November 24, 2008
Film: Christopher Kulikowski: Retrograde (Luxembourg, Italy, U.K. U.S.A. 2004)
Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space is not the worst movie in the world. The worst movies are like this Dolph Lundgren late career vehicle, cheap, pointless and soulless things with no personality whatsoever.
Retrograde’s Antarctic elements are surprisingly accurate, but that’s a small consolation. The story [...]
Non-fiction: Richard E. Byrd: Alone (Island Press, 1938/2003)
This was one of the last Antarctic classics I had yet to read, an account of Admiral Byrd’s stay alone in 1934 at the Advance Base weather station. Staying alone through the Antarctic winter proved to be hazardous, and most of the time Byrd had to struggle with [...]
November 22, 2008
The way race is treated in Dungeons & Dragons and other fantasy stuff becomes harder to swallow as I get older. Even when I played the game as a kid, I had trouble with the orcs and goblins because there was just no real world equivalent to the idea of good race and bad race [...]
November 21, 2008
Audio play: Sean Branney with Andrew Leman: Dark Adventure Radio Theatre presents H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness (The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, 2006)
Last entry was my first Antarctic video game, and now’s the first Antarctic audio play. This is a radio version of Lovecraft’s story At the Mountains of Madness published in H.P. [...]
November 18, 2008
Issue 18 of the roleplaying magazine I edit, Roolipelaaja, is at the printers. Here’s the cover:
November 15, 2008
Video game: LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule, 2008)
LittleBigPlanet is a game in which a little critter (pictured above) runs around complex levels. The selling point of the game is that users can create their own levels, which are then shared on the game’s network. A number of these user-created levels are set in Antarctica.
The best of the [...]
November 2, 2008
This is the Pet Shop Boys video I’m With Stupid. Extra points for the retard prison choreography.
Pet Shop Boys |MTV Music
November 1, 2008
There’s something weird that appeals to me in the anticharismatic presence and dissonant voice of Gary Numan. Here’s a surprisingly good quality video of him performing Down in the Park. Don’t miss the rotating black pyramids.
Gary Numan |MTV Music