READ IT ! READ IT, I TELL YOU !!!

guess what ? another comics selection only.

THE MOVIE OF THE LAST YEARS...

...will not be released, at least not untill some cools spirits will decide of taking care of Terry Gilliam, genius of the visual arts amongst the best. this movie looked so great, hotdammit.



(...)Lost In La Mancha may be the first "un-making" of documentary. In a genre that exists to hype films before their release, Lost In La Mancha presents an unexpected twist: it is the story of a film that does not exist. Instead of a sanitised glimpse behind the scenes, Lost In La Mancha offers a unique, in-depth look at the harsher realities of filmmaking. With drama that ranges from personal conflicts to epic storms, this is a record of a film disintegrating(...)

i was so sad to miss this movie while it came around here ; thanks to french "culture and tv" weekly Telerama, who do some kind of annual festival in many towns with some of the best movies released in the past year, i saw it, and god, it's so... unbelivable. Jean Rochefort is Don Quichotte, it's evident. and Gilliam is a... a... i dunno. i love this guy. 8)

VOTE FOR MANU.

look at this punk, hotdammit ! 8)
his name's Manu Larcenet, and he's just one of the main comics creators of these last decades ; his work is amazing, but you probably heard about it before, as Manu just won yesterday the big Prize of the last Angouleme comics festival for his last album, "le combat ordinaire".
he strongly deserves more attention, really ; i really love his shit, and even if some award isn't the ultimate thing for him, surely it ain't that bad, too. 8)
no big surprise this year, but awards (read : future better sales...) for Gaiman's french translation of Sandman won the best Writer award, the magnificent and so-nice Renaud Dillies' Betty Blues won the best first comic, Nakazawa Keiji 's Gen of Hiroshima won an award, too... good shit, away from the usual-and-ever classicism of these last years selection.
heck, some openminding phenomenon in the french comics business ? or only in western france ? 8)

(pic : cardi from the bubulle hall of fame)

while these happy times, fuckers are still fucking...



...but there's still hope :

A BLAST FROM THE PAST.



in the mid 90's, Boom Bass and Zdar did some of the best sensualhypnoriginalhiphouse ever done, and hotdammit, they were french (ok, they still are, but are doing some different, more the-beat housey tunes nowadays...) ; these nice guys from Chronowax will soon releasing this kind of compilation, including some never released tracks that i really wait for...



and in the mid 90's, some other brilliant, fuck me, did i say brilliant ? i mean some other genius artist did his own vision of another twisted and genius artist called Jimi Hendrix ; Bill Sienkiewicz is one of the mains creators who gave these last years some of the best artwork ever did. Delcourt (the very publishers who just fucked up their translation of Neil Gaiman's Sandman, who deserves nothing but better respect and publishing intelligence - another time, Neil ?) just launched their french version. nice book indeed,but without the original CD included in the original version. 8)




yes, i'm just posting this only shit. more, so more to come.
i need some CPU, really, it's slowly becoming vital, or so. 8)

>THE NEGATIVE VELOCITY MANIFESTO
>
>Words to live by :
>Transact. Transcend. Transduce. Transfer. Transfix. Transform. Transgress. Transmit.

nuff said.
more soon, i promise. 8)

RADIO !

monday nite with Alcor, i'll at least/last play a few shit (in his weekly "Hiphouse" radioshow) ; sounds good. i'm glad.
and, yes, another news : big update tomorrow.