* It was indeed a technical error caused by a sole employee that de-listed some 57,310 books from Amazon’s sales rankings over the weekend, rather than a sinister Rod Dreher-orchestrated plot that required account cancellations to rectify or something.
* Supposedly terrible comic book movie update: Tom Spurgeon is a Punisher War Zone skeptic, while Topless Robot’s Rob Bricken is a The Spirit believer. I think I’m going to have to see them both and make up my own mind. While loaded.
* Trent Reznor is interviewed by Digg founder Kevin Rose using the top 10 reader-submitted questions as voted for by Digg’s users. Lots of interesting stuff in there about navigating competing and emerging business models as an artist in a time of uncertainty and technological transition; I think the insights are useful whether you’re in Nine Inch Nails or doing comics.
* The House Next Door’s Melissa Tuckman interviews documentarian Ondi Timonder, the director of the splendid Dandy Warhols/Brian Jonestown Massacre documentary Dig!
* Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end.
* Finally, the Best of Bowie Loves Beyonce!
Remember: The prettiest stars are always in your Bowie Loves Beyonce tumblelog.
I kind of agree with that review of The Spirit. Not having ever read an issue of it, I was entertained, yet I *know* it’s not a good film… and Gabriel Macht is pretty easy for these eyes.
That PJ/Bjork/Tori pic reminded me of a conversation that was had with some friends about how you could put their popularity on a graphing chart and see an interesting change. So i did on my tumblr.
I thought Punisher: War Zone was funny and enjoyably trashy: a nasty black joke version of Tim Burton’s Batman movie.
And I thought Dominic West captured the tone of the movie perfectly, bad accent and all!
Any idea where tat PJBjorkTori photo was from?
It’s hard to believe that the 90s are turning out to be the Golden Age for Women.
The PJ/Bjork/Tori photo is form a ’96 interview the three of them did with Q magazine. The interview and more photos can be found here: http://www.yessaid.com/interviews/94-05Q.html
D’oh. Not ’96… ’94.