When you ask the Internet to deliver you things, it can come through in a big way: Here's a video for a short-lived music group called Martini Ranch, which featured the Bill Paxton, that was directed by James "I Make Movies About Aliens With Dicks In Their Ponytails" Cameron and his then wife, Kathyrn "I Make Okay Movies Called The Hurt Locker" Bigelow. This is basically a grindhouse movie with a worse soundtrack and too much Bill Paxton and not enough Judge Reinhold. I wish I could visit Martini Ranch. Not. At least this is better [...]
LAYER, MEGADETH, TESTAMENT ANNOUNCE NEW DATES FOR THE "AMERICAN CARNAGE" NORTH AMERICAN TOUR Canadian Carnage East Leg Now Confirmed to Begin Late July Slayer and Megadeth are thrilled to announce the new, confirmed routing for the American Carnage North American Tour, which will commence with the rescheduled Canadian Carnage East dates in Quebec City on Friday, July 23. Slayer will then head to Europe for a run of festival dates, returning to kick off the American Carnage leg in Albany, NY on August 11. American Carnage will play 26 dates across the United States and [...]
Hello and happy holidays! It's that time of the year again, when we SS-ers take a break fom being mere purveyors of fun recommendations, and resize our music-snob-critic hats for yet another year's worth of "songs from this year that we loved but you may not have heard". I'll try to keep the accompanying text down to a dull roar this year... 01. The Airborne Toxic Event, "Sometime Around Midnight" Sometimes I'm glad I'm not as tuned into the world of popular musical criticism as most (well, most who would go [...]
Happy MLK, Jr Day! I've decided to follow up my Best Science Fiction Films of the Decade list with a different kind of list - the biggest disappointments! To clarify, disappointments meaning big buildup with very little payoff. Very little. The kind of movie you see a trailer for and think 'Hey, that looks pretty good!', then you see it and get physically angry at the trailer for lying to you and spit on the theatre while walking to your car. It's not the same as the worst movies, though the two can overlap. And things like Fantastic [...]
Happy MLK, Jr Day! I've decided to follow up my Best Science Fiction Films of the Decade list with a different kind of list - the biggest disappointments! To clarify, disappointments meaning big buildup with very little payoff. Very little. The kind of movie you see a trailer for and think 'Hey, that looks pretty good!', then you see it and get physically angry at the trailer for lying to you and spit on the theatre while walking to your car. It's not the same as the worst movies, though the two can overlap. And things like Fantastic [...]
Note: This list eschews the obvious (Justice League!), the pretty-far-along (Deadpool!) and the already done (even if you sucked, you were Superman, Brandon!) in favor of those books that need their adaptations developed NOW! As always, I favor capes over clothes and lean heavily towards Marvel and DC. Those are my personal biases. If you don't like it, start your own blog. 15. The Falcon. Medium: Movie. Pitch: Like Batman, only with a poor black dude. Dream lead: Derek Luke (Antoine Fisher) [...]
By now, I'm sure most of you have seen Avatar , so I wanted to discuss the film, and its inherent flaws, in the context of its box office and critical success, without worrying too much about spoilers. But I'll save the spoilers for after the jump. So if you haven't seen it yet and plan to, don't read on, or don't read on beyond this first paragraph. Otherwise, enjoy. In broad strokes, I thought it was a good enough movie, and the effects are pretty great, although perhaps seeing the movie on a regular 3D-capable screen (which was [...]
Continuing on with our series on the dynamite, independent record labels that are keeping the indy music flag flying high, today we have the masterminds of the purely punk inspired, Engineer Records, taking their spot on the red leather Ripple Interview couch. Sit back and relax, brew a cup of tea and be prepared to learn all the ins and outs of the indy music scene. How did you get started running an independent record label? Dave: It was way back in 1999 [...]
It's the end of the year, and along with the James Bond film, the advocaat and the arguments, there's one festive tradition that has become de rigeur across the UK. Or at least for the fourteen people reading this blog. Yes, it's the Irk The Purists' annual roundup. Best single: As albums die out as a format, and every track ever made is available to own or listen to at all times, rather than for finite periods, individual songs really have to punch above their weight to get noticed. Is [...]
