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Remember The Wizard?
trotski writes "I remember when I saw The Wizard as a kid, I thought it was the perfect movie. X-entertainment has released a review through the eyes of geek of this classic. Few movies have ever dwelled in pits of infamy quite so deep as The Wizard, Nintendo's 100-minute video game commercial that vaguely masqueraded as a real movie. The Wizard should've been able to keep kids well into their late teens interested, but the entire thing goes down the tubes once you hear the villainous cool kid's pickup line: "I love the Power Glove. It's so bad." The site includes video clips of this and other great moments in the movie."
There's also a
just-the-facts plot review of this timeless classic, at the Onion.
The redhead you speak of is Jenny Lewis. You can try to 'do' her today if you like. Better yet, you could listen to her music, as she is currently the lead singer of Rilo Kiley, a southern california indie band.
"Entropy is the bad-guy, and he is everywhere"
I think you mean www.rilokiley.com, without the dash, with a successful name lookup, and which seems to be the right webpage (unless there's another Rilo Kiley out there...).
Too bad their webpage sucks (and not just because it's Flash, but because it's devoid of - well - anything useful). Try the HTML version even if you have Flash for the simple reason that you get to use your own scrollbars and not some crappy Flash variant. Makes reading their tour dates a lot easier (since the Flash scroll control makes it very easy to accidently scroll past a given date).
Unfortunately, I still can't figure out anything about them or their music. They any good? :)
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
We used the PowerGlove quite a bit in a VR class during undergrad. Great cheap interface.
http://www.spymac.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo= 6035&slideshow=1
http://www.nesplayer.com/wizard/after.htm
Amazingly enough, it is possible to mod a Power Glove to work with a PC. Check This Out, as well as this page. That should get you started. I know there's a driver for it somewhere, it was featured in a /. story sometime in the last 1.5 years...
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If you like "Time Bandits," then you should check out some of director Terry Gilliam's other works. These include "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen," Brazil, 12 Monkeys, and a lot of Monty Python stuff. Link to Terry Gilliam at IMDb: http://us.imdb.com/Name?Gilliam,%20Terry
Unfortunately, I still can't figure out anything about them or their music. They any good?
Looks like you can download their music at http://www.rilokiley.net... It's all live recordings I think..
GAK! Sounds like country! wait.. no... still listening.. must not be bad..er.. sounds like new age bluegrass.. hrm must click on more.. sounds not bad
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Or better yet http://www.rilokiley.net/ seems more informative.
Actually, they are quite good, IMHO. They signed with Saddle Creek Records, the Omaha label that also puts out Cursive, The Faint, Bright Eyes, and many other good bands.
Their latest album is The Execution of All Things and has some very good stuff on it.
I would encourage you to visit saddlecreekrecords.com, as they've got mp3's posted for all the groups on the label and their stuff is really quite good.