Waiting for the Big One

Been housesitting for my mom until she returns from Japan tomorrow night. Also my home PC is having drama, so there probably won't be much from me for the next couple weeks. So here's some links:

Jason Scott's TextFiles.com is a neat web-museum compiling relics from the pre-Internet BBS era, with collections of old .txt files (including ASCII art), vintage computer graphics and chiptune music, and old shareware CD-ROMs.

At last, there's finally a website dedicated to the imminent revival of Euro bubblegum dance pop, the genre that gave us Aqua and Toy-Box and all those virtually indistinguishable bands that look like assholes from the cover of Jock Jams until they start singing awesome songs about mermaids and Barbie dolls and cowboys and shit. With an index of music videos on YouTube. Ah, the Millennium. For those too young or drug-addled to remember, the turn of the century was a time of innocence, of Windows Me, Sega Dreamcast and irrepressibly positive fly-by-night pop stars with Kool Aid hair and well-toned abs. Before the dark times. Before the Empire. We can only hope that 2008 brings back some of this lost magic. Aqua is getting back together, so that's a start. Yes, I have what Bill Cosby called "the brain damage."

"The Story of SREBRENICA" is a mind-altering computer animated fable (split into three parts for YouTube) by someone named Nanny Lynn. It's sort of like an episode of Dora the Explorer written by Henry Darger. It's part of this DVD, which will probably be the first of many I'll buy from 5MTL.com.

I heart pixel art.

Happy Goddamn New Year from me, ABBA, Peter Gabriel and the year 1993.