tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15874414750451276562024-02-10T13:50:30.726-08:00Lazer Gun DiplomacyLazer Gun Diplomacy will keep you posted on the fascinating irrelevancies of what's going on out there in digital world. Lazer Gun Diplomacy will help you overcome Post-Ironic Stress. Lazer Gun Diplomacy will gently chide you for not keeping up with the times, while also positioning itself at the bleeding edge of nostalgia. Lazer Gun Diplomacy will become your indispensable guide to the cliche-crushing 21st Century. Lazer Gun Diplomacy will make you sexier. We have no philosophy. We blog.Doctor Pedrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11369013779051611754noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1587441475045127656.post-57580053430868818052016-02-19T16:28:00.000-08:002016-02-19T16:28:46.983-08:00My top 100 Books. And Top 100 Graphic Novels. Everybody loves a good list, right? With the passing recently of David Bowie (and nearly every other musician in their late '60's/early '70's, it would seem), we all became aware of what a loss for the music world his death is. <br />
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I wasn't the world's biggest Bowie fan. My first ever bit of Vinyl I purchased was a Bowie single back in the day. And, despite owning a sizeable music collection, that remains all of the Bowie I have. I was more interested to read <a href="http://Top 100 books Lord of the Rings / The Silmarillion JRR Tolkien Dune series Frank Herbert The Unlimited Dream Company J G Ballard * Cities of Red Night William Burroughs The Culture series Iain M Banks * Mars Trilogy Kim Stanley Robinson Swords Series Fritz Leiber The 47 Ronin The House on the Borderlands William Hope Hodgson Lost Worlds Volume 1 Clark Ashton Smith * The Earthsea Quartet Ursula Le Guin The Illuminatus Trilogy Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson Don Quixote Miguel Cervantes Songs of Fire and Ice Series George RR Martin Cryptonomicon Neal Stevenson The King of Elfland's Daughter Lord Dunsany The Masks of God Joseph Campbell Titus Groan Mervyn Peake Jurgen James Branch Cabell Lord of Light Roger Zelazny Tales of the Arabian Nights India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series Douglas Adams A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway Siddharta Herman Hesse The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco Our Ancestors Italo Calvino The Dictionary of the Khazars Milorad Pavic The Man in the High Castle Philip K Dick * Books of the New Sun Gene Wolfe Filth Irvine Welsh Wheels of Terror Sven Hassel * The Once and Future King T H White Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett Animal Farm George Orwell Blood Meridian Corman McCarthy The Trial Franz Kafka One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez Moby Dick Herman Melville Catch 22 Joseph Heller Software Rudy Rucker Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S Thompson I am Legend Richard Matheson Labyrinths Jorge Luis Borges The Dream-quest of Unknown Kadath H P Lovecraft * Imaginary Magnitude Stanislaw Lem Weaveworld Clive Barker Helliconia Trilogy Brian Aldiss Conan series Robert E Howard Terminal Cafe Iain MacDonald Neuromancer William Gibson The Forever War Joe Haldeman Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A Heinlein Rama series Arthur C Clarke The Life of Pi Yann Martel The Prestige Christopher Priest A Canticle for Liebowicz Walter M Miller War of the Worlds H G Wells The Compleat Traveller in Black John Brunner The Chinese Maze Murders Roberk Van Gulik Rome Steven Saylor Pushing Ice Alstair Reynolds Monkey Wu Cheng En Swamp Foetus Poppy Z Brite The Dying Earth Jack Vance Paintwork Tim Maughan The Windup Girl Paolo Bacigalupi Ringworld Larry Niven The Priest-Kings of Gor John Norman The Picture of Dorian Grey Oscar Wilde The Book of Ptath A E Van Vogt Looking for Jake China Mieville Elvissey Jack Womack The Travels of Sir John Mandeville Darkness under the Hills Bill Scott Elric of Melinbone (series) Michael Moorcock The Color of Magic / The Light Fantastic Terry Prachett The Beach Alex Garland Lord of the Flies William Golding Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes Neverwhere Neil Gaiman The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole Flatland Edwin A. Abbott The Odyssey Homer Sophie's World Jostien Gaarder Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Macbeth William Shakespeare The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis 120 Days of Sodom The Marquis de Sade Songs of Innocence and Experience William Blake Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden Speed Tribes Karl Taro Greenfeld A House for Mr Biswas V S Naipal Salem's Lot Stephen King Vurt Jeff Noon Generation X Douglas Copeland Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk Top 100 graphic novels Watchmen Alan Moore Dave Gibbons From Hell Alan Moore Eddie Campbell V For Vendeta Alan Moore David Lloyd Sandman (10 volumes) Neil Gaiman Various artists Preacher (10 volumes) Garth Ennis Steve Dillon Transmetropolitan (10 volumes) Warren Ellis Darick Robertson The Invisibles (7 volumes) Grant Morrison various artists Scalped (10 volumes) Jason Aaron The Dark Knight Returns Frank Miller All Star Superman Grant Morrison Frank Quietly Nick Fury Agent of Shield Jim Steranko Monster (18 volumes) Naoki Urasawa Kozure Okami (Lone Wolf and Cub) (28 volumes) Kazuo Koike Saga (ongoing) Brian Vaughn Fiona Staples Astro City (ongoing) Kurt Buseik Love and Rockets* (ongoing) Hernandez Brothers Signal from Space Will Eisner A Contract With God Will Eisner Zot! Scott McCloud Grendel Matt Wagner Usagi Yojimbo* (ongoing) Stan Sakai Maus collection Art Spiegelman Berlin (2 volumes currently) Jason Lutes Habibi Craig Thompson The Sculptor Scott McCloud Prince Valiant* (12 volumes currently) Hal Foster Flash Gordon (3 volumes) Alex Raymond Hate Pete Bagge The Incal Alexander Jodorowsky Jean Giraud Bolero Milo Manara Blueberry Jean Giraud Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Daredevil Born Again Frank Miller Batman Year One Frank Miller David Maccuzelli Akira Katsuhiro Otomo Black Hole Charles Burns Cerebus (16 volumes) Dave Sim The Smartes Kid On Earth Chris Ware Bone, The Great Cow Race Jeff Smith The Big Hoax Carlos Trillo Domingo Mandrafino Nausicca of the Valley of the Wind (7 volumes) Hayao Miyazaki Troubled Souls Garth Ennis John McCrea The Walking Dead* (ongoing) Robert Kirkman Black Panther Don MacGregor Dr & Quinches totally awesome guide to life ALan Moore Alan Davis White Trash Gordon Rennie Martin Edmond Sin City Frank Miller The Tale of One Bad Rat Brian Talbot The Filth Grant Morrison Signal to Noise Neil Gaiman Dave McKean Hellblazer Dangerous Habits Garth Ennis Steve Dillon Marvels Kurt Buseik Palestine Joe Sacco Planetary (4 volumes) Warren Ellis Ed the Happy Clown Chester Brown Daredevil Love and War Frank Miller Bill Sienkiewicz Complete Concrete Paul Chadwick Queen and Country* Greg Rucka Wolverine Weapon X Barry Windsor Smith Ghost World Daniel Clowes Arkham Asylum Grant Morrison Dave McKean Indian Summer Hugo Pratt Milo Manara Slaine The Horned God Pat Mills Simon Bisley The Book of Ballads Charles Vess Astronauts in Trouble Larry Young Charlie Adlard The Ballad of Halo Jones Alan Moore Ian Gibson Battle Royale ( 12 tankobon volumes) Koushin Takami Masayuki Taguchi Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser Howard Chaykin Mike Mignola Al Williamson Morbus Gravis Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri Ministry of Space Warren Ellis Chris Weston Neonomicon Alan Moore Jacen Burrows Kingdom Come Mark Waid Alex Ross Wanted Mark Millar The 6 Voyages of Lone Sloane Phillipe Druillet The Complete Adventures of Cholly & Flytrap Arthur Suydam cheech Wizard Volume 1 Vaughn Bode Carload o comics Robert Crumb Essential Silver Surfer Vol 1 Stan Lee John Buscema Secret Wars Jim Shooter Mike Zeck Avengers Forever Kurt Buseik Northlanders (6 volumes) Brian Wood Various Artists Rex Mundi (6 volumes) Shortcomings Adrian Tomine Pogo Walt Kelly The Nightly News Jonathan Hickman Den Richard Corben Milk and Cheese Dairy Products Gone Bad Evan Dorkin Tom Strong Volume 1 Alan Moore Chris Sprouse The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The Black Dossier Alan Moore Kevin O'Neill The Adventures of Luther Arkwright Brian Talbot The Mercenary Sea Shade the Changing Man (currently 3 volumes) Peter Milligan Tekkon Kinkreet Wonder Woman Chronicles William Moulton Marsten Batman Grendel Matt Wagner Batman Judge Dredd Hellboy (ongoing, intermittent) Mike Mignola Arzach Jean (Moebius) Giraud Chances Matt Howarth Aldebaran (5 volumes) Leo Valentine and Laurelian (10 volumes currently) Deathnote (12 tankobon volumes) Calvin and Hobbes complete collection Bill Watterson Marvel Masterpiece vol 43 Doctor Strange Stan Lee Steve Ditko Corto Maltese The Ballad of the Salt Sea Hugo Pratt Books I read (or tried to read) that appear on these lists that I thought were rubbish On The Road Jack Kerouac A Fire Upon the Deep Verner Vinge Battlefield Earth L Ron Hubbard The Foundation Trilogy Isaac Assimov Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert Frankenstein Mary Shelley ">Bowie's Top 100 Book List</a> however. And, reading his list, I found that we had little in common, as far as our reading tastes went. I can say that I have read 4 1/2 of the books on his list (I couldn't finish Madame Bovary). His eclectic reading tastes are obvious, and it's a great insight into his mind! I'm certainly interested in checking out a few more on his list.<br />
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Which brings me to making my own, personal Top 100 Books list, inspired by Bowie's own list. And, given that I read an awful lot of comics and graphic novels, I felt justified in making a separate Top 100 Graphic Novels list as well. <br />
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So, how does one go about compiling a list like this? And what kind of parameters are we talking about? For me, the emphasis was on fiction rather than non-fiction (with one exception, The Masks of God, which is essentially a psychoanalysis of stories, so it kind of counts. And I'm allowed to break my own rules.) Which cut out alot of the non-fiction that I read. But I'm good with that. Maybe there's yet another list ther as well...? <br />
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Also, I limited each author to one spot. Otherwise my list would have been flooded with works from about 8 authors. I have marked these authors with an asterix, meaning that, while I have chosen a book from their bibliography, I could have easily chosen another 10 or 20 as well. There are a few other authors not marked, like Kim Stanley Robinson, whose works contain many books I like, and also many books I don't get into so much or haven't read. I'm sure you have your own authors in a similar position. Note: this only applies to the Book list. I felt free to disregard this rule for the Graphic Novel list. As a result, there are many Alan Moore works, because I couldn't <i>not </i>include them. And others. My lists, my rules.<br />
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As far as a series of books goes, I'm happy to list a series as one book slot. So there are a number of trilogies, series and the likes scattered through the list. The Graphic Novels are a bit more problematic. Many of the Vertigo series contain around 10 volumes. Some of the manga contain over 20. There are many very worthy contenders that are ongoing series. I have limited myself here to runs that involve one writer, to avoid the eternal capes opera that is superhero comics. I enjoy them, and I have read one <a href="http://zak-site.com/Great-American-Novel/">very convincing argument</a> in favour of considering Issues #1 - #322 of The Fantastic Four as one mega-novel, with multi-authors and artists, under various editors but with an over-riding sense of direction, and, arguably a conclusion. I'm convinced, but as it isn't re-printed with this particular theory in mind, I reluctantly omit it (and many, many others) from my list, in favour of more accessible volumes of work. <br />
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Finally, it should go without saying, but I must have actually read them, and personally own a copy (the only exception at this point is 'Fight Club' which I have read but don't currently own a copy. Gotta love exceptions). There are a number of books I own that I have no doubt will bump some books of these lists, should I ever get the time to read them. Let's hope that we are all blessed with more time to do the things we love. <br />
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So, the general idea was to flood the lists with anything I thought was a cracking read, then whittle them down to the essential 100. This is way more difficult than it sounds, but is also very enjoyable to do. So, without any further ado, and in no particular order, here's My Top 100 Books, and Top 100 Graphic Novels. Now get cracking on your own list! <br />
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Lord of the Rings / The Silmarillion JRR Tolkien<br />
Dune series Frank Herbert<br />
The Unlimited Dream Company J G Ballard *<br />
Cities of Red Night William Burroughs<br />
The Culture series Iain M Banks *<br />
Mars Trilogy Kim Stanley Robinson<br />
Swords Series Fritz Leiber<br />
The 47 Ronin John Allyn<br />
The House on the Borderlands William Hope Hodgson<br />
Lost Worlds Volume 1 Clark Ashton Smith *<br />
The Earthsea Quartet Ursula Le Guin<br />
The Illuminatus Trilogy Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson<br />
Don Quixote Miguel Cervantes<br />
Songs of Fire and Ice Series George RR Martin<br />
Cryptonomicon Neal Stevenson<br />
The King of Elfland's Daughter Lord Dunsany<br />
The Masks of God Joseph Campbell<br />
Titus Groan Mervyn Peake<br />
Jurgen James Branch Cabell<br />
Lord of Light Roger Zelazny<br />
Tales of the Arabian Nights India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt<br />
Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut<br />
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series Douglas Adams<br />
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway<br />
Siddharta Herman Hesse<br />
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco*<br />
Our Ancestors Italo Calvino*<br />
The Dictionary of the Khazars Milorad Pavic<br />
The Man in the High Castle Philip K Dick *<br />
Books of the New Sun Gene Wolfe<br />
Filth Irvine Welsh<br />
Wheels of Terror Sven Hassel *<br />
The Once and Future King T H White<br />
Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie<br />
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky<br />
Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett<br />
Animal Farm George Orwell<br />
Blood Meridian Corman McCarthy<br />
The Trial Franz Kafka<br />
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br />
Moby Dick Herman Melville<br />
Catch 22 Joseph Heller<br />
Software series Rudy Rucker<br />
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S Thompson<br />
I am Legend Richard Matheson<br />
Labyrinths Jorge Luis Borges<br />
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath H P Lovecraft *<br />
Imaginary Magnitude Stanislaw Lem<br />
Weaveworld Clive Barker<br />
Helliconia Trilogy Brian Aldiss<br />
Conan series Robert E Howard<br />
Terminal Cafe (Necroville) Ian MacDonald<br />
Neuromancer William Gibson<br />
The Forever War Joe Haldeman<br />
Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A Heinlein<br />
Rama series Arthur C Clarke<br />
The Life of Pi Yann Martel<br />
The Prestige Christopher Priest<br />
A Canticle for Liebowicz Walter M Miller<br />
War of the Worlds H G Wells<br />
The Compleat Traveller in Black John Brunner<br />
The Chinese Maze Murders Roberk Van Gulik<br />
Rome Steven Saylor<br />
Pushing Ice Alastair Reynolds<br />
Monkey Wu Cheng En<br />
Swamp Foetus Poppy Z Brite<br />
The Dying Earth Jack Vance<br />
Paintwork Tim Maughan<br />
The Windup Girl Paolo Bacigalupi<br />
Ringworld Larry Niven<br />
The Priest-Kings of Gor John Norman<br />
The Picture of Dorian Grey Oscar Wilde<br />
The Book of Ptath A E Van Vogt<br />
Looking for Jake China Mieville<br />
Elvissey Jack Womack<br />
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville "John Mandeville"<br />
Darkness under the Hills Bill Scott<br />
Elric of Melinbone (series) Michael Moorcock<br />
The Color of Magic / The Light Fantastic Terry Prachett<br />
The Beach Alex Garland<br />
Lord of the Flies William Golding<br />
Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones<br />
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess<br />
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes<br />
Neverwhere Neil Gaiman<br />
The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole<br />
Flatland Edwin A. Abbott<br />
The Odyssey Homer<br />
Sophie's World Jostien Gaarder<br />
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad<br />
Macbeth William Shakespeare<br />
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis<br />
120 Days of Sodom The Marquis de Sade<br />
Songs of Innocence and Experience William Blake<br />
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl<br />
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden<br />
Speed Tribes Karl Taro Greenfeld<br />
Salem's Lot Stephen King<br />
Generation X Douglas Copeland<br />
Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk<br />
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Watchmen Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons<br />
From Hell Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell<br />
V For Vendeta Alan Moore, David Lloyd<br />
Sandman (10 volumes) Neil Gaiman, Various Artists<br />
Preacher (10 volumes) Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon<br />
Transmetropolitan (10 volumes) Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson<br />
The Invisibles (7 volumes) Grant Morrison, Various Artists<br />
Scalped (10 volumes) Jason Aaron, R M Guera<br />
The Dark Knight Returns Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley<br />
All Star Superman Grant Morrison, Frank Quietly<br />
Nick Fury Agent of Shield Jim Steranko<br />
Monster (18 volumes) Naoki Urasawa<br />
Kozure Okami (Lone Wolf and Cub) (28 volumes) Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima<br />
Saga (ongoing) Brian Vaughn, Fiona Staples<br />
Astro City (ongoing) Kurt Buseik, Brent Anderson<br />
Love and Rockets* (ongoing) (especially Poison River) The Hernandez Brothers <br />
Signal from Space Will Eisner<br />
A Contract With God Will Eisner<br />
Zot! Scott McCloud<br />
Grendel Matt Wagner<br />
Usagi Yojimbo* (ongoing) Stan Sakai<br />
Maus collection Art Spiegelman<br />
Berlin (2 volumes currently) Jason Lutes<br />
Habibi Craig Thompson<br />
The Sculptor Scott McCloud<br />
Prince Valiant* (12 volumes currently) Hal Foster <br />
Flash Gordon (3 volumes) Alex Raymond<br />
Hate series Pete Bagge<br />
The Incal Alexander Jodorowsky, Jean "Moebius" Giraud<br />
Bolero Milo Manara<br />
Blueberry Jean-Michel Charlier, Jean "Moebius" Giraud<br />
Persepolis Marjane Satrapi<br />
Daredevil Born Again Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli<br />
Batman Year One Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli<br />
Akira Katsuhiro Otomo<br />
Black Hole Charles Burns<br />
Cerebus (16 volumes) Dave Sim<br />
The Smartes Kid On Earth Chris Ware<br />
Bone, The Great Cow Race Jeff Smith<br />
The Big Hoax Carlos Trillo, Domingo Mandrafino<br />
Nausicca of the Valley of the Wind (7 volumes) Hayao Miyazaki<br />
Troubled Souls Garth Ennis, John McCrea<br />
The Walking Dead* (ongoing) Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, Charlie Adlard<br />
The Black Panther Don McGregor, Rich Buckler, Billy Graham, Gil Kane<br />
Dr & Quinches Totally Awesome Guide to Life ALan Moore, Alan Davis<br />
White Trash Gordon Rennie, Martin Edmond<br />
Sin City Frank Miller<br />
The Tale of One Bad Rat Brian Talbot<br />
The Filth Grant Morrison, Chris Weston, Gary Erskine<br />
Signal to Noise Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean<br />
Hellblazer Dangerous Habits Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon<br />
Marvels Kurt Buseik, Alex Ross<br />
Palestine Joe Sacco<br />
Planetary (4 volumes) Warren Ellis, Johhn Cassaday<br />
Ed the Happy Clown Chester Brown<br />
Daredevil Love and War Frank Miller, Bill Sienkiewicz<br />
Queen and Country series Greg Rucka, Various Artists<br />
Wolverine Weapon X Barry Windsor Smith<br />
Ghost World Daniel Clowes<br />
Arkham Asylum Grant Morrison, Dave McKean<br />
Indian Summer Hugo Pratt, Milo Manara<br />
Slaine The Horned God Pat Mills, Simon Bisley<br />
The Book of Ballads Charles Vess<br />
Astronauts in Trouble Larry Young, Charlie Adlard<br />
The Ballad of Halo Jones Alan Moore, Ian Gibson<br />
Battle Royale ( 12 volumes) Koushin Takami, Masayuki Taguchi<br />
Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser Howard Chaykin, Mike Mignola, Al Williamson<br />
Morbus Gravis Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri<br />
Ministry of Space Warren Ellis, Chris Weston<br />
Neonomicon Alan Moore, Jacen Burrows<br />
Kingdom Come Mark Waid, Alex Ross<br />
Wanted Mark Millar, J G Jones<br />
The 6 Voyages of Lone Sloane Phillipe Druillet<br />
The Complete Adventures of Cholly & Flytrap Arthur Suydam<br />
Cheech Wizard Volume 1 Vaughn Bode<br />
Carload o Comics Robert Crumb<br />
Essential Silver Surfer Vol 1 Stan Lee, John Buscema<br />
Secret Wars Jim Shooter, Mike Zeck<br />
Avengers Forever Kurt Buseik, Roger Stern, Carlos Pacheco, Jesus Merino <br />
Northlanders (6 volumes) Brian Wood, Various Artists<br />
Rex Mundi (6 volumes) Arvid Nelson, Various Artists<br />
Shortcomings Adrian Tomine<br />
Pogo Walt Kelly<br />
Den Richard Corben<br />
Milk and Cheese Dairy Products Gone Bad Evan Dorkin<br />
Tom Strong Volume 1 Alan Moore, Chris Sprouse<br />
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The Black Dossier Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill<br />
The Mercenary Sea Kel Symons, Mathew Reynolds <br />
Shade the Changing Man (currently 3 volumes) Peter Milligan, Chris Bachalo<br />
Tekkon Kinkreet Taiyo Matsumoto<br />
Wonder Woman Chronicles William Moulton Marsten<br />
Batman Grendel Matt Wagner<br />
Hellboy (ongoing, intermittent) Mike Mignola<br />
Arzach Jean "Moebius" Giraud<br />
Aldebaran (5 volumes) Leo<br />
Valerian and Laurelian (10 volumes currently) Pierre Christin, Jean-Claude Mézières<br />
Deathnote (12 volumes) Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata<br />
Calvin and Hobbes complete collection Bill Watterson<br />
Marvel Masterpiece vol 43 Doctor Strange Stan Lee, Steve Ditko<br />
Astroboy series Osamu Tezuka<br />
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Agree? Disagree? Where's your list?<br /><br />
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There are two versions of the drug known as 'Hook'.
The first is the original 'Hook', which is a drug presumably originating in
Atlantis, and sold to Atlanteans, then later humans. The second from is a
human-synthesised version, made from an enzyme farmed from human-addicted
subjects, then sold back to Atlanteans. This presumably has a different,
or enhanced effect over the original 'Hook'. The operation was busted by
the Misty Knight-led Heroes For Hire. At least, the surface operation
was. The status of the underwater market remains unclear. </div>
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Described by Moon Knight (who must have been doing a bit of
underwater 'research') as "...a vile substance in Atlantis, but it has a
particularly nasty effect on dry land. Air-breathing humans find it
aggressively addictive."</div>
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According to Misty Knight (no relation) </div>
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"Hook-addicted humans secrete an enzyme that can be
synthesised into a new generation narcotic that is even more wildly popular on
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Positive: Unknown. 'Wildly popular on the Atlantean
market.'</div>
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Negative: Aggressive addiction in humans. Lethal in
'thousands' of cases (although whether this is a literal or a figurative number
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Method of Ingestion: Unknown. In order to obtain the
synthesised by-product, subjects were trepanned (the brain surgically exposed)
and Hook in its original form was intravenously drip-fed. I can't imagine
this method being the recommended method of taking Hook at parties, but who
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Important Figures:</div>
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Bernard Waterman (Atlantean National). (Deceased)
Bio-chemist, Pharmaceutical engineer. The bio-engineer and go-between
importer for Original Hook and Human Synthesised Hook. </div>
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Value: Unknown. A truck-trailer of contraband Hook was
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Verdict: Not enough information about the euphoric
effects (if any). Being described as 'aggressively addictive' would
indicate some kind of meth-amphetamine. The synthesised human byproduct
and its effects on Atlantean bio-neural systems might make for an interesting
night at an underwater rave. </div>
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Suggested Listening:</div>
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On Land: Something 'aggressive', along the lines of Pantera
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Underwater: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>'Dreamfish'
by Pete Namlook and Mixmaster Morris. The bubbly, dreamy frothy synth on
this piece will wash over you and put you in an underwater sonic paradise. Just
add Hook, and you're away. Don't forget to breathe.</div>
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Kick, or Hypercortisone-D is - get this - a concentrated dose
of an ancient, sentient bacteria that is one of the oldest
organisms on the planet. This bacteria has an impressive behind-the-scenes
resume, overtaking the body of John Sublime and directing the 'Weapons Plus'
program that produced Captain America, Wolverine, Deadpool, and others, and
views mutants (or more specifically, mutation) as a threat to its domination of
Earth. It has been hinted that all anti-mutant hysteria is caused by
Sublime. Now available in a handy inhaler, for your convenience.
Puff away! </div>
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Effects:<br />
Positive:<br />
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“It makes them feel like movie stars being directed by God,
on location in heaven.' and 'I felt angelic and violently insane for five hours”
(Emma Frost)</div>
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"It's like breathing the electric air
of the future". <br />
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Negative: 'neuro-toxic'. Using, according to Charles Xavier,
'may irreparably damage the mutant gene.'</div>
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Just the Facts: Lasts for five hours. One puff enhances your mutant
talent up to five times. <br />
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Not So Sure: Abuse of Kick may have lead to the start of a secondary
mutation in Quentin Quire.</div>
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Magneto, and he subsequently attempted to reverse the magnetic polarity of the
planet Earth. Now there's some seriously fucked up shit right there... </div>
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So, generally, an enhancer for mutant powers, with the
euphoria that that would entail. Not really party material in an by itself, but an interesting supplement to other drugs listed here perhaps... </div>
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Interesting Fact #23 Robert Hunter (Nitro) was on a combination of Mutant Growth
Hormone and Kick when he exploded after being attacked by the New Warriors,
resulting in the Stamford explosion that triggered off Civil War.</div>
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Method of Ingestion: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Inhaler.
The 'local disco' slang for using Kick is being "on the puff".</div>
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Important Figures: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jumbo
Carnation (deceased), Quentin Quire (deceased), The Omega Gang (Kid Omega
(Quentin Quire), Glob Herman, Radian, Redneck, Tattoo), Xorn (deceased), Sophie
Cuckoo (deceased), Esme Cuckoo, The Beast, Nitro, Sublime (John Sublime).</div>
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each (inhaler, presumably) Cheap!</div>
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Verdict: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ingesting a
sentient ancient bacteria that will eventually override your DNA and take
control of you doesn't sound so crash hot in the long run. But the short
term sounds pretty good. Provided that you are a mutant. There
seems to be no documented effects on non-mutants. If you have an
addictive nature it's probably best to steer away from Kick, but if you can
keep a lid on your addictions,then 'feeling like a movie star being directed by
God on location in heaven' sounds like a great night out. Then again,
having your mutant powers ramped up by a factor of five sounds pretty damn
addictive to me. <br />
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Now, it begs the question for us non-muties. If, say, I decide to drop some MGH or Xperience, in order to temporarily gain mutant powers, then immediately inhale Kick, do my artificial powers increase by up to a factor of five? And throw a tab of Toad Juice on top of that to make the whole thing scintillating! </div>
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Suggested Listening: For the full effect of your
mutant powers in overdrive, I strongly suggest 'Montagues and Capulets’
(Prokofiev) for a full flight. And the best thing is, the following
version is around five minutes long. Just the right length for the five
minutes of contact time. Blast it! </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Mutant Growth Hormone</span></b><br />
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All right! If there is anything like a drug epidemic in the Marvel Universe(s), then it's this bad boy right here. Mutant Growth Hormone, or MGH for short, is rife. Alot of the drugs mentioned here get stomped on or completely shut down in an issue or a story arc, and that's the end. MGH is here to stay. And even the Scarlet Witch's pronouncement only put a dent in supply.<br />
There are a few versions of MGH getting around, including a Gamma-irradiated version, and a fake Mr Hyde formula being passed off as MGH, but essentially they are developed from DNA scrapes of mutants and non-mutant superfolk, they give a euphoric rush, and a 'temporary genetic shift' in baseline humans, meaning they get someone's superpowers, for an hour. It also tends to come with increased aggression. For mutants taking MGH, it increases their existing power. Sounds good, right? It's sometimes used as a power enhancer among low or non-powered superheroes to get that edge. It's occasionally referred to as a 'bullet' and has been used as a cocktail with Morphine on Spider-man. <br />
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MGH was first isolated by Dr. Henry McCoy Phd (The Beast) who also became the first user. It further mutated him to the grey (later blue) furry version of The Beast.<br />
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But why should Henry have all the fun? <br />
A similar drug was given away, described as a Power Formula at a party hosted by Dr Maximus Power who extracted genetic material from Speedball during a robbery and used it as a base for one dose of his power formula. Iron man crashed that party.<br />
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Warre Worthington III (Archangel) bought out a drug empire established by Telford Porter (The Vanisher) that ships MGH, in order to stop the trade. (yeah, right) Porter was operating a separate cartel from Cuba with an unnamed drug that lasted 'a couple of hours' and was presumably MGH. This was busted by the X-men.<br />
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The Owl used his own DNA to manufacture and sell a version of MGH until stopped by Daredevil.<br />
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Young Avenger Patriot was a regular user of MGH, lying about having super-powers. He had a secret stash of pills hidden in his belt buckle. He quit the Young Avengers after being found out by fellow Young Avenger Wiccan.<br />
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Reginald Mantz used MGH to replicate the powers of Cloak. Reginald's dealer was The Pusher-Man, himself a probably MGH addict.<br />
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Nitro used MGH to increase his power to explode in Stamford Connecticut, triggering the Civil War.<br />
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The MGH was supplied to him from Damage Control, who got the clean-up contract for Stamford. And we thought they were the good guys...<br />
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The Beast and Bishop, post M Day, found dealer Charlie Hustle with a stast of now inert MGH (except for a dose of Whirlwind (David Cannon)). Charlie offered $50,000 to the Beast or Bishop per pint of their blood, in order to stock up on live MGH again. Deal or no deal?<br />
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Norman Osbourne used a gas form of MGH to contaminate a construction site and a nearby school in order to recruit Michael Pointer (Weapon Omega) to the Dark X-Men, implying, in a conversation with the Dark Beast, that they had the resources to manufacture MGH again, with Pointer's (presumably genetic) co-operation.<br />
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During Fear Itself, some drug dealers took some MGH and tried to instigate a riot between a white neighbourhood and a native American group, stopped by Jason Strongbow (American Eagle).<br />
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Magneto has supplied a sample of his DNA to a chemist in order to produce (presumably for personal use) MGH.<br />
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In Earth 58163 House of M reality, produce is treated with MGH and encouraged over 'organic' vegetables' for increased chances of mutant birth.<br />
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Mattie Franklin (Spider-Woman 3) was used as a source of MGH by her boyfriend. What a creep!<br />
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Effects: Temporary genetic shift in baseline humans, resulting in temporary Meta-abilities, increases present mutant abilities, euphoria. On de-powered mutants, MGH can temporarily restore original powers in at least one case (The Blob).</div>
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Method of Ingestion: Liquid Form, Pill, Injection, has been inhaled in gaseous form</div>
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Important Figures: Dr. Henry McCoy (The Beast) Inventor Brand Corporation Dr. Maximus Power, Telford Porter (The Vanisher) Leland Owlsley (The Owl) Walter Declun (CEO Damage Control) Robert L Hunter (Nitro) Mystique (dealer) Charlie Hustle (dealer) Nekra Sinclair (sells or is farmed for her naturally producing 'neo-adrenaline' to dealers as a base for MGH) Calvin Zabo (Mister Hyde) sold his Hyde Formula as MGH, Lorina Dodson (White Rabbit) "Unauthorised Pharmaceutical distributor to the Stars" The Pusher Man (dealer)</div>
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Value: Unknown. Presumably affordable, as it is often used in parties. Post M Day, an offer of $50,000 was offered per pint of blood from The Beast and Bishop. Gamma-irradiated MGH's cost was described as exorbitant. </div>
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Verdict: Hell yeah! Powers for an hour, euphoria, probably the best thing doing the rounds in the Marvel Universe! Just time your fun...<br />
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Suggested Listening: For something this good, a rush of euphoria, temporary powers, and a whiff of aggression, I strongly suggest something hard and industrial, like Nine Inch Nails 'Wish', or this beast of a track from Fear Factory, which sound like the theme track for a pro wrestler coming on stage.<br />
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Footnote. In Mike Morales Ultimate Spider-Man #9 (Earth 1610) Toad dealt a drug he refers to as MGH, which has the same properties.
The 'source' was revealed as Martin Flumm (Mentallo) as seen in a
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Banshee is the Utimate Marvel Universe version of Mutant Growth Hormone, mixed with Fentanyl, Testosterone and Dopamine (according to the Marvel Database). Cut with butane in Moira MacTaggart's batch. The root drug of Banshee was extracted from the DNA of Wolverine, discovered by Charles Xavier and Magneto while experimenting on Wolverine in the Savage Land. </div>
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Positive: On mutants, an increase in their mutant power to 'god-like' levels. On non-mutants, presumably the same as MGH, a temporary genetic shift aka a temporary mutant power. Fun. </div>
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Method of Ingestion:Vial injection. Vindicator had Banshee available to him via dome-like parts of his costume. Also presumably injection-based.</div>
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Important Figures: Wolverine (Source) Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr (Magneto) (Discoverers) Dr. Moira MacTaggart (Dealer) Colossus (Addict), Alpha Flight (Addicts).</div>
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Value: Not clear, but 12 (or 16) vials, plus insertion gun, for a suitcase full of cash. Expensive.</div>
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Charles Xavier informed Magneto that his mind could resist the addictive quality of the drug. He didn't make clear whether this was only because of his mental mutation, or because he was strong willed, and anybody else (mutated or not) with a similar strong will could also do the same. His assertion that 'others' (as opposed to most others, indicating 'all' others') wouldn't be so strong would indicate that he believes the former to be the case. </div>
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Rapture is a legal drug in the 2099 universe, that is highly addictive, mind-expanding and hallucinogenic. Did I mention that it is legal?<br />
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The distribution of Rapture is controlled by the Alchemax Corporation. An attempt by Miguel O-Hara to de-bond his DNA from the addictive effects of a simulated Rapture dose by re-booting his DNA from a stored sample resulted in the stored sample being contaminated with Spider DNA and infused him with Spider-Man-like powers, creating Spider-Man 2099. Who says drugs are bad? <br />
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Positive: Mind expanding, Hallucinogenic. Or so we are told. There seemed to be none of the good effects on Miguel, assuming the 3 day simulation also simulated the mind-expansion and hallucinogenic nature of Rapture. Unless the whole Spider-Man 2099 is just his wild hallucinogenic ride...<br />
Perfectly legal (in Earth 928 in the year 2099, that is...) </div>
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Negative: Highly addictive. Without a constant supply, withdrawal is lethal, according to Alchemax employee Tyler Stone.</div>
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Method of Ingestion: Liquid form. Being under the effect of Rapture is colloquially known as 'being enraptured'. (2099 is just so hip).</div>
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There is surprisingly little info on 'Rave', that I could find at any rate. Archangel seems suspiciously on top of quite a few busts however...<br />
Quoted in the <a href="http://politedissent.com/cbdr_2.html">Comic Book Drug Reference Site</a> as a stimulant that boosts a mutant's power. <br />
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Effects:</div>
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Positive: Performance-enhancing</div>
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Negative: Addictive<br />
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Method of Ingestion: Injection</div>
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Important Figures: ?</div>
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Value: Unknown</div>
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Verdict: Possible street name for MGH, or something different. Like the name, though...<br />
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Music for punching people in the face.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Appearance: X-Men v1 #101</span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Thunderbolt,
Raiden, Zap (Zootoxic Acid Psychogalvanide) (Earth 616)</b></span></div>
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Zap was the 'gateway' drug version of Thunderbolt the
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Zap was a drug that was refined from the hypothalamic fluid
of the now-extinct Madripoorian Spider-Monkey. One milligram of refined
monkey brain catalyst can create millions of doses of Zap.</div>
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Further refinement of Zap yields a super-drug called
Thunderbolt (a.k.a. Raiden, the Thunderbolt). One dose of Thunderbolt
imparts super-human strength, endurance, total pain-suppression and an ultimate
ecstatic rapture that lasts for an hour and ends in death.</div>
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Taking Thunderbolt was referred to as 'riding the
thunderbolt'. One description of the effects of Thunderbolt was
'awakening the dragon within', and a user described it as 'time to take the
roller-coaster to the end of consciousness and fly off into oblivion.' When
attempting to describe the effects to an indigenous Madripoorian, it was
described as '(Making) us see God.'</div>
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The drug was developed and initially (falsely) pitched to
Prince Baran of Madripoor as a cure for cancer, in order to encourage him to
lift the sanctions on the protected status of the Madripoorian Spider-Monkey
(the only known source of the catalyst for Zap, and Thunderbolt). It was
also pitched to Tyger Tyger and General Coy under the same ruse in order to
access their criminal resources to enable hunting, manufacturing and smuggling
of the monkey brain fluids back to Japan. The operation was busted by
Wolverine.</div>
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Effects: </div>
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Positive: (Zap) Unclear. Presumably a milder form of
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(Thunderbolt) 'Ultimate Ecstatic Rapture'. Now you're
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(Zap) Genetically engineered to be cumulatively progressive
in dependence as well as being dose-retrograde. Basically, the more you
take, the less you get off, but the more you need. Designed as a
'gateway' to Thunderbolt. </div>
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(Thunderbolt) Death within an hour of ingestion.
Bummer.</div>
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Method of Ingestion: Thunderbolt was swallowed in a
stylised pill form, in the shape of a 'thunderbolt' of lightning.
Available colours were red and yellow. The ingestion method for Zap is
unclear, but presumably also in pill form.</div>
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Dai-Kumo. (deceased) Osaka Yakuza crime lord.
Head of operations to sell Zap and Thunderbolt.</div>
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Dr. Malheur. Chemist. (Deceased) Developer of
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Value: (Zap) 'Next to nothing'</div>
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(Thunderbolt) 'Ten thousand dollars' for one dose
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Verdict: Zap had potential as a decent party drug,
(assuming the effects were a mild, non-lethal version of Thunderbolt) provided
that it was taken in moderation (to offset the in-built dose-retrograde), and
provided the temptation to lead oneself to Thunderbolt was avoided.
Thunderbolt was an interesting way to go out in a blaze of glory, but with it's
(presumably 100%) lethal effect, it sucks as a party drug. But, it would
seem it's all academic, as the Madripoorian Spider-monkey was (presumably)
rendered extinct in order to monopolise the manufacture and supply of the
drug, and the operation was busted by Wolverine. </div>
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Zap: Exit Eternity by Chi A.D. The ultimate uplifting
morning psy trance centre-piece, this extra-long chugging track will uplift and
enhance your Zap experience making you feel glad to be alive.</div>
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Thunderbolt: Razors and Ice Cream by Wizack Twizack.
The perfect accompaniment to a dark, sweaty, bewildering sonic journey into the
deep forests of your night-time soul , the dark psy masters guide you with
their roller-coaster of sound and captivate you while you are lost in the
labyrinth of sound.</div>
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In District X (the Mutant slum of Manhattan), a new party
drug called Toad Juice sparked a turf war between rival racketeers seeking to
monopolise the drug. The source of the drug was a mutant boy nicknamed
Toad Boy, who secreted a psychotropic sweat that was then placed in blotter
sheets and sold at various locations including Kaufman's club The Inferno.</div>
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A mutant called Absolon Mercator reversed Tarquin's
mutation, turning him into a 'normal' boy, thus destroying the only known
source of Toad Juice.</div>
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Obviously referencing the craze of licking of Cane Toads to
get high. Hey, whatever floats your boat, man...</div>
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Positive: On mutants, 'largely pleasant hallucinatory
effects'. Described by a (presumed) user: "Compared to juice, Acid
is flaccid, Crack is whack."</div>
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Negative: On non-mutants, it mutates recipients in
largely a uniform way, by extruding root-like appendages from their bodies and
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Method of Ingestion: Blotter Paper Tab. Or licking
Toad Boy directly. As his mum did. Ewww...</div>
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Toad Boy. (Real name Tarquin Berdeaux) Source of
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'Filthy' Frankie Zapruder. Racketeer. Gained
control of the Toad Juice operation after his thugs discovered the psychotropic
properties of Toad Boy's secretions, after attempting to recover loans from his
mother, who by this stage, was permanently 'blitzed' from constantly licking
her mutant son.</div>
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Daniel 'Shaky' Kaufman. Racketeer. Tried to
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Value: Variously 10 - 30 dollars per 'hit'. 2 for 50 at
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Verdict: Good party choice. Largely pleasant
hallucinatory effects which would indicate a similarity to acid. Good
clubbing experience. If you are a mutant.</div>
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Not so good choice if
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The effects of mixing a temporary mutant-enabling drug like
MGH or Xperience (in order to temporarily gain the mutant genome required in
order to avoid the unpleasant side-effects of Toad Juice on non-mutants) with
Toad Juice have yet to be tested. Any volunteers?</div>
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Suggested Listening: Some old skool Acid trance, like
Hardflooor or Thomas Heckmann, for those juicy acid squelches. For a
gentle, soothing comedown with sonically-triggered hallucinations, maybe some
more modern Psybient like Carbon Based Lifeforms or Solar fields.</div>
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Thomas P. Heckmann Amphetamine (Original)</div>
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Appearance: District X #1 - 6</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Heat Pills</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Heat pills are an invention of Marcus Roston who intented to control people, almost exclusively Hollywood A-list party circle folk through addiction to a party drug. Largely created from 'The Blood of the Pride' or the (non-human) blood from a member of L.A. underground crime leaders The Pride. </span></span></div>
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Positive: Hallucinatory, puts a kind of Bill Sienkiewicz edge on everything. So similar to LSD really. </div>
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"The glow builds inside you and euphoria streaks across neural pathways..." </div>
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"Everything feels better." </div>
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"Heat fills the gaps in my thoughts." </div>
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"To summarise, it's $#%&%$# great."</div>
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Negative: Addictive, Blackouts, interfered with Daken Akihiro's healing ability.</div>
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An overdose (administered by Daken) made Reed Richards lose control of his elasticity.</div>
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"Heat withdrawls make the insides of my eyeballs itch, my tongue grates within my cobwebbed mouth and my guts are something fluid, black and vile." </div>
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Method of Ingestion: Pill, small round olive pill with a stylised red 'H'. Used in liquid form on Wolverine. </div>
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Important Figures: Marcus Roston Creator and Dealer. Daken Akihiro Had A Lot Of Fun On Them.</div>
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Value: Unknown. Targeted for Hollywood dicks, so probably over-inflated. Or free.<br />
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Verdict: Largely good, if you can get around the highly addictive nature of Heat. Perfect for raves and doofs with lots of visuals to activate the trippy nature of Heat. No information on going cold turkey, other than Daken using Heat withdrawl as a torture device to extract information from an informant, who was willing to tell everything he knew in order to get the next pill. He had one red eye, presumably an effect from withdrawal. Daken clutched at his chest mentioning withdrawal.</div>
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Suggested Listening: Anything trance-y that will paint sonic pictures in your third eye, really. Try Teleport from Man With No Name for a classic sonic journey. Or Sugar Rush. Or Vavoom!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>D-lite (Darklight)
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Described by its creator, the demon D'Spayre, as, "a
hybrid of heroin and crack." This is the drug that gave Cloak and
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Positive: D-Lite has a 'high' which is also described
as 'tenuous' with increasing use. D-lite has an added effect, for the
designer. As the demon D'Spayre feeds off despair and suffering in
humans, he literally feeds off the effects humans receive from
D-Lite. He describes the feeling as 'tasty', and in particularly young
addicts as 'far tastier than most'. D'Spayre also gains strength (whether
physical or in terms of 'power level', or otherwise is unclear) from this.</div>
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Negative: The 'high' experienced by humans is diluted
with increased use. Overdosing is described as 'inevitable' and
deprivation leads to 'just as painful a death'.</div>
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Method of Ingestion: Unconfirmed, but most likely hypodermic
syringe, as this is a common visual motif when the subject of D-Lite is
mentioned. </div>
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Important Figures:</div>
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D'Spayre. The Demon who designed Darklight
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Simon Marshall. (deceased) Ex-pharmacist,
criminal drug experimenter in the drug trials that created Cloak and
Dagger. Killed by Dagger (Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man
#64). </div>
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Value: Unknown.</div>
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to create misery in order to make the designer feel high. Lethal in every
trial, with two exceptions. And they seemed very pissed off about the
whole experience. </div>
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Suggested Listening: Some Dark Ambient, Inade's
Signals from 68 Dimension (part 2) or Coph Nia's Doppleganger</div>
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Appearances: Cloak and Dagger (Vol 1) #19 (origin and
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Spider-Island Cloak and Dagger #2</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Xperience (a.k.a. The You X-Men)</b></span></div>
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Developed by Lobe's Sublime Corporation, Xperience is a
mutant power drug with two levels of intensity. The General Market Product
was for single use generalist gene-tailoring. The Deluxe Option included
tailoring the dose to complement the users own genetics. Five test
subjects were offered Xperience which mimicked the original X-men's
powers. Lobe also conducted a Gala launch event for the Sublime
Corporations 'You X-Men' to attract shareholder investment in the idea.
