Thursday, June 11, 2009

Zombie 'Deadworld' on the horizon

Dark Hero Studios partners David Hayter and Benedict Carver have joined with Pandemonium's Bill Mechanic to turn the comicbook 'Deadworld' into a zombie feature franchise.

Hayter ('Watchmen') will write the screenplay, and he and Mechanic will produce with Framelight's Robert L. Robinson Jr. and Jeffrey D. Erb. Carver and Pandemonium's Suzanne Warren will be exec producers along with Gary Reed, who wrote and co-created the comic.

Pandemonium and Framelight will finance development.

'Deadworld' veers from the popular zombie mythology of depicting an apocalypse in which humans are overrun by flesh-eating corpses. 'Deadworld' picks up four months after that event, where the Dead overtake the Earth, with humans few and far between. Protag is King Zombie, a Harley-riding corpse who holds a grudge against the survivors who made him an outcast.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

The Downward Spiral of Wizard Magazine

At the above link Newsarama.com reports on the latest goings on with the downward spiral of Wizard Magazine. It seems that the magazine once read by everyone is now being read by fewer and fewer. I know with sites like Newsarama and Comic Book Resources in the mix I can get my comic news and information fix in quicker bites than Wizard could deliver.

I don't think that I've picked up a new issue of Wizard in over a year, personally, preferring to focus on getting my news off of the internet.

Its a shame to see the passing of an era but that's the thing about eras...they all end sooner or later.

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Tonight At The Gnarled Oak

It's like high school and college again for me as I dive deeply into my music library for an old school goth set. Loads of "fun" for everyone involved. I'm the lead off for a mini-festival of depressing music at the Gnarled Oak with three other DJs and myself bringing a variety of sad and depressing songs of heartbreak...with a little extra nihilism on my part.

My setlist:

1. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead (9:36)
2. Joy Division - Dead Souls (Peel Session) (4:57)
3. Miranda Sex Garden - Are You the One (4:28)
4. Mephisto Waltz - In The Room That Love Exists (4:40)
5. Tones On Tail - Burning Skies (6:27)
6. Einsturzende Neubauten - The Garden (5:12)
7. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand (Remix) (6:01)
8. Girls Under Glass - In The Darkness (5:23)
9. Suspiria - Allegedy, Dancefloor Tragedy (4:37)
10. Alien Sex Fiend - Now I'm Feeling Zombified [Extended Version] (6:52)
11. Andi Sex Gang and Marc Almond - The Hungry Years (6:50)
12. Die Form - Cantique 1 (6:37)
13. The Shroud - Alice (3:18)
14. X-Mal Deutschland - Incubus Succubus II (4:29)
15. Screams For Tina - 11:11 (3:37)
16. Brilliant - Scream Like An Angel (4:38)
17. The Sisters Of Mercy - Lucretia My Reflection (4:56)


From 5pm until 11pm SLT at the Gnarled Oak on Prime in Second Life.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Fantasy writer David Eddings dies

Bestselling fantasy author David Eddings, who wrote The Belgariad and The Malloreon series, has died aged 77.

Jane Johnson, publishing director at Eddings' UK publisher HarperCollins, paid tribute to the author. HarperCollins was his publisher from 1990 until 2006, when his last title, The Elder Gods, was released.

She said: 'The Voyager team and I were immensely sad to hear the news. The arrival of a new Eddings novel used to be a grand event for the whole division. In the 90s, each one was guaranteed a Number One position on the Sunday Times hardback bestseller list, selling 100,000 copies apiece.

The Beatles: Rock Band

The world’s leading music game meets the greatest band in history! The Beatles™: Rock Band™ gives fans what they’ve been waiting for: a chance to experience the Beatles’ legendary story from the inside. You won’t just watch and listen as the Beatles make rock history, create landmark records and conquer the world—for the first time, you’ll be part of the band.

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

This Week's SL Setlists

I'm previewing the setlists for this week's DJ sets in Second Life. You can search for either "The Gnarled Oak" or "Fiction and Lattes" to find the locations, or if worse comes to worse IM Walton Vieria and I'll send you a limo. Both of these sets are for Wednesday, June 3, 2009. While the Oak setlist is pretty much locked in, I might still play around with the Orion set.

