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vinyl records that contain computer games

Strangely enough, I can count among my earliest memories the buzzsaw-and-angry-hornets sound of computer games loading into our Atari 800 home computer from cassette tape. What I never knew, until today, was that real live vinyl records have been released containing program data. kempa.com provides an entertaining and exhaustive overview of this weirdness, […]

celebrity linkage

( words and culture and image and aberrations )

Wiley Wiggins done linked to me! Hey Wiley, if you ever read this, we really enjoyed your performances in Dazed and Confused and especially Waking Life.
And in a strange coincidence, I finally got around to viewing the be-linked item, “Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda”, last night. It is very, very freaky, kind of queasifying […]

invasion of the thunderbolt pagoda

( culture and image and aberrations )

Push another item onto the ever-growing, never-overflowing media stack: Ira Cohen’s Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda (more about it here and a trailer here. A more intense and arguably freakier preview over at The Wire.)
This hyperinsane-looking film was recently released for the first time on DVD by Saturnalia, an offshot of […]

the first time i’ve ever thought about benjamin harrison

( image and aberrations )

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 […]

iguana/enfolds

( words and projects and aberrations )

Ahhh, the bitter sting of rejection:
Dear John,
A quick note to say thanks but regrets on the crossword you sent me in March–IGUANA/ENFOLDS.
The grid contains quite a few obscurities and made-up entries, like CLEAVE AT, RSH, CONNEM, UES, AS CAKE, HILAND, OKED TO, BE AS COY, IMPARO, SMART MOB, TO SEE THE, AILETH, NAI, BAC, CELEXA, […]