*continued from previous post…….Jeff Bridges worked long and hard as the head programmer of Mackrelsaft, the technology company that he had written as part of his job as a computer programmer in the real world. For 20 long years had Jeff Bridges now lived in the Game Grid of his own creation, becoming evermore powerful via his…
20JFG FanFiction really is the series that keeps on giving. After seeing its genesis on the blog a couple of weeks ago, our very own speculative gasbag – Preston G. Parallax – couldn’t resist but have a pop. Here today, we proudly present his own synopsis for a sequel to the 1982 Walt Disney classic…
This post commemorates the idiosyncratic reverse of that culturally homogeneous rural Arcadia where every Sunday afternoon the vicar nibbles on scones with a coterie of bolshy spinsters prior to identifying the culprits of bloodless murders committed with the utmost respect for manners and station, a reverse which is utterly English all the same, but where…
There have always been fabulous moments when the worlds of popular music glide into the villages constructed at their parameter. Whilst there, they mingle with the inhabitants, sometimes fall in love, sometimes bear children. Sometimes those children stay the village, sometimes they return to the citadels governed by the deity of cross-media potential. It would…
As part of our process of constant renewal and skin shedding, which includes the transformation of our web presence into what some have referred as a ‘Gap refit’ but we’d rather think of as a tribute to the apocalyptic retrofuturism of the Fallout franchise, or an anticipation of the sure to be awesome Bioshock Infinity,…
On 12 March 1981, a Chicago Metropolitan Water Reclamation District maintenance team went missing in the city’s sewer system while investigating complaints about foul smells coming from the water pipes. Mary Ferraro, 61, had even found several dead rats floating in her toilet, drowned while attempting to climb up her house’s service pipes. The rescue party…
The soundtrack to an infomercial pushing time shares on distant worlds and the narcotics needed to get you there. Hatchback string together a mix for the existential delights that await Deckard and Rachael once the lift doors close. A dance through a gouraud shaded vision of the future dreamt up in a prog haze by…
Today we begin an exciting new series on 20JFG. Being little more than a shambles of rabid amateurs ourselves, 20JFG has had a long standing obsession with the much maligned genre of Fan Fiction. Being a space on the internet where words are placed in some kind of meaningful order – maybe even ones that people…
Contrary to what you may think, the 20jazzfunkgreats diaspora likes to keep informed, and from time to time, participate in the key debates of that ‘real world’ of yours which floats parallel to the alternative dimension from which we broadcast. We still care for all you fleshers, left behind in a universe of scarce resources…
In our world populated with sci-fi allagories — dark hulking things, scrapping their battered metal bulk over the purple plains of twin sunned planets — we sometimes cannot help but retreat to the warm caverns of the discothèque. A place of nebulous identity, a relativistic space of individualists and solidarity. It is dark in there…
We recently received a phone call from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, asking us to stop putting articles about Sci-Fi author Preston G. Parallax up on Wikipedia. When asked why, he said it was because the supposedly fake (his words) scribe didn’t meet their ‘notability guidelines’ (whatever they are). Considering that to us, Preston is one…
It’s time for another installment of the Endless House series on 20JFG. If unfamiliar, we once again refer you to its origins. A Google search or click on the above category wil unveil further pieces of this incredible Diorama. As per last time, we’re presenting another extract from their forthcoming book ‘Sketches of the Endless House’ –…
Forget our own globe. Every cat knows the outer rim is where its at this cycle… XXJFG MEGA EXCLUSIVE Troubled by what is the must visit holiday destination and aural accompaniment to your trip this year? Worry no further and let Televisions finest people who know about stars and stuff reveal all! Brian Edward Cox, OBE…
When things get too much in our crumbling palace of vertiginous spires (e.g. bouts of mass hysteria and witch hunting amongst the superstitious peasants down the hill, or that feeling of ennui that often afflicts the detached beholder of the rise and decline of the latest empty fad in the outskirts of the Babylonian city…
Once upon a time, in the days before the ’chill wave’, there lived a genre know as ‘Ambient’. ‘Ambient’ lived happily in the mind of Brian Eno, until one day he got sick and it floated out of him on a cloud of Vick’s Vaporub (TM). The genre of ‘Ambient’ became very popular since then, enjoying…
A hazy black and white television, freed from it’s cheap veneer housing sits awkwardly on a fragile brown table, its cathode ray tube naked and blaring. Through a dust caked window, Attack Ships perch on their gigantic scaffolds, cloistered beasts awaiting an electronic impulse that will signal their initial, sluggish roll away from their moorings. …
Humanity has a nasty habit of not really listening to its prophets. For some reason we see it fit to hold our blessed fortune tellers up as nothing more than cheap side-street entertainment, to overlook their God-given gift of forseeing mankind’s fate in favour of some other inane talent. In the year 1993 there was…
We have reinvested the proceeds of our timely exit from the latest zeitgeist bubble into a plot of land in the Tunguska area, and the services of several discredited physicists. With our support, they are deploying equipment purloined from the run down laboratories of Akademogorodok to experiment with the impact of cosmic radiation on soundwave…