#March2012
Turkish STAR WARS Knock-Off Figures Are Crazy; Make More Sense Than Prequels
Forget the Force being strong with me, I need to get down with the Uzay. Such is the name of a line of Star Wars action figure knock-offs rolled out in the late 1980s in Turkey. As far as I’m concerned, the Turkish masterminds behind this line of figures were simply cleaning up lore, and elaborating on obvious concepts. Or losing their goddamn minds.
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Joel Kinnaman Says The New ‘ROBOCOP’ Will Be More Human. Cause We All Cyborgs Now!
Actor Joel Kinnaman has been cast as the lead in the RoboCop remake, and he’s been speaking out recently about the gig. Usually I wouldn’t really pay attention to this fuzz, but Kinnaman hit on a hot topic that I think may agitate some Nerd Asses.
‘EVE ONLINE’ Players Can Use In-Game Cash To Buy Real-Life Graphics Cards. Rad.
Despite my good friend and occasional commenter Fink trying to explain EVE Online to me, I’ve never been able to fully grasp it. It isn’t that his explanations are poor, but rather it seems an online world of such complexity that it’s something I’d have to experience for myself. I mean, fuck! It’s the sort of game where you can buy real shit with money you earn in game.
‘TOTAL RECALL’ Teaser Trailer: Futuristic Cyberrawk
Maybe it’s the medication kicking in with its midday efficacy, but I’m digging this Total Recall teaser. Or maybe its just that I am a total floozy for anything futuristic or even quasi cyberpunk. I love the original, but if this can distance itself enough from Arnold On Mars while offering up its own futuristic swag, I’m down. Maybe.
Dude In China Is Making HOMEMADE SUBMARINES. Safety ++
Yeah, I have no idea how anything awful can come out of this. One gentleman in China is building submarines after getting laid off. Fuck man, if I was you I’d just be sitting around all day with a bottle of Lubriderm and a smile. Making me feel lazy as shit.
NEW ‘AVENGERS’ TRAILER Is All About Black Widow. I Approve.
Here’s an Avengers trailer rocketing out of Poland that goes superhard on the Black Widow action. I may be losing my mind, but some of the footage looks like its from Iron Man 2, unless Natasha spends a lot of her time running around nondescript white hallways. None the less, I’ll take it.
WIZARD WORLD Names John Macaluso New CEO. YOU’RE NOT MY GAREB.
It was a dark day indeed last year when Gareb Shamus killed off Wizard and then not much later (especially in the galactic sense!) resigned as Chief-Something-Such and rode off into the sunset on a life-sized neon Tauntaun he himself had sold through ToyFare. Sure the dude had run Wizard into the ground and really hadn’t done anything in Gods knows how long, he was still our Dad. Now we’re going to meet the Step Dad and I say fuck him!
Paperback Orgy: Soul-Swapping, Suicide Booths, and Immortality Inc.
One of the joys of being into sci-fi is that the genre has such a rich history to draw from. Even if I quit my job, touched the monolith, took up speed, and did nothing but devour sci-fi books and movies 24/7, I’d never reach the end. It’s a beautiful and exciting thing – especially on the book shelf. You can go into any thrift store in the world and pick up a sci-fi paperback of yore for a quarter or two. That’s a cheap price to pay for a window into our beloved genre’s history. I thrift for books a couple times a month to snatch up any sci-fi paperbacks I haven’t hoarded yet. Believe me when I say that there are enough used copies of Rendezvous With Rama out there to build a bridge across the Atlantic.
Paperback Orgy will hopefully be a semi-regular column in which I discuss a choice selection from my recent booty. For our inaugural post I want to talk about a book that’s been collecting dust on my shelves for a minute now: Robert Sheckley‘s 1959 comical tale of the soul and the shittiness of rich people…Immortality Inc.
Modestep – Show Me a Sign
What if Kill Bill and Charlie’s Angels made sweet love, produced an ADHD offspring addicted to filthy dubstep? The result is these 4 chicas on a mission to destroy the music industry, ala Modestep. Watch the death spawn after the jump…
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Strange Moments in Solid Movies: You Dirty Rat, The Departed
Martin Scorsese is no stranger to gangster films populated by many dishonorable characters in seedy locations, scurrying around in the dark, power-playing for any (and all) loose change and on the even looser morality of their depraved circles. Starting with 1973’s Mean Streets and later reworking the turf in the 1990s with Goodfellas and Casino, Scorsese’s examinations into the gangster lifestyle have no doubt been artistically fruitful for him, as he has been better able–or, perhaps more appropriately, more willing–to show the brutal realities perpetuated by members of the underworld. And yet, in this place of double crosses and deceptions (all for the intention of looking out for number one), as outlandish as it seems, a certain code of “noble” behavior becomes hopelessly entangled in the proceedings: that, at the very least, disreputable people ought to have the common decency to live up to that reliable classification and not turn out to be backstabbers–rats–working against fellow low lives. It’s a fascinating quandary, both absurd and unsettling to behold, and it’s one that Scorsese brings to the forefront in his (only) Oscar-winning film The Departed.
