23 Wednesday Oct 2019
Posted in Podcasts etc.
I’m pleased to see that Robert M. Price’s The Lovecraft Geek Podcast – Series 2, #1 has returned. It had vanished, at least for me.
And now it’s also just now been joined by #2 of the new series.
You can download an .MP3 file from ListenNotes by clicking the cryptic “…” over on the right-hand sidebar, and then right-clicking the “Download” link…
My thanks to ‘Governmentdrone’ for the heads-up on appearance of this new podcast.
13 Sunday Oct 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc., Unnamable
Ask Lovecraft on top form, on the topics of Writing Letters and Modern Readers.
12 Saturday Oct 2019
Posted in Odd scratchings, Podcasts etc.
I’m glad to hear that Isaac Asimov’s original Foundation trilogy is finally being filmed as ten-episode series. Although sadly it’s not being made for the cinema by the Independence Day director, as was mooted about a decade ago. It’s being made for TV in Ireland by Skydance for Apple Studios, by the director of the recent Ghost In The Shell. Filming reportedly starts next month, for a wrap-up in June 2020 and a screening in perhaps Fall 2020 or early in 2021.
I assume it’s the original trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation). Not the non-Asimov prequels now also available, or Asimov’s own sequel novels.
If you can’t wait, there’s a pre-PC 1973 Foundation Trilogy radio adaptation by BBC Radio on Archive.org, which runs eight hours. Sound design by the famous Radiophonic Workshop. There’s also another copy here.
The freeware AIMP Player and its “Headphones” preset is what you want to listen to this. Presumably it emulates more closely radio speakers, as in the original audio broadcast, dampening the sharp electronic music enough to make it listenable.
23 Monday Sep 2019
Posted in Podcasts etc., Scholarly works
H.P. Lovecraft: A Short Biography, abridged and read by S.T. Joshi. Available now from Cadabra Records. Only 70 copies of the black vinyl edition are available, according to the Web page. Joshi’s blog reveals that each side of the record has about 4,000 words on it. Cover art by Dave Felton.
05 Thursday Sep 2019
Posted in Podcasts etc., Scholarly works
“Authors on the Road: Lovecraft’s Travels with David Goudsward”. A public-service TV show from 2013, newly on Archive.org.
Also on YouTube but there it seems to be at lower resolution than on Archive.org.
23 Friday Aug 2019
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Conversations with Tyler: Neal Stephenson, July 2017, a 54-minute podcast interview which ranges widely and isn’t just marketing ra-ra and plot-summary for the new book…
I find that, of all of the science fiction writers that I read when I was a kid, [Heinlein’s] stuff has stayed with me more than others. He had this knack for capturing little moments, little human interactions, and images that produced really vivid memories in my head that are still with me.
Direct MP3 downloads at Listen Notes are hidden behind the … icon, thus…
19 Monday Aug 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc.
The Colour Out of Space, from Cadabra Records. A very limited edition vinyl L.P. pressing with sleeve art, fold-out poster, and liner-notes by S.T. Joshi. Appears to be pre-ordering now, with 33 copies remaining. It’s on, naturally enough, coloured vinyl.
29 Monday Jul 2019
Posted in Historical context, Podcasts etc.
The Secret Tunnels of Boston’s North End is a new 30-minute podcast episode. The show is done weekly by “two Boston history buffs”. In this episode they debunk some of the confabulated guff being told to clueless tourists, and try to get to the heart of the history.
28 Sunday Jul 2019
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Burton’s Arabian Nights Volume 10 as an unabridged audiobook, including the Terminal Essay. Free from Librivox. I’d previously blogged on the earlier nine audiobooked volumes here, and had also linked to a means to lookup Librivox’s cryptic titling of the stories (such “Night 998”) and translate them into proper story titles.
If you don’t take to a reader’s voice, don’t forget that excellent free media players such as AIMP let you pitch-shift and speed-shift audio during real-time playback. Though that tends to work best on a desktop PC rather than an Android tablet.
15 Monday Jul 2019
Posted in New books, Odd scratchings, Podcasts etc., Scholarly works
S.T. Joshi is back from his Australian tour and his blog has just updated.
He’s wittled his Lovecraft biography down to a mere 8,000 words and has committed the results to a vinyl LP record! This is due for release shortly, with music — and I assume also with graphic design and sleeve-notes of the sort that will please the vinyl collectors.
Joshi also notes an Italian translation of the first volume of I Am Providence is due for October 2019, with the dust-jacket sporting an affordable “29 Euro” tag. The second volume of the German language translation is less certain on the date, but is reported as likely to appear at around the same time.
News also of a new Joshi editorship, of …
a new magazine to be published next summer by Hippocampus Press: Penumbra. This will be an annual magazine, consisting of up to 100,000 words, chiefly devoted to criticism and scholarship of weird fiction (exclusive of Lovecraft), but it will also include a small amount of original fiction (about 30,000 words in each issue).
Submissions are invited.
14 Sunday Jul 2019
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14 Sunday Jul 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc.
Into The Weird: A Marvel Bronze Age Comic Book Podcast is a new one to me. It’s an ongoing audio survey with ten episodes, to date. The show surveys the weird-horror elements depicted in the classic (and, often, no-so classic) Marvel Comics output of the 1970s. Their latest podcast discusses the Lovecraftian in Marvel’s Doctor Strange, specifically in two Marvel Premiere issues from 1972.
