Arcadia of my misspent Youth

This brother's got soul!

2009-10-14T23:11:41Z

Oh. My. God.

Heh heh.

2009-10-13T10:57:12Z

Disney Lab Unveils Its Latest Line Of Genetically Engineered Child Stars

Ring of light, magic might!

2009-08-13T22:05:25Z

Thundering across the stars, to save the universe from the Monster Minds... Jayce searches for his father, to unite the magic root and lead his Lightning League to victory over the changing form of SawBoss. Wheeled Warriors explode into battle--Lightning Strikes!

Here's what I got in the post today:

It is a far better thing I do...

2009-08-07T01:35:32Z

First up, for tochiro998, I got the Wrath of Khan CD in the post the other day and had a chance to listen to it. Oh, Steve-o I wish you could hear this! The CD is fantastic! My camera's not working at the moment (flat battery, no charger) so I can't show pictures of the awesome work FSM did on the release. The track themselves are brilliant with standout track being #17 Battle in the Mutura Nebula, #22 Epilogue/End Titles and of course #10 Surprise Attack. Listening to these tracks, especially, makes me ten years old again and watching the film for the first time. Every time Horner strikes a note you're there with him watching every phazer blast, photon torpedo and warp jump. However I wanted to call attention to the track simply titled Spock. If you follow this link you can listen to a sample from FSM's servers. It's a short track at about 1:12 but it's nice to hear finally. I remember where in the film this music is, it's the conversation Spock and Kirk have about Kirk taking command of Enterprise. I have concentrated so often on the dialogue in years past that I didn't notice the music. Maybe that's the way the director wanted it but I never paid attention before now. The track is wonderful and light, making a simple set of strings come alive. It didn't peg with me consciously that Spock's theme runs through a lot more of the soundtrack than I noticed before. Also special mention should be the bonus track at the end of the CD titled Epilogue(Original Version)/End Titles. As many will know, the director of Star Trek II, Nicholas Meyer, didn't want to include the end shot of Spock's coffin torpedo tube on Genesis' surface. But Harve Bennett, the executive producer for the film went ahead and shot it anyway, necessitating the need to rewrite the score for that scene. Nothing really amazing about the track itself but a nice what if and different interpretation on a classic film.

Secondly, for sobieniak , I got the last of Samurai Jack on DVD the other day for about $10, total, and that made me think, I should let Chris know about this. Which led in turn to me remembering that I still haven't sent you Only Yesterday. I will get on it soon as.

Finally I got The Middleman on DVD today. I came across this series while on Shout! Factory's website (I was looking to see if they would ship the Matrix of Leadership Transformers box-set to me, no such luck). It's not out here at all on this side of the pond so I decided to give it a whirl. Great first episode, lots of Flash (they pull the who-do-you-like-more: Wally West/Barry Allen? thing out), Batman and X-Men references. Haven't got much further than that but I'll let you all know.

Tightrope of pressure

2009-07-16T00:29:02Z

I am this close to owning Starcrash.

There's nothing else to say really.

Slow, boring and toe stubing start to the day

2009-07-07T13:18:28Z

After waking up today and rushing out to get to the bank, I've had a good morning and a bad morning.Bad in that the bank locked my online banking account because I couldn't remember one digit in the password. Now I'll have to wait till Thursday or Friday to pay online bills.

Good in the sense of some stuff I ordered last week has arrived. First up is Wapsi Square Volume 1:

A nice web comic published by Lulu.com and created, drawn and written by Paul Taylor (pablowapsi ), Wapsi Square has been ongoing since around 2001. Following the adventures of Meso-American archaeological expert Monica Villarreal (hope I got that name right) with regular life, the Aztec god of drunkenness, Ancient South American demi-gods and her anthromorphological dog Dietzel. I've been reading it for about six months and I'm up to the 2005/2006 archives and felt a need to buy volume 1 of this as reading web comics after a while starts to numb the mind. (Please note I do not include dwinghy nor davemerrill in that feeling. Their web comics don't have 7+ years of archives to go through!) After reading a good chunk of the Wapsi archive I introduced my brother to it and that of shortpacked and right now I'm waiting for Shortpacked Vol1 & 2 to arrive (if they ever do).

The other thing that arrived was Rogue Vol.3 by Howard Mackie and pencils by the late Mike Wieringo. I've always had a soft spot of Marvel Comics reigning Southern Belle even though in recent years I've noticed Marvel's all too willingness to make her character conform to Anna Paquin's turn as the character in the related films. I feel this does a disservice to fans of the character who've been reading her since the early 80's. I began collecting this limited series featuring Rogue in the mid 90's about a year after it originally came out. At the time the series ran, Marvel were running their Age Of Apocalypse storyline and so it went by everyone's radar. Mores the pity as there is good writing on display here and nice, even artwork to admire. I bought vol.1 in Forbidden Planet in Dublin and then got 2 and 4 in Sub City also in Dublin but I could never, despite all my trying, find number 3. So when this turned on eBay last week for only $8 including shipping I decided to finish off my White Whale of a comic.

