Happy 80 year to Willie Nelson

Was going to go for Shotgun Willie but found this one instead and loved it, this is the way I want to go…

Hail to the king

January 8, 1935 a star was born. Happy birthday Elvis.

Love this concert, what’s your favourite Elvis song?

Etta James – I just wanna make love to you

I just love this song, Etta James was a goddess…

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

Think I just saw my favourite Christmas movie. If you missed out on this Finnish movie, don’t wait watch it now.

On Christmas Eve in Finland, Santa Claus is unearthed in an archaeological dig. Soon after, children start disappearing, leading a boy and his father to capture Santa and, with the help of fellow hunters, they look to sell him back to the corporation that sponsored the dig. And then there’s Santa’s elves, who are determined to free their leader…

Stained glass project: Disney

Am a huge Disney fan and this is some amazing faux stained glass art from Akili-amethyst on deviantart.

By the way… Tragically hip

My new favourite band.. This album has been on replay for a whole week now and since I already done one post about Canada might as well post this great song from Tragically hip.

I hope it works for everyone because all their official music videos are not allowed for me to watch

When Monsters Met Maidens...

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From December 14-18, 2012, The Swann Auction Galleries presents Monsters and Maidens: A Film Poster Collection, featuring some of the darnedest damsels in distress designs that any movie poster lover has seen, including works by (clockwise from top left): Roger Soubie, Boris Grinsson, Alfredo Capitani, and Anselmo Ballester. (MOPO)

I so want to go to New York for this exhibition.

University Of Chicago Receives Package For Indiana Jones

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Earlier this week, the University of Chicago admissions office received a package addressed to one Henry Walton Jones Jr. The package wound up in a pile to be sorted through later. No big deal; happens all the time with misaddressed mail. But apparently, no one in the admissions office recognized the name of one of the school’s most legendary, albeit fictional, former students.

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This is way cool...

I want a Hobbit mound

Was on my way to a job interview in central London yesterday and walked past the preparations for the royal premiere of The Hobbit at Leicester Square. They were building a hobbit mound. Was almost close to ignore the interview just so that I could be there when the actors arrived. Damn you work!

Ps got the job.

Lina

Here comes my last DotA2 character – Lina Inverse. So in total I have 1 cold, 1 hot, 1 dark and 1 bright DotA2 babes. Life is complete now

Via artgerm

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Tiny Tower game

Made a mistake today and downloaded a game to my phone called Tiny Tower, I just can’t put it down! You are in charge to build a tower with biz and residentials flats.

Its more like an electronic pet, in the form of a tower. Not much here if you’re looking for a “hardcore” game,but a fun thing to have and play with for a few minutes here and there. Aaargh hate myself for downloading this one.. bye bye social life

Watch “PSY – GANGNAM STYLE @ Summer Stand Live Concert” on YouTube

I truly love hate this song but damn he can really get an live audience going..

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Police quest and my Sierra love: Nostalgiathon

The purpose of Nostalgiathon is to relive things from your childhood through the eyes of an adult. Since Andy Watches Movies and Cinema Schminema are both movie-focused blogs, we will be covering movies, but books, TV shows, whatever else are all fair game if you’d like to participate.

So I thought I’ll do an old school nostalgia trip to gaming land for Cinema Schminema and Andy watches movies.

Nostalgia time for me at least, have just re-played one of my first favourite computer game, Police Quest.

Police Quest is a series of video games produced and published by Sierra On-Line between 1987 and 1993. The original series was composed of four adventure games, the first three of which were designed by former policeman Jim Walls, with the fourth title designed by former LAPD Chief Daryl F. Gates.

This was my first game on my dads lovely IBM286. Hot diggity, that thing cost him a fortune back then…

I was a happy 10 year old boy w this picture, oh the innocence. LOL

I was enthralled by this game which is an adventure typing game with graphics. A lot of ‘Look’, ‘open door’ ‘close door’ commands being frantically typed by an 10 year old Rincewind. And for you youngster out there, no internet at hand for any hints so if you got stuck, you were royally screwed. The only thing that helped my sanity was an hotline phone to a gamer I found from an article in Pc World, that poor sod helped me out through some tough times.

Playing it again, I am really surprised that I finished this game. But back then I was used to the DOS commands which I’m not anymore so trying to find the correct wording takes time to get back in your head. Had lot of error commands ‘you can’t do that with nightstick’. Aaargh, if I had a nightstick nearby my poor computer would be mangled.

