American Hardcore (loud siezure inducing Flash intro at link, see also Wikipedia ) is a documentary about Wuziristani TV jingles, which hardly breaks new ground or offers new perspective but does have good interviews, most remarkably with several members of Bad Brains including H.R. Also, big points for acknowledging the existence of the Big Boys. And you can watch it on YouTube (direct YT link, natch). Dig also the book.
Archive for the ‘books’ Category
Kunst-Formen der Natur by Ernst Haeckl
November 3, 2008
Frog guts are beuatiful
July 25, 2008
And there’s more where that came from, including the outsides of the frogs, tadpoles and eggs, at this great BibliOdyssey post about Johann Rösel von Rosenhof’s ”Historia Naturalis Ranarum Nostratium.”
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods
July 24, 2008
A 1910 book about funny critters that may or may not have vexed lumberjacks of yesteryear, now abailable as an online hypertext edition.
Codex Seraphinianus as a cbz.
June 17, 2008Alot of the traffic that I get here is from folks googling the Codex Seraphinianus, about which I posted a little more than a year ago. The post was to a flickr set that has since gone dark. However, you can download the codex as a cbz via torrent here. You’ll need ComicBookLover or Comical or some goddamn thing to read it.
Atlas of Creation by Harun Yahya
January 9, 2008I am insanely jealous of Ainsley, who now owns the Atlas of Creation. Most of the book is juxtapositions of bad pictures of fossils with bad pictures of conordinal living things (fossil fern, living fern; fossil bunny, living bunny; fossil fly, living fly) alongside the erroneous claim that there are no differences between the extinct and extant forms. Anyway, here’s his example of a living caddisfly:
It’s a fishing lure. He stole the image from Graham Owen, from whom he also stole this:
…which he believes is a living spider. A few pages earlier, he juxtaposes a fossil scolytid with a living pentatomid, saying that the living pentatomid and the 25 myo scolytid are exactly the same thing.
Make sure you click through and look at Graham Owen’s fishing lures, they’re worth it. My fave is the solpugid.
East Bay independant bookstores that I live in constant fear will fail in today’s retail environment.
December 18, 2007Dark Carnival, 3086 Claremont Ave, Berkeley, 510-654-7323
Analog books, 1816 Euclid Ave, Berkeley, 510-843-1816
The Book Zoo, 6395 Telegraph Ave at Alcatraz, Oakland, 510-654-2665
The Other Change of Hobbit, 2020 Shattuck Avenue betw University and Addison, 510-848-0413
I’m not particularly worried about Black Oak, Moe’s, Pegasus/Pendragon, Shakespear’s, or what’s left of Cody’s.
Add more in the comments, willya?
