It seems that every six years or so I put up a song from semi-obscure Japanese Shoegaze/Post-Rock band Speaker Gain Teardrop, so here’s Metaphorville.”
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Shoegazer Sunday: Speaker Gain Teardrop’s “Metaphorville”
Sunday, April 27th, 2025Merry Christmas: Stellarscope’s “Silent Night”
Wednesday, December 25th, 2024As is the now annual tradition, enjoy Stellarscope’s version of “Silent Night”:
Merry Christmas!
Shoegazer Sunday: Sugar for the Pill’s “Falling Back To You”
Sunday, December 22nd, 2024Sugar for the Pill is another Shoegaze band named after a Slowdive song, and “Falling Back To You” is a pleasant uptempo song.
Shoegazer Sunday: Dead Leaf Echo’s “Lemonheart”
Sunday, December 15th, 2024Been a good long while since we did a Dead Leaf Echo song, so here’s “Lemonheart,” featuring a thoroughly silly video that talks a macabre (but still silly) turn.
Yeah, that’s no little girl…
Don’t Cook Your Turkey With Molten Glass
Thursday, November 28th, 2024If you’re looking for a terribly dangerous and really stupid way to cook a Thanksgiving Turkey, have you considered encasing it in molten glass?
If so, Alton Brown has you covered.
The worst thing about this, apart from the real possibility of horrifying maiming and potential death, is the fact that the skin is the best part of the turkey and breaking the glass to get at the turkey will probably take the skin off with the glass…
Halloween Horrors: Giant Insects
Saturday, October 26th, 2024If you’re easily freaked out by ordinary insects, you might not to want this giant insects video:
Obviously AI, but pretty well done. The guy’s entire channel features more of this sepia-toned nightmare fuel…
Halloween Horrors: The Existential Dread of Simulation Theory
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024How about a nice helping of existential dread for the Halloween season? But instead of worrying that you’re a fragile shell of decaying cells whose inevitable demise will terminate your brief, flickering existence in a howling void of meaningless nothingness, it’s the worry that neither you nor your too, too fragile husk is real at all, and that you’re just a string of 1s and 0s being run inside a computer.
Welcome to simulation theory!
- We destroy ourselves before we’re able to create a simulation.
- We’re able to create a simulation, but choose not to. Or
- We are definitely in a simulation.
Bostrom believes each of these is equally likely to be true.”
Personally, I think simulation theory is probably wrong for a meta-critique reason. All previous metaphorical understanding of the universe (as clockwork mechanism, as organism) have proven wrong, so this one is likely to be wrong as well…
Halloween Horrors: Creepy Doorbell Footage
Friday, October 18th, 2024How about some unsettling doorbell footage for the Halloween season? Some of it is of home invaders, and others that have ill intent, but some of it just seems to be of weird or deranged people whose motives are unclear.
Halloween Horror: Scottish Oil Rig Horror Game
Tuesday, October 15th, 2024As I may have mentioned before, I don’t tend to play horror video games, despite reading horror, because I don’t care for some tropes of the genre that appear in almost every game (path dependency and jump scares being two), but I do enjoy watching Daz Games play them, since he freaks out enjoyably at some scenes.
This time around he’s playing Still Wakes The Deep, a horror game set on a Scottish oil rig in the North Sea that manages to dredge up something horrifically eldritch. Though the path dependency is there, the game has two big things going for it: Superb voice acting for well-realized characters and a really detailed, immersive setting of a working oil rig that provides a lot of other dangers in addition to the monster.
Halloween Horrors: A Giant Animatronic Prop Collection
Thursday, October 10th, 2024In a follow-up to yesterday’s Transworld trade show post, here’s a guy that has a collection of over 150 Halloween animatronic props.
His animatronic collection may or may not have been more expensive than my book collection to acquire, but I’m pretty sure it’s significantly more expensive to store…