The first set will be at the Gnarled Oak and is a cat-themed set. Music about cats and kitties...and something else that some consider to be cat-like. This set is from 5-7 SLT. The music is all over the place for this set, just the way that I like it.
1. Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat (2:19)
2. Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra - Kitty On Toast (2:45)
3. Theme From The Thundercats Television Program (1:15)
4. Cat Power - Werewolf (4:08)
5. Golden Boy and Miss Kittin - Rippin Kittin (4:48)
6. REM - Fuck Me Kitten (w. William S. Burroughs) (3:30)
7. Grinderman - No Pussy Blues (Midfield General Remix) (7:59)
8. Minus 8 feat. Sharon Harris - Pussycat (3:45)
9. Harry Chapin - Cat's In The Cradle (3:50)
10. The Cure - The Love Cats (3:38)
11. Shonen Knife - Catnip Dream (4:32)
12. Lene Lovich - Cat's Away (3:43)
13. The Aquabats - Cat With 2 Heads (3:00)
14. Catspaw - Bad Cat Sitter (2:43)
15. Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut (3:15)
16. Devastations - All Cats Are Grey (6:39)
17. David Bowie - Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (4:13)
18. Derrick Morgan - Copy Cat (2:33)
19. Lush - Cat's Chorus (3:24)
20. Ladytron - Black Cat (5:08)
21. Devo - Pink Pussycat (3:12)
22. Mud - The Cat Crept In (4:02)
23. Sugarcubes - Cat (Icelandic) (3:00)
24. Oakenfold Feat. Brittany Murphy - Faster Kill Pussycat (3:14)
25. Squeeze - Cool For Cats (3:11)
26. Katrine Ottosen - The Love Cats (4:42)
27. Tipsy - Kitty's Daydream (Longhair mix) (2:26)
28. Go Home Productions - I Dream Of Pussy (2:58)
29. Lords of Acid - Pussy (4:05)
30. Spank Rock - Put That Pussy On Me (Josh Console NOT RNB remix) (4:00)
31. Miss Kittin - Kittin Is High (3:51)
32. Husky Rescue - Sweet Little Kitten (4:38


It gets a little "mature" near the end. The second set (from about 7-9pm SLT) is at the Orion Club. No theme to it, just really great tunes.
1. eve massacre - Drop The Queen (Queen + AC Slater / Drop The Lime) (4:42)
2. The Reborn Identity - Wonderful Liar (3:46)
3. The Reborn Identity - In for the Kooks (3:29)
4. MadMixMustang - Viva Les Boys (5:22)
5. Darkspring XL - Travis Meets Joe and Bill (Robert DiNero vs. Unknown) (1:43)
6. cry.on.my.console (Josh Console) - Command Your Rabbits (4:52)
7. The Kooks - Young Folks (3:59)
8. CSS - Cannonball (3:23)
9. Jonathan Coulton - Code Monkey (3:09)
10. The Crystal Method - Cherry Twist (Deadmau5 Remix) (6:04)
11. Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Deadmau5 & Glenn Morrison Remix) (6:16)
12. David Bowie - Let's Dance (Chilly Bolly Radio Mix) (5:15)
13. Dean Gray - Boulevard of Broken Songs (Dance Mix 05) (6:18)
14. Death in Vegas - Hands Around My Throat (5:05)
15. Aggro1 - Steely Dan v. Caninesounds (6:30)
16. Instamatic - Neon Sex People (Neon Neon vs. Depeche Mode vs. Latour) (3:54)
17. The Jam - Town Called Malice (2:56)
18. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Bad Reputation (2:48)
19. Jimmi Jammes - Sgt. Pepper's Paradise (Extended Edition) (4:00)
20. Joe Jackson - The Harder They Come (3:53)
21. Zombies! Organize!! - Robotacus (3:39)
22. mc chris - Nrrrd Grrrl (2:27)
23. The Streets - Let's Push Things Forward (4:08)
24. Soundhog - The Without Me Song [censored version] (Eminem vs. Led Zeppelin) (5:51)
25. Soft Cell - Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go (8:56)
26. Sister Machine Gun - Caught Between the Bullet and You (8:28)


This set is the one that I get to play around with a bit, since I don't have anyone following me like I do at the Oak. I try to follow where the crowd is going and the music follows all of that. Because of that my Orion setlists tend to be a starting point rather than a destination. After a few weeks away from them, this set is a little heavier on the mashups than I've been doing for a bit. After the week of the RFL set happening at the same time as my Boot Camp at Republik, I got a little bit burnt out. But since this weekend I'm doing a Boot Camp set, I was looking for some new bastard pop and because I was in that mindspace a few tracks snuck into this set.

I hope that I'll see some of you in Second Life at these sets, and like I said at the beginning if you like what you see and want to show up just IM Walton Vieria. Always happy to have more peeps at my sets.

Cubicle 7 Joins Rebellion Group

For Immediate Release.

The British publisher of role-playing adventure games and card and board games, Cubicle 7 Entertainment has announced that it has joined the Rebellion Group of companies.

Founded in 2006 Cubicle 7 Entertainment was set up by Angus Abranson and Dominic McDowall-Thomas, two gaming entrepreneurs who wanted to create a games publisher fostering some truly iconic brands. Since then the company has published role playing games from a growing list of properties including Victoriana, SLA Industries, Starblazer Adventures (based on DC Thomson's 80's Starblazer comic series) and 7th Circle's Chinese fantasy Qin.

Victoriana is a fabulous fusion of Victorian adventure and fantasy myth, SLA Industries is a gritty futuristic urban horror fuelled by classic British punk imagery, whilst Starblazer Adventure is set firmly in the heart of classic 80's space opera where gigantic fleets prowl the starlanes and devilish scientists operate enormous engines of destruction. The English translation of French publisher 7th Circle's Qin propels players in to the epic fantasies and tragic events of ancient Chinese legend.

Cubicle 7 will join other sister companies in the Rebellion Group; 2000AD, the British comic book publisher, Abaddon Books the publisher of sci-fi and fantasy novels, Mongoose Publishing (another British RPG publisher) and Rebellion itself, the massive UK based video games developer established in 1992 by brothers Jason and Chris Kingsley.

The company will be now based out of Rebellion Group offices in Swindon, UK and their support will allow Cubicle 7 to focus on a major licensed mainstream release later this year as well as a busy monthly release schedule.

"This is a great move for the company and one that will certainly benefit the fans of our games. It allows us the time and resources to fully support our existing lines as well as giving us the backing to bring new ideas -- and licenses -- to the marketplace." said Angus Abranson of Cubicle 7. "It places us firmly were we wanted to be in several years time, right now," added Dominic.

Jason Kingsley felt Cubicle 7 was a great addition to the Rebellion Group's circle of creative companies. "We have been aware of Cubicle 7's ambitions and enthusiasms for some time and approached them with a view to combining resources to make a good thing great. Rebellion is very excited to be welcoming C7 into its family. Wonderful things await!"

For further information, interviews or images please contact Chris Birch Chris@cubicle7.co.uk

Find out more about Cubicle 7 games at www.cubicle7.co.uk

About Rebellion

Rebellion is well known for the Alien's vs Predator franchise games which first came out on the Atari Jaguar in 1995. Recently Rebellion secured critical acclaim with Sniper Elite for Namco in 2005, Miami Vice: The Game for Vivendi Games, James Bond: From Russia With Love for EA and Rogue Trooper for Eidos in 2006 and was nominated for two British BAFTA awards for 'Best Character' and 'Best Screenplay' later that year.

In 2007 Rebellion teamed up with LucasArts to produce Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron and the chart topping Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix with EA for PSP as well as a brand new Aliens vs Predator game in the form of Requiem for Sierra. During 2008 Rebellion produced Call of Duty: World at War for Activision on PS2 gaining yet more chart success.

Friday, May 29, 2009

Doctor Who's new companion unveiled as 21-year-old Karen Gillan

The BBC today unveiled the companion who will join new Doctor Who Matt Smith next year – 21-year-old Scottish actor Karen Gillan.