The graphic is awesome, I have a love for the 8bit pixels graphics. Considering when this was done, it was a super graphics for the PC. Now, not so much. .

That damn locker room

One thing about this game I had totally forgot was how often you had to save, forgetting to put the gun in the locker. Open locker, put gun in locker, close locker. Forgetting this and trying to leave the police office and it was Game over. And if your last save game was a long time ago, you hit your head against the wall over and over and don’t get me started on the car chases. You see the city from above and are driving around with this blue block and in pursuit of a red block on tiny tiny streets. A lot of frustration with car crashes and back to Load game.

But in all, playing this game again was loads of fun and will now try my hands on the first Leisure Suit Larry game which is more in style with my blog, it’s about an washed out salesman who’s main purpose in life is to get lucky… Awesome game…

Oh Larry, Larry...

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Hot supergirls

Amazing artwork..

Artgerm aka Stanley Lau

Born and bred in Hong Kong, the multifaceted Stanley wears different hats as an illustrator, designer, concept artist, creative director and co-founder of Imaginary Friends Studios — a world acclaimed digital art studio that produces high quality artworks for the likes of Capcom, DC Comics, Square Enix and other giants in the entertainment and gaming industry. Formally trained in graphic design and advertising, Stanley’s art is imbued with a strong sense of aesthetics and visual fluidity. It is a perfect blend of eastern and western art styles. Better known by his handle Artgerm, Stanley’s art continues to infect and inspire new generations of artists and his ever-growing fan base around the world. Recently, Stanley was contracted by Capcom to provide new character artwork for the upcoming releases of Street Fighter III Third Strike Online Edition.

Who’s your daddy? LOL

Lol…

Erotixx - Desert Island Films

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Christian from Erotixx has kindly submitted his Desert Island Films. Read on for his choices and reasons, and be sure to check out his site.

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totally forgot to reblog my Desert Island post over at Head in vice (an excellent movie site and has also a damn nice blogger behind it...).

Green Jello and their classic video ‘Little pig, little pig’

Remembered this great song and video due to I want Ice waters reflection on accents (it will make sense if you check out his blog post, yes really… )

Anyway, awesome song from my teen hood.

Super squirrel

How cool isn’t this guy… love the artwork done for it…

This is war

I just love Buffy The Vampire slayer and the whole Whedonwerse so this one just gave me a big bloody orgasm watching, brilliant music and editing…

Vem vet – Who knows

Great lyrics and a great swedish songwriter/singer Lisa Ekdahl.

in case this one doesn’t work in the states, this vimeo should do the trick but no captions I’m afraid so have added the translation here.

Lisa Ekdahl – Vem Vet (Who knows)
Du är en saga för god för att vara sann (You’re a fairytale too good to be true)
det är en saga i sig att vi funnit varann (It’s a fairytale in itself that we found each other)
vi kunde lika gärna aldrig nånsin mötts (We could just as well never ever have met)
eller var vårt möte redan bestämt långt innan vi fötts? (Or had our meeting already been decided long before we were born?)
vem vet, inte du (Who knows, not you)
vem vet. inte jag (Who knows, not me)
vi vet ingenting nu (We know nothing now)
vi vet inget idag (We know nothing today)
vem vet, inte du (Who knows, not you)
vem vet. inte jag (Who knows, not me)
vi vet ingenting nu (We know nothing now)
vi vet inget idag (We know nothing today)

The Motion Picture Event of the Year

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Seriously, this is it folks.

I sooo have to see this movie... Lucy Liu... drool...

RIP Ray Bradbury

Such an amazing author and visionary mind. I read the Illustrated man first when I was 12 and fell in love with him, it didn’t help my outdoor life a bit that he also was doing the Ray Bradbury Theatre, I was stuck… Shame to see him go but he will live on in his books and in my mind.

“I’m not a science fiction writer,” he was frequently quoted as saying. “I’ve written only one book of science fiction [“Fahrenheit 451”]. All the others are fantasy. Fantasies are things that can’t happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” – Ray Bradbury

I can recommend Vondur’s youtube channel for quite a lot of episodes from the TV-series.

