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science fiction. fantasy. horror. (not "DARK FANTASY." which seems a subgenre covering soap operas with vampires.) music. film. You know, all the trivialities and detritus of an entertainment-craving culture. CLICK on "JBL" in my "friends" section and be bombarded by my own muzickal addition to said detritus! And don't miss the artistick trivialities in the Pics!
someone who could make sense out of all this. Because, like it or not, the Answer is NOT 42.
I shall herewith list every composer or band that I have in my collection. Just to test MySpace's limits. I don't think it can handle the truth. Acappella. Arti e Mestieri. John Adams. Carlos Alomar. Ayreon. Julian Anderson. Alamaailman Vasarat. George Antheil. Alloy Orchestra. Amorphis. Andromeda. Apocalyptica. Abus Dangereux. Air. Ad Vitam. Aleatoria Orchestra. Altura. Laurie Anderson. Art Zoyd. David Axelrod. Atomic Rooster. Jan Akkerman. Leonardo Balada. Jon Anderson. Amon Duul II. Agitation Free. Aranis. Arco Iris. Thomas Almqvist. Anglagard. Anekdoten. Neil Ardley. Armonite. Arditti String Qt. Asgard. J.S.Bach. Milton Babbitt. Harvey Bainbridge. Banco del Mutuo Soccorso. Richard Band. Baffo Banfi. Tony Banks. Samuel Barber. Bela Bartok. Pierre Bastien. Bazooka. Beatles. Begnagrad. Lovely, lovely Ludwig van. Luciano Berio. Pierre Boulez. Hector Berlioz. Irving Berlin. Bernsteins Elmer and Leonard. Bevis Frond. Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Qt. Binary System. Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. Iva Bittova. Boris Blacher. Blast. Boom. Peter Blegvad. Serge Blenner. Carla Bley. Ernest Bloch. Mario Davidovsky. Blue Motion. Blue Man Group. Luigi Dallapiccola. William Bolcom. Bobs. Claude Bolling. Bondage Fruit. David Borden, with and without Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. Alexander Borodin. Paul Bowles. Bozzio-Levin-Stevens. Sufjan Stevens. Johannes Brahms. Brainticket. Glenn Branca. Gavin Bryars. Sandy Bull. Donald Erb. Roberto Gerhard. Anthony Braxton. Bronx Casket Co. Benjamin Britten. Dave Brubeck. Harold Budd. Kate Bush. David Byrne. John Cage. Cairo. Can. Henri Lazarof. Olivier Messiaen. Arthur Krieger. Irwin Bazelon. Toshiro Mayuzumi. Captain Robert Calvert. Don Van Vliet and his Sorcerous Combo. Captain Beyond. Canvas Solaris, those alchemical architects of almighty alloy. Wendy Was Walter Carlos. George Cartwright. Roberto Colombo, huzzah! Curlew. George Crumb. Paul Creston. Carlos Chavez. Dice. Dr. Nerve. Danny Elfman. Devil Doll. Ed Palermo Big Band. Fast n' Bulbous. Patricia Dallio. Die Knodel. Die Knodel with Amy Denio. Cro Magnon NOT the metal band. Evidence. Fate's Warning. Exsimio. Morton Feldman. Eccentric Orbit. Catweazle. Electrocution 250. The Church. The Cure. Keith, Greg and Carl. Edgar Froese. Peter Frohmader. Christopher Franke. Michel Faubert. Ensemble Nimbus. Far Corner. Forgas Band Phenomena. Pascal Gaigne. Gatto Marte. Gryphon. Fulano. L'Orkestre des pas Perdus. Jono El Grande. Aki Peltonen. Hail. Hamster Theater. Jerome Langlois. L'Ut de Classe. Larval. Dagmar Krause. In Spe. Rattlemouth. Thinking Plague. Henry Cow. Univers Zero. Stormy Six. Zamla Mammaz Manna. Volapuk. Vril. Voivod. Brian Woodbury. Vangelis. Uz Jsme Doma. The Muffins. Irmin Schmidt. Rouge Ciel. Interference Sardines. Boris Kovac. Vermicelli Orchestra. Quintette il Monstro. Octavo. Karlheinz Stockhausen. October Equus. L'Ensemble Raye. Pierre Schroeder. Morton Subotnick. Philharmonie. Miriodor! Anthony Phillips. Edgard Varese. K. Penderecki. Present. Rich Woodson Ellipsis. Richard Leo Johnson Trio. Iannis Xenakis, prophet of insensibility. Charles Wuorinen. Elliott Schwartz. Charles Ives. big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Mora's Modern Rhythmists. Squirrel Nut Zippers. Tangerine Dream. Heldon. Klaus Schulze. Jean-Michel Jarre. Daevid Allen's Gong. Pierre Moerlin's Gong. Kraftwerk. Alwin Nikolais. Radio Massacre International. Robert Rich. Mort Garson. The Timeout Drawer. Magyar Posse. Revelling Crooks. Folkabbestia. Martinicci Bolson. Larry No Guitars Fast. Dominic Frasca. Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses. Isang Yun. Akira Ifukube. Akio Yashiro. Takashi Yoshimatsu. Bela Fleck with and without Flecktones. Philip Glass. Steve Reich. Bulgara. Afenginn. Balakan. Kahol. Bellowhead. Terry Riley. Michael Nyman. Piero Milesi. Kashow Satoh. Darxtar. Hawkwind. Star One. Zvuki Mu. ZGA. Joe Zawinul. John Zorn. I'll come back to this later. Miles (Davis!) to go (Stomu!) before I sleep.
The Andromeda Strain. You know, even Absorbine Jr. won't help a strained andromeda. Romantic pictures, like Bride of Frankenstein and The Fly. Hey, that's life! And probably some movie with a dog in it. I like dogs. They don't know how to lie. Unless they're sleeping, of course. Then you just gotta let 'em! But I digress. I Am Legend! Best sf/action flick of 2007 by a landslide, even if it does just barely have anything in common with the novel it was "inspired by."
Don't watch a whole lot of TeeVee. All three sets of Outer Limits are pretty good, except when they're horrid, natch. Dr. Who...the Eccleston season was the best ever, even better than the best of Tom Baker, and who could have imagined they could top that? And Babylon Five! A great show till it ran out of story and coasted a whole season without a point! And Deep Space Nine, except for all the weird stuff and mirror universe stuff and occult stuff and lounge singer stuff and holodeck stuff. Other than that, it was fine! And the Prisoner! Best TeeVee ever...and most infuriating, too! And this Whedon guy who made that awful vampire show also made this swell little scifi western called Firefly, which you should be watching instead of wasting your life reading this. Hurry to your dvd player, before it's everlasting too late!
THere's a pile of 'em. Let's give it a shot. Let's put the Word of God at the top of the list. That's where it belongs, right? And then...Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers' Guide to the GalaxyRandall Garrett - Unwise ChildArthur C Clarke - Childhood's EndIsaac Asimov - nine TomorrowsRay Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way ComesH.P.Lovecraft - The Dunwich Horror and OthersAugust Derleth - Harrigan's FileA.E.Van Vogt - The World of Null-ACordwainer Smith - The Instrumentality of MankindJohn T. Sladek - Mechasm (aka The Reproductive System)Anthony Burgess - The Wanting Seed (HA! You thought I'd say A Clockwork Orange, didn't you? Gloopy droogy!)Clifford Simak - All the Traps of EarthJack Williamson - The Humanoids (which is what the movie I ROBOT is REALLY derived from)John Wyndham - The Day of the TriffidsJoseph Payne Brennan - The Shapes of MidnightManly Wade Wellman - Who Fears the Devil?Clark Ashton Smith - HyperboreaFrank Belknap Long - The Horror From the HillsRamsey Campbell - The Count of ElevenHarlan Ellison - The Beast That Shouted Love At The Heart of the WorldMichael Moorcock - Elric of MelniboneFritz Leiber - Swords Against DeathDavid R. Bunch - moderanAlfred Bester - The Stars My DestinationTheodore Sturgeon - Selected Stories (IT! KILLDOZER! THE MAN WHO LOST THE SEA! THE SKILLS OF XANADU! Can't go wrong with Sturgeon!)Robin Maconie - Other Planets: The Music of Karlheinz StockhausenMore to come, someday...
Jesus Christ is the greatest hero ever, whether you believe in him or not. You don't believe in Batman, but you don't have any problem listing him as a hero. Ditto Conan, Doc Savage, Superman, Rod McBan, Green Lantern, Spider-Man, Zot, Aric, Magnus, Flaming Carrot, The Tick, Cement Shooz, Sgt. Rock, Ben Grimm, Zandor, Space Ghost, Optimus Prime, Lion-O, Tetsuwan Atom, etc. So don't bring any of your flack around here, because no one is home. Without heroes, your back yard would be overrun with villains..and you don't really want THAT, do you?