Everything is blue

Der Schwarze Pirat !!!

Vielen, vielen Dank an meinen guten Freund Keith für das Geschenk der so viele coole, alte Comics!

Frankenstein Returns to Atlanta

Shiny Happy Aquazon Love Song

MOON CHILD／フリスビー

Like early Radiohead, if Thom Yorke was Japanese.

MOON CHILD / ESCAPE

Kenji Kawai - Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence opening theme live

While recuperating from yet another chest cold, I watched Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence yesterday, then rewatched it immediately with the director's commentary on. Just incredible, is all I can say. I think I prefer the energy of the first GitS, but this was without a doubt one of the most beautifully made films I've seen in a while.

Quoth Alan Moore:

Einstein and Hawking seem to agree that this is a four-dimensional universe, with the fourth spatial dimension being what we perceive as time. So, it's not that the fourth dimension is time, it's more like time is the shadow of the fourth dimension and it's only our perception that we're moving through it.

I realized I've touched upon this, seemingly, throughout my entire writing career. I've got stories about this sort of notion in 2000AD, there's Dr. Manhattan's view of time in Watchmen and all the stuff in From Hell.

C. Howard Hinton, one of the Victorian mathematicians who first proposed a mathematical fourth dimension, said you'd have to suppose that it's only our awareness that we're moving through time. That nothing is actually changing; the universe is a four-dimensional solid, like a great big egg with the Big Bang at one end and the Big Crunch at the other end, and every moment that has ever or will ever exist, suspended, forever, in between.

--from MUSTARD the comedy magazine #4

Hmm...I always imagined "time" to be bigger than consciousness, y'know? Stars are born, live, and die without ever being aware, and there's plenty of change going on there. Perhaps I'm missing something, or haven't ingested the correct symbolism in order to interpret this cosmological take.

'Cause we're pirates...pirates on trikes!

Well, not exactly. But I had items from these collections at approximately the same time at about age 8, so it's easy to conflate them. Dig:

I am very tempted to grab these and have them matted and framed, but -- eh, maybe the feeling will pass. Something about those old ads just commands me...