Background image credit: still from a video simulation of two super massive black holes merging at the center of two colliding galaxies. More information here, as well as the news release from SLAC here. Can't find the link to the animation.
Astronomers do it in cgs.
I'd like to meet:
The person who painted this Hermitian operator graff at the Physics Department in Wuerzburg, Germany:
Also at the campus bustop:
Mr. Brad Neely, of Creased Comics fame (and later Wizard People,) does animation for Superdeluxe.com
check out his music video and shower him with adulation and money. Lots of money.
Music:
Summer 2007 is over, but the music is still ringing in my head: Adult, Erol Alkan, Chromeo, The Rapture, The Presets, The Long Blondes, Patrick Wolf ...
This, that, and the Other:
Dethklok. Mad Professor, Desmond Dekker, Skatalites. Zen Tune. Ian Drury and the Blockheads. Richard Hell and the Voidoids. Oingo Boingo. (shut up)
I've hearkened back to metal roots... classics such as Yngwie Malmsteen, Carcass, Amon Amarth, Marduk, and also The Fucking Champs. Currently also checking out Feist...
Chavette of the month Lily Allen & Oh No! Oh My!
Courtesy of the fabulous Pasty, Dahling! ~~~ recently exposed to vars. artists including:
Busdriver.
Amy Winehouse.
Andrew Bird.
GIRL TALK! (what can I say, I like a good mashup)
The Teddybears from Stockholm.
Death in Vegas. Eazy-E. Annie. Boards of Canada. Ratatat. Badly Drawn Boy. Roni Size. Dillinger 4. Siniestro Total. Beta Band. Stone Roses. The Knife. Mekons, natch. KTRU & KMFA radio. The good stuff from Dead Boys. Buzzcocks. Wire. Abrasive Wheels. XTC, X-Ray Specs. Good Shoes. ooh ooh Deathray Davies. I think I like The Like. The Klaxons. The Paddingtons. Nouvelle Vague. You Say Party! We Say Die! (a few select songs by) Shiny Toy Guns. Cut Copy. Hot Chip. Bis. Rubinchik's Orkystra. Ladyfuzz. Mystery Jets. Head Like a Kite. Nine Black Alps. Teenage Symphony {thank you Gorilla vs. Bear !!}Messer Chups. Senor Coconut. Jim Noir. New Pornographers. Tapes 'n Tapes. Concretes. Super Furry Animals. Violent Femmes. Dead and Gone. Dead Milkmen. Casino Vesus Japan. Japanther. Queen. Queens of the Stone Age. Revolting Cocks. Retarted Elf. MSTRKRFT. The Advantage. The Rentals. Rich Kids on LSD. Grimple. Filth. Whorehouse of Representatives. Naked Aggression. Blatz. Murder by Death, KRS-One, Bloodbath and Beyond, Aphex, The Mummies, Epoxies, Mirah, Les Savy Fav, 13th Floor Elevators, The Sonics, Pogues, Mr. Bungle/Fantomas/ Lovage/Faith No More - anything with Mike Patton - L7, Crass, Pixies, Blood Brothers, Screeching Weasel, Le Tigre, Tracy and the Plastics, Toots & the Maytals, Jimmy Cliff, Shabba Ranks, Bowie, This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb, MC5, RJD2, Q and not U, Dandy Warhols, Peaches, Against Me!, Smiths, Ladytron, Murder City Devils, Erase Errata, Citizen Fish, MADNESS, Man or Astroman?, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Police, Peaches, Gravy Train!!, Jefferson Airplane, Black Star, Binary Star, The Herbaliser, MSI, Tribe, Asheru & Blue Black, duh MF Doom, Kool Keith, Styles of Beyond, Foreign Legion, Heiro, Kool Herc, Wesley Willis, All Natural, Flametrick Subs, Nekromatix, Woozy Helmet, the Sword, ASSACRE, and so on and so forth...
EXTRA EXTRA: recent aural addicitons ... DJ Z-Trip, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Os Mutantes, La Polla Records, Los Prisioneros, Eskorbuto, MC Chris, Danger Doom. Johnny Cash. Skip James. Carl Perkins. Lee Scratch Perry and the Upsetters. John Lee Hooker. Lightnin' Hopkins, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. Cab Calloway. Benny Goodman. Herb Alpert. Monk. Dizzy. Bird.
Mussorgsky, Chopin, Prokofiev, Rimsky- Korsakov, Ravel. Bruce Haack. Wendy (Walter) Carlos. Tuvan throat-singing. G n' f'n R. Even more recently, checking out new (and old) Ted Leo and Editors. What! I still listen to the thrash, man, I'm
**Hard//Frikken//Core**
although in this case its Belarussan mad agit-prop punk like Contra La Contra, Anti-Globalizator.
Movies:
Trapped in the motherfucking Closet!! 28 Weeks Later, Malta con Huevo.. Knocked Up, What Would Jesus Buy? Brick, Thank You for Smoking. Machuca. House of Yes, Freeway, Ichi the Killer, Versus, Battlefield Baseball, Battle Royale, Azumi, Shaolin Soccer, Dr. Strangelove, Delicatessen, Death Race 2000, Ninja Scroll, Robot Carnival, Apocalypse Now, The Commitments, Hard Days Night, Princess Mononoke, Kill Bill, Sin City, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Motorcycle Diaries. Iylsa and the Oil Shieks, Teenage Hitchhikers, Shame of the Wild, Silent Night Deadly Night. SUBURBIA Old Boy. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. Those with Catherine Deneuve. Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Various Pedro Almodovar movies. All Kubrick, maybe not Eyes Wide Shut.
Television:
Nova, Anthony Boudain's No Reservations, Best Week Ever, Acceptable TV, Drawn Together. Ren and Stimpy.
The Young Ones, Black Adder, Red Dwarf, Fawlty Towers, Flying Circus. SPACED!!!!1oneone
The Goon Show. Doctor Who. Alo, Alo? Curb your Enthusiasm probably the best non-animation on this list...
FLCL, Cowboy Bebop, Aqua Teen, Invader Zim. Freaks & Geeks. Metalocalypse, Frisky Dingo.
Books:
Sandman series by Neil Gaiman, JTHM by Vasquez, Silver Age comics, hentai ... oh, you mean *real* books?
Anything by:
Feynman. Stephen J. Gould. Hawking. John Wheeler. Craig Wheeler. Sagan. Gleick.
MORE BOOKS:
Stranger in a Strange Land, autobiography of Malcolm X, Living My Life by Emma Goldman, Voltarine deClyre, Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman, A Clockwork Orange, anything by John Fante, Manufacturing Consent, Why Orwell Matters and The Trial of Henry Kissinger both by Christopher Hitchens. Hell's Angels by H.S. Thompson, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and of course goddamn Catcher in the Rye. Palanuik.
Kino. Poe. Neruda. Cervantes.
From my childhood:Roald Dahl (esp. Revolting Rhymes, though his autobiography and many adult books were great.) Asterix and Obelix. Tintin. Mortadelo y Filemon. DnD related books (HA! NERD!). Choose Your Own Adventure. Fighting Fantasy (hahahah - "Two dice, pencil, and paper are all YOU need to vanquish the foe!!") YEs, I read the Chronicles of Narinia, but also Simallirion, Hobbit, David Eddings, The Black Cauldron (and the other books in that series of which name's I forget...all I remember is the pig's name, Hen-Wen.) Dennis the Menace (from the old brit BEANO comics,) Oink magazine. Biker Bitches in Heat. j/k about that one, not till i was a bigger lad...
Heroes:
Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 400 Ano Domini.)
Me Mums.
MISFITS FACE!!
