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Nanananananana, Bat Bike!
Via Bat-Blog: Check out this Batman-style "Batt Cruiser" created for Nirve Bicycles by the famed Baris Kustoms Shop, designer of the 1960s TV Batmobile. You can buy one direct, here.
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Pop links: Green Goblin cast in Spidey musical! Frazetta! Ditko!
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Pop links: Tennant gets PBS gig! Scorsese plans Sinatra pic! Hear Wilco! Les Baxter! Get a bass lesson from Macca! Fast Forward teaser! Ditko! More!
Soon to be former Doctor Who actor David Tennant has been named the new host of "Masterpiece Contemporary."
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Martin Scorsese plans a bio-pic of Frank Sinatra.
The film's co-producer Cathy Shulman said the film would not be "a cradle-to-the-grave traditional portrait of the consecutive events in a man's life".
"Instead, it's more of a collage and, in many ways, it will feel like an album itself.
"It's a collection of various moments and impressions in his life and together we hope they'll tell the full story and present full themes."
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If you haven't heard yet, you can check out a streaming version of the new Wilco album here. I had a listen yesterday. Nice stuff, but I think it's too bad the band has retreated from the experimentation that made some of its more recent LPs so interesting.
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Today in sharity, some cool exotica from Les Baxter.
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From Hard Dies Night, how about a bass lesson from Paul McCartney?
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Once we were young.
Found randomly in my Web wanderings.
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See the first official preview of "Fast Forward," a new sci-fi-ish series from ABC.
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Check out a 1970s horror tale illustrated by the great Steve Ditko.
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NPR streams a new musical collaboration between movie director David Lynch, producer Danger Mouse and the band Sparklehorse.
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Martin Scorsese plans a bio-pic of Frank Sinatra.
The film's co-producer Cathy Shulman said the film would not be "a cradle-to-the-grave traditional portrait of the consecutive events in a man's life".
"Instead, it's more of a collage and, in many ways, it will feel like an album itself.
"It's a collection of various moments and impressions in his life and together we hope they'll tell the full story and present full themes."
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If you haven't heard yet, you can check out a streaming version of the new Wilco album here. I had a listen yesterday. Nice stuff, but I think it's too bad the band has retreated from the experimentation that made some of its more recent LPs so interesting.
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Today in sharity, some cool exotica from Les Baxter.
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From Hard Dies Night, how about a bass lesson from Paul McCartney?
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Once we were young.
Found randomly in my Web wanderings.
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See the first official preview of "Fast Forward," a new sci-fi-ish series from ABC.
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Check out a 1970s horror tale illustrated by the great Steve Ditko.
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NPR streams a new musical collaboration between movie director David Lynch, producer Danger Mouse and the band Sparklehorse.
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Pop links: Star Trek bloopers! Batman trading cards! Human Target TV show! Steve Earle steal!
Today in sharity:
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Via Geek Orthodox: Batman trading cards!
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Fox TV has picked up a series based on DC Comics' Human Target for fall.
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Deal alert: Amazon is offering the download version of Steve Earle's new album Townes for only $2.99.
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Via Geek Orthodox: Batman trading cards!
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Fox TV has picked up a series based on DC Comics' Human Target for fall.
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Deal alert: Amazon is offering the download version of Steve Earle's new album Townes for only $2.99.
Watch the Lost season finale tonight!
See a preview here and read spoilers here! Then, visit the Lost Season 5 Blog tomorrow for a full roundup of what happened!
New comics May 12, 2009
Items of interest this week. Click the title links to order discounted books from Amazon.
SHOWCASE PRESENTS MARTIAN MANHUNTER Vol. 2 On some parallel Earth that I grew up on Martian Manhunter reprints never would've seemed possible--yet alone two volumes worth!
HOWLING COMMANDOS #1 A one-shot featuring Sgt. Fury and the gang. It ties into some Captain America plot line I haven't followed. Last I heard he was dead. Did he get better?
THOR TALES OF ASGARD BY LEE & KIRBY #1 The first in a six-part reprinting of the Lee-Kirby Thor backup strips.
COMPLETE CHESTER GOULD'S DICK TRACY Vol. 7
COMPLETE LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE Vol. 3 On some parallel Earth that I grew up on no one could have ever imagined that seemingly every classic comic strip ever created would be reprinted. Completely in chronological order.
SHOWCASE PRESENTS MARTIAN MANHUNTER Vol. 2 On some parallel Earth that I grew up on Martian Manhunter reprints never would've seemed possible--yet alone two volumes worth!
HOWLING COMMANDOS #1 A one-shot featuring Sgt. Fury and the gang. It ties into some Captain America plot line I haven't followed. Last I heard he was dead. Did he get better?
THOR TALES OF ASGARD BY LEE & KIRBY #1 The first in a six-part reprinting of the Lee-Kirby Thor backup strips.
COMPLETE CHESTER GOULD'S DICK TRACY Vol. 7
COMPLETE LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE Vol. 3 On some parallel Earth that I grew up on no one could have ever imagined that seemingly every classic comic strip ever created would be reprinted. Completely in chronological order.
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