King of Snake

That shit looks sweet, is it a single-player or a multi-online game? ???

You wanted the best and you got the best! How about it MLB! I still stick by my Prodigy choices, something about the pimp vibe off 3 Kilos and the old skool rave of Wind It Up, but Voodoo People and No Good are class too. SoF, this is just a taster of my powers, true in the real world you could smash an ashtray across my head but in this construct you are just a man while I, I AM NOW A GOD!!

[angryrant]Wow! 5 (count em, 5) votes and one person replies! Helluva warm welcome from Fight Club! You're never gonna have enough (real) members for Project Mayhem if you go on like this! Fuck you all then![/argryrant]

AAAARGH....too.....many....songs....whole....fucking...decade....still hate you SoF.... Alphabetical, not order of preference, took me long enough thus far! Lemme know what youse think... 1. Air - All I Need 2. Altern8 - Evapor8 3. Aphex Twin - Windowlicker 4. At The Drive-in - Rascuache 5. Atari Teenage Riot - Kids Are United 6. Bjork - Hyper-Ballad 7. Blur - Song 2 8. Chemical Brothers - Life Is Sweet/Setting Sun 9. CJ Bolland - Sugar Is Sweeter 10. David Holmes - Don't Die Just Yet -------- 11. Depeche Mode - In Your Room 12. DJ Shadow - High Noon 13. Dubstar - Stars 14. Eels - Not Ready Yet/Last Stop This Town 15. Faith No More - Epic 16. Faithless - If Loving You Is Wrong/Insomnia 17. Felix - Don't You Want Me 18. Fluke - Absurd/Atom Bomb 19. Foo Fighters - This Is A Call/Everlong 20. Fun Loving Criminals - Scooby Snacks -------- 21. Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea 22. Garbage - Push It/Only Happy When It Rains 23. Green Day - When I Come Around 24. Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray 25. Idlewild - When I Argue I See Shapes 26. Korn - Got The Life 27. Lamb - Gorecki 28. Les Rhythms Digitales - Sometimes 29. Lush -Hypocrite 30. Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug -------- 31. Nirvana - Breed/Lithium 32. Offspring - Self Esteem 33. Opus 3 - When You Made The Mountain 34. Orbital - Satan/Halcyon 35. Pearl Jam - Do The Evolution 36. Pixies - Rock Music/Dig For Fire 37. Praga Kahn - Injected With A Poison 38. Prodigy - 3 Kilos/Wind It Up 39. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge 40. Rocket From The Crypt - On A Rope -------- 41. Scheer - Shea/I Wish You Were Dead 42. SL2 - On A Ragga Tip 43. Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings 44. Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground 45. Supergrass - Richard III 46. Therapy? - Screamager 47. Underworld - Moaner/Cowgirl 48. Utah Saints - Something Good 49. Wannadies - Hit 50. 808 State - In Your Face I have too much time on my hands...

I wouldn't worry about forgetting IC, as long as I'm around there'll be some Bill Hicks quotes floating around, especially since I have no originality myself. Heard Bill on BBC Radio1, the same station that ran Blue Jam, MLB'll know the DJ, Mary-Anne Hobbs. She played a couple of clips, My Parents from Dangerous split into two. It stuck with me a while and one day in a record and video store I spotted a Bill video and picked it up. Got the Dangerous Cd and the Revelations vid at a later time. Read Preacher a little after that....

By the way you're a bastard SoF, I want to post my favorite songs, but you know I'm nothing if not thorough. :angry: You know I'm gonna have to take my time with it, get a comprehensive list together, I'll post it later....

I wouldn't worry too much about whether they're rip-offs or not, just whether they're any good or not!! :sly: I always piss off SoF with this one but aside from the first two average albums, I don't rate them in any way!! To paraphrase Bill Hicks: Kos's quick capsule review, PIECE OF SHIT......"But do they sound too much like the Beatles?".....NO NO NO!!! You've forgotten how to judge these thing, PIECE OF SHIT, NOW WALK AWAY!!! You happen to see where I left my oversized spoon SoF?!

I don't currently have a file-sharing program, I used Napster for a bit before it got shit but never got around to getting a replacement. At the time I thought I'd wait and see which one was best/not being shut down. From what I hear, Morpheus is best? Might get that one and see how much music I can squeeze thru the old 56k. What do you reckon? Haven't heard Bionic or McLusky? ??? Did hear one by Electric Soft Parade, not sure of the name, 'Silent to the Dark II' or something, not bad....

Layeth the Smacketh down, Rocky....

Big fan of We Didn't Start The Fire, had that one's album on cassette as a kid, almost wore the fucker out!The one you're thinking of is Leningrad Chief, great song that.