Free samples were handed out and ingested by shareholders and Lobe when the
gala event was crashed by Storm, Angel, Dazzler, Northstar and Pixie. </div>
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While Storm destroyed the known stockpile of Xperience, one
test subject (Penny Newsom) made off with two inhalers, containing the mimicked
powers of Emma Frost and Jean Grey.</div>
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Method of Ingestion: Inhalers. Bottled liquid
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Verdict: Do it! The rush of obtaining mutant powers
seems like a euphoric experience, as evidenced by the try-outs here. And
the rush of using that power, for the short period of time available to you
(for the single dose version) would all depend on your mental state and
preparedness for the trip. Do your research and live it up. </div>
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Suggested Listening: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anything
by Hans Zimmer, but 'The Battle' from Gladiator is ideal, with the quiet start,
reaching to an epic crescendo of ultimate battle music. Ideal for the
sudden acquisition of mutant powers, and the inevitable attack by killjoy
mutants who wish to monopolise their powers, just because they were born with
them. Genetic Elitists!</div>
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Bonus Mystery Drug!</h2>
Appearing in the pages of The Incredible Hulk Nightmerica limited series is a rather curious drug. It has no name, two recorded users (a child, and Dr. Banner) and a weird source. <span class="blurbtext" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblBlurbText" title="Description for this title">Bruce Banner is caught up in a chase for survivors
of the Wright-Armstrong super-soldiers experiments that had given Steve
Rogers his peak ability as Captain America. </span><br />
<span class="blurbtext" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblBlurbText" title="Description for this title">Attempts to replicate the unique serum/drug had some interesting effects. One of which was on a subject called </span>Stuart "Stu" Wendell a.k.a. Manifest Destiny. Stu has a condition that causes him to grow excess flesh, giving him a saggy, melted look.<br />
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Alas, for Stu, it doesn't end there. His flesh is the raw material for a weird, unnamed drug. Cut from his body by an unnamed group, his raw flesh is treated with menthol to 'kill the flavouring' as it 'tastes like rotting flesh' otherwise. One documented user, a child, nags his mum for another lozenge. It appears similar to a Ritalin, or other ADHD drugs, in effect, or administration in this regard, with the added bonus of like 'being in the Disney Store'. Dr. Banner stuck his head into the fleshy folds of Stu, and experienced a 'fantasy trip'. <br />
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Effects:<br />
Positive: Like "being in the Disney Store". Fantasy-inducing.<br />
Negative: Addictive. How much so is unclear, but enough that one user described the feeling as 'normal' and coming down from it presumably as not normal.<br />
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Method of Ingestion: Lozenge-style sweet/tablet. Physical contact with Stu also induces a trip. <br />
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Important Figures: Stuart "Stu" Wendell (source)<br />
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Value: Unknown. Presumably affordable to average families.<br />
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Verdict: Not enough information. By itself, not a real party drug, more like a pacifier, But mixed with something else, who knows?<br />
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Suggested Listening: Disney Store? Kooky kids? I have just the thing...<br />
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<br />Doctor Pedrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11369013779051611754noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1587441475045127656.post-91213913324270515762015-03-22T23:51:00.000-07:002015-03-22T23:51:17.484-07:00The Bendigo Record Comic and Toy Fair March 2015 The Bendigo Record Comic and Toy Fair returned on March 22 at the Bendigo Expo Centre for another day of collectormania. I know I spent too much money, but I landed a couple of major keys, as well as a Thor Hammer (and yes, apparently I am worthy to weild the hammer after all) which feels like a great anti-burglar device. Unless said burglar has a gun. Then I'm screwed.<br />
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50 vendors from all across Victoria, plus some Sydney folk, made the trip to Bendigo to sell us their stuff, and a good day was had by all. Especially the guy who took all my money for those keys.<br />
The Melbourne Comics folk had an expanded panel this year, with many artists and writers making the roadtrip up to Bendigo to support the Fair. They held a Bendigo RCT Fair Exclusive launch of the new printing of the anthology comic Melbourne Comics Quarterly. Gotta love an exclusive launch!<br />
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All in all, another fine day out for all involved, even if hip-pockets around Bendigo are hurting a bit. But collectors are loving the opportunity to indulge their passions, and check out what's on offer.<br />
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Punk As Fuck</div>
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Play Me, Buy Me, Drink Me, Eat Me</div>
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Daft Punk As Fuck</div>
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Japan exclusives aplenty</div>
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Toys for all ages</div>
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Rampaging Roy levelling up</div>
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Diggin' those crates</div>
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Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze age keys</div>
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<a href="http://fromanotherplanet.com.au/">From Another Planet had a stall</a></div>
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Filling those gaps in the collection</div>
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Star Wars overload? No such thing!</div>
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Some of the folks from the <a href="http://www.melbournecomics.com/">Melbourne Comics</a> displaying their original materials. </div>
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Killeroo is back!</div>
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Doctor Pedrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11369013779051611754noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1587441475045127656.post-76845122664588149862014-12-30T00:27:00.002-08:002014-12-30T00:27:48.179-08:00100 Heavy Metal Album Covers from 20142014, another corker of a year for heavy metal. Here's my pic for the Top 100 Heavy Metal releases of 2014. All albums received some form of air-play on my radio show, which I retired from at the end of October this year. So there may be a few late year releases that slipped under my radar.<br />
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But in any event, some old faces, some new faces, Stoner keeps making a big resurgence (for me, and generally) and a new album and ep from Godflesh!<br />
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Your favourite releases? Albums you were dissapointed with? I dropped off Austrian Death Machine's 'Triple Brutal' as I thought it was boring and listless. Babymetal on the list? Haters gonna hate. Yeah, they represent everything that's wrong with corporate music. But in a genre like metal, that's suck a stand-out (Nu-metal in the '90's notwithstanding) that I reckon metal can absorb one example of shameless Japaness cute J-metal without being in danger of losing its soul as a genre. And it's a great shit-stir to all the metal snobs. Let's just hope it doesn't become the norm, however...<br />
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I thought the new Accept album was awesome, and have given my nod of approval to Mark Tornillo as the new lead singer (even if he sounds a wee bit Vim Fuego-ish on the high notes). Cannibal Corpse continue to impress, Manowar brought out another re-recording (!), a couple of releases from Sunn O))), Dead Kelly impressed the shit out of me, the Ronnie James Dio tribute early in the year was a gem, Hadal Maw power out a release (watch these guys!), and Wolves in the Throne Room bring out an album from left-field, more dark ambient than anything else, and it worked for me.<br />
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Everyone gushed about 'The Satanist' from Behemoth, and while I've included it in the list, it didn't grab me as much as seemingly everyone else. Entombed A.D.'s new album is decent, but for me, the jury's still out as to whether it's a good album. As much as I love Electric Wizard, their 2014 release, 'Time To Die' was a bit disappointing. And I'm not still fully sold on Mastodon, but that's a great album cover in this year of vinyl revival!<br />
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Bring on 2015!<br />
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The albums, from left to right, top to bottom, in no particular order (but mostly alphabetical by band. Just how it worked out).<br />
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1. Blind Rage - Accept<br />
2. The Joy Of Motion - Animals As Leaders<br />
3. Check 'Em Before You Wreck 'Em - Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell<br />
4. 25 Cents For A Riff - Acid Drinkers<br />
5. Xenon - Mechina<br />
6. Language - The Contortionist<br />
7. Memoirs Of A Madman - Ozzy Osbourne<br />
8. A World Lit Only By Fire - Godflesh<br />
9. The Serpent & The Sphere - Agalloch<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">10. Desideratum - Anaal Nathrakh</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">11. Tourniquets Hacksaws and Graves - Autopsy</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">12. Babymetal - Babymetal </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">13. Back From The Abyss - Orange Goblin</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">14. Back To The Front - Entombed A.D.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">15. The Satanist - Behemoth</span><br />
16. Brutal Delivery Of Vengeance - Embalmed<br />
17. Burn The Serum - Kyng<br />
18. A Skeletal Domain - Cannibal Corpse<br />
19. Blood Eagle - Conan<br />
20. Dawn Of The Dude (EP) - Cross Examination<br />
21. Death Mask - Lord Mantis<br />
22. Blood Mantra - Decapitated<br />
23. Decline & Fall (EP) - Godflesh<br />
24. Destined To Violate - Gorgasm<br />
25. Misery - Disentomb<br />
26. Awake The Riot - Dust Bolt<br />
27. Earthless - Doom:vs<br />
28. Eat Me - Dol Kruug<br />
29. Time To Die - Electric Wizard<br />
30. Eternity Of Hell & Torment - Belligerent Intent<br />
31. Existence - Aeon Of Horus<br />
32. Blood In, Blood Out - Exodus<br />
33. No Place For Disgrace 2014 - Flotsam and Jetsam<br />
34. Beyond - Freedom Call<br />
35. From Crotch To Crown - Prostitute Disfigurement<br />
36. From Wisdom To Baked - Cannabis Corpse<br />
37. Gigantoid - Fu Manchu<br />
38. Senium - Hadal Maw<br />
39. Dawn Of The New Centurion - Hatriot<br />
40. Heen Yadhar Al Ghasq - Al-Namrood<br />
41. Baptised In Vomit - Hillbilly Blitzkrieg<br />
42. Immortal Legacy - Hirax<br />
43. Redefined Mayhem - Holy Moses<br />
44. Shadows Of The Dying Sun - Insomnium<br />
45. Into The Maelstom - Bigelf<br />
46. Welt Ohne Werbung - Japanische Kampfhorspiele<br />
47. King Of Asgard - Karg<br />
48. Kings Of Metal MMXIV - Manowar<br />
49. The Sun Will Rise Again - Loudness<br />
50. Escape From The Shadow Garden - Magnum<br />
51. For I Am Genocide - Mass Infection<br />
52. Back From Beyond - Massacre<br />
53. Once More 'Round The Sun - Mastodon<br />
54. Mountain - Bong Breaker<br />
55. Murmur - Murmur<br />
56. The Vaulted Shadows - My Dying Bride<br />
57. Nero In Metastasi - Cripple Bastards<br />
58. Up The Dosage - Nashville Pussy<br />
59. Angelic Dread - Nunslaughter<br />
60. Inked In Blood - Obituary<br />
61. The Last Neanderthal - Ogre<br />
62. Pale Communion - Opeth<br />
63. Taste My Sword Of Understanding - Opium Warlords<br />
64. White Devil Armory - Overkill<br />
65. High On Radiation - Reactory<br />
66. Resist Or Serve - Cloven Hoof<br />
67. Meathymns - Ribspreader<br />
68. Slaves To The Grave - Rigor Mortis<br />
69. Ronnie James Dio This Is Your Life - Various Artists<br />
70. Heroes - Sabaton<br />
71. Slave To The Sword - Exmortus<br />
72. Digital Resistance - Slough Feg<br />
73. Arkan - Sofia<br />
74. Sons Of The Southern Cross - Dead Kelly<br />
75. Stalagmire - Cauldron Black Ram<br />
76. LA Reh 012 - Sunn O)))<br />
77. Terrestrials - Sunn O))) & Ulver<br />
78. Sunset On The Golden Age - Alestorm<br />
79. We Hate The Sea (EP) - Swashbuckle<br />
80. Glass Cathedrals - The Mire<br />
81. R.I.B. - Tankard<br />
82. Hypothalamus - The Wisdoom<br />
83. Thou - Heathen<br />
84. Necronomic Warfare - Trenchrot<br />
85. Kaptein Kaos - Trollfest<br />
86. Ultimatum - ADX<br />
87. Baphomet Pan Shub-Niggurath - Unaussprechlichen Kulten<br />
88. Under Satan's Sun - Bloody Hammers<br />
89. Unholy Resurrection - Grim Legion<br />
90. Outsider - Uriah Heep<br />
91. Tibi Et Igni - Vader<br />
92. The Glorious Dead - Vanir<br />
93. Distant Is The Sun - Vanishing Point<br />
94. Sleeping With Evil (EP) - Vindicator<br />
95. Worship (EP) - Weed Priest<br />
96. Shogunate Macabre - Whispered<br />
97. Whiteworm Cathedral - Necrophagia<br />
98. Samsara - Wide Eyes<br />
99. Celestite - Wolves In The Throne Room<br />
100. The Conjuring - Wo Fat<br />
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Doctor Pedrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11369013779051611754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1587441475045127656.post-21165471450815953942014-09-23T16:56:00.000-07:002014-09-24T00:02:35.318-07:00The Bendigo Record Comic and Toy Fair September 2014<h3 style="text-align: center;">
The Bendigo Record, Comic and Toy Fair September 2014 </h3>
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The Bendigo Record Comic and Toy Fair had its second bash on September 21, 2014. A crowd of around 800 filed through the door over the course of the day, from as far afield as New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland, as well as all corners of Victoria.<br />
Specialist traders in vinyl, cds, rare collectibles, comics, toys, retro games and memorabilia met collectors, pop-culture enthusiasts and the curious in this Bazaar of the Bizarre held in Bendigo, Victoria at the Bendigo Expo Centre. Members of the Melbourne Graphic Novelists scene had a zone, selling sketches and their original published material, and local fantasy novelist Brett Crandell had a stall.<br />
The CFA were present doing a tin shake in front of the Doctor Who exhibits, the event itself was a fundraiser for Community Radio Phoenix FM, and a fun day was had by all.<br />
No firm date has been set for the next Bendigo Record, Comic and Toy Fair, but this bi-annual event should announce a date soon for around March 2015. <br />
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For more info <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BendigoRCandTFair">check out the Facebook page.</a><br />
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Sentients, I present to you, our Secret Masters...The Gonk Droids!<br />
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Now, I am well aware that there is a <a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Cult_of_the_Power_Droids">Cult of the Power Droids</a> as they are also known. And the enigmatic phrase "Gonk. Gonk. Gonk ko kyenga see" which may never be translated (indeed, it remains illegal to do so) may be innocuously heard at cantina bars and Jawa parties throughout the outer rim of the Galaxy. And they may seem harmless functional droids, a little sad for their awkward design, a little uncool even. But therein lies the perfect cover. But how is this even possible? And what evidence is there to even suggest such a thing?<br />
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It all hinges on the most crucial scene in Star Wars. The purchase of the droids on Tattoine.<br />
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As we all know, the Purchase of the Droids is where Luke meets C-3PO and R2-D2, who have the plans for the Death Star. This triggers Luke's meeting with Obi-Wan, and a Hero is born who saves the galaxy from the tyrannical grip of the Evil Empire.<br />
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Except it very nearly didn't happen like that at all.<br />
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Uncle Owen didn't choose to buy R2. Instead he chose another droid referred to as R5-D4. Aka, the red one. There's a brief scene, where C-3PO turns around, as if to say goodbye to R2 forever, then resigns himself to his new situation. It's their lot in life to suffer, as he moaned earlier.<br />
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Alas, R5-D4 blows its stack, Uncle Owen gives Chief Nebit grief about pushing crap upon him, and 3PO suggests that Luke take the plucky little R2 unit instead. Deal done, all is good. And that's all there was to that scene, right? A little bit of good luck that saves the universe. Or was it just good luck.<br />
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"In my experience there's no such thing as luck." Obi-Wan Kenobi.</div>
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Before I continue, let's indulge in a little 'what if' scenario. And the scenario is this. What if R5-D4 hadn't malfunctioned, and ended up with Luke at the farm, and R2 had stayed unsold with the Jawas?<br />
Could R2 have somehow escaped the sandcrawler and made his way to the farm to get to C3PO, assuming he's want to do that at all? Let's assume he would try, if only because he would probably stand a better chance with 3PO (despite his attempt to go solo. Or, in light of what happened when he did, because of it.) Alas. He had the restraining bolt activated at the purchase. Hard to get around, even for a plucky little dustbin like R2.<br />
So, with R2 out of the picture (not to mention the stolen Death Star plans), Luke stays on the farm. Luke doesn't chase R2 out in the desert, so he doesn't meet up with Obi-Wan Kenobi. He doesn't get his lightsaber. He isn't faced with the choice of 'following old Obi-Wan on some damn fool crusade'. What happens next is dependant on the stormtroopers once they catch up with the sandcrawler. Which they most certainly do.<br />
Outcome 1. They find R2, and take the chance that he's the one with the plans for the Death Star. Which is correct. They take R2 back to their bosses, who find the Death Star plans, they get promoted, the Rebellion doesn't find a weakness in the Death Star, and when the Battle of Yavin takes place, Blammo! End of the Rebellion. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. Hey, at least the prisoners in detention level AA23 get to live a life of torture for a while longer.<br />
Outcome 2. The stormtroopers find one of the droids, but decide not to give up on the chance that the stolen plans are in 'the other one'. They trace back the sale to Uncle Owens and Aunt Beru's place, and instead of 2 smouldering, charred remains as a reminder of a friendly visit from their neighbourhood Empire troops, there are now 3. Luke joins the growing list of victims, no Jedi hero, the Jedi die with Vader, and the Sith win the Big One. End of the Rebellion, as seen above. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.<br />
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But let's assume Outcome 1 from above. Luke survives. The droids work out, and Uncle Owen keeps his promise of allowing Luke to 'go to the Academy' the next year. Luke's a decent pilot, he works out well, becomes decorated in perhaps another stab at a rebellion. Maybe he ends up as decorated, and skilled as, say Wedge Antilles. It's certainly within him, and he may feel stirrings of 'The Force' which, alas, remain untrained within him, as Obi-Wan never meets him to set him off on his heroes journey. Or even if he does, the fire's not in his belly, because the Empire didn't kill his aunt and uncle anyway. Or Ben, for that matter. (He had, after all, decided not to follow Obi-Wan anyway. It's safe to assume he would make the same choice under pretty much the same conditions.) And even if there's a subsequent attack on the Death Star, there's no Force, no exploitable weak-spot that the Rebellion has to offer their pilots, no Han Solo and the Millenium Falcon to help out in a tight spot, no Obi-Wan guiding him to 'use the Force', and even if Vader and Luke meet in combat, Vader says, 'I have you now' and blows him to smithereens because Han isn't there to distract Vader because he's still smuggling his butt off to pay back Jabba. Because 'there's no such thing as luck', and because 'he's good against a living' and all that. And there's still a Death Star. And a second, in construction around Endor. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.<br />
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So, yeah, taking that blue droid was pretty damn crucial. But was it an accident that R5 had 'a bad motivator'?<br />
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What the hell is a 'motivator' anyway? Well, according to <a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page">Wookipedia</a>, that font and bastion of Star Wars knowledge, a <a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Motivator">Motivator </a>is "a device that was primarily used in droids to convert other forms of energy such as chemical or electrical energy
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Stop right there. Does that sound in any way familiar to you?<br />
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<span title="Source: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope">"<i>Well, the
Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by
all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the
galaxy together.</i>" Obi-Wan Kenobi.</span><br />
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<span title="Source: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope">So...if a motivator enables droids to convert energy into kinetic energy, and the Force is an energy field...does that make droids Force Users? Or Jedi? Or Sith?</span><br />
According to Wookiepedia, (and Dark Horse comics), R5-D4 has a name. And a secret. R5-D4 is actually a Jedi Droid. Called Skippy. According to <a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Skippy_the_Jedi_Droid">this Wookiepedia entry</a> 'Skippy' used the force at the Purchase of the Droids and "...soon envisioned that, without Luke, stormtroopers
would come and take R2 back to Vader, where he would be destroyed and
Leia would be killed, leading to a chain reaction of horror that will
include the Rebellion being destroyed." So, according to this story, R5 (Skippy. Really? Skippy?) nobly 'set off a mild explosion inside himself' then used the Force on C3PO to encourage him to tell Luke to take R2 instead. <br />
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However, according to the <a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/R5-D4">Official Wookiepedia entry on R5-D4</a> the 'bad motivator' was caused, not by using the Force to sabotage himself, but by R2-D2 sabotaging him aboard the sandcrawler, "acting under the orders of Princess Leia aboard the <i>Tantive IV</i> to find Obi-Wan Kenobi by any means possible, even if it involved modifying other droids, an action usually prohibited by basic droid programming laws."<br />
Does that sound like R2 to you? Well, who can tell. R2 can be a sneaky little bastard. But that sounds like Sith talk to me. And it contradicts the self-sabotage of the 'Skippy' story. So which one is correct?<br />
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Neither of them. The sabotage was caused by another droid on board the sandcrawler. The Gonk Droid. According to the same entry, "a Power Droid on board Nebit's sandcrawler suggested that if (R5-D4) cooperated, he would eventually be sold to masters who had to be better than the Jawas." That's all a bit vague. Clearly there was another agenda at work here. And that agenda was sabotage.<br />
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But Why?<br />
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What was really at stake at the Purchase of the Droids? Well, nothing less than the fate of the galaxy for a start. But, as with so many pivotal incidents in Star Wars, there are levels of significance. And what was at stake here, for the sake of the galaxy, was Luke's Choice. Or, more specifically, Luke's Influence. What do R5-D4 and R2-D2 actually represent? A Choice between the Light Side of the Force, and the Dark Side. After all, what is the 'Dark Side' but 'a bad motivator'? This is the true meaning of 'motivator'.<br />
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The key here is the colour of the droids. And the colour of the lightsabers that would be significant indicators of their representative sides in the Balance of the Force. Basically Blue=The Light Side (Luke's Lightsaber, which was also Anakin's old Lightsaber, before he turned, Obi-Wan's Lightsaber) and Red=The Sith (Darth Vader's Lightsaber, Darth Maul's Lightsaber). And whichever droid he would choose would seal his fate. And he nearly got saddled with the Dark Side. But that act of sabotage ensured that Luke got to choose the Light Side instead. And the Gonk Droid engineered the entire situation, to make sure that there was only one outcome.<br />
And how did the Power Droid know where they were going? Gonk Droids are everywhere. Including Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru's house.<br />
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They obviously communicated to each other. Sneaky Sneaky Gonk Droids.<br />
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But Why? Why set this pivotal situation up in the first place? What did the Gonk Droids hope to gain out of all this?<br />
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Who can tell. Gonk Droids, or Power Droids as they are more properly known as, are a mysterious thing. They're everywhere. They provide power. So they're basically walking generators. That say 'Gonk'. The <a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Power_droid">Wookiepedia entry</a> is pretty thin on info. But one can speculate.<br />
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What is the core function of a Power Droid? To provide power. So, without power, they lose their primary function, right? Well, a while before, there was one chap who had a pretty clear goal. He wanted...Unlimited Power!<br />
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So if Emperor Palpatine wanted Unlimited Power, where does that leave the Gonks? Without a purpose, that's what. And what's the best way to rectify this imbalance in power distribution, than nudge a hero capable of rectifying the imbalance in power? Power is energy, usable by both droids and force-sensitive sentients. The Gonk Droids brought down the Empire, so that they could retain their monopoly on Power! Now the Truth is Revealed!<br />
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All Hail the Secret Masters!<br />
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There you have it. The Gonk Conspiracy. Don't believe me? This is what happens when one crime lord discovered the conspiracy...<br />
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If I disappear, you will know why. And the Gonks will continue to rule in secret. Spread the word. Before the Gonks force their agenda on you. They care not for you. They exist only for Power. Stop the madness. Think of the children!<br />
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The next step in fashion evolution.<br />
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Or just dorks in stupid costumes?<br />
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The real answer...?<br />
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Both.<br />
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There are some really good ideas and technical accomplishments going on out there in the world of cosplay. And then, there are those who need a good slap. The idiots. What were they thinking?<br />
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Here they are. Presented, not for the first time, nor the last, but for Right Here and Right Now. The Good. The Bad. And the Ugly.<br />
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The Good</h3>
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Let's set the bar high with the first one. Judge Dredd and Judge
Anderson. Yeah, a photo-shoot, rather than folk wandering about a Con,
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<a href="http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/nailbiter111/news/?a=88404">Check out more here</a> </div>
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Sarah Louise Kerrigan a.k.a The Queen of Blades from Starcraft. Noice!</div>
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Authenic and Clever. And funny. Me likee.</div>
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I don't know about you, but I reckon Lady Loki costumes are better than the Male Loki ones. </div>
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Stinky Pete. With authentic smell?</div>
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Delirium from the Endless in the Sandman comics. Because, let's face it, a room full of Dream would look like a Cure convention.</div>
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An Imperial Fists Captain in Terminator Armour (Warhammer 40K). Now there's some serious effort right there. </div>
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<a href="http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/now-this-is-some-serious-warhammer-40k-cosplay/">Just in case that's not enough for you...</a> </div>
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This pic looks suspiciously CG to me. that won't stop me putting it up, though.</div>
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Now that is Stoopid Clever. That's a win.</div>
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Alphonse Elric from Full Metal Alchemist. Complete with squeaky voice?</div>
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Another very clever idea. How good is this Tardis dress?</div>
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Now that is one seriously good Trap-Jaw!</div>
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Real-Life Toy Soldiers. But do they melt like the real things when set on fire?</div>
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Japanese Cosplay. We are not worthy.</div>
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Mobile Suit Gundam. I'm still hanging out for the life-size cosplay, but these will do for now.</div>
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Best Artoo Costume ever?</div>
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There are some cosplay 'celebrities' out there, such as Jessica Nigri, Scruffy Rebel, Yaya Han and others, and their fame, such as it is, is received with mixed results among geekdom and 'con regulars. Shown above is one such 'celebrity' <a href="http://vampybitme.tumblr.com/">Vampy Bit Me</a> who has a stunning array of hot costumes. Love it or hate it, they're a thing now. Do I smell a reality TV show? Or just burning fap?</div>
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The perfect Joker cosplay?<br />
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Galactus Win right here. And that's how you cosplay.</div>
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The Bad</h3>
Alas, for every cosplay win, there's a complete and utter, abject Cosplay Fail. Some folk try hard. And stuff it up. Some folk try too hard to be funny. And just come off sad, stinking of Epic Fail. And some don't even bother trying. You all suck. Here's the Cosplay Hall of Shame.<br />
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For every Galactus Cosplay Win, there's a guy like this, who tried, but instead of eating a planet, ate from the Table of Fail. And stuffed himself. </div>
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What do you get when you cross Wolverine with a Banana? This guy. Are you serious? </div>
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? They look more like the Weed Teletubbies. Smack!</div>
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Yeah, nailed it.</div>
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The new Iron Man movies have provided fans with a very high level of costume design. So it's not really a surprise that many Iron Man costumes fall short of the real thing. But that's no excuse for this. You'd better hide that face, mate! You idiot!</div>
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Is this the same guy? Surely this level of fail can't be duplicated...</div>
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What were you smoking? But ya gotta love that Uno card on the belt. That just makes the fail all that more embarrassing. </div>
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Here's another one that probably needed the accompanying picture for identifying. My spider-fillings are tingling.</div>
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Y'know. I once went to a high school Medieval-style ball with a sheet of newspaper over my head. I went as a 'Page'. Get it? I thought that was the lamest costume ever. This guy proved me wrong. Thank you Random Convention Cosplay Idiot!</div>
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There are no shortages of authentic Star Wars costumes out there. There's even a dedicated Fan Legion (the 501st) whose only entry requirement is owning a movie-authentic costume. And then there are these guys. The Fapping 606's? Just shoot them now. Post-Ironic is so Post-Hipster.</div>
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In this day and age of advanced digital facial recognition, I'd be hiding my whole face in a costume like this. Go back to the Star Trek conventions!</div>
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Spider-Man? With a camel toe? Eeww...</div>
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Why can't we have a gender-swapped Wonder Woman? Here's why.</div>
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Mind you, not all the women get it right, either. </div>
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The Ugly</h3>
It's difficult to call a costume ugly and not call the people in the costume ugly, because that's not the spirit of things. <br />
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But these guys made it easy.<br />
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Bonus Cosplay</h3>
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Ron Jeremy as Mario.<br />
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All well and good, but I'm doing something a little different, with a pictorial 100 album covers of 2013, and in no particular order. Now that I'm having a glance at the albums I had a listen to, and played or featured on my radio show ( <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Heavy-Metal-Radio-Show-Sleeping-in-the-Fire/116491311738380">Sleeping in the Fire</a> on <a href="http://www.phoenixfm.org.au/">Phoenix FM Bendigo</a> shameless plug time), as a visual rather than a sonic assault, there seems to be alot of circle motifs and skulls for 2013. Not sure what to read into that, if anything. Enjoy the Covers of 2013, as heard on Sleeping in the Fire, and bring on 2014!<br />
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The albums listed from left to right, top to bottom, in no particular order:<br />
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1. 7th Offensive - Panzerchrist<br />
2. 13 - Black Sabbath<br />
3. Feast - Annihilator<br />
4. Pinnacle Of Bedlam - Suffocation<br />
5. Veneration - Ares Kingdom<br />
6. Apocalyze - Crossfaith<br />
7. All Is One - Orphaned Land<br />
8. Chemistry Of Consciousness - Toxic Holocaust<br />
9. Darkness In A Different Light - Fates Warning<br />
10. Dawning - Mouth Of The Architect<br />
11. The Wrath Of Cthulhu - The Obliterate Plague<br />
12. Monolith - The Privater<br />
13. Abra Kadaver - Kadaver<br />
14. Aetherial - Oceans Of Slumber<br />
15. Aftershock - Motorhead<br />
16. Christopher Lee - Charlemagne: By The Sword And The Cross<br />
17. Deceiver Of The Gods - Amon Amarth<br />
18. Colored Sands - Gorguts<br />
19. The Dark Side Of Light - Deadcell<br />
20. Sunbather - Deafheaven<br />
21. Anthems - Anthrax<br />
22. Arrival At Six - Sorcery<br />
23. Beyond - Omnium Gatherum<br />
24. Bunch Of Bisons - Stonehenge<br />
25. Cheers, Beers and Beards - Frankenbok<br />
26. The Man Left In Space - Cosmograf<br />
27. Cougar Club - Spider Kitten<br />
28. Epitome Of Torture - Sodom<br />
29. Now What?! - Deep Purple<br />
30. Dirty Dynamite - Krokus<br />
31. Duskmachine - Duskmachine<br />
32. Dustwalker - Fen<br />
33. Every Day I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came - Jesu<br />
34. Lemuria EP - Evil Intent<br />
35. Excised And Anatomised EP - Evocation<br />
36. Flesh Is Heir - The Amenta<br />
37. Labyrinth - Fleshgod Apocalypse<br />
38. Blodsvept - Finntroll<br />
39. From Beer To Eternity - Ministry<br />
40. The Devil's Cut - White Wizzard<br />
41. Giants Of Canaan - Attacker<br />
42. Morbid Ascent EP - Grave<br />
43. Battle Maximus - GWAR<br />
44. Habitual Levitations - Intronaut<br />
45. Hope In Hell - Anvil<br />
46. Ignorant Being EP - A Greed Science<br />
47. Late For Nothing - Iwrestledabearonce<br />
48. Autopsychosis - Katalepsy<br />
49. Killed By Thrash EP - Reactory<br />
50. Kingdom Of Conspiracy - Immolation<br />
51. Thy Kingdom Scum - Church Of Misery<br />
52. Kunst - KMFDM<br />
53. Kunstraub - In Extremo<br />
54. Life Sentence - Satan<br />
55. Digital Lies - Lord<br />
56. Megadolon - Gutteral Slug<br />
57. Pitch Black EP - Meshuggah<br />
58. Metal Machine - Taipan<br />
59. Mind Control - Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats<br />
60. Called To Rise - Oblivion<br />
61. Odori Sepulcrorum - Grave Miasma<br />
62. Omen Of Disease - Broken Hope<br />
63. Pelagial - The Ocean<br />
64. Forever Becoming - Pelican<br />
65. Obsideo - Pestilence<br />
66. Manifest Decimation - Power Trip<br />
67. Putrid Death Sorcery - NecroWretch<br />
68. III The Rommel Chronicles - Hail Of Bullets<br />
69. Resilient - Running Wild<br />
70. Memorial - Russian Circles<br />
71. Savages - Soulfly<br />
72. Sacrifice - Saxon<br />
73. Scorn - Primitive Man<br />
74. The Mediator Between The Head And Hands Must Be The Heart - Sepultura<br />
75. Serpents Unleashed - Skeletonwitch<br />
76. Skull - Evile<br />
77. Species At War - Rotten Sound<br />
78. Earth Blues - Spiritual Beggars<br />
79. Grindcoholism - Squash Bowels<br />
80. 13 - Suicidal Tendencies<br />
81. Straight Out Of Hell - Helloween<br />
82. Super Collider - Megadeth<br />
83. Surgical Steel - Carcass<br />
84. Tend No Wounds EP - Black Tusk<br />
85. Ram The World - Barbarion<br />
86. Headless Ritual - Autopsy<br />
87. The Lost Spire - Cathedral<br />
88. The Manuscript - My Dying Bride<br />
89. The Terror Tapes - Gama Bomb<br />
90. The Underground Resistance - Darkthrone<br />
91. The Dream Calls For Blood - Death Angel<br />
92. Euporie Tide - Causa Sui<br />
93. Turisas2013 - Turisas<br />
94. Underworlds - Mammoth Grinder<br />
95. Target Earth - Voivod<br />
96. Real-Life Death - Walking The Cadaver<br />
97. Wallow - Flagitious Idiocyncrasy In The Dilapidation<br />
98. IV Empires Collapse - Warbringer<br />
99. BBC Session 2011 - Wolves In The Throne Room<br />
100. Earth Rocker - Clutch<br />
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What was your favourite Heavy Metal Album for 2013?<br />
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What was the scariest album cover for 2013?<br />
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<br />Doctor Pedrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11369013779051611754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1587441475045127656.post-38249508713221586302013-12-17T01:17:00.002-08:002014-01-05T14:39:29.267-08:00The Urn Returns A quick report on the 2013-14 Ashes SeriesThe ICC Cricket Committee has announced that they will be scrutinising the English Team's Dietary requirements for the 2013-14 Ashes campaign in the wake of their 3-0 campaign loss at Perth on the 17th of December 2013, with 2 tests yet to be played.<br />
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The English team made sensational headlines for their outrageously opulent 'dietary' requirements for their Ashes campaign. To quote The Guardian:<br />
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"As an example, after the first day of every Test match, the following
must be available in the England dressing room 20 minutes before the
end of play:<br />
• Moroccan spiced griddled chicken fillets with lime and coriander mayo<br />
• Lamb and pea kofta kebabs with mint yoghurt<br />
• Roasted vegetable and halloumi kebabs with red pepper dip<br />
• Ginger and garlic king prawn kebabs with garlic mayo<br />
• Selection of wholewheat French bread pizzas (parma ham and tomato/feta and red onion)<br />
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Selection of sandwiches (grilled aubergine, red pepper, red onion and
basil puree; Cajun salmon, yoghurt and cucumber; Thai citrus chicken and
rocket; avocado, raw slaw and butterbean; turkey breast, basil and pine
nut)<br />
• Almond and cinnamon flapjacks<br />
• Banana and peanut bars (protein-based Maximuscle)<br />
• Chocolate and coconut truffles.<br />
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will be unapologetic for the documents, as they are an example of the
meticulous attention to detail that has underpinned the success of the
team over the past four years under the supervision of the team
director, Andy Flower, and Hugh Morris, the managing director of England
cricket."<br />
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The ICC has announced that, following their 3-0 loss of the Ashes, with 2 tests to play, the English Dietary requirements be thrown out the window, and be replaced with slices of this...<br />
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And if they find that a bit hard to swallow, then they can all eat this...<br />
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News Flash! Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth has just officially congratulated the Australian Cricket Team on their victorious 2013-14 Ashes Campaign.<br />
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I'm sorry, Your Majesty, you're one finger short, because...<br />
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<br />Doctor Pedrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11369013779051611754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1587441475045127656.post-6085921421864677062013-11-22T23:30:00.000-08:002013-11-22T23:30:02.689-08:00Doctor PooHappy 50th Anniversary Doctor Who!<br />
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Everything that can be posted about Doctor Who <i>is </i>being posted.<br />
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Except this. I've tried to find this online, and have seen an animated version on youtube. But not the original page from Viz comics. I've been sitting on a scan of this for ages (I carried the original page ripped from a Viz comic probably in '96 around the world with me as well), and now it is time for it to be free. All copyright to Viz comics and the original artists (One would hope). <br />
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Cheers Viz Comics!<br />
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Doctor Pedrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11369013779051611754noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1587441475045127656.post-60086683785602729182013-09-02T18:07:00.000-07:002015-03-06T14:20:20.250-08:00Geek Holidays. Your Essential Calendar.<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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<b>January 2 Isaac Asimov's Birthday</b><br />
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Isaak Yudovich Ozimov was born on Jan 2, 1920, or he may have been born on October 4, 1919. He himself was never sure, and said that it didn't really matter, but he chose Jan 2 to celebrate his own birthday. He needs no introduction to geeks everywhere, but a re-cap never hurts. One of the 'Big Three' masters of hard science fiction, Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series. <br />
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Asimov's cultural legacy may be his formulation of the Three Laws of Robotics, which state: <br />
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.<br />
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.<br />
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.<br />
Asimov added a 'zeroth' law for the eventuality of robotic responsibility for human civilisation:<br />
0. A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.<br />
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Happy Birthday Isaac!<br />
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<b>January 3 J.R.R. Tolkien's Birthday</b><br />
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, born in the Orange Free State, Southern Africa in 1892, created Middle Earth and subsequent novels, The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-5) primarily as a world for his invented languages to live in. In doing so, he single-handedly inspired a popular resurgence of the fantasy genre. Such was the dominance of The Lord of the Rings, it elevated the status of fantasy literature that arguably still casts a daunting shadow over the genre to this day, nearly 60 years after its initial publication, in a way that no single piece of Sci-Fi literature has managed to do. <br />
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<a href="http://www.tolkiensociety.org/toast/">Tolkien's Birthday Toasts</a> <br />
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<b>February 12 Darwin Day</b><br />
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Celebrating the birthday of Charles Darwin, author of<i><b> </b></i><b>"</b><i><b>On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" </b></i>(aka The Origin of Species) which proposed the scientific theory of natural evolution. The day is also used to promote science in general. Events held to celebrate Darwin Day include Hosting a Phylum Feast, making 'Primordial Soup', and trolling Creationists.<br />
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<a href="http://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/the-creationist-trolls-toolkit/">Here are some trolling tips</a><br />
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For those who don't have the time to read big books these days, here's an instructional little video that condenses millions of evolutionary years into 10 minutes.<br />
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And, yes, for the record, Evolution is 'just' a theory. But so is Gravity. If you believe that Evolution can be dismissed on the grounds that it is 'just a theory', I'd be more than happy for you to test the 'theory of Gravity' by leaping out of a 10 storey building.<br />
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<a href="http://darwinday.org/">International Darwin Day</a><br />
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<b>First Friday in March</b> <b>Action Figure Work Day</b><br />
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All right. This is a new holiday, inadvertantly started by Randall Ham in 2014, who posted Instagram images of his Variant New Teen Titans White Raven action figure doing his chores around the office. The response was nuts, and so a new Geek Public Holiday was born. HUZZAH!<br />
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The deal is this. Take your beloved action figure (or figures) to work. Instragram them at work, and add the hashtag #afwd2015 and check out the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ActionFigureWorkDay">facebook page</a> for worldwide results. <br />
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I'm not sure Hulk is a good choice for this holiday. Unless you're planning on rage-quitting work. In which case, go the hack!</div>
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There seems to be a bit of competition in th field, with the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/manefacesday">Bring Your Man-E-Faces To Work Day</a> holiday also a thing, falling on the 'day after (the US) Labor Day'. But not everyone has a Man-E-Faces now do they...<br />
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Check out more info <a href="http://actionfigureworkday.com/">here</a> and start snapping! </div>
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<b>March 11 Douglas Adams' Birthday</b><br />
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Douglas Adams had the good fortune of being involved in various degrees with some of the coolest British TV in history including cameo appearances in Monty Python's Flying Circus and script editor for Doctor Who. But he is most famous for <i>The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, </i>which started out as a radio serial, morphed into an increasingly inaccurately named trilogy (now in 6 parts) of books, and finally a BBC serial. Perhaps the lasting legacy of this series is that it purports to answer the ultimate question to Life, the Universe and Everything, which is 42. The real issue of course was to identify the Question, which Ford and Arthur eventually manage to do over history's first ever game of Scrabble.<br />
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The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is also responsible for another Geek Holiday, International Towel Day, to celebrate this work. (see below) Start quoting today!<br />
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4.Douglas_Adams">Grab a quote from Douglas Adams here</a><br />
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<b>March 14 Pi Day</b><br />
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A day for the celebration of the mathematical concept of Pi, which is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Pi day is celebrated on March the 14th, or 3/14 (month/day) , relating to 3.14, the three easiest to remember digits of this insanely long number. How long? It's infinite apparently. As of October 2011, it has been calculated to 10 trillion digits. Gotta love a challenge.<br />
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Let's not forget Pi Approximation Day, on July 22, as 22 / 7 as a fraction is approximate to Pi. <br />
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How to celebrate Pi Day? Well, you could network super-computers and break the 10 trillion digit mark, ooorrr you could just bake a pie and chat about Pi. Or just eat the pie, and hold a contest to recite Pi from memory to the longest number. Or you could just eat the pie.<br />
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Bearing in mind, March 14 is also the birthday of Albert Einstein. Why choose when you can do both?<br />
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<b>March 25 Tolkien Reading Day.</b> No doubt about how to spend this one.<br />
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Here's my favourite quote from The Silmarillion:<br />
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"There came a time of winter, when night was dark and without</div>
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moon; and the wide plain of Ard-galen stretched dim beneath the cold</div>
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stars, from the hill-forts of the Noldor to the feet of Thangorodrim. The</div>
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watch-fires burned low, and the guards were few; on the plain few were</div>
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waking in the camps of the horsemen of Hithlum. Then suddenly Morgoth</div>
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sent forth great rivers of flame that ran down swifter than Balrogs from</div>
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Thangorodrim, and poured over all the plain; and the Mountains of Iron</div>
belched forth fires of many poisonous hues, and the fume of them stank<br />
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upon the air, and was deadly. Thus Ard-galen perished, and fire devoured</div>
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its grasses; and it became a burned and desolate waste, full of a choking</div>
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dust, barren and lifeless. Thereafter its name was changed, and it was</div>
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called Anfauglith, the Gasping Dust. Many charred bones had there their</div>
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roofless grave; for many of the Noldor perished in that burning, who were</div>
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caught by the running flame and could not fly to the hills. The heights of</div>
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Dorthonion and Ered Wethrin held back the fiery torrents, but their woods</div>
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upon the slopes that looked towards Angband were all kindled, and the</div>
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smoke wrought confusion among the defenders. Thus began the fourth</div>
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of the great battles, Dagor Bragollach, the Battle of Sudden Flame."</div>
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<a href="http://www.thelandofshadow.com/mordorgate/darkdownloads/blackspeech/speech3.htm">Brush up on your Black Speech here</a><br />
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<b>April 5 First Contact Day (Star Trek)</b><br />
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More of a pre-celebration of an event that won't ever happen. It doesn't get much geekier than that, really. First Contact Day (pre) celebrates the arrival at Bozeman, Montana of the Vulcan Survey Ship the T’Plana-Hath on April 5th, 2063. The Survey Ship responded to the warp signature of the Phoenix, which was (is) (will be) (won't ever be) (we need The Doctor to sort out this one) the spaceship that housed mankind's first successful attempt at achieving warp drive.<br />
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Why was April 5th chosen as First Contact Day? Movie co-writer Ronald D. Moore put up his guilty hand and explained that April 5th is the birthday of his oldest son. A quick google-fu reveals that Ronald was born in 1964, meaning that, should he survive to reach First Contact Day, he will be the ripe old age of 99. Just young enough, I would imagine, to benefit from the advanced medical rejuvenation technology that the Vulcans will undoubtedly bring with them. Live Long and Prosper.<br />
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<b>April 12 Yuri's Night</b><br />
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Yuri's Night celebrates space exploration milestones in general, and humanity's first venture into space, when Yuri Gagarin flew Vostok 1 on April 12th 1961. <br />
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German scientists during World War II were the first people to launch rockets (the V2) into space in 1942. The first animals in space were fruit flies, launched by poached German scientists then working for the US, in 1947. Their names are lost for all time. The first monkey in space was Albert II (son of Albert I, who was also fired into space, but only made it about 60km from the earth's surface) in 1949. The US also fired some mice into space, but the mortality and recovery rate for the monkeys and mice was frankly appalling. No unionists, one would assume.<br />
The Soviet Union had better success firing dogs into space, firing Tsygan and Dezik into space (but not orbit) in 1951, and successfully recovering both dogs. On November 3, 1957, Soviet Cosmodog Laika, aboard Sputnik 2, became the first animal to orbit the earth on board the second craft to orbit the earth. Sadly, Laika died during the flight, because the technology to actually return from orbit had yet to be invented. <br />
More dogs were launched before Yuri Gagarin made his historic flight on April 12 1961, and the Space Race was on like Donkey Kong (who was never launched into space or orbit).<br />
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Ham the Chimp returning from his 1961 Mercury-Redstone 2 flight.</div>
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Guinea Pigs, Frogs, Rats, Cats, Parasitic Wasps, Flour Beetles, Tortoises, Wine Flies, Meal Worms, Nematodes, Fish, Spiders, Newts, Brine Shrimp, Crickets, Snails, Oyster Toadfish, Sea Urchins, Jellyfish, Bees, Ants, Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches (WTF?!?), Scorpions and Butterfly larva have all joined the ranks of animals who have been taken into space. An assortment of people and robots have also been launched into space, most of the people came back, most of the robots did not, one is currently doing burn-outs and taking selfies on Mars as we speak, another is spying on Saturn and its moons as we speak, and Voyager 1 is expected to push through the Heliosheath and cruise Interstellar space any year now.</div>
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But let's not forget the man who made it first, Yuri Gagarin. Celebrate by watching <a href="http://www.firstorbit.org/">First Orbit</a> , neck copious amounts of Vodka, fire rockets into space (or in the air at least, with a Ken Doll strapped on for good measure and authenticity) or re-live the Cold War all over again. With Rockets. </div>
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<a href="http://yurisnight.net/">Yuri's Night</a><br />
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Recommended listening?</div>
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<b>April 16 Velociraptor Awareness Day</b><br />
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While it might seem a game to some, the Velociraptor threat is very real. Just one level behind the impending Zombie Apocalypse, the Velociraptor Peril needs to be taken seriously, or we will all suffer the consequences. Unlike the Zombie Apocalypse, a machete is <i>not </i>your best friend. You do <i>not </i>want to have to deal with these monsters up close and personal. Distance attacks are the best advice, and they can close distance <i>fast!</i> The American Society for Velociraptor Attack Prevention suggests tips for new home buyers, like checking door frames (solid oak or steel is recommended) and window sizes (smaller than a Velociraptor) for extra security , and it is thoroughly recommended that you get to know your neighbours, in case they turn out to be Velociraptors. A small amount of prevention could save you a Hollywood-sized problem in the near future. Be Aware. The life you save could be your own! Use this day to raise awareness among your friends, family and co-workers. Map out emergency evacuation points, and sandbag a rooftop turret on your house. Interior ladders only, Velociraptors can disable and destroy external ladders! Wear the official t-shirt around town, and engage in an intensive leaflet campaign at your local council. Above all, Be Prepared!<br />
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There can never be too much of this kind of thing</div>
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<a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/martial-artists-prepare-for-velociraptor-awareness-day-april-18">Martial Artists Prepare For Velociraptor Awareness Day</a><br />
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<b>May 4 Star Wars Day World Fair Use Day</b><br />
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Probably the best known (perhaps only generally-known) Geek Holiday is Star Wars Day. There is a little confusion as to why May the 4th was chosen as Star Wars Day. It is generally agreed that the pun 'May the Fourth be with you', now refers to the Star Wars phrase 'May the Force be with you'. But the origin is in debate. According to <a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/May_4">Wookiepedia</a> the pun has been appropriated from a London Evening News ad taken out in 1979 by the UK Conservative Party congratulating their newly voted in leader, Margaret Thatcher. The ad read<i> "May the Fourth be with you, Maggie. Congratulations." </i><br />
However, according to<i> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Day">this Wikipedia entry</a> </i>the date was chosen to signify the anti-imperialist, cultural and policital movement of the May the Fourth Movement, growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing on May 4th, 1919.<br />
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Whatever the origin, the Star Wars camp now owns the phrase, with the help of Google and Disney, who now own the whole kit and kaboole (including Jar Jar). <br />
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Things to do to celebrate Star Wars Day:<br />
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Star Wars Movie Marathon.<br />
Invent a new way to kill Jar Jar.<br />
Do. Or Do Not.<br />
Use the Force to open Automatic Doors. (Actually, I do this every day...)<br />
Break up random conversations between strangers or co-workers, yelling 'It's A Trap!'<br />
Get together with Star Wars friends and cast the up-and-coming movies. Argue over who should actually be directing the new Star Wars movies. Cast yourself in a role.<br />
Dress your kids/pets up in Star Wars costumes. And yourself. Take pictures. Post them online.<br />
<a href="http://www.boredpanda.org/vadering-photo-meme-force-choke/">Force Choke someone</a><br />
Buy even more Star Wars shit.<br />
Play with your opened Star Wars toys. Re-enact crucial, or insanely obscure scenes from the movies. Or the EU.<br />
Join the <a href="http://501tag.com/">501st Legion</a><br />
Update your Facebook profile pics with Star Wars pics. Post Star Wars crap all over your wall.<br />
Play Star Wars console or PC games.<br />
Troll Trekkies.<br />
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There are some people out there who have never watched Star Wars, and don't know what all the fuss is about. I have personally encountered 3 people like this in my life. Here's a little guide to help these unfortunate culturally-deprived folks get up to scratch...<br />
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<a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Star-Wars-Fan">How to become a Star Wars Fan</a><br />
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Kiss me, it's Star Wars Day</div>
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<a href="http://maythe4th.starwars.com/">May The Fourth Be With You</a><br />
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Star Wars Day completely overshadows World's Fair Use Day. Oh well. <br />
Here's a link, just in case you need a year off from celebrating Star Wars day.<br />
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<a href="http://worldsfairuseday.org/">World's Fair Use Day</a><br />
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<b>May 22 Anniversary of the world debut of Pac-Man</b><br />
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Of all the games at the dawn of Arcade Gaming, there is something special about Pacman. Frogger aside, most early games involved shooting stuff. Space Invaders, Asteroids, Duck Hunt, Galaxian/Galaga, and many more had your standard joystick and a fire button. Pacman was weird. It was a dark maze with ghosts hunting you, and you had to eat your way out of trouble. What?!? What kind of a game is that? A classic game, a towering monument to the Weird Idea as gaming hero, that's what. <br />
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It used to cost 20 cents a game. Now, PC emulators and websites mean that you can celebrate the world debut of Pacman for free. Or celebrate having just got up for the day. Or celebrate having an internet connection. Everything goes better with a 33 year old yellow eating thing as your gaming hero.<br />
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<a href="http://www.freepacman.org/welcome.php">Play for free here</a><br />
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Pac-Man Level 256. </div>
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Remember, as Marcus Brigstoke once famously said... <br />
"If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."<br />
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The Secret Origin of Pac-Man? </div>
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<b>May 25 Towel Day (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) Geek Pride Day The Glorious 25th of May</b><br />
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May 25 is a bit like Geek Christmas and Halloween all wrapped up together, with 3 or 4 holidays (depending on whether or not you live in Los Angeles). <br />
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May 25th was declared "Star Wars Day" by the Los Angeles City Council, to celebrate the release date (in 1977) of the first Star Wars Day. 2 Star Wars Days? Why not.<br />
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Back when Star Wars was in Black and White </div>
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<b>International Towel Day</b><br />
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Celebrating Douglas Adams' works, the first Towel Day was first commemorated on May 25, 2001, 2 weeks after Douglas Adams' death. The day is a celebration of Douglas Adams' works in general, and can revolve around working a towel somehow into the day's celebration. Cue Towel Quote:<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">“A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]
says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar
hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap
it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan
Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of
Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it
beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon;
use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for
use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious
fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a
mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it
can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress
signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be
clean enough.”
