Here’s a science fiction TV show episode, “Young Couples Only,” I’ve never heard of, based on a Richard Matheson story, and starring…Peter Lorre!
One reason I haven’t heard of it was that it was part of the Studio 57 anthology series, which aired on The DuMont Television Network, the ill-fated network that folded before I was born.
Like almost everything else in the world, it’s on YouTube:
School of Seven Bells are a band from New York City named after the mythical pickpocket school. They started out as a trio and are now down to a duo. “My Cabal” was evidently their first single, and is a pleasant, dreampop-y sort of number.
Next week: Real posts!
But for a lazy Friday night, you get this instead.
The High Violets hail from Portland, Oregon. Here’s “X-Tasy Monopoly,” where the lead sunger sounds a bit like a Red Dirt Girl-era Emmylou Harris, which is no bad thing.
…there’s only one possible musical choice.
Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Colin Furze! He’s sort of like the Mythbusters or Junkyard Wars if they did things that were dangerously stupid.
10-horsepower motorized baby carriage? Check.
Jet-powered bicycle? Check.
Kids! Don’t try this at home! Or, really, anyplace else. Ever. (Unless you work for Survival Research Labs. Then go for it!)
Music by UK punk band March to the Grave, which probably understates the dizzying speed at which Furze will reach that goal.
Here he is riding a home-built, classic Wall of Death in a scooter:
And here he is bailing off the Wall of Death.
Furze has his own YouTube channel and website. He also has an infectious enthusiasm, probably engendered by repeated head trauma.
Godspeed you, Colin Furze! I look forward to seeing many more videos from you until your inevitable grisly demise!
(Hat tip: Weird Universe, where Paul Di Filippo is among those hanging out.)
Austin’s own Experimental Aircraft are another band in the shoegaze/psychedelia/post-rock netherworld.
“Meet Me on Echo Echo Terrace” is from their album Third Transmission off Graveface records, run by Ryan Graveface of Dreamend and Black Moth Super Rainbow.
One caveat: They seem to have the same video (or variations thereof) for all the songs on this album.
Apropos nothing but a stray comment, here’s my ten favorite Talking Heads songs:
Honorable mention: Once in a Lifetime, Nothing But Flowers, Electric Guitar, Psycho Killer (live version), Walk It Down
And this is just the Talking Heads; favorite David Byrne songs would be a separate list.
UK’s Engineer’s deftly tread the boarders of Shoegaze, Dream Pop, and Psychedelia on “Clean Colored Wire.”
Ulrich Schnauss (who seems to be to shoegaze keyboard what Tony Levin is to progressive rock bass) is also part of the current incarnation of the band.
Current death toll in Oklahoma City Tornado is 51, though I’ve seen estimates of 91 deaths.
More footage:
Fast forward footage of the tornado:
Helicopter footage of the torando and path of destruction, including where it crossed I-35:
Where it tore through a school:
Path of destruction through a race track:
More destruction:
For one happy note amidst the grim news, here’s a woman finding her dog alive in the wreckage: