PP Guru:
WAR OF THE WORLD-LINKS!!
It's one of those light bloggy summer days again- The June Gloom is out making the mornings seem unseasonably cool, the shorts are getting shorter by noontime on the Santa Monica Pier, and there's Tom Out of Cruise Control, showing off his puppet queen at tonight's Gruman Chinese red carpet premiere of the War of the Worlds courtesy of those friendly mind altering freaks at the Church of Scientology and sponsored by the makers of Ritalin.
That's right- it's War of the World week at your local cinema- should fit nice and cozy for the holiday season full of Roman Candles, charcoal snakes, and sparklers - the real manly stuff that the PP Guru likes to haul out of the attic this time of year.
Not only are the movies jumping on the H.G. Wells chic classic express - but comic books and SACDs are trying to break off a metorite chunk of the profits as well.
The PP Guru has a busy holiday weekend ahead of him- starting Wednesday he has to leave work early to attend one of his best friend's birthday party - the Tantalizing Tara of Toltac Terrace- as she will be turning a long in the tooth 29 and a whole bunch of people of which the PP Guru has probably never met before will be ripped on many shattering bottles of either the Cabernet Franc or the Chardonnay or perhaps he'll be passed out in a pool of his own merlot after endlessly nibbing on a gaseous assortment of cheeses in a aid of leaving him bloated and constipated.
But until that final day - in the mean while, the PP Guru has unearthed some earthly daffodils that may appeal to the Martian conqueror in all of us:
Back in the mid-seventies, back when the PP Guru was just a snot dripping Don Juan apprentice, there were comic books that used to cost a quarter. Does anyone even recall what a quarter even looks like these days? Well using these quarters back in the day- one could actually afford something that could bring someone a certain twenty minutes of carefree entertainment- and Marvel comics back in the day actually fitted the bill. Earlier this year, the PP Guru gushed euphoric bliss over when they had packaged 27 issues of Luke Cage: Hero for Hero in one such sticky superfly-sized thick tome - and caved in for the Iron Fist one before that (the PP Guru has had his evil eye on the Defenders volume for a good while now. Steady PP Guru, steady now. ) - now, in conjunction with the War of the Worlds movie release Marvel joins in on the good starship Profit Lollipop - in releasing another spectacular piece of sentimental value: The Essential Killraven.
Killraven was a sort of the super hero experiment that Wells (Howard Chaykin doing a riff after leaving DC to bring a Sword and Sorcery take on HG's ) didn't plan on when he originally wrote his novel at the turn of the twentieth century - a unauthorized sequel as you will concerning a slave trader who turns and breaks free of his imprisonment in order to lead a revolt against his grotesque captors. The 500 page plus tome reprints in glorious b & w (sort of like a King Ted Turner in reverse, huh? ) all of Killraven's entire run in Amazing Adventures # 18-39, Marvel Team-Up #45, Marvel Graphic Novel #7, and Killraven #1 (Marvel Knights). If you haven't seen P. Craig Russell's art on the Marvel Graphic Novel (which was material originally slated for Epic Magazine before that magazine went kaput) then you haven't really seen truly awesome comic book art. Breath takingly beautiful- which was only rivaled by his work in Sandman # 50 or the Elric mini-series. Also Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, Rich Buckler and a hidden cache of creative writing and penciling stars join in on the stargazing.
The PP Guru just like....had this....prog rock epiphany of something rare that is missing from his collection (again?) that it might have been a no-brainer for Sony Music to re-release the original rock opera to H.G.Wells' War of the Worlds on SACD (Super Audio Compact Disc - for those in this Tech World of the Haves and Haves-Not ) in tandem to profit along with this summer's blockbuster to beat (yeah, we'll see if Tom really holds on to the top shot with all this hostile publicity constantly hounding him) . Back in 1978 - the summer where the PP Guru first ventured onto the honeycombed highways and the peyote snuff can beaches of Orange County, Ca; he was raised in the echelon of hand to hand crank contest to achieve the ranking of the Purple Pinup Guru of Puberty- until one day he walked into a nearby Licorice Pizza after indulging in insatiable munchies of Dolly Madison fruit pies and a six pack of Squirt that he came across this double vinyl curio:
Written and performed in part by Jeff Wayne, Jeff was a producer and engineer most associated with creating hit records for David Essex and had worked on the production of Godspell- so this was his first opera that was ever set to vinyl. Now with modern technology and some hard to find master tapes of some material never before released, we can revisit some of that lost era again when records were teetering on break through in themes and conceptual as they were tantamount to seeing a play or reading a good book. The PP Guru admits that he was a little puerile in not making the attempt to buy - since the record is now long deleted from it's stock - but the guest talent didn't much impress the PP Guru at the time- the only noteworthy guest musican the PP Guru found worthy on it was Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy fame. Justin Hayward from the Moody Blues and Chris Thompson from the Manfred Mann Earth Band just didn't really grab the PP Guru - until the PP Guru became a big fan of the Moody Blues when the Long Distance Voyager album was released in 1981 (mostly because of ex-Yes keyboardist Patrick Moraz's involvement) did he want to become a Moody Blues completist did he realize that as time slipped by, the Jeff Wayne version War of the Worlds became increasingly impossible to come by. To bone up on the making of this album click here
and to reveal what took place in the re-mastering process - prepare for the SACD sonic invasion here . Will the PP Guru fail in his mission of reaching true progressive rock nirvana in trying to own every goddamn thing once it hit the shelves?
GODDAMN THAT DESPICABLE WINNIE THE POOH CURSE OF DEATH.....
Yeah, so Paul Winchell got all the press - the PP Guru twinges in remorse for one of his fab fav voice throwing artists who was world renowned for providing the voice for Tigger ( as well as an inventor of all disposable necessities such as the razor & the invisible garter belt ) on all those Winnie the Pooh cartoon shorts - but how can fate play such a cruel joke and take away two people who provided voices for the exact same cartoon on the very same weekend? What are the freakin' mega-million dollar odds of that ever happening again? Of course, the PP Guru is referring to John Fiedler's passing almost a day and a half following Winchell's. The spectre of A.A. Milne's estate knows no bounds in its's quest for vengeance- is this the justice that they are really seeking for Disney's shredding of public domain evidence that are bilking the family out of billions and billions of dollars?
Trademarking and patents truly seem to be a matter of life and death these days. So kiddies don't buy the bootlegged merchandise and stop downloading those damn movies off the internet- all it will accomplish is you getting a fresh bite in the ass from your Fed buddies.
Told and self destructed in under five minutes to:
~ Coat
WAR OF THE WORLD-LINKS!!
It's one of those light bloggy summer days again- The June Gloom is out making the mornings seem unseasonably cool, the shorts are getting shorter by noontime on the Santa Monica Pier, and there's Tom Out of Cruise Control, showing off his puppet queen at tonight's Gruman Chinese red carpet premiere of the War of the Worlds courtesy of those friendly mind altering freaks at the Church of Scientology and sponsored by the makers of Ritalin.
That's right- it's War of the World week at your local cinema- should fit nice and cozy for the holiday season full of Roman Candles, charcoal snakes, and sparklers - the real manly stuff that the PP Guru likes to haul out of the attic this time of year.
Not only are the movies jumping on the H.G. Wells chic classic express - but comic books and SACDs are trying to break off a metorite chunk of the profits as well.
The PP Guru has a busy holiday weekend ahead of him- starting Wednesday he has to leave work early to attend one of his best friend's birthday party - the Tantalizing Tara of Toltac Terrace- as she will be turning a long in the tooth 29 and a whole bunch of people of which the PP Guru has probably never met before will be ripped on many shattering bottles of either the Cabernet Franc or the Chardonnay or perhaps he'll be passed out in a pool of his own merlot after endlessly nibbing on a gaseous assortment of cheeses in a aid of leaving him bloated and constipated.
But until that final day - in the mean while, the PP Guru has unearthed some earthly daffodils that may appeal to the Martian conqueror in all of us:
Back in the mid-seventies, back when the PP Guru was just a snot dripping Don Juan apprentice, there were comic books that used to cost a quarter. Does anyone even recall what a quarter even looks like these days? Well using these quarters back in the day- one could actually afford something that could bring someone a certain twenty minutes of carefree entertainment- and Marvel comics back in the day actually fitted the bill. Earlier this year, the PP Guru gushed euphoric bliss over when they had packaged 27 issues of Luke Cage: Hero for Hero in one such sticky superfly-sized thick tome - and caved in for the Iron Fist one before that (the PP Guru has had his evil eye on the Defenders volume for a good while now. Steady PP Guru, steady now. ) - now, in conjunction with the War of the Worlds movie release Marvel joins in on the good starship Profit Lollipop - in releasing another spectacular piece of sentimental value: The Essential Killraven.
Killraven was a sort of the super hero experiment that Wells (Howard Chaykin doing a riff after leaving DC to bring a Sword and Sorcery take on HG's ) didn't plan on when he originally wrote his novel at the turn of the twentieth century - a unauthorized sequel as you will concerning a slave trader who turns and breaks free of his imprisonment in order to lead a revolt against his grotesque captors. The 500 page plus tome reprints in glorious b & w (sort of like a King Ted Turner in reverse, huh? ) all of Killraven's entire run in Amazing Adventures # 18-39, Marvel Team-Up #45, Marvel Graphic Novel #7, and Killraven #1 (Marvel Knights). If you haven't seen P. Craig Russell's art on the Marvel Graphic Novel (which was material originally slated for Epic Magazine before that magazine went kaput) then you haven't really seen truly awesome comic book art. Breath takingly beautiful- which was only rivaled by his work in Sandman # 50 or the Elric mini-series. Also Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, Rich Buckler and a hidden cache of creative writing and penciling stars join in on the stargazing.
The PP Guru just like....had this....prog rock epiphany of something rare that is missing from his collection (again?) that it might have been a no-brainer for Sony Music to re-release the original rock opera to H.G.Wells' War of the Worlds on SACD (Super Audio Compact Disc - for those in this Tech World of the Haves and Haves-Not ) in tandem to profit along with this summer's blockbuster to beat (yeah, we'll see if Tom really holds on to the top shot with all this hostile publicity constantly hounding him) . Back in 1978 - the summer where the PP Guru first ventured onto the honeycombed highways and the peyote snuff can beaches of Orange County, Ca; he was raised in the echelon of hand to hand crank contest to achieve the ranking of the Purple Pinup Guru of Puberty- until one day he walked into a nearby Licorice Pizza after indulging in insatiable munchies of Dolly Madison fruit pies and a six pack of Squirt that he came across this double vinyl curio:
Written and performed in part by Jeff Wayne, Jeff was a producer and engineer most associated with creating hit records for David Essex and had worked on the production of Godspell- so this was his first opera that was ever set to vinyl. Now with modern technology and some hard to find master tapes of some material never before released, we can revisit some of that lost era again when records were teetering on break through in themes and conceptual as they were tantamount to seeing a play or reading a good book. The PP Guru admits that he was a little puerile in not making the attempt to buy - since the record is now long deleted from it's stock - but the guest talent didn't much impress the PP Guru at the time- the only noteworthy guest musican the PP Guru found worthy on it was Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy fame. Justin Hayward from the Moody Blues and Chris Thompson from the Manfred Mann Earth Band just didn't really grab the PP Guru - until the PP Guru became a big fan of the Moody Blues when the Long Distance Voyager album was released in 1981 (mostly because of ex-Yes keyboardist Patrick Moraz's involvement) did he want to become a Moody Blues completist did he realize that as time slipped by, the Jeff Wayne version War of the Worlds became increasingly impossible to come by. To bone up on the making of this album click here
and to reveal what took place in the re-mastering process - prepare for the SACD sonic invasion here . Will the PP Guru fail in his mission of reaching true progressive rock nirvana in trying to own every goddamn thing once it hit the shelves?
GODDAMN THAT DESPICABLE WINNIE THE POOH CURSE OF DEATH.....
Yeah, so Paul Winchell got all the press - the PP Guru twinges in remorse for one of his fab fav voice throwing artists who was world renowned for providing the voice for Tigger ( as well as an inventor of all disposable necessities such as the razor & the invisible garter belt ) on all those Winnie the Pooh cartoon shorts - but how can fate play such a cruel joke and take away two people who provided voices for the exact same cartoon on the very same weekend? What are the freakin' mega-million dollar odds of that ever happening again? Of course, the PP Guru is referring to John Fiedler's passing almost a day and a half following Winchell's. The spectre of A.A. Milne's estate knows no bounds in its's quest for vengeance- is this the justice that they are really seeking for Disney's shredding of public domain evidence that are bilking the family out of billions and billions of dollars?
Trademarking and patents truly seem to be a matter of life and death these days. So kiddies don't buy the bootlegged merchandise and stop downloading those damn movies off the internet- all it will accomplish is you getting a fresh bite in the ass from your Fed buddies.
Told and self destructed in under five minutes to:
~ Coat
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