“I think it’s one of the fettucini’s”
Posted on March 22, 2006
Brandon Bird (if you don’t recognize the name, go here) recently organized a gallery showing entitled Boom and Bust. In short, he and a couple of other artists created a piece of art to accompany an audio story. The story, you’ll be interested to know, was The Ghostbusters Meet the Ghost Riders read-along book.
So, put on your art hat and enjoy - the results are pretty damn cool. You can download the Ghost Rider tracks, but they may have been edited, so don’t consider them a faithful reproduction of the read-along tape.
[UPDATE] While looking through his past work, I found this piece he did for The Believer. Did you know Aykroyd supposedly means Shining Hero in Chinese? I didn’t.
[UPDATE] I liked the show and said as much to Mr. Bird. When asked how the idea for the show came about, I got this reply;
“For nearly two decades, my younger brother and I had enjoyed the ‘Ghostbusters meet the Ghost Riders’ book on tape. Specifically, we enjoyed how completely unfaithful it was to any Ghostbusters canon before or since, and how its author obviously liked cowboys and mining more than ghosts. So a while ago I thought, ‘I will turn this into an art show, and use the tape as the guided audio tour.’”
credit | Chris and Lin (who’re way hipper than I am)
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GB film score CD almost gone!
Posted on March 15, 2006
Ryan LeClair emailed me just now - apparently when he and his father went to order their copy of the Elmer Bernstein Ghostbusters film score, they were told by Var�se Sarabande customer service that they were down to ten copies remaining. So if you didn’t get one already, let’s hope they decide to do a second run.
credit | Ryan LeClair
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GB 1&2 repackaged DVDs out today
Posted on March 14, 2006
This is a minor note - the “repackaged” DVDs are out today. The two DVD gift-set was never intended to be available forever - instead Sony is breaking them up into individual films. Same green goo cover, normal DVD case, one for Ghostbusters and one for Ghostbusters 2.
The gift-sets are still fairly available, so if you haven’t picked it up, you might want to. And if you ever thought about buying it for someone else, the gift-sets are the better deal, so buy them while you still can.
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GBMMORPG
Posted on March 11, 2006
Someone has produced a GB multiplayer RPG - I haven’t had a lot of time to check it out, but while they’ve been working on it for months, the response has been low. So, in lieu of actually having a chance to play the game, I thought I’d spread the word. The application you’ll need to play it can be found here.
And since we’re on the topic of fan created games, SadJason has been working on an old school GB sidescroller, with some awesome sprite art.
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RGB on SNL pt. 2
Posted on March 10, 2006
Big thanks to LukeVenk of the Ghostbuster Toy Archive for providing and streaming the video. Everybody say “Thank you, Luke”.
[UPDATE] I just noticed that Zoe posted a link to a file version of the clip that you can download through RapidShare - nice work Zoe.
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RGB on SNL
Posted on March 8, 2006
This past weekend, Saturday Night Live ran a TV Funhouse animated short in which Winston puts in an appearance. I missed it, but it was, I understand, a choice piece of social commentary in honor of Black History Month - I think.
Even though I missed it, Wheelhouse did me (and by extention, all of you) a service by sending me some screen grabs. Thanks!
credit | Wheelhouse
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Bernstein soundtrack officially released on CD
Posted on March 6, 2006
For those of you who have spent years looking for the Elmer Bernstein Ghostbusters soundtrack or have for those of you that found the bootleg of average quality, it appears that Varèse Sarabande, purveyors of rare soundtracks, is releasing a Sony sanctioned version of the soundtrack.
For $19.99US, plus $6.50 shipping (North America - abroad costs more) you can get your hands on one CD of 39 tracks - the track breakdown covers the same material as the bootleg, if not more, but it is arranged into much shorter tracks, including three “bonus” tracks.
You’d better get one now however, as the run is currently limited to 3000. Ghostbuster fans and soundtrack collectors alike will be looking to get their hands on this one. The website says they will start shipping the discs March 16th.
It’s interesting, Varèse Sarabande carries a number of hard to find soundtracks by Bernstein, including Stripes and Spacehunter!
credit | Phantomfriar2002
[UPDATE] The track listing looks similar to an alternate bootleg (Spook Central lists it at the bottom) - both have 36 tracks. This edition however has the three bonus tracks. The company is a well regarded company, and Ghostbusters, along with their other Club releases, has been reported as official on a number of soundtrack websites.
There was a small, promotional soundtrack released years ago, upon which many of the bootlegs out there are based - it’s very possible that Varèse Sarabande is releasing that same promotional edition, along with the three bonus tracks (one of which is an alternate version of one of the compositions.)
[UPDATE] Interesting fact; Varèse Sarabande is producing 3000 of the Ghostbuster soundtrack - the other three soundtracks are only seeing half as many. So, clearly they expect the CD to be very popular. With luck, perhaps it will spur a second edition. Or maybe a small run of the second movie’s score by Randy Edleman - sure, he’s no Elmer Bernstein, But I still liked it.
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Second Titan RGB book out
Posted on March 3, 2006
The second collection of Marvel UK’s Real Ghostbusters comic, Who You Gonna Call?, came out this week (a month later than originally expected) - I just picked my copy up at my local comic shop. As last time, the small format, perfect bound book features a collection of reprints from the weekly British comic series, including a handful of Spengler’s Spirit Guides (written by Dan Abnett - click here to read PC’s interview with Abnett.) I’ll have to check, but this edition seems a bit bigger than the first one.
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GB Soundtrack for your iPod
Posted on March 2, 2006
As copies slowly surface here and there, fans debate whether or not they’ll buy a soundtrack they alrady have just to get two songs not available on the previous edition of the soundtrack. Well, part of that problem can be solved easy.
iTunes is offering the soundtrack for the usual $9.99, or most of the individual tracks for 99 cents. I say most because Disco Inferno by The Trampps is only available with the album (iTunes typically reserves a more sought after song for album purchases only.) But if you want the 12″ cut of the theme song, you can buy that for a buck (which is handy for those of you with the vinyl or picture records, but want a playing copy.)
thanks | staypuft428 & Rene
