"Language is a virus from outer space."

"ohhhh, I'm so scared"

2009-12-31T15:00:41Z

Lego Space Car

2009-12-21T20:53:26Z

i was inspired by a recent Lego Space Police set and built this a few weeks ago.

Mega Man 10!

2009-12-17T23:58:23Z

You Must!!!

2009-12-17T22:43:31Z

from the desk of stinklefritz Comment and I'll: a) Tell you why I friended you. b) Associate you with something -- a fandom, song, colour, photo, etc. c) Tell you something I like about you. d) Tell you a memory I have of you. e) Ask you something I've wanted to know about you. f) Tell you my favourite userpic from your list. g) In return, you need to post this on your own journal

"Everybody wants it...everybody cares...everybody wants it so bad that they come in pairs..."

2009-12-16T21:01:44Z

So the Residents released “Arkansas” this month. Where “Postcards from Patmos” was a soundtrack to the internet series, “Arkansas” gives us the missing pieces to “The Bunny Boy”. Mostly different versions, songs performed but not on the album, and songs entirely cut. Like TBB it works very well, the good songs are very good and the very good songs are excellent, the stand out for me being ‘Circe’. It’s probably the best the singing Rez has sounded in the modern era. It’s funny how the tour show sort of closed off TBB for me, not that I quit listening to the album or anything, but it slipped from the mind and other things came to the fore front. Then they released “Is Anybody out There” which collected the internet series into an edited down version. I got sucked back in to the uncomfortably funny and sad world of Bunny, and it pretty much got me back into the whole project. So once again, thanks Residents, for depressing me with really good music…

Rock and Roll McDonalds

2009-12-16T18:35:00Z

wow, i just found an old minidisc with lots of Wesley Willis on it. .

Daleks!!!

2009-12-16T00:35:40Z

My Supreme Dalek figure came in today. i figured a black and white photo would be more fitting even though they have those sweet powder blue hemis.

mechanicoid @ 2009-12-10T15:31:00

2009-12-10T21:31:52Z

mechanicoid @ 2009-12-09T14:42:00

2009-12-09T20:42:47Z

iTunes has a large selection of Cardiacs now.

Hikashu has a new single out, and new album out on the 20th - hopefully i can snag them sooner than later. there's also some mini LP reissues of earlier albums that i'd love to get also.

Arkansas by the Residents should be here sooner than later.

Woo!

Doctor Who collection grows.

2009-11-18T02:09:31Z

i recently added 'The War Games', 'The Black Guardian Trilogy', and 'The Trial of a Timelord'. Lot's of watching to do.

I carved me a pumpkin last night

2009-10-25T16:03:21Z

Captain Lou's doing the Mario in heaven now.

2009-10-14T17:02:02Z

Live-Action Mario Dead At 76

New levels of dorkiness achieved.

2009-10-09T13:21:39Z

yup. it's paper-craft.

mechanicoid @ 2009-09-23T20:09:00

2009-09-24T01:14:49Z

iTunes 9, you suck.

You've randomly deleted albums and you're a pain to sync to my iPod. I don't mind making a playlist for my iPhone, but when i have to traverse 80 gigs of music to pick and choose what goes where, it's getting dumb. The updates in 9 for the phone were handy, but as far as making it easy to manage my library and iPod, you seem to have stepped backwards in ease of use. Hopefully soon i can get a new hard drive and just reload everything. It won't be fun, it took 3 days to get everything loaded last time, but if i'm going to get things loaded right, that seems to be my only choice. thanks for the headaches Apple.

mechanicoid @ 2009-09-15T12:26:00

2009-09-15T17:28:21Z

it may not be cold enough outside, but it's definitely gray enough to make all the ambient Brian Eno i have on hand sound even better than it already does.

hidden games

2009-08-28T16:38:51Z

http://www.kempa.com/2004/03/09/vinyl-data/

i found the above link while doing some looking for older game stuffs. i think things like this are awesome. i mean who'd of thought to hide audio programs in records for people to find back in those days, and why aren't people hiding games in CDs now a days? oh yeah, people don't buy CDs...

