Yeah the people who make Pot Noodle.
This is becoming a bit of a pet issue of mine, as this is something I have personally run afoul of in the past. Two incidents come to mind. The first was when one of our listener meet ups ended up at FAB Cafe in Leeds, only to be thrown out because it’s “illegal” to take photos in a nightclub, it isn’t. And the conflict continued as I took photos of the bouncers from the street, also not illegal. Read More
Name that Atari 2600 game with the cover provided. Perhaps this will be worthy of Scott Rubin of GeekNights since he likes challenging trivia. Perhaps I may even see a submission from him.
Send your submissions to ro.rosaka@gmail.com. Deadline is next Thursday, 02/02/2012, at 12AM PST. One winner will be randomly selected and given a shout-out on our next recording.
After taking a break from our regular rotation to deliver the review of the year shows, we return with a half and half episode.
Shane talks about Chris Boardman’s Gold Medal in 1992 at the Barcelona Olympics, as well as its impact on British Cycling – the rewards of which the country is reaping now. He would go on to be the only British cyclist worth talking about until the emergence of David Millar in the late 1990s.
Jonathan talks about Super Bowl III and Joe Namath’s promise to win the game despite playing for the huge underdogs New York Jets. This was the first time an AFL team beat the NFL.
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Nerd Hurdles returns to the Underworld. It triggers an argument about body image.
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3 1/2 out of 5 *****
One could argue a brief look at the publicity for Like Crazy is something of a marketing disaster; the trailer, the mawkish poster, even the title. You’d be right in surmising that Like Crazy is a love story, but it’s not the love story that the first wave of advertising would have you believe. Jakob Rehlinger – from the Nerd Hurdles podcast – argued that this same problem beset the movie, Hanna.
The couple is question is Anna (Felicity Jones) and Jacob (Anton Yelchin). Anna is an English college student in Los Angeles and takes a shine to classmate, Jacob. Sure enough a whirlwind love-affair swiftly develops between the two of them. While I’d imagine that they have been in relationships before, they approach this one with the wide-eyed wonder of a child who’s opened their Christmas presents to find that Santa has brought them exactly what they wanted. Read More
Poor Omar is undone by Genesis in our latest installment of Atomic Trivia War 9000. Other topics include: Children’s books, movie roles, iconic music, and fictional currencies.
Blame Scott Rubin.
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Pollyanna Cowgirl Records Podcast. Your weekly hour of great music! Hosted by Tony Pucci
(00:57) 01 – SEAPONY – Blue Star
(03:17) 02 – ISLES OF KIN – My Little Girl
(09:28) 03 – NO AGE – Glitter
(13:20) 04 – THE ARCTIC FLOW – This Time
(19:05) 05 – THE SPECS – Target of My Animosity
(23:21) 06 – LOCK and KEY – 2nd Quarter Broken
(25:52) 07 – PHANTOM TAILS – Onward and Awkward
(29:16) 08 – DUM DUM GIRLS – He Gets Me High
(32:03) 09 – CARNAGE THE EXECUTIONER – Comin Thru Ya Speakers
(37:09) 10 – FIRE IN THE NORTHERN FIRS – Something to Write Home About (live)
(40:56) 11 – THE SADIES – Anna Leigh
(44:12) 12 – ROSE POLENZANI – Blue Angel
(48:10) 13 – RUSSIAN CIRLCES – Mldek
(56:32) 14 – THE BIG PINK – Velvet
SONGS FOR JENNY ALS Charity Music Project
CONTACT: pollyannacowgirl@simplysyndicated.com
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Since we don’t talk much about Underworld: Awakening in our upcoming Nerd Hurdles episode on Underworld: Awakening, here is a more in depth look at this weekend’s biggest film.
The fourth installment in the franchise—and the proper sequel to the second film Underworld: Evolution—finds our heroine, Selene, awakening from twelve years in stasis to a world where humans have purged Vampires and Werewolves to the point of extinction. This is really the only place the franchise could be taken. This place being the Resident Evil films.
Co-directors Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein borrow more than a few pages from the Paul W.S. Anderson schlock-fests:
Page 1—We see a back-story of where a True Blood-style “Great Revelation” results in lycanthropy and vampirism being treated as like T-virus infections with paramilitary units going on search and destroy missions.
Page 2—Selene breaks out of a glass stasis tube, naked, in an Umbrella Corporation lab (here trading under the name AntiGen) and has to kill her way past endlessly respawning guards who luckily have a bad case of the Stormtroopers as far as their marksmanship goes.
If you’d like to look at the news you’ll find it here in our shownotes. Read More
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This is the Christmas show that happens right as Christmas starts. It was a pleasure to have you all there.
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