Shipping in late September will be Paul/Suzanne v2.0 (Public Beta vers).
To date, no final specs have been released as the project is still being coded, although the following pre-release screen shot has been made public:
(photo deleted, because I don't really want to be that sort of parent, but I'll probably end up like that anyway. You know, the sort that gives its child a myspace site and a blog and writes irritating messages that come from a 3 week old baby.)
Friday, March 30, 2007
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
I like you old stuff better than your new stuff 2
In my humble opinion the last great ‘old style’ REM album was ‘New Adventures In HiFi’(NAIHF). If you’re after ROCK, then (as Syme mentioned) its ‘Monster’ hand down.
But R.E.M where never a ROCK band, well not really, They did covers of ‘Toys In The Attic’ (Aerosmith) and ‘Strange’ (Wire) but they also did covers of ‘Wichita Linesman’ (Glen Campbell) and ‘8 Miles High’ (The Byrds) and I think spiritually REM come closer to the last 2 than the first 2. Whatever way you paint them, they are good ole’ boys that grew up on rural Georgia in the 70’s.
Yes they seem to have lost their way, many commentators mention that the downward slide coincided with Bill Berry leaving, siting album sales of ‘UP’, ‘Reveal’ and ‘Around the Sun’ as proof of this. Personally ‘Up’ is one of my favorite albums, no so much a rock album as such, but it has some good points nevertheless. ‘Reveal’ I like too, but there is only a few songs on ‘Around the Sun’ that I can listen to – One more like that and I would have to call it quits.
The producer for their next CD is a guy called Jacknife Lee, who produced U2’s last album, so there is hope yet.
BTW, they are releasing a version of John Lennon's ‘#9 Dream’ with Bill on drums for a charity project. Have a listen.
But R.E.M where never a ROCK band, well not really, They did covers of ‘Toys In The Attic’ (Aerosmith) and ‘Strange’ (Wire) but they also did covers of ‘Wichita Linesman’ (Glen Campbell) and ‘8 Miles High’ (The Byrds) and I think spiritually REM come closer to the last 2 than the first 2. Whatever way you paint them, they are good ole’ boys that grew up on rural Georgia in the 70’s.
Yes they seem to have lost their way, many commentators mention that the downward slide coincided with Bill Berry leaving, siting album sales of ‘UP’, ‘Reveal’ and ‘Around the Sun’ as proof of this. Personally ‘Up’ is one of my favorite albums, no so much a rock album as such, but it has some good points nevertheless. ‘Reveal’ I like too, but there is only a few songs on ‘Around the Sun’ that I can listen to – One more like that and I would have to call it quits.
The producer for their next CD is a guy called Jacknife Lee, who produced U2’s last album, so there is hope yet.
BTW, they are releasing a version of John Lennon's ‘#9 Dream’ with Bill on drums for a charity project. Have a listen.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
R.E.M. Hall of Fame induction
I know you’re still fans deep inside.
Today the REMs get inducted into the ‘Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’. Say what you will about the latest output of the band, we where all fans once upon a time.
Links to check out:
Murmurs.com -fan site
REMHQ -official site
onlineathens -great series of pages about the band.
Today the REMs get inducted into the ‘Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’. Say what you will about the latest output of the band, we where all fans once upon a time.
Links to check out:
Murmurs.com -fan site
REMHQ -official site
onlineathens -great series of pages about the band.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Friday, March 09, 2007
I command you to Wank! Redux!!
KungfuSyme recently added a post about superhero comics, Seduction of the innocent and all that (take a look at my Uni Graduation catalogue, if you have one, and you see my artsy quote is from Dr. Fredric Wertham. God, an Art School comics Nerd, whoda thought?)
Anyway, I was nerding on the net and found posts on The Comics Journal Message Board about Unintentionally Sexual Comics Covers/Panels. So I thought I'd share some covers that Syme maybe hadn't seen.
Syme's original post : i-command-you-to-wank
Anyway, I was nerding on the net and found posts on The Comics Journal Message Board about Unintentionally Sexual Comics Covers/Panels. So I thought I'd share some covers that Syme maybe hadn't seen.
Syme's original post : i-command-you-to-wank
Friday, March 02, 2007
Kraken!
Just making sure we all saw this: Super squid surfaces in Antarctic
Rest assured, when Ms Emma and I are plundering 17th century Spanish gallions, we will be well prepared for the Colossal Squid.
Analysist Therapist
Ive got a PDF on the desktop breaking down the first hardcover printing of 'The Acme Novelty Library' into its various episodic parts, explaining what's new and whats been published previously. (eg: Page 5, reprint from Acme Novelty Library issue 6. 4th panel redrawn ). Its called 'Acme_Hardcover_Analysis.pdf'
anyway...
the way the text below the icon is sitting it looks like this:
Acme_Hard
cover_Anal
ysis.pdf
At least twice a day I catch the file out of the corner of my eye and think there's some sort of porn sitting on the desktop.
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