tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55542552007-04-25T18:08:50.348-05:00andyBlogger1591tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554255.post-18365824954432694152007-04-24T17:00:00.000-05:002007-04-24T15:22:43.725-05:00

Trailer for 'The Trail of the Screaming Forehead' Now available at www.screamingforehead.com Good times. :)

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Ever wonder... ...What ever happened to these guys? Yeah, well, me too. But Joss Whedon has returned (albeit to the world of comics instead of television), and the canonical Season 8 has begun, courtesy of Dark Horse Comics. Unfortunately, it sold out a lot quicker than anyone expected. I still don't have a copy yet. Grr, argh. But what about... ...their friends? Well, apparently,

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My Very First Hate Mail. Yay! a very special blog by andy scates So recently, I was asked to review an album for the March issue of CCM magazine - Anberlin's new album, 'Cities'. Sure, why not? (after all, hey, I get a free copy of the album). So I listened to it, did my evaluation, and wrote the review. It had a few good songs, and a couple of really good songs, but overall, the album was

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"My favorite Bible story is the one where Noah's Ark gets attacked by Pirates!" I enjoy watching poorly-made movies, and whenever a Bible epic movie is universally derided by both christians and nonchristians, well, I have to watch it. Enter Noah's Ark, the 1999 NBC miniseries starring Jon Voight as Noah. Voight, the actor who I will always remember as the guy in Anaconda that gets eaten by

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The best news I've heard all month. "Trail of the Screaming Forehead" Oh man, I can't wait for this one. It's from the director of "Lost Skeleton of Cadavra" and features the same cast: "Terror strikes Longhead Bay when Creeping Alien Foreheads begin attaching themselves to local townspeople and seizing their very souls - launching a vast invasion from Space! "By remarkable coincidence,

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Ultimate Special Remastered Colorized Extended Edition for Families with Children and Pets Random thoughts not quite worked out in my head: It probably started in the 1980s, and there were movies like Blade Runner or Aliens that suddenly were realized in altered form as "Director's Cuts" or whatever, either to "present the director's original vision", make money, or some of both. Then came

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"Thus Saith the Lord!" First of all, I refuse to make any jokes around the phrase "I want these $*&%#! snakes out of my $*&%#! garden!!!" Why would I do that in the first place, you ask? Well, because Samuel L. Jackson has been hired to play God. (I mean, who else would they get, right?) Inspired by... The Bible Experience is a rather ambitious project to create a fully-dramatized audio

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Say yes to beautiful without paying the price. While writhing in pain, nausea, and dizziness from a stomach bug last Monday, I discovered a few things in my bathroom. For example, the slogan on Suave shampoo is "say yes to beautiful without paying the price" - I'm still trying to figure out the ontological ramifications of that one. I also discovered that kleenex is an adequate yet

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Welcome to the Future, Again. Some of the latest technology currently in development: The PHaSR. The Personnel Halting and Stimulating Response weapson was developed for providing a non-lethal method in crowd control and immobilizing attackers by shooting low-powered laser beams that induces a temporary blinding effect on targets. Sadly, it has neither 'disintegrate' nor 'frag' settings. (

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2007 Movie Preview Transformers. Directed by Michael Bay and produced by Spielberg. They even got the guy who did the voice of Optimus Prime in the cartoon to reprise his role. But honestly, this movie doesn't even have to have a plot — it could simply be two hours of robots transforming and things blowing up, and every man of my generation would pay money to see it. Click here to view

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"I'm sorry, we no longer have a planet called 'Pluto'..." This week, the International Astronomical Union has stripped Pluto of it status as a planet, by redefining planet as "a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a ... nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit."

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Weird Dreams. The other night I was in this building that was kinda like a church, except it was used by some Illuminati-like cult or something, and everything was dark mahogany and red carpet. I was distressed to learn that most of the adults of my hometown were members, and there were a bunch of little kids drawing symbols of the Crimson King on napkins. The end of the hallway (that ran

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More than meets the eye... :)

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To Boldly Go Where No Horse Has Gone Before... From AP (link): Shatner believes he can contribute to Middle East peace by helping Israeli and Palestinian kids with disabilities through horseback riding. Wow, I don't even know where to start. But hey, I guess he did bring peace between the Federation and the Klingons, and as Spock would say, "Only Nixon could go to China."

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I want to believe (that they'll actually film it) From WENN via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News (link): David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have both signed on to star in the second X-Files feature film. The movie will pick up four years after the 2002 finale that left agents Mulder and Scully on the run from the FBI. Executive producer Frank Spotnitz claims the script is nearly finished, saying,

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Some Bizarre Random Things. Cate Blanchett is one of several actors (including Heath Ledger and Richard Gere) who will portray Bob Dylan during different stages of his life in a new biopic by director Todd Haynes. Yes, you read that correctly. This is just wrong on so many levels, especially since I like both Bob Dylan and Cate Blanchett. (Although, it does introduce the possibility for a

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Stop Going Away! Things have started disappearing lately, and it's made me kinda mad. Chambers Guitars in Cool Springs. A fun little guitar store that was located right beside Baja Fresh. Used to, I could run by there during lunch, play around a bit, then go next door and get a fajita burrito. It's now gone, replaced by a beauty salon for trendy rich elementary school kids or something.

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Some Brief Reviews. Grendel by John Gardner. This 1971 novel is sort-of a retelling of the epic poem Beowolf (well, sort of a pastiche), told in first-person from Grendel's perspective. Told in very modern English, it recounts how Grendel went from being simply a wild beast to a man-hating monster that ravaged the countryside, and the nihilism that grew in his heart. Kung Fu High School

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Photos. No Photos. I had this idea about putting a bunch of random photos up on my blog, of my adventures from 2000-2005, then finally decided against it. Why? Dunno. Photos, especially photo albums, are weird. I mean, basically, they're just devices for helping your memory out, and you think, "Do I want to remember all this?" Sure, they were great memories, but at the same time I think

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Geek Update. So, what's new in Star Wars Land? Well, for one, Lucas has finally broken down and decided to release the original trilogy in it's original form, much to the joy of those fanboys who feel that the special editions and the prequels have somehow stolen their childhood or something. I, for one, actually like the special editions. (Although it's cool to see Han shoot first.) Some

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Keef: "Wha' happened?" In the words of legendary roadie Del Preston, "Keef cannot be killed by conventional weapons..." In the past week, while in Fiji, Keef Richards fell out of a palm and got a concussion, was released from a New Zealand hospital, had some sort of jetski mishap, and may require drilling into his skull to release fluid and alleviate pressure. Also, there was a tsunami

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Mixtape #3 Here's a new mixtape for you guys and girls. It's a nice variety of new stuff, old stuff, rock stuff, laid-back stuff, serious stuff, and goofy stuff. Enjoy! 01. "Out Here All Night" — Damone 02. "Neighborhood #2 (Laika)" — Arcade Fire 03. "Carnival" — The Cardigans 04. "The Search" — Dolorean 05. "Night Birds" — Ryan Adams 06. "Carolina Rain" — Ryan Adams 07. "Color Bars" —

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It's almost summer, and that means movies. yay! X-Men: The Last Stand - May 26, 2006 Cars - June 9, 2006 Nacho Libre - June 16, 2006 Superman Returns - June 30, 2006 Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - July 7, 2006 A Scanner Darkly - July 7, 2006 Lady In The Water - July 21, 2006 Snakes On A Plane - August 18, 2006 For Your Consideration - September 22, 2006

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Redshirts and the Stormtrooper Effect From Wikipedia.com: “A Redshirt is a stock character, used frequently in science fiction but also other genres, whose sole purpose is to violently die soon after being introduced. Redshirts are a plot device used to indicate the dangerous circumstances faced by the main characters at the start of a narrative, akin to the 'canary in the mine shaft.'” The

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Narnia and Kong vs. Plankeye and Fanmail After Peter Jackson finished his films of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, he went on to do a remake of King Kong, while others (with the help of Jackson's Weta Workshop) made Lewis's (Tolkien's fellow Inkling) The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I ended seeing both of the movies around the same time and bought both dvds on the same day, and I can't

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