Remember yesterday's post where I said I was going to bed at 2:30?  Well, that was a lie.  I actually tried to go to bed but I just couldn't get to sleep.  2:30 AM has become like before midnight used to be.  It's just way too early to be going to sleep.  So instead I ended up going to bed around 7 AM.

In other news, I'm offically proclaiming The Reason as this summer's overplayed song.  It seems like every summer there's one song that gets waaay too much radioplay and you become incredibly sick of it regardless of your initial feelings for the song.  It's been building for a long time but today marked the point where I've started rushing to change the radio station when I hear the opening of the song, hence I'm ready to proclaim it as being overplayed.  Congrats go out to Hoobastank (what the fuck kind of name is that anyway?).

In other, other news I've decided to have a new contest.  And this time the prize that is up for grabs is the Challenge of the Super Friends: Attack of the Legion of Doom DVD.  I ordered the entire season on DVD on Friday (for about the same price is the 4 ep DVD costs actually) so I don't really need to have the 4 ep DVD anymore.  There are some classic eps on the DVD and any Super Friends fan is sure to love it.

How do you get a chance at winning this awesome prize?  All you have to do is write your own Superfriends script.  Anything from The Challenge of the Superfriends up to Superfriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show is admissable.  Stories within these seasons range in length from 5 minutes, 1 act stories up to full-length 3 act ones.  You also have to work with the character limitations of the given seasons.  For the most part that just means no Wendy and Marvin (I've never seen them so I can't judge on how good a job you do of duplicating them.  I imagine they were pretty lame too as the Wonder-twins were brought into replace them.  Anytime you're replaced by the Wonder-twins, you gotta suck).  I want the stories to capture the spirit of the show.  In otherwise, lame and non-sensical developments are perfectly acceptable.  The writer of the script that I feel best captures the spirit of the show will win the DVD.

Here's a few tips for writing the eps.

1.  If you are dealing with a 1 act story, there's usually no more than 4 or 5 characters featured.  Even the full length ones often don't go above 5 or 6 superfriends.

2.  Characters that are featured in a very high % of eps: Batman, Robin, Superman, Wonder-Woman (there are very few eps that don't feature at least one of these 4 heroes)

Characters that are in a high % of eps:  Aqua man, Gleek, Wonder-twins, Apache Chief

Characters that show up a fair a bit: Black Vulcan, Samurai, Firestorm, Atom

Characters that are infrequently featured: Flash, El Dorado, Green Lantern, Hawk-man, Hawk-Girl (though I don't think those 2 show up at all in Legendary Super Powers) (and possibly some others I'm forgetting due to their rare appearances)

The appearance rates sometimes differ from season to season as well.  For instance, Firestorm has been featured in every story I've seen from Legendary Super Powers but he didn't even exist in other seasons.

3.  If you aren't sure about a character's powers, do a little digging online.

4.  For a problem to overcome you can use any villian from the show or you can come up with a new one.  Natural disasters and the like are also sometimes a problem. 

5.  Keep in mind that if you write a wonder-twins story, the problems they solved are usually ones that could be solved fairly easily by any other super-friend (or any intelligent person with sufficent resources for that matter).  If they do have to deal with a larger problem, they almost always need help.  Oh and unfortunately Gleek is ALWAYS there too.

6.  If you've never written a script before, take a look at a few online to give you an idea of how they're written.  They aren't that hard to write.  Much easier than writing a short story or a novel.

7.  Have fun with this.  I kinda wish this was someone else's contest, just so I could come up with an entry of my own.

Contest closes on August 7th at 11:59 PM.  That should give everyone out there plenty of time to write a story (even a full length one).

Oh, and in case anyone complains that this contest favors those who at least occasionally watch Superfriends, if you don't like the show, why would you want the DVD anyway?

Quote of the YesterDay: "This job would be great if it wasn't for the fucking customers."
- Randal

Hbaka redeems himself and gets the Kevin Smith reference this time around.

Quote of the Day:
Since everyone is big on the giving clues for people to guess at, I thought I'd give a try (just for a day.  I plan to return to quotes tomorrow) as well. 

As usual the clues will make it more and more obvious till the final clue.

Clue #1: This movie's director has some lesser known works like Mask in Blue and The Beggar Student

Clue #2:  The story of the movie has a romantic sub-plot that doesn't come to pass, thanks largely to the circumstances surrounding the lead male.

Clue #3:  Said lead male is bitten by a rather unusual spider early in the movie.

Clue #4:  This bite gives the man properties which are usually that of a spider.  Some might even say this makes him into some kind of spider-person or spider-man.

If you still need help, then you obviously need to expand your movie-viewing. :P