friday edition

today's blog almost didn't get pooped out, but here i am.

stockhausen has passed on into the nether, check the cnn obithere or his wikipedia entry here. i have read many mentions of this guy's name, and never actually heard any of his music. he gets name-dropped when people talk about influential pioneers in experimental and electronic music.

cnn and wikipedia mention a 9/11 comments controversy, that i hadn't heard about before, and the mentions make you think completely different things. here's cnn's take on it:
He provoked controversy in 2001 after describing the September 11 attacks as "the greatest work of art one can imagine" during a news conference in the northern German city of Hamburg, where several of the hijackers had lived.

The composer later apologized for his remarks, but the city still canceled performances of his works.
and wiki:
After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, Stockhausen was alleged to have made the statement that the attacks were "works of art". In a subsequent message, he stated that the press had hideously misinterpreted his meaning, and clarified as follows:

At the press conference in Hamburg, I was asked if Michael, Eve and Lucifer were historical figures of the past and I answered that they exist now, for example Lucifer in New York. In my work, I have defined Lucifer as the cosmic spirit of rebellion, of anarchy. He uses his high degree of intelligence to destroy creation. He does not know love. After further questions about the events in America, I said that such a plan appeared to be Lucifer's greatest work of art. Of course I used the designation "work of art" to mean the work of destruction personified in Lucifer. In the context of my other comments this was unequivocal.[2]

so, this is a great way to highlight how sensationalist cnn is right?

also kind of a sad thing to note out of the CNN article, is the sentence they reduce stockhausen down to. the link on the main page says 'avant-garde composer on "pepper" cover dies'. it might be a little galling to this guy where he to discover that his most notable achievement in the eyes of cnn was being on the sgt. pepper cover somewhere.


in other news, ive heard various reports this afternoon that we may be seeing some ice stormin' here in southwest missouri this weekend. specifically saturday thru tuesday, there is apparently a big chance of ice storm. i hate to say this because of what hell the ice storm was last spring, but if god wants to give me a snow-day monday, that'd be pretty swell.

i realized that i haven't been writing anything comics related this week; i'll try and rectify the problem when i return on monday.