Two library additions of Harlan Ellison non-fiction books from two different purchases.
Library Additions: Two Signed Harlan Ellison Books
May 4th, 2017Library Addition: True PBO 1st of Star Wars
May 3rd, 2017Picked this up at Half Price Books, and while not along my usual collecting vectors, I knew enough to pick it up.
Foster, Alan Dean (writing as George Lucas). Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker. Ballantine Books, 1976. First edition paperback original (as indicated both by the “First Printing 1976” statement on the copyright page, and by the original Ralph McQuarrie artwork on the cover, which was dropped from all subsequent reprints), a Very Good copy with cover creasing, bottom front corner crease, and general wear.
Although McQuarrie helped design many of the characters, the versions on the cover of this paperback varies wildly from their on-screen counterparts, and every other subsequent piece of official Star Wars art.
Library Additions: Two Signed Tanith Lee First Editions
May 1st, 2017Two signed Tanith Lee books from the same Cold Tonnage Books 50% off sale I got the chapbooks from:
Shoegazer Sunday: The Black Ryder’s “Seventh Moon”
April 30th, 2017The breathy vocals of Aimee Nash, half of Los Angeles-by-way-of-Australia duo The Black Ryder, merit obvious comparison to Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval. Here they are with “Seventh Moon,” which reminds me a bit of SPC ECO’s “Tweet Fields at Night” and is about 97% pure beauty by weight.
Library Additions: Four Chapbooks, One Postcard
April 26th, 2017Between a new job, doing my taxes, and a relative coming into town, the task of cataloging library additions has been sidelined. The items here are from a Cold Tonnage Books sale in January, so the cataloging has been a long time in coming. All the below prices are after a 50% discount.
Minor Victories’ “Folk Arp”
April 16th, 2017Here’s “Folk Arp,” another tune from Minor Victories:
The video is not particularly interesting. However, this cinéma vérité black and white piece following a trio of skateboarders at night is really nice.
Paste Magazine Ranks Every MST3K Episode (And Declares War on Your Browser)
April 14th, 2017With the new MST3K reboot dropping today, Paste Magazine ranked every episode of MST3K on one ginormous page that reportedly crashes Chrome.
I don’t agree with all their rankings (Manos: The Hands of Fate is much too low), but they’re generally in the ballpark.
Shoegazer Sunday: Nothing’s “The Dead Are Dumb”
April 9th, 2017For your Sunday dose of Shoegaze, here’s Nothing’s “The Dead Are Dumb”:
Shoegazer Sunday: Slowdive’s “Sugar for the Pill”
April 2nd, 2017Slowdive’s new, self-titled album, their first in two decades, is due out May 5. “Sugar for the Pill” is the second preview cut off that album (following “Star Roving“).
Colin Furze Builds the World’s Fastest Bumper Car
March 31st, 2017BBC is evidently rebooting Top Gear now that Clarkson, May and Hammond have departed for The Grand Tour, so they hired Colin Furze to “build something fast for the Stig.”
That “something” turned out to be the world’s fastest bumper car: