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Freeware Is Beautiful
Posted by Nostalgiaholic | on April 10, 2009
Happy Easter holidays ! I just finished up some yardwork this afternoon and was about to relax with a cold draft Sake when I stumbled onto a video for the Freeware game Jumpman !!! It’s so bloody oldschool, and chill.
Needless to say, I have found a new love.
Where The Wild Things Are
Posted by Nostalgiaholic | on March 28, 2009
It’s a one-in-a-million moment when nostalgia almost brings me to tears. Spike Jonze (skateboard mogul, and freaky movie auteur) has just finished shooting a live-action adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s legendary children’s book Where The Wild Things Are.
You remember ? The book about Max, the little kid in the grey monster pajamas that sails off to meet monsters and dance around ? Well, light up the new Movie Trailer and let The Arcade Fire shake your memories (and maybe a couple tears) loose. But keep in mind that this is Spike Jonze, and early screening of the flick were met with shock due to dark and mature themes. Raaaawr !!!
DVD killed the Video Star
Posted by Nostalgiaholic | on February 7, 2009
Yep, it was only a matter of time before the glacier-paced onslaught of DVD sales finally put the last VHS distributer out of business. No amount of cult video rental joints is going to bring our beloved (if slightly fuzzy) video medium back to the mainstream.
It certainly took a long time for VHS to finally lay down, can you believe it was invented in the 70s ? And they said Laserdisc was the wave of the future… hmph. Now, where am I gonna get a DVD copy of Mean Guns (1997)?
Their Final Frontier
Posted by Nostalgiaholic | on January 17, 2009
Last month Majel Barrett Roddenberry, widow of the man himself Gene Roddenberry, and long time Star Trek cameo goddess died at the age of 76. She is most remembered as Nurse Chapel from the original series, Diana Troi’s party animal mom from The Next Generation, and the ever-pleasing voice of all federation computers. More here. Before her death, Majel was able to complete her final voice-overs for J.J. Abrams’ new Star Trek film. RIP.
Then only this last Wednesday Ricardo Montalban died at age 88. The ever-suave star lent his talents to the classic TV show Fantasy Island, a couple Planet of the Apes flicks, and most famously the half-mad Nietzchian warlord Khan from the original Trek series and the Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan. Captain Kirk never faced a more formibable foe. KHAAAN !!! RIP.
In Between The Pages
Posted by Nostalgiaholic | on January 8, 2009
Remember those X-Ray glasses you ordered from the backside of a tattered ‘ol Warlord comic when you were eleven? You paid half a buck and they didn’t even work! The Comic Vine remember well the golden age of Comic Books and their superhuman abillity to get kids to buy the weirdest stuff. They have collected together decades of comic book advertisements into a mesmerizing gallery over HERE.
Happy Nostalgic Holidays
Posted by Nostalgiaholic | on December 27, 2008
No matter what particular holiday you may celebrate (Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Celtic Yule, etc.) ’tis the season to relax with a little rum and a lot of warm memories. I’ve settled into a nice big chair by the fire (okay, so I don’t have a fire) and have spent most of today watching the snow fall and reminiscing about past Christmas specials like the Box Of Delights, the Raccoon’s Christmas, Christmas Comes To Pac-Land, and of course Santa Claus Conquers The Martians. Cheers to the New Year, and have a drink on me !
The Vintage Soda
Posted by Nostalgiaholic | on December 6, 2008
Packaging Of The World has a boss gallery of Vintage Sodas courtesy of the enigmatic Allen.
“I’m very old fashioned and have never liked change. I should have been born in 1936, but wasn’t. I collect old cans, bottles, radios and alot of other stuff.” - Allen
Be sure to nibble on their 1950s Packaging Design set while you’re there.
The 8bits Of Christmas
Posted by Nostalgiaholic | on November 17, 2008
One of my best-loved/most-linked music collectives has just decked it’s halls with glorious nostalgic lovin. 8bitpeoples.com (who you may remember from our post) has just released a Christmas Album!!! If you ever wondered what “The First Noel” would sound like played through an Atari ST system, wonder no-more… Where’s my Egg Nog?
Remembering Armistice Day
Posted by Toni | on November 11, 2008
Kurt Vonnegut from Breakfast of Champions (1973):
“I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day.
When I was a boy… all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another.
I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not.
So I will throw Veterans’ Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don’t want to throw away any sacred things…”
New Era Anyone ?
Posted by Nostalgiaholic | on October 21, 2008
Yeah I’m back, and wasting time on my Xbox 360 playing a retooled version of the classic NES game Bionic Commando. Side-scroll over to the “Rearmed” trailer HERE to tickle ‘yo pixels.
And I’d like to go George Lucas on my last Quickie and just add on a link to the online portfolio of Lyle Owerko titled “The Boombox Project“, another showcase of classic ghetto Blaster designs… Works of art man.