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Do these towels count?</div>
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<a href="http://towelday.org/">Towel Day</a><br />
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<b>Geek Pride Day</b><br />
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Starting in Spain in 2006 as "Día del Orgullo Friki" of all places, Geek Pride Day is a bit like Gay Pride day, but the costumes are more outrageous. The date was chosen to co-incide with the release of the first Star Wars movie (Jaysus, does that shit never get old?).<br />
Amid the clatter of D20 rolls and incessant Sci-fi quotes, geeks everywhere take over the internet (more) and engage in all manner of geekiness. Sometimes this even spills over into the local comic store. Yeah, you heard. AFK! Right On! In your face, sports fans! I'm not entirely convinced there are standard ways to celebrate yet, so anything goes at this stage. Except, perhaps for...<br />
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Everyone knows someone like this...</div>
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<a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/geekpride/">Geek Pride Day</a><br />
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<b>The Glorious 25th of May.</b> Discworld.<br />
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A day to indulge in Terry Prachett's Discworld series, and more recently (as if the 25th of March wasn't busy enough) since Terry's announcement that he has Alzheimer's, there have been calls to wear lilac as a tribute, and to raise awareness for Alzheimers.<br />
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Funnier than Harry Potter</div>
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<a href="http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/index.php/Glorious_Revolution">The Glorious 25th of May</a><br />
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So, May the 25th. Carrying your lilac towel in one hand, and your light-saber in the other, wearing your super-hero costume, saunter in to your local comic-book store, grab a stranger and read them some treasured extract from 'The Colour of Magic'. Just to cover all the angles. <br />
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Happy Geeking!<br />
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<b>First Saturday in May Free Comic Book Day</b><br />
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The First
Saturday in May is Free Comic Book Day in most comic book shops (that
stock US comics) in the world. Stroll on in to your local (if you have
one. Drive if you don't) and score a freebie. Just like that. The
idea is that you come back, after having been astounded at the freebie
that you scored, and purchase more of this subversive literature. Genius! And to be taken advantage of at every possible opportunity. Because adding free comic books to your growing pile of over-priced comic books makes all kinds of sense. I mean, who doesn't like free stuff!<br />
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As a bonus for 2013, Free Comic Book Day had the decency to fall on the same day as Star Wars Day. All Hail!!!<br />
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<b>June 6 International Day Of Slayer </b><br />
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There are many different types of geeks in the world. The International Day of Slayer is a celebration for some more extreme types. The Metal-heads! Anime fans are all good and well, but nothing beats having the Slayer band logo carved into the back of your head, and it's quicker than sitting through 6,000 episodes of Sazae-san. <br />
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The International Day of Slayer started out in 2006 as a spoof of the national Day of Prayer (6/6/06), but since the death of guitarist Jeff Hanneman in May 2013, the push is to make the International Day of Slayer the first 'Heavy Metal Holiday' (after Halloween, which is an unofficial Heavy Metal holiday anyway). <br />
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Things to do to celebrate this long-overdue Heavy Metal Holiday include:<br />
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Listen to Slayer at full blast in your car.<br />
Listen to Slayer at full blast in your home.<br />
Listen to Slayer at full blast at your place of employment.<br />
Listen to Slayer at full blast in any public place you prefer. <br />
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DO NOT use headphones! The objective of this day is for everyone
within earshot to understand that it is the National Day of Slayer.
National holidays in America aren't just about celebrating; they're
about forcing it upon non-participants.<br />
Taking that participation to a problematic level:<br />
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Stage a "Slay-out." Don't go to work. Listen to Slayer.<br />
Have a huge block party that clogs up a street in your neighbourhood.
Blast Slayer albums all evening. Get police cruisers and helicopters on
the scene. Finish with a full-scale riot.<br />
Spray paint Slayer logos on churches, synagogues, or cemeteries.<br />
Play Slayer covers with your own band (since 99% of your riffs are stolen from Slayer anyway).<br />
Kill the neighbour's dog and blame it on Slayer.<br />
(source, International Day of Slayer Official website.)<br />
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I prefer the idea of killing a hippie rather than dogs, because a dog doesn't have a choice about being a dog, whereas a hippie...<br />
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Slayer Kittie Good </div>
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Slayer Kittie Bad</div>
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<a href="http://www.nationaldayofslayer.org/">International Day Of Slayer</a><br />
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President Obama officially declaring International Day of Slayer a public Holiday</div>
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<b>July 2 World UFO Day</b><br />
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Another holiday that has a disputed date. Some celebrate World UFO Day on June 2, while others celebrate it on June 24. June 2 commemorates the supposed crash of the UFO at Roswell in 1947, while June 24 commemorates the date that aviator Kenneth Arnold reported the first UFO sighting in the US. Take your pick, or celebrate both days. Add an extra day. Go nuts!<br />
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The idea of World UFO Day is to raise awareness for the 'indisputable' evidence of UFOs (like Crop Circles and ambiguous cave etchings, one would imagine), and to encourage governments to de-classify documents relating to UFO sightings, encounters, anal probings, cattle mutilations, etc. It is also a glorious celebration of the right to indulge in Spurious Logic and outright Dickhead Thinking, which has been the Right and Privilege of Orthodox Religions and Conspiracy Nuts since Time Immemorial. And a day to brush aside the annoyance that is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox">Fermi's Paradox</a> because LOOK! A UFO! Prove me wrong!<br />
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Not that I am against the idea that there are Other Life Forms in the Cosmos, Fermi's Paradox notwithstanding. However, frankly, the idea of being visited by a vastly superior alien race is pant-shittingly scary, if our own history of old world/new world cultural clashes are anything to go by. The idea of 'The Matrix' using our bodies as living batteries comes to mind.<br />
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Still, the UFO is a much-loved tradition in Sci-fi movies, and have etched their way into our collective sub-conscious so for that reason, you gotta love them. Mass Cultural Hallucinogenic Responses to Cold War Anxiety, or genuine <a href="http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Teaser">teaser</a>, it doesn't matter. Embrace the Alien within you, and leave your reasoning faculties at the door. It's not like anything else in this world makes sense anyway... <br />
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Possibly the most realistic First Contact scene ever filmed!</div>
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<a href="http://www.worldufoday.com/">World UFO Day</a><br />
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<b>July 22 Pi Approximation Day</b><br />
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See March 14 Pi Day<br />
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<b>August 19 Gene Roddenbery's Birthday</b><br />
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Not really a holiday, but a good excuse to set phasers to Bowel Disupt and go on a rampage. Or re-watch that episode of Star Trek again. (Sorry, I'm not a Trekkie. Is that what they do?)<br />
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<b>August 24 Pluto Loss Of Planetary Status Commiseration Day Running of the Hoods Day (Willrow Hood Celebration day Star Wars)</b><br />
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On the 24th of August, 2006, an assembly of the International Astronomical Union, hereafter referred to as The Bastards, voted to strip the Planet Pluto of its planetary status, and demote it to Floating Turd At The Edge Of The Cool Zone status. Little did The Bastards realise the savage backlash they would face from Pluto advocates and outraged Disney Fans who, though in error, were welcomed to the fold anyway for their added hostility.<br />
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Pluto's discovery on Feb. 18, 1930 was one of the most serendipitous moments of astronomy. However, it's status as a planet has always been questioned by narrow-minded, bigoted scientists and elitist gas-bags. With the discovery of the Kuiper Belt in 1992, and many more Pluto-like bodies orbiting the solar system at extreme distances, the pressure was on to kick Pluto out of the Planet Club. <br />
In 2006, The Bastards re-defined a 'planet' as meeting three criteria:<br />
1. The object must be in orbit around the Sun<br />
2. The object must be massive enough to be a sphere by its own gravitational force. More specifically, its own gravity should pull it into a shape of hydrostatic equilibrium<br />
3. It must have cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit<br />
Pluto failed to meet this hastily knocked-up criteria on only the third point, clearly added with the sole purpose of excluding Pluto.<br />
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Alan Stern, who is the principal investigator with NASA's "New Horizons" mission to Pluto, has publicly rubbished The Bastard's resolution. Stern claims that by the terms of the new "definition", the planets Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune, all of which share their orbits with asteroids, would be excluded. That means we are not on a planet either!<br />
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The Bastards are also dragging their feet in regards to formalising a definition for binary dwarf planets, so Charon's status as a moon of Pluto is also in possible danger.<br />
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Stop the Madness! Bring back Pluto into the Planetary Club! Think of the children!<br />
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<a href="http://www.plutoisaplanet.org/index.html">Find out what to Do About It!</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.space.com/2791-pluto-demoted-longer-planet-highly-controversial-definition.html">Pluto Demoted From Planetary Status</a><br />
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<b>Running of the Hoods Day (Willrow Hood Celebration day Star Wars)</b><br />
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Jesus Tittie-Fucking, another Star Wars related holiday?<b> </b>Well, more an event, really.<br />
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<b> </b>I've banged on a bit about this in my post on <a href="http://lazergundiplomacy.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/star-wars-toys-we-really-want-to-see.html">Star Wars Toys We Really Want To See</a>, so all I really need to add is that this is pretty much a celebration of one seriously obscure character from The Empire Strikes Back, who, (one suspects probably through a wee little bit of racial profiling) may or may not be looting Bespin when the shit hits the fan, and is seen to be making off with what looks like an ice-cream making machine. <br />
Yeah, I know, real Big Picture stuff, right? But Star Wars fans have a propensity for seeking out and glorifying the obscure reference, so the Willrow Hood (that's the character's name BTW), Running of the Hoods Day is as much a celebration of that, as well as a re-enactment of that least-famous scene from 'Empire'. <br />
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There is some bullshit background on Willrow Hood <a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Willrow_Hood">here</a> where it is explained that he is not, as his name would clearly suggest, knicking anything, but actually making off with a computer core containing Rebel contacts. Or maybe he did that with a USB stick, and he knicked an ice-cream-making machine on the way anyway. Incidentally, the hunt is on to find the actor who played Willrow Hood. Maybe because he would be a riot at conventions, but then again, maybe because he really did make off with that Ice-Cream Making machine after all.<br />
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<b>August 27 International Cosplay Day</b><br />
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Cosplay is a Japanese term for Costume Play, and while Costume Playing probably started with Trekkie conventions, but was perfected in Japan, where the largest event featuring Cosplay is the semi-annual <i>doujinshi </i>(fan-made comics) market Comiket held in Tokyo. Cosplay spills out on the street in Tokyo as well, and influences street fashion. <a href="http://lazergundiplomacy.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/harajuku-girls.html">Harajuku</a> used to be a regular Sunday cosplay outdoor fashion extravaganza, but apparently recently that has died down. Better luck around Akihabara or the Otaku section of Ikebukuro around the Butler Cafes and <i>Doujinshi</i> shops. <br />
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Anime <i>Kigurumi </i>Cosplayers. Never what they seem... </div>
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<a href="http://lazergundiplomacy.blogspot.com.au/2011/07/tokyo-big-sight-comiket-december-2009.html">Tokyo Comiket Cosplay</a><br />
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Pop Culture Cosplay is now a world-wide phenomenon, so grab your costume, or stitch one up if you don't have one, and go outside and disturb random strangers with your comic-ready Jack-Of-Hearts costume! <br />
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<b>August 28 International Read Comics in Public Day (Jack Kirby's Birthday)</b><br />
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Hey, remember running on down to your local newsstand with your toffee apple and your pocket money, and blowing it all on comics, and sitting down next to the fire hydrant and reading a stack of comics all day! Naw, me neither. These days it's all e-comics on tablets, tucked safely in your home or basement, living in perpetual fear of being laughed at for being a crazed under-pants fetish pamphlet-reader. Well, NO MORE! On this day, it's time to reclaim the streets. It's time to reclaim coolness, and show all those hipster fucks that they don't own The Avengers just because they're Joss Whedon fans, YOU DO, because you've been reading The Avengers for AGES!!! <br />
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A recent celebration (as of 2010) as a result of the co-creators of the Daily Cross Hatch site having felt vaguely embarrassed about reading a comic in public, and realising that they shouldn't have to. Right On! As well as airing out your subversive collection in public, there appears to be a hipster conspiracy to Instragram shots of you reading your favourite comic in public. You know, just to jump on the Cool Bandwagon. That's ok, let them have their play. Just get out there and don't be afraid to show the world why comics are sexy as hell!<br />
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No-one would be caught dead reading an issue of 'Spitfire and the Troubleshooters' in public.</div>
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Mind you, it's Read Comics in Public Day Everyday in Japan.<br />
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The date was presumably chosen in honour of Jack Kirby's Birthday. Also a great excuse to post this awesome pic.<br />
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And smoke a cigar in honour of The King. Make It So. <br />
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<b>September 19 International Talk Like A Pirate Day</b><br />
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Apparently the only holiday to come about as a result of a sports injury, International Talk Like A Pirate Day has been around for nearly 20 years now, and encourages all Pirate cliches to be indulged in. How good is that! Started by a couple of salty dogs by the name of Ol' Chumbucket and Cap'n Slappy, International Talk Like a Pirate Day is spreading around the world, wherever all good ships are attacked by honest, hard-working pirates and land lubbers alike. Now officially endorced by the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. <br />
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I said Pirate <i>Day, </i>not...oh, all right. Go on then.</div>
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Avast!</div>
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Shiver Me Timbers!</div>
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<a href="http://www.talklikeapirate.com/howtogerman.html">Learn how to speak Pirate in German</a> </div>
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<a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/talk-pirate-native-somali/">Talk like a Somali Pirate</a> </div>
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<a href="http://www.talklikeapirate.com/drinks.html">Get Drunk or Die</a></div>
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Double Arr</div>
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Ye Be Talkin' Through yer Parrot</div>
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Crank Alestorm!</div>
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<a href="http://www.talklikeapirate.com/">Talk Like A Pirate Day</a><br />
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<b>September 22 Bilbo and Frodo's Birthdays</b><br />
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As all good Tolkiendil know, Bilbo Baggins and Frodo baggins share the same birthday, Halimath 22 on the Shire Calendar. Bilbo was born in 1290 Shire Age (2890 Third Age) and Frodo was born in 1368 Shire Age (2968 Third Age). Halimath equates to the month of September, but due to a discrepancy between the Shire Calendar and our Gregorian Calendar, this actually means that the Baggins' Birthday actually falls somewhere around September 12 - 14 on our calendar. Confusing? Put down that Longbottom Bong and join the rest of us. <br />
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Choof on some Old Toby</div>
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<a href="http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Hobbit_Day">Hobbit Day</a><br />
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<b>September 28 Ask A Stupid Question Day</b><br />
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A US holiday, occasionally observed in the US, usually between teachers and students, often observed on the last schoolday of September in the US. The idea is to get students to ask questions that they would normally be reluctant to ask for fear of being ridiculed.<br />
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For people working in retail, however, this holiday is<b> </b>pretty much observed on a daily basis.<br />
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Here are some questions posed by celebrities, to get into the spirit of things:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“What’s Wal-Mart? Do they sell, like wall stuff?” <cite>— Paris Hilton</cite> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?” <cite>— Christina Aguilera</cite> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Do you have blacks, too?" <i>--George W Bush to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"</i>Are you any relation to your
brother Marv?<i>" </i>- <i>Leon Wood, New Jersey Nets guard, to Steve
Albert, Nets TV commentator</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Doesn't that hurt?"</span></span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> - Anna Nicole Smith, on suicide bombers</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span lang="EN">"If
we’re not supposed to eat animals, how come they’re made out of meat?"
