Taking some time to tidy-up the office over this Holiday Week-End, I discovered the 90 second promotional film below. This was probably used originally as part of the material shown at cinemas prior to the feature film, and proves just how early Humdrumming dedicated itself to providing well-bound books to the discerning reader.
Over at the Humdrumming blog, I’ve attempted to explain the difficulties in running a Small Press Publishing House that able to have its books in High Street Shops.
It’s a bit like expecting to be able to order a custom-tailored suit at The Gap. It don’t work that way, lad.
Mood: accomplished Music: “I Remember You” by the Dave Brubeck Quartet — Jazz at the College of the Pacific (Fantasy Hi-fidelity Recordings; 1953) Book: Tom Hodgkinson’s How to be Free (Penguin, 2006), ISBN978−0−241143−21−6
He is basically the king of the Great Old Ones (although I can’t imagine why an idiot god would be king). He is a writhing mass of nuclear energy at the centre of the universe dancing to the insane beating of drums and piping of charnel flutes. These instruments are played by frog like deities, which it would be wiser to communicate to them instead of Azathoth himself. He is absolute chaos, and has no orderly manner of thinking. So any conversation with him would be impossible to comprehend. Basically the purest of randomness.
And I promise to have a post on the first day of the UK trip later today this week! Really! Maybe even Wednesday! We’ll have to see how that day goes.And just describing the first four hours on UK soil will be enough, I assure you…
Mood: awake Music: Dalton “The Button King” Stevens’ “Insomniac Shuffle” (http://www.scbuttonking.com/) Book: Christopher Fowler’s Full Dark House (2003, Doubleday [Transworld])
Ian Alexander Martin [IAM] is the Proprietor of Atomic Fez Publishing, as well as formerly being an actor and theatre director based in British Columbia, and also was Founding Editor and Publisher of the theatre magazine The Boards. [read more]
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