YO. I am DEATH MONKEY #23 and inasmuch as comix go I am into OUTLAW NATION, 2000AD (as of recently) SANDMAN, AMERICAN CENTURY (I got collection 1 recently and I dug it). Also I quite like US WAR MACHINE, although the satire is rendered redundant after the 'unimaginably unimaginable' recent events that no doubt will be remembered amongst us all for as long as, er, 19 months.
I wanna hear from YOU
Also what about MUSIC, man. I like Radiohead, System of a down, Primal Scream, Ministry (metal band), Butthole Surfers etc.
I am 14 so please present prejudice in your postings where necessary.
Listen Monkey boy,
Go back to the jungle!
Or hello how are you?
You are too young to read 2000AD. If you read the small print at the bottom of the nerve center it says it is illegal for under 16's to read it.
Fact.
Sorry about that.
scojo
It does f***ing not! Please give me a proper reply next time. what sort of name is scojo anyway
Please excuse Scojo - he's overdue his next Ritalin shot...
Nice to see a 2000 AD reader round here who wasn't born when the mag started. Out of interest, what do you think of the stuff that's in the mag these days (most of us here grew up with 2K so we have a slightly different perspective)?
Cheers
Mk13
2000 AD.
I knew he would fall for it.
Some people eh!
hee hee
scojo whose middle name is johanna
Yo backatchya
I am fraston, lord of the scottish glen. No, really...
comics: 2000ad for past 3 years, any mainstream richard corben ie "banner" or Hellblazer, kinda curious about all this milligan and morrison x-people stuff, and i dig charles burns. who? yeah, like anyone HERE is gonna know that name....
i am as old as the wind so please don't light any matches m'kay?
Fraston
Really? i thought yer middle name rhymed with hat....
fraston
i was of the understanding that ministry were indusrial
steven lenfant terrible
(who's spent the past decade as a music journalist)
>i was of the understanding that ministry were indusrial
Speaking with my Ministry fanboy hat on (it's the one with the propellor), for about three albums they were, but the last two we out-and-out metal.
Give the kid a break- he must have been about two when Ministry's last 'industrial' album came out (which is a scary concept).
Mk13
(Who has also much experience in filling the pages of our nation's esteemed musical publications with ill-informed opinionated wibble)
no offence meant to death monkey, but the lad asked us to "please present prejudice in your postings.";)
great to have someone here who isn't creaking, "when i was a lad we used to have to walk 20 mile for a prog, the race home for a thrashing before all the letrtone smudged into incomprehensibility, aye..."
steven lenfant terrible
ps, never understood the 2000ad?metal association meself (other than simon bisley's obvious love of the genre; nice to see ashley woods paint someone wearing a glide t-shirt in the megazine, i first encountered his work in an australian fanzine i bought for the club hoy interview).
steven lenfant terrible
oh, before i go, regarding death monkey liking radiohead, what's the general consensus on their last two albums?
i personal found them the most engaging of their body of work, with 'kid a' the stronger of these two. if you dig these, death monkey, make sure that you check out out autechre. nice place for you to start with the wonderful world of electronica, then move one to the german glitch stuff.
glad you like primal scream, top bloke that bobby g.
cheers,
steven lenfant terrible
2k has had a punk following since the late 70's or so rumour goes.
I think Dredd in particular appeals to some in the heavy metal fraternity. Something of a hero to them.
I am the law by Anthrax, the thrash metal group (not the disease!) is an example.
Maybe heavy metal music suits Dredd's never ending pursuit of criminality. Relentless. Like that music!
I personally think the Prodigy's Breathe (I think that is the title) is the perfect Dredd theme.
scojo twisted fire starter pop critic
I have read quite a lot of Dredd collections, but only started getting AD recently. I reckon Durham Red is bollocks, but most of the other stuff seems at least good. Except Killer.
That's crap.
Curious about Morrison? Read the Invisibles!
It is the maddest epic story of wicked adventure. If I were you I would get the collections from libraries, startin with
SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION
Don't be alienated by this first one as it's a bit weird and confusing. Come to think of it...
I know they are, but I didn't want to alienate any LinkinShite heads QUITE as soon as I signed up to this message board.
You spelled industrial wrong.
Filth Pig is wicked but Darkspoon is shit. Hopefully they will go mad again now that the DEATH MACHINE AGE IS UPON US ONCE MORE.
Kid a is the best thing they've done.
Yeah man.
Except, German glitch stuff? What's that? Is it one of those weird, WEIRD industrial sub-genres where it's like sampling some Algerians being massacred for no reason (in 1974), and then putting on a beat that's a sample of a drum made of live human flesh or whatever.
Or not?
Is it actually something much more comprehensible?
cool. (that's what i get for typing quickly so i don't miss my last bus home)
hey death monkey, don't you just want to slap eminem & tell him to quit his whining?
steven lenfant terrible
oh, & i forgot the iron maiden cover that kevin o'neill ganked for the design of a terminator's helemet near the end of nemesis book i (or was it actually the other way round?)
steven lenfant terrible
more kind of a minimalist dub/post rock/art techno thang (god, genre labels are the stifling suffocation of music, aren't they?).
started off with oval, doing the digital equivalent of kool herc inventing turntablism by vandalising compact discs (scratching them, spraypainting them, dipping them in olive oil, etc) then sampling the poor unfortunate cd players malfunctioning as they attempt to play said discs, & composing from that.
the best two oval albums imho are '94diskont' & 'systemisch' (which featured aphex twin's 'selected ambient works ii' as one of its sound sources). both are available on by thrill jockey.
the first album is unavailable, & unintentionally hilarious, as they actually sing on it, with these earnest german choir boy voices.
"aero deko" from 'systemisch' is sampled on "unison" on bjork's 'vespertine', which also features san franciso glitchers matmos predominately throughout the album.
that's enough for to start with,
steven lenfant terrible
Link: oval info at thrill jockey
I prefer smarties to m and m's.
scojo
yes.