I always wanted my own TV show.

Something occurred to me the other day. With the live in-studio web cam at the radio station, It's like I finally had a TV show. If you recall, I had been trying to make a TV version of "The Comic Book Novice". Each time "something" came up. but now effortlessly, I am on your computers doing a show. Funny how things work....

What's my favorite?

This question was asked of me this week, and since last week's show sorta revolved around our "guilty pleasures", I figured I'd post my list here. Keep in mind I have very unique tastes and that To be considered for ranking, I have to see it in the Theatre (of course movies before my time are exempt).

most movies start at a 5 (out of 10). If it is a sequel, (or prequel, technically it is considered one movie) or remake or "reimaginating" it loses points automatically. the scoring goes as follows:


You get points for having EVERYTHING that is in the trailer in the actual movie. There is a sliding scale for movies meeting my expectations, so even if I go see a sucky movie and it is as sucky as expected, it gets a 5. You get points for surprises or things I just simply did not expect to see. You also get points for making me actually "feel something" when it is over. Making me think is also important. You get points for making sense, if you set rules in the movie FOLLOW THEM! A great soundtrack gives you points, as well as what I like to call the lost of time awareness factor (at no point in the movie as I allowed to stop and think, "man this movie is long", or, "jeez, how long have I been in this seat?". Since I am a guy you get points for hot chicks in the movie. Of course not having these things will make you lose points (obviously). Lastly, a standard was set along time ago for a perfect 10 movie: Transformers: The Movie for many of the reasons stated above AND the fact that it far exceeded my expectations and BLEW MY MIND! To this day there is no other perfect 10 movie. so here is an abridged "9" list.


Rumble in the Bronx
District 9
The Ring
Dirty work
Airplane!

news and updates

I know I have said it before, but it loks like this time is the real deal. Thanks to co-host Hassan, I am in contact with a new (what is this like 5 already?) webmaster. It seems that he'll "take care of everything" and get it bakc up and running in a few short weeks, which is great.

The show is going strong with no signs of slowing down. With the summer movies on the horizon, we'll have plenty to talk about. It's a shame however that I won't be able to attend many (if any at all) cons this year. The recession has affected everyone and I am no different. If I'm lucky, I'll be able to get a press pass to the big con showdown in October. I was contimplating getting a table, but It just isn't in the cards right now.

My comic freeze is still holding (of course as each additional month passes the more I'll have to catch up) and my own comic book (the second issue) is that much further away.

I have been thinking that maybe instead of trying to hit that home run, a series of singles would be better suited for me. So rebuilding here I come.

A little light

The Oscars came and went. To be honest I haven't seen the Oscars since RoboCop's Ed 209 tried to kill Pee Wee Herman (Pee wee escaped by flying over the audience) and RoboCop showed up to help him out. Honest! I remember it like it was yesterday.

Anyways, I just was happy that Avatar didn't win big (or really at all) at the Oscars. It tells me that there are some people out there who don't think that this movie was the end all epic sci-fi movie (complete with 3-D effects!).

I have to give it on the computer effects (but it still didnt seem "real". At least
District 9 was nominated.

sign of the times

Times are rough. The recession hit me as much as everyone else. When things are tough, certain things had to be sacrificed. For me it was comic books. For some time I have not opened a comic, read anything about comics (well, the titles I normally read anyways) nor found out what has happened to my favorite characters.

It's weird, really, that all this time has passed and I have no idea as to how many of the story arcs that I had to leave behind have been resolved. And despite the fact that I have been to a couple of cons since I stopped reading comics, I still have taken pride in not knowing what the hell is going on.

On the other side, (because of connections with my Indy and mainstream friends) I know alot more about the buisness end of things. I wonder if when things turn around for me (as well as my company) will I bother to pick up where I left off in comic book world......

And now there are three

I know I have mentioned this before, but now it is just getting out of control. For a while, around August of 2009, I found out that there would be two huge conventions (two of the three biggest guns out there) during the same month (the following October). When October of 2009 came around, I got the official word that Wizard conventions were going head-to-head with the NYCC guys. Now for the record, I have no problems with either company, (as a matter of fact, both of them have done nothing but be helpful to my little company (and by osmosis my radio show). That being said, I think it is the stupidest thing to do. It will hurt the fans, the vendors and both companies. NY is big enough to have 2 cons in the same year, so why have them on the same days? Anyways, I have voiced this alot on my radio show, and just last week, I found out even worse news...Seems that Wizard has decided to have a third convention (their second one) in the same month over in NJ!

So let me put this in perspective for you: In one month there will be three HUGE conventions in the tri-state area 2 of which will be on the same day(s)! All I have to say about this is WTF?

Day off

Yep...be back next week! Listen to tomorrow's show!

