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Three-tune-thursday: Drone Posted by Gargleman

Drone can be exciting, it can be challenging, and in the case of Kyle Landstra’s Bathing In Melatonin, it can be absolutely lovely and snuggly and warm and cuddly. His label, Wise Owl, believe in free music, so you can download his latest release, Recurring Dreams, now, without feeling at all guilty. Do it! Now! (Because I can’t upload it for technical reasons I don’t understand!)

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Video games in the Time of Cholera (or: Why I learned to stop worrying and love the emulated Oregon Trail) Posted by Gargleman

Raft-based mini games wouldn't be this good again until Dizzy Down The Rapids

I’ve been trying to work out what I loved best about the Oregon Trail, which can now be played online in its original glory. › Continue reading

Rebecca Mayes – now with videos Posted by Gargleman

This video is for a song-slash-game-review by Rebecca Mayes, who we have previously mentioned (in a totally not-weird-or-internet-stalking-kind-of-way) in a truly factimonious post earlier in the year.

It isn’t the most in-depth way of reviewing a game, and she takes a very sensitive approach to a very geek-macho genre – she wants to hug the zombies in Resi 5, not shoot them! – but she restores her cred amongst basement-dwelling Xbox nerds by adding that Sheva’s boobs blow her mind.

Plus the zombie in the video looks rather like the ones from Joe D’Amato’s astonishingly poor zombie-porno film Erotic Nights of the Living Dead, which makes this a B+ at the very least.

Face Huggers Posted by Badger Von Winklebaum

Three-tune-Thursday: Swedish indie-pop Posted by Gargleman

Three-tune thursday this week revolves around Johan Angergård, a multi-talented Swede who has played in various bands, including Acid House Kings, Club8 and The Legends.

While the Acid House Kings material might seem a little frothy and insubstantial at first (see the above YouTube video for proof that it is even available in a karaoke version, I kid you not!) everything Angergård is involved in shows a lightness of touch and an enthusiasm for melody which just makes me really happy, whether it’s on the C-86 and fuzz-inspired tunes from his latest The Legends album, Over And Over, or on Club 8’s Jesus Walk With Me, which is sufficiently good that it briefly made me forget my rabid atheism and near-sexual love for Richard Dawkins.

They also get bonus points as a lot of their music is available to download (Well, their Acid House Kings and Club 8 material is at least). Plus extra bonus points for regularly working with the lovely and angelic-voiced Karolina Komstedt.

Club 8 – Jesus Walk With me – Jesus Walk With Me

The Legends – Seconds Away – Seconds Away

(Both mp3 links are posted elsewhere on sites seemingly associated with the band. If you are the copyright owner and don’t like publicity then please let us know and we’ll happily take them down!)

“It was awesome and you were special” Posted by Gargleman

Been rather busy the last couple of weeks so had no time to do any posts here on Nomad.

But I was on video sharing site Voshy looking at a reworking of a Zune advert that had been tweaked to make it pro-filesharing. There was a link to the above and I thought ooh la la…

But Voshy don’t embed, so I had to find it on YouTube.

Music is a Muscles track called Sweaty, remixed by Shazam, apparently. But if this is too bleepy and squeaky then here’s a Joost link to the dirtier original, which also has a niiiice video. You should watch it.

All this cheery music has left me much feeling much happier – and I’ve linked to more video streaming sites in one post than ever before. Go me!

Terminator 4 Review. Spoiler: It’s Shit Posted by Badger Von Winklebaum

Terminator Salvation could have been a great film, had it’s makers not not left under 10p for the screenplay after blowing the rest of the cash on special effects. While yes, the CGI is amazing and the cinematography is pretty masterful too, how the fuck can you end a film with something along the lines of “Oh, hey John Connor, I’m a big bad terminator but also pretty much of a dreamboat with the ladies. Although we’re in the middle of a desert with basically a pen-knife and not much else, why don’t we get that fit mate of yours over there to gauge my crusty 50 year old human heart out with a spoon and transplant it into you? Love you man.”. There. That was the ending. I’d feel guilty about ruining it for you, but I just don’t. I’m helping you. After that, they set it up for ANOTHER SEQUEL. I hope it never gets made. Terminator 1 & 2, maybe 3, were good films. This one is cock. But maybe download it as the special effects are really really good.