Olvassatok printmédiát a fagyban, decemberben  két popkultkiadást is elferdítettem, ballasztkerubok potyognak az égből, a donzsonok mélyén a falhoznyakláncolt rabszolgák pedig elégedetten verdesnek a farkukkal, a szerkesztők pedig talán életükben egyszer kaptak tőlem határidő belső keretén belül cikket. Az élet szép.

Printmédia #1, Mondo magazin – Vexille. Konkrétan szomorúan lapos, de nagyon csinos fércműnek tartottam, 700 HUF. Mármint a filmet.

Nagyon is kritikus szemmel nézve mindkét film (Appleseed: Ex Machina, Vexille) gyönyörű, illusztris bukás, amennyiben a Ghost in the Shell univerzumot állítjuk be etalonnak. Ott ugyanis a történet történet, a karakterek kidolgozottak, van idő dramaturgiára, ha lepattantjuk magunkról a fanboy gogglet és új dolgokra is hajlandóak vagyunk figyelni. Az Appleseed tökéletes házibulifilm, tele épp elég eyecandyvel, basszusokban lüktető zenével és sci-fi motívummal, hogy hallásküszöb alatt, látványként elfusson. A Vexille inkább az a fajta film, ami pont húsz perce fut, mikor beesünk egy baráti találkozóra, főzünk, a hangerő feltekerve, a Japán tökéletes izolációjáról szóló tragédia pedig anélkül gördül el mellettünk, hogy belegondolnánk: apánk-anyánk robot is lehetne, és sosem vagyunk otthon, amikor épp olajozzák egymást.

Printmédia #2, PEP! magazin. A fetish különszám mellékletét nyitom azzal, hogy miért lett deviáns az, ami egyszer szakrális volt, a képanyag nagy részét pedig Regis Hertrichnek köszönjük, személyesen én meg különösen, 690 HUF.

A hosszú combokra tapadó latex, a rózsaszín szőrös bilincs és a hordozható arcpisszoár ugyanarra az elképzelésre épül, mint a keresztény szentegyház keresztje vagy a szentek bebalzsamozott jobb keze: egyes tárgyaknak természetfeletti ereje, hatalma van mások felett – aki itt voodoobabát emleget, jól teszi – a nyugat-afrikai hitvilági valláskutatók a tizennyolcadik század közepén csapnak le az ötletre. Meglehetősen későn, aki foglalkozott néprajzzal, tisztában van a ténnyel, hogy milyen erőt tulajdonítanak a vérnek vagy csontoknak, levágott hajat vagy körmöt eldobni pedig akkora biztonsági rés volt az ember életében, mint manapság az, hogy az MSN- vagy Gmail-jelszavát monitorra ragasztott papírfecnin tárolja. Az élet persze attól érdekes, hogy mindkettőre rengeteg példa akadt az elmúlt években és évszázadokban egyaránt.

Ah, hello. That’s just a brief summary on the few months I spent in front of last.fm: top artists and top tracks during this year (which is more like the past few months). Even if this is pretty much not exact, it tells you a few things about what was hot in the HQ. Will have another post on the albums I thought were decent. And most of them are not near this list.

TOP ARTISTS
Boom Boom Satellites | Attrition | The Verve | Hadouken! | Mentallo and the Fixer | Modwheelmood | Pete Namlook and Mixmaster Morris | Puscifer | The Birthday Massacre | Strawberry Switchblade | Forma Tadre | Zeromancer | Headscan | The Presets | Haujobb

MOST LISTENED TRACKS ON LAST.FM:

The Verve – Love is Noise (radio edit)
Puscifer – Queen B (Narcovice radio edit) >>youtube
Pretentious, Moi? – Now and Again (v2) >>myspace
Brian Eno - Music for Airports, I. >>imeem
Lily Allen – Everything’s Just Wonderful >>youtube
Alizée – Moi Lolita (Sasha LSD remix) >>imeem
Forma Tadre – Lo Rez Skyline
Miyavi – Hi No Hikari Sae Todokanai Kono Basho De >>youtube
Pete Namlook and Mixmaster Morris – School of Fish
Ayumi Hamasaki – We Wish (Ramon Zenker remix) >>youtube
The Birthday Massacre – Shiver >>youtube
Michele Adamson ft. Last Men Standing – Mojo Gogo >>imeem
Edge of Dawn – Black Heart (alpha) >>imeem
Angelspit – Skinny Little Bitch >>youtube
Modwheelmood – MHz >>myspace

Amelia Arsenic’s feed wakes me up even on a Monday morning like this, you believe you can crawl through the daytunnel without a single drop of caffeine and there is nothing you need to wake up for, work is something you can monotonously jog your way through, it’s the end of the year, noone sends you emails, thanks heaps, and the readers are more into buying their boxes of joy.

And then she sends a link straight to: Natural Harvest – A Collection of Semen-Based Recipes. 25 bucks if someone would actually want to order that – here’s a list of what’s on the Lulu preview. Gorgeous media hack.

Well then, merry Xmas.

Hullo, filthy voyeurs of the planet Earth! The draftlist is full of 2008 retrospective posts and that’s the first one of them (and the t-shirt geisha who’s connected to walls of loudspeakers is halfway behind the whole wish to revelate, but anyways). My latest post on the site stats was written on the 18th of June, seven months ago and that’s easily the most-commented post on this whole site and I’m sort of venturing out into the forest with my strobes switched on, because you wouldn’t want to comment on me in any other way. Allbassards.

