Terry Pratchett–Nation (2008)

SOUNDTRACK: KING’S X-Black Like Sunday (2003).
This is a collection of old and rare tracks that King’s X decided to record anew, rather than releasing older versions.  This makes for an unusual scenario of a band recording songs that the wrote some twenty years earlier.  It’s a weird collection of songs to me, as some of [...]

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Lawrence Watt-Evans–The Turtle Moves! Discworld’s Story Unauthorized (2008)

SOUNDTRACK: OMAR RODRIGUEZ-LOPEZ-Calibration (is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far) (2008).
Typically a solo album means indulgence. But how can you be more indulgent than Mars Volta? They have fifteen minute songs with twenty-seven sections and operatic vocals and lyrics that are bizarre at best (they’re fantastic, don’t get me wrong, they’re just…out there!). [...]

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Terry Pratchett–The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld (2007)

SOUNDTRACK: COHEED & CAMBRIA-Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV, Vol. 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005).

For reasons I’m unclear about, I had the completely wrong perception of what this band would be like. I had read a few things and heard from a few people some differing stories. I decided to check [...]

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Terry Pratchett–Making Money (2007)

SOUNDTRACK: NIRVANA-Sliver: The Best of the Box (2005).
So, my $1.50 copy of this came in today and I listened to the three unavailable tracks. The first was a track called “Spank Thru,” which was totally new to me. The other two were demos of: “Sappy” (also known as “Verse Chorus Verse” on the NoAlternative compilation) [...]

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Terry Pratchett–Making Money Contest

On the website for the new Terry Pratchett book Making Money, there is a contest to “Take and post a photograph of your copy of Making Money — or any Discworld book(s) — in a creative way.” So, here’s my entry. And no, I haven’t read it yet! But I can’t [...]

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Terry Pratchett–Wintersmith (2006)

SOUNDTRACK: INVERSE ROOM: Pieces for the Left Hand (2005).
Inverse Room is the musical alter ego of J. Robert Lennon, author of The Funnies, Mailman, and other works. A few years ago he wrote a collection of short stories called Pieces for the Left Hand. The book is only available in England as far [...]

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[UPDATE] Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman–Good Omens (1990)

I Just read here that editions of Good Omens now comes with a “Pratchett on Gaiman” and a “Gaiman on Pratchett” addition. Sometimes the cachet of having an older edition of a book simply pales in comparison to getting a newer edition with extra stuff in it. This would be similar to buying the indie [...]

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Jeanette Winterson–Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)

SOUNDTRACK: CHAVEZ-Better Days Will Haunt You (2006).

I first fell in love with Chavez when I saw a video for their song “Break Up Your Band.” I loved the video, and loved the music. And, I basically became of fan of them because of this video, which I think I must have seen on 120 Minutes, [...]

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Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett–Good Omens (1990)

SOUNDTRACK: MY MORNING JACKET-Okonokos (2006).

[READ: Summer 2006] Good Omens.
This book is precisely what this blog is all about.
Fascinating back story: I had read Neil Gaiman’s Sandman graphic novels and really enjoyed them. In fact, they are what got me into graphic novels in the first place. So, when I saw that he had written a [...]

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