30. M.I.A. - "Galang" ; This is the song that turned M.I.A. into an international star. The song is catchy in its repetition and shows off a variety of styles and sounds all mixed into one crazy bag. It's what started the craze and set the rise of M.I.A. in motion. 29. Arcade Fire - "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" ; The opening track to one of the finest records of the decade, "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" sets the tone for the rest of Funeral . It's an song that [...]
Album name: Monoliths & These Flowers Never Die Artist name: Phantom Family Halo Genre: Rock Released : October 2009 Label : Crash Avenue ZME Rating: 5/10 Website: myspace.com/thephantomfamilyha lo Um. Phwwwr. Chhhhk. Ahem. It's not that there are no words to describe the Phantom Family Halo's recent offering: it's just hard to string whatever words come to mind into a working sentence. Let us be [...]
Album name: Monoliths & These Flowers Never Die Artist name: Phantom Family Halo Genre: Rock Released : October 2009 Label : Crash Avenue ZME Rating: 5/10 Website: myspace.com/thephantomfamilyha lo Um. Phwwwr. Chhhhk. Ahem. It's not that there are no words to describe the Phantom Family Halo's recent offering: it's just hard to string whatever words come to mind into a working sentence. Let us be [...]
See here for Part 1 of this series. This second part includes mixes with themes of: senses, 80s film soundtracks, Australia/New Zealand, cover versions, robots, acoustic, London, New Wave, 2009, summer, dance/electro, Canada, France, and wit. Next weekend, the last of weekly mixes will make their appearance, and hopefully, at the end of the week, you'll find out what my top eight albums of the year are. Weekly Mix #62 - Why Can't You Touch, Taste and Smell Evil? ( Download ) It's Your Touch – The Black Ghosts Taste [...]
Photo by thecobrasnake I saw some alt with a mural of the cast of The Simpsons on his skin, in the art form of tattooification. It seemed like a bold statement, because your skin is an accessory that will be with you forever. The decision to let people know 'I chill in front of the TV' might not be a good one, since we don't know if 'the TV' will even be around in 5-10 years. Now that sites like youtube, hulu, funnieanddying.com, and collegehumorbrovideos.edu exist, many [...]
I was going to do a list of my favorite records of the 00's, but as I was getting my list together I started to realize it was kind of boring. Really, how many music blogs do you need to tell you the same thing? That's when I began thinking about the records that came out over last 10 years that I thought were criminally ignored, or just didn't seem to get a fair shake. So what I've got for you is a list of my most underrated albums of the decade. Every one of these records [...]
Attention bargain hunters, here's a list of some of the better Black Friday game deals and where to find them. This is not the end-all-be-all list of game deals. There are some crazy specials currently running on Amazon and New Egg right now, but since they are time-locked deals, by the time you read this they may already be gone. Nonetheless, we've culled a lot of advertisements and compiled a lot of great price cuts for your shopping convenience. Keep in mind that everything is only available while supplies last, and for particularly cheap or rare items that's [...]
The idea that Earth has been visited by aliens at some point in the distant past is not a new one. In Sumer, the alien Gods were known as the Anunnaki. While in Greece, they are known as Annodoti and in the Celtic lore, the Tuatha de Danaan. Tthe Semetic scriptures (Torah, Talmud, Old Testament, and other Apocryphal texts like the Book of Enoch), call them The Nephilim, The Sons of God, or The Watchers. We are told the gods themselves had their own monarchy, with laws of succession similar to our own, and they built a [...]
THE BEST COMICS OF THE DECADE: Part Three: 2004 Today, a whole post dedicated to one year. 2004 began the current comic book renaissance (which blossomed fully in 2005), and it takes an entire post just to cover this one year. And most of the reason was Marvel. Let's get started. Superman/Batman #1-6 Jeph [...]
Top Album Releases: October 2009 Nick's Top Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms Black Heart Procession: Six Califone: All My Friends Are Funeral Singers Jay-Z: The Blueprint 3 The Flaming Lips: Embryonic Monsters Of Folk: Monsters [...]
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Welles Look at That A Mix for the 71st Anniversary of the War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast So the few of you out there nerdy enough to actually know the original broadcast date of Orson Welles' presentation of War of the Worlds realize I'm a few days late on this, and to the four of you out there, I say, "Oh well." Before podcasts, when TVs were still a thing of the Devil's, people sat around and listened to radios for entertainment. On whichever frequency you managed [...]
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