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Sean Collins of Fantagraphics got a bunch of comic artists to draw renditions of David Bowie in his sketchbook and compiled them into a Flickr set. At far left, Adrian Tomine’s Bowie (as Halloween Jack). At immediate left, Charles Burns’s Ziggy Stardust. Link to Sean’s blog post, Link to the Flickr set (via Fantagraphics Flog!)

Other themed sketchbooks held by Fantagraphics folks include Jacob Covey’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle book and Mike Baehr’s Yoda book. Link (via Popmoderne.de’s shared items in Google Reader)

Nachrichten.Ch: “Zehn Millionen Euro sind auf Ebay geboten worden für Belgien, «ein Königreich in drei Teilen». Dann wurde die Versteigerung von Ebay gestoppt.(…) Als Verkäufer war ein früherer Journalist, Gerrit Six, eingetragen. Als Nachteil verwies er auf «300 Milliarden Staatsschulden». Belgien bestehe aus «Flandern, Brüssel und Wallonien», hiess es in der Produktbeschreibung weiter. Es könne als Ganzes gekauft werden, das sei… (via POPMODERNE.DE - Die ganze Wahrheit, die letzten Geheimnisse, das Neueste vom Neuesten und obendrauf die größten Hits aller Zeiten)

klubar writes “Another milestone of online communications has been reached. The smiley turns 25, according to Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman who says he was the first to use three keystrokes. “Language experts say the smiley face and other emotional icons, known as emoticons, have given people a concise way in e-mail and other electronic messages of expressing sentiments that otherwise would be difficult to detect. Fahlman posted the emoticon in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on Sept. 19, 1982, during a discussion about the limits of online humor and how to denote comments meant to be taken lightly.”“Read more of this story at Slashdot. (via Popmoderne.de’s shared items in Google Reader)

Locust St. has a fascinating collection of songs about busses, trains, planes, boats and travelling in general. MP3s available for a limited time. Great blog!

“All songs are posted for a very limited time and are imported at a low bit rate level. They are meant to encourage purchase of the original albums.” (via POPMODERNE.DE - Die ganze Wahrheit, die letzten Geheimnisse, das Neueste vom Neuesten und obendrauf die größten Hits aller Zeiten)

Today: Some newsclips, fresh links and songs in the column on the right!

News lesen oder News scannen? Aggregatoren aller Länder, schaltet heute den RSS-Reader aus. Geht mal wieder recherchieren, geht mal wieder auf die Straße. (via POPMODERNE.DE - Die ganze Wahrheit, die letzten Geheimnisse, das Neueste vom Neuesten und obendrauf die größten Hits aller Zeiten)

Live at Another Country . It’s free! Donations for the artists more than welcome!

Check out their music over here: Ella Stich and Agnethe Melchiorsen (via POPMODERNE.DE - Die ganze Wahrheit, die letzten Geheimnisse, das Neueste vom Neuesten und obendrauf die größten Hits aller Zeiten)

Considering it’s the most disgusting book ever written, the new book by my dear brother in arms Ken Shakin has a really nice cover, I think. But they call him “the most negative man in fiction” for a reason… (via POPMODERNE.DE - Die ganze Wahrheit, die letzten Geheimnisse, das Neueste vom Neuesten und obendrauf die größten Hits aller Zeiten)

The six finalists for the German Book Prize 2007, an annual award for the best German language novel, have now been named. We present English translations of the first pages of the shortlisted titles. (via Popmoderne.de’s shared items in Google Reader)

Star Wars: The Musical. Luke sings (“Uncle Owen I’m not like you. I can’t just bury my dreams (in the sands of Tatooine)”). Vader sings (“Bring me the passengers - every child woman and man!”). C3PO sings (“I am a droid, so don’t you mess with me.”). And Han sings a ballad that starts off like “The Impossible Dream,” then mutates into the bastard intergalactic cousin “Do You Hear The People Sing?” as it might be performed by Neil Diamond, Richard Burton and Peter Lorre.
From the FAQ: “Completed in 1999, Star Wars: The Musical is a musical version of Star Wars (A New Hope), written and recorded with original music and lyrics.” (via Popmoderne.de’s shared items in Google Reader)

Little Dieter Needs to Fly is a 1997 documentary film made for German television, written and directed by Werner Herzog, produced by Werner Herzog Filmproduktion. The film was released to DVD in 1998 by Anchor Bay.

