Golly Jeepers...

Where'd you get those peepers?

Peepshow, freakshow, where'd you get those eyes?

Peekaboo cover by Bertie Blackman

Originally by Siouxsie & the Banshees

Logic by Operator Please

Australians will know of Operator Please, even if just for their irritating single 'Just A Song About Ping Pong', and England/Europe might know them for the infinitely better 'Get What You Want', but I think most of you will have no idea who they are.

The band members are only a few years older than I am, which always tends to make you wonder why you haven't played Leeds and Reading Festival yet, if they have.

Anyway, this is the first single from their second album, and pretty awesome. The projection effects look like something that'd be interesting to try out as well. 

Temple Run

I thought I'd share with you one of the more successful runs from Legends of the Hidden Temple.

Rarely did teams make it out of the temple after completing the Shrine of the Silver Monkey, either running out of time or getting caught by the Temple Guards.

Ideally your team would have both Pendants of Life (won from previous games), so that when captured by a guard, you'd be able to trade it in order to keep going. With three guards hiding throughout the temple, a team with both pendants would be able to survive the guards, who could only attack once (first player exchanges a token for life, but gets caught by the second, then second player exchanges a token for a life with the third), and it would only be a matter of running out of time. 

I probably spent a lot of a time as a kid checking hallways for hidden doors so that I'd be prepared in case of attack by Temple Guard. Which probably explains a lot.

Happy "I didn't get a Valentine" Day

Now, before we start, it'd be supercool if everyone actually watched the video I linked to in the For Future Reference post, but if you haven't, then this will (most likely) make no sense to you at all. 

If you can't be bothered watching the whole thing but still want to know what's going on, then this is the link again, and watch from around the 4 minute 20 mark.

 

 Valentine's Day is a holiday I appreciate more in theory than I do in practise. If you're in a couple, there's too much pressure to choose the right gift and to make everything perfect. If you're single it can be incredibly depressing to be surrounded by other people's flowers, chocolates and happiness.

A quick chat to my friends revealed that even those in a relationship were hating on the holiday - something which, despite my distaste for it, I found rather disheartening. 

So, drawing on a shared love for a certain crazy drunken Irish man who owns a bookstore (Bernard Black), I decided I'd make an Black Books referencing anti-Valentine card.

Also I really wanted a use for the accordion sketches I've been doing lately.

 

 The front of the cards read (in case you can't read my awful handwriting):

I've come to serenade you.

I can't play guitar.

I can't play this either, 

but I thought it would be less obvious.

While the inside reads:

Happy "I didn't get a Valentine" Day

For Future Reference

Quick everyone, go watch this video so that later on I can make a reference to it and you'll all find it witty rather than just really weird because you've never seen a single episode of Black Books.

Of course, if you've never seen an episode of Black Books, you should go educate yourself immediately anyways.

So either way you're doing yourself a favour here. 

No, really. Don't look at me like that.

If you truly would like to educate yourself in the ways of Black Books, I suggest you start at the beginning, and then when you get to the end, stop.

Now, to stop you from never visiting the blog again, look, pretty thing!

Which I'll tell you more about next post.

Month of Music: The End is the Beginning is the End by the Smashing Pumpkins

For my last song collection, I bring you on of the few reasons to watch Batman & Robin.
...Set to footage from Batman Begins.
Because, well... I think you can make your own nipple-suit jokes by now.

And with that, the Month of Music draws to a close.

Was it good for you?

Month of Music: Science Fiction/Double Feature

I don't think anyone needs this explained to them, other than it's awesome.
But then again, you should already know that.

Summer television is still being awful so I'm still watching movies instead.

Month of Music: Marche Funèbre by Chopin

While my favourite piece of classical music will probably always be Grieg's 'Hall of the Mountain King', anything Chopin wrote comes in a close second.
This piece is his 'Funeral March' played by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.

Month of Music: Bela Lugosi's Dead Cover

Another cover!

This is by a band called Nouvelle Vague, who do wonderfully French covers of songs.

Their covers get used a ridiculously large amount of times, so chances are, if you've ever heard a lounge or bossa-nova style cover of an 80's song, it's one of theirs.

Month of Music: Little Lion Man by Mumford & Sons

Before we start: Bad word warning.


It's nice to see someone rocking the banjo.
Also, check out the multitasking by the vocalist/guitarist, who's also playing kick drum and tambourine at the same time.

Month of Music: Heartbreak Scorsese by Snob Scrilla

From the album 'Day One'

Month of Music: Little Drop of Poison by Tom Waits

The last song from my unintentional Tom Waits movie soundtrack songs triple bill.



This time from Shrek 2.

Month of Music: Underground by Tom Waits

Another Tom Waits song on a movie soundtrack.
However, while yesterday's song choice was from the R-rated Fight Club, today's song is from something a little bit more PG-rated...
Robots.

Month of Music: Goin' Out West by Tom Waits

Summer TV drives me to watch DVDs more than normal.
Summer heat makes me too lazy to get up and search through various rooms of the house to find something new to watch.
So I keep watching the same movie, over and over.
Fight Club is thankfully worth watching and rewatching.
This track, while not as often remembered as The Pixies' 'Where Is My Mind?' during the end of the film, is equally as cool, and played during the first official Fight Club scene in Lou's Tavern.

Month of Music: Help I'm Alive by Metric

Very cool little video.
My only problem with it is that this song is my alarm tone and every time I hear it I feel I should be doing something.

Via Street Anatomy.

Month of Music: A Tribute To Train Wrecks

Now, before you watch this video, you have to bear a few things in mind:



First off the bat, it was two years ago that my brother and I did this. Since then things have changed.
My brother is much much better at playing guitar now. I, on the other hand, got much much worse.
Second, if my memory serves me right, it was recorded on a digital camera. They're not known for their great sound quality.
And third, I'm only posting this because I vaguely mentioned I would in the first post I made and someone had to go and hold me to my word.

Also this goes for about a minute twenty four seconds too long, despite it suddenly cutting out at the end. Feel free to click out or mute the sound at any time.

Month of Music: Access the Animus by Jesper Kyd

While Assassin's Creed II was a far superior game to the first, the soundtrack to the original Assassin's Creed is definitely my favourite. This track is the chase music taken from the track 'Access the Animus', and is my favourite of all the music in the AC world. In game, I take to annoying guards and having them chase me down the street on purpose so that I can listen to the music more often.

Also of note: Ubisoft (makers of AC) have announced they're going to be making an online multiplayer AC game. Thoughts?

Month of Music: Paint It Black Cover

This cover is by the London Symphony Orchestra.



It's fairly epic.

Month of Music: iBand

The only thing the DS is good for other than the Professor Layton games.

Month of Music: Duel of Fates Remix

While the Imperial March may be the classic piece of music from the franchise, I consider Duel of Fates to be the best. I've said it before, and I'm sticking to my guns blasters on this one.
And so I give you this video, with a remixed Duel of Fates. Enjoy.
Enjoy or I force choke you to death.