My Own Biggest Fan

Damnit, Why can’t anyone just email me any more? I have messages waiting at MySpace, but I can’t read them because the bloody site is down. Grrrrrr….

At Scullen.ca, an anagram remix of the Calgary C-Train map. I say we try using these names instead of the official ones.

from bOINGbOING.

Wicked show real from some guy named Jules Janaud. (+Raphael Martinez Bachel & Francois Roisin – thanks Ffirefox)

– from Pixelsurgeon, as usual.

Yeahup. it’s been slim pickings around here lately. The best I got right now is a trailer for the new movie by the guy that directed Napoleon Dynamite. It looks like once again, he constructs something self-consciously quirky (painfully so). But not so much that it risks losing broad appeal. Look for “Vote for Nacho Libre” t-shirts in a faux Mexican sign painter font this spring. Its got Jack Black in it though, so there is a part of me that’s down.

Nacho Libre

Yeah, really that’s all I got right now. Eric blogged about The IT Crowd before I got around to it, so there you go.

Jack White has a new project. Their website is very very nice. and the songs aren’t too shabby either.

Bill C-60 is designed to bring Canadian Copyright law into step with the U.S.’s DMCA. This is a bad thing. Digital-Copyright.ca has created an easy to use method to send an email to each of the candidates in your riding a letter telling them that you do not support such a bill. Please take the time to read why you should be concerned about this and send off the letter.

Here is a sample of the letter.

From: myownbiggestfan
Subject: Digital Copyright letter from constituent

Dear Lee Richardson, Heesung Kim, Brian Pincott, John N. Johnson,
Trevor Grover
(Calgary Centre candidates)

Copyright law, and the changes proposed in Bill C-60, are of concern
to me. While copyright is most often described as a balance between
the interests of creators and the interests of users, the debate has
been dominated by special interest industry lobby groups representing
intermediaries.

Bill C-60 may be supported by these industry groups, but is highly
controversial with creators, and not supported by users. Industry
lobby groups such as the Canadian Recording Industry Association
(CRIA) can no more legitimately claim to politically represent the
interests of creators than the owners of the major banks can claim to
politically represent the interests of people who have bank accounts.

Thousands of Canadians, including hundreds of people who are in
creative or innovation industries, have signed the “Petition for
Users’ Rights” which articulates a more balanced vision. Creators
support this balance as they realize that creativity builds on the
past. In order for there to be a future generation of creators we
must limit the control of past creator or non-creator copyright
holders.

English Petition text

http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/petition_en.pdf

French Petition text

http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/petition_fr.pdf

More information on the petition

http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/

Do you support this balanced vision?

The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) has
also sent questions to each of the parties.

http://www.cippic.ca/en/projects-cases/election-2006/

Could you offer your own thoughts on these questions? What you have
to say on these issues is important to my decision of who to vote
for.

Sincerely,
Myownbiggestfan

Of course, mine had my real name on it.
from Boing Boing as usual.

The rise and fall of my excitement starts when I read at frightenstein.com.

The Hilarious House of Frightenstein will officially be released on DVD on September 27, 2005.
Available in the US only, the release will begin with a single DVD with 4 of the 30-minute versions of the episodes. If successful, more will follow.

The DVD is being produced from 3/4″ tapes and I’m told the quality is fantastic.

The original music for the Wolfman segments WILL be intact.

That’s all I know officially for now. I’m promised a press release soon that I can post that will have all of the details.

Hopefully a Canadian company will follow suit…

The Hilarious House of Frightenstein @ Amazon

This show was a very important part of my childhood. The news that I will be able to watch these shows over again, and again, and again, tickles something deep inside.

I wonder if this guy’s segments will scare the living daylights out of me, like they did when I was 8.

Then the disappointment sets in. Oh Damn! I look at the Amazon.ca site for the DVD and it seems that this is not the original Canadian release of the show. The reviews sound DIRE!

The show was originally produced as a one-hour show, with no laugh track. This is how it was broadcast in Canada in the early 70′s. When it was later syndicated in the US, the episodes were cut to a half-hour and a laugh track was added. Unfortunately, the four episodes on this DVD were from the US syndication package.

And

Like the other reviewers I too am disappointed that there are only 4 episodes (how about a boxed set?) and what’s with the laugh track??? There was no laugh track when the show was first aired! It definitely takes away from the mood. Imagine “Frankenstein” with a laugh track! Also, the editing is a bit sloppy.

Who the fuck gets this shit wrong? Why is the world so fucked up? It can’t even get the DVD release of a kids show right, how do we expect to achieve world peace?

instead of getting to work on time I surfed the interweb and got excited about the following things.

Record company offers free mp3s to buyers of vinyl albums

A beltbuckle holder for the iPod Nano

(both from Boing Boing of course)

Diesel Sweeties is offering free shipping on shirts, I finally ordered my internet debate shirt.

The Optimus keyboard that got everyone all hot and bothered six months ago will be released February 1st.

No price figures yet, though.

It’s a compulsion.

Next week, it will be (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66.