Happy Valentines day; it is a bit difficult to find references worth noting about science fiction Valentines, but I did rather like Geek Love’s 10 Couples from the Big and Small Screen the other week. They also put together a nice collection of Geek Valentines Cards that had a couple of real winners in it. For something more interactive than reading a web site, you still have time to Send a Doctor Who Valentines Card to your significant alien. Finally, the best Steampunk Valentines Song I have ever seen; enjoy.
These are from SxSW, a killer little festival from Austin, Texas. If you are at all interested in Indi bands from any part of the world, you need to make this annual party. The first track is from Brite Futures doing the song Too Young To Kill. The second is the band Therapy? with their song Living In The Shadow Of A Terrible Thing. The third and final track for today’s entry is Mujeres, rounding it out with the tune LA.
On Sunday I mentioned John W. Campbell’s Who Goes There because the latest iteration of the story, in movie format, is being released on disc today. But I thought I should also mention that you can read his stories online, or a number of the ones in the public domain at least. He also did a radio program of science fiction stories called Exploring Tomorrow that you can listen to or download for your favorite portable media player. Campbell was best known as an editor, although a lot of folks now know him as the guy the awards were named after. But he wrote some pretty interesting stuff, and you might enjoy checking it out.
Bringing it all back home, a few tunes from the culture I grew up with, starting with The Kills with the live version of Black Balloon they did on KEXP. And then Florence and the Machine doing Rabbit Heart (her more recent studio track, No Light, No Light, is at the bottom of the page), followed by Zola Jesus with her song Sea Talk. All live selections from the same Seattle radio station, KEXP FM, and all world class examples of quality music.
I had recently told you about the Ray Bradbury Radio Archives that Sci-Fi London has posted online. They have now added a Robert A. Heinlein Radio Archive, which includes The Green Hills of Earth, The Roads Must Roll, and Destination Moon, amongst others. You can listen to them online or download them for your permanent collection.
MC Frontalot has a new CD out, with many good tracks. Zero Day is a fun one, somehow merging Zero Day OS Exploits with the Zombie Apocalypse. Enjoy!