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Hi guys,

There has been a suggested alteration to the proposed London trip running on
the 29 May (the Saturday after exams)

The honourable Chairbeing and equally honourable Librarian have asked for us
to move the trip to the following Saturday, 5 June, as they have to go and
beat the crap out of a rival university rugby team on the 29th.

We will still be doing They Walk Among us, Pages Bar, FP etc

Due to the small number of people who wanted to come, please mail me @ the
usual address if you are still interested in the trip on the new date.

Thanx,

Iz

Yea, I should be able to make that. BTW: does anybody know where Atlantis
book shop is?

Thanks
James

"Well, it seems the only way to keep out of trouble is to grow old, so I
guess I'll just concentrate on that..."

In article <40C24C464D6FD21189090000C0F06ACF3F9711@>, Hanley F <F.Hanley@> wrote:
So should I, probably :-)

If you look at my reviews of (mainly) SF bookshops in (mainly)
London, Atlantis bookshop is described. It is in the same rough vicinity as
Forbidden Planet and Murder One, even if I always get lost!

Look at http://www.onechip.co.uk/jenny/book.html

Jenny Gould

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Well now, I was talking to Steve Wilson at Killer Con and I asked
him where I could get books on certain legends. He said that Atlantis Books
was good. He didn't mention he owned the place! :-)

Thanks Jenny :-)

James

James said:
and also
Films:
Grand if you can make it... directions still on the web, kicking off
sometime around 8ish (whenever people get here after 8 is probably more
accurate)

Other:
Yup - I know where Atlantis it is (the bookshop anyway)... can't remember
the road name though. If I make it on the london trip (5th june - might
manage that - LRP free weekend so far) I'll point it out... I know of
another fair size bookshop with similar subject matter too, but that's
always a bit harder to find, and I can never remember what it's called
either...

incidentally, that URL you posted to the gamesoc list - looks like I'll find
it v. interesting - my LRP group is based around irish mythology... (albeit
loosely at times...)

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'Nuff said...
Adrian...

Did anyone notice the new series of LEXX on C5 last Friday?

Did anyone who noticed care?

Did anyone who cared watch it?

Was anyone else who watched it overcome with supreme indifference?

Dominic.

"It's not until you get back to nature that you realise that
everything is out to get you." [Dana Scully - X-Files]

On Tue, 18 May 1999, Dominic Thomas wrote:
Yes.
Well I missed it - couldn't be bothered staying up and watching it and
forgot to set the video. Oh hum.

Was it worse than the previous episode - I thought that had the most
pathetic ending ever. But I guess it does tie in nicely to the start of a
new series.

Chris

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I hadn't been watching the repeats, so my memory of the ending was fuzzy.
Maybe it was still just setting us up for a new series.
It wasn't completely awful.
That's odd.

Dominic.

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
[Winston Churchill]

On Tue, 18 May 1999, Dominic Thomas wrote:
Well if anyone has it on a video they can lend me and it's not as bad as
you're making out, then I guess I should probably try and see it. I
definitely want to see a few just to make sure if I like it or not,
otherwise "Le Show" gets the tape space.
It's not odd - I just have a different sig for work related emails, which
since they're the majority of what I send, is the default. Or are you
saying the phone number itself is odd?

Thankfully, it's not meaningful to anyone outside the BBC - otherwise Phil
would have an easy target to complain about the live Cricket internet
broadcasts. *8)

Chris

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place of worship" - Duaine Dibley (Red Dwarf - "Back to Reality")

For "live" read "updated once an hour". If you're lucky. I know. I've
checked.

Oh and to make the mail valid I've quite liked Lexx when I've seen it - just
manage to miss it lots...
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I think you could survive without. The rest of the series will probably make
more sense if you don't watch it anyway. It'll only confuse you.
Yes.
It's got letters in it. So thank-you for that insight into the innards of the
BBC.
If you want real excitement, try http://www.olivetree.org/webcam.htm - it's a
Webcam of a gate in jerusalem's east wall, which was walled up in order to
prevent the coming of the messiah. Watch, and see if he turns up and opens it.
(This is not a joke.)

Dominic.

"Sanity is relative - For some of us, it's just a distant cousin." [Abe Dashiel]

Yup, noticed. Missed it though... I was too busy enjoting the delights of
Peter Jackson films... and to be honest the first series didn't stand up to
second viewing (I knew what would happen next, and that made it's
originality less impressive than it's pants-ness.

I'll probably still watch the rest if I'm in, though...