I've one or two awesome artbooks on the way but I'm not saying a word until I have them in my hands. Don't want to jinx it.

Now all I have to do is find the money to pay outgoings and maybe finish off some of my missing copies of Eureka Seven before I end up having to buy them on eBay. Yet again.

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2009-06-27T09:01:54Z

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20:58 #followfriday @aicnanime @Anime3000 @animediet @animeevolution @animevice @ANNZac @Apreche @Benu @BradleyCMeek @chaeseco @ClarissaG #

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21:02 #followfriday @fanboyhell @funimation @gendomike @HappySlip @Japanator @jeansnow @jefbot @jeffalopolis @JeffersonEng @LathersBlather #

21:03 #followfriday @mainpa @MangaCast @Matt_Alt @MichaelToole @michellekenobi @MikesHeadRoom @MMD @moritheil @Muzachan @narutakiRT #

21:05 #followfriday @narutakiRT @OneGreatTurtle @otaku_girl @OtakuCollective @otakugeneration @Patrick_Macias @PitBull @R5Central @rangercast #

21:07 #followfriday @remoteryan @rootbeerking @saggyz @schnuth @sdshamshel @severanced @Shortpacked @SkipJenkins @stephenfry @SyleneR5 #

21:09 #followfriday @thewinterseason @upapaddle @weeaboobies @tohoscope @Vertical_Ed @viga @whydoisay @wildarmsheero @wilw @wondercast @Yuricon #

21:09 #followfriday @pablowapsi and of course @DarylSurat #

03:02 New film from Girl who Leapt through Time director, EVA character designer and MADHOUSE, looks awesome and intriguing. bit.ly/16LQKN #

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2009-06-26T09:02:06Z

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12:28 So I've contacted the website that sent me Girls High on DVD cos the postal service just officially ran out of time to get it to me. #

12:30 The site said if I didn't receive it after 28 days from date of shipping to contact them. Balls in your court, Axelmusic. #

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2009-06-25T09:01:54Z

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19:54 #animewednesday Patlabor the Movie and Patlabor 2. Two awesome movies that really go beyond being merely 'animated' films. #

19:55 #aniwednesday Patlabor the Movie and Patlabor 2. Two awesome movies that really go beyond being merely 'animated' films. #

22:37 #animewednesday M.D. Geist Terrible animation, mind boggling voice acting and a plot that's up there with Plan 9 From Outer Space #

03:27 Spider just ran by me along the wall next to my bed. #

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2009-06-23T09:02:27Z

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17:38 Watch this video: slide.com/t/5/6/ea2aGQqOyW0g #

20:40 RT @Benu: RT @ClarissaG: RT: @aliwildgoose: Erin and Noah's interview video is up on the CBS site: bit.ly/9lJ6W #SPACEWEDDING #

23:56 #mangamonday Dororo. Number of reasons: It's Tezuka, it's EPIC, it's awesome and finally (but sadly) it's all over in three volumes! #

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2009-06-22T09:01:40Z

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20:18 RT @sdshamshel: RT @BrigidAlverson @goraina Congratulations to @erinf and Noah and their zero-G wedding!!! tr.im/pd2M #SPACEWEDDING #

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2009-06-21T09:01:36Z

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03:35 Ok, so my haul form town today was High School Girls #5 & 6, Sumomo etc. #1 and Dororo #3 (final) plus assorted US comics. #

04:31 Proof that Pixar are the awesomest people working in any entertainment medium tinyurl.com/kugurf #

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2009-06-19T09:01:50Z

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16:09 Watching Castle of Cagliostro now. Dub only but on digital so print looks great. #

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2009-06-18T09:01:57Z

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19:42 German Blu ray of Escape From New York on it's way to me. Anyone want my original Optimum UK blu ray? #

23:41 Ok, UPS is f&%king with me. What the hell does "UPS INTERNAL ACTIVITY" mean? twitpic.com/7nssz #

01:58 #helpiranelection - show support for democracy in Iran add green overlay to your Twitter avatar with 1-click - helpiranelection.com/ #

02:06 Good night Twitter. #

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2009-06-17T09:02:09Z

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13:01 RT @aicnanime:RT @jlist DAICON IV OPENING ANIMATION remastered (!), one of the most epoch-making events in anime history bit.ly/FUWbc #

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2009-06-16T09:02:02Z

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13:59 Off to town to buy a vintage AMT Enterprise-D. #

01:40 Full length PD kung fu films available on youtube. Includes US version of Sonny Chiba's THE STREET FIGHTER tinyurl.com/nr7jw6 #

01:42 You just have to put up with crappy ads to order to watch them. #

01:46 Wow, the guy who played the villain Han in Enter The Dragon died June 5th. Who was 96 at the time of his death. tinyurl.com/pre5ot #

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2009-06-15T09:01:46Z

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20:41 I'm on Identi.ca now! Don't know anyone else on it. Oh, well another social network site I'm part of. #

22:33 Ok, so for some unknown reason I've decided to join Jaiku, Identi.ca and FriendFeed. Don't I have enough? #

23:53 Optimum license Ghibli's Ocean Waves for release in UK/Ireland is.gd/11Ytg #

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2009-06-13T09:01:41Z

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01:53 RT @SyleneR5: Also, Final Fantasy fans: Give Mike Toole a break already! - bit.ly/k1VtZ #

02:51 Going to play Battlestations Pacific on 360. If you have my gamer tag, hit me up for a chat. (Still don't have Gold membership) #

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2009-06-09T09:02:09Z

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12:11 FanFare UK/ Ponent Mon bringing out The Summit of the Gods vol. 1 by Yumemakura Baku and Jiro Taniguchi soon: twitpic.com/6wbt6 #

20:13 I finally got into the swing to demotivational posters: twitpic.com/6x724 #

20:17 #mangamonday Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. Buddhist medium, corpse dowser, teenager embalmer, alien sock puppet. EPIC WIN #

20:28 More posters, this time Gundam related: twitpic.com/6x88m #

01:45 The Nish is at it again. Nice trailer but long on talk zero on action: tinyurl.com/py4hlo #

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2009-06-08T09:01:36Z

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16:28 Back killing me due to having to haul out household waste bin for collection tomorrow. God, my throat hurts form coughing at the smell. #

16:32 Internet down at my house. Using friends laptop to tweet. Heh, codeine tablets for when I get back home. Ah, sweet drowsiness! #

16:36 Text from my mother. Annoying kids from further down her road up to no good. Where's the American Rabbit when you need him? #

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2009-06-06T09:03:06Z

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21:55 #followfriday @Vertical_Ed @erinf @Benu @SyleneR5 @Yuricon @DancingQueen_DQ @Japanator @stephenfry @Anime3000 @gendomike @animevice #

22:02 #followfriday @R5Central @fightbait @Patrick_Macias @Nam @sdshamshel @ANNZac @weeaboobies @upapaddle @Shortpacked @viga @fanboyhell #

22:02 #followfriday @MangaCast #

22:03 #followfriday @ClarissaG #

00:03 RT @Benu: RT @djtyrant: ANN EXCLUSIVE: Funimation Speaks About Leaks bit.ly/rmpeV (via @ANNZac) #

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2009-06-04T09:01:48Z

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19:38 RT @SyleneR5: @R5Central sent me the new Twilight trailer. Am I the only one who can't stop laughing? - tinyurl.com/nznyqp #

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2009-06-02T09:02:04Z

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19:59 XBOX announce controller free games and apps. Facial, voice and movement recognition as standard! #

20:00 Spielberg on on stage at the XBOX E3 stage! #

20:01 Facebook, twitter and live TV integration into the 360 service! #

20:01 Kojima announces Metal Gear for 360 at E3. #

20:03 Talking about something called Project Natal... #

20:05 Natal is a motion control system for the 360 #xboxe3 #

20:06 Showing off some kind Wii-Fit system training game #xboxe3 #

20:08 OMG they're showing off a painting canvas app for the 360! #xboxe3 #

20:08 the guy is literally throwing paint in real time on a canvas! #xboxe3 #

20:10 he's doing some kind of silhouette on the canvas #xboxe3 #

20:12 He's just made a silhouette of an elephant with help from a girl and then imprinted the previous canvas image into the silhouette #xboxe3 #

20:13 Creepy dead-eyes children animation on right now #xboxe3 #

20:14 OMG they've created a have-a-child-as-a-pet! #xboxe3 #

20:21 all over from Microsoft at E3 #xboxe3 #

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2009-06-01T09:01:48Z

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03:11 night twitter. #

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2009-05-31T09:02:01Z

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12:54 meeting my storyboard artist today. Going over the last few details. #

13:30 signing off from twitter. tweet later, all. #

16:31 Finished chatting with storyboard artist. Revisions done. Get them on Wednesday! #

18:01 Back from town. Bought Vertical's Dororo Vol.2. good stuff #

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