The Mirimar Disaster (also known as simply Mirimar and even at times the Mizzle Dizzle) are a metal band from Sheffield, England. Their self titled debut album was released in 2007 and was well received, gaining a 4/5 rating in Kerrang magazine. They were described by Dan Carter on the Radio 1 Rock Show as "the makings of a dream band".
The name of the band comes in part from the 1986 movie blockbuster Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise. The name of the base where the Top Gun training school is held is Miramar, and during the filming of Top Gun there was a fatal accident, hence the name, The Mirimar Disaster. It is not known why the spelling differs between the band name and actual location.
Members
Current
Dean Rowbotham – guitars
Frank Forman – guitars/ vocals
Nicky Grayson – bass
Iain Scott – drums/ vocals
Former
Ian Stockdale - vocals
Discography
The Mirimar Disaster (2007) on Undergroove Records
The name of the band comes in part from the 1986 movie blockbuster Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise. The name of the base where the Top Gun training school is held is Miramar, and during the filming of Top Gun there was a fatal accident, hence the name, The Mirimar Disaster. It is not known why the spelling differs between the band name and actual location.
Members
Current
Dean Rowbotham – guitars
Frank Forman – guitars/ vocals
Nicky Grayson – bass
Iain Scott – drums/ vocals
Former
Ian Stockdale - vocals
Discography
The Mirimar Disaster (2007) on Undergroove Records
This is an incomplete list of fictional brands of tobacco products that have appeared in entertainment and other fictional media.
Cigarettes
* Alpaca Cigarettes - 2006 film Thank You for Smoking - briefly seen in an advertisement (Alpaca is an obvious play on Camel).
* Blanchard cigarettes - Running on Empty and The Jake Alberts Show comics series
* Carcinoma Angels cigarettes - Transmetropolitan
* Cloud Nine marijuana cigarettes - Doctor Who novels
* Coughing Nails cigarettes - Deus Ex
* Darlingtons Lights cigarettes - Sugar Rush TV series
* Drome Cigarettes - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (a play on "Dromedary", the kind of camel pictured on Camel cigarette packages)
* El Dorado Cigarettes - Family Guy
* Fantastic Cigarettes ("long in the leaf and short in the can") - The Firesign Theatre
* Gasperettes - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
* Hashmore cigarettes - The Muller-Fokker Effect
* Hendi Winzerman's Small Cigars - Hellsing anime and manga (a play on the brand)
* Highmaster marijuana cigarettes - When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
* Holy Smokes cigarettes - Deus Ex
* Holy Spirit Cigarettes - Kentucky Fried Movie
* Kentucky Slims Chicken-Flavored Cigarettes - Futurama
* Land-O-Smiles marijuana cigarettes - The Man in the High Castle
* Laramie cigarettes (and Laramie Jr.) - The Simpsons
* Llama Cigarettes - The Shadow also, presumably unrelated in NCIS (Llama being an obvious reference to Camel).
* Manitoba Cigarettes - King of the Hill
* Mazedonia Zigarettes - Syldavian brand in Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin album The Calculus Affair (1956) .