Herzog found a kindred spirit in German-American Navy pilot and Vietnam veteran, Dieter Dengler. Like Herzog, Dengler grew up in a Germany reduced to rubble by World War II. Dengler’s stories of hunger and deprivation in the years after the war echo similar stories from Herzog’s past. Dengler recounts an early memory of Allied fighter-bombers destroying his village in which he saw one of the pilots and knew that he too wanted to be a pilot. At 18, then, Dengler emigrated to America. He served a 2-year enlistment in the Air Force, but was frustratingly unable to gain a pilot’s slot in that service. After leaving the Air Force, Dengler attended college and then joined the Navy. After completing flight training, he was assigned as an A-1 Skyraider pilot in Attack Squadron 65 on the USS Constellation.

In 1966, Dengler served aboard the USS Ranger (CV-61) with VA-145 (Attack Squadron 145). At the time, the squadron was equipped with the Douglas AD-6/A-1H Skyraider, a single engine, propeller driven attack plane. On the morning of 1 February, Lt. Dengler launched from the Ranger with three other aircraft on an interdiction mission near the Laotian border. Visibility was poor due to weather, and upon rolling in on the target, Lt. Dengler and the remainder of his flight lost sight of one another. Dengler was the last man in and was hit by anti-aircraft fire. He was forced to crash-land his Skyraider in Laos.

Dengler was taken prisoner by the Pathet Lao, before being turned over to soldiers of the Army of North Vietnam. After a period of torture and starvation chained to the bottom of a bamboo cage, Dengler escaped. The bulk of the film consists of footage from a trip Herzog took with Dengler back to Laos and Thailand to recreate his ordeal. Herzog hired locals to play the part of his captors and had Dengler retrace his steps while describing his experiences.

Yes, this is the story that Rescue Dawn is based on.

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Langsam sollte ich mir dieses schlagzeilenträchtige Ungeheur besser selbst ansehen… Oder soll ich tatsächlich glauben, dass die Second Life-Vögel von newBERLIN im Alexa mit eigenem Ladenlokal gelandet sind?

Gibt’s den Deichmann dann demnächst auch in 3D? Kann man dann auch den virtuellen Media Markt stürmen? Und womöglich shoppen, shoppen, shoppen…?

Ich heul’ gleich… (via POPMODERNE.DE - Die ganze Wahrheit, die letzten Geheimnisse, das Neueste vom Neuesten und obendrauf die größten Hits aller Zeiten)

Dr. Snakeskin put it on his MySpace. Duuude, I’m still laughing!

Cheers to you, my friend! (via POPMODERNE.DE - Die ganze Wahrheit, die letzten Geheimnisse, das Neueste vom Neuesten und obendrauf die größten Hits aller Zeiten)

Ich war damals Emo-Leistungskurs als Emo in Bremen-Nord erfunden wurde : ACME hießen die Buben. Davor hießen sie irgendwie anders, aber aus der Phase ist nicht mal ein Schulhof-Bootleg übrig und der Name ist mir auch entfallen. Der Styra war auch schon dabei, aber er hat Emo nicht erfunden. Das waren ACME . Schlagt es nach (…wir reden hier nicht über die Rites of Spring-Variante, die das Tag erstmals in Anspruch nahm… Nee, nee, Gebrüll ist gemeint!) Zerstyra hat… (via POPMODERNE.DE - Die ganze Wahrheit, die letzten Geheimnisse, das Neueste vom Neuesten und obendrauf die größten Hits aller Zeiten)