I don’t know much about Skywave beyond what’s on their MySpace page, which mentioned they’re from Fredericksburg, Virginia. With that deeply uninformative introduction out of the way, here’s the deeply reverb-drenched “Nothing Left to Say” off their album Synthstatic.
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Shoegazer Sunday: Skywave’s “Nothing Left to Say”
Sunday, February 3rd, 2013Shoegazer Sunday: Echodrone’s “Time”
Sunday, January 27th, 2013Here’s Echodrone’s cover of The Alan Parsons’ Project’s “Time” from their Mixtape for Duckie covers album. The video has less than a hundred views as I type this, so I’m happy to showcase something that actually qualifies as new! Most cover albums do nothing for me, even by artists I really like (see also: Scratch My Back and Strange Little Girls), but everything I’ve heard from this I liked so much, I just went ahead and bought it
See how long it takes you to figure out what the video is about, something I twigged to very early, and which ties into themes explored in their previous videos.
Shoegazer Sunday: Whipped Cream’s “Observatory Crest”
Sunday, January 20th, 2013A Swedish shoegazer cover of a Captain Beefheart sing? Check.
Shoegazer Sunday: Ride’s “Beneath”
Sunday, December 23rd, 2012Here’s “Beneath,” a nice, melodic song from classic shoegazers Ride:
Shoegazer Sunday: Echodrone’s “Cold Snap”
Sunday, December 16th, 2012Busy week. Here’s more Echodrone, this time with “Cold Snap,” which is pleasantly haunting.
Their Bon Voyage is starting to sound like a good candidate for Shoegazer album of the year. Any others you can suggest?
First Pacific Rim Trailer Drops
Thursday, December 13th, 2012The first trailer for Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro’s kaiju vs. giant mechs film, is out.
Oh yeah. I’m there.
Howard Waldrop and I have signed up to review this next year.
Important Safety Tip: Do Not Try To Rollerblade Off a Roof
Thursday, November 29th, 2012You know, just in case you were considering doing that.
While there’s no end to fail video on the Internet, I’m posting this one because: A.) It was such an obviously, amazingly stupid thing to attempt in the first place, and B.) I tried to find this a while back to show friends, but had forgotten the actual conveyance (bike? skateboard?), which made finding the video difficult. So this is more of a bookmark for myself than anything else. As well as an abject lesson in what not to do.
Mythbusters Public Service Announcement: Avoid Dropping Frozen Turkeys
Wednesday, November 21st, 2012Another Thanksgiving-related Public Service announcement: Try to avoid dropping a frozen turkey on your foot or your pets. You know, just in case you were planning on doing that for grins. At the very least you might want to wear shoes when you pull that sucker out of the freezer.
From the title, I was hoping they would recreate the turkey drop episode of WKRP in Cincinnati, but no such luck.
William Shatner Would STILL Like You To Avoid Setting Yourself on Fire
Tuesday, November 20th, 2012Just as I did last year, I bring you a public service announcement from William Shatner: try not to set yourself on fire while frying a turkey:
For those with low Shatner thresholds, the advice is:
If you’re going to fry a turkey, this is pretty sound advice.
And now, new for this year: The remix!
And remember: It can even happen to professionals, as last year Sambet’s Cajun Cafe managed to burn themselves down frying turkeys.
Ruin: A Cool Looking (And Completely Stupid) SF Short Film
Saturday, November 17th, 2012So I stumbled across this short, very professional looking CGI animated science fiction film on YouTube:
What a rich, zesty collection of illogical stupidity!
- You want to loot possibly valuable artifacts. What’s the best way to do that? Toss containers out of tall buildings!
- Why? To open them up? Why not just use the cuts anything electric sword you whip out later in the film?
- Why did you park your motorcycle out in the open where you had to run a long distance to it when the scary twin turbo fan hunting craft comes flying in? Shouldn’t you have tried to hide it nearby in the first place?
- If that thing just wants to kill you, why doesn’t it fire its machine gun or drones at you when it first sees you, rather than waiting until you get on your motorcycle?
- How come those futuristic seeker drones can’t travel any faster than a motorcycle?
- Why doesn’t a craft with expensive, ineffective drones not have cheaper, simpler, much faster and more-effective surface-to-ground missiles?
- If you’re flying along on your motorcycle at top speed, how come your gimme cap never flies off?
- You know that scene when you jump off your motorcycle and jab the craft with your electric sword? Unless you’ve got a cyborg body, you just broke a whole mess of bones. Momentum doesn’t just stop working so you can pull off a deeply improbable, cool-looking stunt.
To quote the South Park episode with Michael Bay: “Those aren’t ideas, those are special effects!” “I can’t tell the difference.” “We know.”
Hey Wes Ball: Your animation rocks, but you suck as a screenwriter. Maybe in addition to all those animation and sound guys you credit, you might want to hire an actual writer.
They’re supposedly making this into a feature film. Hopefully they’ll remove some of the stupidity.