I Don't Recall

Prick.

The Zimmers "My Generation"

Awesome! Old people rock!

With a combined age of more than 3,000 years, they are not the most obvious rock 'n' rollers. Brought together for a TV documentary, they have attracted a cult following after recording a version of The Who's My Generation and are destined for chart stardom.

The group, which is fronted by bingo devotee Alfie Carretta, 90, were handpicked by BBC documentary-maker Tim Samuels who was shooting a hard-hitting series on the isolation of the elderly in Britain.

As the programme evolved, Samuels decided as a finale to gather his elderly subjects to make a memorable musical statement about their situation.

The project snowballed. U2's producer Mike Hedges and Band Aid video director Geoff Wonfor became involved, and recording time was secured at the famous Abbey Road recording studios.

Showing 300 for what it is... just fucking silly.

The promo 300 deserves. I've watched this about 30 times and it never stops being funny to me.

This one is pretty damn funny as well...

For more 300 mashups go here.

Royksopp

Music Videos, flexing phenomenal design sensibility, by Norwegian dream-pop band Royksopp.

Reviews on the latest work!

Please don't leave me. Look, you see, others love me... you could learn to love me to. If you just give it a little time.

"This is epic storytelling at its best, with plenty of sword-and-sorcery action - combined with a real-world allegory about the evils of going to war for less-than-honorable reasons - to keep any barbarian lover riveted to the page." - Wizard

It's not really an "allegory about the evils of going to war for less-than-honorable reasons", but that sure makes my writing sound gangster!!

"Joshua Dysart mimics Robert E. Howard's language deftly, and weaves a tapestry of the juicy elements that made Conan stories fun to read: monsters, sorcerers, swordplay, and an emphasis on the conflict between civilization and barbarism. Conan fans everywhere should hope that Dysart is given plenty more chances to bring the Cimmerian adventurer to life. Worth the money? Absolutely." - The Comic Book Bin

Hear that Dark Horse!? Daddy wants another ride on Conan's beefy back!

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"A surprisingly profound animated manga fantasy. Whatever your thoughts on Lavigne, it's compelling reading." - The Gaurdian Unlimited

Yes! I got a mention in The Guardian Unlimited!! One of my favorite news sites! First The Onion and now this!

"Make 5 Wishes is a disturbingly well-constructed comic with a current spin on a classic story, the Monkey's Paw specifically. Powerful metaphors and fascinating character gradations make "Make 5 Wishes" by far the most compelling work that grafts a popular name from North American media onto the style of anime or manga." - Aint It Cool News

The sentence structure in this review is a freaking mess, but fuck it, it's Ain't It Cool News, a site that's somehow managed to become a pop-culture blog of record.

"In a way, it's almost disturbing how close to home it hits on issues of modern youth: alienation, identity, celebrity worship and screwing around on the internet (aren't we all too familiar with that one)." - Anime News Network

If you click through to only one review, make it this one. It's fantastic! The reviewer manages to both attack and praise the book with equal verve. Both arguments are also completely valid and well constructed. Great pop-criticism.

"Make 5 Wishes is no poser manga aimed at cashing in on the Lavigne faithful but rather a compelling "be careful what you wish for" fable meticulously brought to life by Camilla d'Errico and Joshua Dysart." - Play Magazine

This review actually claims that I'm the artist and Camilla is the writer... so, you know, take it with a grain of salt.

"As it turns out, 'Make 5 Wishes' is great reading and the artwork is just divine." - Digital Taku

I like how surprised everyone is that the book doesn't just totally suck.

Everybody loves a shill!!

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 1922 - 2007

Link

(The above image is from Vonnegut.Com).

Paul Azeceta's Work on BPRD 1946

These images of the comic book written by Mike Mignola and myself are from Paul's Blog.

(For those not in the know... BPRD stands for BUREAU FOR PARANORMAL RESEARCH AND DEFENSE)

Excited about the book yet?

Pentagon probe fills in blanks on Iraq war groundwork

We all know that there was no connection between Hussein and Al Qaeda. But now we know exactly where that rhetoric came from...

"Just four months after the Sept. 11 attacks, then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz dashed off a memo to a senior Pentagon colleague, demanding action to identify connections between Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime and Al Qaeda.

"We don't seem to be making much progress pulling together intelligence on links between Iraq and Al Qaeda," Wolfowitz wrote in the Jan. 22, 2002, memo to Douglas J. Feith, the department's No. 3 official."

"Using Pentagon jargon for the secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld, he added: "We owe SecDef some analysis of this subject. Please give me a recommendation on how best to proceed. Appreciate the short turn-around.

"Wolfowitz's memo, released Thursday, is included in a recently declassified report by the Pentagon's inspector general. The memo marked the beginnings of what would become a controversial yearlong Pentagon project supervised by Feith to convince the most senior members of the Bush administration that Hussein and Al Qaeda were linked - a conclusion that was hotly disputed by U.S. intelligence agencies at the time and has been discredited in the years since." - From the Los Angeles Times

More here.

DOUGLAS J. FEITH, architect of rhetoric. Many of the activities of the intelligence unit Feith headed are now well known. But the release of the full inspector general's report provided more detail about how a group of Pentagon officials and on-loan intelligence analysts were able to shunt aside contradictory reports and convince top administration officials that they had powerful evidence of the connections between Hussein's regime and Al Qaeda.

Finest application of art and flash technology I've ever seen.

If you don't click here you'll miss out on something truly, truly wonderful.

#3 Out Today!!

"Conan and the Midnight God is here, and by Crom, it's exquisite." - THE COMIC BOOK BIN

"A story that promises to take its readers beyond Howard's tales of Conan. It stays true to the original material while adding its own flavor." - THE COMICS REVIEW

"To my surprise, I found what might be the beginnings of the best Conan story I've ever read. " - EYE ON COMICS

Click here to witness the creation process behind Midnight God #1. Compare script pages to layouts, look at pencils before and after coloring and watch the lettering pull it all together. Very cool indeed.