- <i>Tom Snyder, talk show host</i></span></span></span><i> </i><br />
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And some stupid questions as asked on Yahoo:<br />
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"Does looking at a picture of the sun hurt your eyes?"<br />
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"Do midgets have night vision?"<br />
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"What incantations work best for summoning Jesus?"<br />
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"Is there any possible way to make 2+2=5?"<br />
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"I made Jesus shaped pancakes but I burned them. Am I going to hell?"<br />
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"I caught my son having sex with a guy and I think he might be gay. Is there a definitive way to tell?"<br />
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<a href="http://fb-troublemakers.com/the-people-at-the-australiann-tourism-website-have-an-awesome-sense-of-humor-who-knew-3246/">Q&A at the Australian Tourism Website</a><br />
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And, every now and then, stupid questions actually make us think.<br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">"How famous do you have to be to be considered assassinated instead of just being murdered?"</span><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">"They say practice makes perfect, they also say that nobody is perfect, so why do we practice?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Why does mineral water that has "trickled through
mountains for centuries" go out of date next year?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens?"</span></span><br />
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<b>October 3 Virus Appreciation Day</b><br />
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There appears to be some confusion as to whether it refers to the Computer Virus, or the Biological Virus, and the initiators of the holiday are consciously anonymous. Perhaps a biological virus took them out, or they didn't celebrate <a href="http://www.giftypedia.com/Global_Handwashing_Day">Global Handwashing Day</a> but in any event, let's stick with the Computer version, for the sake of keeping with the geek theme of this entry.<br />
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One suspects that someone in the anti-virus software industry is beating this up to sell more Y2K re-writes.<br />
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If you have trouble with the above link, <a href="http://www.rickastley.co.uk/">click here</a></div>
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For the more adventurous, why not go out of your way to catch some malware? Turn off your firewall and anti-virus software, the scout around Russian porn sites, or type in the latest Hollywood bimbo, followed by the word 'nude' and indiscriminately start downloading. Get into some keygen pages and scout around for popular software cracks, that's almost a guarantee right there. Or just ask some nice folk over at 4Chan for help getting your computer infected. They will be more than helpful, and you may end up with way more than you bargained with. If that sounds like too much work just go into Google and start typing in some keywords like 'Jihad', 'Unabomber', or 'Kill Whitey', and let the NSA do the rest. Have fun!<br />
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<a href="http://mac-antivirus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/history-of-macintosh-viruses.html">Macs don't get viruses?</a><br />
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<a href="http://holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/October/virusappreciation.htm">Virus Appreciation Day</a><br />
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<b>October 9 International Talk Like Brian Blessed Day</b><br />
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Brian Blessed celebrating Talk Like A Pirate Day</div>
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All right, confession time. I invented International Talk Like Brian Blessed Day. Maybe. It goes like this.<br />
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I was out Yarring and Talking like a Pirate one fine September 19, when it hit me. Why isn't there a Talk Like A Dalek Day, or a Talk Like Brian Blessed Day? So, doing what folks do when hit by an idea of this magnitude, I jumped of Facebook and started a page...<br />
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I chose October 9, because it is Brian Blessed's birthday, figuring that the day probably wouldn't take off, and if it did, he'd probably get annoyed with everybody trying to talk like him when he's celebrating his birthday that he'd track down the culprit and I'd finally get to meet him.<br />
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Only now that I'm doing a bit more research, it seems that I'm not the only one with the idea. Other folk have also had the same bright idea (or stole mine) and picked other dates. 19 Feb, April 20, Oct 12 (oohh...close), April 10 and Dec 12 are some of the dates I've randomly found proposed to be Talk Like Brian Blessed Day. But, my idea, my blog, so October 9 it is. Get out there, howl your lungs to the winds, campaign to have Brian Blessed as the voice for GPS's or Stephen Hawking, and at the end of the day, if you still have your voice, you're doing it wrong!<br />
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No one clip could do justice to this epic voice, but his commentary on snooker here is sublime.</div>
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<b>October 11 Federation Day (Star Trek)</b><br />
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Not much fun happening in this sector, Number One<br />
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Federation Day is a celebration, within the Star Trek Universe, of the founding of the United Federation of Planets. A non-canon newsclipping has dated Federation Day to October 11, but other non-canon sources have also dated F-Day as August 12, May 8 or June 30. Again, there doesn't seem to be consensus as to how to celebrate Federation Day outside of the Star Trek Universe, but I'm betting that random episodes of Star Trek are in for a viewing. </div>
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<b>October 14 Spider-Man's Birthday</b><br />
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Spider-Man (Earth 616) has a birthday? Not an anniversary of his first appearance in comics (which was June 5, 1962 BTW), but an actual, y'know, birthday. Like us. <br />
Well, according to New York Comic-Con for 2012, Spider-Man's Birthday was the last day of NYCC, which fell on October 14. On what grounds? <a href="http://entertainment.time.com/2012/10/12/new-spider-man-no-more-mr-nice-guy/">Time Entertainment</a> refers to the date, in relation to the NYCC. New York City Mayor’s Office announced October 14 as Spider-Man’s official birthday via official proclamation from New York City
Mayor Bloomberg. But why October 14? Was it just to co-incide with the last day of NYCC? Probably.<br />
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Who Cares!<br />
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Put on some web-shooters and swing around your home town! Jump from rooftop to rooftop, throwing cake at random folk! Accost strangers in the park and read Spider-Man comics to them! <br />
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It's just a shame that <a href="http://www.comicvine.com/superior-spider-man/4050-55552/">Spider-Man isn't quite himself these days</a> to celebrate his own birthday. Oh well... <br />
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<a href="http://marvel.com/news/story/19512/nycc_2012_celebrate_spider-mans_birthday">Spider Man's Birthday</a><br />
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<b>October 21 Back To The Future Day</b><br />
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This Year!</div>
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The Countdown to Hoverboards is on!<br />
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<a href="http://www.october212015.com/">Back To The Future Day</a><br />
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There shouldn't be any confusion about this day. After all, it appeared in in the movie, right? Back to the Future sets a specific day for when Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to the future. And that day is rapidly approaching. But hoax Back To The Future Days appear every now and then, using some kind of Photoshop trickery of a Back To The Future Day Hoax Generator, or something. <br />
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<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/9361341/Back-to-the-Future-hoax-hits...-again.html">Back to the Future Day Hoaxes</a><br />
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So just a couple more short years until we get hover-boards, right? Right?<br />
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<b>October 31 Halloween (heavy metal holiday, cosplay)</b><br />
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Most folks like dressing up in mildly scary costumes for Trick or Treating, at least in Scotland, Ireland and the States. In Japan, <a href="http://lazergundiplomacy.blogspot.com.au/2011/07/halloween-in-roppongi-tokyo-2009.html">anything goes</a> and elsewhere, well, the whole cosplay thing is still kinda catching on. But a Cosplay Holiday is still a Cosplay Holiday.<br />
Most probably based on the Celtic Festival of Samhain (SAH-win), the holiday was christianised to commemorate All Saint's Day. The idea being that in deepest darkest times, there was a day between the end of the calendar year, and the beginning of the next, where the spirits of the dead were allowed to roam the world. Similar in principal is the Japanese O-Bon festival, which takes place in July or August, depending on which part of Japan you live in, but they save the cosplay for Halloween.<br />
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Needless to say, Halloween and Heavy Metal are a match made in Hell.<br />
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King Diamond celebrates Halloween Every Day</div>
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<a href="http://lazergundiplomacy.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/heavy-metal-halloween-m-ultimate.html">Suggested Playlist</a><br />
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<b>November 2 Steve Ditko's Birthday</b> <br />
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Not a holiday as such, but a great excuse to re-read some classic Silver Age Spider-Man and Doctor Strange! <br />
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<b>November 23 Anniversary of first transmission of Doctor Who</b><br />
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All right, Whovians! 2013 is the Big One! 50 years of Doctor Who! Get Real Ready! No amount of gushing I do will do justice to the cultural juggernaut that is Doctor Who. A cranky old man travels through Time and Space in a Blue Closet in 1963, and 50 years later, the Royal Mail releases <a href="http://www.royalmail.com/doctorwho">commemorative stamps</a> in anticipation of an Internet-melting event. With the new Doctor announced, and a raging debate over whether John Hurt was a one-off Doctor, things are reaching a geek climax, which will explode on November 23 2013. We are bracing for Dalek attacks across the Thames, long scarves tripping up Cybermen, Sontaran and Rutans brokering a peace, and the incessant buzz of a million Sonic Screwdrivers. Bring a couch to hide behind! <br />
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I couldn't choose which Doctor to cosplay, so I came as all of them!</div>
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Get your Dancing Pants On!</div>
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<b>December 25 Bruce Wayne's parents murdered</b><br />
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While you're spending time with your folks at Christmas, stuffing your face with more food and groaning at lame christmas cracker jokes, spare a thought for poor Bats. Batman hates Christmas. Why? Oh boy.<br />
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It all comes down to the moment Batman was born, in Crime Alley, between his parents, murdered in front of an 8 year old Bruce Wayne. The details of his origin are slightly different, depending on whether you follow Pre-Crisis, Year Two, the New 52, or the movies, but the gist is pretty much that a mugger named Joe Chill (or the Joker in the movies) tries to rob Bruce Wayne's rich parents after the family come out of a movie theatre (having watched 'Zorro'), the mugging goes wrong, they are shot in front of little Bruce, and thus is born a Dark Knight. That's tragic enough, right?<br />
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But wait. It gets worse.<br />
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In an episode of the light-hearted animated '<i>The Brave and the Bold</i>', the origin is tweaked a little further. In '<i>Invasion of the Secret Santas</i>', Bruce has a series of flashbacks, now set on Christmas Day, where he is a snotty brat who doesn't like the toy he gets for Christmas, so in order to placate him, Thomas Wayne suggests they go and see 'Zorro' at the cinema. Bruce doesn't wanna, and insists on going home. Guess what happens next?<br />
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But is that really a cause for celebration? Hells yeah! Christmas in your Batman costume, wrecking christmas trees and breaking presents! Best. Christmas. Ever! There's an Instagram moment right there!<br />
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<b>December 28 Stan Lee's Birthday</b><br />
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Again, an excuse to <b> </b>go back over your Marvel Silver-Age comics (or trade reprints, or Digital copies) and have a read of the Master of Pop-Culture Hyperbole! And get ready for another year of Geek Holidays! 'Nuff Said!<br />
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<b>Bonus Otaku Event, Japan Only The "Balse Tweet Matsuri"</b><br />
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No set date for this one, but it happens whenever Studio Ghibli movie <span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta</i> (Castle in the Sky) is aired on Japanese TV. The deal is, fans have their tweet at the ready, and at the exact moment the word 'Balse' is uttered in the movie, they unleash Twitter Hell. Miyazaki Otaku monstered the Twitter Global Peak in a Single Second World Record </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">at 11:21:50 p.m. Japan Standard Time on August 2, 2013, tweeting 'Balse' 143,199 times (the previous world record was 33,388). No-one obsesses quite like the Japanese. And I love it! <span class="t_nihongo_help noprint"><sup><span class="t_nihongo_icon" style="color: #0000ee; font: bold 80% sans-serif; padding: 0 .1em; text-decoration: none;"></span></sup></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/08/19/balse_festival_japan_castle_in_the_sky_airing_breaks_twitter_record_for.html">Miyazaki fans break Twitter. Again.</a><br />
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<br />Doctor Pedrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11369013779051611754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1587441475045127656.post-92093095629877942782013-08-20T19:32:00.000-07:002013-08-21T07:55:44.763-07:00Happy Birthday H P Lovecraft, the Heavy Metal Radio Show<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Broadcast 21st August, 10pm - 1am, Melbourne time (EST)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>1. Behind The Walls Of Sleep - Black Sabbath</b><br /><br />From the first heavy metal album ever, this is not a direct quote, nor are the lyrics explicitly Lovecraftian. However, Geezer Butler, when asked about it, replied, <br /><br />'I think I may have borrowed the title 'Behind The Wall Of Sleep' from 'Beyond The Wall Of Sleep' (of which I have a first edition), but it's so long ago, I can't really remember'. On whether 'Planet Caravan' from Paranoid is a Lovecraft song, he states, 'Planet Caravan' has nothing to do whatsoever with Lovecraft.' (The Strange Sound of Cthulhu' by Gary Hill)<br /><br /><b>2. E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) - Blue Oyster Cult</b><br /><br />This song makes references to 'The King In Yellow' (1895) featured in a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers, read by Lovecraft in early 1927, and referenced in 'The Whisperer in Darkness' (1931). <br /><br />"I’m in fairy rings and tower beds<br />“Don’t report this” three men said<br />Books by blameless and by the dead<br />King in yellow, the Queen in red"<br /><br />by Donald Roeser and Sandy Pearlman<br />©1976 B. O'Cult Songs, Inc.<br /><br />The Blue Oyster Cult 1988 album 'Imaginos' is very much Lovecraftian in tone, especially the songs 'I Am The One You Warned Me Of', 'Les Invisibles', 'In The Presence Of Another World' and 'The Siege And Investiture Of Baron Von Frankenstein's Castle At Wisseiria'. The common thread through this concept album is mention of a 'starry wisdom' and while the album concept was envisioned as a trilogy of double albums, it didn't work out that way. The final work appeared with songs in a jumbled order.<br /><br />"Your master is a monster<br />Born of a yolkless egg<br />He has dominion over animals<br />He walks the world Entrail diviner<br />And when the stars are right<br />He locks the door behind the door behind the door<br />The milky way abyss inclines"<br />("In The Presence Of Another World")<br /><br />by Sandy Pearlman and Joe Bouchard<br />©1988 S. Pearlman, Inc and B. O'Cult Songs, Inc.<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginos">More information here about Imaginos</a><br /><br />Their 2001 album 'Curse of the Hidden Mirror' contains the song 'The Old Gods Return'. <br /><br />"Now is the time the old gods return<br />Now is the time the old gods return<br />Exactly when the world is not expecting it<br />Exactly when we're sure of ourselves<br />That's exactly when the old gods return<br />And sweep our cities back into hell"<br /><br />by John Shirley, Eric Bloom and Donald Roeser<br />©2001 Triceratops Music/Six Pound Dog Music<br /><br /><b>3. The Thing That Should Not Be - Metallica</b><br /><br />The second Metallica song to reference Lovecraft, the first was the instrumental "The Call Of Ktulu" from 'Ride The Lightning'.<br />The Thing That Should Not Be (Master Of Puppets) is based upon the short story "Shadow Over Innsmouth" (1936) and contains an abbreviated couplet from Lovecraft.<br /><br />"Not dead which eternal lie<br />stranger eons Death may die"<br /><br />(Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett)<br /><br />"That is not dead which can eternal lie,<br />And with strange aeons death may die"<br /><br />from the story "The Nameless City" (1921)<br /><br /><b>4. Shadow Out Of Time - Rage</b><br /><br />From the story of the same name (1936) and the album 'Black In Mind'(1995), the song pretty much follows the story.<br /><br />"Like a shadow out of time its injected in my mind,<br />like a shadow out of time<br />Like a vision in disguise it took hold of all my ways,<br />like a shadow out of time.<br />They have told me Ive reacted like I was not from this earth.<br />I guess this something inside me was not.<br />When Ive got these visions that I look down at myself I get<br />scared. This is not my body, but its ... what ?"<br /><br />(Music by P. Wagner, S. Efthimiadis / Lyrics by P. Wagner)<br /><br />Rage have many Lovecraftian inspired songs, including "The Crawling Chaos" (another name for Nyarlathotep), and "In A Nameless Time" all from 'Black In Mind, "Beyond The Wall Of Sleep", from Trapped! (1992) and their 2003 album 'Soundchaser' is a modernised story based (loosely) on Lovecraft's ideas. <br /><br /><b>5. Return Of The Old Ones - Manilla Road</b><br /><br />From their 1988 album 'Out Of The Abyss', 'Return Of The Old Ones' mentions Cthulhu and The Old Ones directly. <br /><br />"Here in the darkness<br />Black dreams of Chaos<br />I hear Cthulu's call<br />Forever The Old Ones<br />Shall be upon us<br />Until they devour us all" <br /><br />The whole album is full of Lovecraft links, and Manilla Road have many other Lovecraftian-inspired songs. '"Children Of The Night" and "Mystification" from the album 'Mystification' (1987) are Lovecraft-leaning. Also from 'Out Of The Abyss' the title track, 'Black Cauldron' and 'War In Heaven' contain Lovecraft referencing. 'The Courts of Chaos' (1990) has a song "From Beyond" which references the Stuart Gordon movie (1986) (loosely) based on Lovecraft's writings. "The Books of Skelos: I. The Book of Ancients” from the same album mentions 'Cthulu' and the Necronomicon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The 2001 album "Atlantis Rising" is a concept album, dealing with a war between the Old Ones and the Gods of Valhalla first explored in 'War In Heaven'.<br /><br /><b>6. Shackled to the Trilithon of Kutulu - Bal-Sagoth</b><br /><br />Bal-Sagoth owe their inspiration much more so to Robert E. Howard, but manage to squeeze in a few Lovecraft references. "Shackled To The Trilithon Of Kutuku" from the 2006 album 'The Cthonic Chronicles' reference Cthulhu and R'lyeh directly.<br /><br />“Give forth Thy sign that I may know Thy will upon the earth…”<br />“Grant me the power to still the waves that I may hear Thy call.”<br /><br />“In His house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”<br />“Yet He shall rise, and His kingdom shall cover the earth!” <br /><br />Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria (1994) contains the instrumental "Hatheg Kla" from "The Other Gods" (1921), and 'The Cthonic Chronicles contains many references to Lovecraft, including the final song, 'Return to Hatheg-Kla'. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><b>7. At The Mountains Of Madness - Necrodeath</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From their 1987 album "Into The Macabre", 'At The Mountains Of Madness' refers to the story of the same name (1931).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"The flight toward the dead begins<br />
A vast tableland appears<br />
The Ancient begins charm my soul<br />
Enter new world of fear<br />
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Hide or die in the abyss way<br />
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They're bounded in a cage of stone<br />
Seeking safety in flight<br />
The visions from Necronomicon<br />
Ways of salvation are open wide"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From the same album, "The Flag Of Inverted Cross" recited a formula from "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" (1927)</span><br />
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"YOG-SOTHOTH<br />
H'EE-L'GEB<br />
F'AI-THRODOG<br />
SABAOTH"<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Sauthenerom” mentions Yog-Sothoth, Hastur, Nyarlathotep, and Kadath.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">8</span>. Age Of Agony - Mekong Delta</b><br /><br />Mekong Delta's 1988 album "The Music Of Erich Zann is a concept album from the story of the same name (1922). <br /><br />"Who composed all this themes<br />that pursue me in dreams?<br />Messengers of downfall<br />(5th dimension nightmare)<br />(Age of agony)<br />(Death from the Rue d'Auseil)" <br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>9. The Elder Race - Dream Death</b><br /><br />Dream Death's only Lovecraft inspired song, from their 1987 album 'Journey Into Mystery'.<br /><br />"Look through the mystic door at the hidden depths<br />Which all men share<br />Long and hard was the war when man usurped the<br />earth<br />Last to fall the serpent men, driven into the waste<br />and left to die<br />They returned as priests of their evil cult in human<br />guise"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><b>10. Re-Animator - Rigor Mortis</b> (Dallas/Fort Worth Texas) (Not to be confused with the 12 other heavy metal bands called Rigor Mortis and the one band called 'The Rigor Mortis'.)<br /><br />From their 1988 self-titled album, this track is probably based more on the 1985 Stuart Gordon movie, rather than the 1922 story "Herbert West—Reanimator". <br /><br /><b>11. Nocturnal Fear - Celtic Frost</b><br /><br />From their 1984 ep "Morbid Tales", 'Nocturnal Fear' is a mash of images, containing a Lovecraft reference to Azathoth<br /><br />"The sleeping lord awakes<br />Tiamat pulls on her chains<br />The blind phantom rages<br />Azag-Thoth Howls<br />Vibrations at the black ethers edge<br />As nocturnal fear penetrates the land<br />Ecstatical celebrations at their zenith<br />The seven sharpen their claws" <br /><br />The 1985 ep "Emperor's Return" contains a lyrical reference to Yog-Sothoth on the track "Morbid Tales".<br /><br />"Agony and nightmare<br />To Yog sothoth they moan<br />Nightfalls, morbid affair<br />Beard the faceless one" <br /><br /><b>12. White Ship - Solitude Aeturnus</b><br /><br />From their 1991 album "Into the Depths of Sorrow", 'White Ship' channels the Lovecraft story (1919) of the same name.<br /><br />"I was but a traveler<br />Floating endless through the sea<br />On the other side of knowledge<br />Through the pliancy of dreams<br />And voices there upon the ship<br />Spoke of radiant place's splendor<br />Beautiful shores with sands of gold<br />Wherein exists no torment or pain"<br /><br /><b>13. Stranger Aeons - Entombed</b><br /><br />From their 1991 album, "Clandestine", the track 'Stranger Aeons' contains a twist on the infamous couplet quoted above. <br /><br />"Stranger things that eternal lie<br />awaiting beyond the time to die"<br /><br /><b>14. The Horror of Yig - GWAR</b> <br /><br />From their 1990 album, "Scumdogs of the Universe", 'The Horror of Yig' references the 1928 story "The Curse of Yig". But, in typical GWAR style, the whole thing is a bizarre fancy-dressed comic metal-opera. <br /><br />"I saw Yig. Yig saw me.<br />We're together in dark concavity.<br />I saw Yig. He's so big. He smokes cigs.<br />Eats just like a pig.<br />Ooooohhhhhh! I saw Yig. I saw Yig. I saw, I saw Yig!<br />Yig now is shifting his gibbering mass.<br />He hides boils with maggots.<br />The pus-sac extrudes.<br />The horror that is Yig..." <br /><br /><b>15. Lord Of All Fevers and Plague - Morbid Angel</b><br /><br />Morbid Angel seem to eat, breathe and shit Lovecraft throughout their career. Nearly every album has some reference to luminaries in the Cthulhu Mythos. While it is apparent that their major source of inspiration is the Simon Edition of 'The Necronomicon' rather than primary Lovecraft sources, they make up for this by referencing Simon's Necronomicon nearly any chance they can get. Their guitarist, Azagthoth, even took his name from the Cthulhu Mythos. "Lord Of All Fevers and Plague" from their debut album "Altars of Madness" (1989) contains a Cthulhu-esque chant... <br /><br />"Ia iak sakkakh iak sakkakth<br />Ia shaxul<br />Ia kingu ia cthulu ia azbul<br />Ia azabua"<br /><br />"Blessed Are The Sick" (1991) song "Unholy Blasphemies" mentions Yog-Sothoth. "The Ancient Ones" mentions 'Kutulu'. "Covenant (1993) song "Angel Of Disease" references Shub Niggurath and Kutulu. "Sworn To The Black" mentions the Ancient Ones. "Formulas Fatal To The Flesh" (1998) track "Heaving Earth" mentions "Cthhuhlhu". "Prayer Of Hatred" mentions the Ancient Ones. "Umulamahri" mentions Chthhulhu. "Hellspawn: The Rebirth" mentions Cthulhu. "Prayer Of Hatred" is a blessing to the Ancient Ones. There are many references to Simon's 'The Necronomicon' that can't be traces back to primary Lovecraft stories, but top points for keeping in the spirit of things. <br /><br /><b>16. The Unknown Kadath In The Cold Waste - Thergothon</b><br /><br />From the 1994 album "Stream From The Heavens", 'The Unknown Kadath In The Cold Waste' references "The Dream-Quest Of Unknown Kadath" in the title and evokes a Lovecraftian atmosphere, complete with a piping flute...