Saturday, May 19, 2012

From my vaults: Pearl S. Buck


Bio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck

First Lines: Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?


A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.

Encounters at the End of the World (2007)


Filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica to capture its landscape's rarely seen beauty on film and the people who live there.

New Stuff: Bob Dylan


Official release of a legendary bootleg documenting the audience's protest to Bob Dylan playing electric.

New Stuff: Michael Gira


After so many years I finally his first solo album.

Art: Chesley Bonestell


Bio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesley_Bonestell

From my vaults: Roy Buchanan

Bio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Buchanan

First Lines: Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot


Six Northern Africans were playing boule beneath Flaubert's statue.

Photographer: Yuri Bonder


Find more at:

http://photo.net/photos/Yuri%20Bonder

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

From my vaults: Jack Buchanan


Bio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Buchanan

First Lines: Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment


At the beginning of July, during a spell of exceptionally hot weather, towards evening, a certain young man came down on to the street from the little room he rented from some tenants in S- and slwoly, almost hesitantly, set off towards K--n Bridge.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Monday, May 14, 2012

The Day the World Ended (2001)



In a small town a killer alien is devouring certain people and sparing others.

Average TV horror with an unconvincing psychological explanation and a title with no relevance to the plot whatsoever.