Sometimes mash-ups are brilliantly funny, and sometimes they are incredibly stupid. And sometimes they are both at the same time,

Case in point:

Ponycraft II: ( The Starcraft II trailer...with ponies. )

Ju8st to get you through that lousy Wednesday, here's a couple of vids from some bands I'm listening to these days. They can be classified as Indy, but only just- they don't meet the "must be tedious" qualifation. In fact, all of these are pretty peppy, as befitting a Wednesday.

( Let the Music Begin! )

Ah, it's interesting how the histories seem to make every important event the result of a few people. But as this video shows, there were a few more people involved in the famous cantina scene:

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And now you know...the rest of the story.

"Quick! Get the camera!"
"What? What is it?
"Watch this! Dorothy knows a new trick! Do the trick Dorothy! Do the trick!"
"Well...ok...HEY! Is that a camera!? NO PICTURES!"

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Ms. Dorothy says any movies must be cleared with her publicist.

Carl Macek (1951-2010)Summary: Carl Macek, the writer who was responsible for the Robotech saga, as well as English dubs for Studio Ghibli films such as My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service, passed away Sunday, April 18, of a heart attack ( Read more... )

In the first four  episodes I watched last night the effects were wonderful, the concept exciting...and the writing and acting was awful.  As in excruciatingly clumsy and stilted.  We're talking worse than "Jason of Star Command" level of emoting ( Read more... )

So it's Easter Sunday, the most important holiday on the Christian Calendar, and it's a rainy afternoon.  So there's nothing to do but curl up on the couch and watch TV.  But what can you watch that's appropriate for this momentous holiday?

Not to be contentious or anything, but here are my choices for primo Easter Sunday viewing.:

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Internationalism at work again.

So I'm reading this French blog about a tunnel with a low ceiling that regularly rips the tops off of trucks, and I see an offhanded mention of the singer of the "Russian folk-metal band Arkona" witnessing one of the accidents.

"Hum." say I. "Folk-metal band?  Is that even a genre?  RUSSIAN pagan Folk-metal band? This ( Read more... )

I would SO pay good money to see this in the theater!

Courtesy of MightyGodKing: Bertie Wooster- BATMAN!

For those of you who love opera, all of you who want to learn about opera, and all of you who can't stand the stuff:

Courtesy of Kim Thompson and some student aid money:
All the Great Operas in 10 Minutes

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