Rudy Colby

I love the internet. You can find just about anything on it if you know where to look. The problem is knowing where to look!

Before, when you wanted to see an old show or something from your childhood, you had two options: hope and pray for a re-run, or go to a con and hope that the "bootleg guy" had it on tape.

Everyone had a list of things they'd like to see again. I was no different. I wanted to see the final episode of Dungeons & Dragons, the final episode of Captain Power, along with a few other things. One of the most sought after things was something that I had only seen once, and couldn't remember the name (which made it the most difficult thing to look for let alone find). All I remembered was the theme song.

It was a show about a magician/superhero it aired on fox at 7pm on a sunday during the 90's and that was about all I had to go on.

then came along a little site called Tv Tango. The site has a huge database of all the tv listings from 1950 to the predent. It's like having all the TV guides available at your fingertips. So with a little work, I came across this:




Turns out he made 2 shows (yet I only remember parts of each one).

at anyrate, after almost 15 years, I found it!

Are we there yet?

It's funny, I almost forgot to post this week! (with the show now officially on wednesdays, I an doing two blogs on two different days) Anyways, at least 1 of the 2 things I mentioned comes to play. I had a discussion with my newest webmaster and I was told that she wants the site to be at it's best and she couldn't launch it until it was ready. I countered with, "What good is it being perfect when no one ever sees it?". This is an interesting argument. I mean does one launch a plane that isn't 100% safe? or do certain concessions have to be made to get it out there by a reasonable date?

I had a conversation with a friend of mine about this. We were talking about microsoft windows and how they seem to launch a large number of their programs with bugs still in it and fix it as they go along. Or any of those games that you play online (such as World of Warcraft or City of Heroes). They have what is called beta testing were people play the game and look for flaws or bugs. Eventually, they release the game and shortly there after (and for many years afterwards) they release updates or patches. So the game really is never "finished".

So at point does the (for lack of a better term) readiness, lose out to the demand of results? I really can't say.....

Still shuffling

Ho-kay,
In an earlier post I mentioned that the radio show would move to Mondays. Then I said the show would stay on Tuesdays....
Here is the official word. The show will move to Wednesdays at 9pm EST starting next week!
What happened was this....As you know there are 4 of us who do the show, Charlie, Hassan, Myself and Herman. As time went on, their schedulles changed. So it worked out like this: Herman was only available to do a show on Mon and Wed, Charlie is good to go on Tues and Wed, and Hassan is fine with Mon and Tues. So no matter what day I choose, I would lose someone. Then last week, Charlie hits me with a bomb, he can only do the show on Wed. So if i Kept the show on Tuesdays, I'd lose 2 hosts.
Wendesday here we come! Best part? We get to go on at 9pm! at least more people will be up on the east coast!

Website still set to re-launch at the end of the month!

Ideas vs execution

A lot of people have ideas. The world moves because of them. Some ideas are stupid, some can change worlds. Some people have less than others. I feel I am an idea man. I can sit and think of things all day long. The problem is that there are certain things I know I can't do.

Circumstances, timing and a whole slew or reasons let gerat ideas fall on the curb and the very smae circumstances cause bad ideas to make it through. Go to a library, movie theatre, or just go to youtube. There is alot of crap out there. However, in all that crap, there are gems to find. I;m sure there is some kind of fomrula out there to give the ratio of good stuff to crap that gts made.

So I can put on a good show. I believe I can make a good (entertaining) comic. I believe I can network and make good connections, but there are people out there who make all the money yet say "all I want to do is tell a good story". 90% of those people make crap and people just eat that up.

now that my little rant is over, here are a few updates:

If all goes well, my site should be 100% up and running by the end of this month.

The radio show will stay where it is (Tuesday nights 11pm EST).

Not Just Leno is moving!

With all this what to do with Leno going back to 11:30 and Conan going...well, who knows? We decided, (or really it was decided for us) that we will go back in time and do our Tuesday show on Mondays. It will be weird for us doing a show and broadcasting it one day earlier. At least we will be really ahead on our news segments!

Speaking of moving, if all goes well, my site will move to it's new webpage by the end of this month. My webmaster is working hard to make sure it is secure and "Mark-friendly". Which, as it turns out is no easy task! So keep following us (my blog will still be every Tuesday) and listen in to the show!

2010 Power Rangers

As many of you know (or should by now) I am a HUGE Power Ranger fan. This past weekend while doing my daily timer recordings, I came across a listing on ABC that read "Might Morphin' Power Rangers: NEW". Now I know that MMPR was the name of the original series 16 (yeah that long) years ago. Since then there are new shows which (some more than others) are connected to the orignal series. The lastest, would be RPM.

So it stroke me as odd that Disney would call MMPR "new". Later that day, I found out that Disney took the old footage and...(for lack of a better word) tried to...um..."update" it.

