A few quick unrelated items: (1) dan at erase reports on a Squarepusher/Steve Reich/Aphex Twin-related live gig in the UK that sounds like a lot of fun. He's also been posting links to good online mixes, such as this  tech-house assortment [since removed--"Eucalyptus" and "Night Herbs" were the ones I recommended] and this 80s/00s electro jam. (2) The Doris Piserchia Website has been updated with a sample chapter from her 1981 novel Earth in Twilight, and a review of that novel reprinted from Nathan Shumate's website. (3) A friend lent me his Cowboy Bebop series DVDs, which are fairly mindblowing. In the .GIF at left, bounty hunter Spike is opening the Bebop airlock so he can push a refrigerator out into space. He left a lobster in there a year before and it mutated into a blue springy thing that escaped and bit all of his shipmates and put them in comas. More horrible stuff was breeding in the icebox, hence his need to space it. And his skin isn't really yellow-green except in a 16-color .GIF.UPDATE: The mixtapes mentioned above are by Sami Koivikko, from Finland, who makes tracks when he's not dj'ing. The "Night Herbs" mix is flawlessly beat-matched and contains a number of those angelic arrangements of 3 or 4 confectionary notes that probably have a more precise musical term but are what I like most about house tracks, especially of the minimal/tech variety. Producers such as Losoul, John Tejada, Paul Kalkbrenner and other favorites are included in the mix.
I can see why you are into that Doris Pischeria! Read through all your samples and now I want to read all the books. That Whing dude is hilarious! poor bastard.
The "sample problem" has been bedeviling me. I want the site to attract new readers and not just be a Place of Nostalgia for fans, but it's hard to find anything to excerpt that comes close to the spell the books cast (or capturing her weird humor). The author has forbade reprinting her short stories on the Net. I got the idea of doing "first chapters" from the AE Van Vogt site. I asked Piserchia in an email awhile back if there was any word limit on what I could excerpt and never got an answer, so hopefully she won't bust my chops again.
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A few quick unrelated items: (1) dan at erase reports on a Squarepusher/Steve Reich/Aphex Twin-related live gig in the UK that sounds like a lot of fun. He's also been posting links to good online mixes, such as this
UPDATE: The mixtapes mentioned above are by Sami Koivikko, from Finland, who makes tracks when he's not dj'ing. The "Night Herbs" mix is flawlessly beat-matched and contains a number of those angelic arrangements of 3 or 4 confectionary notes that probably have a more precise musical term but are what I like most about house tracks, especially of the minimal/tech variety. Producers such as Losoul, John Tejada, Paul Kalkbrenner and other favorites are included in the mix.
- tom moody 3-16-2004 10:16 pm
I can see why you are into that Doris Pischeria! Read through all your samples and now I want to read all the books. That Whing dude is hilarious! poor bastard.
- sally mckay 3-17-2004 6:08 pm
The "sample problem" has been bedeviling me. I want the site to attract new readers and not just be a Place of Nostalgia for fans, but it's hard to find anything to excerpt that comes close to the spell the books cast (or capturing her weird humor). The author has forbade reprinting her short stories on the Net. I got the idea of doing "first chapters" from the AE Van Vogt site. I asked Piserchia in an email awhile back if there was any word limit on what I could excerpt and never got an answer, so hopefully she won't bust my chops again.
- tom moody 3-17-2004 8:28 pm