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You know it's a good birthday when you get a passel of the new Playmobil Vikings and the Holy Grail.

My Grail, of course, is disguised as the soundtrack for The Dark Crystal, one of my all-time favorite, best-beloved, essential-to-a-happy-life film scores. A beautiful piece of work (I'm a big Trevor Jones fan), but one that hasn't been available since the original LP release, back in the early 80's, and I couldn't justify spending a huge amount of money for an album that I couldn't even play. But Numenorean Music (great name, considering) just came out with a limited edition 2-disc set, with the original release score on Disc One and the complete score on Disc Two, and copy #14 of 5000 is now my new favorite thing. It's so wonderful. I've decided that all I'm going to do today is lie around listening to it, yelling out things like "The Great Conjunction is at haaaand!" and scaring the cats. Eeeee! I'm giddy!

There's a whole group of early to mid-eighties fantasy films- Dark Crystal, Ladyhawke, Neverending Story, Labyrinth, Last Unicorn, Princess Bride (even though that has a different, lighter feel to it), maybe a few others- that I love beyond all reason and am completely unable to watch critically. I know that Dark Crystal has been criticised for having a generic plot, that Ladyhawke's Alan Parsons Project score is considered a horror show (hey, I like it, synthesizers and all), that supposedly Neverending Story is dull and too far removed from the book... but these movies are my It's a Wonderful Life or Gone With the Wind. Even their flaws are wonderful to me. I mean, I once torpedoed an hour's busy flirting with a pretentious but gorgeous film geek by naming not Das Boot as my favorite Wolfgang Peterson film, but The Neverending Story (oh well, he wasn't that cute). Other young fantasy geeks had their synapses molded by the good Professor and his elves and orcs and Maiar; I've always been happy with Gelflings and the Southern Oracle and the Goblin King. Especially the Goblin King. Rrowr.

Eeeeee! I love my CD!

Oh, and since this post isn't spammy enough yet:


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Of course I am. Funny thing is, I even have the Chicks in Chainmail book that the picture is from.

A pair of links, tra la, tra la

A veddy, veddy wee interview with Bruce Hopkins (Gamling) from Action-Figure.com (no spoilers for RotK). He mentions that he's been scanned for an action figure, which may or may not show up after RotK. Please, please, please let it be produced! I'd love more Rohirrim figures in general, but a Gamling one in particular (or my dream set, a Gamling/Hama two-pack) would be just fabulous.

And in keeping with the 80's nostalgia kick I've been on, here's a very cool Eighties Tarot Deck. Ferris Bueller, Michael Hutchence, Tears for Fears, Max Headroom... really a neat deck.


Oh, and I have an update on my long, long, long delayed Galadriel and Prologue Elf action figures (previously ranted about aqui and aqui). Three more weeks. Maybe. I haven't cancelled yet because hell, I've been waiting since February, what's three more weeks? But remind me never again to order a HTF figure from Amok Time. Standards they have no problem with, but anything slightly rare is just impossible. Sheesh.

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It must be my day for useless posting. But I'm trapped at the computer, I'm bored, I have the attention span of a caffeinated gerbil, and I'm gonna do another meme (nicked from taraljc).

( The fandom meme )