8-10-09 IOSYS – Itteyoshi

Oh.

My.

God.

Those IOSYS songs are probaby the most evil things I’ve ever listened to. And you know what that means.

Yes! We must listen to more!

This is Itteyoshi. It’s not subbed, but has a guitar grind and a Japanese man doing crazy samurai yells. And, really, isn’t that all a song needs?

Not Work Safe, for a Very Bad Gesture made by those cat thingies.

Courtesy of jackkjack.

8-4-09 Thee Oh Sees – Visit Colonel

And this really isn’t related to the last post, either. I just like it.

This is Thee Oh Sees, live in Vancouver in March 21, 2008, with some freakadelic surf called Visit Colonel. Colonel Kurtz? Well, why not?

Courtesy of liam117.

7-28-09 Happy Tree Friends – Flippin’ Burgers

Well, I know what  I do when the kawaii gets too thick and the cuteness so toxic it can eat through an I-beam in 15 seconds.

That’s right! I send in Flippy, my favorite Happy Tree Friend with deep-seated emotional problems!

This is MondoMedia’s Flippin’ Burgers.

7-27-09 Hot Crossed Bunnies

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.

Courtesy of cartooncatbus.

7-23-09 Los Lobos – Chuco’s Cumbia

Well, speaking of Worldfest, I couldn’t help but notice that Los Lobos was on the list of acts (and was the only name that I recognized). So here’s something good from them – Chuco’s Cumbia, off 2006’s The Town and the Country – performed at the Austin City Limits Festival on September 16, 2006.

7-22-09 Tommy Emmanuel – Pegao

Well, I’m stumped. I don’t know what to post today. So I’ll just keep the Tommy Emmanuel train going, with Pegao by Jose Feliciano, seen on Michael Johnathon’s WoodSongs show.

Courtesy of guitarsoul.

7-20-09 Tommy Emmanuel – Saltwater

Oh, dude, anyone who can make sounds like that on an acoustic guitar deserves a little more love.

Here’s Tommy Emmanuel again, with something more conventional – and more delicate. This is Saltwater, taken from the same performance as Initiation. You might want to crank this one.

Courtesy of BeautifulGuitarMusic.

And yes, I know, it’s the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon and I’m supposed to say something about it in my blog. Well, I just did.

7-19-09 Kolobok

Shanoah’s still out in California, hunting down the wily snipe (and if I know him, he’ll manage to bag one).

Anyway, continuting the Russian animation train, here’s another one translated by Niffiwan. It’s Kolobok (credits here), based on an Eastern European fairy tale similar to the Gingerbread Man. I recommend reading this English translation the original fairy tale, with some nifty illustrations, here, before you see what the animators did with the story.

By the way, if you can’t see the closed captions (especially Part 2), click on that little triangle in the lower right corner of the viewer and turn them on.

Part 1

Part 2

7-18-09 Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

Well, Shanoah, I don’t feel like doing synth-pop anymore, but I also don’t feel like posting hemophiliac Finns again, either.

So I’m going combine two of my passions – Sherlock Holmes and freaky East European animation – in one post, with this Russian retelling of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. It won Best Writing honors and came in third at the 2006 Open Russian Festival of Animated Film, if that means anything.

Posted and subtitled by Niffiwan, who’s also done The Cat Who Walked By Herself and The Golem.

Part 1

Part 2

7-17-09 Nightwish – Amaranth

Shanoah is still off. I hear he’s developing his own laws of physics, which will have more random explosions, more ways to make Frankenstinian monsters and just generally be way cooler than the boring physical laws we have now. “Nothing can go faster than the speed of light? Ha! Warp factor 98, Mr. Sulu! I wanna be in the Large Magellanic Cloud by lunch!“ 

Anyway, we continue the Nightwish train today with Amaranth, suggested by Eric.

Courtesy, once again, of Nuclear Blast Europe.