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Genel
Seemingly obscure tastes, DrWho42 has...
This might be attributed by the fact that he spent a good portion of the 1990s watching the SciFi Channel, avoiding the Eugenics Wars whereif possible, and rerunning serials of Flash Gordon from circa 1930s.
He also happens to take into ultimate usage the Geek Code's saying:
Power Through Obscurity. He enjoys tea-time-travel, fall-out shelters, Kafkaesque versions of Star Wars, building bridges betwixt the new dark ages and the technocracies of to-morrow, X-ray monocles, long walks through dark corridors, waiting eagerly for the laughable visage that is this reality to wash away, deconstructing daydreams, cosmonaut detective agencies, mitosis in his spare time, eating spinach, and of course: towels.
And in other fastwind index announcements....
Tom Lehrer, The Beatles, Glenn Miller, other people, Tom Smith, Neil Innes, BBC Radiophonics Workshop, the Mario Bros. theme-song, Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie, Johnny Cash, Spike Jones, David Bowie, The King, Artie Shaw, movie/TV theme-songs, 1920s jazz, some filk (especially the Lovecraftian variety), Big Band/Swing, incidental music from Doctor Who, Ragtime, the early British Invasion and thenward, film composers/soundtracks, novelty songs, stuff where the theremin is prevalent..
Radio programmes are of the very nifty spectrum and preferably preferred my outlet for weird news and ongoings concerning the Conspiracy, besides off-centre humour, &c.
My favourites include (but not merely limited to):
0. The American Astronaut
1. Brazil
2. Blade Runner
3. Dark City
4. Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
5. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
6. Gattaca
7. Alphaville
8. Ed Wood
9. CQ 10. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
11. The Incredible Shrinking Man
12. X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
12/A. Forbidden Planet
12/B. The Day That the Earth Stood Still
13. Carnival of Souls
14. Monty Python and the Holy Grail & Life of Brian
Some Quite Honourable Mentionings:
The Abominable Dr. Phibes, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Alien Apocalypse, American Splendor, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (hilarious towards the beginning..), Back to the Future trilogy, Being John Malkovich, The Big Sleep, Bride of the Monster, Bubba Ho-tep, Buster Keaton comedies, Citizen Kane, Clerks, Cubetrilogy, Dagon, Delicatessen, Doctor Who, Eraserhead, The Evil Dead series, Fantastic Planet, The Fly, Ghostbusters, Ghost World, Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, Groundhog Day, Invasion of the Body-Snatchers, Island of Lost Souls, The Kid, The Killer Shrews, King Kong, Koyaaniqatsi, The Last Man on Earth, The Last Starfighter, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Logan's Run, The Man with the Screaming Brain, "Manos": The Hands of Fate, Marx Bros. films, Metropolis, Modern Times, Network, NOTLD, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Planet of the Apes, Planet of the Vampires, Pleasantville, Pulp Fiction, The Quatermass Xperiment, Re-Animator, Reservoir Dogs, Revenge of the Nerds & the sequel: Nerds in Paradise, Rushmore, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Serenity, Silent Running, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Sleeper, Star Trek films (out of Trekkiedom), Star Wars (preferably Episodes IV-VI), Time Bandits, The Time Machine [1960], Sunset Blvd., Tales from a Parallel Universe movies, Terrorvision, The Third Man, Tron, The Truman Show, 12 Monkeys, Until the End of the World, Videodrome, WarGames, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Wing Commander, &c
Least Favourite B-Movie Deemed Unfit for Human Viewing:
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
(Luckily, by the year 2061: all original copies of this "film" were safely sealed shut into Cavorite capsules which were then jettisoned out into the outer fringes of deep space. A new edition still remains, however, wherein the ending is right when, instead of the Brooklyn Gorilla, Sammy Petrillo is shot by Bela Lugosi. It has been critically acclaimed since then and much revered in many of the post-nuclear tribes whose worship reflects underground pop-culture.)
Televizyon
The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena — the videodrome. The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore television is reality, and reality is less than television.
Re-animate Darkplace
1. Doctor Who
2. The Prisoner
3. Monty Python's Flying Circus
4. The Twilight Zone
5. Mystery Science Theater 3000
6. Battlestar Galactica
7. Firefly
8. Max Headroom
9. The Avengers
9b. The X-Files 10. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
11. Sliders (when Quinn was still Quinn, Colin wasn't unstuck in the space-time continuum, and Wade wasn't just kept as a head in a fishbowl for an offshoot evolutionary species of Cro-magnons..)
Given to the several hours spent with some SciFi Channel marathon or another during the years before Bonnie Hammer took over as SciFi Channel's president (1998), DrWho42 led a peculiar sort-of life in fandom — going several directions at once.
Growing up on such shows as Land of the Giants and Lost in Space, he generally transderived the retro-elements thereof and spliced them into his own genetic design in order to attain the effects of a rather increased geekdom. Albethey outdated...
Random Fact No.56: Growing up, he either wanted to be a lighthouse keeper or the guy who presses the button on the remote-wormhole-control timer/device in the TeeVee show: Sliders.
