Recently I’m tending to shun most of what runs nowadays on TV!
While today in the twothousands all kinds of TV series theme seems to be only about sex and interpersonal relations, they were all about humor, sarcasm and worse sci-fi in the nineties and even more back in the eigthies and seventies about action and trashy sci-fi.
So despite many people see 80/70′ties action series only as poor film making or trash, I see them with much more value today than 20 years ago and it’s an enjoyment to catch up an episode of A-Team or Airwolf on a Sunday afternoon besides all this spoiled modern tv program!
This website is all about one of the golden age of action tv series which I like to remember, The Bionic Woman, the unjustified critics told follower of The six million dollar man series! The site has a nice retro feel and even has some of the cool sound effects from the series while offering info on the cast, episodes, story etc.
I was hoping some of the episodes coming through on a p2p network someday and it seems I’m lucky today, they being one of the more hard to get tv series tho. I couldn’t find my favorite episode, Doomsday is tomorrow yet, a two parts episode which I remember very well where Jaime has to defeat an insane scientiest who is threating the world with a giant bomb named the ‘Doomsday device’ and she has to infiltrate his secret underground lair which is full of this old computer stuff and traps and all kind of things which make her life more difficult. One of these many charming examples of how people imagined the future during the mid century!
CamoArt, a german company is manufacturing bed blankets and other stuff with various camo patterns. A pretty nice idea when thinking about that good looking blankets are a rare product. One of my friends bought the model ‘Summer Sex’ and it actually looks very cool! My other favorites would be ‘Forest 2002′ and ‘Red Red Wine’ which looks a little more fancy with the saturated red on it. I’m not sure if they are shipping overseas tho.
I’ve been selling and buying antique computer stuff on Ebay and also managed to get an old Commodore C64G! The G model was the one with the brown bread bin case and brighter keyboard which was introduced later after the C64C model actually got sold.
This brought up some moods of nostalgia remembering the ‘good old’ days of computing and playing 8bit games. I even found some old 5 1/4″ floppy disks with old tools and games and tried to code some assembler which is even fun in a special way compared to the today’s luxury of coding applications.
There’s also now – as you might already have found – a new category named downloads in which I will put various stuff to leech down from time to time.
Besides there are still some draft entries on hold and unfinished yet on the authoring side. I’m going to finish them when I think it’s time!
Download: C64 Tools Disk images “SMS Tools 1 & 2″
After finally having the change to access some of my over ten years old C64 floppy disks relics with the XE1541 cable, I’ve found some neat rare tools which we used back in the old days and which you might want not to miss for your D64 file collection …
So here are the two SMS tools disks which contain various useful tools from my time on the 8bit era.
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Because the weather is so good now and all people seem to went into holiday and scenes of empty and lethargic streets are regular, a friend of mine and I had the idea if everyone left Germany, we both stay here so we can maraud shops and stores etc. which would be fun.
We also had the great idea that everyone of us can mark his owned area of the town and start playing war. If he gets into my area I have to hunt him and vice versa. However that maybe wouldn’t make much sense with only two people.
We would also establish a so called ‘death zone’. In case other people want to come back, they have to run the gauntlet through this zone and if they survive it they can stay and live here.
That would be a scenery like in a low-budget endtime apocalypse movie. Maybe these kind of phantasies come up if you listen too many times to Burn The Priest/Lamb Of God. And I just wanted to broaden my music horizon…. oh dear!
I’m going to review here only on the episode ‘Beyond’ from the Animatrix movies as it’s my very favorite (together with ‘Detective Story’) on there. Director Koji Morimoto had the brilliant idea to show a very different view on the Matrix by letting some children in a big city (obviously Tokyo) discover a bug in the Matrix incidentally.
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Incidentally switched onto communal TV program tonight to catch up the most of the rest of Funeral in Berlin, an excellent spy movie from 1966 with Michael Caine starring as cult status attained Secret Service agent Harry Palmer.
Most of the story plays in Berlin where an old KGB chief plans his desertion to the west side. The movie conveys the quiet and sneaky atmosphere of the mid-century espionage movies greatly, not as exaggerated as James Bond movies of course while staying always a bit more authentic. As a fan of such movies a feast for me! Too bad I didn’t caught up the beginning! Guess I gotta have to watch it then someday fully again.
There’s a well sorted website, dealing with everything about thick-spectacled Harry Palmer which you shouldn’t miss to take a look on for a load of background infos and photos!
There are people who are completely captivated by Blade Runner and I’m somewhere between them and the halfway of being absorbed. If you don’t count to them, there’s a good chance that you don’t know the Blade Runner Esper Edition Soundtrack yet. So was I until some days ago!
The Esper Edition is a two CDR bootleg compilation of all music that occurred in the movie from beginning to end. Not sure where the author got the missing pieces from – possibly even recorded them out of the movie – but the quality is quite nice and there are finally these music parts like Deckard Enters The Bradbury or Taffey Lewis Night Club that I’ve missed painfully every time I’ve listened the original motion picture soundtrack.
Problem is, there were only a limited number of 10 CD’s of this jewel out which makes them ultra-rare! But let’s not forget about our helpful p2p apps like {place your favorite here} to find this lovely collection.
And then there was the boy who shot a photo of himself everyday since 1998 and uploaded it to his website. interesting to look at the difference between the early photos where he looks like a real geek to the current ones which actually look sympathetic in a way and not geeky at all anymore.
Yea, you knew it before! This blog is all about violence and nudity …. virtual and not real ones of course! So what comes more close than introducing some great artists who’s hobby is to shoot authentic looking photography of suicide or murder?! Does this sound too macabre? There are two of them on deviantart.com who caught my attention to visit them back every some weeks …
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