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Eve is a romantic, satirical novel by Aurelio O'Brien set in the 31st century where only a single company remains: GenieCorp, provider of genetically enhanced creatures that perform basic services for humanity like TeeVee, a living home-entertainment center, the rather alarming AlarmCock, and the profoundly-disturbing-on-so-many-levels, Lick-N-Span.
via The Eyes Have It
I've been really busy at work this week, and too much good stuff's been hitting my aggregator for me to keep up with on a daily basis, so I'm just going to toss some links up against the wall and see what sticks:
The paintings of Swiss artist, Stelio Diamantopoulos, are a weird potpourri of aliens, historical figures, cartoons and celebrities (thanks, Ralf!)
I must add the Pee Wee's Playhouse DVDs to my Amazon wishlist (via LinkFilter).
The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire: an exhaustive and fascinating list of the plethora of ethnic minorities within the former Soviet Union (via Ramage).
The increasingly awesome Essential Ghoul's Record Shelf features an MP3 of Lon Chaney Jr. singing the theme song to one of my favorite psychotronic films, Spider Baby, who one reviewer calls, "a television sitcom directed by Luis Buñuel." I think that's quite an apt description.
Voice of the Xtabay shares this beautiful collection of vintage Hawaiian posters with us.
Finally, I was going to post about the case of severe cognitive dissonance that's apparent in this news story about the former Dukes of Hazzard star named "Cooter" who's urging people not to see the new movie version because it contains "profanity and sexual content", but the Daily Mercury beat me to it. For those of you who don't get it, "cooter" is sexual slang in at least some parts of the US, although down South, I think it's also a kind of turtle.
As hard as it may be to cogitate, the young Bela Lugosi played Jesus in a 1909 Hungarian passion play. Dunno about you, but I think he looks pretty convincing.
spotted at Exclamation Mark's new weblog, Christ Portrayed
Having been a Psychedelic Christian (AKA Jesus Freak) back in the '70s, I really appreciated this WFMU post on Pastor John Rydgren, a Lutheran clergyman who created syndicated radio spots featuring mini-sermons set to hipster/beat lingo (spoken Ken Nordine-style) over swingin' backing instrumentals that wouldn't have been out of place in a strip club or a Russ Meyers film. WFMU has 19 Rydgren mp3s for you to trip along to; they're all good, but I recommend starting with the Hippy Version of the 23rd Psalm and Here Lies the Church.
Can you dig it?