* MoonMist Cigarettes - Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan
* Morley - The X-Files, Millennium, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, others
* Nails cigarettes - "Clerks., Chasing Amy, , Mallrats, Clerks II, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back"
* Napalm cigarettes - Pollen by Jeff Noon
* Nasha Marka-The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
* Necromancer cigarettes - Discworld
* New Testament Cigarettes - Bananas by Woody Allen
* Puffin Cigarettes - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
* Red Apple cigarettes - Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms, From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill,
* "Sun-Kissed" Cured Cannabis Cigarettes - an American product seen in France, in which UV light converts the inactive isomers converts into Δ9-THC, Carl Sagan's Contact
* Tar Baby - Transmetropolitan
* Tarrlytons - Idiocracy
* Triboro - NCIS - an obvious reference to Marlboro
* Victory cigarettes - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
* Whifflets - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
* Cigarettes bearing only the sign of the dollar - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Cigars
*Cigars of the Pharaoh - Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin album Cigars of the Pharaoh (1934)
*Caprican Imperial -
*Dutch Butts - Futurama
*Foliole -
*Le Grand Cigar - Futurama (a single cigar costing $10,000.00, its wrapper is a piece of the original US constitution)
*Pantweed's Slim Pantellas - Discworld
*Royal Kooparillo - Futurama
*Zuban Cigars - Futurama (supposedly "the finest cigars in the universe")
Other tobacco products
* Blackheart chewing tobacco - Discworld
* Dutchman's Gold pipe tobacco - Hill Street Blues - Used by Lt. Howard Hunter (Episode 1x02 - "Presidential Fever")
* Savvy Indian chewing tobacco - The Critic - Seen in the first season episode Uneasy Rider. Previously known as Savage Indian Chewing Tobacco but was changed because 'it might offend people'. Jay quits because he does not want to advertise it on his show, only to be replaced by an all too willing Rex Reed.
* Jolly Sailor pipe tobacco - Discworld
* Tomacco - The Simpsons
Cigarettes
* Alpaca Cigarettes - 2006 film Thank You for Smoking - briefly seen in an advertisement (Alpaca is an obvious play on Camel).
* Blanchard cigarettes - Running on Empty and The Jake Alberts Show comics series
* Carcinoma Angels cigarettes - Transmetropolitan
* Cloud Nine marijuana cigarettes - Doctor Who novels
* Coughing Nails cigarettes - Deus Ex
* Darlingtons Lights cigarettes - Sugar Rush TV series
* Drome Cigarettes - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (a play on "Dromedary", the kind of camel pictured on Camel cigarette packages)
* El Dorado Cigarettes - Family Guy
* Fantastic Cigarettes ("long in the leaf and short in the can") - The Firesign Theatre
* Gasperettes - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
* Hashmore cigarettes - The Muller-Fokker Effect
* Hendi Winzerman's Small Cigars - Hellsing anime and manga (a play on the brand)
* Highmaster marijuana cigarettes - When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
* Holy Smokes cigarettes - Deus Ex
* Holy Spirit Cigarettes - Kentucky Fried Movie
* Kentucky Slims Chicken-Flavored Cigarettes - Futurama
* Land-O-Smiles marijuana cigarettes - The Man in the High Castle
* Laramie cigarettes (and Laramie Jr.) - The Simpsons
* Llama Cigarettes - The Shadow also, presumably unrelated in NCIS (Llama being an obvious reference to Camel).
* Manitoba Cigarettes - King of the Hill
* Mazedonia Zigarettes - Syldavian brand in Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin album The Calculus Affair (1956) .
* MoonMist Cigarettes - Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan
* Morley - The X-Files, Millennium, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, others
* Nails cigarettes - "Clerks., Chasing Amy, , Mallrats, Clerks II, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back"
* Napalm cigarettes - Pollen by Jeff Noon
* Nasha Marka-The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
* Necromancer cigarettes - Discworld
* New Testament Cigarettes - Bananas by Woody Allen
* Puffin Cigarettes - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
* Red Apple cigarettes - Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms, From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill,
* "Sun-Kissed" Cured Cannabis Cigarettes - an American product seen in France, in which UV light converts the inactive isomers converts into Δ9-THC, Carl Sagan's Contact
* Tar Baby - Transmetropolitan
* Tarrlytons - Idiocracy
* Triboro - NCIS - an obvious reference to Marlboro
* Victory cigarettes - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
* Whifflets - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
* Cigarettes bearing only the sign of the dollar - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Cigars
*Cigars of the Pharaoh - Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin album Cigars of the Pharaoh (1934)
*Caprican Imperial -
*Dutch Butts - Futurama
*Foliole -
*Le Grand Cigar - Futurama (a single cigar costing $10,000.00, its wrapper is a piece of the original US constitution)
*Pantweed's Slim Pantellas - Discworld
*Royal Kooparillo - Futurama
*Zuban Cigars - Futurama (supposedly "the finest cigars in the universe")
Other tobacco products
* Blackheart chewing tobacco - Discworld
* Dutchman's Gold pipe tobacco - Hill Street Blues - Used by Lt. Howard Hunter (Episode 1x02 - "Presidential Fever")
* Savvy Indian chewing tobacco - The Critic - Seen in the first season episode Uneasy Rider. Previously known as Savage Indian Chewing Tobacco but was changed because 'it might offend people'. Jay quits because he does not want to advertise it on his show, only to be replaced by an all too willing Rex Reed.
