Well because I have the time and the music I was thinking about the Utena step fragment that was posted just a little bit ago. This song came up in my player and I thought it might make a good theme for Akio. "Theme to a Fake Revolution" - Powerman 5000
Lyrics at www.lyricstime.com/lyrics/54332.html

Shawn Earl

If I were to get back the rights to IST and begin setting up a PDF second edition, what would people like to see added/removed/changed?


-- Bob
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There is no spork.

Note: I tried to search this, but search seems to be down, so I'm sorry if it's already been suggested
Tonight's movie on Bravo got this song suggestion known to the world. It might be useful should Doug have to adjust time for some reason. The lyrics might lead to other powers too, such as invisibility or driving someone insane.

It's astounding
Time is fleeting
Madness takes its toll
But listen closely
(Not for very much longer)
I've got to keep control
I remember
Doing the Time Warp
Drinking those moments when
The blackness would hit me
And the void would be calling
Let's do the Time Warp again
Let's do the Time Warp again
It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
With your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane
Let's do the Time Warp again
Let's do the Time Warp again
It's so dreamy
Oh, fantasy free me
So you can't see me
No, not at all
In another dimension
With voyeuristic intention
Well secluded, I see all
With a bit of a mind flip
You're into the time slip
And nothing can ever be the same
You're spaced out on sensation
Like you're under sedation
Let's do the Time Warp again
Let's do the Time Warp again
Well I was walking down the street
Just a having a think
When a snake of a guy gave me an evil wink
He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise
He had a pick up truck and the devil's eyes
He stared at me and I felt a change
Time meant nothing, never would again
Let's do the Time Warp again
Let's do the Time Warp again
It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
With your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane
Let's do the Time Warp again
Let's do the Time Warp again
-- The Time Warp, The Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack
It still amazes me that both Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick readily acknowledge they were in this movie, and have even appeared at anniversary events associated with it. Co-star Tim Curry runs away from it. Then again, while they spent great portions of the movie running around in their underwear, neither of them spent the movie in fishnets and high heels like Curry did. Jeanne

"I'm Your Puppet", which according to Google is apparently by Elton John.
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Pull the string and I'll wink at you, I'm your puppet
I'll do funny things if you want me to, I'm your puppet
I'll be yours to have and to hold
Darling you've got full control of your puppet
Pull another string and I'll kiss your lips, I'm your puppet
Snap your finger and I'll turn you some flips, I'm your puppet
Your every wish is my command
All you gotta do is wiggle your little hand
I'm your puppet, I'm your puppet
I'm just a toy, just a funny boy
That makes you laugh when you're blue
I'll be wonderful, do just what I'm told
I'll do anything for you
I'm your puppet, I'm your puppet
Pull them little strings and I'll sing you a song, I'm your puppet
Make me do right or make me do wrong, I'm your puppet
Treat me good and I'll do anything
I'm just a puppet an you hold my string, I'm your puppet
Yeah, I'm your puppet
Walking, talking, living, loving puppet
I'm hanging on a string girl, I'll do anything now
I'm a walking, talking, living, loving puppet, and I love you
I'm a smiling happy face when you want me to
Even make you happy when you're feeling blue
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Note: This effect is pretty much based on the events of last night's episode of "Angel", which is where I got the idea in the first place; now that I look at the song, some of the lyrics don't seem like a good match and some of their possible alternate effects don't seem at all desirable, but it's stuck in my mind so here it is.
For the duration of the song, turns Doug - clothes and all, presumably including helmet - into a living, Muppet-style puppet, with appropriate reduction in size. Except for perhaps less physical toughness (puppets tear pretty easily), he's still just as strong, fast, et cetera, as ever.
This probably wouldn't be too useful in practice, but it might be good for the freak-out factor on occasion (how weird is it for your ordinary crook or street thug to be getting his ass kicked by an animate Muppet?), and I've got this image of Doug hiding in a pile of stuffed toys a-la "E.T."...

