― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 14:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 14:10 (twenty years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 14:22 (twenty years ago) link
― j fail (cenotaph), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 18:33 (twenty years ago) link
The last two issues of Sandman (the Chinese story and the Shakespeare story) were unnecessary, admittedly. But being a long time reader of the comic, I couldn't help but be moved by seeing all the series' characters gather one last time for the wake and the funeral. Call me a sentimentalist.
What's Signal to Noise like? anyone?
It's a Gaiman/McKean collaboration, and it's about a dying film-maker who tries to direct his last movie inside his head. It's actually quite good, better than Violent Cases anyway, because it isn't as artsy and pretentious as that one.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 06:46 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 06:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 06:52 (twenty years ago) link
_American Gods_ was damn good, though. The best parts of thebook were the parts where the hero was going all domestic,renting an apartment, going on dates, etc. Neil Gaiman couldwrite great "normal" stories, minus murder and magic.
― squirl_plise, Wednesday, 25 June 2003 07:26 (twenty years ago) link
Incidentally, according to the TV credits, Neverwhere was based on an idea by Lenny Henry; although the concept of there being a secret underground London is a very old legend, especially the bit about the giant boars. They supposedly escaped from Smithfield market into the River Fleet, and their descendants are down there somewhere still.
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 12:30 (twenty years ago) link
― toraneko (toraneko), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 13:20 (twenty years ago) link
― bass braille (....), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 04:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 04:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― seedy poops in the woods (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 05:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 05:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 06:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 09:43 (nineteen years ago) link
the whole thing has an element of Myst/Riven looks about it.
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 10:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 10:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mog, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:07 (nineteen years ago) link
I think it's supposed to be Delirium from Sandman:
http://www.obscure.org/~domino/images/delirium.jpg
...though if I remember correctly, Gaiman denies it in some of his introductions to the Sandman books and says Tori is more like Death. Anyway, the book where that strip is taken from does feature Delirium visiting an S/M club where a Tori Amos song is playing on the background.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:15 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/thewire/pip/4uyaw/
no Listen Again link on page but it's here:http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio3_promo.shtmlunder 'The Wire'
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Monday, 7 March 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: correspondingly more exaggerated mixing is a scarifying error. (lat, Monday, 7 March 2005 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.ojaiwan.net/cwimages/prophecy3theasce_01.jpg
― Flyboy (Flyboy), Monday, 7 March 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link
wonder if this means Coraline will be decent or not.... i <3 experimental animation and the handmade everything production... but Neil Gaiman?! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coraline_(film)
― ☞*☜ (friendly ghost), Sunday, 4 January 2009 07:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Will refuse to date a Gaiman fan.
― KIN WITH SHAQ (roxymuzak), Sunday, 4 January 2009 07:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha, am reading a Gaiman novel at the moment. It's quite good, but basically just Terry Pratchett ripped out of Discworld and slapped onto America. Nothing outstanding, but a pleasant read.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 4 January 2009 08:35 (fifteen years ago) link
from a place of ignorance I have always had a "ewww" feeling about this person- probably because I think that great literature is already "goth" enough, thanks.
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Sunday, 4 January 2009 08:48 (fifteen years ago) link
oooh handy filter thx
― butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Sunday, 4 January 2009 08:52 (fifteen years ago) link
x-post would that be American Gods, Sick Mouthy? That's a pretty good book if so, the only one of his I've read.
― Neil S, Sunday, 4 January 2009 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Aye, that's what I'm reading. I've also read Anansi Boys, and the one with Pratchett from years ago.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 4 January 2009 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
i like Gaiman a lot but generally think his novels are a bit rub. his best work is either Sandman or his children's/YA novels - both Coraline and The Graveyard Book are aces.
― Disco/Very (Roz), Sunday, 4 January 2009 12:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe I should revive my Kipling thread for this but I just started reading Puck of Pook's Hill, and the idea behind American God's is basically Puck's monologue with America substituted for England:
'But they didn't all flit at once. They dropped off, one by one,through the centuries. Most of them were foreigners whocouldn't stand our climate. They flitted early.'
'How early?' said Dan.
'A couple of thousand years or more. The fact is theybegan as Gods. The Phoenicians brought some overwhen they came to buy tin; and the Gauls, and the Jutes,and the Danes, and the Frisians, and the Angles broughtmore when they landed. They were always landing inthose days, or being driven back to their ships, and theyalways brought their Gods with them. England is a badcountry for Gods.
...
They were a stiff-necked, extravagant set of idols, the Old Things. Butwhat was the result? Men don't like being sacrificed at thebest of times; they don't even like sacrificing their farm-horses. After a while, men simply left the Old Thingsalone, and the roofs of their temples fell in, and the OldThings had to scuttle out and pick up a living as theycould."
― thunda lightning (clotpoll), Thursday, 8 January 2009 06:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I liked "Good Omens" in my Pratchett years, and now I am twice as old I remember it more fondly than the Discworld series, and my embarrassment at former Pratchett fandom leads me to believe that maybe it was good because of Gaiman, and that I should read Gaiman's other work; but maybe I'm just a little too hasty to deny my disowned teenage canon and swap it for someone else's.
Anyway I saw a band called American Gods last year and they were v good, so perhaps I should have faith in their apparent name source.
(None of this is of any use or interest to anyone else, but what I mean to say is that I'll be lurking around the thread picking up recommendations so I can see which of my kneejerk suspicions is right)
― britisher ringpulls (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 8 January 2009 09:46 (fifteen years ago) link
i enjoyed american gods.
it's a lot like the thing he did with early sandman (and moore did with watchmen and top 10, and morrison did with zenith) - rescuing characters from obscurity. is fun on a 'spot the reference' level.
anansi boys has been languishing on my amazon wishlist from before it was published...
