The Bin – 4/2/10

The Bin – 4/2/10

Apr 02

Have you heard about this? This “Bin” thing? There’s this thing, see, it goes on computers and it comes from the wall. Well, not from the wall, from a cord that comes out of the wall. I think it’s electric.

So you plug in this cord or sometimes it just floats around, this stuff that goes into computers; it floats around you in the air. It puts stuff on your computer. This internet stuff. And these people, they like things and they put it on the internet because I guess they have nothing else to offer the world? And they call it the Bin.

Stuff We Like This Week

Matt: Young Heroes In Love was a series by Dan Raspler and Dev Madan that I remembered picking up as it was coming out; this was in the late nineties, during one of my several “returns to comics” before the current and most permanent one. I recalled enjoying it for its clever dialogue and savvy mix of soap operatics and superheroics. I finally managed to track down the issues I was missing and while the first couple issues seem to be the creative team finding their way a bit, it locks into a very solid little groove. With art that’s reminiscent of the best moments of the Timm & Dini animated universe and enough storylines to choke a Ph.D in Shakespearean drama, it’s a very fun read.

Jeff: Like Matt, I’m also a big fan of YHIL and it’s that shared fandom that is responsible for us going from Internet friends to Internet friends writing comics together.

How about that episode of V this week, huh?  The show continues to be a slow-moving shambles of a drama, but it’s finally produced something as creepy as the infamous ‘guinea pig moment’ from the original miniseries. It comes near the end of the mostly boring hour, but Valerie’s battle against her compulsion to eat a mouse immediately pulled my attention back from Twittering. Lourdes Benedicto did a great job with it, further underscoring that V has assembled a great cast that isn’t being given anything to do by its writers room.  It’s like they’ve been given directions by a Bizarro David Mamet.

Something else I like this week? Wilco. The band played the Grand Ballroom in Scranton’s Masonic temple and the sold-out show was absolutely amazing.  The band played for three hours without an interruption and did something like forty songs.  Nels Cline plays guitar like an ecstatic having a religious experience and there’s no denying that his guitar-god status is not just a product of Rolling Stone’s neverending hype machine.

Sarah: So many amazing books out now, you guys. Patricia Briggs’ latest Mercy Thompson novel came out this week and you know I am all over that like…uh…like Adam is all over Mercy? I don’t know, I was trying to think of something clever there and couldn’t. Obviously. Meanwhile, I have finally acquired both Karen Healey’s Guardian of the Dead and Gail Carriger’s Soulless and both seem to be glaring at me balefully from the bedside table, as if ordering me to drop everything and READ NOW. And…and! My friend Christina loaned me Kristin Cashore’s Fire, which I’ve been dying to dive into ever since inhaling Graceling. All this and I haven’t even mentioned Melissa Marr’s Wicked Lovely short story “Stopping Time,” which reveals the current state of MY FAVORITE, Leslie (our pal Angie reviewed over here). I like that all these books are out right now. I do not like that I currently have no time to actually read them. But soon. SOON. Stop looking at me like that, Soulless!

Link Stew

The amazing screwball sci-fi office comedy Drones, directed by Amber Benson and Adam Busch, is having its Los Angeles premiere in the form of a very cool 826LA benefit event. The flick is in the same realm as something like Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, so we think you’ll dig it. Tickets available right here.

Our pal Steve Hockensmith is going strong with his prequel novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls, which is 27th on a New York Times Bestseller List! Unconventional is like -45,225 on the same list! Congrats, Steve!

Speaking of our pals, Grok contributor Rob Bloom has got a revised version of his traumatic Double Dare experience up on The Nervous Breakdown. So go read it!

Every single Sawyer “son of a bitch” from six seasons of Lost. Son of a bitch!

Francis Bacon Kevin Bacon Actual Bacon is like Bea Arthur Mountains Pizza except with more femininity and more bacon. Welcome it into your hearts.

“Christ, what an asshole.”

Etc.

@sarahkuhn If I ever own a comic book shop, I plan on advertising with photos of a nude guy turning pages of a Watchmen trade with his junk. (via Paul Horn of Cool Jerk)