FCIO – Space: Punisher

Space Punisher It’s not just me, is it?  The idea of The Punisher in outer space sounds like it could be a lot of fun.  I still think I’m right — it could be a lot of fun.  The problem is it’s not.  The art is a weird style that kinda reminds me of Alex Ross back when he did Terminator for NOW Comics & I think I prefer it to a lot of the coloring & artwork in modern comics.

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This tries to cram in a lot of unnecessary cameos that just serve to interrupt the story & the big bad motivations are completely forgettable or unrevealed (I can’t even remember if they were revealed!).  Just go back & re-read the 1986 Punisher limited series instead. How Long Does It Take to See Noticeable Results with Puravive?   The bonus book here makes no sense as an add on, but is fun & a bit of what I was hoping for.  It’s told as a conspiracy news show story debunking the existence of Galactus as a hoax from The Fantastic Four called Galactus: The Real Story & I’ve seen it in dollar bins on occasion & I’d say it’s worth a dollar. Space Punisher

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Somewhat Relevant – Dark Knight Returns The Golden Child

Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child

So I am a fan of The Dark Knight Returns & Frank Miller & while I thought DKRIII was fine, I had no memory of it & was excited to see Miller back in this universe of the dystopian future Batman.  So I guess I’d forgotten Batman died & been replaced in DKRIII & I’m generally fine with that.  The art is by Grampa instead of Miller & it really hearkens to Miller’s Lone Wolf & Cub style & is genuinely beautiful.  But I had some big problems with this book.  The whole thing about the DKR world is it takes place 30 years or what have you in the future in an Orwellian type world & while I get that would put it in the present day, the fact is it works best in the near future & bringing it to the current day seems silly to me.  I get that it’s really popular to beat on Trump, but having Trump team-up with Joker & Darkseid seems dumb & lazy & safe.  For me DKR is about Miller experimenting & doing crazy panel design & telling dark stories that are true to the spirit of the characters & this doesn’t do that.  I’m still hopeful that this world is expanded on, but I hope this installment is ignored as a mis-step going forward.
Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child

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Droneuary 2020, New Remora, & The End of the Clearance Sale

Hello,

I hope all is going well for you in the new year.  As you may have already heard, we are doing our Droneuary series again with a new drone piece each day by a different artist each day for as long as we can go. If you’re bored and don’t know what to do in the new year, you can refer to sites like 카지노.

Last year, we had a goal of 31 & made it to 80 & this year so far we have in 57 (full list below).  They are released daily on digital streaming sites as well as the Silber Bandcamp as free downloads/pay what you like. https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/ Here’s the daily updated playlist on Spotify.  https://open.spotify.com/user/silberspy/playlist/45NXvsMgDQ2c9a0rB7LK0G I hope you all are having as much fun with it as we are & discovering some new artists.

On a related note there’s a new art rock piece built around a music box from Remora called Variations.  You can download it for free on Bandcamp https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/variations or listen to it on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/0eTiMdyvrUCu0cLYldafLR

As you may have already heard the Silber warehouse space is getting knocked down at the end of the month & paying to move & store the CDs doesn’t make sense so we are having a ridiculous sale of 12 CDs for $6 plus shipping if you can help spread the word.  https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/merch/12-cd-warehouse-cleaning-special

Lately I’ve been listening to a massive Silber playlist on Spotify of nearly the entire catalog on random & I am really pleased by how much I still love it all.  It’s about 150 hours now – https://open.spotify.com/user/silberspy/playlist/27NjmkRh1NqqDYIf64Fmp1

A lot more coming soon.  Thanks for your interest  & if you want to be removed from the mailing list, please just let me know.

