Week of 2007-04-14 17:00 to 2007-04-21 16:59

W00t! The Turner Classic Movie Friday Night Underground continues in great style tonight with a couple of awesome flicks from one of our greatest writer-directors, teaming with one of our greatest actors.

Plan 9 from Outer Space, 1959
“Unspeakable Horrors From Outer Space Paralyze The Living And Resurrect The Dead!”
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Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1959 science fiction/horror film written, produced and directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr. Particularly famous now after the success of Tim Burton’s film dramatization of the director’s life, Ed Wood, the movie is widely regarded as a leading candidate for the title of “worst movie ever made.” It earned Edward D. Wood, Jr. (a devotee of Orson Welles) a posthumous Golden Turkey Award as the worst director ever.

Bride of the Monster, 1955
“The screen’s master of the WEIRD…IN HIS NEWEST and MOST DARING SHOCKER!”
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Bride of the Monster (originally known as Bride of the Atom) is a 1955 science fiction film starring Bela Lugosi in a traditional mad scientist role. It was produced, directed and co-written by Edward D. Wood, Jr..

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I wonder what key it would be in?

BBC News: ‘Pipe organ’ plays above the Sun

Immense coils of hot, electrified gas in the Sun’s atmosphere behave like a musical instrument, scientists say.

These “coronal loops” carry acoustic waves in much the same way that sound is carried through a pipe organ.[…]

“The effect is much like plucking a guitar string,” Professor Robert von Fay-Siebenbuergen told BBC News at the National Astronomy Meeting in Preston.

My first thought is a science fiction story, naturally, about a galactic traveler searching out the best stars to play. I’ll save that idea for later.

What constitutes “fair play” in sports varies widely among cultures. This is especially noticeable in soccer, since it’s played globally and thus gives examples across a spectrum.

A Reuters Soccer Blog story, “Where ‘fair play’ is a relative term” show this within yesterday’s Copa Libertadores match between Internacional and Nacional.

The dirty tricks and skulduggery which were once an infamous hallmark of the Libertadores Cup have largely been consigned to the past. Yet the purists will be glad to know that South America’s version of the Champions League retains a rough edge long lost to its European counterpart.

Crowds are still packed into standing-room terraces behind the goals, with some fans happily setting off firecrackers in the midst of the throng, and riot police use their shields to protect visiting players from missiles when they take corners.

Perhaps in these circumstances, it is not surprising that the concept of “fair play” has not quite caught on….

Best part of this story from starwars.com “Celebration IV: Tatooine Game Parlor” about a “game parlor” at the upcoming Celebration IV event, was the name of the fictional city where it supposedly takes place:

Star Wars Fan Club members at Celebration IV can escape to their own private game parlor in the Fan Club Lounge. The Tatooine Game Parlor, set in the fictional city of “Mos Angeles,” was designed by game play experts specifically for fans at Celebration IV.

Mos Angeles spaceport: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. ;D