My search for waltz-time Shoegaze continues apace with Mermaids’ “While Spectres Waltz.”
Shoegazer Sunday: Mermaids’ While Spectres Waltz
June 21st, 2015Shoegazer Sunday: SPC ECO’s “Fuck You”
June 14th, 2015SPC SCO’s Rose Berlin seems very out of sorts with you for some reason…
Teaching Robots to Sword-Fight
June 11th, 2015Via Scott Adams comes word that a team in Japan is teaching robots to fight with swords.
I’ve seen enough movies to know that this won’t end well.
But honestly, this entire post is just an excuse to show the robot sword fight from Exterminator City.
(Remember, that’s the best scene of the worst film ever made…)
Library Additions: Three Random Books
June 1st, 2015This is a deck-clearing post, since I just made another major purchase of Zelazny manuscripts and first editions that it’s going to take me some time to catalog…
Shoegazer Sunday: Windermere’s “Trailer Park”
May 31st, 2015As far as I can tell, this Windermere is a defunct Post-Rock/Shoegaze band from Denmark, not the current band from New Jersey. They sound a bit like Jeniferever if the latter’s lead singer could sing a bit better. “Trailer Park” is a pretty song with a long build.
Library Additions: Signed Neil Gaiman Tasmanian Cave Spider Book
May 27th, 2015So a while back I got word of Neil Gaiman being involved in a benefit for a project involving (I kid you not) Tasmanian cave spider sex. He’s evidently quite the Tasmaniophile, having spent his honeymoon with Amanda Palmer in Hobart. It sounded like an odd, interesting project, and the sort of thing to drive Gaiman completists crazy if they didn’t presupport, so I went ahead and ponied up for the deluxe package, which was, IIRC, a bit over $100 for both books.
Now, finally both books from the Sixteen Legs project have come in:
Appropriate Music for Austin Right Now
May 25th, 2015What, too obvious?
Plus information on where it’s flooding in Austin right now.
For Auction: Queen Victoria’s Lacy Underthings
May 20th, 2015Finally something for the ultimate Steampunk enthusiast/Queen Victoria fetishist: an auction lot of her underwear.
Yes, for a mere £1,500 starting bid, you can own Her Majesty’s Bloomers.
The Dreweatts & Bloomsbury auction takes place on May 21 BST, which means you’ll either need to place a bid online or get up fairly early in the morning (if you’re in the U.S.) to bid…
Shoegazer Sunday: The Hope Slide’s “The Prince William Sound”
May 17th, 2015The Hope Slide is a Canadian Band named after a natural disaster and, like Great Northern, has a name that make it hard to search for information about them on Google. Evidently the two principles were previously in a different Shoegaze band called Hinterland. Here’s “The Prince William Sound.” (Speaking of songs that are hard to Google…)
For Your Enjoyment: A Chicken Sneezing
May 16th, 2015You really have to turn the sound on for this one…