Gillan, who has previously appeared in Doctor Who as a soothsayer in 2008 episode The Fires Of Pompeii, as well as in Rebus and The Kevin Bishop Show, will join Smith for the new series of the hit sci fi drama, which begins filming this summer and will air on BBC1 in spring next year.

However, the BBC has not yet revealed what her character will be called.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Archie Proposes to Veronica in Archie #600

I say this completely without sarcasm but this is probably the biggest comic book-related story of at least the last 10-15 years. In a setting where things are even more unchanging than the most staid super-hero book having a plot development like Archie picking between Betty and Veronica is huge. I'm hoping that this is something that they stick with at Archie and don't write it off as "just a dream" or something similar.
The eternal love triangle is the cornerstone of Archie Comics for over 65 years—and the bane of Archie Andrews' existence! In fact, over the years it has not only defined the Betty/Archie/Veronica relationship, but has even threatened to dismantle it a time or 20.

Never was this more evident than in the landmark 'Love Showdown' storyline from 1994 and '95. When Archie Comics announced that Archie Andrews may finally choose between Betty & Veronica once and for all, the response from the media, fans and retailers alike was unprecedented—and with good reason! The landmark 'Love Showdown' storyline threatened the certainty of the love triangle and all it stood for, nearly bringing an end to the friendships of all three characters as Archie chose old flame Cheryl Blossom at story’s end!

Like it says right here:
In fact, we'll even go so far as to call it the Archie Story of the Century. With a title like 'Archie Marries Veronica Part 1: The Proposal,' how could we call it anything else?!

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Danger Mouse to release blank CD

Music producer Danger Mouse is to release a blank CD, after record label EMI reportedly cancelled his new album.

Dark Night Of The Soul, a collaboration with rock group Sparklehorse, also features Iggy Pop and The Flaming Lips, along with artwork by David Lynch.

It has already been streamed online, but Billboard magazine said a 'legal dispute' with EMI derailed the project.


Here's a little more from Rolling Stone that might fill in some of the gaps. Its still a bit weird.
The disagreement between Danger Mouse and EMI likely roots back to the Jay-Z/Beatles mash-up The Grey Album he made in 2004. The brilliant combination of The White Album with The Black Album catapulted DM (real name Brian Burton) from bedroom producer to international star, but it came with a price: it infuriated the massive label group, which controls the rights to the Beatles’ recordings.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Benson & Glass on 'Luke Cage: Noir'

Marvel Comics has been navigating the seas of genre-writing for 70 years now—but it was not until earlier this year that the superheroes of the Marvel Universe stepped into a world unlike any What If or alternate timeline—they went 'Noir'. And now, Luke Cage, a character born during a different era of genre writing is getting his second comeuppance in recent years with a Noir mini-series. Luke Cage Noir, an August-debuting four issue mini-series written by Mike Benson and Adam Glass with artwork by Shawn Martinbrough, sets one of Marvel's A-list African American characters in an era of American history infamous for its practices of prohibition and racial segregation. If you’re not familiar with his work, Adam Glass is a relatively new voice in comics; he and Benson are working together currently on the Deadpool: Suicide Kings mini-series.

To Hell With Spandex

The 1970s was verily the decade of the occult, to a level of national fascination (at least in the UK) that is hard to understand if you weren't there. Tarot cards fell out of Christmas crackers; young children were turned onto drugs early by the latex fumes from werewolf masks; we were all building those Mattel Draculas and Frankensteins (more glue-sniffing opportunities) with The Carpenters on in the background; Hammer films seemed to run on a loop at weekends...

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Wednesdays's Second Life Set Lists

It's almost Wednesday again, and that means a double shot of fun. From 5-7pm SLT I play at the Gnarled Oak and then from 7-9pm SLT I play at the Orion Club. While I usually have to stay on set with what I play at the Oak (because I've got another DJ following me), my Orion set list is usually just a starting point for things and morphs with the crowd.

If you're in world and interested in coming to either, just IM Walton Vieria.

