… it’s because I’m soaking up all the foreign music at the Jeonju Sori Festival. Thanks to some editing I did for the Festival, I have a pass and that means free music from abroad and that means a very happy Gord.
Category: REVIEWS
ocremix at ormgas.com – Streaming videogame music remixes
Hey geek: streaming videogame music remixes await you. Via. Marvin. UPDATE: Individual tracks available at ocremix, as well as bulk downloads. And if this particular track doesn’t blow you away, you definitely didn’t grow up as part of my generation.
Thomas Disch Interview @ Strange Horizons
I’m not really into his fiction, but I liked his treatise on contemporary poetry a few years back. Interview.
Mike’s Busy These Days
My friend Mike is pretty busy these days, it seems. Readers in Toronto and Montreal might want to check out his show, though. He’s supposed to be one of the better young DJs in Canada. Wait, young? He’s my age. Whatever. He’s supposed to be good. Actually, well, last time I heard him, he was good. And yes, I could tell, even though the music wasn’t my kind of thing. September 22th – 25th Thursday, September 22nd TORONTO: @ Comfort Zone Hours: 12AM – 7AM Set Time: 3AM – 5AM (late night session for those anxious to get the weekend …
The Rules of Prog Metal
Marvin Marvin’s Sturdy Helpmate Keisha did this to me. He Acting under her influence, he pointed me to The Rules of Prog Metal. I fear… I just fear.
Lord of the Rings Trilogy with Hobbit Feast? Oh, Oh, Oh.
Oh, Lime would have loved to have gone to this. Too bad Texas is too far away, even for November.
‘nother good link
I need to add BOOKFORUM to my list of links worth checking out even though they don’t have an RSS feed.
Foreign Fiction About Korea
I don’t often get a chance to stick something in the two categories Korea and Lit, so I’m excited. Here’s a list of short fiction about Korea in English. It’s mainly by non-Koreans… and the list also includes a link to a similar page for novels in English about the Korean War. That’d make an interesting area for some Korean lit major in which to draft a doctoral thesis, I bet: foreign depictions of Korea through the lens of war.
What I’m Reading Now: Dickens Surprise and the Roots of Protestant Korean Ecstatic Rites
Quick Note: That “and” in the title isn’t meant to suggest a connection between Charles Dickens and evangelical Christianity in Korea. There might be such a link, somewhere—hell, one of Dickens’ sons came to Canada and worked for the government, who’s to say someone else from his life didn’t end up in East Asia?—but I’m not posting any such thing. Although I have two other books on the go—The Golden Ass, a brilliant and hilarious Roman tale by Lucius Apuleius “Africanus”, and Philip E. Baruth’s political SF satire The X President—I have also taken the time to dig into a …
Piles Of Free Music (Featuring Me)
Okay, for those of you interested, there’s a big old pile of snippets from my most recent musical history added to this site. In the sidebar, you can see the link under Pages that says, “Tunes (with me in ’em)”; if you click on it (or on this link), you’ll be taken to a page with one full out-of-print Dabang album, snippets from the still-in-print one, and a remixed recording of a live concert I did at a rave with a live ambient group back in 1998. If you plan on listening repeatedly, please download instead of streaming it, because …