I have no idea who Kuuhaku Marinus is, though he seems to reside in Mexico and his ideogram (空白磨理成) seems to translate as “Blank Grid.”
Here’s a pleasant cover of Slowdive’s “Machine Gun”:
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Shoegazer Sunday: Kuuhaku Marinus Covers Slowdive’s “Machine Gun”
Sunday, February 28th, 2021Shoegazer Sunday: Bugjar’s “James Dean Deathcar”
Sunday, January 3rd, 2021Bugjar hails from Boston, Massachusetts.
Christmas Storytime: Orson Welles’ “Gremlin Troubles”
Friday, December 25th, 2020Enjoy one of the great Orson Welles’ contributions to the war effort: a story about gremlins, the supernatural critters that attacked World War II planes, more funny than horrific, and with a Christmas theme:
This was from his Ceiling Unlimited radio show, sponsored by Lockheed-Vega to dramatize aviation’s contributions to the war effort. Welles wrote, directed and starred in the first 13 episodes before others took over for him.
Cast credits start in at 13:10. See if you can guess who played the Irish lass before you get to them…
William Shatner PSA on How Not To Set Yourself on Fire Frying a Turkey
Thursday, November 26th, 2020Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
As a public service, I am once again offering up this video of William Shatner showing you how not to fry a Turkey:
Happy eating, and stay safe!
Lego Star Wars Holiday Special Debuts Today
Tuesday, November 17th, 2020The Lego remake of the Star Wars Holiday Special evidently premiered today on Disney+.
Looks less a remake than a complete comic re-imagining.
I don’t have Disney+ (or any other streaming service), so I can’t tell you how good it is.
But it can’t help but improve on the original…
Halloween Horrors: Three Bedrooms, Two Bathes And A Murder Tunnel
Sunday, October 25th, 2020Many of the must-have homeowner amenities considered an essential feature are no longer to be found on modern homes. No longer are buildings including such once-essential features as coal cellars, lightning rods, fallout shelters or murder tunnels.
And remember: A murder tunnel is completely different than a corpse hatch.
Halloween Horrors: Know Your Yokai
Tuesday, October 20th, 2020Yokai is a very broad category of Japanese supernatural entity that can include demons, ghosts, monsters, and just about any other creature from folklore, from microscopic monsters than infect your spleen to dragon-sized titanic snails. Many, but not all, are malevolent, and a goodly number are extremely specific, such as Karakasa kozo, the one-eyed, umbrella-shaped yokai that likes to sneak up on people and lick them with its long tongue.
Here’s a brief guide on identifying various yokai:
There’s also a live-action film featuring 100 of them:
Other Japanese Halloween topics:
Halloween Horrors: Fleischer Cartoon’s Swing You Sinners
Tuesday, October 13th, 2020In this one, Bimbo is menaced by a veritable legion of phantoms in a graveyard.
(Hat tip: Don Webb.)
The Bizarre Story Behind Space Mutiny
Friday, October 9th, 2020A perennial Mystery Science Theater 3000 favorite, Space Mutiny is a grade Z science fiction film feature bad acting, a bad script, bad direction, ludicrous sets, thoroughly incompetent continuity, and special effects licensed from the original Battlestar Galactica TV series.
Here the people behind The Bad Movie Bible (which I may need to pick up) take a look at the story behind the film:
I didn’t realize that ostensible director David Winters was also the choreographer for The Star Wars Holiday Special. While that’s an awful lot of evil to pack into one career, any teenage boy whose parents had The Movie Channel in the 1980s are certainly willing to forgive a lot of sins for producing late night “classic” Young Lady Chatterly. (In the “non-evil” department, he was also a Jet in West Side Story.)
The MST3K episode of Space Mutiny is available as part of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Vol. 4. BLAST HARDCHEESE says you should pick up a copy…
Halloween Horrors: The Apprehension Engine
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020Suppose you wanted to do the soundtrack for a horror film: What would you use to score it? Synthesizer? Computer?
Or how about commissioning a custom instrument to make eerie, unnerving sound?
Behold The Apprehension Engine!
The Witch is one of the films Mark Korven has scored, and I just noticed that it seems to have gotten pretty cheap as of late…