Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine)
Graphic Novel you read
Book you read
TV Show you watched
Movie you watched
Game you played
Album you played
I'll kick off....
Comic you read(excluding 2000AD/Megazine) - Picked up the latest Dexters Half Dozen at the Cardiff Con. Good supernatural war comic from two good guys.
Graphic Novel you read - The Taxidermist. Short version, really enjoyed it. Long version up as a review on the website if anyones interested
Book you read - Masters of Doom. The story of the two guys who came up with Wolfenstein3D, Doom and then Quake. Goes through that and their seperation and how one went on to great success with Quake 2 etc and the other crashed and burned with Daikatana. Really enjoyed it.
TV Show you watched - Friends of God. Documentary on how religion is taking over America and slowly getting a stronger grip on politics etc. Interesting if a little terrifying
Movie you watched - Man with the Golden Gun. Wife hadnt seen any Bond movies and I hadnt in ages so we're doing the lot in order. Got as far as Scaramanga. Cool stuff and that car jump is still all kinds of impressive
Game you played - Bulletstorm. Big, dumb shooter. Loads of bloody fun
Album you played - Tron OST. Good background while I'm typing stuff up
Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine)
Primeval- a one-off UK newstands kids' comic. Puzzles, fact files and two four-page comics drawn by Brian Williamson (with heavy photo reference/ pasted photos drawn over in Photoshop, I'd hazard a guess). Made my little'un happy, anyway.
Graphic Novel you read
Whiteout and Whiteout: Melt, by Greg Rucka and Steve Leiber. Two black and white crime thrillers, set in the Antarctic, the first of which was made into a middling film with Kate Beckinsale back in 2009. Liked the movie, didn't know it was a comic, and set out to get the trade once I finally found out. Finally got it, and the sequel, the other week. Great stuff- art reminds of British comics from the seventies (that's a Very Good Thing, by the way) and the story/ script is engaging and compulsive. I'd like there to be a third, but don't know if this will happen.
Book you read
Robert Heinlein's 'To Sail Beyond The Sunset', which I completely loved. Just started Alfred Bester's 'The Stars My Destination'. which is great so far.
TV Show you watched
Probably Corrie on Friday night.
Movie you watched
The Last Exorcism. Heh. Pretty groovy.
Game you played
"Killer Gorilla" with my youngest. Not a video game, but me pretending to be a killer gorilla as he tries to get past me. Usually ends in tickles. If, by some crazy series of circumstances, he manages to "kill the gorilla", then gorilla reanimates into a zombie and chases him slowly all over the house, drooling with his eyes rolled up in his head, dragging his leg, until he corners him and eats him (blows raspberries on his tummy).
Album you played
Levelling The Land, by The Levellers. Me and littlest had a good old dance around to this yesterday- and before that a compilation of the best of the Cambridge Folk festival.
SBT
Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine) : The Walking Dead 81 - more out of habit than any sort of devotion. Still OK but I don't fret over missing an issue.
Graphic Novel you read : "The Big Book of the Weird Wild West" great entry in a great series.
Book you read : 'True Tales of American Life' Paul Auster - read this antholgy a few times. It peoples tales from their lives and some are amazing other scary and sad - always gets a reation.
TV Show you watched : Carling Cup Final, or a 'The Sweeney' episode featuring George Cole and John Hurt if you are only counting drama and 'Pawn Stars' if you only count reality.
Movie you watched - 'Morning Glory' chick wish fulfillment with a good turn by Harrison Ford as a cranky news man.
Game you played : Wii Fit Free jogging - 30 minutes!
Album you played : Kid Rock : Born Free
Comic: Phonogram: The Singles Club No. 6. Very impressive - didn't think this would be for me, not being much into the pop music thing, but have been enjoying it so much I have had to restrain myself from torrenting the albums referenced. Plus surprise PJ Holden!
Graphic Novel: I think the last one I read was George Smoot, by Seth. I really like Seth's work, especially his impeccable sense of design, but this sad tale of an unlikable man didn't do it for me I'm afraid. Wimbledon Green was a much better use of a similar style, and much more fun. As always I love the photos of his cardboard models of buildings.
Book: In the middle of Dean King's biography of the great Patrick O'Brian, A Life Revealed. I don't like his style at all, or his gratuitous historical context padding, but his subject is so utterly enigmatic that it makes for a fascinating read.
TV Show: Masterchef. The only reality/talent thing I tolerate, because it maintains a consistently positive atmosphere and appears to reward genuine skill and imagination. I like it in the same way I like Gardener's Question Time. Have my doubts about the X-Factory trappings of the current series, but it can trade on my good will for now.
Movie: Zoolander. Just great fun.
Game: Lego Star Wars on the (original) X-Box. The Boy and I are playing through this together at a relaxed pace, but have become stuck on the lava-jumping bit on Mustafar. It's a brilliant game, but there are quite variable levels of difficulty between levels (the pod-racing sequence, for example, is quite tricky when a mistake by either player sends you back to the start of the stage) which makes playing it with a wee one occasionally frustrating.
Album: Embarassingly it's Pink Floyd's The Final Cut. I like it, okay?
Last comic: Blackest Night: Superman 3. To be honest I've been a bit dissapointed with the whole Blackest Night event. For some reason this huge superhero crossovers never seem as exciting as the should be.
Last graphic novel: Just finished Robo-hunter: The Droid Files 1 recently. I'm not a huge fan of Robo-hunter but it was an enjoyable read, with some pretty funny moments.
Last book: Hippo eats dwarf. An okay-ish book detailing some famous and not-so-famous hoaxes that have occured over the years.
Last TV show: An episode of Young Justice. Episode 5 I think. It's not a stellar series, but I'm enjoying it. It helps that it's not too kiddie friendly.
Last movie: I think it was Hellraiser 4. It was a decent enough film, certainly much better than Hellraiser 3, but not nearly as good as Hellraiser and Hellraiser 2.
Last game: I was playing Linley's Dungeon Crawl last night. It's been a while since I played, but it's still lots of fun.
Last album: None yet! I was listening to some of the Venture Brothers soundtrack last night however.
Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine): Action Comics 898. Picked up my pull list yesterday and always save the best until last so read this this morning. Though I sorted through a pile of Kamandi comics I won on eBay this afternoon but managed to resist reading any. I'll wait until I have the set (16 to go)
Graphic Novel you read: Reading my pull list interrupted a re-read Of Morrison's X-Men trades which are ok. Not one of my favourites of his but fun in its own way.
Book you read: Just finished Hoo-Haa's Drop Dead Gorgeous and have said elsewhere how much I enjoyed it. Just in case you missed it I think its great.
TV Show you watched: I'm watching Superman 2 as I type (well its an ad break after the news if that counts). Failing that Timmy Time with my daughter this morning weak Shaun the Sheep spin off. I've spent the afternoon choring in the kitchen listening to the cricket which fantastic.
Movie you watched: See above
Game you played: If you mean computer game then I really can't remember. I think an Asterix game on my mobile a couple of years ago.
Album you played: That I choose 'Glitter and Doom Live' by Tom Waits. Listened to 'No Wow' by The Kills after in the car yesterday but that was my wifes choice, fine one mind.
Comic: Elfquest #7. I'm in the middle of thinning out my comics as they no longer fit in two long boxes and part of the process involves rereading series before I get rid of them. It's nice, if a bit saccharine (and possibly too full of fucking elfs) and is the sort of thing which should really appeal to ten year old kids if anyone has any.
GN: Depends what you mean. I'm halfway through Restricted Files 2, which I bought yesterday, and read Daytripper last week. Daytripper was good, but I got the impression something was being lost in the gap between Portuguese thought and English expression.
Book: The Third Policeman. I'm scared to reveal what I thought of it lest Tordelback come round to my house and bash my head in with an iron bar shaped like a bicycle pump.
TV Programme: Either the Carling Cup final or Outcasts. One was gripping, unpredictable stuff from start to finish. The other is a slightly plodding sci-fi show...
Film: Cool Runnings, because it was on. "I am feeling very Olympic today."
Game: Bayonetta. Got halfway through and got fed up with it.
Album: Bardo Pond by Bardo Pond. One of those bands who've been going for years and finally release an eponymous LP. Great, frazzled psychedelic guitar noise magic with flutes and noodling.
Quote from: TordelBack on 27 February, 2011, 06:47:19 PM
Comic: Phonogram: The Singles Club No. 6. Very impressive - didn't think this would be for me, not being much into the pop music thing, but have been enjoying it so much I have had to restrain myself from torrenting the albums referenced. Plus surprise PJ Holden!
The only issue of either series where I'd say it's essential to know the song is the last part of the Singles Club. It really works as a soundtrack to the issue in a way that the others don't. A real shame there's probably not going to be any more.
Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine)If you include web comics,
Scorer issue 0. If you mean full sized paper comics,
Dogbreath #17. (I'm not sure this counts as non 2000 AD as it's a fanzine). For non 2000 AD related single issues
Paragon. I believe it was 3.
Graphic Novel you readAnita Blake - Guilty pleasures volume 2.I picked this up from the library along with volume 1. I haven't read any of the novels so I picked it up out of curiosity. Not bad actually, although the ol' 'hot lady attracted to vampire semi-bad boy' is a bit tired. The world they live in is quite interesting and the story was actually quite interesting though. The art was lovely although all the handsome men are a bit too 'manga-style-adrogynous' for my liking. Anita herself is one of the prettiest female characters I've seen in comics though.
Book you readUther by Jack Whyte
I made the mistake of taking out a book which was actually one of the later in a series. I read a large portion of it and put it down as it wasn't quite my cup of tea despite usually finding stories based around Celtic folks interesting. I'm not sure if this counts since I didn't finish it. I was irritated that the Roman influenced people of Camulod were depicted as civilised while the Cambrians (Southern Welsh) were depicted as surly and kinda backward. I think celts should be depicted as the opposite (if not technically accomplished) and the Romans more surly (if advanced in other ways) but... oh well...
I then started reading
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neill Gaiman. I didn't get far before finding that a couple of pages are missing! Shame, as I was really enjoying it too. I love the humour and style. And the idea that the M25 was built in the shape of a demonic symbol. Hur, hur.
I forget which novel I've actually finished lately. I'd like to add, I don't normally stop. Uther just kinda bugged me, and not just for the reasons given.
TV Show you watchedDon't laugh, but I believe it was
Take Me Out. I'm not normally into dating shows, but I'll admit I find this kinda amusing. And I'll admit I like looking at the ladies. I often have the telly on in the background while I'm on my laptop, so I've seen other programmes since then without really paying attention. (Bad habit and possibly a waste of electricity.)
Movie you watchedNot so much 'watched' as 'watching'.
Superman 2. A good un. I believe the last film I watched (past tense) was
Shadow of the Vampire. A good vampire film particularly if you'd like to see something a bit different in the genre. I like how it's based partly on real life stuff and the filming of the film
Nosferatu. Max Schreck is a great character. (I know he was a real actor but I'm referring to the character in this film.) Apart from being a decent vampire film, it's a great piece of metafiction.
Game you playedGrand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories on the PSP.
I jumped onto this series pretty late. I bought a second hand PSP early this year and it came with this and
Vice City stories.
