Archive for the ‘video’ Category

Shoegazer Sunday Soundpool’s “On High”

Sunday, July 19th, 2015

Here’s New York-based Soundpool with “On High.”

Shoegazer Sunday: The Mary Onettes “Ruins”

Sunday, July 12th, 2015

For your Sunday dose of Shoegaze, here’s Sweden’s The Mary Onettes with “Ruins.”

300 Fireworks Rockets Fired off At Once

Saturday, July 4th, 2015

Saw this in late May and knew I’d be saving it for July 4th.

God bless Colin Furze…

Shoegazer Sunday: Mermaids’ While Spectres Waltz

Sunday, June 21st, 2015

My search for waltz-time Shoegaze continues apace with Mermaids’ “While Spectres Waltz.”

Shoegazer Sunday: SPC ECO’s “Fuck You”

Sunday, June 14th, 2015

SPC SCO’s Rose Berlin seems very out of sorts with you for some reason…

Teaching Robots to Sword-Fight

Thursday, June 11th, 2015

Via 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…)

Shoegazer Sunday: The Hope Slide’s “The Prince William Sound”

Sunday, May 17th, 2015

The 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

Saturday, May 16th, 2015

You really have to turn the sound on for this one…

New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer Drops

Thursday, April 16th, 2015

Not seeing it on YouTube just yet…

Shoegazer Sunday: Echodrone’s “Glacial Place”

Sunday, April 12th, 2015

Echodrone’s new album Five is now out, which is cause enough for Shoegaze fans to celebrate.

The video below is for the song “Glacial Place”:

The footage in the video is taken from the Philco Ford Corporation’s 1967 industrial futurist film The Home Of The Future: Year 1999 A.D.:

As glimpses of retrofuturism go, it hits a lot closer to the mark than most, offering a central home computer (“which is secretary, librarian, banker, teacher, medical technician, bridge partner and/or all-around servant”), computerized learning, bookeeping, etc., and lots of glowing screens. It even predicts online shopping! As always, the hairstyles immediately tell you the film’s actual era.

Philco actually manufactured the Mission Control monitors NASA used well into the 1990s. Ford sold Philco to GTE, and since then the brand has been broken up and licensed to various companies around the world.