"I'll trace a white line around your dead body!! Your mother's a tracer!!"

Unfortunately they're not playing Ireland on this tour, maybe they'll do a festival here? Gonna try to score Hives tickets for may, might be sold out already but I can hope! Liked what I heard from My Vitriol, might pick that one up if I ever have money! Soulwax I still liked but I thought there'd be more rock, I'd seen em live before I got it, but maybe they were playing previous album material.

There must be some that haven't been done yet alita?

Went for the Watchtower just cause it reminded me of 'All Along The Watchtower' and Watchmen. Seems like a good compromise between Marvel and Vertigo comics styles...

Mine's not bad, Ol Mucky Terrahawk. Anyone else remember Terrahawks?

Brilliant album too It's only a food mixer but it looks class! Great inlay too by the Designers Republic (Warp records, WipeOut games on PS1) COME TO DADDY!!

YOU LUCKY, LUCKY BASTARD!! Presumably you'll be at the gig too and you'll hear the new album before me! :hmph: I'm loving the new single, took a couple of listens is all. I mentioned Lostprophets earlier, their albums pretty good though the two singles are the clear stand-outs. Not heard ESP (deliberate acronym?), and I'm holding off on Rival Schools for the moment till I hear more. 'Used for Glue' is great but I've heard 'Good Things' from that, wasn't as impressed. What's the album like? It's just I was a bit dissapointed with Soulwax's album, they'd released three hefty rock singles, then had no other hard rocking songs on the album. I'll see about it when I hear more songs. The Hives album (Your New Favourite Band) is fantastic too, reminds me of the Pixies at their most chaotic.

I don't know if he has another epic in him, only he knows I suppose, but I'm sure he'll be around for years to come. Good point Bacchus about the well and all. Any other opinions?

Michael Keaton but Jacks gonna deservedly win it. Just thought Keaton was a great call, believably mild-mannered millionaire and psychotic vigilante. Still like Ray Park in X-Men, cool character, obviously aided by CG and great writing, but in the movie takes on Storm, Cyclops and Jean Grey single-handed....murmurs in the cinema, "Jesus, what balls!"

Don't have time to do a new review now, at the time of this one I was up to #8, I'm up to #17 now and it's still good. Note to anyone who doesn't know what I'm on about: Lone Wolf and Cub is a Japanese comic set in feudal times from the 70's currently being printed in English by Dark Horse. Each volume is about 300 pages and they cost US$9.95/IR£8.50/UK£???. It's about samurai Ogami Itto, former Kogi Kaishakunin (the Shogun's official executioner, a coveted position) who, after being framed as a traitor by the Yagyu Clan who wanted his position, becomes an assassin with his three-year-old son Daigoro in tow, going by the name "Lone Wolf and Cub", until he can claim vengeance on the Yagyu. While the story is fictional, the comic reads as an illustrated history lesson and is famous for its historical accuracy with a great emphasis on the codes of honour back then. If you're not sure you want a history lesson, don't worry though, there's shitloads of killings (classic quote by Ogami when trapped, to his captors: "I'll kill until my blades are forever stained red! I'll build a mountain of corpses!" ). Oh, and there's some scenes with Daigoro that if you're not moved emotionally in at least some way, then you have no heart! Highly recommended. ------------------------------------------------------------ It's getting pretty damn good IrishC, I think that's volume 1 you've got (I leant 1-4 to a friend so I'm not sure). The stories have changed a bit from the first few where the assassination plots were more elaborate so some of the later stories are kind of deadweight with Ogami Itto just saying "Assassin, Lone Wolf and Cub, I come for you" and killing whoever. For the most part though the stories are good with plenty of stories involving the Yagyu Clan, some great ones centred on Daigoro and how his father's actions influence his outlook on life and his actions and it's getting interesting now (just read as far as the end of volume 8 at this point) cos there's stories that involve Ogami dealing with the repurcussions of former assassinations. With what I've read so far I'm pretty sure I'm gonna keep going till volume 28. I can't wait to see what the next addition to the battlepram's gonna be!

Lone Wolf and Cub? Lemme find that one I put on the Preacher Boards a while ago..... Authority: I read the few trades that Ellis was in on, some good arcs there. I've only started reading hero books lately so I don't know how they'll compare.

I agree with TopDawg, you need all of the above, though I'd think the future creators shade it. Not to detract from the original artist and writer but they create the character, give him some opponents but the future writers are normally the ones who shape the character and his foes' personalities. Between the writer and artist for most credit, I can't really comment on, it depends on the partnership? ???

