| Ladies and gentlemen, The Wall |
[Jun. 24th, 2008|01:23 am] |
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A poster named NeilFaz posted this on the board today (in GC for some reason, if a GC mod can movie to ASoIaF General or Objects of Ice and Fire, that would be cool). The Wall and Castle Black in full 3D.
Very cool stuff :-)
Link:
http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?showtopic=29211&st=0&gopid=1412284&#entry1412284
Anyone else been having trouble putting links on LJ? They haven't been showing up for me since I upgraded to Firefox 3 :-( |
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| Music Monday |
[Jun. 23rd, 2008|02:08 pm] |
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Inspired by the board last week:
And as a bonus:
Damnit. I need to go rewatch that movie now. |
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| I wants one! |
[Jun. 22nd, 2008|03:30 am] |
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Okay, maybe not:
The daggits in the original BSG always freaked me out as one of my SF mags saw fit to tell me that inside that thing was an extremely disturbed monkey. When I got older I thought this was some kind of urban legend, but apparently they really stuck a 'trained acting monkey' * inside the daggit costume to get a 'more convincing animal-like movement'. Seriously, WTF? Did they clear that with ASPCA (US equivalent of RSPCA, I believe)?
This did lead me to realise that the new show hasn't made the most of its merchandising opportunities. Where are the Kara Thrace dolls with three different phrases ("We're going the wrong waaaaaay!" "Kara Thrace loves Leeee Adama!" and "You're a bastard!")? The Saul Tigh action figure with a removable eye? The Battlestar Pegasus playset with fully functioning torture chamber? The 'Felix Gaeta Sings 20 Colonial Classics' CD? I fear there's a whole market being missed out on here.
* Evidence here, since Livejournal won't let me post links for some unfathomable reason:
http://jimsmash.blogspot.com/2005/10/monkey-space-dog.html |
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| Titus Pullo IS The Punisher |
[Jun. 14th, 2008|01:41 am] |
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This film looks totally bloody awful, but it does have Titus Pullo dispensing justice with machine guns, including the difficult-to-pull-off, dangling-upside-down-rotating-whilst-firing-two-machine-guns-simultaneously maneuver.
But the dialogue! No! It makes my ears bleed!
One to get on DVD to watch with mates whilst drunk, I think. |
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| Rothfussblog |
[Jun. 10th, 2008|11:17 pm] |
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I keep meaning to check this more regularly, but meh, too many websites and too many blogs to visit. But check out Pat Rothfuss' blog if you have time. Very amusing, including his current competition to the see who can put his books in the daftest positions and take pictures of them. He also occasionally talks about progress on the much-delayed sequel to The Name of the Wind, The Wise Man's Fear.
Picture made of win:
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| Music Monday |
[Jun. 9th, 2008|03:15 pm] |
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One of my favourite songs of all time, which only recently cropped up on YouTube:
Good riffs, solid chorus and fun lyrics. What more do you want?
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| It is confirmed. |
[Jun. 8th, 2008|02:04 am] |
BSG goes off the air next week in both the UK and USA and won't be back for its final ten episodes until January 2009.
* expletive deleted * Just when it was getting good again. To rub it in, the producers have cheerfully promised a mid-season cliffhanger that's apparently bigger than New Caprica. Cheers for that.
On the plus side, this does mean we get 10 more webisodes that will bridge the two seasons and they're also going to be filming three TV movies that will air after Season 4.5 finishes next year and before the series is laid to rest for good. But that doesn't really make up for the fricking SEVEN MONTHS minimum we have to wait to see the next episode. WTH?
Trailers for next week's ep follow. Only watch if you don't mind pretty big spoilers and have watched this week's episode as well.
Oh goody, looks like this year's comedy episode! Or maybe not :-O |
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| The July Meet-Up |
[Jun. 6th, 2008|04:22 pm] |
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So what was originally going to be a small meet-up for the Steven Erikson London signing has now grown into a much larger gathering taking in several people's birthdays as well (Isis, Anna's and Sean's, I believe). With people from Ireland, Scotland and further afield coming over for it I thought it might be an idea to have a proper discussion about it.
So who's attending, first off? So far I think it's me, Isis, Sean, Silanah, Tomfoster and Anna who are pretty certain for it.
Strong possibilities I believe are Tenalpia, Zak & Needle, Peadar, Mo, Etrangere, Iceman, Williamjm, Slick Mongoose and perhaps some of our semi-newcomers, Peregrinus, Eloisa etc. Paddy also expressed an interest a little while ago. The 'Crombie said he may come during the day of the 5th. Anyone else? Mormont? Zollo? Vestrit?
On that subject shall we throw this open to other newbies and put up a post about it in the BwB section on the board? Or did we want it to be an 'in-crowd' only job?
The signing is on the 5th and I suppose people who want to go can slink off for an hour with their heaving backpacks with 7,700-odd pages of Malazan goodness to get signed (that'll be me then). But did we want to arrange anything else? If people are coming over from further afield did we want to make plans for this to be a 2 or 3-day thing? Or just wing it as we go?
Cheers everyone.
Important Info: The signing is at 1-2pm on Saturday, 5 July at Forbidden Planet in Shaftesbury Avenue. |
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| Hey Hey, My My Music Monday |
[Jun. 2nd, 2008|02:18 pm] |
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Two versions of the same classic song here. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Neil Young in 1985 with an acoustic version:
And doing a souped-up electric take in 2000 at Wembley, Gallagher Senior:
And yeah, this is the song that inspired Kurt Cobain's suicide letter. But still awesome nevertheless. |
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| The Best SF&F Authors According to Us |
[May. 11th, 2008|05:57 pm] |
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Just finished putting together the results from this vote on the board. 85 people voted for 101 authors, with the Top Ten results being:
10. Frank Herbert
9. Joe Abercrombie
8. Stephen R. Donaldson
7. Steven Erikson
6. China Mieville
5. Robin Hobb
4. Gene Wolfe
3. R. Scott Bakker
2. JRR Tolkien
1. George RR Martin
Perhaps predictable, but I didn't expect Joe to be in there. He's been embraced like very few other new authors have been on the board and Last Argument of Kings in particular got a fantastic reception. The clear contender for the Campbell Award this year, IMO.
Scott Bakker's high placing was also surprising. I expected him to maybe hit the Top Ten, but not get that high, since for every person who loves his work someone else seems to hate him. But nevertheless a deserved place. The Prince of Nothing is the Dune of epic fantasy, a thoughtful and philosophical work which doesn't shirk on the huge battles or character development fronts.
Anyway, it was fun (if mildly tedious) counting this up and the results were very interesting. Not a single vote for JK Rowling at all. Not even one. Very surprising. |
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| Greetings to my Virtual Friends! |
[Dec. 11th, 2006|02:06 am] |
Back in May, after meeting thirty-odd members of the BwB and realising most of them had Livejournals, I decided it would be great to put them all on my friends list. Procrastination being my nature, I just got round to doing it. Whoops. Sorry folks.
Due to a semi-catastrophic cock-up at work - I got busted for breaking a new regulation, only for the people doing the busting to find out that the reason I'd broken it was that my manager hadn't bothered doing the training he'd been told to do a month earlier resulting in the store management team being grilled over a slow fire - I've had the last three weeks off work, paid, whilst they sort out the mess. And I still don't know when I'm going back. Probably end of the week, but have been told it could go into the following week. Whilst this sounds great in theory, in practice it's getting dull now. I'm too skint to actually get out and do stuff (a result of the damage the Amsterdam trip has done to my finances: well worth it though) so I'm stuck around all day watching old Seinfeld DVDs and posting even more crap than is normal on various forums. What's worse I'm out of my normal reading cycle (I normally read at work during lunch) and have taken a fortnight to get 120 pages into Altered Carbon. Sigh.
What's really annoying is that my sleeping habits have gotten completely out of whack. After three weeks of going to bed at 2-3am and getting up at 11am, getting used to waking up at 7.30am is going to be a struggle. Need to start training myself back into the habit, I suppose. |
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