...when I noticed that the link led to Emilie Autumn's cover version of Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", rather a lot of material by Collide, Amanda Ghost, Oceanlab, and even a track by Miriam Stockley* (for goodness' sake!), I thought I should share ( Read more... )

Earlier this week, I got into an unreasonably heated debate about what does, or does not, constitute "steampunk", and whether the term can be legitimately 'retro-fitted' to texts and visual artifacts which have hitherto survived without the weight of that label being applied to 'em. Ridiculous, I know, but there you go ( Read more... )

...but if I were, then I'd probably be gagging for one of these:


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This all started, in a personal way, a couple of weeks ago, when I asked astartesyriaca if she planned to watch Peter Bowker's new TV adaptation of Wuthering Heights (http://www.itv.com/drama/perioddrama/wutheringheights/). Given that Bowker was the hack responsible for ( Read more... )

...might like to skip over Derren Brown's current Channel 4 excesses*, and hit Erik Davis' musings on Dollhouse in the current issue of h+ magazine instead:

http://hplusmagazine.com/hplus-fall_2009_optimized.pdf

*( Under here, if you don't mind being screamed at to watch a show on Friday. )

Via Derren Brown:

http://www.petitiononline.com/goldanth/petition.html

Edit: For the very lazy...

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Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance by Sir Richard Francis Burton (and sadly edited by his silly wife):

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2400

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Music: http://www.indiecentmusic.com/mp3/ (assorted).

Books: http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/dun/index.htm (the Works of Lord Dunsany).

Have a good one.