h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Because you listen to kick a**e music..
Namely Jane's Addiction, Bowie, Sabbath, and Ramones..
and others but i'm too buzzed to bother.

Right on!
-Cymbeline

Why thank you! I try my best. Sad news about Dee Dee Ramone though!
I'm glad to see another Sandman reader!!

Have fun drinking

someday, i shall be able to afford all the graphic novels and get the entire story..
i'm actually reading Stardust by Gaiman at the moment.

-Cymbeline

Stardust was magical + great C. Vess pics.
My wife liked it more than me though!

it is sort of a girl book, simply by being a fairy tale + romance.. but cool characters nonetheless...

-Cymbeline, who just ordered Neverwhere a few nights ago

Very cool characters indeed. I found towards the end of Sandman that it was losing the earlier horror slant that I loved but it still had me engrossed.

As regards to your first post....... what music do you like?

I'm pretty much an alternative rock sort of gal..
but I have roots in punk (a little, due to an ex-boyfriend),
early rock such as sabbath, metallica, gnr, etc,
and I like a little bit of pretty much any genre you can come up with, other than cradle of filth and slipknot type bands.

-Cymbeline

Glad to see that you are not convinced by a scary rubber mask and secondhand music! I think that Slipknot appeal to the age old "Music my Parents will hate", but without the genuine talent of the Pistols, Nirvana, Nin etc: just to name a few bands throughout the years that have terrorisied parents.

Still it's got to be better than J-Lo!

Pretty much anything is better than J-Lo.. Wait, I forgot about that Spears b**ch. Sorry, that was a bit unkind.. She just gets on my nerves.

Slipknot.. What can I say, I don't like noise. You can't even hear the words to their music, because it's all roars.. And being that singing along is one of the biggest ways I connect with music, I just can't like it.

You seem to be very old-school punk.. And yet not rabid, scary, and unbelieving that anything else has value.. I like that in a punk.. I've known at least one too many that is like the unflattering decription above.. For known, read "dated".

Heh.

-Cymbeline

Old school enough to be there for the beginning!!!

I think it was seeing so many early punks bands that opened my eyes to different styles in music. Some people find it hard to accept that good bands came after the Clash (who I dearly love). There seems to be a resurgance in great bands at the moment and I think it's great.

My favorite punk "band" is Me First and the Gimme Gimme's..
Yeah, I know, a cover band..
I think they're fun.

What new bands are you into?


-Cymbeline

The newest stuff I'm listening to at the moment are:

The Strokes
The Hives
The White Stripes

Stuff that's been around but I've only just heard;

Gluecifer
Turbonegro
Electric Frankenstein

Very old stuff that I'm playing over and over (changes week by week!)

Goats Head Soup - Stones
Raw Power - Stooges
1st album - T. Rex
Live Velvet Underground box set

Right on.. Would you believe out of the new bands the only one I've heard of is the Strokes?



Can't ever go wrong with the Stones..



-Cymbeline

The Hives are scandinavian and you will probaly be hearing them very soon! Sound like a heavy Strokes but still have that tunefulness. I hadn't heard of the new band's you posted, shows the distance between our countrys I suppose.

I'll have to look them up on mp3's. (the Hives)

As for punk bands, I'd say, pretty much anything from Fat Wreck Chords... (I like *happy* punk, what can I say... ;p )

Yeah, quite a few thousand miles.. Of course that means you don't have to repeatedly watch britney on TRL (an Mtv show).. It's enough to make you paint the screen in your breakfast..

(laugh)

-Cymbeline

We have not got mtv on the basis of how s••t all the music played seems to be.
I hear most my new stuff on alternative radio stations, read interviews and album reviews + hoping that friends will lend me good new cd's.

Have either of you read the Neil Gaiman's first book "Don't Panic - the Offical Guide to the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"?

I was a bit 50-50 with Sandman, i found the art work too "Boy's Own Comic". Some of the storylines were really nice though. It's probibly cheaper to buy the individual issues than the bound collections now! The two Death mini-series "High Cost of Living" and "Time of your Life" were really good though, i really liked them. They had the ideas, the pace and room to explore them and din't feel forced at all. Both the script and art were perfect.

Never heard of the Gainman book ! !

The two death mini-series were really good. As you say, there was so much more room to explore and expand on the character and the art......I think Chris Bachalo defined how Death should look (for me anyway)...add his innovative layouts to a very solid Gainman script, it topped his last 25 issues on Sandman! (dare such a thing be said? People did tend to get a bit precious about it!!)

There are two editions of Don't Panic - i only have the first 80's one. Have a glance through A678945 if you want more details - it's probibly still available to order from Titan.

As far as the 'Vertigo World' is concerned i always much prefered Hellblazer. Though even that seemed to peter out a couple of years ago.

Ooooh, and Watchmen is on the front page today! Hoorah.