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Is it true that John Cage went on a game show in Italy - and won - answering questions on Fungi as his specialist subject? I thought so, but now i'm doubting it...

Dreaming Of Babylon by Richard Brautigan was the last book to make me laugh out loud, a couple of weeks ago, and on public transport too...

already, according to simon silverdollar on the UK Urban thread...

seen on a Crazy Frog endorsing flyer for ringtones and such: GET THE MOST ANNOYING SOUND (!)

cheers for the heads up, i'd forgotten when this was going to be on...

This thread made me remember when I first heard I Luv U; not having much beyond the obvious Grime/Garage Rap knowledge at the time it struck me as quite DHR sounding. Still does a little bit I think…

Well this is true, but at least in the cited instance they (Carpenter?) tweaked the title; I mean it’s easier to distinguish The Thing From Another World and The Thing in your head and on the video store shelf. it’s not building on top of the old, so much as beside… In relation to the thread...

and thinking on, surely to some extent the existence of codified genres is works against the need for a specific remake, everyone has access to the important/fun/relevant bits for their own movies (stories, whatever...) Cops In Trouble are Cops In Trouble...

Exactly. Why remake Night Of The Living Dead when you can just steal what you need (the Living Dead, Dim lighting) and make another movie instead. It'll probably suck, but you won't have corrupted the feel or memories of the earlier film to anything like the same extent. Why remake Rio Bravo...

a friend who'd never seen the original went to see it after i begged and begged for him to catch the real one on tape. (How he'd never manage to catch it before i'll never know! I made him watch They Live...) How can a remake be anything but terrible? I never understand why they remake films...

dug it out last night and it's as described above, though a little VHSbuzz-y in the quiet bits. Email or PM me your address and i'll beam it down via Royal Mail on Saturday/next week.

how good a copy do you need? I'm pretty sure i've got a Video i recorded off BBC a few years ago which should be watchable at least - no charge if you want it. i love that it! One of those great late night TV discoveries.

That is amazing! Fantastic!! I was big, big into my tape Walkmen up until about this time last year, when i finally managed to kill a bargain basement mid-range Sony one. I don't know what it is, but i can just destroy these things without even trying; hence i'm shit scared of getting an Ipod...

i saw that story in the New Scientist the other day. In the hard copy they have the following handy chart: Tone Interval - Taste Experienced Minor second - Sour Major second - Bitter Minor third - Salty Major third - Sweet Fourth - Mown grass Tritone - Disgust Fifth - Pure Water Minor sixth -...

it's hip to be square? ;)

there's a strong vein of scatology running through all electronic stuff, especially post-AFX/rephlex/warp/ stuff. even if it's just vulgar titles. I think it's something to do with having a neutral, inorganic set of sounds and interfaces leaving people with the security to do this stuff - just...

kind of off topic but... Quote: Phillip K. Dick, the late schizoid Sci-Fi author and Ira (The Unicorn) Einhorn, sixties radical activist turned seventies New Age networker cum fugitive axe murderer, began a correspondence in early February of '78 centered around Dick's firmly held (on shaky...

Johnny Mnemonic was/is a William Gibson short story. I really can't see anybody - let alone Linklater - turning ASD into something Matrix-esque... but then *they* turned We Can Remember It For You Wholesale into Total Recall....

uhm. To give birth to a new musical genre, Genomic Dub, that:  engages the interest, quickens the pulse and hi-jacks the brain of the listener.  encodes biological sequence data into dub music.  celebrates the achievements of science, particularly in the field of genomics.  celebrates...

mind, i wish R1 would halve his explosion quota