It's been a few weeks now since I've played it, but I found the free roaming semi-role play style quite enjoyable. I got put off a bit after failing the same mission again and again. The main problem is actually controlling the vehicles! I keep over compensating and crashing into stuff. I also understand people's complaints at no second joystick too.
It's still a good game though and I'll have another go at some point. (I get into a particular game every now and again, but I'm not really much of a gamer.)
Oh, yeah, I played the free trial version of
Guild Wars on the PC too, but I think I played
Vice City latest. I found GW very enjoyable though. Seems I've got quite a taste for fantasy role-playing type games. I quite liked the trial of
WoW too but Guild Wars is free once you've bought the game.
Album you playedIf this means, 'all the way through' then it's been a while. I do like music but I don't play it all that often (unless you count waking up to it on the radio). I think the last album was
Guns n Roses Greatest hits. On CD. I'm behind as far as music is concerned although I have downloaded the odd track here and there. Mainly U2 or old rock/bluesy stuff.
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 27 February, 2011, 06:18:46 PM
Album you played
Levelling The Land, by The Levellers. Me and littlest had a good old dance around to this yesterday- and before that a compilation of the best of the Cambridge Folk festival.
I didn't think you liked music SBT!
Quote from: Mardroid on 27 February, 2011, 07:48:57 PM
Movie you watched
Not so much 'watched' as 'watching'. Superman 2. A good un. I believe the last film I watched (past tense) was Shadow of the Vampire.
Tell a lie. It was ... well, Superman 2 since, it's just finished, but while I was writing the above it was
Natural Born Killers last night. I clean forgot!
An interestingly made film, but all the flashy background image stuff got on my nerves after a while. The varied filming styles in themselves were an interesting way to got though.
The story is curious in that [spoiler]those supposedly on the side of law and order and the establishment are in many ways less likeable and morally ambiguous than the two main characters! Sure, they're multi-murderers but there is a certain purity* to them in that they know what they are and make no bones about it. The main detective character and Robert Downey Jr's annoying 'Australian reporter' character are variable and hypocritical. The former in particular, the latter is mainly a shallow twat.
Oh and I was slightly surprised they actually survived at the end! I've seen the film before and I seem to remember them being killed off in a hail of lead at the end. Shows how fickle the memory can be, eh?[/spoiler]
A decent watchable film but not among Tarantino's best. (Okay, technically it's not a Tarantino movie since he didn't direct it, but he did write the screen-play, so I think it counts. Certainly has a Tarantinoish style.)
*[spoiler]I use the word 'purity' in the sense that they have a certain single mindedness of purpose. They're scum but they're not hypocrites. That doesn't take away the fact that they are ultimately evil.[/spoiler]
When my little boy brings me a cd and says he wants to dance, he gets his wish! he likes fiddle-led folk, you see.
SBT
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 27 February, 2011, 08:12:54 PM
When my little boy brings me a cd and says he wants to dance, he gets his wish! he likes fiddle-led folk, you see.
Fair enough!
Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine)
Last issue of Sandman, probably. I thought it was a long way past its peak but still worth the read.
Graphic Novel you read
Al's Baby – sublime
Book you read
The Dead Hand – David Hoffman – the end of the Cold War. Fascinating stuff. Boy, were we lucky.
TV Show you watched
The Real King's Speech – dire.
Movie you watched
Three Colours: Red – magnificent.
Game you played
Football Mananger 2011 – Addictive, but a lot of the fun's gone out of it for me.
Album you played
Music? It's all noise to me.
I should point out that i had the cd collection out, as i was looking for a particular song, having been sent on a trip down memory lane by someone lending me a cd of a band i used to see regularly in my local, about 22 years ago. Little man then took over, playing the levellers, cambridge folk, the waterboys and eddie reader.
SBT
Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine)
Um... issue 1 of the 80s adaptation of Labyrinth. :-[
It was abysmal - nuff said!
Graphic Novel you read
Batman - Arkham Asylum.
I'd never read this before, and to say i wasn't impressed is an understatement!
Was expecting to be blown away by Dave Mckean's art, but instead just found it a murky hotch-potch of mess, a few nice panels aside. The Joker model that he pretty much endlessly photographs instead of drawing really got on my tits!
Book you read
The Chalice - Phil Rickman.
Great, great British horror book. Chilling atmospheric british rural horror in fact!
Kinda sequel to his earlier book, Crybbe, and thoroughly recommended :thumbsup:
TV Show you watched
Episode 15 of Fringe season 3.
A bit of a cool episode as it was set in 85, and the makers reflected this by making it look like 80s quality TV - 80s style intro and the lot! Good stuff.
Movie you watched
The Big Lebowski (for the first time too!)
Awesome. Just awesome. Only Coen Brothers film i've really enjoyed if i'm to be honest!
Game you played
Red Dead Redemption.
Brilliant stuff, just started Undead Nightmare and loving that too! A stunning game in pretty much every respect.
Album you played
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Lucky enough to own this in surround, and my housemate has a beautiful surround system. :cool:
Absolutely perfect album!
Non Twoth Comic would be Clint, since it's the only other I buy.
Graphic Novel : Speed Racer Vol4. Library had a run p to this point so I thought I'd give it a try. Didn't love it, but by the end of V4 some kind of semi-decent arc seemed to be building so I may have to track down V5, which the library didn't have.
Boo : The first Vampire Diaries. Aimed at teenage girls and more romance than horror but it idn't outstay it's welcome, so theres that. I decided to read these books so I could do some crossover posts on my blogs, comparing the books to the tv show. When I finally get the blogs up and running again.
TV Show. Battlestar Galactica. With Caprica having come and gone and Blood and Chrome looming, I figured it was now or never to finally catch up. Got the full run on dvd so I'm rewatching the couple of seasons I've seen befor launching into the rest. Great so far but I'm wary that people seemed not to like where it ended up.
Movie: The Strangers
Game : Luxor 2. Ball based puzzle game. Addictive.
Album : Speak Now, Taylor Swift. Shut Up, she's good.
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 27 February, 2011, 06:18:46 PM
Album you played
Levelling The Land, by The Levellers.
I listened to that last week for the first time in years. Great album but I soon got bored by the Levellers.
Anyway.....
Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine)
Hellboy - The sleeping and the dead
Graphic Novel you read
Judge Dredd Case Files 17
Book you read
Dresden Files - Small Favor by Jim Butcher
TV Show you watched
Harry Hill's TV Burp
Movie you watched
Inception
Game you played
Mario Kart, today with my niece
Album you played
Neil Young - Harvest
Comic would be Sherlock Holmes Year One
Graphic Novel I've just finished Hot Rock by Lax and Donald Westlake which has some of the worst lettering I've ever seen, by Andy Huckle - opaque squares with a single thin line poiting to the speaker which often gets lost in the art. Good story though.
Book was Cabal bu Michael Dibdin. One of the Zen novels that has just been adapted for TV starring Rufus Sewell
Film watched a French comedy last night called French Twist which I really cannot recommend. I watched The Black Hole yesterday sfternoon which is much more my thing
TV show The Saint has just finished on ITV3
Game - I'm not a gamer so that would probably be ten pin bowling on my four old nephew's Wii (he whupped my arse)
CD Imelda May
Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine) : Whatever Happened To Baron Von Shock?
Graphic Novel you read : Case Files 17, but if we're ignoring 2000AD then it was Aliens Omnibus Volume 1.
Book you read : Simon Pegg 'Nerd Do Well'
TV Show you watched : Lost (almost there)
Movie you watched : Hobo With A Shotgun (instant classic)
Game you played : Red Faction Guerilla
Album you played : Mogwai 'Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will'
Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine) : Viz
Graphic Novel you read : The Chimpanzee Complex vol 2
Book you read : Drop Dead Gorgeous
TV Show you watched : 10 O-Clock Live
Movie you watched : The Island (that that one, this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851577/)
Game you played : Assassin's Creed Brotherhood- all the flags and treasures will be mine...
Album you played : Probably the Tron soundtrack.
Albion I LOVE the Dresden files, good call!
Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine) : Fallen Heroes
Graphic Novel you read : half way through 10thology which I picked up in Cardiff at weekend
Book you read : Turncoat by Jim Butcher one of the Dresden Files
TV Show you watched : Iron Chef America (shudduup, I love it!)
Movie you watched : The Other Guys - which I loved, very funny
Game you played : Angry Birds
Album you played : I can't remember isn't that terrible. I have my ipod on shuffle almost constantly!
QuoteGame you played : Angry Birds
Ah! (I forgot about these games!) In that case, I change my anser to Fruit Ninja.
Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine)- The Beano. I bought the latest issue because my lad wanted the 'free' playing cards that came with it. We read the comic together and both enjoyed it.
Graphic Novel you read - Defoe. Just brilliant. I love Leigh Gallagher's art and he signed my copy of the book at Thought Bubble. Pat Mills' writing is off the hook in this. It reads as one long battle with hundreds of zombies with a few breaks to catch your breath. Can't wait for the next collection.
Book you read- The last book I read was Zima Blue, a collection of short stories by the excellent Alastair Reynolds. Some lovely stuff in there. At the moment I'm reading Judas Unchained, part 2 of The Commonwealth Saga by Peter F Hamilton. It's brilliant. Even better than the first part, Pandora's Star. It's a hefty book, about 1000 pages but I'm flying through it as the story is so gripping.
TV Show you watched- errrmmm...don't make a point of watching much TV but the last program I actively decided to watch was the second episode of Outcasts. I didn't bother watching any more.
Movie you watched- Return of the Jedi on TV on Saturday (after saying I don't watch TV! I meant I don't tune in specifically to watch certain programs.). Me and the kids loved it. This is their favourite Star Wars film, mainly because of Jabba the Hutt. And, I quote, "Daddy, I love the Ewoks!"
Game you played- Sonic episode 4 part 1 on the Wii. Me and my boy have been playing this and we finished it after about 2 hours. We still haven't got all the Chaos Emeralds though. It's ok. Very old school but I suppose that's exactly the point.
Album you played- Tobacco - Maniac Meat. Tobacco is the side project of the lead guy from Black Moth Super Rainbow, a weird, psychedelic rock band. Tobacco is more beat driven. Almost hip hop (without rapping). Beck does some vocals on a couple of tracks. It's great. I'd recommend it to people with less pedestrian musical tastes.
Thr last...
Comic I read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine) was John Short's Armageddon Patrol Life & Death Special starring Maiden America and featuring Octobriana in a cameo.
Graphic Novel I read was Grandville.
Book I read a bit of was War of the Worlds.
TV Show I watched was King of Queens while sewing leather armour prior to going to out to the Cardiff Comic Con.
Movie I watched was Leap Year.
Game I played was Wii Fit Skateboarding. I was rubbish.
Album I played was Combichrist, What the Fuck is Wrong with You People?
Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine)
Just had a read of the 80s limited series of The Unknown Soldier whcih I picked up a couple of weeks ago.
Graphic Novel you read
Just finished Invincible 13, now moved on to the X-Men Mutant Massacre trade. One of my favourite stories of any comic.
Book you read
Never Let Me Go. Forgotten the author's name. Interesting story but a bit too emotionally detached for me. I couldn't really care about any of the characters and their experiences.
TV Show you watched
Highlights of England v India in the cricket world cup. Cracking game that I watched live but it was so good I watched the highlights as well.
Movie you watched
Three O'Clock High - had a few beers and a smoke last night. excellent way to wind down the weekend.
Game you played
Some version of Fifa but would be about ten years ago. I haven't played a computer game in years.
Album you played
Mega City Four - The Inspiringly Titled Live Album.
Quote from: Colin Zeal on 28 February, 2011, 11:11:21 AM
Just had a read of the 80s limited series of The Unknown Soldier whcih I picked up a couple of weeks ago.
Graphic Novel you read
Is this any good? I'm a fan of the original (from the Showcase I've read) and so always been intrigued by this one.
Comic you read
Neon Genesis Evangelion 12. In Japanese. I gotta feel for the artist of this manga, he's been adapting this series since the anime aired in 1999. That's over ten years of his life working continuously on it. And its still not finished. That's dedication for you. I dont mind that it takes him about a year to draw each book -- it takes me about six months to read one!
Graphic Novel you read
Actually haven't read one in ages, its hard enough finding the time to keep up with 2000ad at the moment!
Book you read
Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Fatal Phantom. It's a kids book, but one of the better ones I've read, so much so that I will now be tracking down the other books in the series. I'm so glad my daughter has moved on from "Rainbow Magic" and the like and is now into mystery and ghost stories. This one was great, had a Mummy, a haunted house, the lot. Recommended to anyone who has kids around the 8/9 year old mark.
TV Show you watched
The Forgotten. This is a show from 2 years ago that only ran for 1 season, but its pretty good. I only found it because I heard Christian Slater was in it and I usually like him in stuff. My Own Worst Enemy was his previous show, which I thought was great but also got axed very quickly. The Forgotten made it through a full season though. Its about a team of volunteers who take over looking into cases involving Jane/John Does when the police have done all they can and run out of leads. Seemingly this is a real thing in the States. In the process of the investigations they put a face and name to the corpse and inevitably end up solving the whole crime. It's a decent idea with a decent cast and some solid storytelling, though I can see how one season would be more than enough for it. There's only so many ways of going about identifying unknown corpses you can come up with.
Movie you watched
Autopsy. Something I found on the horror channel one night last week. Horror channel movies dont tend to keep my attention for more than ten minutes or so (coz they're usually shite) but this one was pretty good. More plotholes than you can shake a stick at, but the acting was sufficient and Robert Patrick was creepy enough as a weirdo doctor. The gore was exceptional, and thats what mainly kept me watching. Not a bad little flick, if you are into that kind of thing.
Game you played
Metroid Prime Corruption. Yeah this is old, I actually bought it 2 or 3 years ago but my Wii broke so I couldnt play it. Finally decided to dig the Wii out and get it repaired though and this was the first game I put on. Its freaking awesome! Takes a bit of getting used to the Wii-remote controls but once you do its a real treat. I'm only about halfway through but its reminiscent of Halflife to me and I'm loving it.
Album you played
Less than Jake Hello Rockview. Because I love me some ska and I love Less than Jake and this is one of their best albums. Every song on it is a gem, I just have this on repeat on my ipod and I've probably listened to it twenty times in a row by now. Never got bored of it and I've had no reason to change to another album for days now because every time it goes back to the first track I just get into it all over again. Brillo!
Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine) : Shaolin Cowboy #2 - I love Geoff Darrows art, the story may not be up to much but it lets Darrow go wild!
Graphic Novel you read : Les Naufrages d'Ythaq - Nothing beats spending a month slowly reading a French graphic novel with dictionary and verb tables at hand. It gives you plenty of time to take in the lovely art and you get better at a foreign language as well.
Book you read : "Telling Lies for Fun and Profit" by Laurence Block. Trying to become a better writer and this book came recommended.
TV Show you watched : Top Gear. I don't know much about cars but still love this show.
Movie you watched : Kamikaze Girls. Taped it off Film 4 on a whim and discovered that it was really awesome.
Game you played : Killzone 3. I love the multiplayer! Give me a ruddy great machinegun and let the chaos ensue!
Album you played : Helmet "Betty". Can't believe I missed this band for all these years. I have much catching up to do.
Comic you read: Spider-Man: Fever. That was a while back, wasn't it? Seems I don't read a lot of non-2000AD stuff!
Graphic Novel you read: If we're counting trades, then it was Case Files 14.
Book you read: Currently reading Clive Barker's Cabal in fits and starts, in the face of incessant interruptions.
TV Show you watched: Mad Men. Not my usual kind of show, being neither SF or comedy and featuring very little in the way of ultraviolence and scary monsters. It does, however feature the lovely Christina Hendricks in a variety of figure-hugging outfits, which is more than enough to keep me watching. Ahem.
Movie you watched: Punisher War Zone, I'm afraid. I thought it would be a good way to kill an hour and a half on a car journey. Turns out I'd have been better off just looking out of the window.
Game you played: Fable 3. Mixed feelings on this one. I loved Fable 2, and this has some nice improvements over the last one. It also has a heaping helping of game-limiting dumb-downs and shortcuts which I'm not sold on at all. Frustrating stuff.
Album you played: Feeder - Echo Park in the car on the way to work this morning.
Comic you read: CROSSED:Psychopath, just seems to be trying too hard to be nasty, and the cover does have children going down a slide into a woodchipper.
Graphic Novel you read: Some of Captain Britain.
Book you read: Aint read a book in ages but think the last one was a Lovecraft collection which I really enjoyed.
TV Show you watched: Madmen, half way through S3. Its taken me 3 attempts to get into this show but now I am I really enjoy it.
Movie you watched: Independence day. Yes I know its rubbish but it kept the kids quiet.
Game you played: MvC3. I press buttons and mental stuff happens on screen. I don't know how I'm doing it yet.
