It’s that time of year. If you haven’t been to the Austin’s 37th Street display of lights, this video from illustrator Doug Potter gives you an idea of what it’s like.
Merry Christmas!
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Austin: Christmas on 37th Street
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011Shoegazer Sunday: Laboratory Noise’s “Here, She Is Evergreen”
Sunday, December 18th, 2011Today’s dollop of Shoegaze goodness comes from Laboratory Noise. Love the band name. The YouTube description says they hail from Manchester, the birthplace of classic Shoegaze, but their bio says they hail from nearby Bradford instead.
Their debut album, When Sound Generates Light, is available through Amazon.
Finally, a Christmas Film I Can Get Behind
Friday, December 16th, 2011A Very Calvin & Hobbes Christmas
Tokyo Shoegazer’s “Bright” Take 2 (The Complete Song)
Monday, December 12th, 2011Little did I know that almost immediately after I put up the short version that Tokyo Shoegazer would put up the complete 8 minute, 29 second version.
Well, because I run a full-service blog (full service, I tell you!), here it is:
Llamas With Hats
Sunday, December 11th, 2011Maybe I’m easily amused, but something about the absurd, over-the-top, off-screen violence tickled my funny bone. Given that each of these have more than a million hits, once again I may be a wee bit behind the curve.
“That’s what forgiveness sounds like. Screaming, and then silence.”
“I should probably mention that I filled our luggage with orphan meat.”
Shoegazer Sunday: Supercar’s “Lucky”
Sunday, December 11th, 2011After posting last week’s Tokyo Shoegazer song, I did some more research, and it seems that Shoegaze is (thankfully) a lot more popular in Japan than I first realized.
Here’s a band named Supercar (which evidently broke up in 2005) with “Lucky.” Here they seem a little more J-Pop than Shoegazer, but either way they’re very tasty. Skip the first 42 seconds of cheesetacular introduction.
And here’s the live version:
Shoegazer Sunday: Tokyo Shoegazer’s “Bright”
Sunday, December 4th, 2011I was poking around YouTube looking for more Shoegazer songs when I came across “Bright” from Tokyo Shoegazer, an accurate and wonderfully self-referential name.
That’s only part of the song; the full track comes in at 8 minutes and 19 seconds of reverb-and-sustain drenched fuzzy, blissed-out shoegaze goodness.
That track is off of their debut album 「crystallize」, which evidently just came out November 23. For once I’m not ten years behind the curve! All the tracks are available on iTunes. I’ve already picked up “Bright” (which hits very close to the heart of my Shoegazer sweet spot, which is still Slowdive’s Just for a Day), and may end up buying the rest.
Even if you’re not a Shoegazer fan, you have to admit that this collection of guitar effects peddles on the album cover is impressive:
Nine Nich Noels
Thursday, December 1st, 2011And now that it’s December, enjoy the songs of Nine Inch Nails set to traditional Christmas music.
And as long as we’re on that topic, here’s Bad Kermit’s rendition of “Hurt.”
And here’s a mashup of Nine Inch Nails and The Beatles on “Come Closer Together.”
NSFW warnings apply to all.
Hugo and Georges Méliès
Monday, November 28th, 2011Howard Waldrop and I reviewed Hugo over at Locus Online, which we liked an awful lot.
The film involves (slight spoiler) the work of French film pioneer Georges Méliès, who produced, directed, wrote, and starred in over 500 silent short films, many of which no longer exists. But several of the ones that do are up on YouTube, and I thought I would gather them here. Méliès, a former stage magician, was the first to create a number of optical effects.
His most famous film, A Trip to the Moon, with the classic image of the shell embedded in the man-in-the-moon’s eye.
Interestingly, this was not his first film featuring the moon, as shown by The Astronomer’s Dream:
Another interplanetary voyage, this time by train, to the sun (in hand-tinted color, no less):
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea:
The Haunted Castle:
Mélies himself is front and center as each of The Four Troublesome Heads:
Likewise as the Man With the Rubber Head:
Spinal Tap: Unwigged and Unplugged
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011The men behind Tap decided they’d like to go out and perform without the having to get into character. Here’s the result:
Strangely enough, unwigged.com now seems to be some sort of language learning site.
On why they did it:
And just for the hell of it, here’s “Stonehenge” live from Wembley in 2009: