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This 1971 collaboration between Terry Riley and John Cale has just been reissued on compact disc by Wounded Bird.
Lexicon Urthus Second Edition Now Available
Our flagship product, Lexicon Urthus, which has been out of print since 2002, is available again in a new, expanded edition.
- The new edition has 1200 entries (up from 950 in first edition).
- The new edition is 440 pages (up from 304).
- All the corrections (and most of the additions) of the AE& series and NS-1 are included.
- All the named characters are added.
- The new edition is available for the first time in paperback.
Time to upgrade, Finn. You can pick it up in person next time you are in Berkeley, at one of the fine safe-havens for Gene Wolfe fans: Dark Carnival or (and how did I not know this place existed?) Other Change of Hobbit.
the funny (sad?) thing is that I have heard of the other change of hobbit.
I’m curious if this version will have the derivation of “undine” which iirc the old one was missing.
wpedia to the rescue. funny to think that wikipedia wasn’t complete enough for me to look up this term the last time I read these books.
Here’s the thing. It’s 1991. You’re a badass, albeit a sixteen year-old one. Steve Vai calls and wants you to front a band of shaggy hair baby hair metallers. He’s all “it’s gonna be like a younger, harder-edged Warrant” but you tell him Skid Row’s your jam.
And face it, you only get so much cred for being the red-headed rebel on Salute Your Shorts. Sure you lied to a cop in Terminator 2, but fuckin’ Furlong stole the show with his bangs. You’ve done a good job shrugging off the time on Diff’rnet Strokes, but when you wail over that wee MrRocklin’s riffs people are gonna think you’re the next Axl.
Vai is gonna have to cool it with the whole “producer” schtick though, cause you are not gonna call the band Budnick’s Boyz.
If Vai doesn’t cool it, you’ll bust out an Awful Waffle on him.
At least they were cooler than the other post-Salute Your Shorts band.
Here’s an image from my work-in-progress web mash-mosaic based on the CIA’s Freedom of Information Act page. It’s searchable, and always a blast to browse on a boring afternoon.
