Mis canciones favoritas son quizá las más simples en letra pero la música está buenísima.

La primera vez que los escuché fue en la película venezolana Secuestro Express, que no sólo hicieron la música, pero también son los actores. La música funciona muy bien en la película, y Trece es buen actor, especialmente considerando que es su primera actuación.

En su página de myspace tienen varios videos y canciones disponibles para escuchar. La página necesita un poco de ayuda en el diseño. No estoy seguro si tienen su propio website, trate varias direcciones pero no los encontré. Sería chévere poder leer la página de myspace, pero el background hace muy dificil leerlo.

Las que más me gustan son “Muerete que chao”, “En el Aire” y “Salso Killing”.

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The story is set in an universe in which religion has almost all the power, based largely on the control of the mass media. There are two papacies: Ludovica and Agape. They used to rule together bringing some form of balance, but there was some sort of conflict (which is not fully explained in the first volume) and Agape is banished and her followers are considered heretic. Then there are Sky Doll, which are nothing more than a bimbo looking robots that are basically enslaved, among others for sexual pleasures. They have been built with technical limitations so they can develop fully their own identities. The story revolves over a particular Sky Doll called Noa. She is not the usual Sky Doll, it is suggested she has an especial connection to Agape, and she has been able to overcome the imposed technical limitations. The other two main characters are Roy and Jahu. They are two missionaries attached to the Ludovica ruling. Early in the episode they get to meet Noa, and unknownglly become Noa’s escape from its owner.

The characters so far are great, very rich and dense. The setup in itself has many, albeit not new, interesting dimensions. The dialogues are impressive so far. The art shines in every possible sense. You can spend several minutes looking at each panel. They are dense and very detailed, but not to the point of detracting from the flow of the story.

Writer is Barbara Canepa and Art by Alessandro Barbucci.

There are two more volumes published in English, and there is a fourth chapter in the making, in French that is, not sure when it would be translated.

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Back to the Core. The Core is a scifi story. It is about a human, Asimov Dedeken, gotta love the name, that gets accepted into an elite task force of beings from other worlds that are part of one of the coalitions that make the Core. Natural resources are becoming extinct in the Universe and that leads them to the earth resources, and thus to humans. Because of the extinct resources this coalition is basically forced into accepting humans as part of them. This has interesting implications in the story.

Great storyline and rich characters. I am impressed as to how much information is in just one episode. This speaks volumes of the writer, gonna have to get some more of Hickman work. The art is awesome!. The layout is fantastic and it manages to follow three narratives in a coherent way.

I hope this gets enough votes to continue. Sure will get mine, though I haven’t read any of the other pilot season.

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The anime is about, well, a black samurai with a gigantic afro. He is in the quest to avenge his father’s dead and recover the Number One headband. Number One band was acquired by Justice (Ron Perlman) who took it from afro’s father before his eyes when Afro was a child.

The action sequences are incredible. The opening sequence of the first chapter is remarkable, but afro’s first ambush fight sequence is beyond any action I’ve ever seen in an Anime. Unlikely you’ve seen something like it. This is only in the first episode. I’ve yet to see the other four. There are five total. There seems to be an unrated film, and the one that was aired on TV last year.

This is the opening sequence…

The story in itself so far is not that great. But if the action continues like in this chapter, it doesn’t matter…

The music is also outstanding. The soundtrack kicks ass. Long list of hip hops auteurs are in the soundtrack produced by hip hop powerhouse The RZA.

Fury in my eyes is remarkable featuring Thea… her voice, as usual… amazing!.

Most of the soundtrack is available at youtube…

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At the beginning the alien just devour others, soon the plot evolves into the potential symbiotic relationship, that there are good ones and bad ones, and there are philosophical attempts here and there to use the aliens as a metaphore to explain humans faults and virtues. However these are mostly cliches and nothing deeper than that.

The art gets better in the second book, more focused and detailed. There is also much better character development than in the first book. It seems the author is feeling more comfortable with the characters and the story itself.

The book is kinda silly and childish, but it is a lot of fun to read, especially if you like b-horror type stories. Think Robert Rodriguez or Tarantino, if you like their styles then give it a try.

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damn… another long time… oh well!…

The Long Road Home is the title of the newest comic series related to Stephen King’s Dark Tower saga. Same creative group behind it than the ones in “The Gunslinger Born” comic series, finished not so long ago. The Long Road Home is almost done, we are in issue 4 of 5, and it is fantastic. It is even better than “The Gunslinger Born”.

For those of you that might be new to the story we are on the trail of Roland’s adventures when he just became a Gunslinger. Currently we are on the story when he first meets and confronts the Crimson King, which depiction is just great. Everything you ever imagined it would be.

At the end of the fourth issue of the series there is depiction of the different mutants, both animals and humans that we encounter throughout the books. What came to mind was the passage in the first book when Jake and Roland are traversing the mountains and get attacked by the slow mutants. The depiction is as terrifying as the description in the book. I had to go back and read the first book again. It was a very satisfying reading experience having the pictures in my head while reading the book.

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“The Long Road Home” es el título de la nueva serie de comics relacionada con la saga “The Dark Tower” de Stephen King. Esta nueva serie está escrita por los mismos creadores de “The Gunslinger Born”, que culminó no hace mucho y que ahora está disponible en libro. En la nueva serie estamos en el fascículo 4 de 5, y es simplemente buenísima. Aún mejor que “The Gunslinger Born”.

Para aquellos que no saben mucho de los comics que siguen “The Dark Tower”, básicamente empezamos con la historia de como Roland se convierte en Gunslinger con “The Gunslinger Born” y sus historias con Cuthbert y Jamie (el Ka-tet). Esta segunda serie cubre la historia de ellos volviendo a la ciudad a avisar antes del ataque de “The Good Man”.

En el cuarto fascículo, al final, muestran dibujos de las diferente mutaciones de animales y seres humanos. Los dibujos son increibles. Lo que me vino a la mente fue el primer libro de la serie “The Gunslinger - The Dark Tower I”, y el pasaje de Roland y Jake a través de las montañas y el ataque de los “Slow Mutants”. Tanto así que decidí leerme otra vez el primer libro. Leer el libro con las imágenes de los comics es una experiencia más completa. Los mutantes son tan fascinantes como uno los imagina mientras lee el libro.

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You can here some of their stuff at his myspace page: http://myspace.com/coconutrecords

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Its not you Its me

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Primer is a mind puzzle thriller about a couple of techies that by accident build a time travel machine. As expected they get invigorated by its power and things happen as you can imagine. However figuring out exactly how it is happening its what makes it really enjoyable. I mean you can get the main idea at the end of the movie, you sort of understand what happens as you move along, but I, at least, could not really explained it.

So what did I do?… I watched it twice in a row, then jumped on their website, read many theories and I am dying to watch it again just to check which theory likely is right.

Primer won the jury award at Sundance 2004, and, as you, probably, I’d never heard of it. The movie is as low budget as likely possible. It is written, directed, produced, edited, music, and acted by the same guy Shane Carruth (KUDOS to him by the way). There are a couple, really a couple, of visual effects, sound isn’t great, acting outside the main two guys is very amateur at best. Dave Sullivan (the other main character) is very good. The script is sound, the storytelling is very good, good pace mostly, and it is, in my humble opinion, very well directed. Not anyone can pull it off with such a complicated story. The first 20 min or sort the first act is quite heavy on science lingo and it is hard to know what to make it out of the movie. Hang in there, the second act is quite strong, and a very good finish.

I won’t get into any details because I don’t want to spoil it for anyone that might read this…

Trailer at their website.

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There are many of their songs on youtube (including some from Flock) but the following from an earlier album stood out for me. It’s called Tongue and is a high rocking number. Wear headphones if at work.

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