Hello. I am Damage, gonzo journalist, catalyst and an explorer of weird and futurologistic. A month ago I knew how to time travel. Now, only a few hours ago, to my best knowledge, I woke up while being abducted by space aliens and remarkably under the drills. It gives me great satisfaction, erection and self-confidence to conclude that ambassadors of superior civilizations warp time and space just to drill me. And I also think this was also the equivalent of a galactic job interview. Because we finished the new issue of The Dose magazine. About Paris. And you will buy this magazine. Because all the money I will hoard up from sales will go into new pancreas and a one-way ticket to Singapore. But more about this after the embed and the jump.

THE DOSE magazine – Issue 3 (Paris) TEASER

The Dose. For those who’re late for class, it started as a free PDF mag targeting one city per issue to showcase its weird underdog talents: musicians, artists, designers with a focus on music, more music and great eyecandy. I had friends helping me out but it was mostly a solo project and it was a great thing to do, doing a pilot on Budapest and then two more issues, on Tokyo and London. Then three years passed. And we decided to go back to the original plan we liked, I quit being a full-time IT journalist and after long months of working in our free time, here’s the Paris issue. If you were following up on what I did, I promised so many times that this will come that you probably didn’t believe me. But it’s here now.

Yes. The Paris issue. It has features on French steampunk, cyberpunk, netlabels (amazing stuff ranging from mad orgy freejazz to pumping warehouse techno), parkour, psytrance (a great comparison of chocolate and goa!) and fashion. And a great piece of infographics about French bands we loved. Features on LVA, brain hacking and Chinese underground music. Interviews with Clélia Altaïr, Punish Yourself, Lukas Zpira, Die Puppe, Foretaste, Miss Kittin, Scan X, the guys at Dejobaan Games and RJDJ, Nohno / Kibuka, Blue Stahli, Shiv-R and Black Nail Cabaret. And e-readers. And our recommendations for 2010. And lots of reviews.

So spread the news, enjoy the show, buy our mag, support the artists, don’t steal this mag if you don’t exactly need to, send us feedback and contact us if you think you could help us rock more. And here are a few music videos from these previous artists you gonna love!

Inception has already been hailed as one of the best science fiction movies of the decade. Until the crew manages to watch it in the upcoming days and give a review about it, here’s five minutes of Nolan’s apparent mastery. (via io9)

Baj van. Eltörték Tony megfutom a háromszázat a papírlap élén anyád szívéig Jaa mindnégy kezét-lábát és – a trailer harminchatodik másodperce szerint -a szívét is, agyagba is öntötték, onnan is kivették, aztán tényleg csak ennyi kell ahhoz, hogy egészen bitang lendületet vegyen minden. Thaiföld leghíresebb akciófilmjének harmadik részében beletörik egy ember torkát a homokba, eldobnak egy egész elefántot, mindenkit megszáll egy gonosz szellem, amitől – karaktertől függően – szomorú csepeli góttá vagy shaolin gonosz varjú gong fu harcossá változnak, de közben thai lányok táncolnak, kapunk Buddhát közeliben és távoliban és hitchcocki madárkörözős napéjegyenlőség is lesz hirtelen. Ha az Ong-Bak 2 forgatásával kapcsolatban azt hallottuk: Tony Jaa elment két hónapig a barlangba fekete mágiát gyakorolni, akkor vagy ezeket a jeleneteket vették fel, vagy pedig csak sminkelni tanult ütésektől érzéketlen, de szapora ujjakkal. Bemutató májusban, ide meg akkor kattints, ha még több embertelenül gyors és meglepő koreográfiát akarsz TANULNI (meg nézni, nyilván).

The legend of Ong Bak 3 begins after Tien (Tony Jaa) has lost his fighting skills and his beloved stepfather at the Garuda’s Wing cliff from the raid led by Jom Rachan (Saranyu Wonggrajang). Tien is brought back to life with the help from Pim (Primrata Dechudom) as well as Mhen (Petchai Wongkamlao) and the Kana Khone villagers. Deep into the meditation taught by Phra Bua (Nirutti Sirijanya), Tien finally is able to achieve ‘Nathayut’. His talents are put to the test again when his rivals including the Golden-Armored King’s Guard (Supakorn ‘Tok’ Kijusuwan), the mysterious killers in black, and Bhuti Sangkha (Dan Chupong) return for the final massive showdown. (off wikipedia)

Daybreakers, a new vampire movie comes out next week. Bloodsuckers are the new tad and they’re a bit overplayed by now after True Blood, New Moon and all their kin but then again I might just be jealous of the imminent success I didn’t have a direct role in. But anyways. Daybreakers capitalizes on an old idea of David S. Goyer that didn’t make it into Blade III: vampires walk the face of the Earth and humanity’s the sorry-ass minority until the inevitable logistics hell breaks loose: blood farms can’t really cope up with the population needs and they need to find a cure, fast. Not quite sure about how this ties into the otherwise evident problem of the energy/oil/resource crisis, but anyways. It has Willem Defoe with crossbows. You don’t really need anything for the first week of the new, luckier 2010.

It was 1987 and I was an eight-year old kid with an extra schedule in his life, one I took more seriously than brushing the teeth, cleaning the shoes and go to sleep at nine. It was waking up at six to get the best futuristic show available at that time (apart from Aeon Flux, of course): Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. It is so oldschool you should all play this in the background today, let it seep back to your already exhausted brainmeat. As for the show – you can all grab the episodes on public video sites here and here or you could just order them right at captainpower.com.