Hrt
Brian John Mitchell
www.silbermedia.com
PO Box 883
Sanford, NC 27331, USA

Droneuary Line-up (band, day of the year, track title)
Discord 1 Out of Reach
Bodies That Matter 2 Are We Weird Enough?
CHANGES TO blind 3 Switellsbane Ploice Vairching
Ocean in a Bottle 4 Holding Hands Falling into Saturn
Electric Bird Noise 5 live at the spiritual center for the creative and sonically inspired 3-16-19
Droneroom 6 The coyote adrift in the unfamiliar
CNSNNT 7 Space To Breathe
Llarks 8 Swim
The Gribshnobler 9 Versatile Solutions for Modern Living
Determinist? 10 live in a rented room at the rehearsal factory
Fornever 11 Hum
Subscape Annex 12 Acephalia
Tuesday Nights in Havana 13 Theme for a Tuesday (Upon Meeting Buddha in the Drag Pit)
Grand Kali Ma 14 Don’t Shortchange The Ferryman
Baptizer 15 Serotonin Reuptake
slicnaton 16 Unapologetic
Thorn1 17 Snow Covers Everything at Least Six Months in a Year
Premature Burial 18 Approach
ShieldEyesFromLight 19 Ís
This Is What I Hear When You Talk 20 A Year With A Lost Heart
Dole & Megalos 21 Durge Rising
Green Light Cameras 22 Dividing by Zero (Soundtrack #2)
Darryl Blood 23 Harborium
Doors In The Labyrinth 24 The Black Rabbit of Inlé II
Wodwo 25 Here Is Your Pasture Flecked with Pink
remst8 26 Respite v1.33
Yellow6 27 Searching for Duane
Maria Pastora 28 SALVINORIN
Nonconnah & Her Kentucky Playboys 29 Untitled Moment (For Kevin Apuzzio)
Fraticornicos 30 Realidad Paralela de Pasillos Mohosos
The Switchblade Kid 31 The Agonies of Love Destroyed Her
Robert Poss 32 Drone Against Hope
Beard Closet 33 Some Pussyfooting
X-Bax 34 Goodbye Jakarta
Jon Lodge & Shane De Leon 35 Quack Back
Gargle 36 Shuttered Windows (Original Version)
Xiu Xiu 37 Never Enuff
Heavy For The Vintage 38 Climate
Wave Assembly 39 Forgotten Outpost
The Sand Rays 40 Dromedary
Tristan Welch 41 The Clouds Are Thick And I’m Sick Of The Sun
Sound_00 + Lefterna 42 Collab 42
Philip Polk Palmer 43 When the Veil Burned
If Thousands 44 In Mind
Mykel Boyd 45 ?
80′s Horns 46 God Bless America
EVQ 47 Expansion Chamber
80 lb. Test 48 Winter Clouds in Winter Trees
Trouble Salad 49 Cavity Claw
remst8 vs CXPA 50 Mariana Trench v1.16
Eras 51 Venom Mezzanine
Zaahj 52 Glean from Which Eye
Instant Movie Combinations 53 Snow Spider Realm
Treyverb 54 Twin Velvet (Live at The Spiritual Center for the Creative and Sonically Inspired 11-29-2019)
litmus0001 55 From Cloud to Sea
Fabio Keiner 56 SilverDrone
Too Tired to Say Anything 57 The Ludic Game

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Silber Newsletter – Droneuary 2020 & more

Flea prevention, lungworm and tick treatment

Fleas

 

Dog and cat flea problems are common throughout the year. We have many  hundreds of clients each year, bringing in dogs and cats complaining of ongoing flea problems after using products from supermarkets and pet stores. Why is this ?

 

Well the flea cycle involves a flea jumping on to your pet, feeding for a day or two and then jumping off into your carpets/ floors and laying hundreds of microscopic eggs. These eggs are very difficult to remove or destroy and can hatch out over the next weeks or months later, so starting the cycle again. It is important that any flea product used kills all fleas on the pet, as even one or two fleas can lay many hundreds of eggs. It is also important to use a household flea spray on the floors, which kill the microscopic larvae that hatch from the eggs. Many of the products sold at  shops are simply not strong enough to kill all the fleas. You can check for flea infestation by looking for specks of dirt (flea droppings) which when combed onto wet white paper leave a red halo.

 

Our advice is :

 

  • Use a flea spot on treatment that is very potent – we currently recommend Advocate, Stronghold or Advantage, that is applied monthly to the back of the neck. These are prescription only medicines that must be dispensed from your vet according to your pets weight, but are highly effective at getting rid of those fleas. All pets in the household must be treated. Check on this article what kill fleas right away on dogs.

 

  • It is also possible to use a 6 monthly injection (Program) which some people find more convenient. To be most effective it should be started before a flea problem arises and all pets in the household need to be treated.

 

  • Use a household spray that lasts for at least 6 months – as it needs to keep working as the eggs hatch out. We recommend Acclaim spray which will last for 1 year after one application.
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Silber Newsletter – Christmas & Plunderphonics

Hey Kidz,

I hope all is well.  We have some new music for you.  For the past several years we’ve had a half dozen Christmas EPs, but this fall with all the minor health & day job problems I’ve had I couldn’t bring that all to fruition in time (a half started Remora one will probably come out next year).  We do have a mini-comp with three takes on “O Come O Come Emmanuel” https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/o-come-o-come-emmanuel & Yellow6’s annual merry6mas collection of orphan songs https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/decay-merry6mas2019 & Small Life Form did a track for Ball of Wax’s Christmas comp you can check out at https://ballofwax.bandcamp.com/track/charlie-brown (a plunderphonics piece built from the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack).  Of course you can check out all our past years’ Christmas releases on Spotify here – https://open.spotify.com/user/silberspy/playlist/2vOOsPkcz99CBsMJudwAJM

We do have a new compilation out that we’ve been working on for several years called Symphonic Plunderphonic that is plunderphonic pieces built from classical music varying from total transformation to fairly true to the spirit of the original material. You can check more material at bridge. It’s available as a free download on Bandcamp.  https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/symphonic-plunderphonic

We also have a new 5in5 from Hyperborean Echoes celebrating the ascent of the soul after death – https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/ascending-through-the-atmosphere  Of course you can still listen to the entire series of nearly 300 songs in 5 hours on Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/user/silberspy/playlist/7ge7yufxSf6IR9Tpu7YIgh

The CD blowout bundle sale is still going on if you are interested & will end in a couple weeks – http://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/merch/12-cd-warehouse-cleaning-special

As far as what’s coming up, new material from Whalt Thisney, Chvad SB, Vlor, Remora, Small Life Form, Space Sweeper, Phillip Polk Palmer, & Luka Fisher.  The launch of Droneuary 2020 (a new drone piece by a different band each day starting January 1, we’ll see how long it will go this year).  Of course I hope to get the new issue of QRD done sooner than later, but I’ve been saying that for six months now.

Thanks for your interest & support over all the years, it really means a lot to me.  Spread the word about the music if you can.

Hrt
Brian John Mitchell

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FCIO – Batman: Digital Justice

Batman Digital Justice

So I feel like everybody in my age range knows of this comic, but somehow I don’t know anyone who has actually read it.  Even my friend Jason Young of Gutter Trash who has Batman as his favorite character said he’s owned it for years & has yet to read it.  I think part of the issue is the price point on it was pretty high at the time, published at an artbook price of $24.95 in 1989 when comics cover prices were typically $1.75.  I always had a certain interest in it, but not at $25 & I recently stumbled on it for $3 (which is a dollar less than a current issue of Batman on the stands, so I picked it up).
So I was a fan of the comic Shatter (the first major computer drawn comic) & this came out 4 years later & it’s hard to tell if this was directly influenced by it or it was just natural for early CGI comics to have a dystopian cyberpunk/Blade Runner edge.  It’s a fun quick read that stands alone & works for anyone with the smallest amount of Batman background knowledge & might even work without it as it is set 50 years in the future with a new person taking up the Batman mantle as a Joker computer virus takes over the city.  The art is interesting as well as highly dated & you can see the technological limitations in it with larger panels ending up less detailed.  In the end, if this sounds like it’s worth checking out to you, it probably is either as a stand alone Batman tale or a relic of 30 year old computer art.  A couple pictures below.
Batman Digital Justice Batman Digital Justice