Album you played: I have no idea, I think it was by a band called And you will know us by the Trail of The Dead. Maybe not?
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Quote from: Colin Zeal on 28 February, 2011, 11:11:21 AM
Just had a read of the 80s limited series of The Unknown Soldier whcih I picked up a couple of weeks ago.
Graphic Novel you read
Is this any good? I'm a fan of the original (from the Showcase I've read) and so always been intrigued by this one.
It's ok. Very much of it's time though - i.e. very 80s cold war topics covered. I got it cheap - issue 1 was £1.50 with the other issues being £1. Definitely worth it at that price.
Comic: Starblazer #61, 'Escape From Devil's Moon'. I love these pint-size packages of 80s sci-fi gold, and am working my way through my collection for the nth time.
Graphic Novel: Johnny Red: Falcon's First Flight. I'm more familiar with the Cooper era than the Colquhoun, so this has been great stuff.
Book: 'The White Spider' by Heinrich Harrer, the seminal account of attempts to conquer the north face of the Eiger.
TV Show: Morning re-runs of 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' on Dave. On DVD? 'Doctor Who – The Mutants'.
Movie: The Terminal, last night on tv... dunno why, strange fondness for Tom Hanks. On DVD? 'The Searchers'.
Game: Just finished Fallout: New Vegas for the second time. Not as good as its predecessor, I've decided, but then I've played Fallout 3 through to completion more times than I have fingers.
Album: Hmmm... think it's Public Enemy: 'Yo! Bum Rush The Show' or maybe 'Crossing The Red Seas With The Adverts' by The Adverts, or 'XXV' by Pallas.
Quote from: Mardroid on 27 February, 2011, 07:48:57 PM
Comic you read (excluding 2000AD/Megazine)
If you include web comics, Scorer issue 0.
Sigh. I meant
Keeper.
COMIC An old Viz issue i found in a box the other day
GRAPHIC NOVEL Still trying to trawl through FROM HELL
BOOK Larwood by Duncan Hamilton. Prob one of the best sports biographies i have ever read.
TV SHOW The One Show with guest John Lydon
MOVIE 2012
GAME Solitare on my ipod touch
ALBUM Setting Sons THE JAM
COMIC The latest issue of one of those charmless and interchangeable "Ultimate" crossovers - Ultimate Doom, I think, but I can't recall anything but a kind of text whitenoise. At some point I stopped reading and flicked through the book, just looking at the many, many words on the page and couldn't bring myself to read them. Following the art wasn't easy, either - the pages just seemed crammed.
GRAPHIC NOVEL Rue Brittania. Has its moments of greatness, but sadly I can't get past the laughable conceit that Britpop mattered in any real way outside journos and students wishing really, really hard that they could be at the center of a musical movement or, like, something. Too many times I was brought out of the story by thinking some variation of "try working on a building site, you cunts."
BOOK A Canticle For Leibowitz, after a recommendation from the board on the sci-fi booky thread. Great post-apocalyptia that has likely been read by JMS but has definately been read by the makers of Fallout: New Vegas.
TV SHOW Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, which I prefer over Farscape even when a lovable robot beams onto the ship demanding hugs and explanations for this human emotion we call love - he actually does this, that's not me exaggerating. Total shit, but it just gets on with things where others of its ilk would take a moment to establish that the makers are ashamed of being involved.
MOVIE Fist of the North Star, which is a bastardisation of the original manga, the anime, and the so-bad-it's-brilliant Manga Entertainment English-language dub of the anime to create something that swings the needle all the way around on the dial through "terrible" and back into "brilliant". Sadly it keeps going and lands in "terrible" again. Where it stays.
GAME Killzone 3 until I bagged Lego Indiana Jones 2 in a pre-owned sale. Now I veer between the two depending on drunkenness.
ALBUM
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COMIC: Do you know, I don't remember. It was probably Angry Youth Comix #14 (2007-ish) which I found in mum's room. Has anyone read New Character Parade yet?
GN: George Sprott. Gregory Gallant has mad drawing skills.
BOOK: C by Tom McCarthy. Comes from the Pynchon/Atwood end of the SF scale that is just about all that one with such rarified tastes as I can deign to tolerate. There are a few too many themes shoved into it but it's worth a read.
TV: Breaking Bad. THE GREATEST TV SHOW OF ALL TIME. I'm about to start Deadwood which I have not seen one solitary minute of thus far. I've watched the other two parts of the great HBO trilogy all the way through so it'll be nice to get some closure.
GAME: Deathsmiles. Maybe a tad overpriced but I'll keep coming back to it over and over. I'm not a shmup connoisseur by any means but ah know what I likes.
MUSIC: As I was walking home from the cinema I listened to The King of Limbs all the way through. Then I listened to Deerhoof and This Heat. And some Kanye as I neared my door.
FILM: Animal Kingdom. The set piece devised around Air Supply's All Out of Love is some bravura film making.
Quote from: Professah Byah on 28 February, 2011, 10:39:33 PM
GRAPHIC NOVEL Rue Brittania. Has its moments of greatness, but sadly I can't get past the laughable conceit that Britpop mattered in any real way outside journos and students wishing really, really hard that they could be at the center of a musical movement or, like, something.
I must admit I thought the point of
Rue Brittania (which I only just read myself a week or so ago) wasn't to say that Britpop was in any way special or important (except (perhaps) to Gillen himself), but instead to use something that the author knew well as an example to explore the general experience and memories of a very specific time or 'scene' in your life and the music of same that goes along with it. The conflict with the Retromancers and their manipulation of the 'Goddess' is about retaining those memories in the face of subsequent reinterpretation and neat packaging of the past as a sort of commodified consensus-nostalgia. That seems like a pretty universal experience to me.
