I have had a CD of this concert for years and I absolutely love it; it rarely leaves my mP3. It is some of the most exciting fiddle music I've ever heard(great household chores tunes). Anyway I discovered that one of my libraries had the show on DVD so I watched it last night and all I can say is WOW. Barrage consists of11 members: 7 fiddlers, a drummer, a percussionist, a bassist, and a guitar player who are all incredibly talented musicians who have a real flair for theatrics. Fabulous stuff that I would dearly love to see live sometime.

Here is a link to their website-I see that the band has changed personnel since the show I watched.

http://www.barrage.org/index.html

And how about a couple of video clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB8UsgkHV...re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWO71XNJo...re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCuluSz8a...re=related

I've been thinking about this for awhile but keep forgetting to ask about it. In one of the RJ books (I forgot which one) one of the regulars plays Meatloaf on the jukebox. This ticks Jack off and he unplugs the juke. I was curious if this was a reflection of The Man's feelings. And if so what did The Man think when he heard that Meatloaf was going to be in Pelts? Anything along the lines of 'I hope he didn't read that book' or 'That was Jack, not me.'?

Last night I watched Vexille, a hybrid CGI/animated Sci-fi action flick. It is extremely cool to look at with several spectacular action sequences and the story wasn't bad either. If you like movies like Appleseed then I'd give this one a strong recommendation.

Just started "By The Sword" and have a question about the Author's Note.

What is meant by "syncing the releases of The Touch, Reborn.....with Jack's timeline? I realize that "The Tomb" was revised to bring it more in line with the years of Jack's story. Is the same thing being done with the re-release of the other Adversary books or are they just being re-released to coincide with the Jack books?

Thanks
Steve

Wow, I'm surprised I didn't find a topic for this already. GREAT movie, unlike the typical formulaic comedy I was expecting. I don't remember any characters' names except Sarah Marshall, but it was good because almost all the characters seemed like characters rather than caricatures. The lead dude was deeply insecure and spent much of the first third of the movie crying (but there were some good jokes mixed in there too). He eventually gets over his ex for the very lovely Mila Kunis/hotel desk clerk after he pseudo-stalks Marshall's Hawaiian vacation. I don't want to go into too much, but it was great pacing, better than decent jokes and interesting characters. Only thing there was much too much penis (but even that was sort of funny).

Barry posted recently a review of Clive Barker's Midnight Meat Train...

I was one of the lucky few that managed to find Midnight Meat Train in the theater (a cheap dollar theater halfway across town). I really enjoyed the movie and -- while breaking it open from a short story to an hour and a half long movie -- seemed fairly faithful to the original material (I'm a big-time Barker fan, from the mid-80's, when the Books of Blood originally came out; besides the frame story, this was the first story of his that I read).

Anyway, I did a double-take when I saw what you read -- it is currently up in FearNet OnDemand. I don't peruse the On Demand Fear Net offerings often as the movies tend to be sub-sub B movies (is there such a thing as a "C" horror movie?). Anyhoo, I look forward to checking this out again before it shows up on DVD. Thanks for the info!

On an unrelated FPW related topic, I do recall seeing On Demand the film version of Midnight Mass in which FPW himself has a cameo...the movie stank and (naturally) did not do the original source material justice. * sigh * ah well.

I just got this from Blockbuster last week. Great trip down memory lane- I hadn't seen this movie since high school. The funny thing is, I thought it was overly-silly way back then but I just realized they were poking fun at Fist of the North Star (probably other stuff too, I haven't finished the movie yet). The girl who looks like a guy B-Ko tells to rough up C-Ko is a doppleganger for Kenshiro. She's built like and has the =exact= same face save for the different hairstyle and she even does Ken's signature thousand-punch attack before A-Ko hands her her hat. It's always nice to go back and see stuff you missed the first, second or fiftieth time around. I watched this easily a dozen times in my younger years and never picked up on it.

I took the kiddos to see Beverly Hills Chihuahua last night and it is fairly entertaining if you like dogs. I was glad that were plenty of other dogs besides chihuahuas to watch. It was nowhere near as good as similar movies like Babe or Charlotte's Web but it is worth a look if you have little ones.

So far, RJ series' Japanese editions are published from Fusosha. But.....


I checked Fusosha's official site, and they says "Now, we have no schedule for new RJ series. As the series goes on, the sales fell off and they are unprofitable for us. It's too bad and sorry for that."


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I can read English edition, but my friends can't read in English! Oh, Paul! Please help Japanese Repairman Jack fan! :adore:

I see that Bloodline is now available in paperback. I saw it at King Soopers while shopping yesterday.