This Might Be The Best Thing I’ve Ever Seen
https://youtu.be/cf9AMDWsOEM
Specifically for any bastards who read Conan the Barbarian books and comics, or maybe came of age around the time Heavy Metal was released.
Korgoth of Barbaria is a pilot episode for what was originally planned as an American animated television series created by Aaron Springer, a storyboard artist, writer and director for Dexter’s Laboratory, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Samurai Jack, and SpongeBob SquarePants … Genndy Tartakovsky, creator of Dexter’s Laboratory and Samurai Jack, directed the animation for the pilot, and was not the only time he’s worked on a pilot created by Springer, as Tartakovsky also produced and directed Periwinkle Around the World.
It was first aired in the United States on June 3, 2006, at 12:30 AM (EST) on Adult Swim. On June 18, 2006, Adult Swim ran a bumper announcing that Korgoth of Barbaria was officially picked up as a series, because of its critical and commercial success with garnering high ratings. Later events, including a formal petition to revive the show and an Adult Swim bumper announcement mentioning its cancellation, indicate that it was dropped before production began due to high production costs.
Lords Of Synth
Fictionalized versions of Vangelis, Giorgio Moroder and Wendy Carlos compete for synth dominance as they score the return of Halley’s Comet. This is some weird shit.
Bill Hader Seems Like A Good Egg
Anybody watching Barry on HBO? (Hitman gets the acting bug.) It’s good. This clip is worth a look for Hader’s James Mason impression alone.
Shit
Tim Conway has hopped the twig. He’s climbed the greasy pole. Yielded the crow a pudding. You get the idea.
More Girl Pop
This one’s funny.
Puppet Show And Spinal Tap
Glad to see these guys still get along.
The cast of the cult classic “This Is Spinal Tap” reunited at the Tribeca Film Festival 35 years after the release of their project and chatted with TODAY’s Harry Smith to discuss the origins of the film, its impact on “mockumentary” style cinema and how they built a 17-year history of the characters before filming.
My Thoughts Exactly
Some guy on the Internet, regarding last night’s Game of Thrones episode …
As a stand-alone piece of entertainment it was excellent. As a piece of the narrative of a long running show, it was trash.
Pretty much.
Also, this guy’s comment with SPOILERS …
Okay, see, what I thought they were building to with Dany was “Her desire to retake the throne ultimately overshadows her noble ideals and brings out her tyrannical side.”
Not “Well, we already won, but guess I’m the Mad Queen now, time to burn everything!”
It’s just so clumsy. They wanted a Big Moment and raced to get there, but there’s no real sense of interiority with the character anymore. The moral of the story is “Some people are just crazy!”
Everything felt just very rote and lifeless. All the actors look bored. The same generic looking peasant woman gets horribly brutalized about 5 different times. Arya finds a horse. The whole thing stinks of the kind of edgy nihilism people accused the show of being, but which I don’t think it actually slid into before. Until now.
Hell Yes
Judging from this trailer, IT Chapter 2 looks to be another faithful adaptation of the book.
I’m fired up!