netlabel yellow trouble cos mst capcom-commented..

It's been a little while since the last update, but luckily, plenty of inconsequence has happened. So let's talk about it.

Oh, I never mentioned the net.labels section that I organize at the Internet Archive made it to 1000 freely distributable, largely Creative Commons-licensed electronic music releases, did I? Well, it did, with the addition of the marvellous Please Do Something, including their latest release from none other than our friend Khonnor, who still makes achingly beautiful vocal idm tracks.

But on to more important matters - the media I have been doing the live+buy+consume+die actions on recently. Movie-wise, the very odd Yellowbeard was on cable somewhere - a post-Python piece of piratical whimsy for Graham Chapman, with Eric Idle and John Cleese guesting, as well as a sublime 30-second spot from Spike Milligan, and even, uhm, Cheech and Chong. Also finally caught Barry Sonnenfeld's flop Big Trouble, as adapted from a Dave Barry book, and actually pretty enjoyable in an eccentric way - but there's lots of airline lack-of-security riffing, hence its subdued release post 9/11.

Been trying to get into games - have the Xbox version of Deus Ex: Invisible War waiting to check out, but have been too busy trying out Capcom Vs. Snk 2:EO + necessary arcade stick for GameCube (maybe I'll finally get _one_ of the characters up to a decent skill level!), and getting re-re-addicted to Wario Ware Inc. for GBA, played on the big screen with the GameBoy Player for GC.

Some random links, also - a massive Comiket exhibition/cosplay event recently took place in Japan, and I just had to wander through the hundreds of costume pics, looking for quirkiest. So, without further ado - we have a little Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates Of The Caribbean (genius!), a touch of Frodo Baggins, a whole raft of Harry Potter and friends, and a most comely Mario/Luigi combo. As for random links part deux, Russian faux-lesbian, Trevor Horn-produced popstrels T.A.T.U have their own anime movie in production, right now, I discovered. Uhm... yeah.

Finally, sorry comments have gone away for now. There's been some pretty heavy spam attacks on my comments recently, from multiple IPs, too, so I think things will function better as a one-way dialog for the time being.