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"If you take away the penises isn't this a Scott Snyder Batman comic?"

MartinWisse — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:32:12 -0800

For their Comic Books are Burning in Hell podcast Joe McCulloch, Tucker Stone, Matt Seneca and Chris Mautner take on Tim Vigil and Faust. Featuring extensive notes and artwork perhaps not suitable for viewing at work. Tim Vigil you might call one of the genuine "superstars" of the mid-eighties black and white comics boom. Based on the success of Cerebus and especially Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, dozens and dozens of new and shitty independent comics publishers sprung up pushing out hundreds of mediocre titles, with the occasional hidden gem, all in an effort to become the new Turtles. Speculators and comics shops jumped on the bandwagon, print runs went sky high and of course it all ended with tears before bedtime, as actually, none of them would ever been the new Turtles. Where Tim Vigil differed is that he did find his own niche and audience, first for a publisher called Silverwolf in a comic called Grips, starring a sort of Wolverine-esque hero with big claws. It was written by the publisher, Kris Silver, himself, who was not very good. Vigil had a falling out with him, largely due to money, got together with a comics fan and off-off broadway playwright David Quinn and created Faust, starring another anti-hero with big claws. This was an over the top horror superhero comic that at its zenith sold something like 50,000 copies an issue and one of the few titles to survive when the black and white comics boom burst.

When I'm six-six-six

aldurtregi — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:05:37 -0800

If you thought The Beatles' incredible success had something to do with talent, hard work, good luck or a combination of the three, you'd be wrong. It was all Satan's work.

The Blegdamsvej Faust

vacapinta — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:31:46 -0800

The year is 1932. Hitler is rising in power. Harold Urey announces the discovery of deuterium, a hydrogen isotope. James Chadwick discovers the neutron. Heisenberg receives the Nobel Prize for his work in Quantum physics. It is a miracle year in Physics, matched only by Einstein's advances in 1905. A few of the most brilliant physicists in the world decide to convene in Copenhagen and ... write a play! Written on the 100th anniversary of the death of Goethe, The Blegdamsvej Faust is a remarkable document from a turning point in Physics. Among the cast of characters: Mephistopheles: played by Wolfgang Pauli "His ability to make experiments self destruct simply by being in the same room was legendary, and has been dubbed the "Pauli effect" The Lord: played by Neils Bohr “The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.” Faust: played by Paul Ehrenfest "The physicists transform Faust’s death scene at the end of Goethe’s play into a moment of supreme bathos. Mephistopheles ushers a press photographer on stage and it is this that is Faust’s undoing. Paul Ehrenfest utters Faust’s famous dying words, just as he is about to be immortalized by the photographer: “Faust (highly excited, he takes a pose for the press photographer) To this fair moment let me say: ‘You are so beautiful – Oh, stay!’ A trace of me will linger ’mongst the Great, Within the annals of The Fourth Estate. Anticipating fortune so benign, I now enjoy the moment that is mine!”' including the characters of Oppenheimer (Oppie), Landau, Gamow, Dirac and Chadwick. The Blegdamsvej Faust was written in German. In his intimately written book, Thirty Years that Shook Physics, Gamow publishes the English translation.

WFMU-TV

vronsky — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:47:55 -0800

WFMU-TV; That's Irritainment (Heino, Shatner): Baby Octopus: Love Onion: Hisao Shinagawa: Organisation- Ruckzuck (Kraftwerk): You Must Choose!: FAUST.

Who's Afraid of Opera?

VMC — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:30:20 -0800

Panda's Thumb reports elementary music teacher Tresa Wagonner was put on paid administrative leave by the superintendent of schools in Bennett, Colorado. Her offense? Playing a 12-minute clip from the thirty-year-old children's series "Who's Afraid of Opera?" for her classroom. The series features legendary soprano Joan Sutherland and some cute little hand-puppets who alternate elementary explanations of the libretti with vocal performances of selections from the operas featured. Apparently, Ms. Wagonner's selected episode, Gounod’s Faust, angered fundamentalist Bennettians, already on the warpath over Waggoner's musical choices for last year's Christmas pageant.

Rock out with your Kraut out

cloeburner — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:39:46 -0800

Krautrock: From the hypnotic rhythms and melodies of Can, to the revolutionary electronics of Kraftwerk. Krautrock was a genre that spawned many genius acts. The communal bands like Amon Duul II and Siloah that were soon to be emulated by cult-like restaurant owners, Ya Ho Wha . There were the obscure acts like Zweistein whose sound evokes thoughts of current bands like Animal Collective and Wooden Wand. And there were albums the ground-breaking albums like Tangerine Dream's dark, ambient, Phaedra and the Manuel Gottsching record E2-E4 which is considered to be the first techno album ever produced. Needless to say, Krautrock's influence has been lasting and monumental.