Well, first of all I never used to buy any Marvel books until those damn whore writers like Bendis, Ennis and Morrison started writing for them and forcing me to buy em. Europe's got a very different comics culture to America's, in America you look for heroes, super-heroes even, to look up to. The European vibe is more about anti-heroes, proof seen in the sort of writing in Preacher, Transmetropolitan, Hellblazer, Judge Dredd....you'll find most of the characters are bastards, hell they even call themselves bastards! Anyway, point is I'm only reading some of the books you've mentioned so far: New X-Men: Dont like Frank Quitely's art either, Grant Morrison's writing could be better really for the scenes but he's been given a lot of license by Marvel with the plot, which he's doing a hell of a job with. Ultimate Team-up: The Punisher/Spidey/Daredevil arc was pretty good, haven't picked up any of the others though. Transmetropolitan: Reading it in trades, just picked up Gouge Away but I think that only leaves me with up to #36 read. Powers/Hellblazer/Outlaw Nation/100 Bullets: These are ones that I've read some of, fell behind on but buy anyway cos my bro's reading 'em.... Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again: This was always liable to be a disappointment considering the quality of the original. I think it's a great book but it'd have to do something pretty extraordinary now at this late stage storywise, to be on a par with the original I feel. And by the way, Frank Miller does the art, Lynn Varley only does the colour. This is a big disappointment as Lynn Varley's a fantastic painted colourist but has elected to use photoshop to colour which she doesn't seem to have the grasp of yet. Origin: damn fine book, all I can say! Never read the X-Men comics before but as a kid watched the cartoons and decided when I grew up I wanted claws! As it turned out I invested in wings instead but that's another story...anyway, I always wanted to know where the guy came from, etc., so I picked it up found the story and art great so I'm seeing this one through to the end. Punisher: Like a fool I picked up the Capone one, thought give it a chance, ignored the 'writer of VIP'-type warnings, fuck but was it bad.....I've not read the next though I've bought it, the writer Tom Peyer did a stop-gap story for The Authority when Quitely jumped ship that wasn't bad so I thought I'll give it a chance. Ennis's current Punisher run's over, Fury's over, Op Bollock too which sucks, Just A Pilgrim will be back soon though. I'd meant to pick up the Ultimates, I'm a big fan of Bryan Hitch's since reading Authority stories he'd done with Warren Ellis, might get it if it hasn't sold out. What else am I reading? Hmmm: Grip: The Strange World Of Men: On Vertigo this one, art's very cartoony, the stories extremely strange but after starting with what appeared to be chaotic unrelated sets of characters and a bizarre plot, amazingly it's starting to make sense!? It's only a 5-part mini so that's nearly done. Elektra: Lost track of this one too, keep buying it although I'll probably read my back issues and realise it's shit or something with my luck. Alias: Bendis writing, kinda like Powers, ex-superheroine turned PI. Don't get all the in-jokes, as I said I don't know much Marvel U, still good book. Authority/Establishment: Two superhero team books on Wildstorm, Authority's on an arc that Quitely left them in the lurch for but the art's good. The story's good but the series is in doubt after that finishes next issue. Establishment is a British team, just up to #6 but the story and characters are unfolding well, if playing a little to stereotypes. Fray: A Buffy spin-off on Dark Horse, a slayer of the future that Joss Whedon's co-writing, not bad so far. Lone Wolf and Cub: I tried to get you into this when it started IC, a reprinted manga in pocket sized volumes of about 300 pages each. The epic is 26 volumes long and I'm up to 17. I was very tempted to post in the Wallace vs Maximus thread, "It doesn't matter, if Ogami Itto turned up they'd both be fucked!" Pulp: Manga magazine and anthology, have to say I'm only reading 3 of the stories: Uzamaki (Spirals) a horror series based on a town taken over by spirals, better than it sounds. Short Cuts, one-page gags, some lost in the translation but a lot of quality. Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga: The first thing I read when I get a new batch of comics, this is a mock guide on how to write and draw a successful manga, this is absolutely fucking hilarious, I'll have to scan some pages! A lot of the rules apply to American comics too, amazing how Preacher even follows the 'Shonen manga shish-kebab'! That's about it apart from saying damn you IC for making me type so much! I really need to get touch typing lessons!

Debut directions: Spike Jonze - Being John Malkovich "...pardon me, how old are you, sir?" "105. Carrot juice, lots of it. I swear, sometimes it's not worth it. I piss orange. I have to piss sitting down like a goddamn girlie-girl every fifteen minutes!" Bit of an Aphex Twin sequence in it too! :plain: :plain: :plain: :plain: :plain: :plain: :plain: :plain: :plain: :plain:

Not bad! Well spotted IC.