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After four months at sea, ghost ship with 11 petrified corpses washes up in Barbados...

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1785108,00.html?gusrc=rss" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1

Nice one!

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5008364.stm" target="_blank">Gorillaz artist wins design award

This has got to be some kind of elaborate prank... According to the BBC the police are investigating  sex cult in Darlington with teachings based on the Gor novels. You know, the really really terrible ones with women in cages on the covers.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4996410.stm" target="_blank">"There are an estimated 25,000 Goreans worldwide"

I LIVE!

Okay, wheres the best place to head after being revived at Heritage Lane?

Tentacled eye toy thing...

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Vast cloud of alcohol found floating in space...

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060404/sc_afp/spaceastronomyoffbeat_060404000657" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060404/sc_afp/spacea

"I hate Mickey Mouse. He has nothing like the unique sensibility that Japan has. The Japanese are inherently skilled at visual expression and detailed work."

Link: http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060402-080515-9771r" target="_blank">http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=2006

It happened all the time in the nineteys. Seriously, every other strip someones eyeball popped out. That and Dredd standing around with a blood splattered daystick with bits of bone-fragment hanging off.

Link: http://www.slate.com/id/2137959/?nav=tap3" target="_blank">http://www.slate.com/id/2137959/?nav=tap3

Oh my god, this is EXACTLY like it's trailer, but two hours long. I felt like I'd been cornered at a party by a raging cokehead who wanted to tell me a long rambling story of importance only to him.
 
There isn't a shot in the film that lasts longer than six seconds, and it seems Tony Scott beleives there is NOTHING in teh world that can't be made more exciting by adding some weird camera effect, odd sound effect, pausing the action and putting weird pointless captions on the screen or juxtaposing upbeat music with a downbeat scene. It's like Natural Born Killers on crack. Only dumber. And with no point. And then Tom Waits turns up.

The extras include a brief doc on the Real Domino Harvey (a skinny skinhead who seems like a bit of a damage case - all intense stares and saying things that don't make sense) and Chocco is this rough looking gangster type with no teeth.

10/10 - best film evah.

Heather says she's not going to let me choose which movies to rent ever again.

Maybe it's because over the last 6 years I've only seen her in Star Wars, but I've come to think of Natalie Portman as a kind of soulless automaton only capable of talking in a monotone, possibly carved from wood and operated remotely like a puppet.

SO it was a bit of suprise to see her on Saturdya Night Live, being veyr lively and quirky and funny and actually kind of cool. And then they played this, which had me in stitches.

It almost makes me want to go see V for Vendetta*.

* Which I will probably go see anyway. But now I might be slightly less determined to hate it while watching it.

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"Choose Your Own Adventure" Books That Never Quite Made It

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I mean "historical research"...

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4754308.stm" target="_blank">Da Vinci Code 'copied book ideas'

Spielberg confirms it's happening...

Link: http://www.spielbergfilms.com/indy4news022006.html" target="_blank">http://www.spielbergfilms.com/indy4news022006.html

I have a feeling that this could be the Worst Comic Of All Time, in all the many ways possible...

Link: http://comics.ign.com/articles/688/688140p1.html" target="_blank">"I'm the goddamn bat-man"

He will always be remembered for his Man-Shark novel.

Oh yeah, and Jaws.

Over to Gary...

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4707576.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4707576.stm

'Villagers who protested that a new housing estate would ?harm the fairies? living in their midst have forced a property company to scrap its building plans and start again. '

Any comment from our Perthsire correspondant?

Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1881612,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1881612,

Featuring Moores staggeringly weird theory of time, a rather vitriolic discussion of Hollywood, DC, and why the comics industry is run by actual real not-a-metaphor gangsters, and some bits that made me laugh out loud.

Plus this issues also got a 2 page strip by me with some *stunning* art by Matt Timson.

Only a pound from Alex (Myth Control) Musson.

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In the premier issue of Nextwave.

"Oh my god. It's wearing underpants."

Saturday 25 March 2006
15.00?16.00

"Legendary graphic novelist Alan Moore considers the work of Henry Fuseli and his contemporaries. "

Link: www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/talks/alan

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