n.A.T.o.

- TATU Producer Angers Russia With Suicide Bomber Singer

Russians, still in shock at the Beslan tragedy, have reacted angrily to a music producer?s plans for what he calls a ?terror concert?, with a female singer dressed as a suicide bomber on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

The singer, called n.A.T.o. in a spin-off of the ?lesbian schoolgirl? t.A.T.u. duo that took the West by storm, wears a long black dress, a veil, and sings in Arabic. Producer Ivan Shapovalov, who launched both groups, does not deny that the resemblance to a suicide bomber is intentional.

Tickets to Saturday?s show have also been made to look like plane tickets.

mais aqui, aqui [em russo] e vídeo aqui. ela ainda não tem site oficial.




'A Namorado do Julinho' no cinema

Estudantes universitários estão com um projeto em andamento, a partir da criação da Lemúria Filmes (o nome é uma homenagem para a extinta e saudosa Atlântida Filmes), um novo "estúdio" que levará a cabo o projeto de adaptar uma HQ para a telona.

A película será baseada numa história em quadrinhos de terror [de Ota e Bonini], publicada no ano de 1981 pela Editora Vecchi, na revista Sobrenatural #25. [tem a hq pra ser baixada no site da produtora].




MORRISON DESPAIRS

- Rich escreve:

Grant Morrison's interview in the most recent "arthur" mag makes for fun reading. Grant says, "I'm hoping the prose stuff will be the next continuation of where I want to go. The comics audience is becoming more and more compressed and unpleasant. It's really sad. After I did 'Seaguy' and so many people said they didn't get it, I felt completely exasperated. 'Seaguy' is based on medieval quest literature which always has the young hero setting out and he has his companion who gets killed, the questing beast, but many of my readers seem to now be unaware of storytelling structures beyond the Hollywood three-act, and the literalism is so rife that nobody seems to be able to deal with symbolic content anymore. It's strange. One of the symptoms of schizophrenia is the schizophrenic can't process metaphor. If you say to a schizophrenic 'a rolling stone gathers no moss' he takes it utterly literally! He doesn't see it as having any kind of secondary meaning. My thesis is that everybody's gone kind of schizophrenic, which also explains the rise of reality TV. Because people cannot deal with a symbolic approach anymore-they have to see the 'real deal.' And the real deal is incoherent and it lacks catharsis or dramatic structure."

The cover to "Arthur," going out to 40,000 counter culturalists, is by Cameron Stewart.