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Scientists hooked a squid up to an iPod. This is what happened.
This week at The Gutter, Guest Star Todd Stadtman writes about The War Of The Gargantuas’ “lone pop musical interlude.”
It’s no coincidence, then, that Ishiro Honda’s War of the Gargantuas, a fixture of the UHF band during my youth, has proven to be a childhood entertainment that has in later years demonstrated a particularly adhesive quality. And that’s not true just for me. Gargantuas seems to have left its imprint on a lot of us, and its most universally relived moment, perhaps unsurprisingly, is its lone pop musical interlude. This, of course, takes place in a swanky roof top lounge, at which an assortment of nice Japanese ladies and gentlemen in their evening going-out clothes spectate a Caucasian lady singing a song in front of a live band.
50 Years Of Bond - Salute & Goldfinger… by IdolxMuzic
How much more effectively does Shirley Bassey convey “the music of James Bond” than that crude montage of breasts and explosions? Sure, part of the allure of the James Bond films is tied to women and stuntwork, but that’s not…
Screen Editor alex wonders just when exactly he can no longer enjoy the art because of the artist.
This, in combination with the homophobic media bumbling of several San Francisco 49ers players prior to Superbowl XLVII, left me pondering the dilemma of bad people making good art. If someone is a reprehensible person, what does it make me if I find their creations beautiful? At the low end of the spectrum, readers might have enjoyed my writing, blissfully unaware that during the process I broke a toy, a promise, possibly a toddler’s heart, and barely resisted tossing my 19 year old cat out into a snowbank. More serious are the ever-popular examples of Wagner’s anti-Semitism or Ezra Pound’s proto-fascism, and somewhere in the middle of the road lies my ability to appreciate the athleticism of football players even when they don’t support my access to equal human rights.
Happy Year of the Snake from The Five Deadly Venoms and the Wu Tang Clan!
This is amazing.
Mike Doughty, performing as Dubious Luxury, does a dance remix of:
- The Star Trek fight music from Amok Time
- The Mos Eisley Cantina Band
- Queen’s Flash Gordon Theme.
It is real, and it is spectacular.
Merry Christmas everyone. This SNL video by Robert Smigel is for my Jewish wife and our sons.
(via NBC/SNL)
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“Christmastime for Jews” by Robert Smigel, co-written by Matt O’Brien, Eric Drysdale & Julie Klausner. The creative team also includes director vocalist Darlene Love, director David Brooks, and my high school bandmate, saxophonist Bruce Kapler. (Unfortunately, I can’t unearth any other credits.)
on christmas eve, the gentiles gather
around the christmas tree
they stay at home, and party with
their goyishe family
they disappear one day each year
and pass the egg nog ’round
but it’s all right
because that’s the night
the jews control the town
well, this happens every year on christmas eve
all the happy christian people take their leave
yeah, the streets are deserted and that’s big news
it’s christmas time for the jews
the holiday party starts about 6pm
ain’t nobody recreating bethlehem
yeah the three wise men, that’s a big old snooze
it’s christmas time for the jews
they can finally see king kong without waiting in line
they can eat in chinatown and drink their sweet ass wine
they can crank barbra streisand on the streets they cruise
it’s christmas time for the jews
they can gang up on the quakers
play for the lakers
they can do what they wanna
even blow off madonna
get a chance to drive a tractor
win on fear factor
see fiddler on the roof with actual jewish actors
now, they really get the party goin’ after dark
circumcising grateful squirrels in the city park
picking fights in the bar knowing they can’t lose
it’s christmas time for the jews
now it’s nearly 10:30
yes, it’s time for bed
daily show reruns dancin’ in their heads
maybe next year they’ll learn how to hold their booze
it’s christmas time for the jews
Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating!
Science Fiction Editor James battles the plague and starts to see connections between Bastion and The Dark Tower:
Now, it’s true that a lot of things are Stephen-King-esque (as Grady Hendrix says over at Tor.com: “Stephen King is such a part of the American cultural consciousness that there’s no point in debating his importance anymore”), but Bastion specifically reminds me of King’s The Dark Tower, which is a bit of a different beast than his more horror-focused works. I talked about The Dark Tower on the Gutter a while ago here.
