Linkerificness
Got turned off surfing the web by the horrendously slow in-room network in the Hall, and apparently missed a bit.
- The Rent movie by Chris Columbus has a trailer and music video (Seasons of Love, of course) up on the Apple trailers site. I was just listening to the soundtrack for the first time in months this week — magical as ever. Can’t wait for November.
- Plans, the new album by Death Cab for Cutie, will be out end of the month. I’ve only listened to it once (the, ummm, “pre-release version”), and it’s really not bad. Might even buy it when it’s released, if it shows up anywhere for a reasonable price.
- Comic Relief: Newsweek article on the rising popularity of graphic novels (via dsng.net). The blurb begins with “Take that, Batman. Graphic novels are moving out of the hobby shop and into the mainstream.”, and the rest of the article demonstrates a similarly narrow-minded view of comics. “For at least a decade, no other comic novel approached the significance of ‘Maus’” — right, right. Interesting comments by Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) and Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan) among others, and a good (albeit limited) introductory list of “serious” graphic novels for the uninitiated, but not much more to offer.
- Strip Generator: Flash-based comic-strip creating program. Limitless fun. Also reminds me I should get around to scanning my drawings and shit.
- What book can’t you put down?: From Ask Metafilter. A good list to check out after I get through this giant stack of recently-purchased books, say, sometime next year (damn you and your 20% sales, Kinokuniya).