Or at least that's what I took away from it, only really liking Pulp out of the whole crew.
The notion of Britpop as notable was a stumbling block for me personally, TB, but it's a notion that Phonogram still hinges upon both as a hook and a means of commentary. It accepts as given that Britpop was culturally important in order to function in the way the writer intends, but I didn't buy it as important at the time and I don't now.
As I say, it's a personal stumbling block and one that needn't apply to other readers as Rue Brittania is still a worthwhile read, but I will knife-fight in a pit of tigers anyone who tries to suggest - as Phonogram does - that Black Grape and Elastica were operating in the same musical spectrum.
Quote from: Professah Byah on 01 March, 2011, 12:17:34 AM
...it's a notion that Phonogram still hinges upon both as a hook and a means of commentary.
Well, that's certainly true - it's the hook, alright. However, I didn't feel that once you got into the story Britpop was being put forward as anything more than Kohl's specific context, and of deep personal importance to him in the way he defined it, rather than any intrinsic cultural importance or objective reality - any period or perceived sub-group of music would have done (if Gillen had had that emotional attachment and deep knowledge of some other period). The conflict in the book was all about resisting exactly the kind of artificial grouping and characterising and labelling that you identify re: Black Grape and Elastica - what matters to Kohl, and by extension everyone, is
their experience of times in their own lives, not how society subsequently remembers itself. Mainly, I think that McKelvie draws pretty girls.
Comic you read: Single issue? Some Ed McGuiness Hulk many moons ago.
Graphic Novel you read: The collected run of Jonah Hex. Brought the most recent due to Darwyn Cooke's art on one of the stories, but have become hooked because of the writing. Surprisingly good stuff.
Book you read: Shadow Something by Tad Williams. Gave up halfway through due to life being just too short and cryptic dream sequences not being my favourite plot device.
TV Show you watched: Abraham Lincoln: Saint or Sinner. Quite an eye-opener for me.
Movie you watched: Animal Kingdom. Grim.
Game you played: TF2 every lunchtime for an hour.
Album you played: The Bends by Radiohead. Needs a listen every now-and-then.
Pretty much what Tordelback said about the heart of the story. For me, the use of Britpop at the heart of Phonogram was a big part of what made it work so well. Precisely because I did know most of the music but didn't share Kohl/Gillen's view of the scene, it provided enough distance to savour the recognition and skewering of all the little snobberies and bellendishness of the self-righteous music snob.
Also about the ladies. A lot of people talk about Ian Gibson on that score, but I prefer Gillen's.
Quote from: Roger Godpleton on 28 February, 2011, 11:03:16 PM
GAME: Deathsmiles. Maybe a tad overpriced but I'll keep coming back to it over and over. I'm not a shmup connoisseur by any means but ah know what I likes.
Second recommendation of this I've heard in the last three days. Will definitely be having a look.
Comic you read: This week's 2000ad - prog 1723 - good stuff, especially Dredd.
Graphic Novel you read: Scarlet Traces: The Great Game, which was great, but has definite pacing problems and falls apart somewhat towards the end. Still great, but not as tight and perfectly conceived as it's predecessor.
Book you read: I don't really read a lot of books if I'm honest, I prefer audiobooks these days, as I can listen while I work. I just this morning finished Stephen Fry's autobiography The Fry Chronicles. Frankly it's a bit disappointing. It only covers a period of eight or so years, which seems a bit stingy (later years are clearly being reserved for further volumes - the next installment is rather cynically teased in the last chapter.
Though there are intriguing chapters, the restricted focus denies the book of any overarching narrative or revelations, and though i applaud his honesty, I defy anyone to sit through the book and not come away having lost a little of their admiration for the author - he doesn't come across very well, constantly pleading with the reader to forgive his obvious failings. He also comes across as a little sycophantic, gushing at all of his contemporaries in an incredibly luvvie-ish manner with barely a bad word to say about anyone, which can make for a dull experience.
It's also an eye-opener in how it portrays the media world of the 1980s - much as he tries to deny it, it really does come across as a jolly club of uber-privileged Oxbridge graduate chums giving each other a leg up and rolling around in vast mounds of cash - I was pretty shocked to learn that Fry himself had earned an inordinate amount of money even before the work that made his name - Blackadder, Fry and Laurie etc.
TV Show you watched: Just rewatched Spaced, finally convinced my girlfriend to watch it with me - she's always been averse to it for some reason (I think because her housemates at Uni used to watch it all the time and quote it frequently - which I guess is enough to put anyone off something!). I knew she'd love it if she gave it a chance, and she did, but strangely she preferred series one, finding parts of series two a little too fantasy-based.
Movie you watched: Had a bit of an 80s-fest on Sunday, and watched The Breakfast Club, Stand By Me and Pretty in Pink back to back.
Game you played: Klondike (Solitaire) on my iPod. It's worryingly addictive, as it requires so little concentration that you can play it while doing something else. I'm sure there's some scientific (psychological) explanation as to why these sorts of games are so appealing to certain people.
Album you played: Tend to just stick the iPod on shuffle - have about 6000 songs on there - but the most recent album I've been listening to is probably The King is Dead by The Decemberists.
Comic: The megazine
GN: American Vampire Vol 1 - really good stuff with some wonderful art from Rafael Alburquerque
Book: Must confess I haven't read a 'proper book' for about 2 years now, but I have dipped in and out of short story collections by Lovecraft and Bukowski recently.
TV Show: Fringe - really enjoying this show at the moment, after beginning like a 'yeah, it's good, but it's just the x-files', it's now truly carved out a niche for itself. John Noble steals the show hands down. And Anna Torv is hot.
