Cold Bullets

2009-11-28

The fine line work of Curtis Collier.

Something hilarious and creepy about this picture.

An organization called StoryCorps wants people across the United States to record a conversation with someone important to them. It is one of the most ambitious oral history projects ever undertaken in the US.

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joytothehurled:

Brilliant. Just brilliant.

Agreed.

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azizisbored:

Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy (Live at Knitting Factory on 03.07.98)

Wow. What a performance. Somebody convince Jeff Mangum to do music again please.

I know two girls who will really enjoy this.

2009-11-26

Happy birthday to the late Charles M. Schulz.

(November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000)

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Everybody do the Monster Mash! I’m a sucker for a good monster movie. Universal Studios, emphasis on the good.

The Wolfman is looking promising! This poster is pretty badass.

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psychotherapy:

“It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a shipwreck. That’s what a family is. Also the storm at sea, the ship, and the unknown shore. And the hats and the whiskey stills that you make out of bamboo and coconuts. And the fire that you light to keep away the beasts.”

- Michael Chabon

A happy Thanksgiving to all the ‘mericans out there.

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Bam! The classic first edition covers. The illustrations by Pauline Baynes compliment the books incredibly well. She also worked closely with Tolkien:

In her obituary, the Daily Telegraph described how Baynes and Tolkien came to be associated:

“In 1948 Tolkien was visiting his publishers, George Allen & Unwin, to discuss some disappointing artwork that they had commissioned for his novella Farmer Giles of Ham, when he spotted, lying on a desk, some witty reinterpretations of medieval marginalia from the Luttrell Psalter that greatly appealed to him. These, it turned out, had been sent to the publishers “on spec” by the then unknown Pauline Baynes. Tolkien demanded that the creator of these drawings be set to work illustrating Farmer Giles of Ham, and was delighted with the subsequent results, declaring that Pauline Baynes had “reduced my text to a commentary on her drawings”. Further collaboration between Tolkien and his Farmer Giles illustrator followed, and a lifelong friendship developed… Later, when she showed him her artwork for a poster featuring Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, the author nodded approvingly and murmured quietly: “There they are, there they are.”

2009-11-25

Stephen King may write sequel to 'The Shining'