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Un año más y un Expocómic más. Me pertreché con una novela (Children of Dune, la tercera de la saga, que la tenía abandonada. Leer de nuevo sobre esos personajes es como reencontrarse con unos viejos conocidos) y al metro que me fui. La entrada al recinto ferial desde el año pasado es estupenda. Recuerdo cuando había que sortear las obras y subir por un puente que estaba a cientos de metros de la entrada principal. Seguro que hacíamos un kilómetro a lo tonto.
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[via Iancul] The first recorded Thanksgiving ceremony took place on September 8, 1565,[via Wikipedia]
when 600 Spanish settlers, under the leadership of Pedro
Menéndez de Avilés, landed at what is now St.
Augustine, Florida, and
immediately held a Mass of Thanksgiving for their safe delivery to the New
World; there followed a feast and celebration. As the La Florida colony did
become part of the United States, this can be classified as the first
Thanksgiving.[1]
El Paso, Texas, has also been
said to be the site of the first Thanksgiving to be held in what is now known as
the United States, though that was not a harvest festival. Spaniard Don Juan de
Oñate ordered his expedition party to rest and conducted a mass in
celebration of thanksgiving on April 30, 1598.[2]
En 1978, todos los niños de España nos volvimos historiadores. Gracias a la serie de dibujos animados de Albert Barillé muchos tenemos clarísimos los períodos históricos, al menos desde el punto de vista Occidental.
Pasemos ya a comentar el producto de Kalkitos. Era más como una colección de los actuales Stickers, donde no había opciones de colocar las figuras donde te viniese en gana. Había huecos en blanco que tenías que rellenar con el correspondiente transfer. Un rollo, pero el resultado quedaba bien y no importaba la restricción una vez lo tenía hecho. Cuando tenías todos los Kalkitos de la serie, los podías encuadernar. Era algo que me gustaba, buena idea.
Aquí podéis ver cómo quedaba una página. Era bastante majo el resultado.
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The band was impresive at that time, and created an album in record time. Even a song (Kissing the Shadows) was composed, finished and recorded in one day. That is not something you could see in modern productions very often.
Everytime I Die was an instant hit. The video, quite crude and effective, was very popular in Finland and in Sweden (were the album was produced), reaching the Top 10 of this countries for some days. Something that make me envious, because this could be impossible here in Spain.
The song has a very special pathos that reach from a calm expectation to nervous riffs. Guitar by Alexi Laiho and Keyboards by Janne Wirman rival in virtuosity in their respective solos. The whole band is composed of virtuoso players. Roope Latvala as a second in command in the guitar chores and Henkka Seppälä (bass) and Jaska Raatikainen (drums) give foundation to this Melodic Death Metal Band.
You can see more of Children of Bodom at his official page and at his MySpace.
Here is the embed of the video-single.
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The faint blaze of the candle
of my life slowly dying
like a fire in the pouring rain.
No sparks of hope inside,
no shooting stars on my sky.
on broken wings, no flying high.
Another night, another demise,
Cadaverous wind blowing cold as ice.
I`ll let the wind blow out the light,
'Cuz it gets more painful Every Time I die.
Out of strength to fight,
I cannot take another night.
I cannot take it no more,
Lust of light slips through my fingers.
Like blood drips off my arms,
Black candle wax has buried me.
Another night, another demise,
Cadaverous wind blowing cold as ice,
I`ll let the wind blow out the light,
'Cuz it gets more painful everytime I die.
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And if you are not convenced of the virtuoso playing, check this other video where Alexi Laiho and Roope Latvala play a fragment of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Flawless playing, accurate time and fingers faster than the eye!
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Los Virkikis son algo tan especial que había que meterlos cuanto antes en Tonnerre de Brest.
Como curiosidad, os muestro una imagen de un Pluto en pijama que también empleaba el sistema de la pinza y que durante muchos años sujetó el cable del teléfono de mi habitación. Lo conservé en activo hasta que me fui de casa de mis padres. Ahora retoza y descansa con sus primitos de peluche. 
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The D&D rules book was an edition of the “Blue” instructions. The writers were Gary Gygax (the creator of the rules set) and Dave Arneson. It was intended to be played with “paper and pencil and miniature Figures”. This reprint take the second edition of November 1974.
That’s all for the rules set. Let’s now comment the story of TSR, to me the most important part of this box. Acompaining this words, the three volume set that was the original D&D. The game that started all. RPG did not exist back in the early seventies. It was like that. Only a game lover, Gary Gygax, that developed a miniature war game into something else could bring us the original and most popular Rol Playing Game of them all.
From the game “Castle and Crusade” (C&C), Gygax thought of a game were the player took control of a single character instead of a battalion. Gary Gygax writes in the introduction that the game was finished in 1973 (50 copies of the manuscript). It was the origin of the Game and the most popular game of the new company, Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association. And the Gen-Con of August 73.
From this humble beginning to 500! Copies in no time. And then 10,000 and then millions. The creation of Gygax was a success that transformed his little company into a big entertainment company that ruled the world of RPGs for nearly two decades.
Not many people knew the game until it was really popular. The first version (showcased in the box) was something for Wisconsin gamers at Lake Geneva town and people that attained the Gen-Con from 1973 to 1978.
New editions of the basic rules book where a necessity to expand the game and make it recognised, but the real impact came when the TSR company released the Red Cover Basic set. New wonderful art accompanied the rules set and many people noticed the game.
In this picture we can see starter sets, some of them are the first thing D&D played. The first time I played the game was in 1988, but the Fast-play that could be seen at the bottom of the image was the first modules that I DMed. I simply love them.
This is a picture of the original household of TSR. As you can see, it is a house. A common house. There the pioneers created new product, discussed new options and sell the resulting books. And of course, they play-tested his inventions and let new customers and fans get accustomed to the game.
The first developed version of the game consisted of only a book. The three books that we all know is part of the last version of the basic set. A book for everyone that plays the game, a book for the DM and a Monster Manual. And of course, polyedric dice with the now famous D20 as the king of all of them.
The modules sold for quantities that were really impressive. More than a million of this little “carnets” were sold in several printings and reprintings. To many of the players that enjoyed the game at that early stages (1978), this were the first adventures their character experienced.
Giants were the original treat. Dragons were so much to chew. The adventures went on to more dangerous places, with more advanced characters and the idea of real Rol-playing was expanded, with the first give away. Pages of the module to be photocopied to let the players guess what the adventure was about.
The mythic adventures were at their original stages, like Keep on the Borderlands, a common place to enjoy the company of party members ready for action.
Modules grew into a more complex addenda to the game, like this adventure set into the caves, another way to present a dungeon. It was a module for Advance Dungeons & Dragons. More on future post about AD&D.
There is also a copy of the original Ravenloft module, where the characters went by accident to the realm of Count Strahd von Zarovich. Oh, boy!
Sinfonía Grafica.
Anatomía de una historieta.
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The song has a very special starting bars. First the falling from the 9th to the tonic (g f f) and the harmonic melodic dorian scale (a b c#’ d’ e’ f’ e’ d’ d’). Then follows a conventional F Major tune with an odd number of bars.
To me this song is one of the best I ever heard and one of the most simple and basic melodies that really strung to our subconscious. It didn’t surprised me that McCartney suspected that he didn’t wrote the song. I think this song was about to be composed and the most talented popular music of the time get directly to the melody. It is a compendium of many wonderful clichés of the popular songs.
Here is the embed of the last performance of this song by the Beatles in 1966 in Japan.
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Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, I yesterday came suddenly
Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday
Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday
Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Mm mm mm mm mm mm mm
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As could be seen in Tonnerre de Brest Minnie celebrated his mate commemorations by dressing up eighty designs. And Disney company has many things to celebrate. Congratulations to all of them!
I couldn’t resist adding the embed with the Steamboat Willie Short, his first! This movie is like a giving-birth documentary. And Uncle Walt was his father.
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