[Florya]

Shit news.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8007331.stm

[atsonicpark]

No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fuck, I just started reading The Atrocity Exhibition a few weeks ago. This is shit.

[demonrail666]

Yeah. Very shit news.

[MellySingsDoom]

I know that JG was unwell for a long time, but this is still very sad news. RIP to a genuinely visionary talent.

[Dead-Air]

It was coming, and he knew it, but that doesn't make the loss for the world any less. One of the all time greatest.

[joe11121]

Aw, RIP

[Glice]

I went to the Twombly exhibition last year with a friend. There was a new Richter exhibition. It was pretty good, but we were both surprised that someone like that, someone who's in proper history, in books and that, isn't actually dead. Same thing with Ballard, until today. Never really enjoyed him, shame he's dead, but I was genuinely surprised to find that he's not dead already.

[Derek]

Lame. RIP.

[candymoan]

sad news...

[tesla69]

We knew it was coming but still no less saddening, I found his last novel to be as urgent and relevant as anything he ever has written. I did get to meet him once at a reading and he signed my copy of High Rise.

His collected short stories are finally coming out in the USA on City Lights I believe.

[floatingslowly]

fucking Empire of the Sun.

I was trying to tell my minion she should watch the movie but I kept insisting that it was called The Last Emporer.

curse my broken circuits...,3.,23t29342jfla.smd 9-

[[Sandbag]]

yeah this fucking sucks :*(

[tesla69]

<I believe this has been in the works for some time, not simply in response to his death-Jim>
With the passing of author J.G. Ballard, who died on Sunday, Norton is preparing to publish a posthumous volume of his work. The house is set to release, in September, The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard. The volume, edited by Norton's executive editor Robert Weil, is, according to the house, the first complete collection of Ballard's short fiction to be published in the U.S. The collection will contain lauded Ballard short stories like "Belladonna" and "Report from an Obscure Planet," as well as two previously unpublished (in the States) stories, "The Secret Autobiography" and "The Dying the Fall."

[Bytor Peltor]

Learned of his passing last night (Monday night) while listening to the Genetic Memory show on KTRU......the entire show was dedicated / inspired by Mr. Ballard:


12:54 AM- basil kirchim / once upon a time [quantum CD] on the trunk label.
12:49 AM- sun city girls / cruel and thin [330,003 cross dressers from beyond the rig veda 3xLP] on the locust music label.
12:45 AM- alvirus b / incident in your hair [s/t CD] on the abduction label.
12:43 AM- the new session people featuring charles gocher / show me the way home [famous songs from days-gone-by CD] on the amarillo records label.
12:38 AM- master musicians of bukkake / bukkake sunrise [the visible sign of the invisible order CD] on the abduction label.
12:34 AM- alan bishop and richard bishop / rookoobay [...present the brothers unconnected CD] on the abduction label.
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12:29 AM- sun supreme / <no song titles provided> [s/t LP] on the meds label.
12:23 AM- v/a (groupe el azhar) / touedar aakli (my reason is lost) [1970's algerian proto-rai underground LP] on the sublime frequencies label.
12:19 AM- uncle jim's superstar's of greenwich meantime / liberties [s/t CD] on the abduction label.
12:16 AM- neung phak / diew tob diew tob [1 CD] on the abduction label.
12:09 AM- sun city girls / space prophet dragon [torch of the mystics CD] on the tupalo recording company label.
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12:01 AM- alan bishop / electronica demonica pt 2 [god damn religion CD + DVD] on the locust music co. label.
11:53 PM- concrete violin / the vomit arsonist (the vomit arsonist) / moth [split-C30] on the danvers state recordings label.
11:49 PM- grey wolves / class war [pure hatred 2xLP] on the mdp label.
11:45 PM- government alpha / psychotoxic glint [impure drought CDr] on the steinklang international label.
11:40 PM- sewer goddess / II [s/t 1-sided LP] on the self-release label.
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11:31 PM- hermann nitsch / der hirschgott [die guburt des dionysos christos 4xLP+DVD] on the vinyl on demand label.
11:25 PM- bizarre uproar / unsafe and insane [unsafe and insane LP] on the dogma chase label.
11:12 PM- bastard noise / skelatal human bacon hangers [our earth's blood IV 5xCD] on the cathartic process label.
11:02 PM- clew of theseus / <no written song titles provided> [meridian CD] on the cathartic process label.
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10:57 PM- nocturnal emissions / II [nightscapes] on the earthly delights label.
10:49 PM- suburbia melting / beyond trust [street after street CDr] on the scarbox records label.
10:47 PM- william s. burroughs / ah pook the destroyer [dead city radio LP] on the island label.
10:40 PM- cranioclast / catch a fading polaroid and put it in your pocket [kolik-san-art LP] on the cranioclast label.
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10:27 PM- gx jupiter-larsen / <no song titles provided> [big time crash bang 2008 LP] on the rrrecords label.
10:25 PM- isolrubin bk / three possible points of impact that a driver may incur when colliding with an object at speed [crash injury trauma CD] on the soleilmoon recordings label.
10:17 PM- sleep chamber / warm leatherette [warm leatherette / fetish 7"] on the inner-x musick label.
10:06 PM- van der graaf generator / after the flood [the least we can do is wave to each other CD] on the virgin / charisma label.
10:00 PM- joy division / atrocity exhibition [closer CD] on the factory label.

[atsonicpark]

enjoyTHE J.G. BALLARD EBOOK COLLECTION: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SYPYEFFW (2.75MB)...

contained within are the following .pdf's (unless otherwise noted):

- garden of time
- dream cargoes
- billenium v1
...- escapement [html]
- cloud sculptors [txt]
- subliminal man
- dead astronaut
- runinng wild
- drowned giant
- crystal world
- wind from nowhere
- drowned world
- high rise
- burning world
- crash (david cronenberg's movie is based upon this)
- drought
- terminal beach
- ATROCITY EXHIBITION

more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._G._Ballard

enjoy.

[nicfit]

Enjoy libraries and bookstores, please.

(not "against" atsonic's post, just a general advice).

[atsonicpark]

well yeah, I love books, but people don't always have the money, not to mention I've never seen a ballard book in a local store.

[Derek]

I see tons of them. I also see his books in random record stores that don't usually sell books.

[Glice]

Libraries! You don't need money. Libraries!

[atsonicpark]

DEFINITELY never seen anything at a library. I got CRASH (based-on-the-movie version; the cover is different and such) at a borders once.

Originally Posted by Derek

I see tons of them. I also see his books in random record stores that don't usually sell books.

I don't. I don't ever see Burroughs stuff either. Luckily I have everything he's ever done thanks to amazon...