23.07.2008 / 11:12PM / Comedy, Music, video / no comments »
Last weekend, my cousin showed me the first act of Dr. Horrible, and I didn’t get watch the other two until tonight.
Guess what…they are all incredible.
Created by Joss Wheden (Buffy, Firefly/Serenity) and starring Neal Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillian, and Felicia Day, this is a made-for-web mini-series (each act is only 15 or so minutes) that combines the wonder of vlogging, and the underused villain perspective, with the wonderful world of musicals. The production is unbelievably tight with great performances and remarkably good music (from Joss’ composer brother Jed) and a superbly condensed story-arc.
As of this week, it is no longer available to watch for free on Hulu, but the torrent crowd won’t have a problem finding it, and the people who want to support innovative low-budget productions like this should just shell out the $3.99 to have it right in their iTunes software program.
20.06.2008 / 11:07PM / Free, Music / no comments »
It’s not for everyone, but if you are the kind of person who’d be curious to hear what a Jay-Z verse perfectly laid over a Radiohead riff would sound like, or Busta Rhymes over The Police or what “Ms. New Booty” plus “Come on Eileen” equals (or Public Enemy and Heart?) you should probably check out “Feed The Animals.” This is Girl Talk’s 4th LP, and if you aren’t familiar with the others, they pretty much follow the same basic principle: take interesting pop melodies and vocals, both new and forgotten and stir them into a cohesive production. The outcome is indeed manic, and not all of it will gel for you, but it’s worth it for those moments when two or three or four musical elements you never would have connected seem to mesh wonderfully. Best of all, Girl Talk has adopted/improved the recent Radiohead/Nine Inch Nails music distribution system. His whole album is available for download on a “you set the price” basis. $0.00-4.99 gets you 320Kbps MP3’s (with album art), $5 will get you uncompressed FLAC files (play them with VLC) and give $10 and you get the downloads + a disc come November. Great options all around. Download “Feed the Animals” here.