Well, how did I miss this?
Swords, guns, hot Asian women, ridiculous quantities of blood, a steampunk (golem? robot?) antagonist, and completely over-the-top Kung Fu violence? Produced by Quentin Tarantino?
Yeah, I’m there.
I could do without the hip-hop soundtrack, but it’s become something of a tradition in the post-grindhouse blaxplotation kung-fu crossover, and what did you expect for the first movie directed by RZA?
Opens November 2.
Today is H.P. Lovecraft’s birthday. In celebration, here’s a brief musical version of “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”:
I’ve done a lot of Lovecraft and Cthulhu related posts over the years. Here are some of the most notable ones:
Today Apple became the most valuable publicly traded company of all time. Not bad for the once “beleaguered” company which has been declared dead more times than pretty much any other company.
Here’s a quick history of the company pre-iPhone:
And here’s a quick visual look at of a few of Apple’s computers over the years:
Starframes’ “Cielo Drive” seems like a beautiful, upbeat song if you don’t recognize the context of the address (which the video gets to a bit over two minutes in).
This is off their album Ethereal Underground. The band itself is out of Naples, Italy, but their main domain seems to have expired.
I’m getting a bit of a Neutral Milk Hotel vibe from them, which is a good thing.
Today is the birthday of the greatest trumpeter, and one of the most distinctive vocalists, who ever lived, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, who would have been 111 today. He didn’t invent Dixieland Jazz, he only perfected it.
I don’ see a live video of him performing “Someday You’ll Be Sorry,” so here is singing “Adios Muchachos,” which shows both his trumpet and vocal prowess to good effect.
Here’s another obscure Japanese Shooegaze band, Lily of the Valley, with “IOK-1” performed live at the Apple store in Shibuya. I think the echoey acoustics of the place actually adds to the song’s charm.
They hail from Sendai, which was the region hardest hit during the earthquake/tsunami. This tune, and some others from them, are available on iTunes.
I liked last week’s dose of Dreamend so much that I’ve been trolling through their various YouTube offerings, including this offering, which sounds less Shoegazer than some sort of demented bluegrass by way of Neutral Milk Hotel, with maybe a soupcon of Jane’s Addiction thrown in for good measure.
Oh, the video is plenty strange too, which is always a plus.
Can’t let another Sunday go by without a dose of Shoegazer, so here’s Echodrone’s “Gravity.”
I’m guessing the video is from a movie. Anyone know what it’s from?
If the review Howard and I did of Prometheus wasn’t enough to warn you away, here’s a spoiler-filled and NSFW list of all the questions regarding various plot idiocies in the movie, some we covered, some we haven’t. Enjoy!
I see that some online sources are calling Maryland’s Black Tamborine (active during the first wave of Shoegaze in the 1990s) “Twee Pop.” Screw that. Sounds like Shoegazer to me.