11 O'Clock Comics Episode 220

[badartdog]

I think I've posted this before, but the appearance of Norton from LoEG is based on the writer, Iain Sinclair.
Like Moore, he is a psychogeographer, they are certainly acquaintances if not friends. Sinclair has written on the Ripper killings (White Chapel, Scarlet Tracings) and published a series of short stories (Slow Chocolate Autopsy) about the past and future lives of a character called Norton, Prisoner of London. One of these is illustrated by Dave McKean.
Highly recommended.

[Farrell]

I think I've posted this before, but the appearance of Norton from LoEG is based on the writer, Iain Sinclair.
Like Moore, he is a psychogeographer, they are certainly acquaintances if not friends. Sinclair has written on the Ripper killings (White Chapel, Scarlet Tracings) and published a series of short stories (Slow Chocolate Autopsy) about the past and future lives of a character called Norton, Prisoner of London. One of these is illustrated by Dave McKean.
Highly recommended.

Good info.  Thank you and Karma.

[Jeppe]

Oh boy, the nostalgia in here is getting thick enough to cut with a knife 

[Dave Faust]

I think I've posted this before, but the appearance of Norton from LoEG is based on the writer, Iain Sinclair.
Like Moore, he is a psychogeographer, they are certainly acquaintances if not friends. Sinclair has written on the Ripper killings (White Chapel, Scarlet Tracings) and published a series of short stories (Slow Chocolate Autopsy) about the past and future lives of a character called Norton, Prisoner of London. One of these is illustrated by Dave McKean.
Highly recommended.

Karma. I really like Sinclair's work, at least what I've read of it. Norton is kind of Sinclair's "fiction suit" to borrow a term from Grant Morrison, that he uses to navigate texts.

Here's Moore talking about Sinclair (audio's not that great)
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/-ultXoiosBg&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/-ultXoiosBg&rel=1</a>

Here's Sinclair:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/gPrGhEwKWFg&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/gPrGhEwKWFg&rel=1</a>

And here they are together:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/R_Wn7vtLA00&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/R_Wn7vtLA00&rel=1</a>

[New Mutant]

I'm quite sure it's about one's youth... Strangely, I've become quite enamoured of 80's music that at the time, I thought was horrible. Nostalgia is a powerful thing.
The thing about John Hughes movies is I remember wanting to be able to actually live in them... Escapism. That was the key for me when I was a young lad.

This is verrrrrrry eeeeenteresting for two reasons...!
1) The Hughes movies always seemed to be about how uncomfortable life could be as a teenager.
But 2) did it matter to you that it was about American lives?
Or maybe was THAT the escapism you were looking for? To be American?

[Tom Morris]

John Hughes was the ultimate source at what was great and terrible about being a teen in the suburbs during the 1970s and 80s.  Life was pretty good but most people were unhappy.  Social class and expectations were shitty.  However they greatly contrast with say movies from Spike Lee or John Singleton.

Do the Right Thing was far more realistic than the Breakfast Club.  It ends too perfectly, which is likely do to the major cuts that the film had.  One of my goals as an amateur film historian would be to see the original 3 hour cut of Breakfast Club.

[Purdie]

At about the 46:00 mark.

Thanks buddy.

[leafinsectman (Dan)]

Guy goes around the world looking for treasure, wears a cool ass hat, can do anything with a whip, shoots people like it ain't no thang, will climb the shit out of anything. What's not to love?

PREACH!!! Temple will always be my favourite Indy film, because it was the first one I saw.

Raiders is mine (first and fave) and I was lukewarm on Temple initially (fucken shut up Kate Capshaw) but I like it more and more as time goes on. I only really appreciated it as a very well put together movie after seeing it as an adult.

How did you like that Dan Aykroyd cameo?

People talking about 80s movies and no one's brought up Commando? Thanks to Mr Dave Faust for the link below:

Best review of Commando ever:

http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/1413/commando/

 

As for the ep, not finished yet but I nearly died when Jason said "don't be Krul"

It hurts to fast forward but I had to for the LoEG talk. I'll come back to this ep once I've read everything.

[valance_the_hunter]

Concerning Ghostbusters…I actually watched some of the cartoons they made after the movie on youtube today (not the ones starring the monkey in the lederhosen, but the other ones), I think they were called The Real Ghostbusters, and I distinctly remember enjoying them and a few of their villains, such as The Boogeyman and The Grundel.

Still hold up.

Had no idea that JMS wrote a bunch of them. 

[Dave Faust]

Weird Science
Breakfast Club
Back to the Future
Tron
The Last Startfighter
Krull
Labyrinth
Dark Crystal
A Company of Wolves
Empire and Jedi
GHOSTBUSTERS!
I even loved Starman
Ferris Beuller
Lethal Weapon
The mighty Near Dark.

This looks like a remake to-do list for the studios.

[Spigs]

Concerning Ghostbusters…I actually watched some of the cartoons they made after the movie on youtube today (not the ones starring the monkey in the lederhosen, but the other ones), I think they were called The Real Ghostbusters, and I distinctly remember enjoying them and a few of their villains, such as The Boogeyman and The Grundel.

Still hold up.

Had no idea that JMS wrote a bunch of them. 

I'm digging on the new comic series that's been running from IDW.  It's (I think) 12 or 13 issues in now? I picked up the first few issues, enjoyed them and switched to trades.  Cartoony art style that I like, lots of great back matter on the history of some of the ghosts and they bring back the health inspector from the second movie who's trying to shut them down.  From what I've gathered in previews the third arc is taking them on the road and letting them do some 'Busting in New Orleans.  While it's not the greatest thing on the racks, it's definitely worth a look if you were a fan of the movies.

[S. Earl]

not the ones starring the monkey in the lederhosen

That was a strange, strange, show.

[malpractice]

Came very close to hitting the Unsubscribe button during that Before Watchmen nonsense.

[Chris]

Came very close to hitting the Unsubscribe button during that Before Watchmen nonsense.

Don't be that guy.

You're smarter than that.

[New Mutant]

Came very close to hitting the Unsubscribe button during that Before Watchmen nonsense.

So emPHATIC, Joey! So DRAMATIC!! Don't PANIC! No STATIC! Let the good times roll and let it all be copaCETIC. 

[Dave Faust]

I'm always happy when my friends enjoy the books they're reading, and I mean that. I really enjoyed the enthusiasm with which you guys discussed these issues, they're just definitely not for me.

[S. Earl]

I wish we would have got some more Jack Cross.

Hell, I'd like any Ellis comics at all right now. I might have to break down and give his novel a shot... but something tells me that might be a bit too much of the parts of Ellis that irritate me in an un-distilled form.

[David]

I'm always happy when my friends enjoy the books they're reading, and I mean that. I really enjoyed the enthusiasm with which you guys discussed these issues, they're just definitely not for me.

Amen, brother Faust.

That's exactly how I felt listening to my buds.

[Dave Faust]

I wish we would have got some more Jack Cross.

Hell, I'd like any Ellis comics at all right now. I might have to break down and give his novel a shot... but something tells me that might be a bit too much of the parts of Ellis that irritate me in an un-distilled form.

Crooked Little Vein is a brisk, fun read, and I definitely recommend it. He's got a new novel coming out soon called Gun Machine which I'm really looking forward to, but same as you, I'd really like more Ellis comics. If he'd just finish Doktor Sleepless, I'd be giddy.

[S. Earl]

Brisk and Fun? Well that is an endorsement I can get behind. I just hate it when he plays the "Look how smart I am" card, which is what I figured his prose might read like.