Characters of the Playlists project


   Edition September 2007
   Midnighter & his Playlist Leather Vinyl


   About Midnighter
   Midnighter is a fictional comic book superhero, best known as a member of the rogue superhero team, The Authority. Midnighter is notable for being one of the few gay superheroes in print. He's married to fellow Authority member Apollo and both have adopted Jenny Quantum.
   Instead of a quotation form Midnighter see a picture of another super-duper-character having problem with human beings.
   The Leather Vinyl playlist includes tracks by PJ Haervey, The Clash, Antony and the Johnsons and few others. You can see a full tracklist here.

   Allegra Geller & her Playlist
                            Other Games Other Voices

   About Allegra Geller
   Allegra Geller is a fictional character from the film eXistenZ by David Cronenberg. In the film she is a game designer and testing her latest virtual reality game, eXistenZ. The game is a bio-engineered and played by plugging a living game pod directly into the central nervous system through a fleshy umbilical cord inserted into an orifice carved in the player's back.
   A quotation from the eXistenZ film:
   Allegra: You have to PLAY the game, to find out WHY you're playing the game.

   Geller's Playlists includes extracts from Sonatine- the film by Kitano, the recording of Pygmies of the North Congo and other sonic games. You can see a full tracklist here.



   Edition August 2007
   Billy & his Playlist Billyfetamina


   About Billy
   Billy is a title character from the animated television series The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. Billy is an astonishingly incompetent red-headed child with an absurdly oversized nose, and an I.Q. of -5, which is even lower than being mentally retarded.
   He is extremely hyperactive, with a knack for causing all kinds of disasters and ending up in various parallel dimensions.
   Billy has many odd, meaningless, and often dangerous antics. He is an avid lover of pie and expresses this by continuously saying, " I LIKE PIE!!! He also has a fondness for video games, a tendency to eat gut-busting junk food, and an incredible talent for absorbing things that he sees on television and video-games, often confusing them with the reality.
   A quotation from Billy: 'Uh, mom? The bathroom is talking to me again. Should I get my vitamins?'
   The Billyfetamina playlist includes tracks by Beastie Boys, Iggy & The Stooges, General Patton V.S. The X-Ecutioners and few others. You can see a full tracklist here.


   Seymour Glass & his Playlist Bananafish


   About Seymour Glass
   Seymour Glass is a fictional character in several of J. D. Salinger's short stories. He is the oldest brother in the Glass Family (the protagonists of the stories in which they appeared). A poet influenced by Taoism and Vedanta philosophy, Seymour - in typical Salinger style - was deeply intellectual and precocious.
   Seymour was married in June 1942 to his girlfriend Muriel. He was often accused, especially by his in-laws, of not relating to anyone and of being slightly anti-social. On one occasion, when asked by his future mother-in-law as to what he saw himself doing after the end of World War II, he responded by saying that he'd like to be a dead cat. This worried Muriel and her mother, though he never had the opportunity to clarify the remark's ties to a belief in Zen Buddhism, specifically that a dead cat is the most valuable of all things because it cannot be given a price.
   More seriously, Muriel's family had considerable doubts about Seymour's sanity, believing him to be schizoid and a latent homosexual. To appease his wife and her family, Seymour agreed to be psychoanalysed, which his youngest brother Zooey believed may have led to his death. Seymour committed suicide while he was on vacation with his wife in Florida in 1948, as detailed in the story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish."
   From a short story A Perfect Day for Bananafish: 'He glanced at the girl lying asleep on one of the twin beds. Then he went over to one of the pieces of luggage, opened it, and from under a pile of shorts and undershirts he took out an Ortgies calibre 7.65 automatic.'
   The Bananafish playlist includes tracks of of Hawaiian music, a Cuban singer Omara Portuondo and Ethiopian music of Mulatu Astatke. You can see a full tracklist here.


   Mandy & her Playlist Acerbic Tunes

   About Mandy
   Mandy is a title character from the television series The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. She has blond hair with a black head band and wears a pink dress.
Mandy is Billy's closest friend, although a completely contrasting character: a blonde girl with an acerbic, never-smiling attitude (yet has a devious smile on the inside), evil personality (she believes in the abuse and exploitation of the stupid), often surprising intellect and knowledge of the supernatural and often cold-hearted.
       An extract from the dialogue:
       Billy: Hey Mandy, wanna play? I've got bread. [holds up a loaf of bread]
       Mandy: I'm busy. Go play in traffic.

   The Acerbic Tunes playlist includes tracks of Peaches, Chicks On Speed, United Future Organization and others. You can see a full tracklist here.


   Jim Crow & his Playlist VoodooVibes


   About Jim Crow
   Jim Crow is a minor character form the The Invisibles, an adult comic book. He is voodoo-practicing American hip-hop star and powerful Invisible. He hunts down wealthy businessmen who use a mixture of cocaine and voodoo to take control of the bodies of dead black men and wreak havoc on the ghetto.
   The plot ot the comic book follows (more or less) a single cell of The Invisible College, a secret organization battling against physical and psychic oppression using time travel, magic, meditation, and physical violence.
   Jim Crow's invocations: 'I conjure up my magic mirror, draw it up from my gut, breathing it out like a silver river, till it's streaming from every orifice.' 'Little hole, Little hole, Little hole, Big hole, Big hole, Big hole... Ke Ke Ke Ke Ke'
   The VoodooVibes playlist includes tracks of Sixtoo, Missy Elliot and others. You can see a full tracklist here.


   Grim & his Playlist I Reap You Once!


   About Grim
   Grim Careful Reaper is a fictional character from the television series The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
   He is the Grim Reaper, the personification of Death, here portrayed as a scythe-wielding skeleton in a black hooded robe. His accent suggests that he is Jamaican.
   Grim likes all kinds of chaos, despair, and torture (except his own), martial arts activities, playing rock and roll, and many other dark things. But besides his very morbid sense of humour and odd dark antics, he can behave like any other normal man. Reaping is only a job, and he says that it's a hard one.
   A quotation from Grim: 'There's nothing that a bucket of spiders can't fix.'
   The I Reap You Once! playlist includes tracks of Toots and the Maytals, Tom Waits, Blind Willie Johnson and others. You can see a full tracklist here.



   The Energetic Vampire
& his Playlist
   A journey into the unknown

   About The Energetic Vampire
   Sorry but didn't get any information about this one from my friend.
   What I can assume that The Energetic Vampire is a type of 'spiritual vampire' who's destroying people's lives and taking control over them. There's no description about tracks on a disc with the E.V. playlist. If I will get any more information I'll update this part.