Sdtrk: ‘G turns to D’ by Sloan

Usually when I’m on das InfoBahn, I’m either spending the majority of my time going through my bookmarks of RealDoll and similar Synthetik companion sites (twenty-one, at last count), or I’m wasting time on my two favourite image boards, 4chan and WAKAchan. It was on WAKAchan where I learned that some artist bloke that I’d never heard of before, by the name of Zdzisław Beksiński, was stabbed to death in his home in Poland.
Now, cos it’s an image board, someone had posted a couple of pics of Beksiński’s pieces, and at first glace, I thought they’d been done by H.R Giger. Pretty close, yeah, but Giger’s territories seem like they’d be more likely on an alien world, whereas Beksiński’s works somehow seem more suited towards our planet; albeit after Revelations.

Give his stuff a look-in. In their own nightmarish way, they’re beautiful paintings, and they tend to remain in your mind long after you look at them. It’s really a tragedy that Beksiński was senselessly murdered, but at least his works will always be around

Sdtrk: ‘L’enfer’ by Coralie Clément

Today, I ventured to the mythical and hazardous land known as Outsidemyhousevania, in order to run some errands. I was also expecting a call from an ex-coworker in order to see if we could get together on Friday, but as I more or less expected, she didn’t call back. :-\
So I filled the void in my heart with purchases! Hooray for Stuff!

+ the March issue of Newtype (woo hoo, ep.2 of Cromartie High school is on the free DVD! Now I can see if the series is worth buying)
+ Party of one: The Loners’ Manifesto, as suggested by Lily‘s lad, PBShelley
+ the Bye bye Beauté Cd by Coralie Clément. I’d never heard of her before, but there was some sort of sticker on the front that suggested that if you like Ivy, Stereolab or some other bands, that you might like this; plus the fact that I’m a sucker for Sixties-style French pop chanteuses forced me to pick it up. So far, not altogether bad, but the only similarity to Stereolab is that Coralie sings in French
+ the remastered version of The cure’s Three imaginary boys Cd (two disks, 20 extra tracks)
+ plus some sushi (eel & cucumber gunkan and one shrimp nigiri), five pieces of inari, and a can of UCC Coffee

So my question: When did BestBuy start ‘requiring’ your phone number whenever you make a purchase? I’m at the cashier’s desk, paying for the Cure Cd, and she asks me ‘Telephone number, staring with area code, please?’ I of course gave some number that doesn’t exist — or, at the very least, isn’t mine. And it wasn’t as if I a) made a large purchase over $200, or b) paid with a credit/debit card or cheque! It would be a little more understandable for them to ask for a phone number for verification *coughsolicitingcough* purposes, but this is a $16 Cd here! I remember when they started that bollocks, asking for ZIP codes at RadioShack years ago, and once again, I’d always lie, but that isn’t as ridiculous/invasive as asking someone’s phone number.

My other question: Does anyone actually give out their real number to these companies? If so, d’ya think they’d like to buy a bridge from me?

Sdtrk: ‘Music of spheres’ by Delia Derbyshire

Thought I’d catch up on some loose ends, blog- and news-wise..

For those of you who post comments, and don’t have a proper Gravatar, now you get one of my default ones, heh heh. 🙂 I think I might change them around once a month, so fair warning: if you don’t want to be represented as a member of SHADO (that’s March’s entry), or something ‘worse’, get your own smegging Gravatar..

Wednesday morn/afternoon, I was ambling round downtown Detroit with Wolfgang and Mike (of the RoToRs consortium), madly snapping photographs for about six hours, and cursing the bitter Northern winds. Apart from the cursing, it was fun! We took several shots in the John King building, as well as the RenCen/GM headquarters, the People Mover, and one of the finer examples of Art Deco architecture (there’s that word again), the Guardian building.

from the John King breakroom. Sound advice!

Actually, Wolfgang wrote up a pretty good summation of our adventures, which you can find right here.
O, I don’t think I’ve introduced you! RoToRs is, as it’s stated, the Online Journal of Vulne Pro, which is an art collective begun by Mike/aneamo several years ago, that I’m occasionally involved with. You may have seen Mike’s work on Sweetie’s site, or in various gaming books, or on the Vulne Pro site itself; now he and Wolfgang have a blog with which to show off new ideas, projects, etc.

Also, new notable blogs of note worth noting, so take notes, would be Undercover in Japan, a tale of a young Englishman trapped in a strange and futuristic world, where AIBOs run amok, and ninjas and magical schoolgirls in towering mecha fight against giant ramen-eating Yakuza lizards. Yes.
And there’s Nothing To Do With Arbroath, which is Silliness Compiled. See if I’m lying.

And I dinna get a chance to pick up Devil may cry 3 yet, as we were too busy running round for me to cash my cheque before the banks closed. Mnyeh. Perhaps tomorrow..

What the hell else was I gonna say?

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