the postal marines

this is my new concept i’ve come up with. i was looking through some old stuff, and thought back to my crappy crappy space marine ripoff designs from high school… the ‘bobcorp military division’.
i was thinking about how to make them not suck, and it actually worked. i came up with a new helmet design that kicks ass, applied that to the already pretty good armor design, redesigned some of the vehicles into sweet ass transforming mecha, and then remembered another idea i’d had recently: the postal marines. i’d designed a warship and thought, you know who would use this, is the freaking post office.

‘in the grim darkness of the far future, you cannot stop the mail…’

unfortunately, i don’t have a scanner, so you won’t see any scans soon, but when i redo my sketchbook when i get back, it’ll be up there.

in other good news, there’s internet access at erratics now! erratics being the bathrooms/showers/laundry/rec room by my dorm room. i’m sitting in sight of my room typing this. sweet. the mouse on this computer doesn’t work, but i’m using keyboard shortcuts and the tab key, and i don’t have to worry about losing it to someone new. ‘you can try to use it, but good luck w/o the mouse…’

i can’t decide if the postal marines should be an element in apollo vintage, an anime/comic of their own, or a video game. think of the logistics of an rts where your goal isn’t to take over cities or destroy bases, but just to pick up and deliver the mail. in space.

oh yeah: apollo vintage. the big idea is working out. i’m happy. the decision to retool my star wars thing into my own thing was a good one: suddenly i can envision delusions of adequacy, apollo vintage, and what would have been in the name of the force, as three points along a single timeline. and as much as i’d like to do my horrible sequel ideas for evangelion and lotr, i’ll be better off using those ideas in apollo vintage and itnotf. which needs a new name, dammit…

speaking of games, i’ve got some ideas for some kickass heroes unlimited scenarios i’d love to gm when i get back, but i can’t talk about them, for obvious reasons.

i just finished re-reading ‘the long dark teatime of the soul’, and now i’ve added dirk gently movies to my adaptation wishlist. i’m having trouble with casting though.
dirk gently — i can’t help thinking belushi(jake blues) would have been perfect. or maybe john candy. for lack of either of them, john goodman seems to be the best combination of large size and large personality. (on a side note, i was always picturing dirk gently when i was writing gary dirin, so i suppose goodman would be good for that too…)
kate schechter — there’s not a lot of specific descriptions of kate: all i got was blonde, american, and smaller than thor. since i’m looking for a personality that can believable stand up to the god of thunder… i think carter from sg-1 would work pretty well. who knows.
thor — gigantic, powerful, and kinda slow. can you say patrick warburton? although i’m not sure how he’d look with blonde hair. maybe give him more of a brownish. he’s got the size and he could pull off the personality i think.
odin — he’s confined to a bed, but he’s got to own the room, cause, hey, he’s odin. christopher walken.
toe rag — malkovich? martin short?
the guy who runs the woodshead hospital — michael palin(sir galahad, the chaste)
that’s it for major characters. there’s the draycotts, but i have no idea.
oh yeah: he’d have one scene, a flashback, then his head on a record, but frank oz as dirk’s client.

but i’ve got a bunch of ideas for camera angles and scene structure/restructuring, so i should at least write those down, if not a full screenplay. i should jot down my hitchhikers ideas too. and/or read and re-read and re-re-read the book and bang out a screenplay. then repeat for hitchhikers. then sell them and get famous.

gotta order some stuff from amazon: animatrix, harry potter 5, some dvds(once i get my xbox) and some books. mostly a(nother) copy of dirk gently’s holistic detective agency(the first book) because i didn’t bring it, and i need to reread it. from memory, i’m thinking either hugh grant or the main guy from lock stock(son of sting) as the guy and ian holm as the professor. i forget the rest of the characters. there’s the girl, but i dunno. must remember to re-read it the rime of the ancient mariner first.