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scott walker continues his descent into madness

( sound )

Via Idolator, Scott Walker’s contribution to an upcoming 4AD compilation of songs thematically linked by the ten plagues. For those of you keeping track, said plagues would be: the Nile turning to blood, frogs, lice, flies, disease of livestock, boils, hailstorms, locusts, darkness, and finally, the death of the firstborn. Looks like Scott […]

the first time i’ve ever thought about benjamin harrison

Once again via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, a really really messed up doodle from the oft-overlooked Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States. Old “Kid Gloves” gives us some of his own atavistic childhood psychedelia — calipers with a skull head! And look out - ostrich on the loose!
This reminds […]

adventures in obscurity: zc-reader, a reader for ZeldaClassic quest files

ZeldaClassic is a PC-based emulator and editor for the NES 8-bit classic game The Legend of Zelda. I’ve been thinking for some time about a way to get my hands on the data that constitutes the Overworld map of this game for use in a couple of art projects (covered by fair use, I […]