Yearly Archives: 2009

Wesband

Dragon's Den, the mindlab

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Wesband is a modification of The Battle for Wesnoth that I’ve been making. It is a dungeon-crawler, loosely based on ZAngband, but with features unique to the genre.

Wesnoth is a mutli-platform, open source, turn-based strategy (TBS), fantasy game. Originally made as a single player game, Wesnoth has expanded its mod-ability to the point of allowing multiple players to play co-op in a continuous series of scenarios. Wesband makes use of the newest modding functionality that Wesnoth has to offer.

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Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four

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Back in 1992 the company Constantin Film was about to loose its option on the *Fantastic Four* property. In order to maintain the rights, they turned to Roger Corman to produce an ashcan copy of the film never intended for actual release. Corman sunk $1.98 million to make the movie. While I’ve never seen it, supposedly there is a trailer of the film on the VHS version of *Carnosaur* (1993), directed by Adam Simon and Darren Moloney; also executive produced by Corman. The plan worked and Constantin Film would eventually go onto to make *Fantastic Four* (2005), directed by Tim Story, for $100 million, and *Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer* (2007), also directed by Story, for $130 million.

I’ve know for some time about the film, and am sure back in the early 90’s, when Thom was making me watch Mark Goldblatt’s version of *Punisher* (1989), starring Dolph Lundgren, and *Captain America* (1990), directed by Albert Pyun, I would have also been made to sit through the 1994 version of *Fantastic Four*, directed by Oley Sassone.

In looking around for Corman films on the [Internet Archive](http://www.archive.org/) this afternoon, I discovered one could actually watch the film in its entirety there.

Thom, I know it isn’t the 90s any longer, but I fully expect you to watch this entire film and write and in depth review.

Falco’s Greatest Hits

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Falco's Greatest Hits

Parental Advisory – This review was written at 2:55 AM. And while the album was being listened to after sitting on the shelf for two months.

A) Classic 80’s techno pop backed by incomprehensible German lyrics.

Examples – Amadeus – I always thought he was singing “Rock me I’m a danish” – as in pastry.

“Der Komissar” – I had an advantage on this one. I had the 45 and copied it on cassette when the record first came out. Later that year, I was living with Guido who, like me, is Italian and German, but being from Europe, spoke both languages, as well as English (ok, close enough on English). He said the lyrics were, “Don’t look over your shoulder, the commissioner is sneaking along the street.” Somehow I think something got altered in translation.

“Vienna Calling” – See A.

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Old photos

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Mike recently asked me for a photo of him and mom. I actually don’t have many, and the ones I have aren’t always ‘serious.’ I had about 100 slides from home from our childhood and said I’d look through those. This batch of slides were the loose ‘reject’ slides that never made their way into boxes or trays. I was relatively unsuccessful, but I did find a couple photos that my dad took that I think are really neat. I’m going to start going through the old slides at home and digitizing them.

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Dirty Pair on Veoh

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The “Original” Dirty Pair has always been one of my favorite cartoons (with the Dirty Pair Flash cartoon being one of my least favorites). While the storylines aren’t anything really to write home about, what I enjoy about the Dirty Pair is the cartoon’s silly sense of fun mixed with science fiction, and I love the animation. I spent most of the weekend re-watching all the movies and shows, and then thought I’d scour the net to see if there were any episodes out there for the Protozic uninitiated. I found this — though the subtitles are sort of difficult to read. Regardless, the music intro rocks.


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