Power Records continued
Oh, my little MP3 player, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways...
See, I've always felt slighted by my regular Dell DJ, which doesn't have a proper shuffle feature. Sometimes I'm in a very random mood, or I just feel like a small sampling of music, so the Creative Zen Stone is a fairly inexpensive alternative. As long as you don't need to play anything in order, like audiobooks, you're golden. It's all USB powered, so you do need to remember to charge it up. My last batch was fairly eclectic -- some soundtracks, some Quartetto Gelato, the last two Duran Duran albums, and the Power Records WW stories. Needless to say, it makes for a rather cracked out playlist, flipping from Europop to gypsy music to electronica in a moment's notice. And that's me all over.
Listening to the old Power Records audios is such a weird nostalgia trip. I've written already about the first appearance of Brunnhilde and the oddity of Lt. Diane Prince. (Maybe Steve misspoke? Maybe it was a nickname?) And then I hit "The Prisoner of Christmas Island" with its Greek chorus of Mars and Aphrodite arguing over "the mighty Teutonic goddess" stealing Santa Claus! (I must have been such a confused child, especially when we studied Greek mythology in grade school. Somehow I managed.) Was Brunhilde an audio-only villian? I do recall Wonder Woman has a Valkyrie in her Rogue's gallery but she appears to have post-dated this. Did they try to mix Baroness von Gunther with Norse mythology? Has anyone written a crossover where Wonder Woman meets Indiana Jones? Because I'm sure they could have knowing discussions about mythology and Nazis and stuff.
"Wonder Woman vs the War-God" is a little amusing, considering the jokes about the animated Diana always asking for help from Hera. In this audio, Diana actually gets her deus ex machina! The original appears to have been published in 1975, which makes the whole hawk versus dove imagery rather interesting. Granted the peace versus war argument had been in WW mythos since the Golden Age. It's just interesting they didn't use Aphrodite for this one.
And then there's "Amazons in Space" which felt like a very weird cross between the Golden Age fascination with dominance/submission mixed with "modern" feminism. It is always interesting that we see these other matriarchal societies crop up and Diana always winds up on the opposite side of them. And why did Amazon scientist sound like she was from Athens, Georgia?
I do wonder how I turned out so well adjusted.
I did, didn't I?
See, I've always felt slighted by my regular Dell DJ, which doesn't have a proper shuffle feature. Sometimes I'm in a very random mood, or I just feel like a small sampling of music, so the Creative Zen Stone is a fairly inexpensive alternative. As long as you don't need to play anything in order, like audiobooks, you're golden. It's all USB powered, so you do need to remember to charge it up. My last batch was fairly eclectic -- some soundtracks, some Quartetto Gelato, the last two Duran Duran albums, and the Power Records WW stories. Needless to say, it makes for a rather cracked out playlist, flipping from Europop to gypsy music to electronica in a moment's notice. And that's me all over.
Listening to the old Power Records audios is such a weird nostalgia trip. I've written already about the first appearance of Brunnhilde and the oddity of Lt. Diane Prince. (Maybe Steve misspoke? Maybe it was a nickname?) And then I hit "The Prisoner of Christmas Island" with its Greek chorus of Mars and Aphrodite arguing over "the mighty Teutonic goddess" stealing Santa Claus! (I must have been such a confused child, especially when we studied Greek mythology in grade school. Somehow I managed.) Was Brunhilde an audio-only villian? I do recall Wonder Woman has a Valkyrie in her Rogue's gallery but she appears to have post-dated this. Did they try to mix Baroness von Gunther with Norse mythology? Has anyone written a crossover where Wonder Woman meets Indiana Jones? Because I'm sure they could have knowing discussions about mythology and Nazis and stuff.
"Wonder Woman vs the War-God" is a little amusing, considering the jokes about the animated Diana always asking for help from Hera. In this audio, Diana actually gets her deus ex machina! The original appears to have been published in 1975, which makes the whole hawk versus dove imagery rather interesting. Granted the peace versus war argument had been in WW mythos since the Golden Age. It's just interesting they didn't use Aphrodite for this one.
And then there's "Amazons in Space" which felt like a very weird cross between the Golden Age fascination with dominance/submission mixed with "modern" feminism. It is always interesting that we see these other matriarchal societies crop up and Diana always winds up on the opposite side of them. And why did Amazon scientist sound like she was from Athens, Georgia?
I do wonder how I turned out so well adjusted.
I did, didn't I?