e.e cummings on Krazy Kat

"Even if Offissa Pupp should go crazy and start chasing Krazy, and even if Krazy should go crazy and start chasing Ignatz, and even if Krazy should swallow crazy Ignatz and crazy Offissa Pupp should swallow crazy Krazy and it was the millennium - there'd still be the brick. And (having nothing else to swallow) Offissa Pupp would then swallow the brick. Whereupon, as the brick hit Krazy, Krazy would be happy." - em Classical Hollywood Comedy

Dica da Natasha.

Mais louco é quem me diz...

Perfil bacana feito pelo grande escriba Bruno Tortura Nogueira sobre o mestre da química psicodélica Sasha Sulgin. Publicado na Trip de julho.

Gêmeos no TCJ

Trecho da minha entrevista com Fábio Moon e Gabriel Bá no The Comics Journal.

A segunda vinda

David Gelernter escreveu The Second Coming - A Manifesto apresentando as falhas atuais da forma como enxergamos os computadores (área de trabalho? arquivos e pastas?) e sugerindo um novo modelo, baseado em lifestreams:

38. A "lifestream" organizes information not as a file cabinet does but roughly as a mind does.

39. A lifestream is a sequence of all kinds of documents — all the electronic documents, digital photos, applications, Web bookmarks, rolodex cards, email messages and every other digital information chunk in your life — arranged from oldest to youngest, constantly growing as new documents arrive, easy to browse and search, with a past, present and future, appearing on your screen as a receding parade of index cards. Documents have no names and there are no directories; you retrieve elements by content: "Fifth Avenue" yields a sub-stream of every document that mentions Fifth Avenue.

Vale a leitura, pode haver algo realmente importante aí.

J.G. Ballard

RIP

Bomb the bass!!!

De Don Letts, DJ, cineasta, um dos "culpados" pelo casamento do ska com o punk no Reino Unido:

"It's disturbing when I see kids on buses, listening to music on their phones, and it's just going: tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, with no bass. Bass culture is Jamaica's gift to the world and technology is, kind of, ruining that. Bass is sexy. Women respond to bass. That said, dubstep is one of the most exciting musical forms out there. There's always something going on."

A afirmação está em uma ótima entrevista com ele publicada dias atrás no The Guardian. Leia!

'Let the pedophiles have the kids'

É difícil pinçar uma só declaração da sensacional entrevista de Grant Morrison ao blog da Wired, mas, enfim, que tal essa?

Morrison: We've deconstructed all our icons. We know politicians are lying assholes, we know soap stars are coke freaks, handsome actors are tranny weirdos and gorgeous supermodels are bulimic, neurotic wretches. We know our favorite comedians will turn out to be alcoholic perverts or suicidal depressives. Our reality shows have held up a scalding mirror to our yapping baboon faces and cheesy, obvious obsessions, our trashy, gossipy love of trivia and dirt.

We know we've fucked up the atmosphere and doomed the lovely polar bears and we can't even summon up the energy to feel guilty anymore. Let the pedophiles have the kids. There's nowhere left to turn and no one left to blame except, paradoxically, those slightly medieval guys without the industrial base. What's left to believe in? The only truly moral, truly goodhearted man left is a made-up comic book character! The only secular role models for a progressive, responsible, scientific-rational Enlightenment culture are … Kal-El of Krypton, aka Superman and his multicolored descendants!

LEIAM!