Today is Ms. Gibson's 34th birthday, so I hope you'll all join me in wishing her a happy special day.

As many of you know, I owe Ms. Gibson a special debt of gratitude. When I was researching my last Gunflower album, This album is only being sold through huge corporate behemoth superchains like Blockbuster Music and Best Buy so if you see it for sale at an independent locally owned shop or advertised on the Internet you know it's a cheap bootleg knockoff, I came across a website (I'm too lazy to find it right now) which featured many voicemail messages left by Ms. Gibson herself, apparently on some sort of info line for her throngs of fans.

Those messages, in turn, became these three songs:

1. Political Garbage
   
   
2. I'm A Recording Artist
   
   
3. All About Spirit

Perhaps you will enjoy them. You may also enjoy Ms. Gibson's official website. (If you thought her name was Debbie, make sure you listen to that third track.)

Lem

Today I was making a poster (see yesterday's post) of Stanislaw Lem, and I came across this interview, in which he refers to "this pathetic Soderbergh". A more in-depth discussion about the Solarises can be found here.

Although I admit that "Soderbergh's vision' is not devoid of ambition, taste and climate, I am not delighted with the prominence of love. "Solaris" may be perceived as a river basin -- and Soderbergh chose only one of its tributaries. The main problem seems the fact that even such a tragic-romantic adaptation seems too demanding for mass audience fed with Hollywood pap. If in the future someone else dared a faithful adaptation, I am afraid the effects would be understood only by a tiny audience.

Yay! Lem agrees with me! Take that, certain unnamed friend of mine who also enjoys Lem's writing and happens to have a slightly more positive opinion about the most recent Solaris movie!

I'm too exhausted to tell you about what's going on in the world, except of course I'm sure you've heard that we can't CAN win the war on terror. We can. We will!

Can.

TimeWaster™

What actually hit the pentagon? (Flash) Garrett should enjoy this (if he hasn't seen it already). Others like me will just sorta shrug and say "who knows".. But the production on this presentation is excellent. And it has music from Fight Club! Huzzah.

Today I'm listening to: Nothing!