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Posted on 11.03.12 by Widge @ 2:11 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. There's a lot of stuff that comes out all the time, and the companies are want your attention and mostly...your coin. But, you know, it's your coin and you have to take care where you spend it. With these posts we try to take you through recent releases so you can make up your mind. If you find the info here to be of use, do us a favor and purchase stuff from Amazon through us. Especially if you were going to buy the stuff anyway. That gives us kickbacks, which help pay for things. Like the server. And coffee. And therapy. We thank you.
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Posted on 10.25.12 by Widge @ 12:00 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  So it's not news that one of the principles that Need Coffee lives by is: "If it's undead and bleeds, it leads." We're zombie fiends here and we're not ashamed of that fact. So when somebody wants to make a documentary about the rise of zombies in pop culture--and what looks to be a comprehensive and damn good one, too--we take notice. It's Doc of the Dead--Simon Pegg and George Romero are already interviewed for the thing...and for my part, I want to back it just so I can lay hands upon the footage of the "unique trans-generational zombie town hall meeting featuring George A. Romero, Max Brooks (World War Z) and Steven Schlozman (The Zombie Autopsies), in partnership with Mr. Romero himself, the Denver Film Society and the Mile High Horror Film Festival." I know, right? For more info you can check out the official site and the Kickstarter is here. The Kickstarter vid which includes their first trailer comes after the jump: Categorized as: Headsup
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Posted on 10.24.12 by ScottC @ 1:51 pm
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own.  HBO has become a brand name you can trust when it comes to quality original series. You can also trust that these series will also have an obscene amount of swearing, fucking, and more than a bit of the old ultra violence. Not that I don't blame them. If you can get away with it, why not make good TV that is legitimately adult? However, in the misty and far away era that was the 1980s (kids, ask your parents--it was a real time and not just a myth), HBO had a television show that was for children. That show was Fraggle Rock. For you young people out there who only know about Angry Birds, Justin Bieber, and Internet porn, go here and watch some. It's good for you. I will say that Fraggle Rock has a timeless universal quality that instantly makes it a classic. This could be due to Henson Studios making a show that wasn't driven by toy sale figures, a desire to create something XTREME!!!, or even a need to shove socially conscious messages hard into little kids' faces. Categorized as: Headsup
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Posted on 10.13.12 by Cosette @ 1:31 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. It's already Halloween season here at Need Coffee, and this month all of our Superlative Etsy Finds will be themed for that glorious time of year! Looking for party decorations for your own holiday bash? Here are some great places to start-- step into our Fantasy Halloween House Party and see some of what is out there to decorate with.   As you step up to our party house, you may notice this Snake & Spider Halloween Wreath from Amy LaRoux, which would be a great addition to any creepy front door. A bonus feature of a piece like this might be the ability to keep solicitors or boring neighbors away from your door...for the month of October at least... And to welcome you in, there is a very festive garland from RawBone Studio. Robin Romain has made this Vintage Halloween Garland from old-school Halloween masks from the 1960s. The majority of her shop is comprised of handmade Day of the Dead decorations, which are also really great (and there are some other equally creepy vintage image Halloween garlands as well!). Categorized as: Headsup
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Posted on 10.09.12 by Widge @ 9:41 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. There's a lot of stuff that comes out all the time, and the companies are want your attention and mostly...your coin. But, you know, it's your coin and you have to take care where you spend it. With these posts we try to take you through recent releases so you can make up your mind. If you find the info here to be of use, do us a favor and purchase stuff from Amazon through us. Especially if you were going to buy the stuff anyway. That gives us kickbacks, which help pay for things. Like the server. And coffee. And therapy. We thank you.
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Posted on 10.04.12 by Widge @ 11:50 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  We start off this week's exploration of cool Kickstarters with some guy named Len Peralta. I dunno, the name rings a bell. He's launching his fourth season of his wickedly successful trading card series, Geek a Week. Included in this new eight card run are Need Coffee poet laureate Ernie Cline and comic god Roy Thomas. Nice. Also with this round, you have the opportunity to get in on the action--one of the reward levels includes you becoming part of the limited edition Fan Set. For full details, check out the Kickstarter page. Len's vid is below. Categorized as: Headsup
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Posted on 09.25.12 by Widge @ 6:05 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. There's a lot of stuff that comes out all the time, and the companies are want your attention and mostly...your coin. But, you know, it's your coin and you have to take care where you spend it. With these posts we try to take you through recent releases so you can make up your mind. If you find the info here to be of use, do us a favor and purchase stuff from Amazon through us. Especially if you were going to buy the stuff anyway. That gives us kickbacks, which help pay for things. Like the server. And coffee. And therapy. We thank you.
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Posted on 09.20.12 by Widge @ 9:53 pm
Comments on this: just one. Add your own.  So wound up taking a week off again last week due to a bit of overwhelm, but we're back with more Kickstarters that make me amused and/or excited and/or willing to throw coin at people. Ignore the silent K and we begin with this: While I make the claim of never sleeping that is, unfortunately--with our current level of science, anyway--a bit of a stretch. I do on occasion give in and have to shut my eyes for a few minutes. And while the creators of this first Kickstarter talk a lot about power napping--I have mastered the art of the power coma. Whenever I stop moving, my body goes on auto-pilot and tries to shut down to conserve what little energy I have remaining. I'm like the walking version of that website where people try to document how far their cars can go after their empty gas tank indicator has come on. So that being said, when I do conk out, there are more effective ways to do it than simply putting my head down in a zoo full of screaming children and peacocks (long story). So the Ostrich Pillow shows some promise in that regard. And not just because the dude in the picture there looks like some kind of bizarre cosplay E.T.-by-way-of-Gerald-Scarfe-rendered-in-felt. Categorized as: Headsup
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Posted on 09.06.12 by Widge @ 2:57 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  After a week off for DragonCon, we return with a pair of Kickstarters that caught my eye. It's Thursday, so we throw on the unnecessary K and get started with a confession: Okay, here's the thing. I'm a pinball junkie. Not a wizard, mind you...but a junkie. When I found there was pinball ROM emulation software to let you play pinball simulations on Windows...holy crap, I think I lost an entire week. One of my life goals is to go to Las Vegas and get lost in the Pinball Hall of Fame. So when I hear that there's a group called FarSight Studios that's working on digitizing pinball games so you can play them on multiple modern gaming platforms--and that they've already successfully raised the funds necessary to digitize my favorite pinball game of all time--the Twilight Zone game? All I can say is hell, yes. If you watch till the end of the video that comes after the break, you could be a pinball geek. I'm just saying. Categorized as: Headsup
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Posted on 08.25.12 by Widge @ 10:43 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. There's a lot of stuff that comes out all the time, and the companies are want your attention and mostly...your coin. But, you know, it's your coin and you have to take care where you spend it. With these posts we try to take you through recent releases so you can make up your mind. If you find the info here to be of use, do us a favor and purchase stuff from Amazon through us. Especially if you were going to buy the stuff anyway. That gives us kickbacks, which help pay for things. Like the server. And coffee. And therapy. We thank you.
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