of controlled noise / music that I have ever heard.
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Post by Calenture on Dec 27, 2007 19:18:14 GMT
A really pleasant surprise, last night, was watching Canadian 1972 film (some sources say 1974) Black Christmas - possibly the first of the high school slasher movies - on Film4 and finding that it's still genuinely creepy and suspenseful. I think this one must have had a fair bit of soundtrack edited out when I saw it in the 70s as the language is still pretty strong by today's standards - particularly in the obscene phone calls. Although it's become a template for later movies and slightly predictable, it still remains astonishingly fresh.
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Post by weirdmonger on Dec 27, 2007 19:20:49 GMT
Splendid! At the moment I've got a CD performed by the Arditti Quartet, which contains a nice selection, but any specific recommendations gladly received... You can get all of Webern's lifetime of work (it is succinct after all!) on 3 CDs. I have the complete set conducted by Pierre Boulez. This is real music from the vault of evil! des
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Post by Dr Terror on Dec 27, 2007 20:18:33 GMT
The comments in this thread are one highlight! Thanks guys.
Two book finds this year that stand out were The Devil's Guard, not read it yet, but found a copy at a very very nice price. And Firepower (Chris Dempster & Dave Tompkins with Michel Parry) which cost even less, and is a cracking read. Music: The Tommys - I love this band (as I'm sure I've already told you). City getting promoted, and making an unbelievable start in the Championship. Despite being hammered by West Brom yesterday, currently 4th. Meeting several current or one time Vault members. Having a story in Nemonymous.
And of course publishing The Black Book of Horror. Thank you to all of you who helped make that possible.
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Post by Dr Terror on Dec 27, 2007 20:20:03 GMT
Is there a Book Barn in Bristol itself now, Justin?
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Post by dem bones on Dec 27, 2007 22:51:23 GMT
Event
Zardoz Pulp Fair, Victoria. Came away with some wonderful trash but, far more importantly, I had the pleasure of meeting Brad, Mark Samuels & "Mrs. S", Nightreader, pulphack (and his impostor!), Martin of Rumble and chatted with several of the sellers.
The Years Best New Horror 18 launch at Waterstones in Goodge Street on Halloween was a laugh. Mark, Christopher Fowler and Micheal Marshall Smith were on particularly good form and the staff played a blinder. I sure want one of those monks cowls.
And I never thought I'd ever end up spending a morning with Andy Boot relieving the Notting Hill Comic & Bookshop of its battered paperbacks!
Off the 'most wanted' list:
Des kindly gave me a copy of Tandem Horror 3 and a few days later I copped Wheatley's long-sought The Devil And All His Works. Finally got hold of a copy of James Dickey's Deliverance (yes, that one). Far from Peter Haining's best collection, but I was delighted to cop the Leslie Frewin edition of The Evil People.
Football result .... The Boxing Day massacre!
Harrow Borough 1 Wealdstone 5
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Post by Johnlprobert on Dec 28, 2007 0:47:22 GMT
Cal - Bob Clark's BLACK CHRISTMAS is a creepy classic. I rewatched it last year and it's as good as ever.
'Dr T' - there is indeed a Book Barn in Bristol , right next to the Endemol studios, so you could fit in a recording of 'Deal or no Deal' at the same time. It's opening hours are a bit erratic, though
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Post by nightreader on Dec 28, 2007 9:57:54 GMT
Definitely a highlight was the Zardoz book fair, and meeting some of the guys from here (as Dem has mentioned above). Hope something like that happens again. Also enjoyed getting my hands on 'Paperback Fanatic' - it really is as good as everyone says (and after pay day I'll be after the next one ) Also enjoyed a couple of issues of 'Cemetary Dance' magazine, which don't seem to be that easy to get in the UK. And the first 'Black Book of Horror' - I know everyone has said that but this works so well, the content, a great cover (which some modern anthologies should really take note of!), it just feels like quality. Also enjoyed the movie of '30 Days of Night', I thought it translated the graphic novel really well, even made me jump a couple of times Older stuff - liked the Gerald Suster book 'The Block' (and now have 'The Scar' waiting to be read), and Glen Chandler's 'The Tribe' (nasty but fun).