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Swans: Sacrifice & Transcendence: The Oral History by Nick Soulsby

Swans - Sacrifice & Transcendence - The Oral History

I started listening to Swans in high school with their album The Burning World with its acoustic guitars & violins & cover of a Kansas song that is not really indicative of what folks associate with the band, but as a goth kid I loved it.  Exploring the back catalog with Cop & Children of God as well as the side projects Skin & World of Skin I fell more in love with the band & by the time The Great Annihilator came out they were my favorite band & as I interviewed bands for my zine QRD I would ask them their favorite Swans song & in issue 7 I scored an interview with Jarboe & we had a correspondence for a few years & she collaborated on a Small Life Form track with me a couple years later & I interviewed Michael Gira a couple times years later as well as a few other folks who’ve been involved with the band over the years.  But at some point in life I started listening to Swans less, in part because they reminded me of some dark spots in my life & pulled me back to it.  So even though they are still in my top band list & without Michael Gira as an example of someone significantly older than me still struggling to make good music that so relatively few care about I probably couldn’t have continued working on art myself, I haven’t really listened to them much in the past ten years.  Still when I heard about this book I was super interested, as I have been a fan of the oral history style books (paragraph long quotes from interview subjects put in order to make a narrative) ever since reading Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk as a teenager & as I said, Swans are still one of my favorite bands.
So there are a lot of legends about Swans (like Gira cutting off his little finger & selling it to a fan for $10,000) & this book doesn’t attempt to make the legends greater & often explains the origins of them & debunks them.  I was surprised by the amount of stories I hadn’t heard before & in fact the story of why the original guitarist got kicked out of the band (for wanting to be more improvisational & jazz oriented) inspired me to re-start my no wave project that was somewhat of an homage to early Swans, also it made me hear how the first EP could be considered avant jazz through a rock lens (especially if you listen to the original pressing – which you can find a rip of on YouTube).  I also found pretty interesting the question of, “is Swans a band or a project?” that Jarboe brought up & where that answer is not just for Swans, but for most bands with a single dominant voice in them an interesting one & the question that rises from it of, “how do you keep collaborators?”  So lots of interesting stuff here & a lot of focus on the early days & while I would have liked some more stories from the Angels of Light era & more about the recording processes there’s a good chance it’s more accessible & interesting to the average fan as it is.   So if you are a Swans fan or even just interested in reading about NYC rock history or an artist trying to survive for 40 years, this is worth checking out.
Full disclosure – Nick Soulsby reached out to me & had a complimentary copy mailed to me before I got around to ordering it, thanks Nick for both my copy & all your hard work!

