music and tales
Jason Broderick, the male lead of A Steampunk Opera, the voice of Edgar, Byron and Soldier 7285 is in the semi finals of Search For A Twitter Star. Voting ended yesterday (AAAAAHHHH! This just came to my attention this morning! Damn […]
RIP John Gwynne-Craig. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk2aVNf55e4&feature] I’m having a bit of a tough day and this song is all i can seem to listen to. I can’t decide which of the following two covers is the best. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAe1lVDbLf0&feature=fvst] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ5WPXxNzPU]
As long as we’re on the subject of slightly unhinged creative types, i present to you now a famous Victorian painter known for his faerie and other supernatural themed paintings: Richard Dadd. Richard Dadd was born in 1817 and recognized […]
YEARS ago i went through a big Philip K Dick phase. I read all of his books in about a 1 year period. There was a great little sci-fi bookstore near me and several times a week i would buy […]
From Questionable Content, a daily online comic strip by Jeph Jacques.
I leave this topic with a song. It never got less awkward. The conversations were always horrifically awkward. He wanted a father/son relationship i couldn’t give. I never developed feelings for him. I just… they never came. He and some […]
(note, these events occurred in 2008. This is being posted now because John Gwynne Craig is dying and the email that it is over is imminent.) THE CONCLUSION (email to close friends after returning from meeting birth father) Hi.I’m back. I went […]
I do not post personal topics on this blog, nor will i be making a habit of it in the future. But i got a… let’s say call today. In Vancouver, Canada a man is dying and his time left […]
For our last post on sci fi movies made on the cheap, we must, MUST i tell you bring up by far the best of them. It’s not just that this is by far the greatest sci fi film ever […]
In discussing sci fi movies made on basically no budget whatsoever (and watchable and enjoyable), two movies especially come to mind: Primer and Lunopolis. Today we shall deal with Lunopolis. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20fp9blYTvY] Lunopolis is a documentary style movie about conspiracies and […]