PLANETDAMAGE

Today I was asked three times what I need for the up and coming big day. I said, a gun and six poison bullets. Because four doesn’t hurt me at all. The fifth will most probably give me the shitcramps. And the sixth is a mercy kill for the one holding the gun. Which basically boils down to the fact that I am still immortal. Because that’s probably the funniest thing to do after I’ve been basically told that what I waited for three years is not going to happen. Cheers.

Angelspit’s new album BLOOD DEATH IVORY (with a release date of June 2008) has 30 sec previews up on last.fm, key points are Skinny Little Bitch (full track) and Paint Hell Red. And basically, all the rest.

A brief conclusion of the latest Hungarian comic con: first volumes of Battle Angel Alita: Last Order and Blame!, full versions of Ghost in the Shell 1.5 and 2 and the Hungarian version of Alive released by Mangafan (who happened to present me with the first volume of Nana as well that somehow got lost in the process of making this photo. On second thought I might have left out the Steampunk: Manimatron trade paperback, too.)

PinkTsunamii sends you all a MonicaBot of Doug Williams of Sketchwich. It might be just me but all these things really remind me of Tsutomu Nihei’s work (later volumes of Blame!, to mention just one). Doug has his own blog here which basically contains the same stuff that you can see on Sketch. Monica also has a head on a tray here (neatly named Lunch Art).

Oizys on the other hand is back with a Blade Runnerish BMW ad and Rivet’s various takes on the bunny motif. Amazing shit. Mustn’t forget about posting more bunnies in the next post.

There just isn’t any MMORPG that would keep me interested after three days. The game that was the closest to an MMORPG and had me playing for years was Diablo II and that was just because of the loot system and the hysteric urge to level up and get more items, possibly because I couldn’t really cope with the very mundane tasks of my own life. But I digress.

Hellgate:London was - and still is - basically, dead babies in candy cover. Mythos - the second game of Flagship Studios - is in beta now and as I’m enrolled as a tester and no NDA binds me - it’s a revamped and rehashed version of Fate set into multiplayer, having the same kind of lame-ass bad perspective cartoon graphics that World of Warcraft has. (I tried it as well and I got to hate it for the graphics only. And that was just an hour’s work.) Guild Wars looks marvelous but it’s monotonous. Very. Grinding was fun in Diablo II, it got very frustrating there.

Now we’ve got another horror MMORPG that got into its public beta stage. REQUIEM: BLOODYMARE has nightmare boss monsters, weapon enhancements, beast possession system, epic PvP and a DNA system that sounds very promising. The concept art looks very kinky. You end up with screenshots like these, though, and you think it’s pretty much Lineage 2 mashed up with Painkiller. Painkiller meets Diablo 2 meets Guild Wars graphics, now that would totally rock. But I digress again. 2.3 gigs installer arrives in ten minutes. And I only give myself one hour to prove it has bad tentacle power.

When a Flight 627 lands with all the passengers and crew dead, FBI Agent Olivia Dunham is called into investigate. A search for someone to help leads her to Dr. Walter Bishop, our generation’s Einstein. There’s only one catch: He’s been institutionalized for the last 20 years, and the only way to question him requires pulling his estranged son, Peter, into help. Under Agent Phillip Broyles, our trio will discover that what happened on that fatal flight is only a small piece of a larger, more shocking truth.

Brief info of Fox’s new series FRINGE that comes to the wired on August 26th. The trailer explains it all. IO sez it’s basically about a mad scientist who hangs out with the FBI. Wonderful. I want to be a secret agent who hangs around with mad scientists. I have the skills, believe me. (link at fringe-online.net)

And if someone can help me how I can exactly position the youtube embeds to the center because neither p nor align and not even center helps, I’d be uber glad.

Too bad I didn’t get Somers’ first book in Zürich when I had the chance - if I recall this well I had two problems with it: worldshots had only one slot for a book in his bag (and that was for End of the World Blues, which turned out to be more Japanese imaginative literature than cyberpunk) and the typeface was too big for a volume too small, so I though I gonna buy the omnibus in three years’ time. And now IO9 says he has a nano-noir on Amazon and yourmomsbasement has a lengthy interview with him.

The net is vast and infinite and it just gave a me a five-seconds window to the realm of Niigata-based bizarro-writer Made in DNA. Hello there, friendly bastard, I like your twitterfiction and you just gave me another powerboost to research deeper into burst culture. But more about that later, really.

Made in DNA is apparently a telephone stall with a backup speaker (look at his myspace, not lying here) but he’s got quite a hefty collection of outlets - JunkDNA fiction, for starters (that’s a tumblr with lots of fragmented literature, Headshots with Free Headshots for a LIMITED Time is quite a beast) and he’s also publishing to Burst Fiction - which is about brief blirps, really, short stories of 1000 characters or less (if you know the Hungarian writer István Örkény and his concept of one-minute prose, you’re getting there - but this is just for cultural blasé, really. SMS-prose drives the point home as well).

No, we have more, because the telephone of Truth is on a diet of pills the size of baby heads and his cum is sizzling with mescaline drops that kickstart the pain when they meat the urethra. Really, I’ve seen it on the internet, we have separate webcams just for these kinds of things. You also have a Twitterfeed of his fiction Bukkake Brawl at junkdnafiction, which is a very raw piece of work in terms of literary mechanisms and even rawer in terms of approximating it to how we process TV material - and also very, very similar to processing manga. Read this to know how much you can cramp into one image. Make your own. Grow your wings. (And you can read it at his myspace blog, too.) And finally some non-fiction by him about his life in Japan, the blog Moped Ronin. (And order his Media Whores ebook for a $.)

Platinum Games, the guys who did one of the most unique and compelling game on PS2, Okami, is developing a new game for the Wii platform called Madworld. Madworld is all about black-and-white visuals with red splatters of gore, giving bloodsport TV fans hours of enjoyment. Our protagonist is a very weird robotic-looking brute with a chainsaw hand and if the trailer’s just the bare minimum of features, then you have a wide variety of environment to execute your rivals. Look for the signpost fatality at the end, it’s awesome! (via 1up)

I planned this post meticulously and for a perversely long time, making it as elaborate in the process as it could get and by the time I got to write it, I realized I have already said what I wanted to say and even that very brilliant moment on the event horizon was years ago. And really, it’s been a shady long time since anyone tried to kill me and now when we get to that point again, that’s me who has the knife. Fucking riddance.

Have you ever realized that the secret of meditation is untold? The Shakyamuni was wise to inspire laymen to meditation and he was wiser still not to leave any trace of the meditation how-to. Meditation was his untraceable divine icebreaker and he hacked the brains of thousands of millions of people, spreading culture memes based on folly and powerlust and ninety kilogramms of beef with the painfully real facial adaptation of Dalí? I surely had a bad time, being a kid and all.

Whoever reads this post - I have a message for you.

My keyboard is missing the MAXX GO button and I have last seen it while flying over the Atlantic (I have a very expensive sports car but no ignition key), I’m playing a one-man russian roulette with whatever came out of test tubes and in the past days it’s been The Birthday Massacre’s Shiver and their remix of Never Wanted to Dance for Mindless Self-Indulgence.

I also have a question. Bet you have one now.