Fire Walk With Me Vs. Hairspray

* = This explains a lot, however what do we do now with Macho Man tag teaming with Jesus in Heaven with the Mayan Calender telling it's The End?









Tonight my lovely wife and I take our now planned weekly foray into Co-Op Video Games. So far the potential games on the docket are; Champions Of Norath, D&D Heroes, Baldur’s Gate I, Baldur’s Gate II, Justice League, X-Men Legends I, X-Men Legends II, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, & Fallout: Brotherhood Of Steel. I’m sort of hoping we hit up a fantasy ‘crawler’, but with any of these choices I can’t loose. The fact is I’ll be hanging out with my best friend killin’ stuff & collectin’ mad loot, it’s an EPIC WIN for me.

I do have to admit that after shoveling last night I am not at all sad that winter has thus far been timid. The driveway was SO slick beneath the wet, heavy snow that shoveling was extremely taxing. Throw in the plummeting temperature, the knowledge that I had to cook, and the fact we were ‘plowed in’ by the time we arrived home from a long day and you have a recipe for disaster. However we persevered and got that sheezy done. I do have to toot my own horn and admit the Cajun Chicken Alfredo I threw together last night was pretty amazing. The best part was knowing how much Cassandra enjoyed it. I sometimes forget the joy that comes out of cooking for someone. To see them light up when you’ve made them something they love, and when the thing you made is as good as you thought it could be, it all comes together in something magical. I can’t wait for the weather to improve a bit and then I’m going to grill like it’s the end of the world. Well at least according to the Mayans.

I’ve gotten two minis, which weren’t even that small, done this week. Tonight and tomorrow I want to get a few more done. I picked up some a few new brushes to help with the detail work. I just need to buckle down knock them out. It shouldn’t be difficult I only have a couple hundred that are partially finished. In fact I think I’ll just knock a few easy ‘angry natives’ out tonight just to keep pace.

The main event of this blog is the fact that I watched the first episode of Twin Peaks last night. I’ve been internally debating how to grade these out, since I’m going to refrain from giving any * ratings until I’ve finished the show. However I wanted to be able to articulate what I think as I go. So I’ve decided to rate them on the David, or ‘D’/’d’, Scale. Five ‘D’s is the equivalent of having your mind blown by getting an e-mail containing one of your best friends doing a Macho Man Randy Savage promo, in full costume, in his bathroom. One ‘D’ is the equivalent of being verbally slammed on a Podcast. So now that the scale is explained on to the episode, Twin Peaks S01E01 (DDD ½ out of 5D’s). We watched this ‘Pilot’ back in the day at a David Lynch-A-Thon. Cassandra and I were sort of harsh from music to acting, to the story. I think we might have been tired, or might have been a little ‘burned’ out on the idea of Twin Peaks as David and Mike like to routinely pummel you with it’s ‘greatness’. I have to say though after sitting down and re-watching the first episode with a fresh and intrigued attitude I was hard pressed to stop after one. The first episode lays down a myriad of plot hooks and memorable characters in a scatter shot way. I wasn’t interested in every character; in fact a few were very boring or disturbing to look at like Laura Palmer’s mom who looks like Kurtwood Smith in drag. That being said that was the minority of the show, for the most part I was incredibly intrigued and dragged into the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer. I would be remiss to not comment on how much more intriguing I found the way the episode was shot the second time around. In my experience Lynch has this way of making you feel uncomfortable without trying to shock you. The shots will linger on odd objects, the music is distinct, and there is a mood of underlying menace that he seems to exude in his work. I like the idea of small idyllic towns with dark and dangerous underbellies slowly rotting them from the core out. I know before I commented that it felt like a high-end soap opera, and it does, but it feels like a soap opera that I want to watch. So after one foray into the land of the Douglas Firs and the fleeing Swedes I eagerly await next Tuesday night’s return to Twin Peaks.

RANDOM CRAP!

- I enjoyed Twin Peaks so much that my proposed Call Of Cthulhu four-part adventure might be taking from it liberally.
- If you had to choose between Kenkus & Myconoids who would you choose? When it comes to my home D&D setting I’m looking at Kenkus as thieves. They love shiny things, they love things they shouldn’t have, but they aren’t a menace. They usually aren’t looking to sacrifice someone to Tharizdun or some other evil thing. However they do have a small contingent within their ‘Murders’ that worship Pazuzu, the Demon Prince Of Air. They usually will offer sacrifices to their master in the Abyss, usually the hair of a victim before throwing them off the ledge of a chasm to their death in order to be granted minor ‘Wishes’ by Pazuzu. I want to re-iterate that most Kenkus do not worship Pazuzu, most just like to steal shiny baubles.


As for the fungal Myconoids they simply want to continue to ‘grow’ their colony. They replicate and spread slowly, learning and adapting to the area and the inhabitants around them. They are relatively peaceful and shy when it comes to contact with other races avoiding them if possible. They dwell in the places between civilizations colonizing caves, mountains, and moving into the Underdark where they seek to establish something of 'Homeland'. However just like the Kenku a faction of the Myconoids worship Zuggtmoy, the Demon Princess of Fungus. They wish for a slow ‘conversion’ to fungi for all living beings only then can they know the loving embrace of the Mistress Of Spores. They continually hunt for the Cauldron of Corruption; an ancient artifact thougth destroyed during the Dawn War that is a potential petri dish of world wide fungal plague.





- I sort of like the idea of occasionally dropping some homebrew takes on certain D&D races in on the blog. I know a few of my player’s read this, what do you guys think?
- We’ve sort of become enthralled with the American version of Being Human. It’s not as good, well to me at least as the BBC version, but it’s gotten very intriguing. I do have to say though I wish the writers would get off the crapping on the Josh character. I thought that his counterpart werewolf on the BBC series, George, became WAY more interesting once we found out just how dangerous ‘The Wolf’ inside him was, not to mention his almost futile attempts at building a ‘normal life’ with his girl Nina. On the American version Josh is just shat upon over and over, and his ‘girl’ Nora is about s unlikable as unlikable gets. Otherwise I don’t mind the American versions that much. I do like how there is a bit more of an overall view of the world these folks live in, as well as the consequences. On the British version the vampire Mitchell is a BADASS, sure he’s tortured and basically an analogy for a drug addict, but he’s also scary and most vampires are TERRIFIED of him. On the American version his counterpart Aiden is more of a mid-level functionary in the Vampire World, sure he’s still dealing with his guilt and his addiction, but he has to answer to someone rather than running the show. As for the comparison of the two Ghost characters, Annie & Sally I find them to be the most similar, and really sort of the glue that holds the shows together. While I again feel it’s not as good as the British original the American version is growing on us.

I think that’s good enough for today…

”Hey! Looks like an emergency
Well thats ok with me 'cos I wanna tell you in this elevator
Looks like you're my baby now
So put away that thing 'cos my baby don't need no vibrator

I'm sure...I'm the one you're looking for
I'm sure....I'm sure you've heard it all before
I care...but I don't care anymore
I'm sorry...but I don't know what I'm sorry for

She don't, she don't, she don't need no vibrator
She don't, she don't, she don't need no vibrator
She don't, she don't, she don't need no electric entertainer tonight investigator

Hey... now the doors are opening
and I look like a jerk while you're grinning like an Alligator
Can't we just forget the whole thing
Shake each others hands and say goodbye baby see you later

She don't, she don't, she don't need no vibrator
She don't, she don't, she don't need no vibrator
She don't, she don't, she don't need no artificial stimulator non-organic excavator

She don't, she don't, she don't need no vibrator
She don't, she don't, she don't need no vibrator
She don't, she don't, she don't need no electric entertainer tonight investigator

Hey... She don't, she don't, she don't
Hey... She don't, she don't, she don't
Hey... She dies, she dies, she dies
Hey... She dies, she dies, she dies

So I will see you later”




* = For some strange reason I love creepy Memes...