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We experienced a slight hiccup with the studio’s recorder during this particular episode.  Which resulted in only recording the first hour(the “What’s Up and “News” segments of the show)It’s why you have to listen Live, you never know what craziness will ensue!  Anyway, here’s (sort of)Episode 18 of the Main Show!  Listen live on Thursdays  from 7pm to 9pm on 103.3 FM KSCU Santa Clara, or online at http://www.kscu.org/

Tunes for 4/26/2012:

• “Cats” by You Say France & I Whistle from Angry Men
  “Carolina Rua” by The Chieftains from Voices of Ages
• “T.O.Y.S.” by Secret Music from Secret Music
  “Need Your Love” by Temper Trap from Temper Trap’s newest single

News:

• Major book publisher TOR (imprint of Macmillan) goes fully DRM free! – http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/tor-books-goes-completely-drm.html
• Reinventing glass – http://www.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/glare-dust-and-fog-free-glass-0426.html
• Why some can’t tell left from right – http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/24/11359120-why-some-cant-tell-left-from-right?lite
• Converting poop to wifi – http://creativity-online.com/work/terra-poo-wifi/27321
• See what Pizza Hut is offering now…http://bites.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/24/11372878-pizza-hut-ploy-crust-stuffed-with-cheeseburgers-chicken-nuggets?lite

Robot Story: Robo Lovers by 2050? – http://www.livescience.com/19855-high-tech-sex-prostitute-robots-service-humans-2050.html

Caleb’s Corner:

• Follow up – Caine’s Arcade helping more kids than just Caine – http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2012/0416/How-Caine-s-Arcade-raised-164-000-for-a-boy-from-East-L.A.-video
• Backing a Kickstarter project, the smarter way – http://lifehacker.com/5898965/how-to-vet-a-kickstarter-project-before-you-back-it
• Stripped – a documentary about the history of cartooning – http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smallfish/stripped-the-comics-documentary

The Core:

Movies:

• New Releases
• Movies in the Theater: The Five Year Engagement, Safe, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, and The Raven
• Video Games: Prototype 2(360, PS3), The Walking Dead(PC, PSN, XBLA), Bloodforge(XBLA), Risen 2: Dark Waters(PC), UEFA Euro 2012(PC, 360, PS3)
• DVD/Blu-ray
• 11-11-11 (d) – from the director of SAW 2,3,4
• 1900 (b/d)
• Albatross (d)
• Ancient Alien Agenda-Aliens & Ufos from the Area 51 Archives (d)
• Billy the Exterminator s4 (d)
• Contraband (d/b)
• Darktide (d/b);
• Full Metal Alchamist: Brotherhood collection1 (d/b)
• FMA: Brotherhood – Sacred Star of Milos (d/b&d)
• Indemnity: Rage Of A Jealous Vampire (d)
• Karate Girl (d);
• Kite (d) – very odd not kid friendly;
• Let the Bullets Fly (b/d)
• Marvel Anime: Iron Man – Complete Series (d)
• Marvel Anime: X-Men – Complete Series (d)
• Masterpiece Theater Classic: Birdsong (b/d)
• Nazis at the Center of the Earth (d/b) – crazy horror film much like the SAW movies until near the end
• Patton Oswalt: Finest Hour (d)
• Scheherazade Tell Me a Story (d) – An interesting look at eastern culture and women and how some have stood up to it
• The Innkeepers (b/d)
• Thor at the Bus Stop (d) – no idea what it’s about but with a title like that … who really cares
• Titanic (d/b)

Comics:

• Marvel:
• New Avengers # 25
• Secrect Avengers #6
• Wolverine #305
• DC
• American Vampire #26
• Indie:
• Popeye #1
• Mass Effect Homeworlds (written by BioWare writers)
• Ninjettes #3 – so it’s doing at least that well
• Web:
  • Sam and Fuzzy – http://samandfuzzy.com/ – S&F goes back to 2002, I started in Vol.5: Sam and Fuzzy Fix Your Problem, which requires no prior knowledge to get started. Is equal parts mystery, adventure, comedy.

Stories:

• Penny Arcade Adventures 3 coming this summer: http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/122/1222138p1.html
• Valve preferes to be quiet about projects in development. Is better? http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/04/valves-newell-explains-continuing-silence-on-next-half-life.ars