This is one I wanted to put up for the longest time, but nowhere on the Net has it been transcribed before now. I had a chance to do so yesterday, though, and took it -- and despite the fact that the discussion over the last Song of the Day hasn't ended yet, I'm throwing this one up now.
I'll leave you all to try and figure out its implications. If indeed there are any.
-- Bob
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(Spoken)
The other night, I was walkin' down the street
I was gettin' kinda hungry
I decided to get me somethin' to eat
Now, I passed up all the chain franchise joints on Hamburger Row
And stopped at a little greasy spoon place I always eat at
Called "Eat" (Eat!)
Sit'n'gulp
Get you one of those greasy hamburgers all peppered up
Lay you up in the hospital for ten days.
So I order me up a couple of them greasebombs
Waitress brought'em over
Lifted up the bun, checked'em out
Damn! No ketchup
So I nudged the guy sitting next to me at the counter
I said, "Hey, partner, how about passing the ketchup over?"
Suddenly, this little-bitty green hand holding a ketchup bottle came into view
And I freaked!
Cause the guy sitting next to me
Was a Martian!
Now in twenty-eight years of eating hamburgers
I ain't never run into no Martian
Not at two-thirty in the morning
And certainly not at a fine scarfin' establishment like Eat (Eat!)
Well, he was sittin' over there with a bunch of colored sticks on his plate
And I looked over at him and I said,
"What you eatin' there, boy? Crayons?"
And he said
"Why, no, they're Martian cigarettes. Here, try one."
Well, 'bout a half hour later, he looked over at me and smiled
Them ol' Martians ain't got but two teeth in their head
And he said, "How do you feel?"
And I said
(Sung)
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllll
I feel
So good
Yeah I do
Gonna boogie
Gonna boogie
Yow! 'Til the break of day
(music)
Yeah
(Spoken)
Meanwhile
Back at Eat
I was stiiiiiiillll
Thinkin'
I said
"How come out of all the places you could've landed you ended up here?"
He said
"Well accordin' to my lil ol' space map
This town here
Is supposed to be
The Boogie Capital of the USA!"
(music)
So I asked'im, I said
"Now where else you been, boy?"
And he told me.
(Sung)
He said I rocked'em over
And I rocked'em down
I rocked'em in the country
I rocked'em in town
Rocked'em from Memphis
On up to Maine
Rocked up a lady and she asked my name
Told her my name was on the tail of my shirt
Said rock it, see a Martian don't have to work
Yeah I feel so good
Yeah
Yeah
Gonna boogie
Yow! 'Til the break of day
Martian boogie!
-- Brownsville Station, Martian Boogie
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

This just occurred to me on my ride into work this morning. I doubt I'll get around to writing it, so if someone wants to take this and run with it, go ahead with my blessings.
Revolutionary Girl Shinobu
Set at or near the beginning of Love Hina (at least initially).
Shinobu Maehara falls asleep in front of the TV at Hinata-sou, which has been running episodes of Revolutionary Girl Utena. She dreams of entering the story, casting herself as Utena and Keitaro as "The Rose Groom". In order to protect the poor, abused Rose Groom from the Hinata Academy Student Council, she must enter the mysterious Tournament.
I'm still working on correspondences for the Hina crew, but a couple are obvious:
Grandma is End of the World, although she makes for a poor Akio Ohtori.
Motoko as Saionji
Naru as Touga, with her little sister Mei as Nanami
Su as Miki
Which leaves Kitsune or Mutsume as Juri, which just doesn't really work; maybe Kitsune should be Touga (since they're both manipulators and con artists)...
And of course, Shinobu's mystery Princess is... um...
This could get real weird. Better correspondences could be gotten by giving Keitaro the Utena role (the Prince becomes the Promise Girl, for instance), but the idea came from the thought that Shinobu and Utena are almost the same age, and that Shinobu would look cute in Utena's uniform. Besides, that way gives us the classic "cute shy girl dreams herself a hero" setup.
Like I said, anyone wanting to take this and make something of it is welcome to.


-- Bob
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There is no spork.

Okay, it's official.
This particular Minako is a class-one bitch.
It wasn't "I'm a combat veteran and you're not" -- it was just outright nastiness. I'm hoping this is a front that she's putting up as part of her "I'm the Princess" decoy act; if it's not, this is nothing like the Minako we know.
Oh, and add another dose of confusion to the power activation issue. Big extended fight scene in this ep, and the girls all do some variety of the ridiculous windups in the middle of the action -- not the stock footage, but the moves from it, in the middle of the battle. That's pretty ridiculous. They were fighting Jadeite and one of the other Generals, and should have gotten their asses kicked because of the stupid posing and whatnot.
Venus did another zap without any preamble, but she also did the "Love-Me Chain" with a full call and stock footage scene. Not a bad effect on the attack, either.
Anyway, it's back to the drawing board as far as figuring out what's dramatic license and what's not. I'm beginning to think I should just give up and do whatever works for the story.


-- Bob
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There is no spork.

Given the Feb 18 snippet of DW2's chapter 15, I'm trying to recall if instrumental music does anything for Doug's powers.
Given that he appears to be cooking in the snippet, perhaps the theme music to Iron Chef might be appropriate - particularly since it was originally written to be theme music for Backdraft, a movie about firefighters Jeanne

The Heralds from Valdemar have a truth spell they can use to tell if someone's lying. Having spent time with them in DW 1, perhaps Doug can use it too (all Heralds have that power, but, white clothes aside, I'm not totally clear about if Doug was a Herald).
Whatever, I thought the chorus of this song would be helpful when questioning someone who isn't being particularly helpful themselves...

City girls just seem to find out early
How to open doors with just a smile
A rich old man
And she wont have to worry
Shell dress up all in lace and go in style
Late at night a big old house gets lonely
I guess evry form of refuge has its price
And it breaks her heart to think her love is
Only given to a man with hands as cold as ice
So she tells him she must go out for the evening
To comfort an old friend whos feelin down
But he knows where shes goin as shes leavin
She is headed for the cheatin side of town
You cant hide your lyin eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now youd realize
There aint no way to hide your lyin eyes
On the other side of town a boy is waiting
With fiery eyes and dreams no one could steal
She drives on through the nice anticipating
cause he makes her feel the way she used to feel
She rushes to his arms,
They fall together
She whispers that its only for awhile
She swears that soon shell be comin back forever
She pulls away and leaves him with a smile
You cant hid your lyin eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now youd realize
There aint now way to hide you lyin eyes
She gets up and pours herself a strong one
And stares out at the stars up in the sky
Another night, its gonna be a long one
She draws the shade and hangs her head to cry
She wonders how it ever got this crazy
She thinks about a boy she knew in school
Did she get tired or did she just get lazy?
Shes so far gone she feels just like a fool
My, oh my, you sure know how to arrange things
You set it up so well, so carefully
Aint it funny how your new life didnt change things
Youre still the same old girl you used to be
You cant hide your lyin eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now youd realize
There aint no way to hide your lyin eyes
There aint no way to hide your lyin eyes
Honey, you cant hide your lyin eyes

-- Eagles, Lyin' EyesJeanne

Yes, I managed to eke another one out of the material I've written so far (and I am coming down to the finish line real soon, just so you know). I will warn you right now -- this passage has had some spoiler material edited out, so it's not exactly what's in the finished chapter, although the splices should be pretty much invisible.
Enjoy!
-- Bob
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"That will be all," Kate Madigan said to the brace of disguised boomer bodyguards who had escorted her to the door of her apartment."Yes, ma'am," they replied in practiced unison, and Kate got theimpression that they would have saluted her if it would not havelooked horrendously out of place. As she watched, they turnedbriskly on their heels and marched off back down the corridor tothe elevator bank.The guard boomers went almost everywhere with her, now. Here in the Tower they were especially intrusive; she was lucky that they were content to leave her while she still was in the hall; they might have insisted on inspecting the apartment before allowing her to enter. Suppressing a sigh, she keyed the door open and stepped inside.And stopped short, the door swinging shut behind her. The foyerof her apartment was filled with enticing aroma of cooking food.Eyes wide, she sniffed once, twice. "Oh, hi, you're home!" Kate dropped her briefcase in shock as Douglas Sangnoir, clad in one of her unused kitchen aprons, stuck his head out of her kitchen and into the foyer. "Dinner'll be ready in a few minutes," he continued on blithely. "Why don't you go into the living room and relax until then?"
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.