Clutching the short straw

Joder, menos mal que no soy el único que piensa que el último de O.R.E. es un pedo.

Di que sí, Pedro.

Dos nuevas reseñas de Rebis… No está mal, ¡sólo 7 meses después de la aparición del disco! Pero bueno, no deja de tener su mérito: al fin y al cabo, el 95% de las revistas/fanzines que hay ahí afuera hacen reseñas por una razón: conseguir CDs gratis. Por lo tanto, si el disco ya es gratis, ¿para qué reseñarlo? (Que sí. Que he trabajado en unas cuantas revistas musicales. Háganme caso, que sé de qué va el tema. He visto a gente por lo demás de mucha confianza poner por las nubes a auténticos atentados contra el oído y el buen gusto simplemente para que el sello no dejara de mandarles promos.)

Así que, en ese sentido, viva yo y viva ellos también, por qué no. Que por ego para repartir no quede, que de eso tenemos de sobra.

En fin, al lío. Primero: Muzike.org, esas buenas gentes amantes del caos, la discordia, el pitorreo social y de The Birthday Massacre, que esta vez se descuelgan con una crítica inusualmente breve, que de hecho más que una reseña parece un anuncio de la salida del disco: Morpheus ha sacado un trabajo, se llama “Rebis”, tiene 12 temas y viene con unas fotos asín como fetish. Básicamente, eso es lo que pone. La verdad es que me extraña viniendo de una gente que, si por algo se caracteriza, es por ser bastante propensa a meterse a fondo en los trabajos que reseña y a empaparse de ellos; supongo que me tocó el día de resaca del redactor ;)

La otra ha aparecido en el e-zine alemán Neo-Form, y a pesar de estar redactada en un extraño y fascinante idioma, la traducción automática me ha permitido hacerme con el sentido general de la reseña: detallada, positiva y alentadora. Aún así, si alguien con buen dominio del alemán quiere hacerme una traducción un poco más exacta, no seré yo quien se oponga *wink*wink*

Y la cuestión es que me suena el nombre del director del e-zine, Thomas Ehrhardt, pero no caigo… Claro que ese apellido suena más a nick que a nombre real, pero aún así estoy seguro de que lo he visto antes. Hum.

Keep smokin’

To: International Astronomical Union

We, the undersigned, do hereby petition the International Astronomical Union (IAU), to determine and establish the symbol for the newly designated dwarf planet Eris to be the symbol known in the Principia Discordia as the Five Fingered Hand of Eris. Looks like: )|( This symbol is a line, with two crescents on either side of it. This symbol is “in line” with other established planetary symbols that use crescents, lines, circles, and crosses. We start this petition because other dwarf planets, like the long established Pluto and the dwarf planet Ceres have symbols, and yet, Eris, the newly named planet, does not. Thus we petition you, the IAU, to designate the symbol for the planet Eris as the Five Fingered Hand of Eris.

More information on the Hand of Eris can be seen here:
http://altreligion.about.com/library/glossary/symbols/bldefserishand.htm

And the proposed symbol is in this post on livejournal (the one on the right) along with all discussion of the symbol:
http://community.livejournal.com/discord_society/121192.html

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

Saying things have been going slow lately would be an understatement, to say the least. There were supposed to be a bunch of Really Great News (remember?) for September, but we’re already halfway through October and all magazines which were to feature articles on my work have suffered delays for one reason or another.

There’s Buckle Magazine (Atlanta), for starters: co-founder and editor Genevieve Bartel resigned in September, so the magazine didn’t make the appointed deadline and everything is on hold now. As far as I know, Release Media is NOT shutting down and all scheduled publications will see the light as planned, but we’ll have to wait some more time until Bill/Tsubasa gets his act together.

Issue #5 of Transmision Magazine (a goth-industrial-neofolk magazine from Madrid/Vitoria) was also scheduled for late September, but it looks like monetary problems have slowed it down.

Then there’s Elegy Iberica, the Spanish/Portuguese branch of Elegy, a well-known French goth magazine. I know nothing about their plans, I just hope they’re not waiting for Christmas to release the next issue!

Lastly, we have Disimular, a soon-to-be-born arts magazine from Navarra whose chief editor contacted me in summer through my DeviantArt gallery. It looks like an ambitious and interesting project, but we’ll have to wait until December to see if they live up to the buzz (they told me the new deadline was mid-November, but, being Spain we’re dealing with here, it’s safer to assume it’s gonna be December).

As to my own plans, everything’s frozen right now. I’m still on a loooong break from making music (and even if I wasn’t, my hard drive crash would have forced me to it, but you probably didn’t read about that because I wrote that particular post in spanish only; in short, I lost EVERYTHING I had in my computer), and I’m not in a very photographic mood lately, either. The only things I feel like doing these days are smoking, doodling on the banjo and going to a lot of live shows. Oh, and watching “House” with my girlfriend, which isn’t exactly helping with my misanthropy.

So, bottom line: if you’re waiting for exciting news, you won’t find them here, at least for the time being. I’m taking things easy, learning a lot of new stuff and starting almost from scratch in many aspects of my life (it’s fair to say the hard drive crash has helped a lot with this). And that, my dear friends, takes time.