Let me go on the record by saying they failed miserably and I really really dislike what they did to one of my favorite Tv shows. It's as if they took something (that let's face it wasn't shakespear) and crapped all over it to try to appease the yunger (ie: target) audience. I'll let the videos speak for themselves:



The original

2010 version

Following up

So even tho Herman REALLY wanted to talk about Avatar, I managed to hold off of most of our comments till this week's episode (Thanks Everett!)

To Avatar or not

Here's a little "behind the scenes" of the radio show.

After watching Avatar, and realizing that former WWE Superstar Tazz may not be a call-in guest for next weeks show, I was considering to make next week's show all about Avatar. I feel we can easily fill an hour talking about the movie.

I mentioned this to (co-host) Herman, and he thinks we should stick to the plan on do Avatar tonight. I'm going to talk to the rest of the team, and you'll have to tune in (or wait till next week) to see what is decided!

Good Times

My newest webmaster is working on the new totally redesigned site, so hopefully I'll be able to upload new shows myself on there. As of right now, I still can't figure out how to get it on the "ICFTR" site....

The show is going quite well, Charlie did very good, and we had a good time. This week we will have a call in guest.

So things are looking up right now! I look forward to the new calendar year.

So now what?

I have been spending the better part of the day trying to upload last nights show to the "It came from the Radio" site (it was pretty good with the new addition). Still no go. I guess I still need a computer guy....

Just in time for the holidays

I had something else in mind for this week's post, but it seems that Santa came early and we have a holiday run of "It Came From The Radio" shows starting next week. The schedule is tentative, but this is what I have lined up so far:

12/8: Re-cap of the time between shows, a "duel of the cons" follow up, and then well have a discussion of re-makes and the new "re-imaginations"

12/15: Call-in guest from the comic Serpent Wars, then a discussion of the new 3-D trend in movies

12/22: Sky Pirates, and Avatar

and finally, 12/29: I hope to get former WWE superstar Taz to be a guest and have a discussion of the new "Sherlock Holmes" movie.

Remember they are all live, so listen in call in and spread the word!

Random Thought

I was thinking about this the other day. They do covers of songs (where one artist sings the exact same lyrics of another artist's song, re-make movies and TV shows, but they never re-write books. Why is that?

Why is it that people feel a tv show is "old" or "dated" where there are books much older? I mean there is no new "Romeo and Juliet". Yes, there are new "takes" of the story, but the book is never "remade".

Just something I was thinking about....

The day after Godzilla attacked our Independence in the year 2012

If you didn't get my attempt at humor, I am talking about the new disaster movie 2012 (made by the guys who did Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day, and the American Godzilla (amongst others)).

And as with all my movie discussions, spoilers may (and most likely) will be mentioned.






First off, this movie is looong, but it didn't feel like it, so that tells me the pacing was good. The movie starts off in 2009 (which was a bit of a surprise to me) where they get right to the plot. Crap is going to go down "very soon". Usually, there is one guy who knows everything and no on else believes him, but not in this movie. Right away, the President (played by Danny Glover) is notified and he let's all the "important people" know.

Soon after that, we are introduced to the "every man" the people who are going to have to survive (or at least try to) the disaster. Usually, these people are introduced separately and brought together by what ever the movie throws at them. Not in this movie, everyone is connected together in some way before crap goes down (which was a nice touch).

Now lets get to the destruction: Computers have come along way, but it still looks..."not right" somehow. But, these guys went all out (so far as to stretch your limits of plausibility to the max) with stuff blowing up (or down, or out) all over the place. No inch of the screen was spared. Usually, it's just one (or possibly two) big events and the rest id build up. Not in this movie. There are at least 5 different events (each equally huge) scattered throughout the movie (which once again helps with the pacing.

Out of everything going on, there was one guy who stood out for me....



Johann Urb (shame there is no dude-ipidea) He has "Hero" written all over him. Every time he showed up on screen, I was thinking, he could be Captain America, or maybe even the next action hero.

Now for the bad stuff....
The only thing that really bothered me (and only after I left the movie) was the really really good cell phones every one was having. As it stand now most phones don't work properly (dropping calls and bad connections and what not). But not in this movie. Despite the cell towers being destroyed (either by flood, earthquake, or just you know blowing up) everyone was able to call everyone else with no problems at all. They even mentioned that they had to turn off the switchboard because of all the phone traffic, and yet everyone was still able to make calls! In most horror movies, there is no reception and that is just with a guy in a hockey mask running around. Here, the world is coming to an end and everyone can still reach out and touch someone!

So overall, it was a decent disaster movie, the characters were more fleshed out than usual, the destruction levels were high and the cast was pretty decent. So go out and see it you only have 3 years to do so!