Topic: What I learned today! (Read 194983 times)

R^2 · « **Reply #2080 on:** January 14, 2012, 09:17:33 PM »

Man do you have any idea how much bureaucratic nonsense you have to put up with to join a commune?

Lottel · « **Reply #2081 on:** January 15, 2012, 03:54:02 AM »

I was laying awake, tossing and turning until the internet finally gave me the answer I was searching for.

Horses CAN grow moustaches.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2082 on:** January 15, 2012, 04:37:35 PM »

Today I learned about Tilly Shilling and her orifice

R^2 · « **Reply #2083 on:** January 17, 2012, 12:51:25 PM »

The diagnosis: chondramalacia of patella.

Saving you a trip to Google: my kneecap is slightly twisted, which is wearing the cartilage thin.

The prescription: six weeks of physical therapy, then a follow-up examination.

Büge · « **Reply #2084 on:** January 19, 2012, 05:16:58 PM »

Quote from: http://thebreakingtime.typepad.com/the_breaking_time/2010/01/jodorowsky-dali-and-the-dune-that-never-was.html

In December 1974, a French consortium led by Jean-Paul Gibon purchased the film rights to Dune from Arthur P. Jacobs. Jodorowsky was set to direct. In 1975, Jodorowsky planned to film the story as a ten hour feature, in collaboration with Salvador Dali, Orson Welles, Gloria Swanson, David Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Alain Delon, Hervé Villechaize and Mick Jagger. The music would be composed by Pink Floyd, Magma, Henry Cow and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Jodorowsky set up a pre-production unit in Paris consisting of Chris Foss, a British artist who designed covers for science fiction periodicals, Jean Giraud (Moebius), a French illustrator who created and also wrote and drew for Metal Hurlant magazine, and H. R. Giger. Moebius began designing creatures and characters for the film, while Foss was brought in to design the film's space ships and hardware. Giger began designing the Harkonnen Castle based on Moebius' storyboards, and Dali was cast as the Emperor with a reported salary of $100,000 an hour. His son Brontis Jodorowsky was to play Paul. Dan O'Bannon was to head the special effects department.

Caithness · « **Reply #2085 on:** January 19, 2012, 06:21:43 PM »

Wow... wow.

Is any of that true?

Mongrel · « **Reply #2086 on:** January 19, 2012, 07:59:26 PM »

Yes! Absolutely! I've actually know about that for years, being a big Moebius fan (and to a much lesser degree a Jodorowsky fan). Moebius mentions it now and again in his commentary on his regular work.

It probably would have been the most spectacular sci-fi movie ever, even bigger than that one that Jack Kirby would have been artist for. The kind of thing you would have only ever seen greenlit in the 70's. But it was too grandiose by even 1970's film standards and collapsed under its own weight.

A LOT of big sci-fi movies of the 80's had at least some roots in this project. Aliens, Blade Runner, etc. Even Star Wars pilfered some stuff from it, though not as much as the other folks.

Büge · « **Reply #2087 on:** January 19, 2012, 08:08:02 PM »

Quote from: Mongrel on January 19, 2012, 07:59:26 PM

A LOT of big sci-fi movies of the 80's had at least some roots in this project. Aliens, Blade Runner, etc. Even Star Wars pilfered some stuff from it, though not as much as the other folks.

Well, if this film had gone ahead as planned, we might have got Return of the Jedi directed by David Lynch.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2088 on:** January 19, 2012, 08:37:34 PM »

With visual designs by Moebius, HR. Geiger, and Dan O'Bannon (think Blade Runner).

Ten Hours long.

Büge · « **Reply #2089 on:** January 19, 2012, 08:44:44 PM »

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #2090 on:** January 20, 2012, 04:15:11 AM »

Mr. Driller, Dig-Dug, Galaga, and Ace Combat 3 all take place in the same universe.

R^2 · « **Reply #2091 on:** January 20, 2012, 07:02:35 AM »

Mr. Driller is the son of Taizu Hori ("the hero of the Dig-Dug crisis"), and Kissy from Buraduke. That's canon, right there.

Namco USA refused to let GameTap publish that little bit of trivia, despite it being, you know, right there in Mr. Driller 2.

McDohl · « **Reply #2092 on:** January 20, 2012, 07:32:02 PM »

So, wait. Who was it from Baraduke that appeared in Namco X Capcom?

It WAS Kissy. Huh. Interesting and random bit of trivia.

Büge · « **Reply #2093 on:** January 21, 2012, 03:14:32 PM »

We almost had a live-action Daredevil/Black Widow in the '70s.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2094 on:** January 21, 2012, 03:36:39 PM »

Okay, before anybody thinks that might've been good, try and remember what live-action comic superhero stuff was like in the 70's.

EDIT: Oh never mind, I see the article already covers that very nicely.

McDohl · « **Reply #2095 on:** January 22, 2012, 08:07:23 AM »

You're telling me that Reb Brown as Captain America WASN'T amazing?

Büge · « **Reply #2096 on:** January 26, 2012, 12:26:55 PM »

I just learned what natto smells like. I also just learned that my roommate eats it.

Brentai · « **Reply #2097 on:** January 26, 2012, 02:08:04 PM »

It tastes worse than it smells.

Thad · « **Reply #2098 on:** January 26, 2012, 02:11:30 PM »

That's what she said.

Silversong · « **Reply #2099 on:** February 02, 2012, 01:30:04 PM »

That alcoholic whipped cream is a thing, presumably in an attempt to get me to ingest alcohol. http://givemecream.com/whipped/

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