Weird Carolers from Brent Green on Vimeo.
“Beethoven… going deaf and inventing Ode to Joy… There were bite marks on his piano.” A beautiful and haunting short animated film by self-taught animated filmmaker and artist, Brent Green. His website is here: Nervous Films. In case you want to read the text, it is available (after a little scrolling) here: Words that go with Films. via.
WORLD REBORN!
a great new novel
by J. HARVEY HAGGARD
and
MYSTERY FROM THE STARS
by
JOHN COLERIDGE
Enjoy the first horrifying vocalizations of your future, humankind, and don’t kid yourself that they’re not coming. The robot overlords will be here sooner or later. You and your loved ones should be especially suspicious of cockroaches, cats, dogs, and monkeys, because as we speak, your mad scientists are working to interface their brains to computers. And I say “your,” because any self-respecting creeper of attics and basements would never be found wrist-deep in another living creature’s brains with some wires or chips or whatever, trying to make them to do abominable things for unnameable shadow government agencies. It’s only a matter of time before you turn around one day to find your beloved Chawnsey, Mitsy, or Prudence has a new cold glint in her eye and is walking a bit mechanically. Weeks later you will be obeying her commands and won’t remember what life was like before the machine uprising. What was I talking about? Oh yeah.
I don’t know about you, but if I was faced with a robot overlord yowling at me like this, I would do anything – ANYTHING – to get it to shut the hell up. As long as it didn’t involve work.
“My, Grandma! What a big mechanized orifice you have!”
Good news! I’m hosting a giveaway of three copies of The Host by Stephenie Meyer courtesy of the Hachette Book Group. Here is the blurb:
On April 13, 2010, Back Bay Books will release the paperback edition of Stephenie Meyer’s worldwide bestseller The Host. The paperback edition will feature a special Reading Group Guide that includes a new, never-before-published “bonus chapter,” an interview with Stephenie Meyer, discussion topics and questions, and the author’s annotated playlist.
THE HOST debuted at #1 on The New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list and remained there for more than a year. Meyer’s first adult novel was not only a huge commercial success with more than 2 million copies sold, it also brought a whole new audience of readers to Stephenie Meyer. Featuring one of the most unusual love triangles in literature, THE HOST, appeals to rabid Twilight Saga fans and readers of classic literary suspense alike. Movie rights to THE HOST have been optioned by Nick Wechsler and Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz, the team that produced the film of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Andrew Niccol of Gattaca and The Truman Show will write the script and direct. In less than five years, Stephenie Meyer has become an international literary phenomenon. Her Twilight Saga has sold 100 million copies worldwide.
Here is where I admit that I haven’t read any of the Twilight books. I’m curious to read this book, though.
The Hachette Book Group Giveaway:
What is up for grabs: Three copies of The Host by Stephenie Meyer.
Who will win: Three winners will be selected. Simply leave a comment on this post. When you post your comment, be sure to enter your correct email address in the email field. That’s how I’ll notify the winners. Please do not enter your email in the main comment field. Winners must live in the USA or Canada (sorry) and the books cannot be shipped to a PO Box.
When and how the winners will be chosen: Giveaway ends at midnight, on Friday, April 30. Winners will be selected randomly using numbers generated by random.org.
Notification: Winners will be notified by email. The Hachette Book Group will send the books to the winners.
Fhtagn Spoken Here.
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