35 years of Top 100 music on 45 RPM vinyl

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Each and every 45 RPM vinyl record that was listed on the Billboard Top 100® Rock and Pop charts from Jan. 1, 1955, through Dec. 31, 1990. Absolutely every disc for 35 years, every No. 100 up to every No. 1. There are some 18,400 records total. Some are even autographed. How about the Beatles’ 1964 hit “Ain’t She Sweet” with picture sleeve, worth a cool $500; or the Beach Boys’ 1961 hit “Surfin’ Luau” worth $200. There are literally hundreds of extremely collectible 45s — Elvis, Joplin, Hendrix, you name it — and the collection in its entirety is priceless.

For only $275,000, and they said priceless, something from Neiman Marcus that can make even DJ Shadow happy, well that is if these are the original press 45’s and not a repress. =)

Planet of the Apes: 40-Year Evolution Blu-ray Set

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New Hotness includes:

-NEW Science of the Apes BONUSVIEW – Scientists, anthropologists and sociologists discuss the facts and fiction of the first film

-NEW “Beyond the Forbidden Zone” Adventure Game

-NEW “A Public Service Announcement From ANSA” in HD – A mission report from the agency regarding their brave astronauts

-NEW “Evolution of the Apes”- HD featurette tracing the apes story from the original novel to the screen

-NEW “Impact of the Apes” – HD featurette on how to market a worldwide pop culture phenomenon. The story behind the marketing and merchandising of one of the first ever film franchises and the series’ lasting influence on pop culture through the years

-NEW HD Making-of Featurette for Each Sequel:

• Beneath the Planet of the Apes – “From Alpha to Omega: Building a Sequel”
• Escape from the Planet of the Apes – “ The Secret Behind Escape”
• Conquest of the Planet of the Apes – “ Riots and Revolutions: Confronting the Times”
• Battle for the Planet of the Apes – “ End of an Epic: The Final Battle”

Plus it comes in that great packaging with a 200 page coffee table book every film is in 2:35:1 with a new DTS track and for the first time here in the states we get the unrated version of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes all for $104.99 on Amazon.

50 Beautiful Movie Posters

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In this post we present you a showcase of 50 beautiful movie posters. We went through different decades of movie history and different genre, different graphical approach, colors and style. Movies the posters are about may be famous or not, this is not the point.

The limited edition Alamo Draft House posters are great pieces of work, to bad they are sold out.

The Laser-Powered HDTV

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LASER BEAMS! I wonder which one would win in a steel cage deathmatch, OLED or Lasers? The Mitsubishi LaserVue-65 is $7k for a 65in TV, which isn’t so bad considering it’s suppose to be the cream of the crop. In prespective the 65in Panasonica Viera is $6k, the 70in Sony Bravia is 20k with the 55in being $7k and the 60in Pioneer Kuro being $6.5k so really is $7k all the bad for a 65in laser HDTV, no. Also why do they make it out to be huge, it’s 65in, we aren’t talking 100in here and I’m wondering at what point does it make more sense to buy a projector than spend money on a TV. And while the author points out this is the best color gamut he doesn’t mention if that is to LCD/Plasma or does that include CRT’s as well? As long as this has zero ghosting, no input lag, 120hz compatible along with deep color and the ability to jazz up standard definition material like ffdhsow than I will be sold.

My Zombie Pinup 2009 Calendar

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Not really safe for work. Or lunch for that matter.

Beck – Hell Yes

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Please enjoy!

The Top 10 Hottest College Gymnasts

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‘Nuff said.

80’s Lyrics quiz.

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See how well you can fill in the blanks to the following 80’s songs.

I got a 97.5.

Holiday wars: Sony counts on games, Microsoft on price

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This article is spot on. Sony needs to lower prices immediately to hope to win the console wars.

Chris’ Piss: Why Heroes has lost it’s way.

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Watching this season of Heroes has only been more and more disappointing.  I found some tragic flaws and to me a lot of the magic has been lost. Can it recover? The ratings so far say no. Here’s my take on why it’s been so bad.

First of all, part of what made Heroes so exciting in the first place was the presence of a villain that was one step ahead of everyone.  They gave you crumbs about what the villain was up to and they built it up all season long. This season there is no main villain, unless you count future Peter. So who are we rooting for exactly? It’s hard to tell. There are a bunch of sub villains who all have weak powers in comparison.

Secondly, the main “save the world” plot has been done before, both in the first season and the last. It’s tired.  Try something new and original. So now they’re working on a Heroes serum that gives powers to anyone, but they’re highlighting this with a Cronenbergesque Fly transformation with Mohinder.  To me, this is a major flaw because the Fly did this and did it better. Stealing some plot points is one thing, but don’t rip off a whole movie.

Let’s get back to villains. Season 1 had Sylar, a bad assed serial killer who gained peoples powers. It ended with a somewhat anti-climactic battle in which Sylar appeared to have been killed, opening the window of opportunity for Sylar to be reborn. Season 2 had Sylar slowly building his powers up again, and the wonder twins. There was also Adam who does not age and could not be killed. What do they do with him? Bury him. This season has Future Sylar baking cookies and Hiro digging up Adam. WTF?!?!  This show really needs a good villain.  Arthur Petrelli cannot come soon enough.

The other flaw that I have found is that Time travel really doesn’t work for this show.  We all know about the Butterfly effect, there’s no need to show this here. If Hiro & Peter really had this time travelling power, they’d use it the right way, like in the first season where future Hiro warned Peter to “Save the Cheerleader, Save the World”.  Future Peter should have just gone back in time and said to Hiro “Leave the safe closed, don’t be a moron.” It seriously would have made more sense than shooting Nathan. And why can’t time travelling Hiro just go back in time in the first place and take the formula from Daphne? It boggles the mind how stupid Hiro is.

The last problem I see, is that there are just too many different Heroes now.  They all have their own storylines and they are not doing a good enough job weaving them into each other.  We don’t care enough about the characters and trying to give them all emotional range is crippling the core of what made them good to begin with.  Don’t make goody two shoes Claire go gritty and dark, and don’t have bad assed Sylar baking freaking cookies!!! What they need to do is bring the Heroes together Justice League style to fight off whatever greater bad there is.  Primatech is this pale shell of what Heroes working together should be. There’s no cohesion and letting Mommy Petrelli run everything just seems like letting Aquaman lead.

Bottom line, there needs to be a greater sense of purpose overall. Work towards uniting all the Heroes and this will make great television. Keep adding more lame powered villains and you’re on the fast track to a Smallville clone using the “monster of the week” formula.  Cut out the time travel and the super power by formula crap. Stick to the good heroes versus bad heroes.  And put Claire back in a cheerleader outfit, pronto!