Electric Lunch has some amazing guitar work and powerful vocals. I don’t know what the song titles are, Google Translate kept chocking on the web page, and finally spit out The end of the world time he Ru current beast of silvery white to dredge the moonlit night heart. But I don’t need to be able to read the words to tell that the music is kick ass. Thanks to J-Rock Explosion for the heads up on this band.
What looks to be another interesting show from the CW, The 100 is about human survivors in orbit around Earth after a nuclear confrontation. When the radiation dies down a little and the nuclear winter ends, they collect up 100 juvenile delinquents, throw them in an orbital lander, and fire them at the Earth. The goal is to see how many of them survive, because the orbital habitats are over populated after 3 generations, and they are running out of resources rapidly. I do not know what the expected broadcast date is, although Murphy’s Law says it is probably some time next week, next month, or next year.
I love Radio Plays and Audio Books, and wanted to mention these for anyone who does not already know of them. Escape Pod is a podcast that delivers a weekly free Sci-Fi audio story, and has been doing so since 2005. It is so successful at it that it is listed as a qualifying professional sale at the SFWA. In addition it has generated two spinoffs, Pseudopod for Horror fiction, and PodCastle for Fantasy fiction. You can subscribe to their podcasts, download the MP3 files from their sites, or got to the Escape Pod Archives searchable collection at Wikipedia.
CBR, or Comic Book Resources, has an excellent column called I Love Ya But You’re Strange you should check out if you are a comics fan. They collect up instances of unusual situations in comic books. Like the time Superman, Batman, Spider Man, and Captain America got together to print comic books, or when Superboy’s robot teacher got him laid. It is quite amusing as well as educational; if you drill down you learn quite a bit about how things came about, as well as getting a glimpse of some of the panels.
Yes, Robocop has been remade yet again, or is in the process at least, and I for one am looking forward to checking out the results. The Robocop 2014 regeneration looks to be a bit slicker than the original, which should allow them to make the sleaze and corruption even more obvious.
The amusing film this week appears to be The Family, a Luc Besson production about a Witness Protection arrangement that puts a mob couple (Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer) and their kids in a quiet town in France. They don’t quite fit in, to the point that their whereabouts become known to the folks they are supposed to be hiding from, and all hell breaks loose. Not genre, but the best bet for this weekend. There is also one genre movie called Cybornetics: Urban Cyborg, which, as near as I can tell, isn’t actually going to be playing anywhere near me, and based on the trailer I wouldn’t be going to see it if it was.