June 29, 2008
TV recommendation: Dr. Who - 'Silence In The Library/The Forest Of The Dead' (Absolutely amazing pair of Steven Moffat episodes for the 4th season of new Who - his episodes in general are the best sci-fi I've seen in the last ten years.)
June 27, 2008
New Monotonik release - Risch's 'Synesthesia' [mtk203] (Latest on my netlabel, Ninja Tune-ish UK electronica goodness.)
PBS.org: Time Team USA in production (Awesome, and someone needs to start showing the British Time Team in the States again already.)
YouTube: 'Chemical Brothers - The Golden Path (Live)' (I forgot about this performance, which is an AWESOME stadium-sized Wayne Coyne vs. Chem Bros lovefest from Edinburgh's MTV Europe Music Awards in 2003.)
June 26, 2008
NYT: 'Who Altered British TV? ‘Who’ Indeed' (On Davies, and Moffat a little bit.)
Wikipedia: Boogiepop Phantom (Christian recommended this to me as something I might like if I like Lain - also, Paranoia Agent and possibly Death Note. All of these are non-shrill, murky noir-ish anime series, so might be good tips for readers, too.)
New York Times: 'True-Life Tales: A Head Case' (From 2007, but only just spotted - MST3K's Mike Nelson on the headache that wouldn't leave.)
June 25, 2008
James Moran points out a great McGoohan 'The Prisoner' interview (Can't say enough about the series.)
YouTube: Zombie Girl - 'Go Zombie' audio (In that kinda rave/industrial/trash subgenre, and totally fun with it - via Keithbee's Last.fm station.)
MST3K Info: 'Historic Comic-Con Panel' (Yep, Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic on the same panel, and there's the first Shout Factory MST3k set coming - should be epic!)
June 24, 2008
The Orb MySpace: 'The Orb Re-mastered & Expanded versions' (Nice, 2xCD versions of all major Orb albums.)
Music Thing: 'Philip Glass: How Do They Play It So Fast?' (A commenter: 'Speed really isn't the hard part as much as tedium.')
Waxy.org: 'Interview with Alan Taylor, Creator of Boston Globe's The Big Picture' (Awesome new blog.)
June 23, 2008
Modern Mechanix: 'Will Autogiro Banish Present Plane? (Mar, 1931)' (Oh yes, the autogiro!)
Jean Snow: 'Yokai Attack!' (Neat Japanese monster book alert.)
Trends In Japan: 'B.S. Alert: Japan’s “robot for lonely men” is quite the opposite' ('The robot in question isn’t even Japanese and is only licensed by Sega Toys from [non-Japanese firm] WowWee with a different exterior.' Wow, didn't know that.)
June 22, 2008
Shots Ring Out: 'What's The Point?' ('So if albums are becoming a loss leader, where does that leave the music video? Having a loss leader for a loss leader is something you do when you want to go out of business.')
WarrenEllis.com: 'Inviting Death From Space' (Why telling aliens about Doritos first may not be a good move.)
Six Of One on The Prisoner remake ('Sir Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings; The Da Vinci Code) is in the role of Number Two and James Caviezel (Deja Vu; The Passion of the Christ) plays Number Six.' Via Wil Wheaton.)
June 21, 2008
GotFuturama: 'The Futurama on Comedy Central Cuts Guide - Bender's Big Score' (Startlingly geeky. And quite interesting, if you can decipher.)
GamerBytes - our new console digital download blog (I did mention we launched this, right? XBLA, PSN, and WiiWare didn't have a dedicated blog, and now it does.)
GameSetWatch: 'The Dobbs Challenge Contest Winners Announced' (I organized this Visual Studio-sponsored game modding competition (with full source code available) for work, and am v.happy with the quality of the results, yay.)
June 12, 2008
TV Squad: 'Christopher Guest dissects Stonehenge for National Geographic - VIDEO' (Spinal Tap is necessary to life.)
Pitchfork: 'Hey Look! It's the Joy Division Zune!' (This is actually kinda cool.)
Music Thing: 'Vladislav Delay has an exceedingly beautiful recording studio' (Yep, he really does, if you're a music geek.)
June 11, 2008
Improbable Research: 'Dead Duck Day: A fond look back' (Honoring... oh, you work it out.)
Hollywood Reporter: 'Guy Ritchie signs on to Sherlock' (Silly that it's based on a not-written comic or something, but more Sherlock can be excellent news.)
Cartoon Brew: 'The Disney-Pixar Merger…Two Years Later' ('In tying the knot with Pixar, however, Disney can finally have its cake and eat it too.')
June 10, 2008
EW Popwatch: 'Bob Odenkirk vs. Rogue Wave: Pick a side, fast!' (Wacky.)
Modern Mechanix - the blog ('Yesterday's tomorrow today' - some great scans from old science, computer mags.)
AICN: 'Pixar's John Carter of Mars becoming a reality?' (Really hope this happens.)
June 09, 2008
eBay: 'Custom Brass and Marble 22" Steampunk LCD by Datamancer' (This retro-technology engineering trend really does make things look beautiful.)
YouTube: 'Spacewarp 5000 Marble Roller Coaster Set' (If I had too much money, I would buy pointless but neat toys like this.)
IGN TV: 'What's Been Cancelled?' (Extremely useful list of what TV shows didn't make it and why for the major U.S. networks.)
June 08, 2008
Bowers & Wilkins Music Club subscription service (Interesting idea from a speaker company (?), exclusive lossless albums from acts recording at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios.)
Trends In Japan: 'Regional food campaigns at Lawson' ('Lawson is also currently featuring a Hokkaido Ham Fighters (another baseball team) tie-in for products exclusive to the Hokkaido region that use only local ingredients.')
Mens Gangu eBay store - science toys (I forgot about this totally cool Japanese toy subniche - mechanical/scientific devices!)
June 04, 2008
AICN: '‘These Aren’t Tentacles!!’ FUTURAMA MOVIE II Trailer!!' (Really looking forward to this!)
June 03, 2008
Venture Bros. Shirt Of The Week club (...tied to the new series. NEAT.)
Stereogum: 'New Morrissey Video - "All You Need Is Me"' (I think he's getting happier!)
Subterranean Blog: 'MTV's History' ('It’s gonna depend on a formula of your ability to ingest pop music + your age as to what year you think MTV started really sucking musically.')
June 02, 2008
Twitch: 'First Details On Alex Proyas’ KNOWING' (Dark City is tremendously under-rated.)
Flickr: 'Stranger #002 Warren Ellis' (This is a beautiful picture.)
Shots Ring Out: 'Kanye West - Flashing Lights (Version 3.0)' (Three videos? Kanye is picky.)
June 01, 2008
Ironic Sans: 'Blogs, Bloggers, and Blogeurs' (Good tips for random neat blogs.)
EW PopWatch: 'It's not too early to save Joss Whedon's 'Dollhouse'' (Might as well get started ahead of time!)
Reality Blurred: 'Clay Aiken impregnated his best friend, will be a dad' (Uh, no. Just no.)