The Mindscape of Alan Moore

This post got yanked from Dangerous Minds due to copyright issues - don't worry, it won't happen here!


Alan Moore portrait by Christian Kaw

And what an incredibly vast landscape that is, full of outcrops of ideas about religion, spirituality, information, history, education, sexuality, magic, drugs, art, love, creativity and lots, lots more.

The Mindscape Of Alan Moore is a 2005 feature length documentary about the British comic book magus directed by Dez Vylenz, and while it's been floating around online in various cut-up, truncated and editted forms for a few years, it's now available to watch in its full 78 minute glory. Most Moore fans will be familiar with this film, but even if you have seen it (or parts of it) it's always worth another look. You'll be hypnotised by Moore's voice and his huge, spell-binding mindscape in minutes.

The DVD of this film is still available to purchase (just go here) and as I reckon you'll want to watch this more than once, that's an investment that comes highly recommended. And at least it means you'll be able to turn off the subtitles:
 

 

Frank Gettin' Telt

"Frank Miller is someone whose work I’ve barely looked at for the past twenty years. I thought the Sin City stuff was unreconstructed misogyny, 300 appeared to be wildly ahistoric, homophobic and just completely misguided. I think that there has probably been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller’s work for quite a long time."

Does anyone really think Miller is anything but a scared little geek trying to act hard? Look at his feart wee face, mugging for camera:

You should read the whole interview.

"It’s a completely justified howl of moral outrage and it seems to be handled in a very intelligent, non-violent way, which is probably another reason why Frank Miller would be less than pleased with it."

Alan Moore's Unearthing

You may heave read about this already, but Alan Moore has a spoken word/music project about to be released through Lex Records called "Unearthing". Featuring Mike Patton, Doseone, members of Mogwai, Steve Moore and more, it's going to come in a seriously deluxe boxed set. You can hear an excerpt from the project over at Pitchfork right now.

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