The crew at Motherfucker put on a fantastic party for all the post-punks, gender-benders and art school kids who stuck around NYC for the holiday weekend up at Club Shelter. The music started with Ministry's "Every Day is Halloween" and closed with Joy Division's "Transmission"... what's not to love? As my friend Kurt best put it, "It's like being in a movie about New York in the early '80s." It was a sad state of affairs though when we could not find a good afterparty at the young hour of 4:30am. The best we could manage was a conference call to Detroit where Jon O and the Motown office were reveling with Magda and the rest of the Brooklyn contingency at Control 3. I briefly considered catching a cab to LaGuardia airport... Control may still be going on even as I write this.

For those holding their breath and saving their nickels, the official US release date for Ladytron's "Light and Magic" LP is September 17. Audio streams, reviews and tour dates at Emperor Norton Records.

Andy Malone will especially appreciate the mechanical sculptures of Arthur Ganson. [Thanks to Eric at Core for pointing this one out.]

Having a hard time drawing the line between cyberpunk and geek? Let us muddy the water some more: The ANIMATRIX, coming to DVD in 2003. Also, shooting of both "Reloaded" and "Revolutions" wrapped up last week. [What is it with everyone shooting multiple movies at the same time?] Thanks to Tom M�ller and Computerlove for the heads-up.

Appletalk: I've been waffling about what to replace my well used and well traveled 2 year old PowerBook with, and just when I had all but decided on this 42 lb. beast, word on the street is the Titanium PowerBook G4 is due for a major refresh in about four weeks time. Speculation includes a speed bump to 1Ghz, RADEON 9000 graphics card [twice as fast as the current card], L3 cache, possibly a 166 Mhz system bus, and just maybe DVD-R/W [a.k.a. Superslim Superdrive.] There's also talk of an even higher resolution display. My only question there is, will it come with a magnifying lens? Maybe that's a feature in OS 10.2.1.... In any case, I'll be first in line for Ti V3.0.