Between The Lines

In a couple of weeks I would be off from work and might have some free time for book reading. I actually picked up The Graveyard Book not because I meant to read it right away but because I know how Gaiman's novels flies off the shelves down here and I did not want to go hunting for it when I finally have the "chance" to read. 

I have another book on my wait list, Jewel's Chasing Down The Dawn. That one I picked up from a used books shop. I have browsed a few pages, mostly the ones with pictures in it, and I think I got a steal. Jewel came out with a great collection of her poems in A Night Without Armor a couple of years before Chasing was released. Am taking that one out of the vault as well, along with all of her early CDs. (Yes, I am that one grunge guy who listens to Jewel!) I kind of lost track of the snaggletoothed artist some time back and just found out now that she had an album that came out 2008. Will be checking out some clips to see if it stills appeals to my "aged" taste. I think I will though. Ms. Kilcher has  jumped from one genre to another without problems and she has managed to keep me in for the ride.

Game Over

Holy! Turned out that LAIKA, the animation studio producing the movie version of Neil Gaiman's Coraline, is owned by Nike chairman and co-founder Philip H. Knight. Now, people have a chance to win a pair of Coraline-inspired Nike Dunks by going on some sort of scavenger hunt while they are watching the movie or browsing the official website.

To quote the man himself. "There will, however, be a limited edition of 1000 pairs of Coraline Nike Dunks, winnable from watching the film and through the website, though, and they will look like this, with black buttons and stitching and such..."



Just my luck! I am so bad with these kind of games. Hook me up, anybody??

New Neil Gaiman

"I said
she's gone
but I'm alive, I'm alive
I'm coming in the graveyard
to sing you to sleep now"
- Tori Amos, "Graveyard"

Just got the new Neil Gaiman book, The Graveyard Book. Picked it up from National Bookstore Robinson's Galleria for Php315. They only had one copy left. My take is that it has been out locally for quite some time now. Powerbooks Shangri-la Mall did not have any more copies, so is the NB there. Man, I am really out of the loop. I did not even know Neil came out with a new book.

I also just found out that Coraline is already a movie. I saw a "Movie Collector's Edition" of the book. Now, that is a film I am looking forward to seeing. If you loved MirrorMask, I am certain Coraline is going to be better. The director is the same guy who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas, Henry Selick.