{"id":235,"date":"2011-02-02T03:34:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T03:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2011\/02\/02\/stuff-received-2111-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:18:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:18:33","slug":"stuff-received-2111-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2011\/02\/02\/stuff-received-2111-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff received 2\/1\/11 Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51A6YxnCb2L._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Santa-Sangre-Guy-Stockwell\/dp\/B004B32500\/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1296614818&amp;amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Santa Sangre<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nDirected by Alejandro Jodorowsky<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s, his legendary films <span style=\"font-style: italic\">El Topo<\/span> and <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Holy Mountain<\/span>  redefined movies as both art and entertainment while changing the face of cinema forever. And in 1989, visionary writer\/director Alejandro Jodorowsky returned with his modern masterpiece: It is the story of a young circus performer, the crime of passion that shatters his soul, and the macabre journey back to the world of his armless mother, deaf-mute lover, and murder. It is an odyssey of ecstasy and anguish, belief and blasphemy, beauty and madness. It is unlike any movie you have ever seen before&#8230;or ever will. Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra and Guy Stockwell star in this epic of surreal genius, now fully restored and featuring more than five hours of exclusive Extras that reveal the mind behind one of the most provocative and unforgettable motion picture experiences of our time. On DVD for the first time ever in America.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">WOW!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/516zUZB0Y1L._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Demonstorm-Legends-Raven-James-Barclay\/dp\/1616142529\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1296615318&amp;amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Demonstorm<\/span> (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Legends of the Raven<\/span> 3)<\/a><br \/>\nby James Barclay<br \/>\nCover by Raymond Swanland<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>THIS IS THE END &#8230;The dragons have gone home, the elves are safe. The Raven have kept their promises. But fate has not finished with them. As the war between the colleges rages on an old enemy senses that his chance to revenge a bitter defeat has come. Tessaya, Lord of the Paleon Tribes has waited patiently for his moment and now, with Balaia in flames, he makes his move and unleashes the Wesmen hordes. In Xetesk, his forces scattered, Dystran, Lord of the Mount faces certain defeat by the Wesmen unless he unleashes the horrfying power of dimensional magics. And Dystran has not come this far to be beaten at the last by a rabble of ignorant tribesmen. And so the veil between dimensions is torn &#8230;And beyond, a predatory evil stirs. Demons catch the scent of countless souls in Balaia. Can even the Raven prevail when the world is coming to an end? A fantasy milestone is reached. James Barclay brings his sensational saga of The Raven to a heartsopping conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/radicalpublishing.com\/\/images\/titles\/driver\/covers\/driverissue3_main.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/radicalpublishing.com\/titles\/comics\/driver-for-the-dead?series_id=40&amp;amp;issue_id=188\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Driver for the Dead<\/span> #3<\/a><br \/>\nCreated and Written by: John Heffernan<br \/>\nPencils and Inks by: Leonardo Manco<br \/>\nPaints by: Kinsun Loh and Jerry Choo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Alabaster Graves is the Driver for the Dead. He and his hearse, Black Betty, handle the more \u201clively\u201d cases in New Orleans: vampires, angry ghosts, the not-quite-dead. Earlier tonight he was sent to retrieve the body of one of the town\u2019s most famous and beloved spirit healers, Mose Freeman, with Mose\u2019s granddaughter Marissa along for the ride.  <\/p>\n<p>Unbeknownst to Graves, he was not the only one after Mose\u2019s body. A necromancer, named Fallow, along with his gang of undead toughs, was also in town murdering other supernatural practitioners and stealing their powers by attaching powerful pieces of their corpses to his own piecemeal, undead personage. <\/p>\n<p>Now, Fallow has injured Graves, stolen Mose\u2019s body and kidnapped Marissa. Graves, rescued by a group of woodsmen and their mysterious leader, has discovered three things: who Marissa is, why she\u2019s so important to Fallow&#8230; and the only possible way to save her: He must hunt down the fabled Loup Garoux, an ancient and deadly werewolf created by Marissa\u2019s own grandmother, kill the creature, and steal the voodoo-cursed knitting needle from its chest. And that&#8217;s the easy part&#8230;   <\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Greenhouse-web1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbooks.com\/our-books\/greenhouse\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Welcome to the Greenhouse<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nEdited and with an introduction by Gordon Van Gelder<br \/>\nPreface by Elizabeth Kolbert<br \/>\nCover by Eric Drooker<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The shotgun man barked, \u201cThat will not save us. Not save the Arctic. Our beautiful home.\u201d He had a knotted face and burning eyes beneath heavy brows.<br \/>\nShe talked fast, hands up, open palms toward him. \u201cAll that SkyShield nonsense won\u2019t stop the oceans from turning acid. Only fossil\u2014\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cDo what you can, when you can. We learn that up here.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014from Welcome to the Greenhouse<\/p>\n<p>Forty years ago, Walt Kelly\u2019s comic strip character Pogo famously intoned: \u201cWe have met the enemy, and he is us.\u201d Now, as the evidence for climate change becomes overwhelming, we learn the hard reality behind that witticism. The possible destruction, and certain transformation, of the ecosphere has been brought about by our own activities.<\/p>\n<p>What will our new world look like? How will we\u2014can we\u2014adapt? The clash of a rapidly changing environment with earth\u2019s self-styled ruling species, humans, provides ample creative fodder for this riveting anthology of original science fiction. In Welcome to the Greenhouse, award-winning editor Gordon Van Gelder has brought together sixteen speculative stories by some of the most imaginative writers of our time. Terrorists, godlike terraformers, and humans both manipulative and hapless populate these pages. The variety of stories reflects the possibilities of our future: grim, hopeful, fantastic and absurd.<\/p>\n<p>Included is new work by Brian W. Aldiss, Jeff Carlson, Judith Moffett, Matthew Hughes, Gregory Benford, Michael Alexander, Bruce Sterling, Joseph Green, Pat MacEwen, Alan Dean Foster, David Prill, George Guthridge, Paul Di Filippo, Chris Lawson, Ray Vukcevich and M. J. Locke.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblog_entry.php?e=2795\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Part I<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. Santa Sangre Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky Promo copy: In the 1970s, his legendary films El Topo and The Holy Mountain redefined movies as both art and entertainment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2011\/02\/02\/stuff-received-2111-part-ii\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2011\/02\/02\/stuff-received-2111-part-ii\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stuff received 2\/1\/11 Part II - The Geek Curmudgeon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. 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