During his early days when information on his own particular interests was not readibly available since Internet had he not, he spent much of his time [re]reading his Star Trek Encyclopædia, Tolkien's works, and some books based on TeeVee amidst his embryonic elementary school phase, wherein which he assembled and commanded a fantasy club after the D&D guy left.
Due to his handy handbook on Star Trek written by the Okudas (w/Debbie Mirek), he knows several terraquads of trivia concerning it, and his favourite just so happens to be the Original Series, but enjoys every spin-off despite Enterprise not being as campy as he'd prefer.
Quasi-Random Fact No.47: In the long-running and ceaseless Kirk vs Picard discussions: DrWho42 has always chosen the alternative factor: Captain Christopher Pike, the second man to command the U.S.S. Enterprise (C.E.2250—2263).
Kitaplar
Favourite writers:
1. Douglas Adams
2. H.P. Lovecraft
3. Philip K. Dick
4. Alfred Bester
5. Harlan Ellison
DrWho42 primarily reads science-fiction and pulp fiction in relation thereto..
Of personal predilection and usual shortness of time, he has a great affinity for sci-fi short-storeys. Mostly of the classic variety, of course.
Generally, he has a preference in anything that is eitherwise retro or reflects a certain retrofuturistic theme therein. Or: something that deals with the erosion of reality, useless silly trivia on the future, Cold War paranoia, dark humour, time-travel, or other equally interesting things.
It seems now, according to recently decoded information from his intentionally cryptic appliance manual/tome: How to Extinguish the Sun in Morse Code, New Wave has entered his geekish heart or similar elementary organ
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Hakkımda: To revisit DrWho42's previous regeneration, one can journey through this looking-glass:
Can you spare the contents of one Astounding Stories, dearly madam? I am starveling organism requiring nutritiousment..
Greetings traveller,
After wandering the long and winding road that leads to the shadowy tip of reality, and you happen-chance to come across this place behind the vertically running mountains and inverted 1950s diner, I bet you're wondering where the DOS has your paradigm shifted to and whether this is the end of the world as the pop-up maps have indicated or you've simply gone mad after failing repetitively trying to hitch lifts on passing mirages.
“There is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.”
—Ford Prefect
Eitherway, you've reached Sanctuary from the wretched hive of scum and villainy known as the modern mainstream.
Where one can enjoy the peace and safety of this happy-go-lucky new dark age with its fallout radiation-green skies and away from the toils, troubles, and video hallucinations of the Information Age.
Kimle tanışmak isterim: Oh, to Be a Blobel!
_Because for twelve hours out of the day he reverted, despite all the efforts of himself and the Veteran's Hospitalisation Agency of the UN, to his olde wartime Blobel shape. To formless unicellularlike blob, right in the middle of his own appartment at WEF-395. _His financial resources consisted of a small pension from the War Office; finding a job was impossible, because as soon as he was hired the strain caused him to revert there on the spot, in plain sight of his new employer and fellow workers. _It did not assist in forming successful work-relationships. _Sure enough, now, at eight in the evening, he felt himself once more beginning to revert; it was an olde and familiar experience to him, and he loathed it. Hurriedly, he sipped the last of the cup of Scotch, put the cup down on a table . . . and felt himself slide together into a homogenous puddle.
Hi, Episode 4 of The Ad Astral podcast is out: Dream Girl, by DJ Burnham
“With all the fun of the fair: alien cabaret acts, romance and sinister undercurrents collide when the star-travelling Carnival of Delights comes to planet Leopani and changes the life of one young man forever.”
*** Written and narrated by DJ Burnham Voices: Jules Lawrence, Miles Jefcoate, Becky Jefcoate and Simon Taylor. Music: Nick Pynn, Dharksthar, Jules Lawrence, Jon Wood and Nick Harper
Click on the image (or the website address http://www.adastralpodcast.com) to take you to the Ad Astral Website and then click on Episode 4 Podcast player. Hope you enjoy it. Bye for now, Dave
Hi, Episode 2 of The Ad Astral podcast is out: The Radical Intergalactic Travel Agency, by DJ Burnham “It had finally happened, an alien invasion! But it wasn't quite what they'd been expecting. ” Click on the image to take you to the Ad Astral Website Hope you enjoy it.
I was just having a conversation about Ski Free with someone before I saw your bulletin!
That + Chips Challenge = A winning combo.
Did you know that if you play a computer game about skiing, there's something like a 9 out of 10 chance that you'll dream about skiing that night? At least that's what one of my psych lecturer's told me. *shrug*
Tom Lehrer, The Beatles, Glenn Miller, other people, Tom Smith, Neil Innes, BBC Radiophonics Workshop, the Mario Bros. theme-song, Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie, Johnny Cash, Spike Jones, David Bowie, The King, Artie Shaw, movie/TV theme-songs, 1920s jazz, some filk (especially the Lovecraftian variety), Big Band/Swing, incidental music from Doctor Who, Ragtime, the early British Invasion and thenward, film composers/soundtracks, novelty songs, stuff where the theremin is prevalent..
