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Here's Johnny!
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
What is the sound of one hand blogging?
Well, this actually. My right arm is now encased up to the armpit in a very fetching bright yellow cast, so I am reduced to banging away with my left index finger.
Hilarious news about the teenager from Pontypool who made 46K on eBay by selling stuff he didn't have. I particularly liked the way he contacted his 'customers' to tell them how he spent the money.
It would be nice to think that he was bowing out with one final scam, and this was it. What is it that makes some people who are into Coil pay ridiculous amounts of money for not very interesting items? Admittedly this is a bit nicer looking than some of them, in that Jhon Balance hasn't doodled or bled all over it, but even so. Coil: great music, nice album covers (when Sleazy does them), shit art editions (particularly if Balance has anything to with it).
The really ridiculous thing about people paying all this money on eBay is that if you've been into Coil for any length of time you inadvertently end up with a collection worth serious money. I have never deliberately bought a Coil art edition in my life, but given their propensity for making everything limited or special when it first comes out (it is said of Terry Pratchett that he does so many book signings, that his books are worth more unsigned; Coil autographs are similarly prolific), I have ended up with all sorts of 'special items'. My favourite (read 'most ludicrous') is a unique Instamatic Polaroid, taken by Sleazy, of a naked and semi-tumescent Balance being bound to some banisters with clingfilm. I was going to share this wonder with y'all, but then thought we might get in trouble for publishing porn. Consequently, you'll have to be content with the autographed back:
Hilarious news about the teenager from Pontypool who made 46K on eBay by selling stuff he didn't have. I particularly liked the way he contacted his 'customers' to tell them how he spent the money.
It would be nice to think that he was bowing out with one final scam, and this was it. What is it that makes some people who are into Coil pay ridiculous amounts of money for not very interesting items? Admittedly this is a bit nicer looking than some of them, in that Jhon Balance hasn't doodled or bled all over it, but even so. Coil: great music, nice album covers (when Sleazy does them), shit art editions (particularly if Balance has anything to with it).
The really ridiculous thing about people paying all this money on eBay is that if you've been into Coil for any length of time you inadvertently end up with a collection worth serious money. I have never deliberately bought a Coil art edition in my life, but given their propensity for making everything limited or special when it first comes out (it is said of Terry Pratchett that he does so many book signings, that his books are worth more unsigned; Coil autographs are similarly prolific), I have ended up with all sorts of 'special items'. My favourite (read 'most ludicrous') is a unique Instamatic Polaroid, taken by Sleazy, of a naked and semi-tumescent Balance being bound to some banisters with clingfilm. I was going to share this wonder with y'all, but then thought we might get in trouble for publishing porn. Consequently, you'll have to be content with the autographed back:
Care to comment?