Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Craig Oxbrow's LiveJournal:

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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
7:45 pm	It's Saturday, it's 7 o'clock, it's time for Doctor Who. Doctor Who: 30 Episodes With Retro-Pulp Titles On a related note, Dreamland was fairly amusing and nicely voiced but looked dreadful. Compare this fan toon as plugged by the Guardian Technology. (What I wouldn't give for crossing the streams of Christmas on the Beeb and getting an Aardman Who story.) Current Mood: busy Current Music: Dum-da-dum... (Comment on this)
Friday, December 4th, 2009
5:20 pm	Hustle In Spaaaaaace Via Varyar, via Kai Tave on RPGnet Slingers teaser trailer example thingy A TV show? Or something. The hologram effect is v. nice. (One thing I like about the attempted Lost In Space film as I was reminded last week, and a good use of CG to do something that normal effect wouldn't do well at all.) GUN is fun. Current Mood: curious (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
11:21 pm	Brian Blessed Is Henry The Eighth. In The Present. Using The Net. Yes, obviously. Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
1:11 am	I think I might have figured out what to do for the Nationals. Contain your enthusiasm. Yeah, it's another year of Action And Adventure, so something Adventure!-ish with two-fisted heroes punching villains and off-road chases and ancient relics and all that good stuff. And basically not being a good category to run Buffy in. Again. Grrr. (Sure, it's an okay game for the category, but I don't want to run something okay for twelve paying customers just to say I did it.) But I can borrow a bit of Buffy style simply by setting it in the present. So I'm thinking less Raiders and more Uncharted. Adventure pulpy but not set in the classic pre-WWII era. Still hopefully giving the players something they'll enjoy, which is more important than amusing myself at their expense by running a game that doesn't really fit the catch-all-ish category, but not repeating myself entirely. Yes, No, Maybe, Shut Up You Stupid GM? Current Mood: uncertain (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 28th, 2009
11:01 pm	Overheard in a Camarilla classroom. (Or: remember when the Sabbat were an unknown?) "Why were the Anarchs even fighting us? Why wouldn't they look to be more civilized?" "I hear they're diablerists!" "That's only Sabbat." "Sabbat aren't real!" "Full well they are!" Current Mood: amused (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
12:42 am	This one took a while because I find the source unlistenable. Firefly: 30 Episodes Named After Iron Maiden Songs Done while listening to the Serenity soundtrack and Johnny Cash. (Who I could do 30 Episodes for with my eyes shut.) At least it didn't make me hate them, like the They Might Be Giants Buffy one did, as I hate 'em already. My 30 Episodes slate is clear now (I think). Anybody got thirty evocative titles for, say, Doctor Who since it's coming out in the next couple weeks? Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Further On Up The Road (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
6:05 pm	Any way the wind blows, doesn't really matter... The Muppets, Bohemian Rhapsody Current Mood: delighted Current Music: Bohemian Rhapsody (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
10:52 pm	So how hard is it to get rid of Vista and put XP on instead? Current Mood: pissed off (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
1:32 pm	Casting by The Watch House, part somethingty-something. Emilia Fox plays the mysterious sorceress Morgause in the latest episode of Merlin. Did that two years back, just got the wrong mysterious sorceress from mangled Arthurian mythology. It's not quite up there with predicting James McAvoy as the modern day inheritor of a supernatural psychic power or our Soph wielding swords and killing vampires, of course, since one look at Emilia Fox says she's part Elf... Current Mood: amused Current Music: David Bowie, Underground (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 16th, 2009
4:20 pm	I need a Nosferatu, stat! So I'm building and naming the court of the Prince of Boston for Vampire and have decided to have a Nosferatu sheriff whose main role is to kick in doors and drag Kindred kicking and screaming to justice. I don't want to go the full Max Schreck but instead do Requiem's human appearance but still "strange and offputting" option. He might shift between normal and game faces Buffy-style and drop a 30 Days Of Night mouthful of shark fangs when feeding, but maybe not. He might be big and obviously intimidating, or lean and athirst. I have sundry ideas, but I thought I'd ask my LJ thinktank. Current Music: Curve, Chinese Burn (7 Comments |Comment on this)
12:23 am	It's a godawful small affair... ( Oh man, look at that Time Lord go! ) Current Mood: apathetic (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
3:11 pm	In other news, the end of the world. Yeah, I went to see 2012 opening day on the biggest screen in town. Not herr Emmerich's finest (two and a half) hours, due to a not-quite-clear-enough apocalyptic threat, some storytelling flab (the Russians!) and the biggest "whoa!" sequences being over halfway through. Still plenty of fantastic (and unlike the "art" of Michael Bay, clear and easy to follow) devastation. Same composer (and now co-plotter) as The Day After Tomorrow but no haunting standout theme this time, and no scenes that I want to steal for Scion for that matter. Funniest thing in it is the guy playing Arnold Schwarzenegger. Gratuitous Hey It's That Guy moment is a tiny cameo from the snob who gets eaten by the giant anaconda in Snakes On A Plane as an MI6 agent in one thirty-second scene. I dunno what's up with that. Trailers: Gerard Butler as the Punisher, Angelina as a superspy (although they failed to give her the initials JB so clearly this will never work), Thundercats and feckin' Twilight. Current Mood: alright (2 Comments |Comment on this)
3:02 pm	Brain transplant Data recovery was somewhat successful. The main stuff I seem to have lost is the stuff that was partitioned separately on the main drive to keep it safe. So I've lost the original Corel files for a couple years' worth of stuff like the TWH DVD boxes, pictures downloaded from the net for gaming, all the music I moved out of "My Music" - which, naturally, copied over just fine... Looks like I'm good for photos and Word stuff, which is the main thing. (And I can't do anything with Corel files anyway unless I find or re-buy the software package, since they don't copy program files.) The new external drive being arranged so it has a hundred numbered folders called "Found", which are all empty, seems to have been designed just to worry me for no good reason. Thanks guys... Current Mood: okay Current Music: James, Destiny Calling (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
8:35 pm	Strange Days Doctor Strange gets a reboot bringing him somewhat down to earth and giving him a tomboyish foil and why would I mind that? Current Mood: blah Current Music: The Unthanks, Here's The Tender Coming (Comment on this)
12:31 am	Grr. Arg. Dollhouse closing its doors Probably for the best we had that nightmare future already. The first five thing-of-the-week episodes will now comprise a fifth of the entire show. Grr. Current Mood: annoyed but not surprised Current Music: garbage, Never Be Free (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
6:57 pm	Up Yes, it's hilarious, heartwarming, thrilling, and in the first ten minutes incredibly depressing. So, yeah, worth seeing if you don't mind that incredibly depressing first ten minutes bit. (Not unlike star Trek in that sense.) It made me more determined to travel the world next summer. Short before it was sweet and amusing, not oh-god-I-can't-breathe funny like last year's. (Trailers: Chipmunk sequel, The Rock as an astronaut in a wacky 3D space adventure, what looks like the Cliffs' Notes to Avatar, and Where The Wild Things Are, which looks absolutely fantastic.) Current Mood: chipper (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
12:01 am	So after last summer's die-off of almost every PBP game I was involved in, I got a prod to try something different. Thus, a Vampire PBP. Pretty basic setup, on purpose. Wish me good luck, the Devil looks after his own. Current Mood: busy Current Music: Vampire: Bloodlines theme (Comment on this)
Friday, November 6th, 2009
11:36 pm	Content! ... Well, okay, movie trailers. Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time being very clearly labelled as From The Producer Of Pirates Of The Caribbean. Green Zone not quite being labelled as Bourne Versus The Iraq War. Current Mood: tired Current Music: Moby, Extreme Ways (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
6:53 pm	Apparently my youth was created in early November. And today is the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
10:23 pm	Happy birthday Wallace and Gromit Yes, that's the logo image at Google.co.uk. And now with content! Twenty questions with Nick Park Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)