posts from 2008.01

This is the green-screen recording for the music video of Weird Al’s White and Nerdy, and it’s hilarious. Apparently, it’s also quite old. Well, it was new to me, and to the friends I shewed it to last night, so it can’t be that old.

It gave me a newfound respect for Weird Al, who I haven’t paid attention to in years (but now seems both younger and cooler without his mustache), and for Donny Osmond, who I was mostly unfamiliar with (but the quality of not taking oneself too seriously is something I admire greatly – just ask the people who saw me trying to imitate this dance at Nekropolis last night).

Via jwz

Via Rue Morgue, here’s a fan-made trailer for an imaginary movie, that were it real, would surely be one of the best things to ever happen to geekdom.

Watch, and long for an alternate reality better than our own, where a thing can exist simply because it SHOULD exist, regardless of the politics and egos of rights holders and producers.

MARVEL ZOMBIES THE MOVIE

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I love surreal youtube animations. This one is no exception. Certainly, the fact that the children involved appear to be murderous little mutants doesn’t hurt :)

A surreal short film by Run Wrake presenting an allegory about human greed. Artistically, the film is modeled after early 20th Century children’s early readers. 8 minutes, 20 seconds long.

Via Neatorama

This is partly for Peter, who is hellbent on cannibalizing me.

I think the mostly vegetarian diet I’ve been keeping as of late has hindered my chances of being a better cannibal.

Honestly though, you do what you have to do to survive. Also, I’m often up for exciting new culinary experiences (for instance, pig’s blood pancakes)! Within reason, of course- some things are just disgusting.

I think the quiz overemphasizes strength as I find it unlikely that friends would jump at each other with forks and knives if all parties involved were alive and well. Instead, the survivors would probably cannibalize the first to starve (probably the ones with the most muscle and least fat), which should hold them over for a while.

Ironically, the topic of Cannibal! The Musical (based on a true story) came up just the other day. Good movie :)

Via The Presurfer.

Last night in Buffalo I finally got to see Creature Feature in concert! It seems like I’ve been waiting to see them forever, but in actuality it’s only been a year. (Unfortunately there was no Forbidden Zone involved, but there was some other cool stuff.) I have pictures.

Their music sounded different in person- with less synth and more guitar. Of course, since I’m not sure that the version of their album I have is the same as what’s being sold in stores (as I bought mine a good seven months before the other one was released) maybe that’s what everyone else is familiar with. No matter, it was still awesome, and possibly even better, that way.

They weren’t the main attraction and still aren’t widely known, so I don’t think they were expecting many of their fans (all seven of us) to show up. They seemed happy to see me, as I was a dork and showed up in one of their t-shirts (one with “fonts stolen from the Internet” that’s no longer available, yet cooler than their current merch offerings). Marco chatted with Erik some, trying to get them to come out to Sillycuse, and introduced me as their biggest fan (which I cannot verify). Peter, Sarah, and I each got autographed posters.

Also in attendance were Schoolyard Heroes, who rocked wonderfully, and The Birthday Massacre, whom I always seem less excited about than everyone else I know. Oh, well. It was a fun night, anyway :)

Creature Feature is coming to Rochester on March 2. Anyone else interested in going?