Willow is a great TV buddy. And an excellent cat in general. Just look at that face.
Tuesday Tortitude
Not with a bang, but a whimper: The Stand collapses
Stephen King, and all of us, keep coming back to The Stand trying to get it right. First published in 1978, The Stand has been re-issued with an additional 500 or so pages in 1990, adapted as a miniseries in the early 90s, a comic series by Marvel from 2008 to 2012, and yet another miniseries this year courtesy of CBS All Access. Despite a solid start, the latest attempt at getting The Stand right falls apart and fails to do justice to the source material.
Adapting books to television or movies is hard. Even your average novel that only weighs in at 300 pages or so contains more than you can cram into a movie, and is either too much or too little to do well over the course of a series. Game of Thrones loosely adapted one book per season for HBO, and still shed characters and events, combined book characters into a single person to keep things simpler, and so forth.
The Stand tried to do too much in too little time, and even tried to introduce a new ending that was as unsatisfying as it was unnecessary. (If you haven’t watched the show and plan to, beware there are spoilers ahead.) Continue reading “Not with a bang, but a whimper: The Stand collapses”
Shpongle: Live in London
Late to the party is better than never to the party. Shpongle has been around for ages, but first crossed my radar a few months ago.
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Decided to see if anything good was on YouTube while I was having some Caturday recliner time with the kitties. Turns out there’s a great video of a set the band did in London in 2013 at the Troxy, on Halloween. Not sure if all their shows are quite this elaborate with costumes and such, or if it was a Halloween thing, but damn. This is one high production quality event.
Um. The music is also pretty damn good. If you did mostly instrumental prog/psychedelic rock, this is definitely something you should check out. Makes great background music but also rewards paying attention and letting the music just wash over you.
Sir Wobbles, the glorious
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Praxis: Warszawa
One of Bill Laswell’s many, many, many projects, Praxis is an experimental rock band that has featured a rotating cast of players. This iteration features Laswell on bass, Bryan Mantia (“Brain”) on drums, Buckethead on guitar, and Mix Master Mike and DJ Disk on samples & turntables. Continue reading “Praxis: Warszawa”