Big ups to Minneapolis Fucking Rocks for sharing this video. In it Slug shows off Fifth Element, Taylor Sound, and First Avenue while answering a few questions for MTVu guest interviewer Joe from UW Milwaukee.
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Thanks to RCRD LBL for the post.
Pointing the way to The Secret Device (which in turn points to a video blog about faeries), this awesome video is apparently related to Hellboy II: The Golden Army. The film’s marketing also had HETFET – Humans for the Ethical Treatment of Faeries, Elves, and Trolls – stage a protest march at the New York Comic Con.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army opens July 11.
Shot in March 2008 in Los Angeles by Jonnie Ross.
After a three month absence, Mitch updated Nothing Nice to Say today with a new comic about cocaine in the punk rock scene.
And I learn more about fucked-up Japanese culture…
Pitchfork: With all that touring you’ve spent plenty of time abroad, is Tokyo still important for the band?
AM: It’s really important, yeah, definitely, Tokyo is one of the craziest cities in the world, I mean, there are some neighborhoods where crazy, fucked-up things happen, stuff you wouldn’t normally think about.
Pitchfork: Like what?
AM: It’s not necessarily dangerous stuff like in other cities, but more deranged stuff here like fujoshi, you know that?
Pitchfork: No, what’s that?
AM: [laughs] I think it translates as, “rotten girls.” Let me see if I can explain…these girls take a regular comic book and subvert the storyline or plot into something homosexual. They pick out two male characters and rewrite their lines and even change their order of appearance in the story to make the male characters in the story fall in love with each other.
Pitchfork: And this is a hobby of some Japanese youth?
AM: Yeah, girls. They trade books with their friends or actually publish them DIY or via some indie press. It’s kind of big, I’ll go so far to say it’s influential on the Japanese economy.
Pitchfork: [laughs] What?
AM: Yeah, like you know Masked Rider? It’s like Power Rangers out here. The new version has all the male characters positioned in such a way just so it would appeal to these kinds of girls so they could subvert and, well, buy it, and further get it out there. It’s like all these Visual Kei bands are a branch off of that. The band members dress themselves up to the extreme so [these] girls will like them, so they wear lots of make up or go for an allusive feminine image. It’s so twisted, you have to see it for yourself. Because in Japan, compared to foreign countries [where] gays and lesbians can exist openly and freely, here it’s so suppressed and so taboo that it comes out in the most twisted ways, and that’s part of why it’s so crazy living here. Now, it’s like all these people are wasting their time day dreaming about twisted subversive things and it’s really changing modern Japanese society. I’m telling you, man [laughs].
Pitchfork: I had no idea…
AM: Well, there is a lot of weird reverse phenomena like that in Japan. Like, these comics had a storyline to which the characters obviously adhered, but now that they have been rewritten, it’s like the characters are their own individuals and the original storyline doesn’t even matter anymore. Even their order of appearance is mixed. And as for as those Visual Kei bands go, the image of the band members comes first and the music is second, so everything is kind of reversed, and that actually affects us as a band, we’re surrounded by that kind of shit. Of course, you choose what you want to see, but I wonder where Boris fits into that.
READ THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW HERE
Boris – “My Neighbor Satan”
Live on the Take Away Show.
Despite the massive screwing over that the fairly decent Idiocracy received in its theatrical run, Mike Judge is currently in pre-production on his newest feature film, Extract. He’s recruited Arrested Development vet Jason Bateman to star. Variety vaguely stated;
Extract explores what it’s like to be the boss when everything seems to be shifting around you.
Expect it to do so-so box office business before having a cult following on DVD.
Idiocracy – Trailer
Off of the upcoming Nukkuu.
You’ve probably seen this live Prince cover video of Radiohead’s classic “Creep” on 15 other blogs already, but it doesn’t make it any less great. Wow.
As you probably already know, Guillermo del Toro was finally confirmed as director of The Hobbit and a second, unnamed film that will precede Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. Some press have been questioning the decision due an interview at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival where he stated . . .
“I was never into heroic fantasy. At all. I don’t like little guys and dragons, hairy feet, hobbits — I’ve never been into that at all. I don’t like sword and sorcery. I hate all that stuff.”
I, for one, am saddened to see del Toro spend four years of his life making these films instead of At the Mountains of Madness or Saturn and the End of Days. However, a new perspective on the franchise could be interesting, especially if its from someone not sold merely on Tolkien’s fixtures. Better yet, though, is what del Toro had to say to TheOneRing.net . . .
What will differ from your films versus Peter’s?
The only thing I will be pushing for more in these films that the other three are full animatronics and animatronic creatures enhanced with CGI, as opposed to CGI creatures themselves. We really want to take the state-of-the-art animatronics and take a leap ten years into the future with the technology we will develop for the creatures in the movie. We have every intention to do for animatronics and special effects what the other films did for virtual reality.
Lord of the Rings – French & Saunders Version
