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03.18.10 by Widge @ 1:53 am  Here with go with round two. The pre-ramble: a lot of people think Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd was designed to sync up with The Wizard of Oz with amazing results. In an effort to see if any other albums might have the same sync-ing feeling, I'm touring various albums that I think might have a shot. This is the second stop on my tour of fifty albums to see what happens when we mix music and movies in ways that no deity ever intended. Each album is synced using the normal instructions to sync with Dark Side: i.e., wait for the third roar and kick it off. I will watch the entire movie with the album on repeat and make notes on what, if anything, is brought to light. I do this so you don't have to. Second candidate? The sprawling epic monstrosity that is Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland. I knew I wanted to try Hendrix with this and I was trying to figure out whether to do this one or Are You Experienced?. I finally went with this one because of its epic nature, as well as classics like "Voodoo Chile," "All Along the Watchtower," and "Burning of the Midnight Lamp." Trippy album + trippy movie should make for an amazing experience, yes? As always, I suggest you be familiar with both film and album, because I don't really have a way of, you know, doing this legally while you watch as well. (Our first experiment, with Sgt. Pepper's, can be found here.) So let's see what happens: Categorized as: Stimuli
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03.12.10 by Dindrane @ 1:45 am  The corpse, riddled with mysterious holes, lay in a drawer in a museum; the nature of the injuries confused and puzzled--stymieing even the fine minds of London's greatest natural history museum. However, just as a documentary was being filmed, the incisive mind of forensic scientist Heather Bonney made a shocking discovery--the victim had been shot! Further, "her investigation identified entry and exit wounds, and X-rays revealed a shotgun pellet still inside the the body. " (emphasis mine) The victim, a Goliath beetle almost 4" in length (the size of a songbird), was apparently shot while "on the wing." Beetles in the scarab family are notoriously difficult to catch by insect collectors, due to their fine ability to perform extensive and complicated aerial maneuvers. The name of the murderer is being withheld at this time, pending further investigation; ditto the name of the Goliath beetle in question, as he was almost certainly a minor. Remember, folks: there's no statute of limitations for murder...even for beetles. Categorized as: Stimuli
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03.08.10 by ScottC @ 10:32 pm  Michael Bailey is a comics podcast juggernaut. He appears on Spider-Man Crawlspace Podcast, From Crisis to Crisis: A Superman Podcast, Tales of the Justice Society of America and Back to the Bins. However, his premiere podcast, Views From The Longbox, has reached its 100th episode. In preparation for this milestone, Michael did something a little different. Starting with Episode 87, he went through each year that he collected comics starting at age 11. Now this isn't a simple restoration of "I read this comic and this comic and..." He is very open about his life and what went on in it. He brings up how he wasn't the best student, his courtship with his wife, and even the death of his mother from cancer. I really admire how people like Michael opens up to the audience. I wish I could do that, but a lot of my childhood is a blur for some reason. Categorized as: Stimuli
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03.08.10 by Widge @ 12:40 am  Each week we like to kickstart your brain by posting a little something that's...well, it's really an inoculation against the mind-numbing work week that is to come. This time around we see what happens when you need to produce a birthday party on a budget. Rather than just getting one party, though, a birthday fairy arrives who takes you on a never-ending series of nightmarish visions. Each one is a different party and they all seem to have some very common traits: namely covering most everything with balloons and then sculpting food into anthropomorphic demon-treats. There's nothing wrong with parties on a budget--but seriously, if some of our readers had parties like these growing up, that would explain why we have such a following. Categorized as: Stimuli
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02.22.10 by Widge @ 5:41 am  Each week we try to give you something just a little deranged to jump start your descent into work mayhem. That way the rest of the week can only go uphill from there. Well, it made sense in the lab. Anyway, this week we have something you should probably not watch if you're about to fly. Simply because you might have nightmares about being in a plane piloted by this guy. Never trust somebody who hallucinates little people with propellers on their heads. Not to mention the disturbing bit with the baby. After this video, you'll probably want to take the train. In case you find this too disturbing, we have a sorbet to the sorbet with a much less frightening little person. You're welcome. Categorized as: Stimuli
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