Any Synthetiks-related news, Davecat? (Jun 2006)

typed for your pleasure on 6 June 2006, at 8.29 pm

Sdtrk: ‘Flashback’ by Ministry

I would say so, yes! Otherwise I wouldn’t be posting about it..
Last night, whilst grabbing the Interbutt by the lapels and shaking information concerning ‘My living Doll‘ out of it, I saw a home theatre forum where they had a thread about telly shows that people would love to see on DVD. One poster commented:

according to Julie Newmar Official website – Julie herself owns the rights to all 26 episodes of My Living Doll and apparently owns copies of each episode — here is a link to her website so you can read all about it — she is planning to release them onto dvd— http://www.julienewmar.com/links.html

How incredible would that be, I ask you? I already know the answer — pretty damned. I’ve recently obtained, through a secret website, copies of six of the 26 episodes of ‘My living Doll’ burned to a DVD, and the show’s definitely worth seeing. Apart from the fact that Julie Newmar plays a Gynoid — which would clearly be any Technosexual’s dream come true — the show’s so cheesy, it makes ‘Three’s company’ look like the Royal Shakespeare Company. But I love ‘Three’s company’, so your mileage may vary.
So now I have to get round to writing Ms Newmar. She’s sitting on gold, I tell you! GOLD!!

Also, a new Doll company challenger has appeared, fighting for dominance in the cut-throat world of Japanese Dutch-wife production: the Erie series of Dolls, by Cruyff.


EEEEE NO PEEKING, you MASHER

Cute? Yes, although that’s really all I can say about them — they possess a generic style of cute. As any iDollators worth their salt know, American Synthetiks manufacturers have the lock on making their lasses sexy, whereas the Japanese are focussing on cute. To me, the Erie Dolls have a look somewhere between UNISON’s Superdolls, and Orient Industry’s CandyGirls — visually they’re so similar, that you want to ask Cruyff (quite a name, by the way — sounds like a pastry) ‘so, what exactly makes your Dolls different?’ Apart from the one-piece assembly, and the relatively inexpensive price, that is.
I’m really hoping the next Japanese company that springs up takes a different aesthetic approach, and makes their lasses look less like another CandyGirl imitation, and more like, say, Chestnut co. Ltd’s late-lamented Rare-Borg..
Still and all, the Erie Dolls ain’t too shabby, and the more Synthetiks manufacturers out there, the better. But you knew that.

Also also, I’ve managed to get a bonafide DVD copy of Luis García Berlanga’s ‘Tamaño natural’, aka ‘Grandeur nature’, aka ‘Grandezza naturale’, aka ‘Life size’, aka ‘Love doll’, aka ‘The Doll’. Heh, now you see why it took so long to hunt down a copy. But it’s a pretty ace little fillum overall — almost tailor-made for iDollators. Astonishingly enough, it’s from the Seventies!


She was a biter. But he loved her regardless

The only drawback to the DVD is that it’s in Spanish with no subtitles whatsoever. C’est la vie. Or however you say that in Español.

Finally, on a more personal front, Marika, Sidore-chan and I might well be in front of a camera again sometime in the next month or so, for a documentary being shot by an English film crew. Details, as always, are forthcoming..

‘Shouting to hear the echoes’. Synthetiks? Really? No shit?

Technorati tags: Julie Newmar, Gynoid, iDollator, Technosexual

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Just ignore the zero

typed for your pleasure on 6 June 2006, at 3.30 pm

Sdtrk: ‘Hold on’ by Sharon Tandy

Woooo, it’s 6.6.06 today, baby! This is an extremely rare occurrence, so get out there and celebrate it by slapping on some corpse paint, kicking over a garbage can, and flipping off a box of kittens! Hail Satan!

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Commence testing

typed for your pleasure on 5 June 2006, at 6.57 pm

Sdtrk: ‘Smrt za smrt’ by Laibach

Yep, still going through my Bowie downloads.

Which David Bowie are you?

Two of those above descriptors don’t actually apply to me, y’know. Also, we have:

Which Clockwork Orange character are you?
F. Alexander – A writer and political dissident, you devote your life to unseating the government; who you see as a great oppressive wrong on today’s society. We are all victims of the modern age.


*does Danny Thomas-style spit-take* Bollocks, I was hoping I’d be Alex! Or at the very least, Pete

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Put some clothes on, sir; I can see you digesting

typed for your pleasure on 4 June 2006, at 7.44 pm

Sdtrk: ‘When mama was moth’ by Cocteau twins

Picked this up whilst Out and About this Friday afternoon past:

Going from the diagram on the back, the human body contains, in its entirety: a Heart, a Brain, a Lungs, a Liver, a Stomach, and an Intestines.
That’s it? That’s all we’ve got in there??

How much did I pay for this kitschy artefact, you axe? One American dollar. That’s right! This is clearly (pun) the best purchase I’ve ever made from a dollar store, without question


Strangely, Tomas wasn’t invited to attend

typed for your pleasure on 2 June 2006, at 4.56 pm

Sdtrk: ‘Keeps on burning’ by The Burning bush

Linked from the malcontents at b3ta; this is truly a Thing of Beauty.

Zombie Wedding
How to spoil your wedding for your parents and in-laws; get everybody to dress as the living dead. The twin coffins for the bride and groom are a nice touch. The group photo is impressive – worth noting who didn’t come as a corpse.

Now, if the buffet table featured food made by that bloke in Thailand, then this definitely gets the title of Best Wedding Ceremony EVAR

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Good press! Well, better than recently. Arguably

typed for your pleasure on 31 May 2006, at 3.26 pm

Sdtrk: ‘The Smith can’ by Medusa cyclone

So I was peering at ‘Shouting etc etc’s stats yesterday, and noted a metric ton of rolloff from the Missus’ site. ‘Gods, what disparaging tossers have linked to us now?’ thought I. It wasn’t until just a couple of moments ago that I discovered that they were sent via a post on Fleshbot, so that’s alright, then. (They’ve got a brief article on my YouTube page as well.) I then mopped my brow.

Hi, visitors! Pull up a seat! Or remain standing, if that’s what you’re into

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G-CANS: silly name, fab place

typed for your pleasure on 29 May 2006, at 10.50 pm

Sdtrk: ‘Floating Eloy / Baby James’ by Merzbow / Ladybird

Ahh, Japan. Seeing something like the G-CANS underground flood control system just proves that once again, the country is going out of its way to inject the very future itself into our current present, as per usual. Good job, Japan!


If you get lost, you’ll be found eventually. Just keep yelling

The G-Cans Project is a massive project, begun 12 years ago, to build infrastructure for preventing overflow of the major rivers and waterways spidering the city (A serious problem for Tokyo during rainy-season and typhoon season). The underground waterway is the largest in the world and sports five 32m diameter, 65m deep concrete containment silos which are connected by 64 kilometers of tunnel sitting 50 meters beneath the surface.
from an article on boingboing.net

There’s a video on how it works as well. I remember first seeing this used as a set in ‘Ultraman: The Next’, and going oooh and aaah over it. After seeing it used in the live-action Tetsujin No.28 film I began to wonder if it was indeed a real place. And it is! Not only that, but G-CANS is apparently also free to visitors! Very savvy.

I’d love to see that system in action. From a vantage point above the water level, naturally

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