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Episode 20 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 5/10/2012

• Shake the Ground and Too Many Faces by Cherri Bomb from This is the End of Control
• R U Mine? by Arctic Monkeys from R U Mine?
• No Video by Dirty Ghosts from Metal Moon:

News:

• Dad straps kids to car hood:http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/09/11618158-dad-straps-4-kids-to-car-hood-and-drives-away-police-say?lite
• Bunking with cats: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/05/03/national/a012610D36.DTL
• Mozilla may make Flash click-to-play by default in future Firefox – http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2012/04/mozilla-may-make-flash-click-to-play-by-default-in-future-firefox.ars
• Proview and Apple … spitting into the wind? – http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-07/proview-sees-big-gap-after-apple-offers-to-settle-ipad-dispute.html

Robot Story:

• Oh what? REAL plan to use robots to mine Asteroids! – http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/planetary-resources-asteroid-mining/

Caleb’s Corner:

Science! and batteries – http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/composite-material-bring-metal-air-batteries-a-step-closer.ars

The Core:

Movies:

• New Releases

• Dark Shadows
  Starring Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green
  “Vampire Barnabas Collins escapes from his tomb after 200 years and returns to his family estate.”Dragon Eyes
  Starring Cung Le, Jean Claude Van Damme, Petter Weller, Crystal Mantecon
  “Hong uses his moral vision and fighting skills to save a neighborhood from durg dealers”

  Hick
  Starring Chloe Moretz(Hit Girl), Blake Lively(super hot chick), Alec Baldwin, Eddie Redmayne
  “A pistol-packing teen flees her abusive parents and hitchhikes her way West.”

  and for the ladies
  Girl in Progress
  Staring Eva Mendes, Matthew Modine, Cierra Ramirez, Patricia Arquette
  “Grace neglects to give her daughter the attention she desperately needs.”

• DVD/Blu-ray

• Queen of Hearts – Romantic comedy (dvd)
• Beautiful Wave – In Santa Cruz for the summer, a young woman discovers the sport of surfing — and a family secret as well. (blu/dvd)
• Chuck S 1-5 (Blu/DVD); Fantasy Island: S2 (dvd)
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch (blu)
• Happiness is Peanuts: Team Snoopy (dvd)
• Humans Vs. Zombies (blu/dvd)
• Lady Ninja Kasumi Col. 1 (dvd)
• Mel Brooks Collection (blu) – http://www.amazon.com/The-Mel-Brooks-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B002PHI2N8 –
• Tora Tora Tora (blu)
• Underworld: Blu ray set and Underworld: Awakening (blu/dvd)

Comics:

• Marvel:

• Avengers Vs. X-men is heating up
• Oz series – very solid and lovely art by Skottie Young

• DC:

• Night of the Owls
• Dial H
• Mystery in Space Vol. 3 #1

• Indie:

• Frakenstein Alive Alive

• Web:

• Spacetrawler – http://spacetrawler.com/ – unusally delightful mix of thoughtful, humorous, action, and occasionally disturbing

Stories:

Lots of Avengers!

• Fox cancels Alcatraz and The Finder: http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/05/10/alcatraz-cancelled-by-fox
• Another ME3 multiplayer weekend special: http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/05/09/mass-effect-3s-upcoming-n7-bounty-weekend
• kick ass 2: http://movies.ign.com/articles/122/1224529p1.html