27
Nov
Thanksgiving Rick Roll
To understand just how epic this was, here’s the Wikipedia entry on Rickrolling.
Posts Tagged ‘Music’
Top Artists (according to Last.fm):
- Flogging Molly
- Gogol Bordello
- Great Big Sea
- Dean Gray (Green Day mashup DJ)
- Corb Lund
- Captain Tractor
- The Free Design
- Blink-182
- Death Cab for Cutie
- Jack Johnson
- The Flaming Lips
- Dropkick Murphys
- Rancid
- Feist
- Dungeons & Dragons podcasts
My Top Tracks (according to Last.fm):
- Big Audio Dynamite – Rush
- Great Big Sea – The Night Pat Murphy Died
- Webb Wilder & The Nashvegaans – One Taste Of The Bait
- The Flaming Lips – Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
- Scissor Sisters – I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’
- Gogol Bordello – Sally
- Trace Adkins – Honky Tonk Badonkadonk
- Flogging Molly – What’s Left of the Flag
- Ian Tyson – This is My Sky
- Tenacious D – The Metal
- Dean Gray – Boulevard of Broken Songs
- Montgomery Gentry – Gone
- Flogging Molly – Sentimental Johnny
- Dean Gray – Dr. Who on Holiday
- John Michael Montgomery – Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)
Movies I saw that were released in 2008 (not necessarily the best, just some of the more memorable; in no order):
- WALL-E
- The Dark Knight
- Kung-Fu Panda
- Iron Man
- Cloverfield
- Quantum of Solace
- Mamma Mia
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- Horton Hears A Who
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
- The Incredible Hulk
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall
- The Forbidden Kingdom
- Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
- Semi-Pro
- The Ruins
- Be Kind, Rewind
- Futurama - The Beast With A Billion Backs
- Tropic Thunder
(If I tried to remember ALL the movies I watched last year, it would take me until the end of ‘09! The most watched movie of the year was a tie between WALL-E and Shoot ‘Em Up, 3 times each.)
Some of the best stuff I read in 2008:
- The Happiest Days of Our Lives, by Wil Wheaton
- World War Z, by Max Brooks
- Crooked Little Vein, by Warren Ellis
- The Gunslinger Born (The Dark Tower Graphic Novel)
- G33k Mafia, by Rick Dakan
- Godel, Escher, and Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter
- Y, The Last Man, series
- Transmetropolitan, series
- The Boys, series
- Planet Hulk/World War Hulk, series
- Punisher MAX, series (Garth Ennis’ run)
- Wanted, series
- Wizard’s First Rule, by Terry Goodkind
- Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
- Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card
- Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition, core books and supplements
Teh awesomist tubes on teh internets:
- Wil Wheaton dot Net: In Exile
- The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century
- Lifehacker
- xkcd
- Garfield minus Garfield
- Least I Could Do
- Questionable Content
- Penny Arcade
- Tcritic - Daily T-Shirt Blog
- io9
- Boing Boing
- Ain’t It Cool News
- Horror Movie A Day
- PostSecret
Favourite Online Video of 2008:
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
Favourite Video Game of 2008:
Tie: Guitar Hero III and Portal
7
May
Daily Dose of WTF?
This is one more reason why you should never doubt just how much Prince kicks ass…
Courtesy of Topless Robot’s The Best 11 Songs From Geek-Movie Sountracks
Batman, meet Prince’s dirty mind. Prince’s dirty mind, meet Batman. I’m sure you’ll have a lot to talk about! Man, try to imagine modern-day Warner Bros. and Christopher Nolan turning over the soundtrack for their ponderous Batman Begins to, I dunno, OutKast and you’ll have some idea of how freaking crazy it is that this song and video ever even happened. Torn between his brother-in-mononymhood Batman and his fellow purple enthusiast the Joker, Prince created a hybrid character called Gemini, who presides over a berserk interpretive dance involving women in batsuits, a parade of Vicki Vales led by a woman in a shirt reading “ALL THIS AND BRAINS TOO ” (an homage to Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns!), cheeky references to the ’60s TV-show theme that still have over-serious Bat-fans sputtering with fury, collage-style lyrics culled from all of Prince’s other Batman soundtrack songs, and a fucking vicious guitar solo. The end result is a ballsy slab of industrial-dance-funk-rock-madness that proves superhero soundtrack music doesn’t have to be kid-tested and mother-approved.