another goal met...sort of

2009-08-21T01:52:52Z

it's technically 229.5, but it's the lowest i've weighed yet. I'm sure i'll go up, but now that i've breached the 230s i know i'll eventually get to 220 and hopefully lower.

mechanicoid @ 2009-08-19T10:20:00

2009-08-19T15:35:41Z

i just need about a spare grand and i can play Xevious all day long.

took this yesterday after the storm

2009-08-19T14:06:46Z

Kacey dug this, and i like this pic for some reason. It's not bad for the iPhone.

mechanicoid @ 2009-08-14T13:15:00

2009-08-14T18:15:21Z

i sometimes feel bad when people start conversations with me.

mechanicoid @ 2009-08-07T08:05:00

2009-08-07T13:07:05Z

i finally added a CP 251 box to my set up.

mechanicoid @ 2009-07-27T12:07:00

2009-07-27T17:08:26Z

perhaps you unreal people can answer a question...

2009-07-27T13:44:41Z

i had a dream with a aggressive black and white cat in it. it kept striking at me while i tried to keep it away. i managed to get myself into a office room, but could still see it through the glass. at one point it got on it's hind legs and walked around, mouth wide open and front legs striking, even scaring off a child at one point. i've read around, but can't seem to find a good answer for this dream, perhaps you all can.

Legos kill the time

2009-07-06T16:24:01Z

Long post on Transformers 2

2009-06-29T16:50:53Z

So I saw Transformers 2 this weekend. The faults the first film suffered from are only expanded in the sequel. Less plot, an increase in bad acting by characters we don’t care about, special effects that are far too busy, poor soundtrack, it’s a thinly disguised add for the military, etc.

It’s just a plain bad movie, which stinks. Not that I liked the first film, far from it, but I felt there were things that could have been done to redeem and justify the first. What we get instead is just a retread of the first film with less plot and with a few different scenes.

The designs of the Autobots and Decepticons still don’t work. When I can’t tell a head from the ass until I see “lips” moving doesn’t bode well for what the director is trying to do. This flaw could have easily been dealt with had the Transformers gone a “reformatting” into designs that more closely resemble their animated counterparts. You could explain this change as having to do with their wanting to be easier relate to their human counterparts, but no.

The robot forms are not helped by the fact that only 2 or 3 of the Transformers have a personality. Every time I hear Ironhide or Rachet speak, I’m not sure which one is speaking unless I see one of their anus-mouths moves. At least there are only a small number of Autobots that get lost due to lack of personality or lines. The Decepticons suffer worse, because there are more on screen. Megatron and Starscream are virtually identical in design and character, the main “villain” is sadly just another cookie-cutter bad guy bent on revenge, you have Soundwave but with no effects on his voice, which wrecks his character, and then there is Devastator. What could have been a true moment of terror and scale, is reduced down to vehicles molesting each other until they turn into an ape-bot which does very little and is treated horribly by the script.

But let’s not forget about the humans. Or better, lets. The crap actors from the last film have only been given more screen time making for even more cringe worthy lines. Nothing redeeming can be said for the “real” actors of the film, and sadly Megan Fox has been reduced down to a special effect. Not that her acting was anything better before, but she’s eye candy now, and the next film will probably never allow her to be anything more.

I’d speak about continuity, plot, and related things, but they don’t exist in this film.

Now let me say this. There was one thing I enjoyed, Optimus Prime. With the exception of a few lines, his character was pretty good. His look still sucks, but a few of his scenes gave him the weight needed for someone of his stature. It’s a shame it’s wasted and devoured by this film.

There were plenty of things that could have made this film work. Probably things Michael Bay and people on this film couldn’t or wouldn’t do, but once again, too much focus on humans, little screen time for the titular species, and so on and so on made this celluloid pain.