Catching up oh so slowly
I'm not sure when I stopped reading Penny Arcade, or why. Currently going through the strips from some time in August (although there are probably some before that that I skipped, too).
The weird thing is, I don't even know the games referred to in, say this here strip, and the thing still makes me laugh. Either That's True Talent, or I still need more sleep.
Also found the official site for Stephin Merritt, mentioned in the next/previous entry. I'm confident I'll be spelling his first name wrong several different ways if I try typing it rather than cut&pasting in future.
What you will find here is information on Stephin Merritt and his bands The Magnetic Fields, Future Bible Heroes, the 6ths and the Gothic Archies. As stated above, this is the official MF Website, and is updated frequently with information directly from the band.
Somehow this question does not seem odd on this site: Anybody out there got a copy of 69 Love Songs?
Merge Records released 69 Love Songs in 1999 and by Circus Records (UK) and Zomba Records (Germany) PIAS (Europe) and W. Minc (Australia) in 2000. The domestic release of the album is available as a 3 CD box set with a 75-page color book featuring an interview with Stephin, and it is also sold as individual CD volumes and on a 12 song "sampler" CD featuring selected songs from each of the three volumes. Circus Records released their own 7 song sampler called Excerpts from 69 Love Songs and W. Minc Records released a 6 song sampler they called a Radio Sampler. Several new vocalists join The Magnetic Fields on 69 Love Songs including: Claudia Gonson (drummer/manager of The Magnetic Fields'), LD Beghtol ( Flare ), Dudley Klute, Shirley Simms; as well a few new instrumentalists: Chris Ewen (Future Bible Heroes) and Daniel Handler (author of A Series of Unfortunate Events ).
I vaguely remember the NPR story on the release from 2000, despite forgetting the birthdays of friends and family. This probably means something, but I'd rather not think about what.
np - Suzanne Vega, "Marlene on the Wall"
Oh, shut up.
Comments
yeah, I haven't played a video game for a good two or three years, and even then it was Tetris for the 64, but those PA strips still crack me up. I think most of the ideas are universal. If you have ever played games, the frustration is the same.
Posted by: aaron | September 29, 2002 5:57 PM
Wait, so am I the original, Golden-Age Aaron from Earth-2, or the clone of your evil twin from another dimension?
Either one works for me. And everyone knows the Earth-2 version of anything is cooler than any other version.
And no, I'm not watching "Birds of Prey" before someone asks.
Posted by: Aaron | September 29, 2002 8:16 PM
I am going to go with... yes?
Do you ever send emails to another Aaron? It is very odd addressing and signing the message the same. Like I am sending a "not to self." Very doppelganger.
Posted by: aaron | September 29, 2002 10:43 PM
dammit!
"note" (blame it on the keyboard!)
although, it IS 'not' to self I guess.
Posted by: aaron | September 29, 2002 10:44 PM
Be thankful your evil doppleganger from the mirror dimension [1], Noraa hasn't shown up yet.
[1] every good comics universe has a mirror dimension.
Posted by: Martin Wisse | September 30, 2002 3:04 AM
. . . wherein the mirror-image characters are all either oversexed (Star Trek DSN, for example -- Kira Nerisse in catsuit! Meow!) or have goatees (Star Trek TOS, South Park).
Am I probably the only sci-fi/horror/comic person on the who begins hemmoraging internally at the mere inkling of a time-stream or mirror-universe plotline? Gads, I hate that device!
Posted by: garrity | September 30, 2002 6:36 AM
Which would you prefer, mirror universe or Holodeck?
Although I have to admit the Bond spoof on DSN worked, but it wasn't really a Holodeck. . . hey! Martin, were you trying to trick me into saying my name backwards and getting banished to my home dimension?
Bastard.
Posted by: Aaron | September 30, 2002 9:14 AM
Holodeck, thanks. Mmmm-hmm. Can you imagine the sex you could have?
Posted by: hanne | September 30, 2002 10:34 AM
Thank you, Ensign Broccoli.
And anyone who laughed at that? Geek.
Posted by: Aaron | September 30, 2002 11:24 AM
I laughed. But you and I both know who the bigger geek is.
Posted by: Michelle | September 30, 2002 1:49 PM
Yeah.
Jason.
Posted by: Aaron | September 30, 2002 1:51 PM