A German film website has gone through and labeled every one of Del Toro’s SF/F/H references from The Simpsons couch gag.
Caveat: I think the video is Brightcove, which I have blocked in my main browser.
Also, unless Del Toro’s script departed radically from the original source material, Cthulhu never actually appeared in At the Mountains of Madness…
(Hat tip: SF Signal.)
Here’s another dose of Italy’s Starframes with “Broody Solider,” whose message seems to be that war is bad and stuff.
The video appears to have been done by somebody who watched Tapeheads.
This came out two days ago, and already has over 6 million hits, but I still thought Guillermo Del Toro opening couch gag for The Simpsons forthcoming “Treehouse of Horror” episode was too awesome (and too full of SF/F/H references) not to share.
Hat tip: Hank Wagner’s Facebook feed.
Sunday’s does of Shoegaze comes top you from SPC ECO (supposedly pronounced “Space Echo”)’s “Push”:
There’s also a tiny bit of 8-bit and dub in there for flavor.
I listened to this and few of their other song’s and went “This sounds a bit like Curve,” and indeed half the duo is Dean Garcia, who was in Curve.
Someone did a mashup of The Ting Tings’ “That’s Not My Name” with The Knack’s “My Sharona,” Toni Basil’s “Mickey,” Plastic Bertrand’s “Ça Plane Pour Moi” and a few other things, and damn if it isn’t catchy, especially when you get about 4:00 in.
Then again, I’m a sucker for additive processes leading up to a glorious wall-of-sound climax.
It reminds me a lot of The Killers’ “All These Things That I’ve Done,” so here that is as well:
June Foray, voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel and about a thousand other characters, awarded a lifetime achievement Emmy. And not only was she still around to receive it, at age 95, she’s still working!
To celebrate, here’s a timely instructional video:
It’s the day after Worldcon, and I’m more than a little toasty, so expect slow blogging while I get up to speed.
So here’s a long interview with Gene Wilder about his career, working with Richard Pryor, Mel Brooks, Gilda Radner, etc. Wilder has reached the stage in his life where he speaks slowly and carefully, but always cognizantly, and it’s an interesting interview. I suspect that if it were not the day after Worldcon, I’d find it a little slow, but right now slow is just fine.
The Great Wilderness is an all-girl post-punk band from Costa Rica, and “Dark House” has a nice gaze sound to the guitars.
Here’s UK nugaze band 93MillionMilesFromTheSun (yes, they jam the letters all up together like that; probably works well for Twitter) with “Waiting There.”
Looks like I’ve been falling down on my Giant Spider reporting duties. A retro black-and-white giant spider film has been released called, oddly enough, The Giant Spider.
There’s an IMDB listing for it as well.