― koogs, Thursday, 8 January 2009 10:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Puck of Pook's Hill is great, Clotpoll! The story with the Roman Centurion is particularly atmospheric...
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Thursday, 8 January 2009 11:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Anansi Boys is pretty unmemorable. I'm quite up for the Graveyard Book, he writes well for children.
― chap, Thursday, 8 January 2009 12:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm looking forward Coraline, but that's really down to being a Henry Selick fan and the hopes that one day he will do something as winsome as The Nightmare Before Christmas again.
― Nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 8 January 2009 13:21 (fifteen years ago) link
what's the current Gaiman/Russell Sandman comic like?
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
What's that, DV? I can't find any info on it. I love P Craig Russell (I assume that's the Russell in question).
― chap, Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:39 (fifteen years ago) link
zomg spacecadet we are in oppositeland of teenagedom:
my embarrassment at former Pratchett Gaiman fandom leads me to believe that maybe it was good because of Gaiman Pratchett, and that I should read Gaiman's Pratchett's other work; but maybe I'm just a little too hasty to deny my disowned teenage canon and swap it for someone else's.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Thursday, 8 January 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Or maybe Good Omens is just good in its own way?
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Thursday, 8 January 2009 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I'LL FORM THE HEAD
I hate Gaiman but I may go see Coraline.
― ShamPowWow (libcrypt), Thursday, 8 January 2009 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Pratchett gets a bad rap, he's a smart guy - probably smarter than Gaiman, despite being a less gifted storyteller. Not that I'd actually bother to read one of his novels now, but I'm glad I did.
― chap, Thursday, 8 January 2009 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Good Omens is class, even if some of the jokes are pretty dated now. might be the best thing either of them have done.
― Disco/Very (Roz), Thursday, 8 January 2009 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Hooray for Youtube scrobbler, a great idea!
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Thursday, 8 January 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Oops sorry guys wrong thread I'll go back to the last.fm area...
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Thursday, 8 January 2009 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link
'Anansi Boys' is a big dull dud, sadly. 'Good Omens' is still good, though.
― James Morrison, Thursday, 8 January 2009 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Fun fact: the Gaelic name for the Isle of Skye is An t-Eilean Sgitheanach.
― Spocks on the Run (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 16:00 (three years ago) link
I'm sure Neil Gaiman speaks it like a native... a native of Hampstead, that is.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
I bitched about this on the Amanda palmer thread. Theres no hospital for a couple hundred miles for the inhabitants of Skye and little reason for them to get covid without outsiders coming in
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link
Who would have thought some rich entitled London wanker who 'loves Skye more than anything' could be that selfish?
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
Runrig are from Skye, if he could take out one or two of them with his London diseases it'll all have been worth it.
― zoom séance goes tits up (Matt #2), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 16:21 (three years ago) link
think yr more of a londoner than he is, tom -- he grew up in east grinstead (parents = scientologists) , living there on and off till 1987, then moved to wisconsin in the early 90s
― mark s, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
Runrig also appear in the Duolingo Gaelic course pretty early on, probably before Skye.
― Spocks on the Run (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
(xp) A Sassenach incomer all the same.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
that i will not deny
― mark s, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
Reminds me, I work with a guy from the Canary Islands who told me their nickname for mainland Spaniards is 'los Godos', the Goths.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
I've been listening to the Sandman audio drama on Audible and it's...not bad, I guess? I don't listen to audio-books much as my attention span with these things is pretty abysmal. But some chapters have been enjoyable, in particular the Dr Destiny storyline. The episode set in the diner was creepy was fuck.
Can't say I care much for Death's voice actress. I know the character is meant to be quirky and upbeat, but she sounds far too high-pitch squeaky (I actually thought it was Kristen Schall for a minute) and a bit one-note. It's too bad, as aside from her the "Sound of Her Wings" episode was done really well.
― Duane Barry, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 17:26 (three years ago) link
Creepy as fuck
― Duane Barry, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
Didn't know this existed. Kristen Schall might actually be a good Death!
― chap, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
Schall would have more range, I'd reckon. I'll give Dennings another chance when the next Death story comes up, she might improve.
― Duane Barry, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
The second part of the audio series is out. They actually went ahead and cast Schall as Delirium, so in any scene where she interacts with Death (Kat Dennings), the two are impossible to tell apart! Still, Season of Mists and A Game of You are two of my favourite extended Sandman stories, so this should be good.
― Duane Barry, Monday, 11 October 2021 10:25 (two years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00120cb
^ Desert Island Discs from earlier in the month
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4JQZ297tX36CzL1JSkQHy4D/nine-things-we-learned-from-neil-gaimans-desert-island-discs
and that link seems to be the bones of the talking.
― koogs, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
Anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWJTB6FPVaA
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 June 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
looks good enough
― akm, Monday, 6 June 2022 23:53 (one year ago) link
though there is a slight element of cheapness about it that seems unavoidable in every Gaiman adaptation for some reason
― akm, Monday, 6 June 2022 23:54 (one year ago) link
it's an issue with clive barker as well. something about british horror/fantasy.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 03:30 (one year ago) link
akmPosted: November 5, 2016 at 8:52:29 AMdid that not happen?lol(Candyman seems perfectly suited to its budget fwiw imo)
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 03:44 (one year ago) link