Everything: The musical
The leaves are turning, the birds (the non-pigeon ones, anyway) are leaving, and I'm still unable to access Wordpress to spruce up the ol' site. Mainly, I misplaced the password the installation generated, so all of my templates lie on my hard drive, useless. :(
I still plan on integrating LiveJournal in with it somehow, so if you mainly access the LJ, you should be fine.
Anyway, an upcoming issue of ps238 will feature a "creative writing" class, and I got to play with crayons for the first time in years. A lot of the interior art will also be done with the ol' Crayola 64-pack (with sharpener), so look for me trying to draw like I did when I was still able to see "Heckle & Jeckle" cartoons before going to school.
Terminator fans rejoice! "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" got a full season of shows, but there are rumors this might mean the eventual scrapping of Joss Whedon's "Dollhouse." The last installment of Sarah Connor had some elements in it that helped flesh things out a bit (an A.W.O.L. time traveller, for instance; I'd wondered why there weren't more), but the fight between female T-800s was just a little goofy. Good use of a contortionist, though.
But if all this and the upcoming fourth film are not enough T-800 for you, there's always "Terminator: The Musical."
Speaking of which, it used to be that "the musical" was a punchline when attached to a popular film or book title. No more. I ran across the above "revue" and discovered in addition to the previously mentioned Evil Dead: The Musical, there's the currently running Young Frankenstein: The Musical, and even Conan O'Brien: The Musical.
I also unearthed a few off-center sing-a-longs that might be of interest. First up, there's Barackula, a musical about a young Obama as he has to deal with the vampires at Harvard who want to do him in. There's also American Psycho: The Musical in development for 2010, (this next one has harsh lingo)Toxic Avenger: The Musical, based on the TROMA film, and possibly a musical based on the work of AC/DC. There's even a web-made Macs vs. PC musical, though it doesn't star John Hodgman. Who said theater was dead? :)
This week's IESB.net cartoon mocked "The Hoff" a bit, but it turns out everyone can join in on the fun if you own a PS3. Other than getting Mr. Hasselhoff blown up and knocked around, I don't see much about the actual gameplay, but I'm sure that's only secondary. And you can't tell me blowing him up (at least on a sound stage) doesn't appeal after seeing the video to his rendition of "Hooked on a Feeling.".
And just in time for Halloween, City of Heroes gets zombies! While cool and all, a friend of mine and I wouldn't mind a setup where a zombie infestation happens organically, starting with a few citizens and then spreading through the population. Of course, we'd be treading on "Marvel: Zombies" territory, but it'd be pretty fun fighting the undead citizenry and zombies in capes. In any case, it never hurts to be prepared for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.
Dumping links like leaves over the neighbor's fence:
- Confused about the election? Here's a handy Engineer's Guide to Voting. Useful, but blatantly biased towards the third-party candidate, Ginger the Cat.
- There's a minor trend in art for the "retro-Soviet" look, and even Cthulhu cannot escape.
- Hunted Forever is a side-scrolling platformer where you, a "meat bag" human, have to get parts to save the planet from machine-caused destruction. I think...
- A Halloween-y type (and not for kids) commercial game is available free for download: The Suffering. I enjoyed the PS2 version, and for a psychological horror-survival game set in a prison, it's pretty good. Sponsored, for some reason, by the US Air Force.
- I like the concept of Starship Gunner mostly because it's a prettied-up version of a lot of coin-op gunner-shooter games from my misspent youth.
- Either the marketing department for Doctor Who is running out of ideas, or they're trying to give us fans a hint. Or maybe there's a scene with one of the companions that never made it to air...
- A sign of the times: these gloves have little metal discs in the fingertips for use on iPhones and other touchscreens in cold weather.
- And Globs is a strategy game where you pick a color to "absorb," attempting to monochrome the field in the fewest moves.
Oh, and as of this post, there's a Woot-off going on!