Movie: Cypher, the film that Vincenzo Natali made in between Cube and Splice. Not quite as memorable as the former but far superior to the latter. Cool premise, nicely acted and well made, with Lucy Liu as the possibly duplicitous femme fatale Ada Wong I mean Rita Foster. Recommended.
Game: Well my xbox wheezed its last sometime last year and since then I've been reduced to playing bubble shooter online. But before it died I was hammering Gears of War 2, which is definietly up there in my top 5 games of all time (along with Resi 2, Rogue Leader, Left for Dead and Halo 2)
Album: Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will, by Mogwai. Saw em on saturday night as well, for the first time in about 7-8 years. Have to say I was thoroughly underwhelmed with both, and I used to be a huge fan. Ah well.
Quote from: mygrimmbrother on 01 March, 2011, 12:11:12 PM
Movie: Cypher, the film that Vincenzo Natali made in between Cube and Splice. Not quite as memorable as the former but far superior to the latter. Cool premise, nicely acted and well made, with Lucy Liu as the possibly duplicitous femme fatale Ada Wong I mean Rita Foster. Recommended.
Seconded, I really liked Cypher, had some neat twists and turns and a great look. Was pretty disappointed with Splice after that.
Comic you read: Dracula : In the Company of Monsters. Pretty cool updating of it all
Graphic Novel you read: Re-read Twisted Visions by an amazing artist I know called Valia Kapadai. Weird litte indie book. Very very cool.
Book you read: Reading "God is not Great". Scary scary stuff. Im on a bit of a religion kick at the moment.
TV Show you watched: Mrs Browns Boys. Showed the first of the BBC episodes to my folks last night. Really funny stuff... tho after checking out some of his other Mrs Browns boys stuff I can see why others havent given this a chance as its not half as good.
Movie you watched: Moonraker. The "watch all the bond movies in order" marathon continues. Enjoyed it... beer might have helped.
Game you played: Dragon Age 2. Decided to give a D&D style RPG a go. Enjoying it so far tho only played a few hours. Does feel designed more for casual role players which works for me
Album you played: Light Me Up by The Pretty Reckless. Total bubblegum metal but enjoyed it driving to work this morning
Comic: Clint. Twas okay.
Graphic Novel: Strontium Dog S/D files 1. Pretty good. The annual stories at the end fell a bit flat, but the main stuff was great.
Book: Unchanged from last time, still Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz. I usually get through these quicker, and it's certainly not due to lack of quality as I'm really enjoying it. I was just delayed due to reading the above.
TV Show: Keeping Up Appearances. Well, strictly I wasn't watching it, it was on in the background while I was doing something else. I don't mind it, but it's not really my cup of tea. The characters are amusing, but the episodes are rather repetitive... Last of the Summer Wine is on now. I'd give this the same criticism as the last. Beautiful countryside though. (My Dad's rather into UK Gold.)
Movie: Harry Brown. Highly recommended. It's pretty disturbing in places, and it has a good message. Michael Caine was great.
Game and Albumn remain the same.
Comic
Non-2000AD? Clint. Issue 1. Wasn't for me
Graphic Novel
Wolverine: Old Man Logan. Now if Clint was an example of the worst aspects of the Mark Millar Method, I think this shows the things that Mark Millar is good at. It's like that Commie Superman Comic, it takes place, not in the real world, but in an alternate universe that obeys Millar Mechanics. Steve McNiven must have worked in an abattoir at some point.
Book
I hadn't read anything by this author before, but it is an author that is usually mentioned in relation to a lot of intellectual properties in which I invest my interest.
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P.Lovecraft is the most fun I've had reading a book in a long time.
TV Show
Human Planet on the BBC. If you only watch one episode of this, watch the one about rivers.
Movie
I'm about half an hour into Little Shop of Horrors. Roger Corman is a guilty pleasure of mine.
Game
Christ did I love those old Lucasarts point and click adventures. The Dig, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. I recently learned that these were all available on Steam, and since I'd only ever played the second installment in the series, I decided to give The Secret of Monkey Island a try. I'd forgotten how obtuse the logic was in these games, but they are very charming.
Album
We're Only In It For The Money By Zappa and the Mothers, I'm fixin for some Motorhead after the film
Comic
Spawn - Issue 1
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Nemesis - Book 1 - A classic, superb artwork and great stories[/b].
Book
Robert DeNiro Autobiography - A real interesting read and insight into a great actor.
b]TV Show[/b]
Yesterday Channel - Documentary about King Charles, Quakers etc.
b]Movie[/b]
The Last Samurai - Great movie starring Tom Cruise in the role of American soldier Nathan Algren, whose personal and emotional conflicts bring him into contact with samurai warriors in the wake of the Meiji Restoration in the Empire of Japan in 1876 and 1877. Other actors include Ken Watanabe, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada, Timothy Spall, Shin Koyamada, and Billy Connolly. The film's plot was inspired by the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion led by Saigō Takamori, and also on the stories of Jules Brunet, a French army captain who fought alongside Enomoto Takeaki in the earlier Boshin War and Frederick Townsend Ward, an American mercenary who helped Westernize the Chinese army by forming the Ever Victorious Army.
Game
Red Dead Redemption on the Xbox 360 - The game follows John Marston, a former outlaw who sets out to hunt down his former gang members. Marston's wife and son are taken hostage by the government in ransom for his services as a bounty hunter. Having no other choice, he sets out to bring his three former gang members to justice. Almost finished this game, it's great fun.
Album
Megadeth's album Risk, Rust in Peace - 2 heavy and political inspired albums, fast riffs and vocal gruffs and growls only Mustaine can deliver. And Ozzy Osbourne's Down to Earth - Great songs by the legendary 'Ozzy'.
time I had a kiss and a cuddle?...........
It seems forever....... :'(
Cyberleader2000 can probably help you out there.