The Black Isle

There’s more to come. 

Promise.

Yes, I’m still hurrying. 

My enthusiasm spilleth over:

the terrific anime series DEATH NOTE

Thanks to DG in NYC, I was introduced a few days ago to the wonderful world of Masami Teraoka:

Note to self: The Man Whom The Trees Loved. Get proposal going.

In NYC. Casa Mono lunch today with HK:
sweetbreads
cockscombs
flank steak
pulpo
duck’s egg w/ black truffle

The Last Tuesday Society in London holds its meetings/fetes in the 17th century cellars beneath the Barbican.

High tech, Low tech Part Deux. I didn’t post a link to MUXTAPE yesterday because their system was overcrowded and uploading took forever. But do go. Do make a mixtape (Upload 12 songs from your MP3 collection, the more arcane the better — commercial stuff doesn’t load well) and share it with your fiends.

Here are some existing muxtapes:
http://theconsumed.muxtape.com/
http://dearingfilm.muxtape.com/
http://thisisawakeupcall.muxtape.com/
http://blacktshirts.muxtape.com/

Institut Drahomira, a French-posing-as-Russian art-film-music pair-of-dudes-posing-as-collective. I think I like these people! A lot! Thanks to Mutant Sounds.

PLUS Drahomira also uploaded this HILARIOUS clip of Michel Houellebecq doing a spoken-word thing with a live orchestra at the Folies Pigalle.

Spectacular finale from Kid Millions (1934) with Eddie Cantor. It’s like a live-action Silly Symphony. More from this collector of 1925-1935 musical clips.