Since yesterday was one of my birthdays (St. Michael's Day), I decided to treat myself to a box set of Planet of the Apes. It has all five of the movies, Burton's reimagining, and the TV series but it appears that the animated series is NOT included, damn. Coolest of all, it comes in a replica bust of Cornelius; the dozen discs are secured in his back.
(Click on it to make it gigantic.)
I'll take Pesky Rodents for 200$, Alex.
So Long for 500$, please. 
Let's try A Bad Case of Monotreme for 300$ 
I'm curious about Siren's Song, Alex, for 200$.
I'm one of the few in the Blogosphere who actually enjoyed the first Fantastic Four movie. I've seen it since on DVD, shown it to my students and lent it to co-workers. They all agree with me that it's a pretty good flick. So today, I saw the sequel with a shiny Silver Surfer. All the flaws of the first movie are still there, but the good stuff is better! Ben & Johnny's bickering is tremendous, Reed is a little sillier, Doom is more evilish(?), Norrin is just RADDical and Sue Storm gets nekkid again. If I have one qualm about it, I was really distracted by the thickness of the makeup on Alba's mug. They really caked it on with a trowel (almost as much as Ben's!) Ahh, I loved it. Short and Sweet with about 30 minutes less of a running time than the first movie. Stan Lee's cameo was very tongue in cheek, though I don't recall seeing a nod to Kirby in the credits this time.
The Fantasti-Car was cool.
I didn't buy many goods apart from a Clear File folder and the program, but here are a bunch more FF goodies. The cap looks cool, but not for 2000￥.
This has been sitting on my TV with a several other Marvel character mini models acquired from little capsules. I have some other toys but it's getting late and I don't want to go hunting for them.
Apart from TV commercials, I haven't seen much merchandise in the stores (or UFO Catchers), but click if you want a milk mustache . Alex told me about a Domino's Pizza campaign where you can get spicy hot Torch wings, Thing chicken nuggets, stretchy cheese or Invisible Clear tea. Mmmm.
Here is DJ Mokgohan's latest extravaganza. To listen to more of his cool crap, swing on down to his MySpace page and click around.
Good old boy, DJ Mixture has his mellow and mellifluent sounds here and if you are so inclined, you can actually hear him interviewed on live radio!
The Coolest DJ in the World (patent pending) is DJ J-Loop and his MySpace is worth checking out as well.
Though he isn't a DJ, he has become our VJ, so why not check out some of the YouTubes that Nori likes or enjoy some of his original designs.
And of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the Echophonyk homepage so you can surf around and listen to other fine people jockeying their discs.
Selections of his paintings including this "Face Off" where players of his "Guelph Goodtimers" team posed for this puck confrontation.
His website has a connection to several languages, including Japanese. As seen in "The Kimono", he relished painting beach scenes in exotic locations.
If anyone would like to participate in a contest to win some ST swag, click here. One prize is a bust of Riker, I would much prefer Counsellor Troi's bust (har-de-har).
I have picked up several of her CDs in the various used CD shops in the city and every now and then give her a listen. I found this CD 私的パートナー (My Private Partner) in a Tsutaya last night for only 50￥ as well as a Puffy CD I didn't have for the same price. WooHoo! As often happens, her style of music has gone more the way of the Pop than the Jazz but her stuff is still most listenable.
I've mentioned before about Nestle's KitKat bars tendency to flavourize its snappy stix with exotic tastes. My latest find is キウイ (kiwi) but in the past I've made note of Pineapple and Vanilla Beans.
They promote these wafers rather vigourously with over 80 different flavours unique to Japan and recently, KitKats have come packaged with CD singles (Crappy J-Pop Tripe flavour-see below) and a special limited edition double pack of KitKat Crispy Monogatari came bundled with a mini book featuring six short stories, one of which is written by Koji Suzuki, author of the Ring cycle series of books.
顎 or ago is Japanese for JAWS. (Be sure to click that link, you'll be glad you did.) Now go back and hum the post's title using John William's dynamic tune.
Listen to this trailer and try and tell me that it doesn't bring back your Selachophobia (fear of sharks).
One of the more memorable Peter Lorre lines whined out by him is from Casablanca when he needs Rick's help to hide him after he's stolen some exit visas. Here's another quote:
I can't believe I've been here for almost 8 years! So here is the amazing Paul Dooley crooning "As Time Goes By".