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Post by justin on Dec 28, 2007 11:11:18 GMT
I haven't visited the Book Barn in Bristol city centre for well over a year. I'm sure it's been turned into their internet stock warehouse. I dropped in a few times but always found it closed.
They've expanded the Clutton one so it now takes in two giant barns. Well worth a visit, although the horror section is no great shakes. Sci-fi is massive and will take a good few hours to plough through.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Dec 28, 2007 12:12:47 GMT
I bought a copy of 'The Satyr's Head' by our very own David Riley et al at the Clutton Book Barn! And some Michel Parry stuff
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Post by pulphack on Dec 28, 2007 17:41:24 GMT
in for a penny, etc...
event of the year had to be zardoz. i just don't get out much, do i... seriously, lovely to meet andy, mark, brad & dem. and scouring the vaults of notting hill with dem and discovering he celebrates his birthday to the strains of nick cave and peter hammill was also pretty special.
bought so many books this year i'm not even sure which ones i've read this year i actually got then, if you see what i mean... jonathon coe's 'like a fiery elephant', a biography of BS Johnson (avant-gardist, failed) was a story of a man with a massive folly that was incredibly sad and annoying at the same time. Chris Fowler's 'Ten Second Staircase' and 'The Water Room' were great horror-in-disguise whodunnits, and i re-read The Haunting Of Alan Mais and 'The Killing Bone, which reminded me why i love the press ed school - also read a few more of Jack Trevor Story's Sexton Blake entries, which were cool (sad thing is i only have a few left unread, now).
fave films this year were 'The Curse Of The Crimson Altar' (which i finally got on DVD) and 'Music and Lyrics' - yes, the Grant/Barrymore thing, but in my defence it's a watch-with-a-woman thing. and that bloody song - 'i've been living with a clown above my head? that CAN'T be right...' - sticks in the brain.
best albums of the year for me were the basil kirchin's, which i've waited years to hear without knowing they existed. and amy winehouse. irritating in the tabloids, but god can she sing (bet billie holliday would have been just as irritating i the sun & star existed in her day.
and Orient 3 Gillingham 3 - only a draw, but a career first hat-trick from herioc defender matty lockwood (and his career 50th) in the last 15 minutes, after being 3 down, almost getting his fourth in added time, and that being the point that basically kept us in League 1... me hugging Gav and yelling 'that man is a GOD' and gesturing at Mr L (supplicating, more like)... chanting '3-0 and you fucked it up...' at the disconsolate chavs from Gillingham... yep, it's a footy thing.
best mag? paperback fanatic, of course, though the Leyton Orienteer and classic rock tend to run it close at times.
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Post by Dr Terror on Dec 29, 2007 21:05:47 GMT
I seem to remember the one in Glastonbury had a lot of sci-fi.
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Post by coral on Dec 31, 2007 23:39:06 GMT
Best reads of the year, assorted and in no particular order: Black Book of Horror The Human Zoo Moomin Midwinter Secret Story Crime and Punishment 1st Fontana b o g Ghost Stories Most listened to bands this year, ditto : Alice Donut Giant Albino Penguin Eurythmics Chumbawamba Glen Brannca -unfortunately! Praise for Llanelli Books www.llanellibooks.co.uka jolly good service My favourite hair colour this year was pink. My hero for the year is my cat Charlie Parker, who survived a major trauma at a ripe old age this summer, long may he continue. My favourite mushroom this year was the stinkhorn (phallus impudicus). My bike choice of the year is the Honda Fireblade. Pet peeve of the year, which even overtakes starving people for a while, is religous zealots. That was not very interesting, hey ho. A very Happy New Year to all my chums on Vault of Evil, new and old, Coral x
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Post by Calenture on Jan 1, 2008 2:33:03 GMT
Best reads of the year, assorted and in no particular order... Moomin Midwinter... Oh, wow, just one of my favourite books! I love the bits when Moomintroll wakes up and everyone else is hibernating, and Little My learns how to make a sledge out of one of Moominmama's trays, and Snufkin is cool as usual. Sometime this year I must get around to Tove's Summer Book.
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