The Gnarled Oak set:
1. Dame Shriley Bassey - Get This Party Started [Shirley Bassey Club] (8:47)
2. Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye (4:40)
3. Thomas Dolby - Europa and the Pirate Twins (3:17)
4. They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng (3:21)
5. Ten In The Swear Jar - Gauntlet Of Thor The Destroyer (5:33)
6. Sugarcubes - Motorcrash (2:22)
7. Sugarcubes - Fucking in Rhythm & Sorrow (3:20)
8. Tenpole Tudor - Wunderbar (2:57)
9. Telonius - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (4:30)
10. Taco - Puttin' On The Ritz (3:28)
11. Talking Heads - And She Was (3:39)
12. Suzanne Vega - 99.9° F. (3:14)
13. Suede - Animal Nitrate (3:10)
14. Placebo - Meds (2:57)
15. The Stranglers - Strange Little Girl (2:39)
16. Golden Boy and Miss Kittin - Rippin Kittin (4:48)
17. Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him (3:35)
18. Divinyls - Good Die Young (3:40)
19. Devo - Jocko Homo (3:39)
20. t.A.T.u. - Clowns (Can You See Me Now?) (3:12)
21. Sydney Bourke - Gotham City (4:08)
22. Switchblade Symphony - Gutter Glitter (3:50)
23. Galaxie 500 - Plastic Bird (3:17)
24. Lush - 500 (Shake Baby Shake) (3:21)
25. Love and Rockets - Kundalini Express (5:51)
26. Deadbolt - Patches The Clown (6:14)
27. Amanda Palmer - Leeds United (4:47)
28. PJ Harvey - Down By The Water (3:14)
29. Virna Lindt - Attention Stockholm (3:52)
30. Dan Le Sac VS Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill (5:18)


And here's a SLurl to the Oak. If you want to get your own ride to there.

The Orion set:
1. 10,000 Maniacs - My Mother The War (3:32)
2. Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World (4:20)
3. Shiny Toy Guns - Major Tom (4:10)
4. Sister Machine Gun - Caught Between the Bullet and You (8:28)
5. Cocteau Twins - Carolyn's Fingers (3:08)
6. CocoRosie - Terrible Angels (4:10)
7. Eels - Beautiful Freak (3:33)
8. Eels - My Beloved Monster (2:13)
9. Ego Likeness - Second Skin (6:49)
10. Einsturzende Neubauten - The Garden (5:12)
11. David Bowie - Station to Station (10:13)
12. Crime & The City Solution - The Adversary (5:32)
13. Cocteau Twins - Seekers Who Are Lovers (4:23)
14. Concrete Blonde - Everybody Knows (4:44)
15. Gutter Twins - Idle Hands (4:37)
16. Happy Mondays - Step On (5:16)
17. Peter Bjorn & John - Chills (3:50)
18. Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark - Joan of Arc (3:47)
19. Shonen Knife - Top of The World (3:57)
20. Peaches - Serpentine (3:21)
21. Peter Gabriel - I Don't Remember (3:47)
22. The Sisters Of Mercy - Alice (3:34)
23. Patti Smith - Gloria (5:51)
24. CSS - How I Became Paranoid (3:26)
25. This Mortal Coil - Drugs (3:08)
26. Thomas Dolby - One of Our Submaries (5:11)

Sunday, May 17, 2009

[chill:out] Preview

Today at 1pm SLT (or 4pm for those on EST like me) I will be playing my [chill:out] set at Club Republik. You can listen through the website but I don't think that the chat works out on the beach where I play. Here's a preview of the tunes I'll be spinning for you:

