The Wizard of Mars/ Horrors of the Red Planet, that other old B movie to remember

 The Wizard of Mars/ Borrors of the Red Planet, that other old B movie to remember:

Got pict from his blog. And this guy's blog has lots of good old weird movie info seems like,

https://monstermoviemusic.blogspot.com/2008/01/wizard-of-mars-horrors-of-red-planet.html

Jetfire Skyfire Transformers vs. Macross vs. Robotech

 Good info here

https://www.cbr.com/macross-changed-fate-of-fan-favorite-transformer/

Farscape as DnD Group

Farscape has so many Dungeons and Dragons influences  

John is a fighter (touches of paladin?)

D’argo is a barbarian. 

Aeryn a fighter for sure, maybe assassin, too? 

Chiana is a fast talking, twitchy, thief

Zhaan, our blue hippie babe, definitely a caster… maybe magic user, maybe cleric. Both?

Stark is a cleric. Been a while… doesn’t he specifically heal with those yellow glowy powers?

Utu-Noranti Pralatong, the old witch is a… well, an old witch. 

And there was a minicomic, really? 

EDIT Feb 2024: Well this is fun, I just googled farscape dnd and found a bunch of ppl had this idea also. I remember thinking this way way back when I was watching the original show run on TV. Fun to see which ones lined up with my ideas... many are are the same, many are not. Seems like John Crichton as a fighter (or Paladin) is pretty common. Thief for Chiana is common. But one guy was saying D'argo was a dwarf style player... interesting. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/4e0994/farscape_all_the_characters_are_classic_dnd/

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/farscape-d-d-borrowing-ideas.311807/

Oh check this out from wikip:

As a Pa'u, Zhaan's spiritual abilities significantly improve upon achieving a new level. When first introduced, Zhaan is a level nine Pa'u, with the ability to lessen the pain of others by taking some portion of it into herself. Later in the series with Crichton's help, she gains a level, becoming a level ten Pa'u and gaining the ability to protect others from psychic attack with her own mind. In the episode "Bone to Be Wild" she shows that for short periods of time she can make herself invisible, although it is not stated whether or not this is only possible when surrounded by foliage.

Zhaan is also the same actress in MadMax 2 (the Road Warrior), the one with the gasoline schoolbus thing. She was the pretty lady with the giant 1980s shoulderpads (OK football shoulder pads, of course they'd do it right in madmax). 

Cornfield ants, so these are the ones I call Emergency Ants

 https://blogs.cornell.edu/biocontrolbytes/2018/05/29/dont-make-a-mountain-out-of-an-ant-hill-why-ants-in-your-lawn-may-not-be-a-problem/

Cornfield ants

"In addition to being harmless to humans – they don’t sting or bite – these ants are actually good for your lawn! They eat the eggs of grass pests, including Japanese beetles. One study found that when these ants were present in turf grass, they reduced the numbers of white grubs and other grass pest larvae. "

UPDATE in 2023: Just have to say, these ants always crack me up. They run around so quickly, like there is some emergency. Try sticking your index finger on/next to the entry hole and they will freak out super bad and run up your hand... attempt to bite you (practically tickles). Waaaay cooler than fireants, hope these dudes stay around forever. 

Loup-garou, Rougarou, they forgot Scooby episode

 Wikipedia needs updating. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rougarou

The Supernatural episode was decent but dude never became wolflike. 

Original Star Wars Concept Art

 https://randomwallpapersandpics.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/artwork-the-original-concept-art-for-star-wars-by-artist-ralph-mcquarrie-part-i/

https://randomwallpapersandpics.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/artwork-the-original-concept-art-for-star-wars-by-artist-ralph-mcquarrie-part-i-2/

check out this morbid gifs pg. has a few good

 https://wifflegif.com/gifs/254004-black-and-white-horror-gif

is giant squid get ya gif

https://wifflegif.com/gifs/556965-macabre-creepy-gif

… is a demon hand w claw nails

Mahatma Gandhi > Quotes > Quotable Quote (?) "The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed."

