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Posted: 16 Dec 2020, 02:20
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Great choices! Added some to my watchlist, thanks.
I haven't looked it up yet but I assume, or rather I hope, that Highway To Hell is a sequel starring Michael Landon and that tubby bloke with the hat who I think was also in Airwolf? |
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Posted: 23 Dec 2020, 08:27
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Failimation are finally offering a disc replacement program.
https://www.funimation.com/blog/2020/12/22/akira-4k-hdr-disc-replacement-how-to-limited-edition/
Note the UK/Ireland email address isn't working so perhaps send your replacement request to both email addresses.
Once I get confirmation and an RMA number I'll unwrap it and read the booklet. Not before. Always a chance they'll screw this up. Almost bought the JPN edition too, glad I held off now!
Also, read that the Blu included in this set is the exact same disc from 2013. Glad I bought the 2011 Blu recently now. Still need that Streamline dub though, the ultimate dub! |
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Posted: 23 Dec 2020, 17:24
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OT I would LOVE a 2021 calendar of sub-par unspectacular 1970's and 1980's American cars. :oops:
They all look exactly the same, all have the same wallowy marshmallow luxobarge suspension and brakes that start in Pacific time and end in Eastern.
The diarrhoea brown plastics, wood panelling, red/jade/brown/vomit beige (delete as applicable) fabric and 64oz shagpile interiors. Glorious!
Examples:
1970 Ford LTD
https://www.motoringresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/003-1970-Ford-LTD-4-Door-Hardtop-640x360.jpg
1980 Plymouth Gran Fury
https://www.motoringresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/007-1980-Plymouth-Gran-Fury-640x360.jpg
1977 Dodge Royal Monaco
https://www.motoringresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/011-1977-Dodge-Royal-Monaco-640x360.jpg
1978 Ford Country Squire
https://www.motoringresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/012-1978-Ford-Country-Squire-640x360.jpg
1988 Oldsmobile Delta 88
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wMgUM6RYBeA/WK1-1IDognI/AAAAAAAClTU/YihRPRVy1ssaNWsKvKF8S7wlJy-FFFsYwCLcB/s640/3.%2BOldsmobile%2BDelta%2B88%2BDiesel.jpg
...and the ultimate sub-par car. American automotive industry ROYALTY....The almighty Buick LeSabre. *swoon!* :crazy:
http://www.imcdb.org/i327480.jpg
Incidentally, a 1978 Ford Country Squire went for $45,000 at auction earlier this very year. The interior is absolutely BIBLICAL. A veritable fiesta of bottle green, cold, sludgy vomit. AWESOME!
https://www.autoblog.com/2020/03/24/1978-ford-country-squire-auction/#slide-2219115
And this one with only 1000 miles on the clock went for over $46,000 in 2019. The green is even darker and more awesome. What a car! :clap:
https://www.goodingco.com/vehicle/1974-ford-country-squire-station-wagon/
I swear if I won the powerball lottery, after the government took their 50% cut, I'd take the lump sum and buy a collection of mediocre US cars and amass a collection bigger than Jay Leno. You can keep your Ferrari's and what have you's. Give me a 1986 Ford Taurus or a 1977 Cadillac DeVille any day! |
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Posted: 27 Dec 2020, 22:16
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Yowamushi Pedal is on my list to try.
That is the show i was watching. The sequel series too. It's good fun.
Money Pitch may not be to all tastes as it's a weird mix of baseball and economics. I liked it a lot but i.don't think it was a hit in Japan so may not have been renewed, I'm not sure. It's on VRV and Crunchyroll anyway. |
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Posted: 30 Dec 2020, 15:52
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Forgetting all of the politics and all the rest of it, purely from an economics angle, it's a real bag of grapefruits.
Putting businesses large and small to one side, it's also cut Joe/Josephine Average (UK) off from a huge market and vice versa. And it's not first world problems like having to buy a DVD from Amazon.de now. It's things like warranties, returns, trading across the border with NI, GDPR etc.
Getting way off topic anyway. To coin Douglas Adams, so long and thanks for all the fish... :roll: |
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Posted: 31 Dec 2020, 16:18
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How is that Detective film
F'ING MARVELLOUS. :thumbup:
It's sort of like a gangster film with 007 vibes sort of. It's wonderful entertainment.
I became a huge Suzuki fan recently. Add these to your list:
Eight Hours of Terror
Take Aim At The Police Van
Both are superb. Certainly give them your time if you get the chance.
There is a sequel to Detective Bureau 55321689532. It doesn't share a familiar title and I forget what it's called. I'd love to see it though. The film had such an impact on me I bought a book all about Nikkatsu films early this year to learn more.
Got my Bible, Spinegrinder, at the same time. Spinegrinder is ALWAYS at arms reach for me. Invaluable resource which has occasionally missed some stuff I've seen! Due an update soon I hope.
Nikkatsu book:
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/No-Borders-Limits-Nikkatsu-Paperback/dp/1903254434
Spinegrinder:
https://headpress.com/product/spinegrinder-paperback/
@deadlegion: doesn't matter how you got them, the belly laughs are all that matter. What does the S in your name stand for? Sod off. Oh okay then. :lol: |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2021, 12:15
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Not denying that some would look great fully restored. Given modern tweaks they might actually brake and handle properly too. Less technology, less to go wrong, less privacy invasion too.
On the other hand you can keep the ugly as sin 1986 Ford Taurus and any of the cars that do less than 0.1cm to the gallon, which is essentially all of them.
Cars are great. To look at. And on forecourts. Other than that they're just transport moneypits imho. |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2021, 00:26
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https://pccdn.perfectchannel.com/christies/live/images/item/VintageFilmPosters25099/5812381/original/CSK_10275_0026.jpg https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HQHBf1AK53s/UoADtutWO1I/AAAAAAAAAmM/SxUDj3IaF7Y/s1600/cover_mr_t_be_somebody_album_mca_36014_1984_front.jpg
Watched a double feature this evening. First up was the Hitchcock film Rear Window, in 4K HDR. Then I watched Mr. T: Be Somebody Or Be Somebody's Fool! on VHS afterwards.
Starting with Rear Window, I'd never seen it before but am glad I waited for the 4K HDR release. The film looks superb and is completely captivating. What a treasure Grace Kelly was too. Gorgeous!
It's another one of those one location films I love. It's brilliant how you become.as engrossed in spying on the neighbours as James Stewart is! I also enjoyed how each neighbour in the apartment block neatly tied in their story with someone else, but also on the flip side, how neighbours in the big city can be cold and keep themselves out of anyone else's business.
The 4K edition is superb with some wonderful colour tones thanks to the HDR layer. The hot city nights look great but also sound pretty good too. The audio is a little quiet but doesn't need cranking up much. Besides, Rear Window is not a film that I think is reliant on the soundtrack but more about listening to and absorbing the dialogue. It's very much a visual experience.
Rear Window was gripping and exciting to the very end and I'm delighted I have finally seen it.
Immediately after Rear Window I fired up the VHS player and slipped on Mr. T: Be Somebody Or Be Somebody's Fool!, a 1984 educational video that, with Mr. T as the host, preaches life lessons aimed at young people.
The film is split in to sections such as Shyness, Roots, Anger, Styling and so on. It opens with Mr. T preaching to a young girl about overcoming shyness. Shyness girl is one of those typical child actors, pushed to the limits by clamouring parents desperate to extort every last cent out of their child that displays a mere hint of talent.
Shyness girl then appears in 'Roots' where she tells Mr. T about her heritage. Probably before slinking back to her trailer to curl up with a bottle of Amaretto.
There's an absolutely tremendous sequence with pop group New Edition performing a song about peer pressure while a group of kids aged about 10 are actually genuinely drinking Budweiser and chain smoking, and forcing a 6 year old to drink and smoke, while Mr. T looks on.
Yes, really.
