Here’s another dose of Italy’s Starframes with “Broody Solider,” whose message seems to be that war is bad and stuff.
The video appears to have been done by somebody who watched Tapeheads.
Shoegazer Sunday: Starframe’s “Broody Soldier”
October 6th, 2013Guillermo Del Toro Simpsons‘ Couch Gag is Awesome
October 5th, 2013This came out two days ago, and already has over 6 million hits, but I still thought Guillermo Del Toro opening couch gag for The Simpsons forthcoming “Treehouse of Horror” episode was too awesome (and too full of SF/F/H references) not to share.
Hat tip: Hank Wagner’s Facebook feed.
Halloween Scares: Uninvited Guests
October 4th, 2013Hey, remember the spider-man of Denver?
In 2008 in Japan, a man found that a homeless woman had been living in his home for almost a year.
Given she was Japanese, I assume she was a very polite, quiet creepy visitor living in his home.
Hey, how much crawlspace do you think there is in your home?
And now, a completely unrelated image:
Eerie, Lonely Photographs
October 2nd, 2013The Halloween season is upon us, so let’s start out with the eerie, lonely photographs of Michel Rajkovic.
His specialty seems to be long exposure black and white photographs of man-made structures over water, producing images of eerie beauty.
Here’s an example:
When You’ve lost Earl Campbell…
October 1st, 2013Legendary running back Earl Campbell says that it’s time for Mack Brown to step down.
“Nobody likes to get fired or leave a job, but things happen,” Campbell said. “I’d go on record and say ‘yes I think it’s time….[it’s] very hard because Coach Brown is a very good man,” Campbell said. “I just hope he doesn’t stay…he’s done some great things. The program, he brought it back, and we don’t need it to get run down where somebody has to start all over again.”
So how many years of grace does winning a National Championship give you? At Auburn, they fired Gene Chizik two years after winning a national championship (which also happened to be their first). That seems more than a little injudicious. Tennessee gave Phil Fulmer ten years after winning a National Championship. (And neither’s successor has set the world on fire.)
I was not among those calling Mack brown to resign when the team went 5-7 in 2010. Knee-jerk reactions to transient adversity are seldom warranted. But Brown has had several years to right the ship of one of the most institutionally powerful teams in Division 1 football, and has not managed to do so. Ultimately, Alamo and Holiday bowl wins are not enough for a man getting paid $5 million a year.
Maybe it’s time for a change.
Shoegaze Sunday: The Telewire’s “Never Been Alive”
September 29th, 2013Here’s another dose of The Telewire. “Never Been Alive” sounds like The Archies dropping acid.
I mean that in a good way.
Shoegazer Sunday: SPC ECO’s “Push”
September 22nd, 2013Sunday’s does of Shoegaze comes top you from SPC ECO (supposedly pronounced “Space Echo”)’s “Push”:
There’s also a tiny bit of 8-bit and dub in there for flavor.
I listened to this and few of their other song’s and went “This sounds a bit like Curve,” and indeed half the duo is Dean Garcia, who was in Curve.
Musical Mashup Frenzy
September 20th, 2013Someone did a mashup of The Ting Tings’ “That’s Not My Name” with The Knack’s “My Sharona,” Toni Basil’s “Mickey,” Plastic Bertrand’s “Ça Plane Pour Moi” and a few other things, and damn if it isn’t catchy, especially when you get about 4:00 in.
Then again, I’m a sucker for additive processes leading up to a glorious wall-of-sound climax.
It reminds me a lot of The Killers’ “All These Things That I’ve Done,” so here that is as well:
Woman Stabs Roommate for Listening To The Eagles
September 18th, 2013It takes a certain kind of fool to act like a desperado and stab a roommate for listening to The Eagles. She just said “I don’t want to hear any more” and went all stabby.
They’d been roommates and lovers before, so it’s not like he was the new kid in town. I wouldn’t be surprised if she had threatened to do it one of these nights before, but no, he had to take it to the limit. Stabbing him was probably the last resort, and now he’s suffering a heartache tonight, spending a lot of wasted time as a victim of love.
That’s life in the fast lane for you.
(Hat tip: Bill Crider.)
And Now Here’s Something We Hope You’ll Really Like!
September 17th, 2013June Foray, voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel and about a thousand other characters, awarded a lifetime achievement Emmy. And not only was she still around to receive it, at age 95, she’s still working!
To celebrate, here’s a timely instructional video: