Sean Daily is an English major from New Jersey now living in Las Vegas, the Other City of Lights. "I consider 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' to be comfort reading, I like the al pastor tacos at Tacos Mexico and I count among my literary influences the Chainsaw from 'Doom'. 'RRRRRR! You don't like that, do you, Mr. Undead Marine! RRRRRR!'"
Shanoah Alkire is our Discordian at large. "Born in Santa Cruz, I grew up in Grass Valley and the Bay Area, and now lurk in Las Vegas. My literary influences include Ray Bradbury,
Lewis Carroll, and Douglas Adams. I also program as a hobby,
and currently maintain the Gtk port of Angband. You can find
a rather old bio of me here."
In this case, I’m switching over to Pink Floyd, though. This song is titled Goodbye, Blue Sky, and the video is from the movie of The Wall. I thought the imagery on this was, well, disturbing, really. But in a very well done way. Bombers and the flag of England into crosses. It wins lots of disturbing points from me.
And since I’m a day or two late on posting, I probably ought to at least throw another song in. I was interested to see that Queen has written a song about Jesus, and since I just posted a video with a bunch of crosses in it, this seems an appropriate time to post it.
This appears to actually be an official mashup, as it’s on Annie Lennox’s web site as well.
It is by DJ Earworm, including the songs Little Bird, SING, Why, No More I Love You’s, Shining Light, and Walking on Broken Glass, among others. This is a pretty cool mashup. Besides, I like Annie Lennox. She’s freaky. In a good way.
I did Japanese Shakespeare yesterday, so today I thought I’d post a track from the Japanese version of the musical of Jekyll & Hyde, Confrontation. Even if you don’t speak Japanese, you can totally tell the difference between Jekyll and Hyde in this piece (sung by Takeshi Kaga)…
I’m not really sure whether to classify this as a full post or a What the F*** for today, as it shares a little of both.
All I really know of this is that it is the opening to some sort of Japanese Shakespearean Musical. The ending has the same tune, only all the actors were ghosts.
Now here is “To be or not to be” turned into a song and dance number, the ‘Mondai’ song. Think this is the same musical. This has Tatsuya Fujiwara as Hamlet. I so wish I understood Japanese.
And here is Hamlet seeing the ghost of his father when trying to have sex with a fat Valkyrie. The kid has issues. ^_^
All right, since neither of us have posted, think I’ll post something that I know well enough that I could do it in my sleep. (though hopefully not particularly boring.)
I’ve expressed my interest, or perhaps obsession with the song Bedlam Boysbefore, which also goes by a few other titles. It’s a cool song with a million verses, and everyone plays it differently.
The song is about someone in Bedlam, the Bethlehem Hospital for the Insane. In some of its incarnations, it’s about someone from its sister institution, Maudlin, the Hospital of St Mary Madelene, who falls in love with Mad Tom O’ Bedlam.
As it’s supposed to be about someone who is insane, it encourages unusual takes on the song. Here is one such, Mad Toms Song by Bluehorses. They’ve set the song to some wonderfully discordant rock music. I wouldn’t be surprised if half of it was improvised.
And you’ll note that they’ve modified the verse structure, too. Cool performance.
And here’s Old Blind Dogs playing the song in a fairly traditional yet fairly modern arrangement. This video actually has both the studio version and a live version. Live version actually sounds somewhat better to my ears.
And here, of course, is Maddy Prior of Steeleye Span’s slightly cracked take on the song. Quite different from Steeleye Spans take on it, really, and a lot more lighthearted.
Damn, we’ve gone from kawaii to cosmic horror in just a day. It’s not such a stretch, though. I mean, both induce mind-numbing, soul-shattering horror in me, so why not?
The question, though, is who would win if those two went head to head. I hate to say it, but…
I mainly posted this for the quality of the animation. There’s a lot of spliced-together AMVs out there, but few are the anime fans who go crazy and make original anime… especially of this length and quality.
Or maybe they all do, and I’m blowing it out my ass. Either way, I like this.
This film was made by Shawn the Touched, with voices by Kate Peterson as Sarah and Kara Dennison as Jeanette and music by Louie Ambriz and Brendan Becker. Shawn the Touched sez:
This is my first all-Flash anime short, and first submission to Newgrounds. This short assumes familiarity with H.P. Lovecraft and his works referenced within. Most of his works are public domain and available for download.
Us? Familiar with Lovecraft? Nah. But to continue…
I don’t intend to make a series involving the same characters or situation…this was just a one-shot. You may see the character designs resurface in later works, though not as the same characters. Sarah’s design, for instance, is very similar to one of the girls in The Evil at Tentacle High, although of course in Cutethulhu she’s much younger. Think of it as the same actor, playing a different role. ^_^
Well, if we’re going to have animated bunnies, then we ought to add this little confection from Elizabeth Ito, who made it as her sophomore film at CalArts. It’s Hot Crossed Bunnies, and it tears away the so-called “civilized facade” with which we fool ourselves to reveal the cutthroat, murderous of stuffed bunny dolls.
Well, now that you mention it, Shanoah, it’s funny just how many songs from Gordon Lightfoot are well known. There’s The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, there’s Sundown, and then there’s Carefree Highway.
Don’t recognize the name? Well, you’ll recognize the hook. You’ve heard that very distinctive “Carefree Heeeeeeh-waaay” more times on the radio than you’d care to admit.
Throw in a performance by a singing Peterbilt and… well, it’s memorable.
