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Useless News
Just south of Corbin, Kentucky on Highway 25E, at the used car dealership named Slusher's, there is a Chevy Astro van painted up as Scooby-Doo's "Mystery Machine" in all its quasi-hippie glory. I didn't stop to see whether it was for sale, or if so what the asking price is, when I went by there Sunday. -
Cowboys And Aliens
What I said on Facebook last night: --A typical DOCTOR WHO plotline with a typical DREAMWORKS budget. Meaning that the aliens are rendered to the point that they don't have to be portrayed by Shakespearean-trained human cast members, and that the dog is a real one and not a chrome puppet. (Not that I have a problem with chrome puppet dogs, per se.) ( Read more... ) -
More Is More
Letting my research addiction play out again. This time it's related to that project I mentioned in the previous post (the car race horror movie). I'm looking up cars of the middle to late 1960s for inspiration. The story I have in mind involves six teams and a solo campaign, each having a different "character", "philosophy" and "theme ( Read more... ) -
Throwing Ideas Together Towards Critical Mass
A while ago here I voiced my desires to make a race car-based horror movie. Paul liked my initial premise, but thought it too expensive to pull off, and wanted to do something else, which I still may participate in if I get all the resources together ( Read more... ) -
Conclusions
Today, I came to the end of a very long and drawn out process in an attempt to acquire something that had some otaku significance but still hadn't made it to America.
Space Gundam V, the South Korean knockoff anime based around the Valkyrie fighter from Macross. Somebody made a torrent available a few months ago, and I got to download it in ( Read more... ) -
Back To A Different World
Today I bought the first DVD of the remastered 1960s Japanese sci-fi/horror/superhero TV series ULTRAMAN, which I first encountered around 1978 when I was living in Pittsburgh and watching just about anything that the independent stations showed. Like SPEED RACER, this show is exactly as old as I am...and shares the same English-language dubbing ( Read more... )