NY Loose – Lust for Life (Iggy Pop cover) We end up making our own thing.” One of those own things was a cover of “Lust for Life” that takes it down to Texas and kicks it through any number of haystacks. “This isn’t bluegrass and it isn’t this or that,” said singer and banjo player Danny Barnes. The Bad Livers spent the ’90s playing what they insisted wasn’t bluegrass music. But these five do… Bad Livers – Lust for Life (Iggy Pop cover) (And the royalties sure didn’t hurt.)īowie did a live version, but as he’s a co-writer of the song, it doesn’t count as a cover. A little strange, you might think, to promote a family-friendly vacation option with a song that off-handedly admits, “Of course I’ve had it in the ear before.” But Pop had no qualms – he was just happy the song finally got its place in the sun. It opened the film with a bang, new generations discovered the song, and soon it was inescapable, appearing in everything from video games to a Rugrats movie to Royal Carribean cruise line commercials. But a decade or so later, it showed up in the opening scene of Trainspotting, as future Obi-Wan Ewan McGregor ran from the police and talked about choosing life. See, the movie was Desperately Seeking Susan, and people were more interested in Madonna. Then it appeared in a movie, and… nothing. Pop’s work was among those lost in the shuffling off the mortal coil, and it stayed half-forgotten for years on end. Unfortunately, Elvis Presley died a few weeks before Lust for Life‘s release, and RCA decided to dedicate everything to Elvis, from pulling all promotion for its other artists to having its record plants press nothing but Presley. What happened were exuberant lyrics about heroin addiction (partially inspired by William Burroughs), a driving rhythm played by drummer Hunt Sales, and the most positive, upbeat, happy song of Pop’s career. Like, ‘Here I am producing albums for this insane idiot - let’s see what happens!'” “In the two albums we made,”said Pop, referring to Lust for Life and The Idiot, “I think Bowie wanted to make the comment that I was an idiot à la Dostoyevsky and insane à la van Gogh. “Write something up.”ĭescribing their songwriting process, Bowie said, “I often gave him a few anchor images that I wanted him to play off, and he would take them away and start free-associating.” Pop later realized that Bowie’s title came from the Kirk Douglas film about Vincent van Gogh. Bowie picked up a ukulele (“it might have been his son’s,” Pop later remembered) and wrote out the chord progression. The show started with a call signal – beep beep beep, beep beep beep beep, beep beep beep. One night they were sitting on the floor waiting for Starsky and Hutch to start on the Armed Forces Network. There were no chairs – they had decided chairs were unnatural. When David Bowie moved to Berlin, he took an apartment over an auto parts store.
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In fact, many new tilesets have been shown from marble walls, to spider banners and sharp teethed doors. With this game, the players are left less than satisfied. This sequel however looks to take all the best bits of Eye of the Beholder and make a number of graphical improvements across the board. If the game were better, the series as a whole would seem like a great job. The graphics are good and detailed and there is no music to mention, while the sound effect are basic and average. It seems like the game was in a hurry to finish and like the developers made a really sloppy job at it. The puzzles are not interesting and too easy. Sure, there are some new additions that were very welcome and useful, like the option for the player to meet other characters and add up to two of them to their party. This game is the third and last installment of the Eye of the Beholder trilogy and unfortunately the worst of them. The third and final game of the Eye of the Beholder series would see players embarking on a quest to the fabled ruins of the city of Myth Drannor. Unlike the previous games it was not developed by Westwood Studios but by the publisher SSI in 1993/4. Eye of the beholder 3: Assault on Myth Drannor is rpg game set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe developed by SSI. It will definitely be loved by Golden Box RPG lovers, and even for less enthusiastic ones, I'm sure Eye of the Beholder 3 will prove a cool, beautiful graphically, game. Another great dungeon crawler rpg in the trilogy of Eye of the Beholder, was number 3, the Assault on Myth Drannor. But nonetheless, this third game concludes the series relatively well, and leaves little threads unexplored. What might be a little underwhelming though, is the lesser quality story which, truth be told, is no longer at the same heights as it was in the second title or, for that matter, in the original Eye of the Beholder. What will surprise you is the art direction, which is very satisfying, very beautiful the areas in which you will be moving about are very beautiful, very well drawn, offering you an undeniable feeling of being there, and a fantasy feel that still holds its freshness, even today, after more than 20 years of the game's release. It's a very well produced game, overall, with a first person interface, in that Golden Box first person canon, yet with a lot more detail than other games. Then again, no one should have to work that hard at watching a movie.Deal with the lich! The last in the seriesĪssault on Myth Drannor, as Eye of the Beholder 3 is aptly subtitled is the RPG that concludes the series. Like I said, watch closely and you may get something out of it. Some parts of it are just plain bad (like every one of k.d. It also seems self-important-as if they don't want the audience to understand. Too often, though, it seems like it's trying too hard to be interesting, doing so at the expense of storytelling. But will he finally do his job and turn her in or will he become her next victim? Before I start sounding too much like the back of a video box, let me just say that there is a lot here for those willing to pay close attention to it. This time he has the nerve to actually talk to her. He saves her, only to lose her, then finds her again. Eye also tries to protect her victims from her, but usually fails-until she becomes a victim herself at the hands of the scary, creepy Jason Priestley (yes, THAT Jason Priestley). She targets well-to-do men, feeds off of them for a while, then kills them. He's supposed to be getting her arrested but, as he keeps following her, becoming more and more obsessed, he starts protecting her. Having paid close attention to the film (the interesting direction and photography held my attention), however, I have been able to surmise the following: a spy code-named ∞ye,' (the miscast Ewan MacGregor) who's afraid of his own shadow, not to mention losing his mind since his wife left him (this same subject was covered in the far superior Zero Effect), falls in love with a beautiful killer (Ashley Judd). "But we have to put SOMETHING out there for god's sake! It's got two big stars in it!" My question is, did their tinkering make the film more or less confusing? We may never know. I mean, was it good at some point until some outside force-a producer or a test audience, for instance-started messing with it? The plot is incomprehensible, something producers in screening rooms tend to not like. Funny thing is, I think there might be a good movie in here somewhere. This thing must have looked good on paper-the only reason I can think of that Ewan MacGregor and Ashley Judd would associate themselves with it.
Traps should be inspected at about every 3 month, beetles removed, and reloaded with pheromone. Catch adults with pheromone (ethyl 4-methyloctanoate) attached to bucket traps (15-17) spaced at 1-2 km (at beetle 'hot-spots').A method developed at the University of Guam. Catch adults by covering breeding sites - heaps of fronds or other organic matter - with gill nets (Photo 14) the beetles get caught in the gill net when entering or leaving the breeding site.Note, in Samoa, the cutting of recently dead trunks has been questioned as a policy: the standing dead palms are (i) a valuable source of Oryctes rhinoceros nudivirus, and (ii) can be processed for fence posts, and other uses. Treat compost and manure with Metarhizium or insecticides. Destroy fallen dead palms (split, allow to dry and burn) compost dead leaves and grass and turn manure and sawdust heaps regularly and remove the grubs.In Guam, spores of Metarhizium anisopliae (imported from the Philippines) are dusted onto beetles, which then contaminate larvae (Photo 13), and other beetles in breeding sites. Adult beetles are dipped in a suspension of ground, infected grubs, and then released to infect grubs in breeding sites, and adults in feeding tunnels. It was released in Fiji, Samoa and Tonga in the late '60s and early '70s. There are many general predators (pigs, rats, ants and other insects) and scoliid wasp parasites (e.g., Scolia ruficornis ). The FAO/IBPGR Technical Guidelines for the Safe Movement of Coconut Germplasm should be followed when coconut germplasm is transferred between countries ( ). The damage of all the strains is similar, but there has been speculation that CRB-G is tolerant to OrNV. This is particularly important as new strains of the beetle have been found in Pacific islands in recent years, in addition to the original strain, CRB-S (also known as CRB-P), that has been present for more than 100 years. CRB-G is now present in Guam, Palau, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands, and CRB-PNG in the islands of Papua New Guinea, Samoa, and Solomon Islands. Establish pheromone traps and regularly inspect coconut palms growing nearby for frass and leaf symptoms. Vigilance is needed at seaports and airports against hitchhiking beetles. Apply control measures if 3-5 beetles occur per ha up to 2 years after planting, and 15-20 beetles per ha thereafter. A fungus, Metarhizium anisopliae, from the Philippines is also used. Today, the key agent is a virus ( Oryctes rhinoceros nudivirus - OrNV) originally from Malaysia. Research into management of Oryctes started in the Pacific islands in the 1960s. Spread is on the wing, they are stronger flyers, and aboard ships and aircraft. They do not eat the frass from the tunnels instead, they drink the sap that comes from tunnelling. The beetles are nocturnal, flying to the tops of coconuts where they use their mandibles, horn and strong forelegs to tunnel into the crowns. Females live about 9 months, and lay about 50 eggs males live about 5 months. They are black with horns - those of the female often shorter than the male (Photos 9-12). The two pupal stages last 25-40 days.Īdults remain in the ground for 2-3 weeks and then chew their way out. The last stage makes a hollow where it feeds, lining it with liquid faecal material, and then pupates. There are three stages lasting 80 to 200 days (depending on quality of the diet), with the third stage up to 100 mm long and 20 mm diameter. The C-shaped larvae or grubs are white then creamy with brown heads (Photo 8). Logs and stumps of many other kinds of trees are also hosts (Photo 7). Oval eggs (3.5 x 4 mm) are laid one at a time, 5-15 cm, below the surface of moist organic materials, such as sawdust, manure, compost and garbage heaps, or above ground in tunnels, debris in axils of coconut fronds, in still-standing but dead and rotten coconut palms, and in the rotten ends of fallen coconut trunks (Photo 6). Holes in the base of the fronds may be obvious when beetle populations are high (Photo 5). When the leaves unfold the damage is seen as V or wedge-shaped areas missing from the leaflets (Photos 1-4). The adult beetle does the damage, boring into the crown of coconut palms, cutting across young fronds and flowers. |