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- Geek Gear: Iron Man ‘The G.B.P.P. Club’ Shirt
- $5 MP3 Album Deal: Fiona Apple ‘Tidal’
- ‘Fifty Shades’ Knocked From No. 1 On Amazon’s Best Sellers By ‘Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia’
- The Drill Down 244: Population of Interest
- Skull-Face Island: Episode 04: Champagne With My Campaign
- Movie Review: ParaNorman
- ‘Rome’ Star Cast As Mance Rayder For ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 3
- Blu-ray Review: Jaws
- Top Vinyl Rock Records Of The ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s
- Happy 69th Birthday, Robert De Niro!
- If BAADASSSSS! Controlled The Universe: The Unfinished 1976 Version Of ‘The Expendables’
- Wait, What? Warner Brothers & WWE Tag Team For Animated Scooby-Doo Movie Set At Wrestlemania
- Blu-ray Deal: Dexter: Seasons 1-5
| Geek Gear: Iron Man ‘The G.B.P.P. Club’ Shirt Posted: 18 Aug 2012 04:50 AM PDT  The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at TeeFury today is an Iron Man-themed shirt called "The G.B.P.P. Club" by RyanAstle. The sale began at Teefury today, Saturday, August 18, 2012, at midnight EST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it's over, it will not be sold on the site for $10 anymore, though it might continue into the next day for $13 (look for the After Hours bar at the top) [...]            |
| $5 MP3 Album Deal: Fiona Apple ‘Tidal’ Posted: 17 Aug 2012 06:27 PM PDT  This month, the Fiona Apple album Tidal is on sale for only $5 in MP3 format. Tidal marks the 1996 debut of notorious wild child Fiona Apple. Although just 17 when she recorded it, Tidal betrayed a depth and sensitivity far beyond her youth, establishing her as a singer-songwriting force to be reckoned with, and would set her light years above pop rock peers like Jewel (who sounded like she was reciting from her 10th grade poetry class). Songs like "Sleep to Dream," "Criminal," and "The First Taste" were expressions of Apple's primal, angry -- even sexual side, while with tracks like "Never Is a Promise," "Sullen Girl," and "The Child is Gone" Apple dragged us to the depths of her desolation. Tidal would go on to reach triple platinum status, be named one of the best albums of the nineties, and launch the mercurial career of an emotionally troubled artist who would continue to transform her pain (and pleasures) into song for our appreciation. Browse all 1,000 albums on sale this month for only $5 each, as well as several albums on sale this week for only $2.99 each [...]      |
| ‘Fifty Shades’ Knocked From No. 1 On Amazon’s Best Sellers By ‘Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia’ Posted: 17 Aug 2012 03:43 PM PDT  The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia, a 248-page hardcover encyclopedia on the Legend of Zelda universe being published by Dark Horse, went up for pre-order at Amazon yesterday, quickly shooting up the site's Top 100 Best Sellers in books list where it currently sits at #1. In case that doesn't seem ultra-newsworthy to you, let me stress that it's actually a major feat, considering to get there The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia had to knock Fifty Shades, E.L. James' long-reigning, wildly popular S&M-heavy book series, from the top spot. And how do the folks over at Dark Horse feel about their upcoming book bumping Fifty Shades out of the #1 spot: "...Someone had to do it!," said Aub Driver, publicity coordinator for Dark Horse Comics, who also told us that the publisher is "thrilled to see geek, video game and pop culture enthusiasts embrace this highly sought after title with so much love." [...]      |
| The Drill Down 244: Population of Interest Posted: 17 Aug 2012 01:12 PM PDT Amongst this week’s headlines, an iconic torrent tracking site is dismantled, Google punishes pirate sites, Anonymous & Wikileaks uncover a secret U.S. surveillance system, and Apple rumors: are we so easily misled by them because we so desperately want to believe? Podcast What We’re Playing With Dwayne: Home Theater Headphones with Wireless Dock for iPod [...]      This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Skull-Face Island: Episode 04: Champagne With My Campaign Posted: 17 Aug 2012 12:08 PM PDT  Skull-Face Island Movie Podcast presented by Geeks Of Doom Episode 04: Champagne With My Campaign Hello! It's Adam Frazier aka FamousMonster and it's time for another transmission from Skull-Face Island. David Allen, Tim Grant and myself haven't slept in days - we're too busy watching the 25th Anniversary of Discovery Channel's Shark Week. I mean seriously, how can you afford to sleep knowing there's Grade-A programming like this being broadcast over the airwaves? Hey, speaking of sharks... "Sometimes that shark looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn't even seem to be livin'... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin' those sharks come in and... they rip you to pieces." -- Quint, Jaws      This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 17 Aug 2012 11:06 AM PDT  ParaNorman Directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler Written by Chris Butler Starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, John Goodman, Jeff Garlin, Christopher Mintz-Plasse Focus Features Rated PG | 93 Minutes Release Date: August 17, 2012 Produced by Coraline creators Laika, ParaNorman is a kid-friendly, stop-motion animated spookshow - a witches' brew of '80s classics like Monster Squad and Beetlejuice, with a dash of 1993's Hocus Pocus and a pinch of Gil Kenan's Monster House. The film takes place in the small New England town of Blithe Hollow, where a centuries'-old witch's curse has unleashed a horde of puritanical zombies upon the townspeople. If there's one thing worse than puritans, it's undead puritans. Turns out the zombies were villagers way back when who, thanks to moral panic and mass hysteria, condemned a young girl to her death for practicing witchcraft. Blithe Hollow's only hope is a misunderstood, horror-obsessed boy named Norman Babcock (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee), who has the ability to speak with the dead. Aided by best friend Neil (Tucker Albrizzi), his sister Courtney (Anna Kendrick) and Neil's big brother Mitch (Casey Affleck), Norman will face ghosts and ghouls to save his town from a 300-year-old witch with one Hell of a grudge [...]      |
| ‘Rome’ Star Cast As Mance Rayder For ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 3 Posted: 17 Aug 2012 11:00 AM PDT  One of the biggest roles that had been still uncast for the upcoming third season of HBO's hit fantasy series Game of Thrones, was that of Mance Rayder, king of the Wildlings. Now comes word that producers have found their Mance, and he happens to have some prior experience with HBO shows. It's being reported that Ciarán Hinds has been cast as Mr. Rayder, ending an extended run of fan speculation and wishing. [...]      |
| Posted: 17 Aug 2012 10:00 AM PDT  Jaws Blu-ray Directed by Steven Spielberg Starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary Universal Studios Home Entertainment Release Date: August 14, 2012 One night during a party on the beaches of Amity Island, a New England community primarily known as a summertime destination, a young woman (Susan Backlinie) goes for a nude, moonlit swim in the ocean and is attacked and killed by an unseen force beneath the surface. The next morning her remains wash up on shore and are discovered by Amity police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider). Determining the woman's death to be a shark attack the chief attempts to close the beaches in order to prevent further casualties, but is stonewalled by the town's mayor Vaughan (Murray Hamilton), cautious to protect Amity's reputation with the Fourth of July coming up. Some time later a little boy is eaten by the shark while playing in the water. His distraught mother offers up a sizable bounty to anyone who can kill the shark, bringing carloads of fishermen and hunters to Amity ready to claim the reward. Marine biologist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) also arrives on Amity to assist Brody and based on the bite marks left on the remains of the first victim he believes the shark is a great white, unheard of in the waters off Amity. The beaches remain open despite failed attempts to kill the shark and when the tourists descend on Amity for Independence Day the attacks intensify. With the lives of Amity's citizens, including Brody's own family, and the town's future hanging in the balance, Brody and Hopper team up with local fisherman Quint (Robert Shaw) and head out to sea to confront and destroy the great white. It's only after they've encountered the beast that they realize their enemy has been grossly underestimated. One thing's for sure: they're gonna need a bigger boat [...]      |