I knew I loved George R.R. Martin for a reason

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I knew I loved George R.R. Martin for a reason

The man has a point…

Swedish Ingénue Amanda Mair ‘Sense’

The future is looking Super Nova bright for this über-talented girl from Stockholm, Sweden with the voice of an angel.  The 17-year-old wunderkind – who began playing music at age four (she plays piano, bass, guitar, and drums but piano is her instrument of choice) – was discovered by pure coincidence when her music made its way to a Labrador exec before she even had a MySpace page or played in front of an audience.

read more at Blurpy

The Cure–Friday I’m in love

and one of the proto Goth bands is of course The Cure.

PJ Harvey–Down by the water

One of my favourite singers (ok, have a lot of favourites but this is one of them).

Av längtan till dig (Longing For You)

Had a Winamp moment when you have it on shuffle and among those thousands of songs in the library it randomly picks one of my all time favourite Swedish songs which I haven’t heard in ages. I just got so homesick when hearing it, aaahhh need to go to IKEA now and cry with a herring and some clothes hangers. I hope you enjoy and an english translation is at the bottom for the lyrics.

Put up the sound (mixed quality), sorry this is the best one with the nyckelharpa included, most only has the singer alone but this was a song made for Asa Jinder on nyckelharpa

This blog poster said this better than me, from Multemusic:

“Av längtan till dig (Longing For You)” is a much beloved song in Sweden and is often sung at weddings.

I suppose some Swedes will look at the headline of this post and think, “Shouldn’t the name on the post be Cajsa-Stina Åkerström (the Swedish singer who made it a hit)?”

No, because that’s not what I want to emphasize about the song.

What some don’t know is that the text for the song was written by a well-known Swedish musician and nyckelharpa player,  Åsa Jinder. 

I was recently able to find the Swedish text with an English translation of “Av längtan till dig”:

Av längtan till dig
Lyrics by Åsa Jinder & music by Jan Krantz

I en evighet levde jag som om du inte fanns.
I alla drömmar var du ändå nära
så underbart nära,
Och jag trodde jag fann dig, men du var någon annanstans;
Varenda gång jag funnit nån så såg jag att drömmen inte var sann.

REFRAIN:
Tänk alla famnar jag lämnat av längtan till dig
För jag trodde att du fanns och väntade mig;
Alla dagar jag vandrat så sorgsen och trött
För att möta den vackraste människa jag någonsin mött.

Det var enkelt och vackert, du sa att du väntat mig.
Jag kunde ana att det fanns en himmel
på jorden jag såg den,
Och du bad mig att leva mitt liv alltid nära dig;
Jag följde dina steg och allt jag någonsin drömt om fanns där för mig.

Det finns ingen som lockat mitt hjärta så underbart.
Med all din ömhet får du sorg och smärta
att sakta försvinna.
Alla skuggor, allt mörker som förr var så uppenbart –
Det skingras, och tillsammans ser vi ljuset, som stiger med solens fart.

And the translation:

Longing for You
Lyrics by Richard Hacken

An eternity long I lived as if there were no you.
In all my dreams you were so close beside me,
So wonderfully by me,
When I thought I had found you, again off away you flew;
Each time I found somebody else and saw that the dream clearly was not true.

REFRAIN:
Think of the phantoms I chased out of longing for you
Till I learned you existed and hoped for me too;
All the days that I wandered with lonesome regret
Before meeting the loveliest person I’ve ever met.

You said simply that you had been waiting so long for me;
Now I could sense a heaven on earth before us,
In heavenly chorus.
And you asked if I’d live my life with you and endlessly;
I followed where you led, and all I ever had dreamt of was there for me.

No one ever has captured my heart as your love has done.
Your tenderness has caused all pain and worry
To melt away smoothly.
All the shadows and darkness with which my life had been stunned
Are gone forever, and we see together the light of a rising sun.

Classic Disney Movies Get The Minimalist Poster Treatment By Rowan Stocks-Moore

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Rowan Stocks-Moore is a talented Liverpool graphic designer whose demand is rising like the price of gasoline.  He designed these posters as his interpretation of well known Disney classics.   Rowan has taken a slightly darker approach for these but we think his minimalist approach looks extremely good on these beloved, iconic Disney movies.

These Disney posters and more are all available on…

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Ok, these are some amazing artworks...

Retired Horror Characters

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What if the most scary 80's film horror characters were alive now?

By Federico Chiesa

Posted by @pedrosalma

this is beyond cool, all my favourite horror characters oldie style...

BGT: Charlotte and Jonathan – a must see

This just blew me away…

I hope this works to see in the states as well… otherwise do try the direct youtube link.