Archive for the ‘video’ Category

Shoegazer Sunday: Starfire Connective Sound’s “To Dream You Are Floating Drunk Among The Storm”

Sunday, October 26th, 2014

I think that Starfire Connective Sound is the shoegaze/post-rock embodiment of Brazilian musician Al Schenkel. “To Dream You Are Floating Drunk Among The Storm” has a percussive edge that’s a bit closer to the post-rock end of things.

Avengers: Age of Ultron Trailer Drops

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014

Behold:

Is that mecha-Stark, or Ultron in Stark armor fighting Hulk?

I’m there.

Shoegazer Sunday: La Hell Gang’s “So High”

Sunday, October 19th, 2014

You don’t have to be a fan of drug-references to enjoy Chilian band La Hell Gang’s echoey, spaced-out “So High”.

They’re evidently on tour in the U.S. right now…

Shoegazer Sunday: Explosions in the Sky’s “The Birth and Death of the Day” Live

Sunday, September 28th, 2014

How do you feel about six minutes of intermittently pleasant guitar noodling?

Tough.

They’re an awful lot like a strictly instrumental version of Midsummer.

Shoegazer Sunday: My Violent Ego’s “Trail of Lights”

Sunday, September 21st, 2014

“Trail of Lights” is a lush, laid-back, multilayered Shoegaze piece from Scottish/Italian duo My Violent Ego.

Shoegazer Sunday: Black Hearted Brother’s “(I Don’t Mean to) Wonder”

Sunday, September 14th, 2014

Black Hearted Brother is a project featuring Slowdive’s Neal Halstead. Here they are with “(I Don’t Mean to) Wonder”.

Also, evidently the Judge Dredd remake has some impressive slow-motion set-pieces…

Shoegazer Sunday: Skip Skip Ben Ben’s “Last Light”

Sunday, September 7th, 2014

Here’s “Last Light,” a pleasant little ditty from Taiwan’s Skip Skip Ben Ben:

Bold New Frontiers in Cattle Rustling

Friday, September 5th, 2014

I think these guys could be in a Joe R. Lansdale story…

Jellybelly Cover’s Slowdive’s “Machine Gun”

Sunday, August 31st, 2014

And the Slowdive cover kick continues, with Indonesia’s Jellybelly doing their cover of “Machine Gun” in a jangly live performance.

RIP: SNL Announcer Don Pardo, 96

Tuesday, August 19th, 2014

Longtime Saturday Night Live announcer Don Pardo has died. I think he was the last person who worked on the inaugural season of SNL who stayed on with the show for it’s entire run. (Lorne Michaels went away for five years before coming back to the show.)

He was a great announcer, and he did a lot of work in radio and on TV game shows like Jeopardy.

Here he is on why script writers should use short words: