Enders Game..

[StevOz]

Sleepy there was no such thing as inline skates when I was at the roller rink. They were football boots modified as roller skates with custom trucks and zinger wheels of course no stopper that was what power slides were for! :)

 

[sleepy]

But they softened Fonzie too. The best Fonzie was that first year Fonzie without the audience. He was a very believable scary dude, and that made everything funny. When he became a softie, they also made him a sitcom kind-of-guy.
Does anyone remember that first year guy?

I'll bet everyone only remembers the softie.

 

[LeeVanCleef]

Oh, I remember the first-year Fonzie. I remember Chuck! That's more than the producers and writers of the proceeding seasons can say! That first season was really a pretty good sitcom about the '50s... one that could almost stand up today. One episode that stands out in my mind is when Richie is working on the Adlai Stevenson campaign and gets in an argument with his dad, who really likes Ike. And, what it boils down to, is that Richie joins the campaign because he's hot for a chick that works on it. Like the best period-piece sitcoms, it blended current events of the time with a framework of age-old issues like blindly following someone you're in love with as a teenager. Hey, that's how I ended up at a Loverboy concert in 1984!

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

wasn't happy days directly inspired by american graffiti? if so, i could see why it started with such high standards, then bowed to commercial gods and network execs over time.

 

[StevOz]

Though I fear it all lead to....

Saturday Night Fever!



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Fever


Oh and that K...rapp get's 90% on the off tomatoes!...LOL! :D




http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/saturday_night_fever/




Then again maybe it's a matter of taste?

 

[StevOz]

Looking forward to that team up with him and Mr Cruise in the ultimate second coming!

 

[GSGregg]

Though I fear it all lead to....
Saturday Night Fever!
Then again maybe it's a matter of taste?

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat.....

the donning of polyester!

 

[faralos]

both John Travolta and Tom Cruise heck even Kirstie Alley put forth money
for the new SUPER POWER Scientology building in Florida
so expect the second coming any time now!

 

[Coil_Smoke]

A Little Nostalgia From Me&Frank...

The 70's ... Good times in America. High times in America. Even Disco(Saturday Night Fever 4 Real,In a Black Saks Dress With 9 Inch Heals) Blasted by sound light coke and smoke. Did we know how good we had it before the 'Reagan Revolution'...?
"Then They Come Down Town
From The Ruins Of Studio 54
To Twist And Fugue
In An Arrogant Gesture
To The Best
Of What
The Twentieth Century
Has To Offer".....Frank Zappa

("Mudd Club From Frank Zappa's Un-Sung(Suppressed)2LP Masterwork "You Are what You Is")


And here we are, at the mudd club, y'all! I hope you enjoy yourself, 'cause the show's about to begin!Ensemble:
Hey, they're really dancin', (they're on auto-destruct) on the floor on the pipe bouncin' off-a the wall
Hey, the people here are really tearin' it up on the side in the back by the front of the stage
They ain't really crazy (you can take it from me) I should know, 'cause I go every time I'm in town
If you never tried it, lemme straighten you out: it's the best kinda place to un-fasten yerself!
Ensemble: (contd.)
Mudd club!
Thing-fish:
All the way downtown!
Ensemble:
Mudd club!
Thing-fish:
They ain't messin' around!
Ensemble:
Mudd club!
Thing-fish:
Just turn to the left 'n look around, because it's there somewhere! if you ain't found it, better hurry up! the folks down there's on auto-destruct, and so can you be, too! (de fact o' de matter
S made for you!)
Try it on a saturday 'bout four o'clock in the mornin', or even a monday, at midnight, when there's just a few of them severely ignint white folks doin' the peppermint twist (for real)
In a black sack dress, (with nine-inch heels), and then a guy with a blue mohawk come in, in serious leather...
(and all the rest of whom for which to when-so-never of partially indeterminate biochemical degradation seek 'the path' to the sudsy yellow nozzle of their foaming nocturnal parametric-digital w
Wheat/inter-faith geo-thermal terpsichorean ejectamenta)
In serious leather! in serious chains!
'n den dey works de wall! dey works de floor! dey works de pipe! 'n dey works de wall some more!
In serious leather! serious chains! serious clothing!
From when they come downtown from the ruins of studio '54 to twist 'n frugg, in an arrogant gesture to the best of what de 20th century have to offer, including a generous supply of 'ignint mcnu
!
Quentin robert de nameland down there right now, with a whole face-full of 'ignint mcnugget', looking for a virgin with nice breath!
Sister jasmina noxema-tapioca & sister potato-head bobby brown: (two-part harmony)
Why, maybe it's you!
Thing-fish:
And you don't even know it!
Ensemble:
Hey, they're really dancin',
Thing-fish:
Dey really dancin'...
Ensemble:
They're on auto-destruct! on the floor on the pipe bouncin' off-a the wall!
Thing-fish:
Right offa dat wall, too!
Ensemble:
Hey, the people here are really tearin' it up
Thing-fish:
Dey tearin' it off!
Ensemble:
On the side in the back by the front of the stage
Thing-fish:
Took de boy's mohawk off!
Ensemble:
They ain't really crazy (you can take it from me)
Thing-fish:
Uh-oh! I smells trubba!
Ensemble:
I should know, 'cause I go every time I'm in town
Thing-fish:
Christians comin' up!
Ensemble:
If you never tried it, lemme straighten you out:
Thing-fish:
Lemme straighten you out, now...
Ensemble:
It's the best kinda place to un-fasten yerself, while you
Thing-fish:
Get off dat wall now, boy!
Ensemble:
Work the wall!
Thing-fish:
Dey workin' de wall!
Ensemble:
Work the floor!
Thing-fish:
Dey not only woikin' it, dey turnin' de damn thing!
Ensemble:
Work the pipe!
Thing-fish:
De pipe?
Ensemble:
(in serious pain)

Read more: Frank Zappa - Mudd Club Lyrics | MetroLyrics



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_What_You_Is


You Are What You Is

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<table class="infobox vevent haudio" style="border-spacing:3px;width:22em;" cellspacing="3"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" class="summary album" style="text-align:center;font-size:125%;font-weight:bold;font-style: italic; background-color: lightsteelblue;">You Are What You Is</th> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"></td> </tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:center;background-color: lightsteelblue;">Studio album by Frank Zappa</th> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">Released</th> <td class="published">September 23, 1981</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">Recorded</th> <td>July–September 1980
UMRK</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">Genre</th> <td class="category">Hard rock, comedy rock, progressive rock</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">Length</th> <td>67:11</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">Label</th> <td>Barking Pumpkin</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">Producer</th> <td>Frank Zappa</td> </tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:center;background-color: lightsteelblue;">Frank Zappa chronology</th> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"> <table style="width:100%; background: transparent; text-align: center; font-size: 88%; line-height: 1.4em; vertical-align: top"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 33%; padding: 0.2em 0.1em 0.2em 0">
</td><td style="width: 33%; padding: 0.2em 0.1em 0.2em 0.1em">
</td><td style="width: 33%; padding: 0.2em 0 0.2em 0.1em">
</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">
</td></tr><tr style="text-align:center;"><th style="background:lightsteelblue;" colspan="3">
</th></tr><tr style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top; line-height:11px;"><td colspan="3">
</td></tr></tbody></table>

Production

After the release of Joe's Garage, Frank Zappa set up his home studio, the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, and planned to release a triple LP live album called Warts and All. As Warts and All reached completion, Zappa found the project to be "unwieldy" due to its length, and scrapped it, later conceiving Crush All Boxes.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference">[2]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-ElectricDonQuixote_3-0" class="reference">[3]</sup> Crush All Boxes would have been a single LP containing the studio recordings "Doreen" and "Fine Girl", and "Easy Meat", a live recording with studio overdubs, on the first side, with the second side being occupied by a suite consisting of the songs "Society Pages", "I'm A Beautiful Guy", "Beauty Knows No Pain", "Charlie's Enormous Mouth", "Any Downers?" and "Conehead".<sup id="cite_ref-ElectricDonQuixote_3-1" class="reference">[3]</sup>
During the production of Crush All Boxes, Zappa decided to scrap the album and conceive a set of releases drawing from both Warts and All and Crush All Boxes, which would emphasize different aspects of his multiple talents, formatting the two albums into You Are What You Is, Tinseltown Rebellion and two series of live albums, Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar and You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore.<sup id="cite_ref-ElectricDonQuixote_3-2" class="reference">[3]</sup>
Music and lyrics

Much like a concept album, some of the tracks are bound together, although the album lacks an overall storyline. The title track "You Are What You Is" is an up-tempo pop rock style song that was released as a music video in 1984. Critics claim it was his most political album since "We're Only In It For The Money." <sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference">[4]</sup>
Release history

The album was first issued on LP by Barking Pumpkin Records (distributed by CBS) in 1981. In 1981, it also received a very brief (and now very rare) issue on 8-track tape, catalog number WAX-37537 (Barking Pumpkin label, distributed by CBS). It received a worldwide release on both Ryko and Zappa Records CD in 1990, and was standardized under the Ryko banner in 1995. However, the digital master prepared for both the original Ryko/Zappa release and the later Ryko 1995 release suffered from several severe audio problems that appear to be caused by an overuse of digital techniques like compression and reverb and also contained a shortened version of the track "Dumb All Over." In 1998, the problems of these previous CD issues were fixed in an unannounced reissue, including a near-complete restoration of the guitar solo from "Dumb All Over".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference">[5]

Attached Song To Follow
soon as I get my network networking...
</sup>

 

[LeeVanCleef]

wasn't happy days directly inspired by american graffiti? if so, i could see why it started with such high standards, then bowed to commercial gods and network execs over time.

It turns out, it was the other way around! I knew that Happy Days started as a short bit on the anthology series Love, American Style. I was checking to see which came first, the Love shot or American Graffiti. Turns out George Lucas took a look at it to see if Ron Howard would be right for a part in his movie. That part I didn't know about! Harold Gould originated the Tom Bosley role, and really should have kept it. Harold Gould was so cool in The Sting! Well, at least he got to play Rhoda's father. And he didn't do an endless stream of infomercials.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

once again... veddy interesting!

i remember you had recommended mad men. is that set in the 50's? i wouldn't mind watching watching some kind of good 50's period piece. M*A*S*H has been terrific, but i'm not sure that counts.

 

[LeeVanCleef]

Well, Mad Men starts in 1960... so, really, the first few seasons are exactly like the '50s! How are you doing on KR Frontiers? I hated the last stage... more for it being irritating than being difficult.

 

[Coil_Smoke]

Get Your Kicks On Route 66

once again... veddy interesting!

i remember you had recommended mad men. is that set in the 50's? i wouldn't mind watching watching some kind of good 50's period piece. M*A*S*H has been terrific, but I'm not sure that counts.

Well, again close but just after 1959. I have been watching "Route 66". I remember watching this show when I was really young. It is a bit droll and the pacing is uneven. It chronicles the beginning of the changes -a- coming. The black and white adds to it's place in time. Mostly I enjoy the guest stars.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_66_%28TV_series%29

Maybe> The Honeymooners...always good for laughs. Perry Mason? ...One of the few lawyer shows I can handle.The Untouchables?



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honeymooners

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

@bill,
it’s really cute, but hard as the dickens! i’m really struggling on the early stages, even on casual. so important to finish each stage properly to collect all three stars. oy! btw, did you wind up buying one of the heroes, like the green dragon for instance? and i’m conserving my gems... assume they’ll be crucial later on.

wow, they put some TLC in to that game, tho. :)


@coily,
thx! route 66 looks interesting. i always liked twilight zone, and the list of guest stars has me chuckling in appreciation. i’ll have to check out some perry mason, too.

 

[sleepy]

Aww shoot.. I read this and nearly launched a treatise on how ideas around this area roll off of other ideas, or how the same or similar idea ends up being used by two or more parties. Suffice to say that *cough* the movie was based on an idea about the very real car culture in the San Fernando Valley as it existed in the early 1970's and before.

In the 1970's, the car of choice in this area among the cruisers and the low riders was the 1962 Chevy Impalla. The creme de la creme, while the car culture was in full force in the early 60's, around 1962. Note how the music changed with The British Invasion and the move away from cruising and towards the counterculture.

So 1962 was the sweet spot for a story about the car culture.

 

[sleepy]

Hey C_S, I loved Route 66 as a kid. The show was produced by Quinn Martin, a true giant in television.

And what about "The Fugitive", another of Mr. Martin's shows?

Geez, I remember going to a free concert at The Hollywood Bowl, but in fact was a lecture on staying drug-free. This was in '69, and it was handled like a field trip with bus transportation to and from the immediate homestead. Tommy Roe sang, "Dizzy"

Buddy Ebsen gave us a pep talk. There were maybe only 50 school kids there.
I remember sitting in the seats high and away from the stage, alongside a couple of classmates,
and we smoked cigarettes...

Given the very small crowd, I'm thinking the folks arranged it...

 

[LeeVanCleef]

@bill,
it’s really cute, but hard as the dickens! i’m really struggling on the early stages, even on casual. so important to finish each stage properly to collect all three stars. oy! btw, did you wind up buying one of the heroes, like the green dragon for instance? and i’m conserving my gems... assume they’ll be crucial later on.

I was lucky enough to play the first KR game, so I went into it with a little bit of knowledge. If you think the regular stages are hard, try the challenge stage on each one! Or not... remember that the fully-upgraded archery range that looks like a tree is your best friend! Especially with its ability to add range to nearby buildings! And don't be shy about using the strategy guide videos at least on one or two stages. It gives you an idea on where to place what and why. And don't go heavy on barracks. They're more or less useless.

@ sleepy... I guess car culture was big in Wichita, as well. These guys down the block from me bought the original black '55 Chevy that Harrison Ford drove in the movie, as well as Paul LeMat's "piss-yellow" deuce coupe! My friends and I would sneak up to their garage window and stare at them in wonder.

@Ike... no, wait, it doesn't look like a tree! That's the first game. It's the archery thing that has the bird circling around it. That totem-pole-thing you get is almost worthless in most stages.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

not sure, guillaume. i THOUGHT i had learned all the crucial and painful lessons in the earlier game from last year.... but, apparantly.... nooooo

no, it's humiliating, the brutal lessons about how placing the scottish dudes in the right place sometimes seems to make more sense than any other tower, at times. no, i love archers in life... that was my first upgrade... but populating mike myers dudes everywhere, instead? really??

bah, ram, ewe, since that's the first time i've ever said that here.

 

[LeeVanCleef]

HAHA! You asshole! You know how much thinkin' it took me to figure out who the hell you were talking about? Yeah, for the first time ever, Mike Myers comes in handy! Especially when you hit the add-on stages and they throw these jack-off turtles at you that shut down every tower except the Scottish dudes. Man, those stages make the ones in the game proper feel like a picnic!
Wolf, ram and hart. Why, of course I've never watched the TV series Angel... why do you ask?

 

[sleepy]

I immediately identify a later variant of Desktop Tower Defense in this KR game.
Both are from the same company.

Looks like one needs to figure out the path of the marauders and work in pairs of towers.
I like placing the bomb towers in pairs on either side of a path
and upgrading them. Seems like the arrow and troop towers are the main weapon of choice.

It's those damn Orcs that wipe me out. More bomb towers with troops?

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

@bill,
hah! so that one shreked you? no idea why that popped in my head either, since the movie was pretty forgettable for me. but yea, joss whedon stuff seems to be on my radar these days. i liked this gif i ran in to recently, and it seems to be from an award-winning episode from buffy called "hush." i'll need to check it out.

@sleepy,
wait, you're playing the original kingdom rush... like, the flash version?

AFAIK basic ideas are to: identify the key tower spots and max them out, note the attackers weak points (physical / magic) and exploit, use the less-important edge towers mostly to produce defenders to slow down the enemy, and rearrange your upgrades on a regular basis. not sure if any of that helps, of course. the first KR is pretty much out of sight, out of mind for me.

the sequel also seems to have a way of isolating your favorite solutions, showing you how useless they can be in other stages. :D

 

[LeeVanCleef]

O M G Hush is a great episode! And James Marsters is soooo dreamy as Spike! I mean... yeah, I think I remember seeing that one. Here's my fav gif from that one. The 14-year-old-boy in me laughs every time I see it. Yeah, i don't know how to embed it. I'm sure Fancy-Pants Nic would be able to get it to work!

http://gph.is/1cAAGIU

 

[sleepy]

Use the EMBED control and select the iframe option.
When pasting, Disable the PN autoparsing and auto Embed options.
<marquee> :) </marquee>

 

[LeeVanCleef]

Here's what I read:

Bill, you are a prince among men. Your mere presence here has enriched my life! Anyway, here's how to fix that GIF thing: blahblahblahblahe=mc2blahblahblahspecialsaucelettucecheeseblahblahblah.
<marquee> :) </marquee>

 

[LeeVanCleef]

I immediately identify a later variant of Desktop Tower Defense in this KR game.
Both are from the same company.

Looks like one needs to figure out the path of the marauders and work in pairs of towers.
I like placing the bomb towers in pairs on either side of a path
and upgrading them. Seems like the arrow and troop towers are the main weapon of choice.

It's those damn Orcs that wipe me out. More bomb towers with troops?

You gotta be stingy with those bomb units. They're the hot blonde you see in a hotel bar... legs up to here and looks like ScarJo. Then you get her up to the room and find out she charges by the hour. And she brought a paddle. Those bomb units are expensive as hell to upgrade and, until you hit the top tiers, their slow firing cripples them. Whereas the upgrade to the archery tree is relatively cheap, a fast fire rate and affordable upgrades. They're the nice girl with the adult braces your mom keeps trying to fix you up with. I really don't know how that part about the paddle fits in.