The year1 post was written in Hungarian and as you know, I’m still having this dilemma about languages: the original gonzoish style I usually wrote in comes more naturally in Hungarian, whereas .hu pretty much limits the number and diversity of readers. As for languages, Google Analytics reports 52.3% English, 29.2% Hungarian, 4.1% German, 2.2% French and 2% Spanish. (As for opsystems, 88% of you use Windows, 6.9% Macintosh, 3.4% Linux and the rest of you mangle your eyes with PSP, PS3, iPhone… I even have Wii and iPod users. Risupetto.) The first year summary was more like 50% Hungarian, 41% English, 1% Japanese. I also promised to decrease the average time you spend here, I managed to do this from 2 minutes to 1:34, not that I would be too happy about it, however much I ranted about burst culture. I also had 17317 unique visitors – numbers with visual patterns appeal to me and thanks all. However much I tried to separate [pd] from ld50, I cannot completely escape the need for feedback and I actually crave for hordes of visitors – and I don’t really want to escape the need, either.

Top keywords on planetdamage [jun18-dec18] 
planetdamage russian lolitas himawari cyberpunk documentary ghost in the shell 2.0 lesbian lolita mazer mayhem steampunk gas mask fetish batman ghost in the shell toribash repo! cyberpunk hazmat i’m all you planetdamage berlin dj porn tokyo synthespian steampunk case mod vocaloid d4m4g3 motor tattoo naga sabi louis vuitton circuit bending beardyman magnetic motor neuromancer movie fhm china manikin porn body paint girls cosplay cleavage steampunk restaurant dental porn amputee manga

Top referrers on planetdamage [jun18-dec18]
(apart from countless hits via google images, netvibes, stumbleupon, twitter and its Hungarian spin-off, turulcsirip)
ld50, hvg online, hardwired, mondo magazin, grey on black, grinding.be, gémeskút, pinktsunamii, hardergeneration, hoze, weburbanist, japan it up!, tűzfészek, synthetic smile, survivalism 

Minor referrers on planetdamage [jun18-dec18]
vividfluxury, gothpunk, technoccult, the day they tried to kill me, elitalice, telvlp°raire, braincrack, buhera, daily sensation, digitaldj, street samurai, sfportal, muma, resiklo, rootcoffee, doktorsblog, repo! the genetic opera, emke, mofokarcsi, coilhouse, shortcircuit, apx r4nt5, gravel creative, solidsmack, system shutdown, the moped ronin, technorgasmic, nervtwitch, lolitron, moleblog, pinktentacle, tattooblog, warren ellis, worldshots, konishiroku, pica pixels, sylwia presley, void manufacturing, yuichi rock.

Top content on planetdamage [jun18-dec18]
( None of you are interested in cyberpunk movies, apparently you’re all into Japan, boobs, cosplay and parties. Which is all very fucking fine, by the way. )
viona-art band photography (baal, aural vampire, dj sisen):: a completely random find on three artists I covered in the Tokyo issue of the Dose – great pics, too bad I didn’t have them at the time I was designing the mag. Which is coming back in 2009. Beware.
cyberpunk bodypaint girls with guns (g.e.n.):: girls entertainment network had a smaller post on motoko cosplays – too bad that my other post, the result of long hours of sitting through good and surprisingly shitty GITS galleries didn’t end up in the top ten.
russian lesbian lolita keyboards (and supple++):: art lebedev’s optimus tactus keyboard and a great software to help people with motoric disabilities, all shadowed by the russian lesbian lolita image of TATU.
Huszonöt éves a cyberpunk, 1. rész:: cyberpunk was 25 years old in 2008 and this was a lengthy Hungarian post putting things in perspective with pop culture – this was also the collection of articles I wrote for Mondo magazine, a Hungarian J-mag I do columns for.
ld50 hetedik születésnap, the news is on:: this was basically a hack, everyone who was interested in the last and horridly pathetic ld50 birthday party was redirected to this post. not a feat and grandioseness, if you ask me.
slobsofgaming’s eleven hot cosplayers:: tifa, tits and to be honest, I didn’t expect you’d be that interested. ld50 got its first boost from posting chicks galleries, so 2009 is the year of making the decision whether I want to make the same steps with [pd] as I did with ld50.
mirror’s edge: new concept/images from the cyberpunk parkour game:: Mirror’s Edge was supposed to be a fantastic game and I’m still waiting for the PC version (playing with Left 4 Dead, Galcon and I Love Katamari instead) – following up on some videos and concept images was fun.
steampunk coffee machines (and a touch of civet):: steampunk was a love quickly disappearing (and that’s a shame, because I’m still following up on fashion and DIY forums and Freakangels, among many)
hello kitty gasmask fetish:: a lovely meme that sprang up from the protests of Anonymous, clearly one of the pics I would stamp “best moments of 2008″ on.
d4m4g3 live on mtv: never again, really:: and this was something the non-Hungarian speakers couldn’t really follow up on, a pretty much fucked up TV show on cyberpunk I was invited to.

Angelspit Zoog‘s been blipverting and blogging for a time and the fans were pretty eager to see DestroyX before the cameras. The blog destroyx.com has been public since today and I tell you – it’s pretty much a fanboy’s research material: lots of personal photos, design ideas and the first video posts of many to come. (via twitter)

Called Infinite Energy: SIG, the sunglasses are designed to turn the rays that it blocks out into electrical energy, providing protection and power all at the same time. The sunglasses have a wire sticking out of them that you can plug into your gadgets (get ready to carry around a million adapters with you if these things are ever real) and juice them up. (via dvice)

The Q3+Q4 evaluation of [pd] is coming up in a few hours and this new post on Fleshbot about Stoya might just give you an idea about what interested my readers and what the hottest topics were. If I’m taking all your hits very seriously, I might just turn into an adult blog. With Tesla dongs. Happy Xmas by the way for all of you with this pink if you can’t wait for the perfect dec24 Xmas image I found a coupla days ago.

Issue 02 of the Coilhouse mag is out in a few days – on the inside cover you can see above, Margaret Cho. (via coilhouse)