This is frackin’ hysterical….
Someone did an amazing job of editing this Sesame Street footage to have the Cookie Monster sing the Tom Waits song God’s Away on Business. It’s already found all over the web, I got the heads up from Kellytastic.
Tonight there is a one time opportunity to see Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal streaming live from Japan, simulcast in Japan, the US, and Canada for free! Trust and Betrayal is the OVA prequel to the TV series, showing Kenshin going from an idealistic young man to a hardened killer in 19th century Japan. The simulcast is being run on Nico Nico Douga, and you can use the first link in this article to get directly to the streaming page. It starts at 22:00 PST tonight or 01:00 EST (yes, that is 10PM west coast, 1AM Saturday morning east coast time), and will run just over two hours. Do not be late, as it will not be repeated. Thanks to the folks at Anime News Network for the heads up on this one.
I enjoy webisodes of programs like Eureka or Battlestar Galactica, where an ongoing TV series has bonus content you can only watch on the web (or wait for the DVDs to come out). It often includes background into things they don’t cover in great detail on the TV shows, or a chunk of the story arc that takes place between two seasons of the main program, bridging the gap to tell you how we got there. There have also been several programs that got their start that way, most notably Sanctuary. Now it seems a new one is coming out, Bryan Singer’s HPlus, and judging by the trailer it is going to be a monster. Thanks to Sci-Fi author Steven Hunt for the heads up on this one. The premiss is H+ is a direct neural interface that connects your brain into the Net and allows you to process information and be productive like never before. It gives you such an advantage over the competition that everyone has to have it, and all but a tiny percentage of the population has it installed. And then the system crashes, killing everyone who has it; this series is about what happens next.
It had to happen sooner or later… the Beastie Boys do the singing, Spike Jonze put the video together, the Abominable Snowman tags along as muscle, and the Zombies do the dying. The production is just cheesy enough to be camp, and looks like it was fun to build.
Not really a lot to be said about this one; it is the kind of thing that happens when you combine a singing program, some animation software, a good imagination, and some serious skill sets. This was put together by Vocaloid artist Oster Project using music from her her fourth album, Cinnamon Philosophy. Thanks to Crunchyroll for the heads up on this one.