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.
Archive for September, 2014
Shoegazer Sunday: Explosions in the Sky’s “The Birth and Death of the Day” Live
Sunday, September 28th, 2014Two TV Artifacts From My Misspent Youth
Thursday, September 25th, 2014There are two forthcoming TV show DVD sets that hearken back to the days of my youth:
Recommended without qualification is the complete WKRP in Cincinnati with the original music restored. If it wasn’t the greatest sitcom of the late 1970s/early 1980s, it was certainly in the top 5.
A bit more qualified recommendation for the complete 1960s Batman. Every significant dark, gritty Batman of the last 30 years (from Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight to the Christopher Nolan trilogy, and even the Tim Burton movie) has been largely in reaction to this show’s campy tone. The show is very much a product of its time, but retains a certain charm for just that reason. Plus the cast of villains (Burgess Meredith, Vincent Price, Julie Numar, Frank Gorshin, etc.) draws from some of the very best character actors of the time.
I’m sure either might make swell Christmas presents for someone you know…
8-Bit Version of Nine Inch Nail’s “Closer”
Wednesday, September 24th, 2014Either you like this sort of thing or you don’t….
I think it gets better the deeper into the song you get.
Restaurant Review: September 20, 2014: Pour House Pints and Pies
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014Pour House Pints And Pies
11835 Jollyville Rd (Austin, 78759)
(512) 270-4740
This is essentially a sports bar that serves pizza. The pizza was pretty good (but could have used more cheese to hold our “four meats plus onions” toppings in place), but the fried mozzarella was undersized for the price, and the service was indifferent at best.
Unless you want to watch sports, there’s no reason to go here instead of Reale’s just up 183.
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.
The Lame Excuse Books Page Has Been Updated
Friday, September 19th, 2014I’ve updated the Lame Excuse Books web page with a number of new books from the August catalog. Includes a number of tasty books (many signed) for your reading and collecting pleasure…
Library Additions: Several Random Interesting Books
Wednesday, September 17th, 2014There is no theme, only Zuul interesting stuff that’s come in after I got back from Worldcon.
Shoegazer Sunday: Black Hearted Brother’s “(I Don’t Mean to) Wonder”
Sunday, September 14th, 2014Black 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…
Web Pages That Suck: The Afterlife
Friday, September 12th, 2014So Dwight sent me an ultra-crappy webpage (warning: auto-sound), wondering if it was worse than Bella De Soto’s page. It wasn’t. But it did make me wonder what bold new frontiers in bad web design had been unearth. It’s not as horrible as Bella De Soto’s page either, but it really tries…
Behold The Afterlife! (Allow it to run the Quicktime once for the full effect.)
Well, that is to say what the afterlife would look like if designed by a dozen Geocities webdesigners after a marathon session of huffing paint fumes in a church basement, followed by an explosion at the local animated .gif factory…
Library Additions: Three Interesting Chapbooks
Thursday, September 11th, 2014I recently got in three interesting trim-sized chapbooks, two hardback and two signed:
One other thing these have in common: I’ll have copies for all three available through Lame Excuse Books (inquire if you want one).