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Adrian

I've got the episode on tape and i don't mind lending it out once i've filled
it up (probably at the end of the series by which time everyone will probably
had enough??).

I think it has someone interesting ideas and some of it isn't bad but there is
quite a large pants-ness factor in there as well.

Andy.

P.S.
Excuse my ignorance but who is Peter Jackson?

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awright@
Hofstadter's Law:
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take
Hofstadter's Law into account.

Peter Jackson is an incredible producer/director and was the subject of an
Imprompu evening of films at my place last friday night / saturday morning.
His films include:

*Bad Taste* (1st film last friday)
Low (read: NO) budget comedy horror. Peter Jackson himself appears in this
film at least twice, once as a lead character, once as a recurring bad-guy.
Script, Effects, Production, Editing & Direction and pretty much everything
else by Peter Jackson. Top film, very silly. Exactly what PJ intended.

*Meet The Feebles* (2nd film last friday)
I've only seen this one once, but it's basically a muppets parody, dealing
with their backstage lives, drug habits, sex lives, arguments, affairs,
diseases & disorders. I found it a bit slow to start, but once it got
going, it had some very funny moments. Exactly what PJ intended

*Brain Dead* (3rd film last friday)
Peter Jackson has his first taste of a budget... Better production quality
and actual paid actors (some of whom have even been in other films) abound
in this tale of love against a background of zombies & guts. Tagline: "A
heartwarming tale of a boy, a girl and their powertools". Peter Jackson
appears in at least 3 minor roles in this film, which has produced such
wonderful dialogue as "I kick ass for the LORD!" and "Your mother ate my
dog!"
"Well, Not all of it..."
Once again (spot the emerging theme...) Exactly as PJ intended it...

*Heavenly Creatures* (Skipped on friday)
This is the film where Peter Jackson proved to the world conclusively that
he is a very talented film-maker who so far had chosen to only make low
budget comedy horrors & shockers (Meet the Feebles is quite shocking).
Nominated for an oscar for best screenplay (sadly didn't get it) and noted
as Kate Winslet's first film, although she's out-performed by Melanie
Lynskey, and numerous members of the Braindead cast also appear. About two
teenage girls who form a fantasy world as an escape from their dull &
oppressed reality, and who find that the fantasy becomes too vivid, with
dramatic consequences.

*Forgotten Silver* (skipped 'cos nobody has it)
I've not seen it as it's never been released in this country, but it's
apparently a very realistic pseudo documentary about a new zealand film
maker who was making color talking films before everybody else in the
world... apparently it's very well made, and I've often been told it's even
more deserving of praise than heavenly creatures...

*The Frighteners* (film number 4 on friday)
Peter Jackson with hollywood backing, a very good, very slick horror comedy
based around Michael J Fox (in a very good perfomance) as a person who can
see & talk to ghosts, who uses these skills to con people. Until people
start being killed by a ghost, in a way that is a bit too familar....

Peter Jacksons future film plans are as follows:
He's making a live action, three film trilogy based on books whose text he
worships: Lord of the Rings.

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Adrian etc...

Do you mean he's actually started?
And does this one have a budget, or not?
Are we going to have to watch Sam and Frodo cross the sands of Mordor played by
Peter Jackson's 8-year-old nephews on the beach at Blackpool?

Or will it be updated into a modern fable, where Ferdy the
cossetted public-schoolboy is forced to trek into Serbia, pursued by the 9
ex-SAS men now transformed into immortal cyborgs, accompanied by a dwarf, a
trans-sexual, and Allan the new-age-traveller?

Dominic.

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
[Albert Einstein (1879-1955)]

played by
Yup - he's started, with MAJOR backing from New Line... Last I heard he's
planning on casting unknowns in the major roles with stars in cameos &
smaller roles. Filming hasn't started, but Pre-production is well
underway...

Shooting is taking place in New Zealand, on the grounds that that's where PJ
is based and they have plenty of varied & appropraite landscapes there...
The important names for the screenplay, etc, are Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh,
who were oscar nominated for heavenly creatures...

Peter Jackson worships the books and has been quoted as saying that the main
reason he started making films was because he wanted to do "Lord of the
Rings" Properly... Whatever it turns out like, something tells me it's not
going to be a travesty, and in fact it's probably going to be pretty damned
good...

The New Line press release can be seen here... bear in mind, this release
was written for the american press:
http://www.newline.com/lordoftherings.html

There's also a fan rumour site at:
http://theonering.net/

But many of the rumours there don't tally with things I've heard Peter
Jackson say in interviews... things ould have changed, or rumours could have
just done their thing...

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*dink*
Eggwhite

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