A Feast For The Eyes. And Brain.

Monday, October 6, 2008

A Feast For The Eyes. And Brain.

The arrival of Battlestar Galactica - Season 4 on DVD (and its superfast arrival on my desk thanks to Play.com) is well worth shouting about.
Absolutely cracking stuff, right from the off - the cliffhanger from the close of Season 3, right through to a jaw-dropping final episode that leaves you gagging for more. Gagging till some time early next year sadly.
By far the most intelligent, incisive and imaginative TV I've watched in years, its explorations of politics, war, religion, philosophy and ultimately humanity demand a serious viewing. It also scores on eye-candy and gobsmacking CGI battles if you're so inclined.
The release also reminds me to post up a link to the brilliantly pretentious and beautifully crafted "LAST SUPPER" Season 4 promo (above) - littered with meaningful clues (apparently), and dissected here...

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Rivercity

Fifteen minutes into the future, a hot, dry summer in Hull: Coates, a researcher and investigator, is hired to trace the whereabouts of missing adolescent Dominic Russell.
Is he the latest in a number of gruesome blood-letting murders attributed to the city’s “Marginals” that exist somewhere in the underbelly of the population?
That’s what the Police say, but it’s not what the boy’s mother believes - and as Coates digs deeper into that underbelly he discovers that Dominic’s disappearance is just a tiny part of a much bigger story: one that will bring his world crashing down and endanger all those around him...

Rivercity is a book that can be read at many levels, weaving a main plot - a clear homage to the “noir” detective genre - with a vampire story and a myriad of strands about perception and reality, human nature, signs, superstitions, the histroy of Hull, aesthetics, the occult and political expediency. Above all it's a novel about philosophy and the nature of truth and knowledge in the electronic age.

Now online here in its entirety...

Smallcreep

My 'formerly industrial' band with my mate Rob.
We grew out of wanting to be another NIN some time back and have developed into a far more interesting, singular, challenging and fun.
With Rob's emigration to the USA, our way of working and creating was fundamentally altered, but we continued to push the boundaries of possible musics as we always have.
Rob's return holds promise to pick things up some more - to develop more ideas, sketchpads, rhythms and approaches to keep us on the cutting edge - and maybe a refreshed approach which might even see us revisit and complete our unfinished masterpiece "BACKLASH".
Yeah, right...

Click here for the website & downloads

Monday, October 6, 2008