 Mahatma Gandhi > Quotes > Quotable Quote (?) "The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed."

Good quote from beginning of this Tumbbad  Indian movie. Some cool visuals on the review at least. 

Freddy Kruegar Nightmare on Elm Street's original poster influenced from The Cat and the Canary Old Horror

Nightmare on Elm Street's original poster sure looks a lot like this super old silent film scene:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_and_the_Canary_(1927_film)

Godzilla’s impression of Clint Eastwood

 insert picts

UPDATE Feb 2024 - OK, so I never could find the pictures that made G look like Clint. But, for funs... AI art makes some messed up stuff. This isn't what I tried, but looks very similar, when I was messing around 6 or so months ago in 2023:

Music: The Melvins, hot damn they are good

 

These dudes have been around forever. I remember hearing their name somewhere but never listened. Finally randomly did... I think Youtube had something. And then I pull 'em up on Spotify and can't find a bad song. Crazy. And they are like King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard releasing a TON of stuff all the time. Love it. 

A couple of albums to get started on, are some heavy sounding stuff in the early 90s that sound very grungy... and apparently they were huge influences on the popular grunge rock 90s dudes anyway. Nirvana, etc. 

Example: Houdini album in 1993.

UPDATE Feb 2024: Saw interview with Sludgemetal guys like Pantera, all saying the Melvins in the early 1980s is what got them to go that slow heavy sound way. 

Some Godzilla Stuff that almost existed in the 50s and/or 60s and/or 70s

http://www.kaijuphile.com/rodansroost/scrapyard/rogshowa.shtml

 https://www.kaijubattle.net/kaiju-book-database/toho-special-effects-official-visual-book-vol20-king-ghidorah-1964

From Kaijuphile:

Return of King Ghidorah

Screenplay written by Shinichi Sekizawa

Alein invaders plan to scour the earth of its despoling population of humans before the world can be polluted beyond repair and becomes useless for their plans of colonization. Towards this end, the aliens bring the monster Mogu, Gigan and King Ghidorah to destroy human civilization. But their arrival does not go unopposed. The monsters Godzilla, Rodan and Varan escape from Monster Island to confront the alien space monsters.

History:

After his bad reaction to Godzilla vs the Smog Monster, Toho producer Tomoyuki Tanaka ordered that a new script be produced for the next Godzilla movie, this time featuring his classic foe, King Ghidorah. The Return of King Ghidorah was one of two scripts submitted and contained many of the elements that would later become Godzilla on Monster Island.

So this weird monster flying in the middle must be Mogu, who I think never showed up for real in any Godzilla movies. Only in this script. ???

Next is the stuff from Kaijubattle.net ... 

Toho Special Effects Official Visual Book Vol.20 King Ghidorah 1964
Publisher: Dai Nippon
August 2018
​Pages: 36
Planning and organization: Osamu Kishikawa
Designed by Makena Graphics
​Language: Japanese & English​​

Synopsis
All volumes are published by Dai Nippon Printing, read from left to right, each volume is 36 pages long and printed on A4 size paper. They are distributed by the Godzilla Store and cover the conceptualization and production aspects of kaiju from Toho's library of films, with each volume focusing on a different character.

This volume covers King Ghidorah from Ghidorah The Three-Headed Monster (1964).

Elden Ring Elden Ring, and Elden Ring. Woo!

Fashion Souls... armor sets. Let's go.

Stegosaurs and spikes

So debating on if the tail spikes were used for defense. Surely they were, huh? And what about the species with the shouldery side spikes? 

 https://blog.everythingdinosaur.co.uk/blog/_archives/2007/10/14/3289552.html

New tiny (oldest?) stegosaur species here, today, with the side spikes:

https://www.sciencealert.com/tiny-newly-discovered-stegosaur-could-be-the-oldest-we-ve-found-yet