Cult Film, TV, Geek Art
This is from the halftime show at the OSU vs. Nebraska game on October 6, 2012. The Ohio State University Marching Band paid tribute to Space Invaders, Pokemon, Tetris, Super Mario Bros, Halo, The Legend of Zelda, and Pac-Man. I’m certainly no expert on marching bands, but I thought this was pretty amazing. The part starting at 6:10 where they form Link’s horse Epona and make it look like she’s running kind of blew my mind.
via @packardwalsh
Time-lapse video of Alex Pardee painting his horrifying portrait of Steve Urkel (Jaleel White) from Family Matters.
Noriyoshi Ohrai (born in 1935 in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan) is an illustrator best known for his posters for the original Star Wars trilogy in Japan. Ohrai has also done some amazing artwork for Godzilla.
“The funniest talking horse movie ever!”
Plot: Fred P. Chaney (Bobcat Goldthwait) receives as inheritance a talking horse (voiced by John Candy) that also has good knowledge of the stock-market.
Starring: Bobcat Goldthwait, Dabney Coleman, John Candy, Virginia Madsen, Tim Kazurinsky, Mary Gross
This another one of my childhood favorites. I’d pretty much watch anything with Bobcat Goldthwait or John Candy in it. Tim Kazurinsky, who played Goldthwait’s frequent comic foil Sweetchuck in the Police Academy movies, is an added bonus.
Hot to Trot (1988) Trailer
These are the opening and closing themes to Batman Lightning, the Japanese version of The New Adventures of Batman from 1977. They were performed by a band called Sue Cream Sue.
Opening Theme: Crescent Night Story
As the midnight sun hung above the streets, he jumped over search lights,
climbed up emergency stairs, and his black motion made his footsteps echo.
You were trying to be sneaky, weren’t you, ba-ba-ba-bad baby.
He snatches his prey and completes his work very swiftly,
please, with a stop motion, show me your elusive and mysterious real face.
What an impudent man! Mi-mi-mi-midnight lover.
Coming up! BAT MAN! In this darknight, I’m being embraced by a BAD MAN!
Now light up the shooting stars and send them to the ends of the earth.
More, BUT MAN, coolly, a bout man! intensely, [no sure what “a bout man” is…]
With his true identity undiscovered, he’s the Ba-ba-ba BATMAN.
Ending Theme: I Love BATMAN
BATMAN I love you… BATMAN I need you…
Everyone looks up to and talks about you,
so please always be your dreamy self no matter when.
Save me from a pinch, and show me your macho virility, for I love strong men!
BATMAN I love you, but times change.
BATMAN I need you, to remaing always dreamy
is so hard. But But My Love
– Translation by animeyay
Here’s the full version of Crescent Night Story by Sue Cream Sue
based on Sandro Botticelli’s Virgin and Child
For Bottleneck Gallery’s Can’t Beat Em, Join Em: The Zombie Show
by Hillary White (wytrab8)
Thumbs up from Gary Coleman, David Hasselhoff, and KITT
…and this is Gary and David with their faces swapped
Clark, Ellen, Audrey and Rusty Griswold reunite for EW’s 2012 Reunions issue.
We found out, long ago, it’s a long way down the holiday road. It’s just difficult to believe how long ago that was. Nearly 30 years have passed since ‘National Lampoon’s Vacation’ sent Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Dana Barron and Anthony Michael Hall on the Griswold family’s ill-fated trek to Wally World. The kids were replaced for each of the sequels, but now the original clan is back together for EW’s annual Reunions issue. Check out video of the dysfunctional movie-family’s reunion. The Griswold clan may be strange, but it turns out they’ve never been estranged.
They all went on to their own projects over the years. Chase, now 68, had Fletch, Spies Like Us and Community. D’Angelo had American History X and Entourage. Hall went on to a series of classic comedies by John Hughes (incidentally, the screenwriter for Vacation) and the TV series The Dead Zone, and Barron won a 1989 Daytime Emmy for the after-school special No Means No, before going on to a recurring role on the original Beverly Hills 90210.
But for each of them, Vacation was a defining moment.
