Since I have a lot of weird dreams, and remember the Mellotron from Genesis, I was already inclined to like Dead Mellotron‘s “Weird Dreams.”
Shoegazer Sunday: Dead Mellotron’s “Weird Dreams”
May 18th, 2014How To Kill Godzilla
May 16th, 2014Via Ace of Spades, comes War is Boring’s primer on how to kill Godzilla.
The basic plan is:
That would probably work in real life (where the square/cube law pretty much precludes 10-story monsters, much less ones breathing atomic fire). But in the world of the just released Godzilla movie (which, alas, I have not seen yet), given that our fire-breathing friend is reported to have survived Castle Bravo, America’s first dry-fuel thermonuclear bomb test on Bikini Atoll, well, color me skeptical that 30,000 pound JDAMs would do the trick…
Reality TV Show Ideas: Daddy Was A Serial Killer Division
May 15th, 2014Someone needs to do a reality TV show featuring all the people claiming their father was the Zodiac killer living together in the same house. It would be like The Three Christs of Ypsilanti, except, you know, sleazy.
For the season finale they could battle the people who claim their fathers were the Black Dahlia killer in some sort of trash sports obstacle course…
H. R. Giger, RIP
May 13th, 2014Pioneering artist H. R, Giger has died at age 74. Few other 20th century artists produced work so technically accomplished, pioneering, and disturbing (all at the same time) as his biomechanical paintings, which were mostly produced by airbrush. Even if Giger had never done the design for Alien, his work would still have been hugely influential. And few artists are able to open successful museums of their own work in their own lifetimes.
Shoegazer Sunday: Jesus on Heroine’s “Jesus on Heroin”
May 11th, 2014Honestly, the only thing I know about Jesus on Heroine is that they have a Facebook page. Here’s the slightly differently spelled “Jesus on Heroin.” It’s probably best I didn’t play this on easter Sunday…
2015 To Be Filled With Blockbuster Franchise Sequels
May 5th, 2014There’s lots of news about staggeringly successful, critically acclaimed movie franchise having new installments out in 2015.
What, you’re saying the words “staggeringly successful,” “critically acclaimed” and “franchise” don’t apply to Sharknado?
All I have to say about that is: I had a great deal more fun watching Sharknado than I did Attack of the Clones.
In other Sharknado-related news, The Asylum is crowd-funding a scene in Sharknado 2: The Second One. Personally, I think $50,000 for a single scene is more than a bit high. Give The Asylum’s previous track record, with that much money I would expect them to make an entire film…
Shoegazer Sunday: The Cherry Wave’s “Blush”
May 4th, 2014The Cherry Wave is a shoegaze band out of Glasgow that specializes in fuzzy walls of reverb. Here’s “Blush” off the EP of the same name.
You can buy the EP for whatever you think fair off BandCamp.
The Worst Song In History
May 2nd, 2014If you’ve ever wondered what the worst professionally recorded and released song in history is, wonder no more!
It’s “John John Let’s Hope for Peace” by Yoko Ono, John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band off Live Peace in Toronto 1969:
Think of it less as a piece of music than as a way to clear the room at the end of a party…
Library Addition: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Four Different Poems
May 1st, 2014Another weird library addition, not so much a book as a “book-like object.”
Le Guin, Ursula K. Four Different Poems. Longhouse, 2007. First edition chapbook original, a 3″x5″ card with an accordion foldout attached and a title band signed by Le Guin wrapped around, one of only 24 signed copies, a Fine copy.
An odd item with a very small limitation. Bought for $20 off the Internet.
Crap: Almost Human Cancelled
April 30th, 2014Fox has evidently cancelled the science fiction police drama Almost Human. Which is a damned shame, since it was the first attempt to do a serious post-cyberpunk drama on American TV. (The true first was Japan’s animated Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.) While it wasn’t a great show (it had too much 1970s cop dram patina to it, including the requisite Climatic Gunfight at the end of every episode), it was a pretty good one and had a lot of potential.
Well, so much for that. Unless another network picks it up, or the DVD sales convince Fox to pick it up again. I’m not holding my breath.
