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Call of Cthulhu Available on DVD
An anonymous reader writes "The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society is finally finished with the ultimate labor of mythos-love. The Call of Cthulhu is now available on DVD! For those not familiar with the long-awaited project, The Call of Cthulhu is a silent film adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's famous literary masterpiece of the same name. It really looks like something that would have been shot in the 1920's silent film era. I, for one, welcome our new multi-tentacled, aquatic, ancient overlord. Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn."
I ordered it the other day and got the testimonial of randolph carter as well (based on my favorite lovecraft story). and this is the message I got back.
Thanks for your order; your DVDs will ship the end of the week via US
Airmail. Be forewarned, the quality of The Call of Cthulhu is WAY better
than Randolph Carter. TTORC was shot on VHS tape and suffers from poor sound
and image quality. It's watchable but I wanted to give you fair warning.
Sean
I have no problem with that. But thought I would share.
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isn't Chtulhu a father of Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Coralized links
t ore.lasso?1=product&2=8l
http://www.cthulhulives.org.nyud.net:8090/store/s
http://www.cthulhulives.org.nyud.net:8090/toc.htm
These links do not go over standard port 80 and so may not work behind company firewalls
A silent feature of Cthulhu released on the heels of photographs of a live battling giant squid. Isn't it better to leave dreaming leviathans lie?
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make install -not war
and woken from his slumber as a result. Shit man! A server on fire is one thing, but bringing on the end of the world as we know it ...
DON'T welcome this particular overlord!
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I'm really glad to see the correct spelling of "Iä Iä". As a native Swedish speaker I use the "ä" daily as it is a common vowl in Swedish. "Iä" is pronounced quite like an English speaker would pronounce "yeah". I'm not quite sure of how Lovecraft would've pronounced it though.
- Henrik
- when the Shadows descend -
For those of you who have no idea WTF is this, here's the original text:
_ Madness
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Call_of_Cthulhu
and one of my favourites, the Mountains of Madness:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of
In general, wikipedia has lots of material on Lovecraft:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft
Another great of the field was L. Sprague De Camp
The Elric Saga by M Moorcock remains my all time favourite.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
Now that phase one is complete, we can look at "fixing" the administration;
http://www.cthulhuforpresident.com/
I know how John, Paul, Ringo, and George would have said it:
He wants you Iä, Iä, Iä!
He wants you Iä, Iä, Iä!
He wants you Iä, Iä, Iä!
With a lust like that, you know it's gonna be baaaad!
Apologies to the Pre Fab Four
"If god did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him" --Voltaire
- Hello Cthulhu
Circumcision is child abuse.
Dos it have to be a print copy?
If not, try this: The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft, completely free (and legal!) in HTML. His works are available in a few other places online too, like here (see the copyright information at the bottom of the page-- most or all of Lovecraft's work is in the public domain), here (complete works, mostly in PDFs-- probably your best source), here (PDFs of several works), and here (a 100-page collection in a few different formats, including PDF and HTML).
Since most of Lovecraft's work is in the public domain, you can find other sources around the internet.
If you do want books, please consider buying from Arkham House, which has done a lot to promote Lovecraft's work, encourage and publish studies of it, and keep the genre alive by publishing the works of other authors. You'll find Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi (the leading Lovecraft scholar), and other authors like August Derleth on the authors page. You may notice on the main page that despite Lovecraft's works being available in the public domain, books of his works are three of the top five sellers at Arkham House.
Whether you read Lovecraft in electronic format or in bound books, enjoy!
"It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too." --Eugene Wigner
. . . porn does a pretty good job of being multi-lingual too.
I believe the term you're looking for is cunnilingual . . .
"No beer until you finish your tequila!" -Leela's Dad
A lot of Rowan Atkinson's work (that is to say, Mr Bean) had no dialogue at all.
Mind you, any of his live performances (with a lot of dialog) are quite funny (with a fair bit of wit) as well.
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
There is a lot of hype here.
Not sure if they're selling it, but I have the HPLHS cast recording of A SHOGGOTH ON THE ROOF, the brilliant re-writing of A FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, orginally by Bock, Harnick and Stein. The rewrite is by He Who (For Legal Reasons) Must Not Be Named.
... It's not easy having a shapeless, malevolent monster hanging over your head like that, but there it is... A big monster like that, on such a pointy roof, you may how it stays up there? That I can tell you in one word: TENTACLES!"
Henry Armitage, opening the show:
"A Shoggoth on the Roof. Sounds crazy? No, certifiably insane!
Chorus of Old Ones and Townfolk:
"Tentacles, Tentacles! Tentacles, Tentacles!"
My favourite is "To Life, to life, I'll bring them! I'll bring all these bodies to life!" It's hilarious if you're into both FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and Cthulu, which is admittedly a select group...
Where else but on Slashdot would you find an imaginary, ancient, dead language grammar Nazi.
You need a question mark at the end of that sentence.
Any program relying on (nontrivial) preemptive multithreading will be buggy.
The Reanimator is definitely in the public domain by now; any creative works produced in the United States with a publication date prior to 1923 is considered to be public domain, no matter what. Reanimator just squeaks in at 1922.
Anything published after that is iffy -- but could very well be free, depending on how careful Lovecraft or his estate holders were in renewing their copyrights after the initial period was up. This includes Call of Cthulhu, which was written in 1926, and thus I assume published sometime in the late 1920's.
For much of the 20th-century, initial copyright and renewal was for 28 years, by the way, not 14. Later on the renewal period was extended to a whopping 67 years; this includes anything published after 1922 -- which, as I mentioned above, includes a substantial portion (but by no means all) of Lovecraft's work. This doesn't change the fact that it would have to have been renewed in order for Arkham House to claim ownership.
As for the "death plus 50/70" situation, that was generally only applicable for unpublished works. So if you're digging through some murky basement, and you stumble across a pile of ichor-splattered, hand-scrawled notes of hitherto unknown Lovecraftian ghoulishness, you can publish that in 2007.
Here's a nice site with a handy-dandy chart that can help clear away some of the murk for you.