A lot of the 'lessons' are broken up with people saying "Be Somebody" and quickly followed by a quick preach by Mr. T before he lifts something heavy, usually by taking off his shirt first or breakdancing.
The best moments come from some of the rap songs Mr. T sings, including the wonderful opening song. The songs are so expertly written that Mr. T has to extend his words to make them fit to the music.
Most impressive of all is the nostalgia overload when you realise that Mr. T must have had a neck made of palladium to carry half of Ratners around his Gregory. Unreal.
Kids today could do with watching this video, if only for the rap song Treat Your Mother Right, delivered in a manner Eminem, Jay Z and the guy from the Micro Machines adverts could only dream of. Butter smooth.
Be Somebody Or Be Somebody's Fool! is a masterpiece, and I mean that genuinely. The guy was at the peak of his popularity when this film was made. To put himself on the line and try and help children to understand and appreciate and value the good things and to do the right thing in life was a decent thing to do. Fair play to him.
Side note, I want the luminous Adidas boots Mr. T wears in the 'Workout' segment. Where can I get them?
Oh, and I watched Phantasm 2 last night. 2 down, 3 to go. It was alright, a lot of build up but the ending was a good payoff.
TRIVIA: The main song 'Be Somebody' by Mr. T was written by Ice T! |
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Posted: 08 Jan 2021, 15:59
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You need to be careful with declared values as you can get caught with your pants down. When I got my APD-2 customs pulled it based on the declared value. I put the final auction price on the customs sheet (the genuine price) but they didn't believe the price I bought it for.
They decided to look up the original RRP on the Yamaha website and bill me that. I was able to show through card transactions and some explaining what I actually paid for it so it was rectified in the end.
Now when I win an auction or make a purchase from Japan or anywhere outside the EU I take a screenshot, print a pdf of a page etc for proof. |
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Posted: 10 Jan 2021, 22:33
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It appears that here in New Delaware, aka Ireland, our Jeff has decided to deliver tat to clutter your home with even on God's chosen day of rest. I was greeted by a weary young buck late this afternoon as I returned from a rather late (and very dark) 10km run.
The sheer abundance of lumens exiting my Coleman CXS+ 300R head torch shattered his retina's with the precision of a small toffee hammer attached to a Roman candle.
As he staggered back to his Peugeot Bipper he handed me a duty free copy of The New Centurions on Blu Ray.
Great lad. Good work Jeff. I bet you won't deliver stuff to my gaf on Good Friday though! :thumbup:
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Posted: 10 Jan 2021, 23:19
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I only really collect the discs nobody else wants but are interesting to me. Or films and other content that isn't available on DVD or better. Or has a better audio track. Or is uncensored only on LD and so on.
Basically there needs to be a decent reason for me to go to the trouble of getting an LD over another format.
Like my Japanese Railroad Constitution LD for example. :thumbup:
Japanese Railroad Constitution [MRLZ-91003]
P.s I'll update that entry asap. |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2021, 01:19
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That's great, I hope you enjoy it! There is a Spanish R2 DVD but no English audio. Also a really obscure VHS release too. If your LD is as nice a transfer as my copy then you should be in for a good time I hope!
It's a VERY 80's May to December kind of film, but it's just an enjoyable 100 minutes. Yer wan Julia Mcgines was inanother Cannon film after that called Mack The Knife which looks promising. Hoping to track it down soon.
Everyone watch I Am Sartana Trade Your Guns For A Coffin as well. ASAP! |
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Posted: 16 Jan 2021, 12:43
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https://i.postimg.cc/pVFcMHN4/e42dbb16-8ccc-4682-a90b-66e47b2a8fa4.jpg
Here's the shipping packaging, still sealed. It definitely looks and feels bulletproof. Hope it's the same story on the inside.
I used Zenmarket to help me get it here and also paid extra for reinforced packing. It shipped by boat in mid-October and landed in New Delaware in mid-January. Pretty much bang on time for sea mail.
I noticed as well that the port of disembarkment was Southampton, UK so it didn't come to New Delaware directly. Royal Mail took on the logistics from Southampton before handing over to An Post once it landed in New Delaware, possibly by air (tracking doesn't say). Not bad going considering all the far more important problems the world is facing right now, not to mention Brexit delays and all the rest of it.
Only the second time I've used sea mail from Japan. Possibly not the last. |
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Posted: 20 Jan 2021, 23:09
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rein-o wrote: I just picked up, or should say finally received the ordered Legend of the Dragon Kings DVD series.
Ah that would be my fault. That's the show I couldn't remember. Good work!  |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2021, 20:46
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She's unboxed. Never seen double boxing quite like it. Amazing job. Cosmetically everything looks perfect.
Time to power it up somewhere and test it before putting it under the TV. Fingers crossed...
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Posted: 23 Jan 2021, 21:51
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Jesus Christ that's the most f***ing amazing picture and sound I've ever seen from a Laserdisc.
Speechless. 
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Posted: 24 Jan 2021, 01:45
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I don't have that disc, though I do love the film. I'll hopefully get to try it some day!
I tried an assortment of discs I had watched on my 925 already. A wide mix of genres to try and find any problems. The discs were:
Genesis Invisible Touch Tour. Phil's hair is tremendous.
Patlabor 2 AC-3 release. Looks and sounds crisp and clean. Best Patlabor film of them all. That soundtrack is magnificent too.
The Killer. Criterion edition. An absolute triumph. Looks absolutely stunning.
True Lies. AC-3 edition. I don't think this is a particularly good looking disc no matter what you play it in. Personal opinion. Though the D-Ext magic really helps it I think.
Street Fighter. DTS edition. The sound on this disc is absolutely biblical. Better than the Blu I got recently imho. The picture has some chequerboarding, but this is present on the Blu too oddly enough. Looks superb in native 4:3. Looks a little funky if you panorama it in the DVDO Edge.
That's all for now. Loads more to try soon and lots of films and concerts to watch too! |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2021, 19:16
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I was there. In the open air. :thumbup:
Justice was the support act too. We got there early and got the last couple of pit passes at the door. They only hand out a few so if you get in early you get right to the front in a little sealed off area for free!
Radiohead and Beck were on the night before. Can't believe it was 2006. :crazy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFhO6v99o-U
Not my video but good memories! |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2021, 21:55
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Thanks for pointing out!
I spent my weekend binging on Roulé, Crydamoure, Stardust, Braxe, Bangalter, DJ Falcon, Buffalo Bunch and Roy Davis Jr.
With a dash of Todd Terry.
That was the perfect closing track!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD7-bLrlL5E
Julien
All good stuff. Joey Beltram's releases on R&S are timeless. Mentasm and Energy Flash of course are the cream of his discography. Mentasm absolutely floored me when it was released. Check out a track called Rollercoaster by Tilly Lilly too. I had that on 10" orange vinyl. The 303 sound in it was so utterly disgusting that whenever I spun it in a nightclub I worried the punters would get violently ill! (That would come later on one summer when I had to play on while some knobhead thought it would be a great idea to release CS Gas on the dancefloor).
I recall the huge influx of electronic music coming out of France around 1997 to 2004-ish. So much good stuff. You left out a few though!
Ettienne de Crecy. His Super Discount album was, and still is, phenomenal.
Dimitri From Paris. Oh man, Sacrebleu was just wonderful. So kitsch!
Cassius (RIP Phillipe Zdar). 1999 was a real benchmark album. I wore that album out! The remix of The Sound Of Violence is just otherworldly in it's magnificence. Even today.
There was so much good stuff. Benjamin Diamond, Bob Sinclar, Motorbass and so many more. Then there was the knock on effect that made the signature sound go global.
Stuff like the Terence Trent D'arby sample on Hollis P Monroe's absolutely sisemic track I'm Lonely, for example. Or the wonderful 2 People by Jean Jacques Smoothie.
Even things like the brilliant 12 minute long version of Badboy by the late Wildchild (hugely overlooked imho) and even the wonderful remix of Matt Bianco's track Lost In You has a little touch of the French Filter sound going on. It was infectious to say the least!
There's a good compilation out there too I got on CD way back when called My House. Those were almost like a sampler compilation for me and opened my eyes to much more great music out there.
https://www.discogs.com/DJ-Jef-K-My-House-Vol02-A-House-Music-Compilation-By-DJ-Jef-K-Paris/master/167360
Loved that sound. I span many a platter in many a disco (and many an illegal rave and pirate radio station) way back when. Good times. Good memories. Good music. :thumbup:
Edit: Oh boy I forgot how great this track by Chez Damier was!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZvNavoksIs
EDIT: Would you Adam and Eve it! That Tilly Lilly track is on YouTube!
Be warned, the acid line that plays throughout the track is absolutely hideous! Dancefloor reactions were always funny when this one came on. I cleared a floor often when it first came out. Gave it a few weeks and dropped it later on in sets. Regulars would have got to know the track. I got told not to play it any more by a fellow DJ. I persisted. One night it just clicked amd the place erupted. I turned to my friend in the booth and just said to fetch me a beer. What a tune. :clap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCusmz4eB-Q
EDIT 2: nostalgia buzz activated. A few more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtPV6cTTK0I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2BHQAehlJE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1zoHlOlQAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f6gBAIkmDI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGEbJqwooto
The last track was when I went through a massive gabba phase. Terrordrome, Hubba House, Mokum etc. There's a great Terrordrome documentary out a year or so ago, well worth watching. |
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Posted: 25 Jan 2021, 00:30
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Posted: 25 Jan 2021, 09:16
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Oh wow! Thanks for sharing this. I love this stuff. I have almost all of the Virtual Drug titles (except one DVD title) and some other stuff like Luminous Flight and Virtual Trip.
Also have some VHS stuff too like VR Cyberdelia (which is actually Virtual Drug Ecstasy just retitled and rebranded for the UK). I have a great German VHS too, the name escapes me at the minute. Also the Mind Control series is interesting too, oh and Infinite Escher of course.
I haven't seen the Video Drug series before. Argh! I need to find them now! |
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Posted: 25 Jan 2021, 11:07
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Posted: 25 Jan 2021, 21:33
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I WANT MAN IN SUIT.
That said, I would LOVE to see a new Jet Jaguar film. Godzilla vs Megalon is my favourite.
NB:. ..and absolutely, Hollywood needs to leave Gojira alone. They don't have a clue. All drama and suspense and no end product and just vomiting crap CG from every pore.
Seriously that new trailer looked more like a video game than a film. Bloody appalling effort all round.
Not just that but I find it an insult to the legacy of the original film (not the dire US edit and recast). The film had something to say. A big f**k YOU to atomic warfare and that Japan will get through it all. Not to venture down a political trail at all here, suffice to say Japan was not squeaky clean during the war either. But I'm talking about the message underlying the film here, and it's impact on a generation.
The more rubbish the industry spews out, the more the legacy of that film crumbles away. |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2021, 11:58
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Finland
Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I want to be,
Pony trekking or camping,
Or just watching TV,
Finland, Finland, Finland,
It's the country for me.
You're so near to Russia,
So far from Japan,
Quite a long way from Cairo,
Lots of miles from Vietnam.
Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I want to be,
Eating breakfast or dinner,
Or snack lunch in the hall,
Finland, Finland, Finland,
Finland has it all.
You're so sadly neglected,
And often ignored,
A poor second to Belgium,
When going abroad.
Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I quite want to be,
Your mountains so lofty,
Your treetops so tall,
Finland, Finland, Finland,
Finland has it all.
Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I quite want to be,
Your mountains so lofty,
Your treetops so tall,
Finland, Finland, Finland,
Finland has it all.
Finland has it all... |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2021, 22:54
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| Oh that's my favourite of the two so far. Both are great though. Thanks for sharing! |
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Thanks list