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Grendel: Devil’s Oddysey #1

Grendel: Devil's Odyssey

So I first started reading Grendel when I was 9 with issue 10 of the original run.  Sex, violence, flying cars, & a kabuki werewolf – so maybe not age appropriate, but no more so than favorite movies of the time like Terminator & Dawn of the Dead.  Having read the comic pretty much as it sporadically has come out over the past 35 years has not been as frustrating to me as it probably is for a lot of people because the original Comico stories are pretty hardwired into my brain.  There’s a lot of backstory & a lot of influential things to me about the series.  First off, when I started reading it the Pander Brothers were drawing it & they were the first artists that really were doing something different that drew me in to accept things outside of the typical mainstream comic style, so I am forever grateful for that influence on me.  Also a few issues later there was a run where each page was a series of minimalist thumbnails with a lot of text which was a huge inspiration point for my matchbook sized comics.  As far as what Grendel is about, it starts out a story of a mobster & his rise to power followed by a religion following him after his death & becoming the only structure for society after an apocalypse.  That said, that storyline hasn’t been looked at for about 20 years, going instead with comics about the original Grendel (Hunter Rose) who died before even I started reading the books.  Don’t get me wrong, there have been some great books in that time (notably Grendel: Black, White, & Red), but that whole time I’ve been waiting to see the story continue & now it does.  Grendel Prime, the cyborg warrior built as a bodyguard & nanny for the world emperor’s son is called back after a hundred years of solitude & asked to take a ship with DNA & cloning machinery to outer space to populate a distant world with the seeds of the royal family before the earth destroys itself.  Very much an homage to early Heavy Metal (e.g. Den by Richard Corben), but still Grendel & I’m looking forward to the story & hope it’s not a long wait for the next story arc after this one finishes.  Recommended if anything about this sounds interesting to you.
Also I feel I’d be remiss to not mention how weinery the space ship looks.
Grendel Space Ship

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Silber Newsletter October 10, 2019 – Now That’s What I Call Silence

Hello,

I hope all is well.  For several years we’ve been working on a complilation called “Now That’s What I Call Silence” influenced in equal parts by John Cage, Reynols, & the concepts of minimalism & sound experimantation in general.  But it’s done, it’s here!  Varying from tracks so silent they were rejected for dustribution (hi X-Bax!) to industrial noise (hi Small Life Form!).  Download & streaming links below.

We also have all of our August field recording series now available in one collection -https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/august-fields-2019-complete-collection
Our warehouse CD Purge sale is still happening – 12 CDs for $6 plus shipping - https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/merch/12-cd-warehouse-cleaning-special

Hoping to get up new releases from Yellow6, Baptizer, Whalt Thisney, Wodwo, & others shortly.  Been having some issues with my computer & 20 year old software for making the press releases lately.

I hope you dig the sounds & can help spread the word.  Thanks for your interest & support.

Hrt
Brian John Mitchell
www.silbermedia.com
PO Box 833
Sanford, NC 27331
USA

NowThatsWhatICallSilence
NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL SILENCE
Bandcamp - https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/now-thats-what-i-call-silence
Spotify (truncated) - https://open.spotify.com/album/7EgUUDFweoc84J7BEenCcD
YouTube (truncated) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lZMMaiGIO0&list=OLAK5uy_lTljjwRIM_jZQWTiqxdDLHFYJ8wUAgWJU

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Nostalgia = Distortion: An American Werewolf in London

An American Werewolf in London

I didn’t see this movie when it was new as I always assumed it was some kind of a spoof.  But I saw it in my 20s on Comedy Central where I probably wouldn’t have watched it at all except I flipped in on one of the best friend zombie scenes.  My memory of it was it was good & that the CGI in the Paris sequel was awful, but that’s about it.
Recently I re-read (or actually listened to the audiobook of) Robert E Howard’s werewolf story “Wolfshead” & it got me thinking about werewolf movies & so when I saw this available to stream while I was doing my data entry job I hit play.  This movie is a weird mix of things.  It definitely is part comedy, with plenty of one-liners & even a knock-knock joke, but it is also part horror movie (obviously) & weird paranoia film.  If you are into the first two Evil Dead movies, this is probably a match for you.
The werewolf mythology here has a hole in it as far as how a werewolf can be killed, is it only by a loved one or does suicide work or only in werewolf form or will a shotgun suffice?  But I think that in most werewolf canon the method of death is always in question & something the para-suicidal werewolf seeks but isn’t sure how to find & I guess the para-suicidal werewolf is what I like in the genre from Lon Chaney, Jr on down.  Anyway, the part of being haunted by all your kills is a really interesting twist & I could see this being expanded pretty well into the 13 episode TV shows they make today as it’s been a long time since a new werewolf item interested me (though I hear good things about the Teen Wolf tv show, so maybe I should check it out).

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