<br /><br /><br />"Colossal towers far in the horizon<br />a reflection from the dark past<br />a shadow from the Time before time<br />a memory of a divine dominion<br />distant piping of a cosmic flute<br />a hymn so high, a sound so strange<br />almost able to be heard<br />voices from the Outside" <br /><br />Thergothon's 1991 demo, "Fhtagn-nagh Yog-Sothoth", contains the following songs. "Elemental" which more or less accurately quotes the famous couplet mentioned above, and attributes the quote to the Mad Arab 'Abdul Alhazred', author of the Necronomicon. <br /><br />"Evoken" finishes with:<br /> "NOW THE GATES ARE OPEN FOR YOG-SOTHOTH". <br /><br />"Yet The Watchers Guard" has the lyrics: <br />"THE REALM OF WIND AND THE DARKENED DEITIES<br />THE BLACK GOAT OF THE WOODS WITH THE THOUSAND YOUNG" a reference to Shub-Niggurath.<br /><br />"The Twilight Fade" evokes images of the Old Ones in their undersea imprisonment, without actually naming any particular Cthulhu Mythos entity.<br /><br /><b>17. Evilized - Tiamat</b><br /><br />From their debut album "Sumerian Cry" (1990), "Evilized" mentions alignments of stars, a classic Lovecraftian concept.<br /><br />"When the stars are right<br />They will rise from the sea<br />Creatures from out of time<br />Creatures out of mind" <br /><br />Their single "A Winter Shadow" released the same year contains the following quote...<br /><br />"A shadow out of time<br />Hidden between different spheres"<br /><br />referencing "The Shadow Out Of Time" (pub. 1936).<br /><br />Their 1991 album, "The Astral Sleep" contains "Sumerian Cry (Part 3)" with a reference to Abdul Alhazred and the Ancient Ones.<br /><br /><b>18. Breath Of Centuries - Vader</b><br /><br />From their 1992 album "The Ultimate Incantation", 'Breath Of Centuries also quotes the famous Lovecraft couplet, as well as evoking images of Sunken R'lyeh...<br /><br />"Buried in the frozen seas,<br />Tombs of forgotten Gods,<br />Who came forth from blackened stars,<br />A breath of centuries here.<br />A different, inconceivable cult,<br />Shreds of the eternal, endless Circle,<br />Gates to Hell for chosen ones,<br />Awake from morality."<br /><br />From the same album, 'Dark Age' mentions the Edler Race from beyond the stars. 'Testimony' quotes the Simon 'Necronomicon' and evokes Lovecraftian imagery...<br /><br />"Conquer your fear - IA! ZI AZAG!<br />Chant incantation - IA! ZI AZKAK!<br />Call the ancient ones - IA! KHTULU ZI KUR!<br />Ready to rule the black earth once again - IA!" <br /><br />Their 1990 demo "Morbid Reich" contains the demo version of 'Breath Of Centuries' as well as an instrumental entitled 'From Beyond'.<br /><br />Their 1994 album "Sothis" contains an instrumental called 'R'lyeh'.<br /><br />Vader credit the Simon 'Necronomicon' for lyrical inspiration on their 1995 album "De Profundis".<br /><br /><b>19. Cthulhu - Therion</b><br /><br />From their 1992 album "Beyond Sanctorum", 'Cthulhu' even gets some lines attributed to him...<br /><br />"Cthulhu:<br />"My thoughts cry in this pit<br />I breed sorrows my thoughts for you" <br /><br />On their 2004 album "Sirius B", the song 'Call of Dagon' references the 1917 story "Dagon".<br /><br />"From a lonely star<br />Beyond the verge of universe<br />A sound is echoing<br />(A) call from another world<br />Lights from Sirius<br />Will take you from oblivion:<br />Dagon is here again."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>20. Rise Of The Eldar Gods - NecronomicoN (Can)</b><br /><br />"Rise Of The Elder Gods" is the title track from the 2013 album from Canadian band NecronomicoN, not to be confused with the German, Italian, Japanese or Kyrgyzstani bands of the same name, or even 'Necronomicon Beast' from Brazil. Which just highlights the popularity of the band name. The album also has a song called "From Beyond". <br /><br />The band's demo featured all bar one songs influenced by Lovecraft. <br /><br />Their first album/ep, "The Silver Key", contains more Lovecraft-inspired songs. <br />"The Silver Key" references Yog Sothoth. <br />"Morbid Ritual" references Azathoth. <br />"The Asylum" references Lovecraft's Arkham Asylum. <br />"Hunting Horror" and its origins are not clearly remembered by Rob the Witch (vocalist, guitarist), but is something to do with a Haunting Horror, a Lurker in the Dark and a church (I know, metal, right!). <br />"Cthonians" according to Rob "puts us in the context that tremors and earthquakes were related to wormy creatures who were living in the ground" (presumably Dholes, as mentioned in "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" (1932) by Lovecraft and E. Hoffman Price), and also contains the priceless expression "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh cthulhu r'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" which translates as "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming." as explained in "The Call Of Cthulhu" (1926)<br /><br /><b>21. Dead But Dreaming - Deicide</b><br /><br />From their 1992 album "Legion", mentions Elder Gods and uses the phrase 'Dead but Dreaming' commonly associated with the imprisoned Cthulhu. <br /><br />"Hanging from their primal sleep<br />Forbidden to be seen<br />Spirit of the elder gods<br />Are dead but must live on<br />Still to life and yet they breathe<br />Dead but dreaming..."<br /><br />The track "Dead By Dawn" from their self-titled 1990 debut album seems ripped straight from the Evil Dead movies.<br /><br />"Book of the dead, pages bound in human flesh<br />Feasting the beast, from the blood the words were said<br />I am unseen, dreamt the sacred passage aloud<br />Trapped in a dream of the Necronomicon"<br /><br /><b>22. Necronomicon - Hypocrisy (Sweden)</b><br /><br />From the 1993 album "Obsculum Obscenum", 'Necronomicon' is all about that most famous of Lovecraftian insanity-inducing tomes.<br /><br /><b>23. Weird Tales - Electric Frost-Golgotha-Altar Of Melektaus - Electric Wizard</b><br /><br />From their epic 2000 album 'Dopethrone" this 15 minute track drips with Lovecraftian imagery and mythos, from Yuggoth ("The Whisperer in Darkness", 1931) to Kadath. ("The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", 1926-7)<br /><br />"From ancient Yuggoth, black rays emit<br />Evils narcotic cyclopean pits<br />In dark babelian towers await<br />Lie dreaming until the time will awake<br /><br />What man has seen unknown Kadath<br />Whose dreamy angles, confused and trapped<br />Beyond the frozen waste you will find<br />Hyperborean continent entombed from time<br /><br />From ancient Yuggoth, black rays emit<br />Evils narcotic cyclopean pits<br />In dark babelian towers await<br />Lie dreaming until the time will awake, yeah"<br /><br />Their 1998 ep "Supercoven" has 2 epic tracks. The title track is explicitly Lovecraftian...<br /><br />"Black sun master<br />Under starless sky<br />Black stone altar<br />They pray to the sign<br />The old ones were<br />And they shall be again<br />Yog Sothoth is the gate<br />Planetary alignment predicts their reign<br /><br />Supercoven<br />Have awakened the Ancient Ones<br />Mindless slaves to the black god<br />Moan dark hymns to the sun<br />To the sun"<br /><br />Their 2002 album "Let Us Prey" contains the track 'The Outsider', (The Outsider, 1921)<br /><br />Their 2004 album "We Live" contains the track 'The Sun Has Turned To Black' referencing The Old Ones.<br /><br /><b>24. Rite of Cthulhu - Samael (instrumental)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><b>25. From Beyond - Massacre</b><br /><br />The title track from this 1991 album references the story "From Beyond" (1920) in name and theme, without actually referencing any mythos creatures directly.<br /><br />"Horror beyond description<br />Unnatural bizarre fear<br />Altered and disfigured<br />A strange macabre terror<br />Through the ultra-violet<br />From the bottom of creation<br />Past the cosmic barriers<br />Into this world...From Beyond!" <br /><br />""Dawn of Eternity" and "Symbolic Immortality" from the same album also evoke Lovecraft themes without actually quoting Lovecraft or referencing Mythos creatures.<br /><br /><b>26. The Mad Arab - Mercyful Fate</b><br /><br />From the 1994 album "Time", 'The Mad Arab (Part One: The Vision) is about 'Abdul Alhazred.' <br /><br />"The son of a shepherd, Abdul Alhazred<br />Shivering he saw Them coming, the mountain's evil priests<br />Black robes came together, around the floating rock<br />3 symbols in the dark"<br /><br />Their 1996 album "Into The Unknown" contains the track 'Kutulu (The Mad Arab Part Two)', obviously continuing the story of Abdul Alhazerd.<br /><br />"Can you hear the voices in my head...<br />Can you hear the voices in my head<br />Can you hear the voices, what they say?<br />KUTULU...KUTULU...KUTULU...KUTULU...<br />Hear me as KUTULU raises his EVIL head<br />Drooling for my soul<br />I must finish this book tonight<br />Tomorrow...I might be of the dead"<br /><br /><b>27. Revelations Of Glaaki - Twin Obscenity (Instrumental)</b><br /><br />The Revelations of Glaaki reference a series of 12 books mentioned in a post-Lovecraft story "The Inhabitant of the Lake" (1964) by Ramsey Campbell. <br /><br /><b>28. Entranced - Disincarnate</b><br /><br />From their solitary 1993 album "Dreams of the Carrion Kind", the lyrics are distinctly drawn from "The Tomb" (1917)<br /><br />"Ancestral home in the twilight deeps<br />Beckons to me with unseen fingers<br />Forefathers haunt<br />Calling to me from this dark charnel house<br />Corrupted through lifelong seclusion<br />Driven by an unnatural force<br />Drawn to this vault<br />Declivity where the light reaches not<br /><br />Enigmatic crypt of my bloodline<br />Place of ancestral remains<br />Temple of my fascination<br />Possessing me"<br /><br />Compare this extract from "The Tomb"<br /><br />"...Close by my home there lies a singular wooded hollow, in whose twilight deeps I spent most of my time; reading, thinking, and dreaming. Down its moss-covered slopes my first steps of infancy were taken, and around its grotesquely gnarled oak trees my first fancies of boyhood were woven. Well did I come to know the presiding dryads of those trees, and often have I watched their wild dances in the struggling beams of a waning moon—but of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets; the deserted tomb of the Hydes, an old and exalted family whose last direct descendant had been laid within its black recesses many decades before my birth.<br /> The vault to which I refer is of ancient granite, weathered and discoloured by the mists and dampness of generations. Excavated back into the hillside, the structure is visible only at the entrance. The door, a ponderous and forbidding slab of stone, hangs upon rusted iron hinges, and is fastened ajar in a queerly sinister way by means of heavy iron chains and padlocks, according to a gruesome fashion of half a century ago. The abode of the race whose scions are here inurned had once crowned the declivity which holds the tomb, but had long since fallen victim to the flames which sprang up from a disastrous stroke of lightning. Of the midnight storm which destroyed this gloomy mansion, the older inhabitants of the region sometimes speak in hushed and uneasy voices; alluding to what they call “divine wrath” in a manner that in later years vaguely increased the always strong fascination which I felt for the forest-darkened sepulchre. One man only had perished in the fire. When the last of the Hydes was buried in this place of shade and stillness, the sad urnful of ashes had come from a distant land; to which the family had repaired when the mansion burned down. No one remains to lay flowers before the granite portal, and few care to brave the depressing shadows which seem to linger strangely about the water-worn stones."<br /><br /><b>29. Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Nile</b><br /><br />Nile are essentially an Egyptian-themed technical death metal band, but they have dropped in the occasional Lovecraft-inspired tracks. "Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten" from their 2005 album "Annihilation of the Wicked" is based upon a Mythos book 'Unaussprechlichen Kulten' first mentioned in Robert E. Howard's stories "The Children of the Night" (1931) and "The Black Stone" (1931) and later mentioned in several Lovecraft stories, thus becoming an additional dread tome in the Mythos.<br /><br />"I await the day<br />When the claws of doom shall rise<br />To drag down in their reeking talons<br />The weary and hopeless remnants<br />Of a jaded, decayed, war-despairing mankind<br />Of a day, when the earth shall open wide<br />And the black, bottomless, yawning abyss<br />Engulfs the arrogant civilizations of man<br />Chthonic retribution shall ascend<br />Amidst universal pandemonium<br />And those who slither and crawl shall rise again<br />Once more to inherit the earth"<br /><br />From their 1998 album "Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka", a couple of Lovecraft-inspired tracks appear. "Barra Edinazzu" appears in the form of a spell from the Necrononicon. "Beneath Eternal Oceans of Sand" references "The Outsider" (1921)<br /><br />"Now I ride with the undead<br />Across the night-sky<br />And play by day<br />Amongst the catacombs of Nephren-Ka<br />In the sealed and unknown<br />Valley of Hadoth by the Nile." <br /><br />"Now I ride with the mocking and friendly ghouls on the night-wind, and play by day amongst the catacombs of Nephren-Ka in the sealed and unknown valley of Hadoth by the Nile. I know that light is not for me, save that of the moon over the rock tombs of Neb, nor any gaiety save the unnamed feasts of Nitokris beneath the Great Pyramid; yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage." (from 'The Outsider')<br /><br />From their 2000 album "Black Seeds of Vengeance", The Nameless City of the Accursed", an instrumental is, according to the album notes, based on "The Nameless City" (1921). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><b>30. In the Depths of R'lyeh - Catacombs (US)</b><br /><br />From the 2006 album of the same name, 'In the Depths of R'lyeh' clearly references Lovecraft.<br /><br />"He who sleeps, ageless, out of time<br />Awakens now from restless sleep<br />Stirring from the depths of his aqueous tomb<br />At the sound of the gathering<br />Of the neophytese of doom<br />Chants in unknown tongues<br />Echoes through accursed halls<br />The great eyes open...<br />The very cosmos shudder<br />At the awakening of the ungod<br />Arising from the watery chasm<br />As his acolytes of doom<br />Lurch forth from ebbing tides<br />As the world's doom<br />Arises from the deep<br />And they chant...<br />Ja! Ja! Cthulhu Ftaghu!" <br /><br />I am heavily indebted to the book "The Strange Sound of Cthulhu" by Gary Hill in compiling the information above. Chapters 4 and 5, dealing exclusively with Heavy Metal music. These chapters directed me to about half a dozen songs that appear in this list that I was previously unaware of, as well as providing most of the information regarding the exact references drawn from the tracks, saving me a great deal of research. Several of the songs here appear after this book was published (in 2006). These chapters contain much more metal than I could possibly fit into a few hours on a radio show. Do check it out, it is a treasure trove! And not just for lovers of Heavy Metal music either...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Further research on my part was done through sites mentioned below.<br /><br />Further Reading<br /><br />The Strange Sound of Cthulhu Music Inspired by the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft by Gary Hill. <br /><br />The Simon Edition of 'The Necronomicon' for shits and giggles<br /><br />The Necronomicon (1978) edited by George Hay (introduced by Colin Wilson)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.hplovecraft.com/popcult/music.aspx">http://www.hplovecraft.com/popcult/music.aspx</a> for more music references.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/fiction/">http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/fiction/</a> for online copies of Lovecraft's stories.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.metal-archives.com/">Encyclopedia Metallum</a> as always for band bios, discographies, lyrics, and so much more.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><a href="http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page">Cthulhu Wiki</a> The Cthulhu Wiki<br /><br />Wikipedia, as a last call cross-reference</span>Doctor Pedrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11369013779051611754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1587441475045127656.post-3680048181648354752013-05-10T19:17:00.000-07:002017-10-06T02:59:17.278-07:00Star Wars Toys We Really Want To See Collecting Star Wars merchandise can be a daunting prospect. It's never so much a case of where to start as where to stop. Assuming the endless parade of increasingly obscure characters who get an action figure ever does stop. But part of the attraction of such a rich character universe for the action-figure-orientated is the anticipation of which obscure character will next get an action figure. I mean, who knew that the death-stick-dealing character in 'Attack of the Clones' had a name like Elan Sleazebaggano until his action figure came out. Or that the best part of the Jabba the Hutt playset was the Salacious B. Crumb figure that came with it.<br />
But for the ultimate in obscure characters that get an action figure goes to Willrow Hood. Who? I hear you ask? Well, he's a character that briefly appears (and by brief, I mean a couple of seconds) in The Empire Strikes Back as everyone in Bespin is panicking and running for dear life from the horrible Empire holding what looks like an ice-cream-making machine.<br />
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There's even a 'Running of the Hoods' celebration day (held on the 24th of August) to celebrate this hero/looter. Star Wars fans are a weird lot. So popular was this cult figure that he finally got his own action figure in 2009. Complete with Ice Cream making machine.<br />
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But for all that, it isn't enough for some Star Wars fans, especially those with a twisted sense of humour. So I present to you, The Star Wars Toys We Really Want To See!<br />
Some of these are actual custom toys that are for sale on Ebay. Some of them are obvious piss-takes, and some of them are...well, see for yourself.<br />
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1. Luke Skywalker Bespin Duel (minus hand)<br />
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Luke lost his hand in a duel with Vader on Bespin because he wasn't ready. And he was a sook. And he was cocky. And he needed putting in his place. Why doesn't that get an action figure? Luke minus hand. It's a no-brainer really.<br />
In case you were wondering what happened to Luke's severed hand...<br />
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<a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Secret_Tales_of_Luke%27s_Hand!">The Secret Tale of Luke's Severed Hand</a><br />
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2. Anakin Skywalker Defeated on Mustafar<br />
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Before Luke lost his hand to Vader, Vader lost a lot more body parts to Obi-Wan. Then he was set on fire. And left for dead. Because he wasn't ready. And he was a sook. And he was cocky. And he needed putting in his place. (must be a Skywalker thing). Action figure for that? Yes, please.<br />
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3. Dead Ewok<br />
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Remember that Ewok in Return of the Jedi that didn't quite make it? Well he (or she, or it) should be commemorated with a figure as well. Because a Dead Ewok is much funnier than a live one.<br />
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4. The Force<br />
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The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together. It's pretty damn important in the Star Wars Universe. Arguably it's the central character in Star Wars. Why doesn't it then have an action figure?<br />
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5. Owen Lars and Aunt Beru (Charred)<br />
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Now we're talking! Both Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru have action figures based on them when they were alive. But it wasn't their life that triggered off Luke to walk the path that would transform the galaxy and remove the universe from the oppressive grasp of the Sith. It was the sight of their charred, smouldering remains, left behind by stormtroopers in their quest for 'those droids' that was the trigger for Luke's decision to follow Ben Kenobi into destiny. Because he had already decided that he didn't want to be involved. He needed a bitch slap from Destiny to set him straight. And this was it. The universe hung upon it. Action figures for this pivotal moment in history? Yes, please. Bonus double pack.<br />
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6. Dead Jawa<br />
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Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru had a deep emotional impact upon a young Luke Skywalker, and the ramifications shook the universe. But who gave a shit about the shot-up Jawas? Well, you can, if this commemorative action figure is ever released.<br />
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7. Captain Antilles (Choked)<br />
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Captain Antilles (no relation to Wedge) lead a spirited but futile resistance on board the Blockade Runner to the Imperial boarding party in the first ever Star Wars scene. For his heroic efforts, Vader picked him up and choked the life out of him during an interrogation, old skool. Heroically, Captain Antilles did not reveal the location of the Death Star plans. A heroes death deserves an action figure, wouldn't you say?<br />
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8. Greedo with Blaster Hit<br />
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Hoo-boy! Who shot first? Han Shot First! Greedo Shot First! This is a seriously passionate debate in fandom which gets to the heart (no pun intended Greedo) of how much post-release interference with movies directors should be allowed. It's a serious issue, but as far as both versions of the movie goes, the end result is the same. Greedo cops a blaster to the chest. Commemorate this pivotal moment in post-release interference and the endless debate of how much of a bastard Han Solo should be with this action figure of Greedo, who, it is fair to say, doesn't give a shit either way.<br />
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9. Princess Leia (mechanic)<br />
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Another feature of the endless churn of Star Wars toys is not only the increasingly obscure characters that get a toy, but the endless variations of main characters that get <i>another </i>toy because of a costume change, or a status change (see Luke Missing Hand above). Remember the good old days when the only character to get a second toy was Luke Skywalker in X-Wing gear? Yeah, I'm that old. So how about commemorating Leia in mechanics goggles, repairing the Millennium Falcon just before <i>that kiss</i>, just because goggles. And weirdo repair accessory stolen from a rival toy range.<br />
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10. Padme Skywalker (pregnant)<br />
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Padme is a classic example of cashing in on the above-mentioned craze of multiple action figures for a single character based on a costume change. The Prequal Trilogy was much more of a costume drama than the original, especially with Padme. She was a strong, plucky go-get-'em kind of gal, until she married a Skywalker. Then she became a sook. And she wasn't ready. And she needed putting in her place. Must be a Skywalker thing. Commemorate Padme at her sookiest, with a couple of sooky Skywalkers growing inside her. It's a triple-pack, when you think about it. A triple-pack of sookiness!<br />
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11. R2-D2 (Bartender)<br />
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Did anyone else see R2 on Jabba's sail barge as a mobile drinks dispenser and think "Finally! R2 has found his calling in life?" Of all the seriously useful things that R2 can do, dispensing drinks is probably the number one function (with his functions as an astro-mech a close second). R2 is the perfect height for most sentient alcoholic lifeforms in the Star Wars Universe (sorry Yoda). What a brilliant idea! Sheer Genius! Action figure? Yes please!!<br />
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12. Head Man (Uzay collection)<br />
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All right. This character needs some explaining. Head-Man is so obscure that he doesn't even appear in any of the Star Wars movies at all! Despite a more-than-passing-resemblance-to-a-naked-Imperial-Guard. In the 1980's in Turkey, a series of toys were produced which were unashamedly ripped off from the Star Wars line. They were bootleg toys, and attempted to skirt copyright laws by leaving off single letters from the names of characters (like Dart Vader, and the Stormtroper). This line of Starswar (sic) toys are infamous and for the most part direct rip-offs. And then there is Head Man. He's a naked Imperial Guard (red, original trilogy) stripped of his red cloak, painted wildly different colours and given a shield. Instant Head-Man! He's a real action figure, but seriously hard to get. Good Luck!</div>
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OK, this is another action figure that does commercially exist, and well within copyright. It's the limited edition Hasbro Comic-Con Exclusive (wait for it) Jar Jar Binks in Carbonite! The fact that this never happened in the movies should be no excuse, because it <i>should have happened!</i> Jar Jar Binks is the most hated character in the entire Star Wars Canon <i>and </i>Expanded Universe, and that is a considerable achievement considering that he is competing with Ewoks, Ani Skywalker, Dexter the four-armed greasy spoon guy/alien/thing, and Boba Fett as a kid. It is the height of Star Wars coolness to find an inventive way to kill Jar Jar...<br />
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For those who don't wish death upon anyone, even Jar Jar, the only other option is to place him in Carbonite. Problem solved, and seriously cool gansta wall hanging. Genius! <br />
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14. Tie Fighter Debris<br />
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Not an action figure per-se, but a cool idea nonetheless. There must be heaps of this stuff floating around the universe, given how much the Rebellion loves blowing up these mass-produced laser-fodder pods. Explosion sold separately.<br />
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15. Dewback Dung<br />
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Another cool idea deserving of a blister-pack toy. This one, I believe is actually a custom toy available for purchase through a dealer on Ebay, so you can seek and purchase and have for your very own. Leave a trail after your Sand-trooper and Dewback toy set. Breaks the ice at Star Wars Day parties!<br />
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16. Rankor Skin<br />
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Another one that I believe is available for purchase through a dealer on Ebay. Rancor Skin. In a blister pack! You know you want it. Nothing is too silly for this merchandising monster! With imagination, can combine with a regular Jar Jar Binks toy in an entry for 'Imaginative Ways to Kill Jar Jar Binks' competition. Don't be the last kid on your block to own this!<br />
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17. Santa Darth Maul<br />
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Now we're getting silly. <br />
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18. Yoda Claus.<br />
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19. Destroyed Alderaan Action Playset. <br />
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Yes, playing in the destroyed remains of the planet Alderaan should be high on the list of things to do with your Star Wars Space Vehicles (sold separately). Have them dodge chunks of Alderaan in a space duel! Look for charred remains of Alderaan citizens (sold separately). Buy enough sets, and a ton of super-glue and try to put Alderaan back together again! Endless fun!<br />
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20. Smouldering Moisture Farm Playset<br />
