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Background Noise #4 – Stereotypes, Kevin Smith, Weed and Nazis

When I started this madness of talking about the bearded wordsmith of Jersey, I should have known I was not going to be able to stay on target while recording these podcasts. I probably even knew. Heck, as much fun as it is to talk about the the man who influenced my life from afar (and without knowing it) for almost a decade now, these podcasts tend to be a lot more fun when the subject suddenly becomes something else.

Today our guestcaster (there, new word, suck it Webster’s) is one Matt Cohen one of the two main players over at Bagged and Boarded. Naturally, we are discussing (aside from Kevin Smith of course) topics that intrigue, fascinate, shock, repel and confuse. So basically we are on the same level you would expect from a Sunday morning cartoon.

Music is again provided by our good friend Joe Covenant whose fascinating tune It All Makes Sense at the End is now our theme song. The lyrics were just geeky enough and the music more than good enough. Way better even.

As a special guest star is ScottC of Weekend Justice …umh fame (?). His question is being discussed at length and detail.
The home of the Weekend Justice League, Needcoffee.com along with its MCP Widgett Walls get a mention as well. Of course, the name of the keymaster of Quickstopentertainment.com, one Ken Plume is also being dropped, continuing a trend we started on the last podcast.

Thanks to Matt for providing the madness, you can check out, the beloved Bagged & Boarded podcast here and their webboard here.
If you want to hear more from Joe, his songs can be found here.

WARNING: Sometimes we curse, sometimes we swear, you don’t like? We don’t care.
WARNING: We’re discussing some rather serious things here alongside with silliness.

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“Background Noise #3 – How Many Names Can We Drop”

Hello, hello, hello,

today we have a special treat for the lovers of music and for masochists. We were lucky enough to have Joe Covenant provide us with the theme song for this episode (and maybe the whole damn podcast?) as well as a nice outro song. Our production value just doubled! For all you masochist out there, we have my damaged voice and brain, which are still recovering from a severe cold. (Which is probably why I managed to fuck up the grammar in the introduction.)

Our guest in this second (somewhat) Kevin Smith centric podcast is the One-Minute-Podcaster and Webcomic creator Brendoman. Witness how we geek out about Smith, Scumm based computer games and all other things geek. As a special bonus, Brendoman was able to give us some word on “A Couple of Dicks” due to legal obligations, his comments on that are short but sweet.

Over the span of sixty plus minutes, we manage to drop enough names that we appear to be (desperate)  G-list celebrities, lose track of our own conversation and somehow manage to have more endings to the show, than Steve Jackson included in “The Lord of the Rings.”

Thanks to Brendoman for taking the time, you can check out Brax here, the beloved Bagged & Boarded podcast here, their webboard here and Brendoman is also running his own web presence over here.
Many thanks go out to Joe Covenant who gave us two lovely tunes and shows our listeners by comparison how poor our sound quality actually is. We’re working on that. More of Joe’s songs can be found here.

WARNING: Sometimes we curse, sometimes we swear, you don’t like? We don’t care.
WARNING: Don’t pump up the volume too high at the beginning.

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“Background Noise #2 – Kevin Smith, Accents and All Things Geek”

Here we go again.

Our second episode is the first of a few podcasts that will (feature the attempt to) focus on one subject: The work and career of one Kevin Smith. This time I had the pleasure of talking to Will Turner who is not only a writer for GeekEteers but also the creator and writer of the British “Reynard City” webcomic, so again, you will have the pleasure to listen to a German butchering the English language and a British accent. Accents are one of the many topics we talk about aside from the films of Kevin Smith because, naturally, we digress and talk about movies, comics, games, Hitler, comedy and the current state of our global economy. OK that last one was a lie.

If you want to read the words of Will Turner you can order his book on Amazon and if you want to listen to that comedy madness that is “Let’s be having you“, then go here.

WARNING: Sometimes we curse, sometimes we swear, you don’t like? We don’t care.

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“Background Noise #1 – Patton Oswald vs. Liam Neeson”

First of all: I apologize.

Second of all: Here it is, the very first episode of the podcast that was never meant to be, an exchange between two major geeks, namely our Conman Bob T. Goldfish and myself. The main subject of our first bit of audio content is the cast of the new “A-Team” movie and who our choices for the parts of Hannibal, B.A., Murdock and Face would have been. Naturally, we digress quite a bit from that, talking about almost every movie and TV franchise in the history of entertainment.

Third of all: The audio quality is…well it is OK. It sounds like a Skype-call because it is, oddly enough, I sound like I am trapped in a well because I didn’t realize until the end of the recording, that my computer was set up to use the built-in microphone instead of the really good one I was actually talking into. If you still don’t understand what we’re saying… well Bob is English, I am German.

As of right now, we don’t have an intro music or any of that fancy stuff, I am currently researching that thing but if any of you musicians out there wants to offer us a song just send us an email or a twitter message.

Here we go, I hope you will enjoy two geeks talking about “The A-Team” as if it was Shakespeare. Which, let’s Face it (yes, I went there and now I will never be able to come back), it is.

WARNING: Sometimes we curse, sometimes we swear, you don’t like? We don’t care.
WARNING: Spoiler Alert for the “Buffy Season 8″ comic

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P.S.: We didn’t mention MacGyver, I wonder why.

Ely Henry is numb in the face – and singing.

There are no further words…enjoy?

Thanks.

A year ago people started trying to save the house in which the character Superman was created. The project caught our attention and we did our – admittedly very small – part and put up a permanent link to the charity website OrdinaryPeopleChangeTheWorld.com and published a little article about it. A year ago the video presenting us with the state the house was in, made us weep, now this video may wet our eyes as well, but in a good way. Thanks to everyone who participated.

“Dungeon Whispers” #5 \ Beggars can be Gamers

Over the span of the last decade or so my finances have fluctuated quite a bit, sometimes I did not have to worry at all, sometimes cash was tricky to come by. Still, no matter what my bank account said, I rolled dice at the end of the week. This of course presents a challenge sometimes. Especially in our current economy (to abuse a phrase that has been raped to death already) any and all expenses need to be looked at twice. I decided to sit down and look at the methods I used – sometimes subconsciously – to save some bucks and share the most successful ones with you. So here it is, Scumminik’s guide to cheap inexpensive gaming.

A humble Review-Rant of G.I.Joe… LOTS OF SPOILERS.

Well, well, well. A good friend of mine promised me to write a review of the G.I. Joe flick, which promised to be excellent due to his extraordinary expertise in all things G.I. Joe. He failed to deliver a review and instead delivered a novel. Kinda.
Here’s what Ed has to say:

G.I.J.O.E. is the codename for America’s NATO’s daring, highly-trained spuriously recruited special mission force. Its purpose: to defend human freedom France and the Arctic against Cobra MARS, a ruthless terrorist organization defense contractor determined to rule the world impersonate the President.

This ain’t your father’s G.I.Joe. This isn’t really even your G.I.Joe. But it’s a lot closer to yours than your father’s. So be grateful. After 4 years of development hell, it looks like GIJoe actually became a good summer action spectacular. Is it arthouse brilliance? No, but you were in a bubble or sanatorium for the last year if you thought it might be. I knew this was going to be a rocky road four years ago, when Hasbro made the first announcement about DiBonaventura getting the license to hollywoodize Joe. They promised us the moon (80s Joe characters in familiar, comic-based settings)… with the exception of Rex, a new character to give the audience a point of reference.

Now for something completely different…

Howdy folks. Not a lot of things happening here lately, I know. Behind the scenes though, we’re busy busy busy. For now, I will leave you with a little video about a project that is very dear to my heart. Please let other people know: