Hey. Listen. LISTEN! I know that this very song was my Wednesday Listening Pleasure back in March. But Warren Dunes didn’t have a music video for the song back then! Also, they especially did not have a music video that was directed by my good friend (and non-incidentally bandmate in The Crazy Boy Floyds and retired Yellow Fool in Fools Play Improv) Geoff Gibbs. HERE IT IS (I bet you didn’t think I’d actually show it to you after that, but whysoever would you think that, you should know me better). Partake and enjoy!
For today’s Wednesday Listening Pleasure, we have a holiday treat come early! A song by The Crazy Boy Floyds, “Large Titanium Viceroy” (from their Construction Paper Robot Assembly Line album) now has a nifty new animated lyric music video. Not only that, though, but the music video serves as the opening introduction to an “episode” of the adventures of the Large Titanium Viceroy and his Unskilled Boy! Just take a watch:
This was all brought to you by Geoff, one of the members of The Crazy Boy Floyds (that’s him singing in the song), who animated the whole thang on Adobe After Effects by hisself. Hope you enjoyed!
Set to some Crazy Boy Floyds music, watch as Geoff (of the Crazy Boy Floyds, and also a founding member of Fools Play Improv) punches (and kicks) ghosts… for SCIENCE!!
You see, Geoff is up in Canada right now, and there’s a long-running…
Y’know what? No. I’m not gonna explain this. No explanation needed. There’s no explanation that could be better than: Geoff punches ghosts for science. Period. Full-stop.
If you’re interested in hearing a li’l bit about the LONG and humorous history and process of this band, one of the members (Geoff) put together a li’l documentary about it. You can watch it here and now! DO SO:
There, that was only 6.5 minutes of your life you’ll never get back. You’ll hardly miss it! Though you may wish I hadn’t vocally re-created the first song I wrote.
Right, Geoff?
“Right, dude. Dude.”
Anyhoo, if you want to listen to more, CBF has a handful of songs available for FREE on our bandcamp page, conveniently arranged into four albums by subject matter:
Four Times Four Songs of Fun!
Seriously, this musics is a tonne of fun to both make and listen to. Like I said in the documentary, I’m getting a new(er) computer sometime soon and I’m gonna load it up with Schism Tracker and get some good Gameboy samples all loaded up (as well as my regular CBF samples), then I plan on spending the rest of the year making musics for everyone! I’ll keep you updated-ish as to my progress. <3
TV Show of the Month:
Gravity Falls
What a perfect show for Halloween, filled with scary supernatural elements like zombies, dark magics, monsters, and gnomes! It’s also a really frikkin excellent show, one that very carefully and slowly builds its mythology and world, all without sacrificing the immediate humor of the moment. Top-notch actors like Linda Cardellini, Kristen Schaal, Jennifer Coolidge, Will Forte, Nick Offerman, Nathan Fillion, Alfred Molina, Louis C.K., Mark Hamill, John Oliver, Patton Oswalt, and even Neil deGrasse Tyson have lent their voices to the characters. It also built towards a planned ending and then actually ended! It’s only two seasons. You can watch it on Hulu. Do so. For Halloween.
Album of the Month:
The Crazy Boy Floyds: 8-Bit Halloween
A great little collection of catchy songs about a Werewolf/Skeleton combination, the Grim Reaper, a generic Monster, and an Urban Legend. Go listen to them. Do so. For Halloween.
Video Game of the Month:
Transformers: Earth Wars
What does this game have to do with Halloween? Umm… giant robots? Whatever, I’ve been playing this game very consistently for over a month, so it’s p-much a lock to be included in my “of the month” choices this time. It’s a resource/building/battling game, where you collect resources to build a base from which you launch sorties against opposing players’ bases. If you like that kind of thing, this is a very casual version (I usually just pick it up for a couple of minutes at a time a few times a day). Plus it’s nice to send some old faves like Ironhide and Bumblebee into combat on your behalf. If you do start playing, join my Alliance: “Seattleites”
My excellently-talented friend (since kindergarten) Geoff is an excellently-talented musician. Until recently he was the bass-playing part of Julia Massey and the Five Finger Discount (he can be heard on all of the FFD albums released up to this date). He is also the singer and 1/2 of the composers (I’m the other 1/2) of The Crazy Boy Floyds. He also produced a bunch of Trevor Peach’s recent musics. And a bunches of other stuffs.
Hey guys! Not only is Slayer an awesome company that I have loved since it’s inception, but a while back Arthur Allen started working in their marketing department and asked if I’d be willing to make a little tune for the promos of their upcoming products. Of course I said yes! And of course Arthur has done amazing things with it! Thanks for the opportunity, man! I hope I get to work with you moooore!
Watch the ‘mercial here and wissen to da musics within!
Also, that looks like a pretty kick-ass machine. If only I thought coffee had a good flavor taste instead of tasting like burnt bits you’d scrape off the bottom of an oven!
Musicians of the Month:
The Crazy Boy Floyds
Full disclosure: The Crazy Boy Floyds is my band. I compose music and (rarely) lyrics for it. Therefore I think it’s completely awesome. We’re steadily releasing content for four albums simultaneously:
I’ve posted much about The Crazy Boy Floyds and will continue to do so. Check it all out at The Crazy Boy Floyds Tag on this here blog on the computer website.
YouTuber of the Month:
DashieGames
“Dashie” is a guy who films himself playing video games and uploads it to YouTube. So what? Thousands upon thousands of people do that. Well, none of them have quite the… enthusiasm that Dashie does. Dashie is so over-the-top energetic and excited that I find him to be incredibly, infectiously entertaining. His shouting, screaming, and swearing might seem like it’d be annoying, but it comes across as charming. It’s fun to watch someone do something so damned enthusiastically. His facial expressions and reactions when things don’t go his way are priceless. I have exclusively watched his Super Mario Maker series, wherein people make insanely-difficult levels for Dashie to beat and he does his damned best. I made a level for him but he never ended up playing it. But you should still watch these Mario Maker videos. Watch out, though: he uses the cuss words quite a bit! Not safe for work and all that.
Link of the Month:
LiarTownUSA
LiarTownUSA is the excellent Photoshop work of Sean Tejaratchi, wherein he makes phony images of phony things, and they’re all frikkin’ hilarious. He’s perhaps best known as the creator of the insane supermarket “Apple Cabin” (which now has a calendar available of all its bizarre advertisements)
Who wouldn’t want to shop at Apple Cabin?
But LiarTownUSA is also chock full of phony book covers, magazines, albums, View-Masters, commemorative plates, calendars, rock show posters, as well as things like phony screenshots of fake YouTube videos and Netflix movies. Like Ghost Prawn:
Ghost Prawn
2000 R 1hr 45min
A routine hunt for microscopic bits of food lures Ghost Prawn into a web of seduction and deceit.
Recurring gags abound, such as a series of tributes to a seagull named Glenn that died in 1974:
Glennspirations
Be warned, though, there is much that is NSFW in these images (such as fake porno mags and video covers).
