• Solar Systems – FARGO, North Dakota – Experimental / Ambient / Rock – www.myspace.com/solarsystemsmusic

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A selection of pieces from the open-call revamping of Irma Vep on Whitechapel this past week.

Felipe Sobreiro:

Daniel Heard:

Paul Sizer:

Jorge Munoz:

And, to ruin everyone’s day, the magnificent Chip Zdarsky:

A new art challenge goes up at Whitechapel sometime Monday.

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I just watched two episodes of NEVER MIND THE BUZZCOCKS, which I haven’t seen in ages, and I hadn’t realised how much poor old Phill Jupitus looks like he wants to just die.

Henry Leo Fraction has pacted with the Enemy. We are all doomed.

• St. Leon (novel) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Wherein shit kicks off.

To my American friends: don’t forget the first FREAKANGELS collection on Black Friday!

• MySpace.com – Magen Melancholy & Company – downtown LB, califuckingfornia/ miami, FL – Hip Hop / Down-tempo – www.myspace.com/magenmelancholy

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Everyone else loved "Rainbowarriors." I loved this. Always been fond of Cocorosie. If you don’t know the song, hold out for the opera sequence, and the beautiful slide from the high note into the percussion line. Fan video, but it has the added bonus of subtitles! And now I go in search of beer and steak.

"Feel Good By Numbers" was, to me, the standout on The Go! Team’s JUNIOR KICKSTART EP, back in… ’03? Something like that. This one’s a fan video — there was never an official video for anything off JUNIOR KICKSTART, I don’t think. But you can hear the germs of what became "Ladyflash" etc in here. And, you know… it makes me happy. As happy as I can be in a doomed world where all I see are lies and disease etc etc more Red Bull please

Again, a cheating static-image video, but I don’t care, because I’ve been looking for a copy of Boom Boom Satellites’ 11-year-old "4 A Moment Of Silence" for ages. It’s off what I think was their first record, 7 IGNITIONS, which, perversely, remains my favourite.

The bass is a bit dropped-out on this, but it’s not a bad copy.

Tieum & Lenny Dee’s "Microtronic" has been fascinating me all afternoon. Not least because it sets out to just vaporise any possible audience. You can’t dance to it, it’s not Hardcore, it’s not industrial enough for Industrial, it’s not fucking drum’n’bass or jungle no eMusic I do not care if you say it is wash your fucking ears out, and the kid on YouTube who called it "terrorcore" needs to go home to his fucking mummy.

What it is is Bloody Loud. And I don’t know about you, but what I really needed today was something big and alien and metallic and Bloody Loud.

(Note also that, no, it’s not a video, someone just uploaded the track to YouTube with a static image.

This is off the EP that’s also called MICROTRONIC, on the Altern-Hate label.

I feel like youtubing for music videos today. Leave now if my taste in music offends you.

Taking a thinking day, today.  Will probably do a Doomed World pass before midnight, and Twitter’s running in the desktop app, but otherwise my brain is off maps and hunting signposts in foggy and unfamiliar territories.

* Paul Pope’s t-shirt design for Boss Hog:

"In the end, I had a hard time getting it out of the sun tea jar…"

A panel from artist Kaare Andrews’ section of the forthcoming ASTONISHING X-MEN: GHOST BOXES #2:

* Zofia Szeretlek:

* I’ve been giving Zoetica shit about having dyed her hair black all week, and should probably apologise in public for calling her "the devil’s whore" this morning. Probably.

* Totally missed this over the summer, just heard it today: Clinic’s "Tomorrow." I’ve still got "Distortions" on the shelf over here…

* New Kode9, with LD — the BAD EP is available on eMusic. A bit dancefloor for me, but Kode9 never makes a bad record.

* Finally — clothes of the future that repel dirt and water. What’s the first thing they think of to make with it? Fucking swimming trunks.

* In other news, meet our new microscopic biorobotic slaves. Looking forward to their robot rebellion. Get this bit: "They might even compete in biobot war games, trying to track each other down and making a kill by secreting antibiotics." Maybe they can pile the bastards up and make them do battle withplant-animal hybrids that run on solar power.

In this piece from the Antoine de Caunes-presented documentary about Lenora Claire and the LA freakscene, Lenora actually gets to talk a little about what’s behind the apparent creeping renaissance in LA alt culture. Also, footage from her birthday party.

Lenora Claire on Allez a LA for Canal Plus France from Lenora Claire on Vimeo.

* Congrats to Emma Rios on winning the Mejor Autor Revelación award in Madrid this past weekend.

* Cherie Priest got into a knife fight with a pirate (and then got experimented on by ER techs)

* Kid Shirt is, um, up to things I don’t quite comprehend.

* Marie Javins is guestblogging at Chronicle Books. She also notes the fact that you cannot actually see the Great Wall from space.

* Congrats also to Wil Wheaton on re-selling HAPPIEST DAYS OF OUR LIVES to Subterranean Books (home of the special Siege-covered edition of CROOKED LITTLE VEIN that seemed to sell out in fifteen seconds or so).