1. Talking Heads - Drugs (5:09)
2. Thomas Dolby - One Of Our Submarines (Salz Mix) (6:16)
3. The Thing - Life On Mars (4:35)
4. Mikael Karlsson - Until We Bleed (feat. Lykke Li) (5:20)
5. Zoë Keating - Tetrishead (7:39)
6. Mighty Mike - Massive Fear (Massive Attack vs. Lily Allen) (3:48)
7. Flying White Dots - Let's Get Deep (3:21)
8. Ian Fondue - The Brooding Moon (5:18)
9. Dead Can Dance - The End of Words (2:05)
10. Mediaeval Baebes - Lhiannan Shee (2:56)
11. Mediaeval Baebes - Beatrice (4:21)
12. Mia Doi Todd - Digital Version 2.2 (3:56)
13. Bad Sector - Ikhana 1402 (6:59)
14. Bad Sector - Open Universes (7:22)
15. Gas - 2 (Pop) (8:38)
16. Flying White Dots - Sunday Morning, April 14th (2:15)
17. ThC - The Insomia Time Is Now To Forget Me (5:17)
18. Melora Creager - American Girl (3:22)
19. Mazzy Star - Mary of Silence (6:02)
20. Massive Attack - Protection (Underdog's Angel Dust Mix) (7:36)
21. Martina Topley-Bird - Sandpaper Kisses (3:52)
22. Portishead - Mysterons (5:06)
23. Fatboy Slim - Praise You [Original Mix] (6:22)
24. Feist - Mushaboom (3:38)

Two hours of the best in ambient, glitch, trip hop and donwtempo music.

The Boot Camp Playlist

I think that a couple of these ended up not in the final mix but those are minimal. This was from one of my two monthly Boot Camp sets at Club Republik in Second Life. If you're not a Second Lifer, you can listen to my sets online live as well through the website. You can even join in on the conversation through the web chat interface.

And now the setlist:
1. CCC - Psychesmellica (Lulu vs. The Supremes vs. The Zombies) (4:01)
2. DJ Smash - Wild Rock Music! (Steppenwolf vs. Apollo 440 vs. Madonna vs. Ike & Tina Turner) (4:07)
3. The Tony Crackburn Orchestra - Road Kill (Canned Heat vs. The Doors vs. Wolfmother vs. Frank Zappa) (5:37)
4. Lenlow - Björn Slippy (Underworld vs. Peter, Björn & John) (4:57)
5. DJ Jay-R - Tom Fucks Sluts On Avenue D (Avenue D vs. C.H.A.O.S. Productions) (7:54)
6. Go Home Productions (with Loo & Placido) - Horny As A Dandy (Dandy Warhols Vs Mousse T) (3:16)
7. Aggro1 - Foo Fighters vs. Evil 9 (4:00)
8. Dunproofin' - Electro Sandman (6:50)
9. DJ Tripp - Don't You Want the Time (Human League vs. Benny Benassi) (5:17)
10. Pilchard - I Got Sex And Drugs And Rock And Soul (4:06)
11. DAW-GUN - Blue in the Face (Lady GaGa vs Eiffel 65) (3:58)
12. 10000 Spoons - This Charming Caravan (The Smiths vs. The Housemartins) (3:23)
13. CCC - La Fool D'Argent (Stone Roses vs. Marvin Gaye) (4:45)
14. GaraGara - Letter From Nick Cave (Eddie Pedalo Re-Edit) (4:08)
15. ToToM - 1 2 3 4 My Violent Heart (3:14)
16. dj BC - Ziggy's Lullabye (David Bowie vs Shawn Mullins vs The Beatles) (3:57)
17. DJ Le Clown - No More Walls (Pnau vs. Pink Floyd vs. John Lennon) (4:53)
18. DJ Earworm - The Night Of Kittin's Messy Dream (Miss Kittin vs. P.J. Harvey & Thom Yorke vs. Corey Hart vs. Human League) (4:56)
19. Eddie Pedalo - NYC Beatnik (3:17)
20. DJ Magnet - Girls on Film Freak Out (4:38)
21. DJ not-I - Ain't Got kNOw Home (2:40)
22. DJ Paul V. - Just D.A.N.C.E. (David Bowie vs. Justice vs. Lady Gaga) (5:19)
23. The Illuminoids - Funplex Pleasure Control (The B-52's vs. Peaches vs. The Gossip) (4:57)
24. AeKon - Misery Loves the Kill (30 Seconds To Mars vs The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus) (3:20)
25. ToToM - Hang on to the Highway (David Bowie vs Deep Purple) (6:05)
26. DJ Schmolli - In-A-Gadda-Blue-Monday (New Order vs. Iron Butterfly) (3:29)
27. DJ Schmolli - Fire, Smoke And Tone Loc (Tone Loc vs. Deep Purple vs. Mousse T. & Emma Lanford Mark Ronson feat. ODB vs. Too Kool Chris vs. The Tramps vs. Busta Rhymes feat. Pharrell) (3:32)
28. DJ Lance Lockarm - Bring the Muzik Back (Public Enemy vs. Ice T vs. Beastie Boys vs. M) (3:55)
29. DJ STV SLV - Shut Up, American Boy (The Ting Tings vs. Estelle feat. Kanye West) (4:44)
30. DJ not-I - Slow Down Gandhi You're Rutten Em (Sage Francis vs. Skream) (4:15)
31. ToTom - Seven Storm Riders (4:04)