* Jolly Sailor pipe tobacco - Discworld
* Tomacco - The Simpsons
Lindy Hop has existed in Minnesota for several decades. In recent times, since the Gap commercial featuring Lindy Hop, it has taken renewed interest among the dancers of Minnesota. Several instructors have fostered the growth of Lindy Hop and its related set of dances during this time and have created a vibrant, active dance scene. The dancers and events are recognized nationally for being some of the best in the nation and the world.
Local and regional events
*Sving Du Nord - www.svingdunord.com
*Late Nite Swing - www.latenightswing.com
National events
*Midwest LindyFest
*Twin Cities Lindy Exchange
*ForePlex
*Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown
Instructors
Dancer Resources
Minnesota Lindy (MNLindy) is a community-driven website offering information on swing dance and Lindy Hop in Minnesota and the Midwest region of the United States. Based in Minneapolis, MinnesotaLindy.com is used as a forum for dancers and dancing events in Minneapolis, St. Paul, greater Minnesota, Wisconsin, and occasionally Iowa. The site hosts regularly updated news regarding dancing in the region, a calendar of dance events and a lively message board with rss feeds and email digests. The focus of the site is to spread information about Lindy Hop and its related dances, such as Charleston, Balboa and Blues throughout the Midwest.
Going beyond the call of the typical social website constructed to augment a real world community, MinnesotaLindy also hosts several events throughout the year. MNLindy hosts an annual fundraiser dance in spring along with a late night blues party and raffles away hundreds of dollars in donated prizes. MNLindy hosts a few workshops throughout the year with instructors from all over. MNLindy even went so far as to back ForePlex, a travelling, Canadian exchange in August 2006 in Minneapolis.
MinnesotaSwingDance and MPLSwing yahoo! groups both offer email based discussion groups. MinnesotaSwingDance focuses primarily on Lindy Hop, and Blues danced to Jump Blues bands and actively maintains a calendar while MPLSwing focuses primarily on discussion and promotion of events.
12/2/07: Mplswing@Onelist.com was the original Mpls. area Swingdance forum which, dispite much infightighting among it's members in the early days, still conitinues pretty much unmoderated. "MinnesotaSwingDance" was formed in 2001 as a tightly controlled, more peaceful alternative.
Moderator, Mplswing@Yahoogroups.com
Local and regional events
*Sving Du Nord - www.svingdunord.com
*Late Nite Swing - www.latenightswing.com
National events
*Midwest LindyFest
*Twin Cities Lindy Exchange
*ForePlex
*Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown
Instructors
Dancer Resources
Minnesota Lindy (MNLindy) is a community-driven website offering information on swing dance and Lindy Hop in Minnesota and the Midwest region of the United States. Based in Minneapolis, MinnesotaLindy.com is used as a forum for dancers and dancing events in Minneapolis, St. Paul, greater Minnesota, Wisconsin, and occasionally Iowa. The site hosts regularly updated news regarding dancing in the region, a calendar of dance events and a lively message board with rss feeds and email digests. The focus of the site is to spread information about Lindy Hop and its related dances, such as Charleston, Balboa and Blues throughout the Midwest.