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Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru (charred) will need the burnt-out remains of their (and Luke's) home for added emotional effect. Sold separately. Add Stormtroopers (sold separately) to the playset and Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru (alive) figures (sold separately) and re-create the scene that didn't appear on-screen. Cinema was robbed of this pivotal moment, that doesn't mean you have to be. <br />
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Bonus Action Figure Suck Patrol What's My Fucking Problem?<br />
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Update 23/6/14<br />
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Han Solo. Episode VII. (Too soon?)<br />
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<br />Doctor Pedrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11369013779051611754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1587441475045127656.post-2106825621807192122013-04-16T05:21:00.000-07:002013-04-16T05:21:40.583-07:00Obscene Extreme Festival Melbourne 12 - 13 April 2013 Obscene Extreme (15) hit Melbourne on the weekend of the 12th and 13th of April, and splattered the town red. I only caught Saturday night, and missed some seriously good acts, but I caught some seriously good acts, so all is well. I pretty much camped at the Tote, and all following shots were taken in (or of) the Tote. <br />
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Doctor Pedrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11369013779051611754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1587441475045127656.post-36263909713848339132013-04-11T22:24:00.000-07:002013-04-11T22:24:37.188-07:00Grave, Hobbs Angel of Death, Inverloch Ding Dong Lounge Melbourne 17 March 2013 The Ding Dong Lounge was host to Swedish Death Metal legends Grave on the 17th of March. Apologies for the lateness of posting these pics, but the event was the night before I flew out to Japan for more madness. Grave were supported by Inverloch and Melbourne's thrash legends Hobbs Angel of Death. It was a brutal night of sonic mayhem. Enjoy the photos.<br />
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Doctor Pedrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11369013779051611754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1587441475045127656.post-69119006406338268042013-04-11T07:45:00.000-07:002013-04-11T07:45:41.245-07:00The Robot Restaurant, Kabukicho, Shinjuku, Tokyo The Robot Restaurant is one of those outrageous experiences that needs to be seen to be believed. I went with a friend who described it as the most typically Japanese thing he'd ever seen. Forget the 'restaurant' part of the name, you get a 'bento' box set for 'dinner' (read, cheap and convenient, available for microwaving from any convenience store). But that's not the point. The show is everything, and beer is served.<br />
It's a great touristy thing to do, and friends of mine still living in Japan when asked if they had been to the Robot Restaurant yet replied that they hadn't, but would consider it if friends visited from overseas. Fair call, but I wouldn't have waited personally. But I like outlandish kitch stuff like this anyway. <br />
There is a 'plot', or rather sequence of events would be more accurate, and I'll walk you through them via the photos. Or you can just go for the pretty pictures and make up your own story. That would work just as well, but with the stuff that went on, explaining it to friends that hadn't seen it, I felt like I was making up the most outlandish shit I could think up on the spot. I was nearly ready to call 'bullshit' on myself, it sounded so laughably outlandish in the light of day. <br />
But it's real, my friends, oh so <i>real...</i><br />
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The entrance is a couple of floors down, and the gaudy stairs are still no indication of the horror that awaits...</div>
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First up, is a semi-decent Taiko show performed by semi-dressed ladies. This will become a regular theme (not the Taiko)</div>
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After a costume change, the girls come out again as a marching band. Of course.</div>
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After another break, at this stage, I'm wondering a little whether I've been let down a bit. The stop-start has killed the atmosphere a bit. But then the chain fences are brought out and the battles begin. The reason for this becomes real obvious real quick. The costumes aren't so good for seeing out of, and the action gets a bit real. Then it's on like Donkey Kong. First up, Champion Robo Big Boss Vs King Godzilla!</div>
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Next battle, Champion Robo Big Boss Vs Kung Fu Panda. Kung Fu Panda gets his tail handed to him, and he retreats...</div>
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...only to return charging in on a cow!</div>
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Then it's Cutie Honey with a Captain America Shield and a Thor Hammer vs mecha. Cutie Honey Wins! Flawless Victory!</div>
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Then there were some girls on the back of a robot Armadillo attacking some mecha. I'm not making this up!</div>
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To celebrate, we then have a good old-fashioned Roller Disco. With Robot dancers and robot DJ on the back of a truck. Because Japan.</div>
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Then the huge robot women that get carted around town as advertising get ridden into the roller disco by scantily clad girls.</div>
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Then the giant robots come out for a dance. For real. They are basically large puppets from what I could gather, controlled by a ninja at the back. I'm not making this up, honestly!</div>
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The ladies explain that, before the finale, folk can come out and have happy snaps taken with the giant robots.</div>
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Meanwhile, other scantily-clad ladies are suspended in seats above the customers, ready to go for a ride around the floor.</div>
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The Robots are ready...</div>
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The girls are ready...</div>
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Just a quick reminder of the rules (basically don't be a lecherous jerk) in English!</div>
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And we're off!</div>
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This is the bit you may have seen on Youtube. A bomber comes out of one side, with cute girls hanging from all parts and lights and sounds going nuts.</div>
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A random portable toilet gets ridden around because it can</div>
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Remember all the while, the girls suspended above you are giving you high fives while this bizarre show is happening...</div>
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We all got handed these mini-light-sabers to wave around while this was going on. Yeah, look down, below the nice girl, you might see a couple. Of mini light-sabers that is.</div>
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The Bomber circles around with its payload of scantily clad performers</div>
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Limbering up for the final battle...</div>
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And back outside, the robots are taking over Kabukicho. This is what I came to Japan to see. </div>
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Doctor Pedrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11369013779051611754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1587441475045127656.post-48898836650271062712013-04-11T05:56:00.000-07:002013-04-11T05:56:15.209-07:00Zombie Walk Roppongi March 31 Roppongi hosted a Zombie Walk on the 31st of March. Who can resist the sights, the sounds and the stench of the living dead stumbling through Roppongi? I couldn't. Now all I have to say about this little spectacle is that one of the zombie organisers got a little bit precious about me taking photos, and got rather aggressive (for a Japanese person that is) about finding out whether I was a professional photographer or not, and what I was going to use the photos for. If that sort of thing worries you, its probably best that you don't march folk around town dressed up as zombies and advertise the fact, because that's exactly the kind of thing that people who like taking photos will shoot. And insulting a foreign photographer in Japanese for laughs is a. racist and b. not such a good idea when the photographer in question understands enough about what you're saying. Because he may know Japanese words like <i>abazure</i>, but just be too polite to use them.<br />
Having said all that, everyone else seemed to be having fun, with some zombies getting well into the spirit of things. <br />
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here (for zero profit on my part. I make no money from this blog. I don't have outside advertising on
my blog, just projects of my own), then get in contact with me and we'll
sort it out. Until then, enjoy the show. <br />
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Doctor Pedrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11369013779051611754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1587441475045127656.post-84881023031808910842013-04-11T04:45:00.000-07:002013-04-11T04:45:30.794-07:00Mobile Suit Gundam, Odaiba, Tokyo I finally caught up with the surprisingly mobile life-size RX-78-2 Mobile Suit Gundam, now stationed at Odaiba in front of Daiba City. It's 18 meters tall (59 feet), weighs 35 tons and is 1-1 scale, built to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the anime series, started in 1979. It was originally constructed for the theme park attraction <i>Gundam Crisis</i>, and punters could originally complete a series of missions to access the cockpit (if successful) where they were shown a special Gundam-related video. I would much prefer to operate the mecha myself, rather than watching some video, but one suspects that, unfortunately, it's not a fully operational Gundam. Sadly. <br />
The Gundam went walkabouts (for real?) to Shizuoka City for a year, then ended up in its present location in Odaiba. I don't believe that the cockpit is accessible, but I'd be pleased to be corrected on that one. At its feet is another Gundam Cafe (the original is located in Akihabara), and a Gundam gift shop. There is also apparently the Gundam Front Tokyo attraction on the 6th floor of the Daiba City Mall, which I missed. <br />
Now, it seems that the life-size Gundam was scheduled to finish at the end of March 2013. Any confirmation on this? I'm glad I went now! Where will it end up next? In orbit? Do that!<br />
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(Personally, I'm more of a Neon Genesis Evangelion fan, and am waiting on a life-size version of one of those beasties to pop up.)<br />
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Sakura Gundam</div>
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50 points of light light up, and steam-looking mist erupts from 14 parts
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First up, Miila and the Geeks, with a stomping bass player</div>
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Limited Express (has gone?) is a suitably out there name for a band</div>
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Mirror Ball Interlude</div>
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US band Moon Duo, who sounded rather like Hawkwind circa the '80's or the '90's to my ear, were a pleasant surprise. They sounded a bit repetitive and simplistic at first, but I got into the groove, and was glad I caught them live. Thoroughly enjoyable.</div>
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Melt Banana's substitute drummer/keyboardist.</div>
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Lighting was tough for this gig (being arty and weirdo), but the frenetic energy of Melt Banana live was irrepressible.</div>
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<br />Doctor Pedrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11369013779051611754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1587441475045127656.post-31827029348634738892013-04-11T00:04:00.001-07:002013-04-11T00:04:32.839-07:00Hanami Shinjuku Gyoen 2013 My visit to Tokyo this year coincided with Hanami season, or Cherry Blossom season, that magic moment at the beginning of spring when the Cherry Blossoms come out, and everyone camps out in parks under the blossoms on blue tarp and gets thoroughly pissed. There are different varieties of Cherry Blossom trees, and the majority of trees in Tokyo are a very pale pink, almost white variety. Most of the shots here were taken of a couple of trees in Shinjuku Gyoen, a public park that costs 200 yen to enter, and have a few of the brighter pink variety. I'm no expert on the different types, but it was a good excuse to test out my macro lens. The weather for the Sakura season this year was arse, being mostly overcast with some days of serious rain. These shots were taken on one overcast day. My last day was spent again in Shinjuku Gyoen, and the skies were clear and blue. Did I have my camera with me? Hell, no, of course not. For more info on different varieties, times to go etc. check the link just below. <br />
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<a href="http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2011_species.html">A beginner's guide to Cherry Blossom Viewing</a><br />
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For varieties of beer to accompany the event,the tried and true method is serious experimentation i.e., buy one of everything, drink, decide. And Sakura season offers a socially acceptable event to do some serious research into this area in astonishing quantities. <br />
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<a href="http://www.japanvisitor.com/japanese-culture/food/japanese-beers">Japanese Beers</a><br />
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Battle Axe Gig Vol. 5 went off at Earthdom in Shin Okubo on the 30th of March. I went along with Makiko from F.I.D. (who recently played at Obscene Extreme Asia), and took some happy snaps. Fatal Desolation were up first and were a regular death metal type band. Decent sound, no pretense, solid act. Necrophile were up next, a Black Metal act. They were ok. Velvet Worm, an all-female hard rock act, were the crowd favourite. They've been around for a long time, according to Makiko, and they play a great live set. The lead singer kept the crowd amused with raunchy ditties in between songs (to shouts of 'ERO!' from the audience). The final act was Doraid, a Black-ish Metal band, and the crowd got between my camera and the band, so only one decent shot. But they were a good finisher for the night. Cheers Battle Axe! And Cheers Makiko!<br />
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Fatal Desolation. I was wearing a Grave t-shirt on the night as well. Fashion couple...eek!</div>
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Windmill headbanging ultra-pose. But wait...</div>
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Check out these ultra mega mega metal shoes! Ouch!</div>
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Boom Tish Boom Tish....</div>
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Serious hair. I hardly saw her face all night.</div>
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Yes, that's right. Fuck Your Brain!</div>
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Crowd Favourite Velvet Worm. A Femme Fatale cross between AC/DC and Motorhead. Solid!</div>
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What's not to like?</div>
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Rock On! </div>
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(Yeah, I did take a few shots, didn't I...)</div>
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(Well, the bass player was closer, and the crowd were going crazy at this stage)</div>
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Ahh, the singer.</div>
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Nice.</div>
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Fan Service.</div>
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I See You!</div>
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The main act, Doraid, went sick. So much so that I didn't want to imperil my camera. Here's a sneaky shot of their gimp drummer.</div>
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<a href="http://battlehawk-bangers.blogspot.jp/2013/03/battle-axe-gig-vol.html">Here is the gig flyer for the night</a></div>
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Doctor Pedrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11369013779051611754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1587441475045127656.post-70554303133752776752013-04-10T20:30:00.000-07:002013-04-10T20:30:53.891-07:00Do The Japan! March - April 2013 Another trip back to Japan, and more photos in between drunken bastardry. It's been one year (and a bit) since I was last in Japan. What's changed in Tokyo? Lots. Tokyo is the city that is constantly rebuilding, and if you're not careful, it will all go and be replaced with something even weirder (apologies to Douglas Adams).<br />
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So what has changed. Fewer Pads and Tablets on public transport. In 2012, there were probably 4 or 5 people per train carriage using some sort of pad or tablet to while away the oppressive commute. This year, I reckon I saw maybe 2 in my whole trip. Ipads are soooo 2012.<br />
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Shimokitazawa Station has changed. The underground, 3 levels deep Odakyu line (from Shinjuku) changed from above ground to underground during my trip. I had one last use of the Odakyu above ground station early in my trip, then the next time I used it, I was suddenly in some deep well-lit, shiny subway station that took for ever to get out. The odd little market that was next to the old station is no more. Well, it's reduced to one little drinking venue on the North side, but everything else is eerily empty, awaiting demolition. And the South Side exit, where I spent years drinking MD Super Hops from the conbini, is now a fully functioning exit. <br />
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Tokyo Skytree is open for business. When I was there last year, it was pretty much built, but not yet open. Now, nearly a year later, and it's open. BUT. We tried to book a ticket for the observation deck online from Australia, and All. Of. March. Was. Full. When we got there and tried for the beginning of April it was All. Full. I guess I'm waiting till my next trip for those shots.<br />
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Coca Cola is still 150 yen for a 500 ml bottle. Still. That's about a dollar fifty in Aussie dollars. Australia gets raped for prices by Apple and Coca Cola, and many other things. It's pretty much double to triple price here. It's a very odd feeling to walk around 'the world's most expensive city' and wonder why things are generally so much cheaper than in Australia. I do know, having lived there, that there are living expenses in Tokyo that aren't apparent to visitors that do make it pretty seriously expensive, but it's still pretty outrageous comparing prices of things to back home. When I moved over in '99, everything in Tokyo was pretty much double what it was in Oz. Now, it seems nearly everything is cheaper. <br />
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My favourite eating hole, Iseya, in Inokashira Park, home of the best Gyoza in the world, is gone! The classic old building with its shit service, its smokey atmosphere and its grubby appearance, is no more. Iseya has reopened temporarily just past Yodobashi Camera on the north side of Kichijoji while the new building is being built, so I could still get my gyoza fix. But that ramshackle old building is gone. And that's a great loss. That building had such rare character. And probably serious health and safety issues, but that was half of the charm. It was an oasis of grunge and character in a sea of sterile eateries. Bugger. <br />
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And the Robot Restaurant. But I'll get into that in a subsequent post. Right now, here's a teaser. There will be more entries to follow. Stay Tuned. <br />
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Hanami. Cherry Blossom Season. Nicely timed. </div>
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Hentai Chikan Dragon</div>
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These Robots are driven around during the day and night, advertising
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Another Cho-chin (paper Lantern) shot. My obsession continues.</div>
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A sneaky shot inside a Kabukicho Host club. Alot of the clientelle are
hostesses who have finished their shift. The boys all look like they're
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More sleaze in Kabukicho. Glitter girls!</div>
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A Super Mario Bar in Shinjuku. </div>
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Evangelion Champagne, available in the Evangelion shop in Harajuku. Are you fan enough?</div>
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A quiet stroll in Harajuku...</div>
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Mobile Suit Gundam, Odaiba</div>
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Melt Banana in Super Deluxe, Roppongi</div>
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WTF?!? in the Robot Restaurant, Kabukicho. LOTS more to follow...</div>
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Velvet Worm rocking on in Shin Okubo</div>
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The Zombie Walk, Roppongi</div>
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Tokyo is a 2020 Olympics Candidate city. The opposition is small and polite. But to the point.</div>
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Secret shot</div>
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A very leggy dragon. Just, you know, on the street. Because Japan.</div>
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Akihabara Donkihote. Home of the infamous Akiba48. who do a regular show on the 8th floor.</div>
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Gacha Gacha Pon vending machines in Ahihabara. 'Gacha' is onomatopeic
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vending machines for nearly everything in Japan.<br />
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'Itansha' in Akihabara. I seriously just googled that term. I have known of the term 'Itasha' for quite a few years now. 'Itasha' literally means 'painful car' and refers to cars that have been decorated with anime, manga or video games characters. I saw this motorbike suffering the same fate, but only now when I googled 'Itasha' did I just find out that the term has morphed into 'Itansha' for motorbikes and 'Itachari' for bicycles. </div>
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MARVEL COMICS</h3>
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Superman lives and operates in Metropolis. Batman is the protector of Gotham City. But the Marvel super-heroes, by and large, lived and and jumped around in a real city, Manhattan, New York. Sure, Gotham City has been described by Dennis O'Neil in these terms, "Batman's Gotham City is Manhattan below Fourteenth Street at eleven minutes past midnight on the coldest night in November." This is the mood Gotham is intended to establish, and the term "Gotham" itself was a well-known nickname for New York city, even before Batman was published. </div>
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Some of the locations, and street names, have been fictionalised. The infamous Yancy Street, home of the Yancy Street Gang and former stomping ground of The Thing, doesn't exist. But there is a Delancey Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side, which probably served as the inspiration for Yancy Street, and Fantastic Four co-creator Jack Kirby was born in the Delancey Street neighbourhood. Similarly, the Daily Bugle (where Peter Parker used to work as a photographer) has a real address (East 39th Street and Second Avenue) but in the real Manhattan there is an apartment block at that address. The movie placed the Daily Bugle in the Flatiron Building on 23rd Street, which in the comics served as the site of the offices of Damage Control Inc. Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus have also battled on this building (Deadline #2, July 2002). The Baxter Building (the headquarters of the Fantastic Four), Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorium and the Avengers mansion also have real addresses, but don't actually exist.</div>
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But there are plenty of Manhattan buildings and landmarks that have been woven into Marvel history and fame. The Green Goblin threw Gwen Stacy to her death from the Brooklyn Bridge (Amazing Spider-Man #121, 1973). Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson were married on the steps of City Hall (Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21, 1987). Many Marvel stories have taken place around the World Trade Center, and the destruction of the World Trade Center in real life was also depicted in Amazing Spider-Man vol. 2, #36 2001. Daredevil's stomping ground (and Nick Fury's birthplace) of Hell's Kitchen is a real location, currently referred to as "Clinton" by its residents. The Egyptian god Seth attempted to destroy the United Nations (Moon Knight vol. 4, #4, 1998), which was only one of numerous adventures set at the United Nations. Daredevil was lured to Madison Square Garden by Bullseye and their battle was broadcast on live television (Daredevil vol 1, #131, 1976). Howard the Duck crash-landed in Central Park (Howard the Duck vol. 1, #18, 1977). Central Park also hosted the Beyonder's alien construct (in Sheep Meadow, to be precise) which he used to teleport heroes and villains to Battleworld for the original Secret Wars. The Absorbing Man and Titania tried to steal a life-size golden bull from the Guggenheim Museum (Thor #447-48, 1992). Sam Wilson (The Falcon) and Joe "Robbie" Robertson were born and raised in Harlem. And so on and so on and so on. </div>
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Lest we forget, the location of Marvel Comics itself, currently 417 Fifth Avenue, is also worth a visit. They used to do tours of the 'Bullpen', and when I did it in 1996, they had the poor jerk conducting the guide dressed up as Spider-Man. A quick google-fu informs me that they no longer do tours, but it would be still worth a visit just to say that you had been there. I've heard stalking gets results...</div>
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But all of this has been covered in a guide book. "The Marvel Comics Guide to New York City" by Peter Sanderson is the definitive guide to stomping around New York City and visiting real and nearly real locations depicted in Marvel comics. </div>
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The Music Monster that is Pink Floyd covered by heavy metal bands? Now there's a great idea for a show. 'The Nile Song', from Pink Floyd's 'Soundtrack from the Film More' (has anyone actually seen that movie?), is probably the heaviest Floyd song recorded, and lends itself to being covered by a heavy metal band. And both Floyd and Heavy Metal are steeped in psychedelia, even if they went off in different directions.<br />
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Regardless of similarities, Pink Floyd have a towering repertoire of songs that can stand the test of various covers, and there's no shortage of great bands out there who have risen to the challenge.<br />
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A great place to start is a compilation entitled 'Like Black Holes In The Sky: A Tribute to Syd Barrett' featuring great artists covering Syd Barratt and Pink Floyd tracks. A number of which appeared on my show and on this list. Enjoy!<br />
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