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I love the way that the American press is insisting that the other guy was in the wrong for being in gunshot rnage of Cheney: somehow, I doubt that he'd have been able to get away with an apology if he'd winged Haliburton boy...

'Another Girl, Another Planet' - The Only Ones

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Definitely a good one.

Mannish Boy by Muddy Waters springs to mind as well, he sounds pretty chipper on most versions of that I've heard.

Presumably Sauron's the oldest character in the book (to the extent that he's actually in it, at least).

I wasn't very taken with the Silmarillion. To be honest, Tolkein's always struck me as a much better children's writer than he does in his more adult stuff.

The kids don't seem to like him much, do they?

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no, ungrateful little twats.

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Maybe they were hoping for advice from somebody who was in rock music rather than vaudeville?

Nobody has any thoughts about who they'd actually like to see contributing short stories and/or a novel, then?

Started in on Kavalier and Clay over the weekend. I'm enjoying it a lot.

The One To Sing The Blues by Motorhead always works.

I know-  I just said it to see what came back... I love Gene Simmons on the current Channel 4 Rock School though.

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The kids don't seem to like him much, do they?

It's pretty terrible, I'd have said. Nothing like the Max stuff, and certainly not worth twenty quid.

Yes. Warwick wins easily though.

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Fair enough.

I'm trying to think of what I'd stick in a list like that, but I don't hold out a lot of hope that the producers mentioned any Richard and Linda Thompson or Close Watch by John Cale as they've been ill served by cretinous covers. Prince might have been in with a chance, I suppose.

#2 Thank the Lord Gods Bacharach and David!

"Walk On By" by the PROPER Dionne Warwick.

Now that is a gorgeous song sung by an angel.

 

And the song transcends the Stranglers' version NB my earlier comment about vitriol.

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Have you heard Isaac Hayes' version?

Is this story about a by election (I think for a State Governor) where an advert was screened by the Republican candidate rubbishing his opponent, true? Said advert was, it seems, just a list of smears aimed at the chap, calling his conduct and morals into doubt. The killer line at the end was apparently "Liberal".

Your gut could be right. Given that the Hellblazer stuff has always been far more character driven than the Sandman (unless written by Azzarello, of course), I suspect that the extra length of a novel is going to work a lot better in this case.

The really annoying thing about that Sandman anthology is that I've got a couple of Michael Moorcock them anthologies by the same publisher (who is also the editor of the Sandman one who wasn't Gaiman) and those are pretty good. They even involve a lot of the same writers.

I'd rather see a short story collection of Constantine tales akin to that Sandman one a decade ago.  That way there could be a greater variety of types of stories.

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A nice idea, but that Sandman anthology wasn't very good: apart from the John M Ford and George Alec Effinger stories it was a complete waste of time.

Anybody you'd like to see taking a stab at writing one of these Constantine novels besides John Shirley? It'd be interesting to see what Ramsey Campbell or Kim Newman did with the character, I'd have thought.

How does a Shropshire farmboy know when his sister is menstruating?

His dad’s cock tastes funny...

I've a friend who might be interested, Ade. I'll pass the url onto him.

I've just reread Carey's run and it's a while since I've read any of Delanos, so Carey.

(I enjoyed the Campbell story, myself.)

"Did you hear the Tori Amos cover album "Strange Little Girls"? Some examples of bringing too much to a cover. Her "Happiness is a Warm Gun" is a disaster, and her cover of Eminem's "Bonnie and Clyde '99" is comically bad."

 

I own all of Tori's albums!

"Strange Little Girls" was mostly a mess.

"Rattlesnakes" was the only song I felt she really made her own.

I sort of like "Happiness is a Warm Gun"....but more out of curiosity sake than anything else.

Oh hell! "Bonnie and Clyde '99" is comically bad! That's such a good way to put it.

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Any songs you'd have been interested to hear her take a stab at for that? It's be interesting to see what she does with some John Cale or Peter Hammill, I'd have thought.

Josh, I remember seeing an article in Wired about the Neal Adams thing. Part of his assumption was that helium atoms are spontaneously manufactured from something called prime matter whenever a proton and a positron collide and wipe each other out: in the course of the piece he got into a debate with a particle physicist who told him that all of the energy that's generated by the two particles wiping each other out is accounted for, so he may have since given up on the notion.

(The extracts from the graphic novel treatise he's published on the subject were nicely illustrated and used the language correctly, so it may be somebody else Colleen Doran was having a go at.)

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I'd bet that whoever it was from, Colleen didn't post it, because she does try to not badmouth people in the industry. But if it was funny and anti-scientific, she would leave it up for the humor value.

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I thought she was willing to badmouth people but avoided naming names?

an awful lot of rock'n'roll is like KISS.

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And whats wrong with KISS?

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Style over substance bullshit artists who are responsible for most of what's crap in American rock from Motley Crue on down (apart from nu metal: that one was the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Rage Against The Machine's fault...)

Sounds a bit meanspirited: it's unfair to get into a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent, surely?

Josh, I remember seeing an article in Wired about the Neal Adams thing. Part of his assumption was that helium atoms are spontaneously manufactured from something called prime matter whenever a proton and a positron collide and wipe each other out: in the course of the piece he got into a debate with a particle physicist who told him that all of the energy that's generated by the two particles wiping each other out is accounted for, so he may have since given up on the notion.

(The extracts from the graphic novel treatise he's published on the subject were nicely illustrated and used the language correctly, so it may be somebody else Colleen Doran was having a go at.)

Jay and I had a discussion about this, and we pretty well came to an agreement that at least 50% of these differences are societal in nature instead of being any sort of natural occurence.

Which is where I have trouble with those books in the Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus pattern. They tend to assume that middle-class middle-American straight white people are representative of all of humanity. Unfortunately, it's too much work for some authors to learn about other cultures, including othe subcultures within one's own countries, as well as people who aren't straight, to see if their generalizations about men and women hold true for everyone; and a large portion of book purchasers just want the stereotypes they already hold ratified so they don't have to be uncomfortable and having their thinking challenged.

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I always wanted to write a book called "Men are from Mars, and Women like Chocolate."

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"Men Like Big Cars and Women Like Chocolate"?

No. They let him and Claremont write about vampires in the JLA because the two were pretty popular on something called X-Men a few years back....something about a Phoenix dying or something?

 

John Byrne and Archie:A Match Made in....HELL!

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I remember that one, but I fear they've both run out of steam since...

Josh: I don't know where Byrne stands on pseudoscience, but hasn't Neal Adams published a book explaining that the Earth is actually growing and the continents used to fit together along both edges, not just the one?

Is Cherie any good in bed in bed, Tony? Is this what led to your cardiac stutter? Or are you such a tosspot that you can't get it up without having a coronary?