Archive for the ‘video’ Category

Shoegazer Sunday: Starframe’s “Broody Soldier”

Sunday, October 6th, 2013

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.

Guillermo Del Toro Simpsons‘ Couch Gag is Awesome

Saturday, October 5th, 2013

This 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.

Shoegazer Sunday: SPC ECO’s “Push”

Sunday, September 22nd, 2013

Sunday’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

Friday, September 20th, 2013

Someone 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:

And Now Here’s Something We Hope You’ll Really Like!

Tuesday, September 17th, 2013

June 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:

Interesting Interview With Gene Wilder

Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013

It’s the day after Worldcon, and I’m more than a little toasty, so expect slow blogging while I get up to speed.

So here’s a long interview with Gene Wilder about his career, working with Richard Pryor, Mel Brooks, Gilda Radner, etc. Wilder has reached the stage in his life where he speaks slowly and carefully, but always cognizantly, and it’s an interesting interview. I suspect that if it were not the day after Worldcon, I’d find it a little slow, but right now slow is just fine.

Shoegazer Sunday: The Great Wilderness’ “Dark Horse”

Sunday, August 25th, 2013

The Great Wilderness is an all-girl post-punk band from Costa Rica, and “Dark House” has a nice gaze sound to the guitars.

Shoegazer Sunday: 93MillionMilesFromTheSun’s “Waiting There”

Sunday, August 18th, 2013

Here’s UK nugaze band 93MillionMilesFromTheSun (yes, they jam the letters all up together like that; probably works well for Twitter) with “Waiting There.”

Oversized Arachnid Cinema

Tuesday, August 13th, 2013

Looks like I’ve been falling down on my Giant Spider reporting duties. A retro black-and-white giant spider film has been released called, oddly enough, The Giant Spider.

There’s an IMDB listing for it as well.

Can’t Sleep, The Clown Will Eat Me

Thursday, August 1st, 2013

Via Gardner Dozois’ Facebook comes news that it’s International Clown Week. I don’t suffer from Clownophobia, but I’ve known people who do.

So let’s take this moment to remember Bart Simpson’s awesome bed:

Alice Cooper even did a song:

And speaking of bed:

Maybe International Clown Week exists to remind us it’s just three months until Halloween