Dieselpunks.org | August 16, 2012
Not long ago, Tome Wilson asked us if we have any personal favorites from all of the songs we’ve played on MetronomiK and also Larry Amyett commented if there was a list where we put together all of the songs. We finally did, but just in case you don’t understand Spanish, you can still enjoy our show because the music.
You can now go to the MetronomiK blog right here and listen to ALL the dieselpunk music we´ve played.
Dieselpunks.org | July 3, 2012
Lots of things about Diesel City have seen said and written on these latest weeks, in lots of places, by lots of people. Sure enough, most of them were nice things, making me feel so very proud.
One voice was missing, though, the voice of someone who definitely has something to say about Diesel City. Someone I’m so happy and honored to have the name of bound up with the whole Diesel City project. Someone, though, who was never to give himself the credit for all his hard, wonderful work, would Larry and Johnny hadn’t make his voice heard through their great Diesel Powered Podcast http://dieselpoweredpodcast.wordpress.com/
That someone is no other that our host Tome Wilson and I’m sure you’ll be as thrilled as I was to hear him talk live about his great role in Diesel City: http://bigdaddycoolshows.podomatic.com/
Tome is the voice of Diesel City, the American voice of Diesel City at least and, in more than just one way, Diesel City sure wouldn’t “sound” the way it does without Tome’s literary talent and dedication to the project. By no mean, Tome ever made any servile translation of the original French text. That wouldn’t be doing justice to him, either, to say that he just adaptated it to the American audience and culture. Tome brought to the book his own sensitivity, his extensive, intelligent grasp of the entire Dieselpunk culture (the footnotes of the book are, among other things, an anthology of the noir cinema thank to Tome), his great sense of humor, his knack at writing in the Raymond Chandler’s style (he who has not read a noir story by Tome hasn’t read a noir story at all) and, well… all the amazing, generous personality he puts in everything he does and warmly greats everyone with.
Dieselpunks.org | June 5, 2012
I’m happy and proud to announce that a big, large book of texts and illustrations has just been published. It’s titled, well… DIESEL CITY. The book has been in the making for quite a while and, apart from the pleasure of seeing it complete now, the main reason why I’m so happy and proud about it is that DIESEL CITY, right from the beginning and all the way till its completion, has been very much a “Dieselpunk family affair”.
DIESEL CITY has the immense privilege to include not just one, but two brilliant forewords written by no other than our dear host Tome Wilson himself and Nick Ottens, the webmaster of The Gatehouse. What better godfathers could I have ever hoped for the book than the two leading voices of the Dieselpunk culture?
Tome also achieved a wonderful English adaptation of the original French text of DIESEL CITY, not just translating it but bringing to it his own touch, the priceless touch of an expert. He also coped with the supervision of this entire English edition, thus making the book available in both languages. The task was definitely not easy and I’ll never thank Tome enough for the great job he did at it.
Also, DIESEL CITY gathers, among many more illustrations, artwork designed over these past years for members of Dieselpunks.org as prominent as Lord K, Larry, Cap’n Tony, Piper Williams, Hayen Mills, Athena Prime and more. All of them courteously gave me permission to include these illustrations to the book and I’m very grateful to them for that.
It will come as no surprise to those who are familiar with my stuff to know that DIESEL CITY is dark, dystopian, noir, complex and stuck in my usual imaginary “twisted forties” universe. Others will have to brace themselves: like Denis Parent, the French film maker who directed the trailer of DIESEL CITY wrote “The great paradox in Stefan’s work is that the more familiar the reference points in Diesel City, the harder it is to get our bearings.“
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