Friday, May 15, 2009

Kevin Smith to Write The Green Hornet, New Batman Mini

Kevin Smith is returning to comics – in two ways.

According to Entertainment Weekly’ Popwatch column, Smith will be writing a new Batman miniseries as well as Green Hornet for Dynamite Entertainment.

Yes, Smith’s attachment to the Green Hornet does stir memories. The miniseries for Dynamite will be based on Smith’s screenplay for the unproduced Green Hornet movie that he wrote in 2004. 'It's the Hornet movie I'd make if I was making it today,' Smith told EW.com. 'And there's no better time to do that than before Seth Rogen and Michel Gondry's version defines the character for the mainstream.'

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Indie Rock Relay For Life in Second Life


I'll be playing in this this Thursday at 3pm SLT. There will be mayhem, irreverent use of the Muppets and (if we're lucky) a little bit of blood shed will ensue.

More info will follow with a SLurl for the location.

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Ric Estrada, R.I.P.

Comic book and animation artist Ric Estrada died this morning [Friday, May 1], the result of a long, losing battle with cancer.

Ric was born February 26, 1928 in Havana, Cuba and began selling his work at age 13 to a popular Cuban magazine called Bohemia. He attended University of Havana where, he always claimed, another student was Fidel Castro. Via a relative, he developed a friendship with Ernest Hemingway, who took an interest in the young artist's work and encouraged him to relocate to New York. Ric moved there at age 20 but never stayed in one place for very long, travelling the world and living briefly in dozens of other cities. Whenever he was back in Manhattan, he managed to work in comic books, including two of his proudest jobs...stories for the EC war comics edited and written by Harvey Kurtzman. Other companies that were glad to have his art included Hillman, Western Publishing, St. John and Ziff-Davis.

Sunday, May 03, 2009

PDQ#

I think that I've blogged about this system before, but even if I have it could stand repeating. I ran a few really fun PDQ games while still in Cleveland, one a zero-prep game with people who had never played the system and who helped create the setting, and the game will be one of my favorites for a while.
PDQ# (PDQ Sharp!) is a new version of the PDQ Core Rules, optimized for swashbuckling gaming. Designed for simplicity, speed, and flexibility in play, PDQ# is the engine for the upcoming Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies RPG.

This 28 page PDF is free!


And for those looking for a tie in to a geek favorite, perhaps one with an upcoming franchise revitalizing movie, look here.

Friday, May 01, 2009

IDW Announces Kaluta & Lee's Starstruck

This is coolness. I can't wait to see this series re-issued.
IDW is proud to announce the return of the science fiction classic, Starstruck, to comics. Debuting in August, the 13-issue series will showcase the fine writing of Elaine Lee and the remarkable art of Michael Kaluta. Scanned from the original art to ensure the highest quality, the entire series is being re-colored by fantasy artist, Lee Moyer, whose painted work has appeared on the covers of books by Iain Banks, H.P. Lovecraft and Marion Zimmer Bradley.

'Starstruck is a classic work, and some of Michael’s very finest art—it has been out of print for too long,' said Scott Dunbier, IDW’s Starstruck editor. 'Our series will present Elaine and Michael’s vision as never before. New readers will be astounded by it, while diehard fans will delight in seeing their old friend looking better than ever.'