| Top Vinyl Rock Records Of The ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s Posted: 17 Aug 2012 09:15 AM PDT August 12th was Vinyl Record Day, marked by the date Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, so it's become a day to celebrate the old time traditions of sonic yesteryear, and spin your favorite tunes on those old 33 1/3, 45, and 78 sized spherical objects made out of wax called "records." And I'm here to give you my Top 12 favorite vinyl records from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, but before we get to that, let's talk a little bit about this thing called "vinyl." Up until the mid 1980s, when CDs started to become the musical norm in how one listened to their music proper, records were the norm of the people; not just a communally popular way to hear songs, but it became a giant subculture of the fabric of life, a hobby, a key element in creating parties, in creating gatherings and get-togethers, a source of fun competition in who would have more records than whom and who would have the rare cool records, in essence, vinyl hoarding was a collector's and layman's dream for decades upon decades. With its outer cardboard casings known as "sleeves," bands and musicians of all musical genres were able to express themselves not only in the music they created, but by the art that was presented on the front and back covers, which spawned an entire new artistic medium in a sense. In a way, every day should still be a Vinyl Record Day in some regard, and as the way music is bought and downloaded these days, in binary coded "bitted and byted" digital forms, not only has the way of the vinyl passed in essence, but also all the visual accoutrements that came with it. It has become a relic of the past like a rotary telephone or a CB radio, a dinosaur's regime, which ultimately is hence even a more urgent reason to preserve the memory and image of the record alive in the 21st century [...]      |
| Happy 69th Birthday, Robert De Niro! Posted: 17 Aug 2012 08:35 AM PDT  A happy 69th birthday today to one of the most revered, intense, influential, and inspiring actors of his or any generation, Robert De Niro. For over 4 decades now, the actor has been delighting fans and peers alike with an approach to his craft that's mostly mired in a method style, a naturalistic, realistic approach to his many memorable characters. The son of an artist and sculptor in his mom and dad, he was born in the bohemian Greenwich Village on August 17, 1943. After appearing as the Cowardly Lion in a school stage production of The Wizard of Oz at age 10, De Niro dropped out of school a few years later to follow that muse and study acting, which he did at the esteemed Stella Adler Conservatory as well as with possibly the chief mentor at that time to his generation of actors, Lee Strasberg and his Actor's Studio [...]      |
| If BAADASSSSS! Controlled The Universe: The Unfinished 1976 Version Of ‘The Expendables’ Posted: 17 Aug 2012 08:01 AM PDT  Hello there, fellow cultural mutants. Humble writer BAADASSSSS! is here to announce the launch of a special new regular column for Geeks of Doom, "If BAADASSSSS! Controlled The Universe." I've always been fascinated by the idea of alternate timelines where certain events had radically different outcomes than the ones we know of, outcomes that forever altered the course of human history. Many books and articles have been written about the greatest movies that were never made. Most of those aborted features would have been dreams made reality for movie fans the world over were they made. With that in mind I will devote each edition of "If BAADASSSSS! Controlled The Universe" to the construction of my own personal alternate history of cinema where the movies that we beat ourselves over the head with our own shoes wondering how come they were never made did in fact make it to the big screen, and each time the results were glorious. [...]      |
| Wait, What? Warner Brothers & WWE Tag Team For Animated Scooby-Doo Movie Set At Wrestlemania Posted: 17 Aug 2012 07:00 AM PDT  So you thought you'd heard it all, didn't you? Read that headline one more time slowly, cross it off the list, and prepare for whatever wild and wacky new one surfaces tomorrow. It's just another day in the world of geek. It's being reported that Warner Brothers is teaming up with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) to make a movie. Considering that the WWE has their own film production company and has for quite a while now, this should come as no great surprise. But what may be a little surprising is what they're actually making. [...]      |
| Blu-ray Deal: Dexter: Seasons 1-5 Posted: 17 Aug 2012 06:20 AM PDT  With Dexter: Season 6 recently released, Amazon has the Dexter: Seasons 1-5 Blu-ray bundle for only $126.49 (that's 57% off the list price of $291.99). This 20-disc bundle contains five seasons of the hit ShowTime series Dexter, starring Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, Lauren Vélez, David Zayas, and James Remar, and each season comes in its own individual case along with bonus features [...]      |
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