Going beyond the call of the typical social website constructed to augment a real world community, MinnesotaLindy also hosts several events throughout the year. MNLindy hosts an annual fundraiser dance in spring along with a late night blues party and raffles away hundreds of dollars in donated prizes. MNLindy hosts a few workshops throughout the year with instructors from all over. MNLindy even went so far as to back ForePlex, a travelling, Canadian exchange in August 2006 in Minneapolis.
MinnesotaSwingDance and MPLSwing yahoo! groups both offer email based discussion groups. MinnesotaSwingDance focuses primarily on Lindy Hop, and Blues danced to Jump Blues bands and actively maintains a calendar while MPLSwing focuses primarily on discussion and promotion of events.
12/2/07: Mplswing@Onelist.com was the original Mpls. area Swingdance forum which, dispite much infightighting among it's members in the early days, still conitinues pretty much unmoderated. "MinnesotaSwingDance" was formed in 2001 as a tightly controlled, more peaceful alternative.
Moderator, Mplswing@Yahoogroups.com
An exploding head is a surreal, involuntary gesture in fiction. It is sometimes found in cartoons and comics, from South Park to Dilbert. Its graphicality ranges from the comically distorted to a 'blood, gore and eyes' look.
The phenomenon is triggered by extreme cognitive "overload" - the incoming stimuli far outstripping the capacity of processing them - typically of utter nonsense, but anger and various other causes are not unknown. The implication is that the unfortunate sufferer placed too much pressure on his brain, trying to figure out something unsolvable or otherwise overexerting it.
The loss of one's head is a non-survivable injury, though some stories depict its swift reappearance or replacement (as with The Cheat). As such, exploding heads are typically restricted to minor and insignificant characters, in addition to those whose authors have very little regard for continuity (as with the creators of South Park, who have repeatedly killed Kenny McCormick).
An article for the philosophy journal Analysis, to be printed in April 2008, uses exploding heads as a basis to expand Logician George Boolos' 1996 title The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever. The article's authors, Brian and Landorn Rabern, expand on the original Knights and Knaves - like puzzle by introducing a type of result where the recipient of a question is unable to give the answer it logically must, which is represented by its head exploding.
While non-fictional head explosions are not possible without the aid of advanced weaponry or demolition tools, a persistent urban legend tells of a condition known as Hyper-Cerebral Electrosis which essentially has the same effect. Claims of the condition are known to have been made by the less-than-scrupulous Weekly World News in the 1990s. In 1996 the Secret Service paid a visit to Daniel Burford, the creator of a website that animated exploding heads of several politicians, including Republican Presidential candidate Bob Dole.
The phenomenon is triggered by extreme cognitive "overload" - the incoming stimuli far outstripping the capacity of processing them - typically of utter nonsense, but anger and various other causes are not unknown. The implication is that the unfortunate sufferer placed too much pressure on his brain, trying to figure out something unsolvable or otherwise overexerting it.
The loss of one's head is a non-survivable injury, though some stories depict its swift reappearance or replacement (as with The Cheat). As such, exploding heads are typically restricted to minor and insignificant characters, in addition to those whose authors have very little regard for continuity (as with the creators of South Park, who have repeatedly killed Kenny McCormick).
An article for the philosophy journal Analysis, to be printed in April 2008, uses exploding heads as a basis to expand Logician George Boolos' 1996 title The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever. The article's authors, Brian and Landorn Rabern, expand on the original Knights and Knaves - like puzzle by introducing a type of result where the recipient of a question is unable to give the answer it logically must, which is represented by its head exploding.
While non-fictional head explosions are not possible without the aid of advanced weaponry or demolition tools, a persistent urban legend tells of a condition known as Hyper-Cerebral Electrosis which essentially has the same effect. Claims of the condition are known to have been made by the less-than-scrupulous Weekly World News in the 1990s. In 1996 the Secret Service paid a visit to Daniel Burford, the creator of a website that animated exploding heads of several politicians, including Republican Presidential candidate Bob Dole.