Curt’s Basement

Here’s a Monday Music Video for you all. Not much to say about it, really. I like it, and I hope you do too! Enjoy!

Jace Hall was one of the co-founders of Monolith, who made Blood and Shogo, among other things. He’s since branched out and one of the things that he’s been doing is the reality show the Jace Hall Show. It’s funny, but this episode is especially good cause of a visit to Blizzard and a rematch between Dolph Lundgren and Carl Weathers (who fought in Rocky IV).

MUST SEE THIS!!!

In the film Jeff, a down on his luck office worker, finds out he is the last living relative of horror novelist H.P. Lovecraft. What he doesn’t know is that Lovecraft’s monsters are real and will soon threaten the very existence of mankind. Jeff and his best friend Charlie are forced to embark on a perilous adventure and they enlist the help of high school acquaintance, Paul, a self proclaimed Lovecraft specialist. Together the three unlikely heroes must protect an alien relic and prevent the release of an acient evil, known as Cthulhu.

via BD Horror News

Seriously cool stop-motion!

The Losers is based on a comic series that I’ve heard about but never read. The trailer looks pretty awesome. Bonus points for using Eagles of Death Metal in the ad, too!

The music is perfect and had me laughing.

The video documents a seagull “dancing” to bring earthworms to the surface.  When humans do this, it’s called “worm-charming” or “worm-grunting.”  Wood turtles also use this technique, by repeatedly bumping their carapace against the ground.

via Neatorama

Danger Mouse, who most know as one half of Gnarls Barkley, is more a producer than an actual musician. In fact, he produced the latest Black Keys record. This is the latest thing he’s produced, and it’s very catchy. So enjoy your Monday Music Video from Broken Bells!

Hello boys. I figured I’d post something for a change.

In all seriousness, I’m not going to go all “girly” on you.  Though this picture is quite adorable…in a strange way.

A bit of a delay with this week’s Monday Music Video, and for that I apologize, but I’ve been fighting a cold and today I was busy with work, so things got a little sidetracked! So here’s a band I jotted down as one to check out at some point and promptly forgot. I really should check them out!

Ok, so I have once again caught massive Warhammer fever! WOOT! It has been steadily growing the last couple of weeks and now it has hit. I broke out my warhammer stuff today and got back too building. The warforges are burning once more.

I started off by planning the terrain piece build I have been dreaming of for a good long while now. Have the basic plans/outline in my head all set and will most likely start it this week. After that I got back to getting my Necron Monolith clipped, trimmed, and ready for assembly. Should have it all together and primed by the end of tomorrow. Would have it done today, but we have a dinner to go too…sigh. lol. Been spending soooooo much time on miniwargaming.com for all the inspiration I needed. Watched a few awesome battle reports and I was sold.

I will also be getting my first dose of Warmachine soon. Now that members get reward points every month that turns into a free gift every month, or accumulates into one big gift over a few months, I will be getting some free Warmachine warjacks with my next order. I have 8 months worth of points to spend on free stuff, HURRAY FOR FREE STUFF! Can’t wait to roll out some steam powered mecha in the future.

All this has also gotten me starting to plan my next Warhammer weekend (one day to be wargaming weekend ;p) at my place. The game room is prepped I just need to do some repairs on models dinged in the move and finish off some things I still need to build, then grind out terrain. I would like to maybe try and do it either really late spring or early/mid summer. I know it could be tough with Chris’s wedding and all already being around then, but we all get a few long weekends around that time also. I was thinking maybe evening doing it Canada day weekend if people had no other patriotic plans ;p This would give us all plenty of time to get back into the saddle and prep our armies in time.

Anyways, let me know what you guys think and if things work time wise for ya. If not lets start debating and suggesting a weekend that would be best for everyone!

WaaaaaaaaHHHhhhhHHHHHhhhhhHHHHhhhhhhhhhGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!

Does anyone remember the old Jailbreak mod from Quake/Quake 2? If not, the idea is that every opponent you kill appears in your team’s jail. Once all are captured, you win the game. Those in the jail can be rescued by their teammates or try and break out themselves.

This Source version of it looks completely and utterly insane, and that’s awesome (and using Thin Lizzy for the music is awesome too)!

via Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Here’s a cool one for the Monday Music Video this week. I discovered it over on Cartoon Brew, where they were mostly talking about the animation (which is a nod to old animation from the 30s), but the music itself is pretty good too! The video is every so mildly NSFW (just in case someone’s REALLY sensitive). Enjoy!

I hope The Old Republic is exactly like this! I’ll be very disappointed otherwise.

This doesn’t look too bad, really. I am, of course, reminded of that line from the IT Crowd: “Team. Team. Team. Team. Team. Team. I even love saying the word team. You probably think that’s a picture of my family. Nuh uh. It’s the A Team. Body; Doyle; Tiger; The Jewellery Man. The whole lot of them.”

via “A-Team” Trailer: Check It Out While You Can [VIDEO].

What if William Shakespeare wrote The Big Lebowski?

[The bowling green. Enter THE KNAVE, WALTER and DONALD, to play at ninepins]

WALTER
In sooth, then, faithful friend, this was a rug of value? Thou wouldst call it not a rug among ordinary rugs, but a rug of purpose? A star in a firmament, in step with the fashion alike to the Whitsun morris-dance? A worthy rug, a rug of consequence, sir?

THE KNAVE
It was of consequence, I should think; verily, it tied the room together, gather’d its qualities as the sweet lovers’ spring grass doth the morning dew or the rough scythe the first of autumn harvests. It sat between the four sides of the room, making substance of a square, respecting each wall in equal harmony, in geometer’s cap; a great reckoning in a little room. Verily, it transform’d the room from the space between four walls presented, to the harbour of a man’s monarchy.

WALTER
Indeed, a rug of value; an estimable rug, an honour’d rug; O unhappy rug, that should live to cover such days!

DONALD
Of what dost thou speak, that tied the room together, Knave? Take pains, for I would well hear of that which tied the room together.

WALTER
Didst thou attend the Knave’s tragic history, Sir Donald?

DONALD
Nay, good Sir Walter, I was a-bowling.

WALTER
Thou attend’st not; and so thou hast no frame of reference. Thou art as a child, wandering and strutting amidst the groundlings as a play is in session, heeding not the poor players, their exits and their entrances, and, wanting to know the subject of the story, asking which is the lover and which the tyrant.

THE KNAVE
Come to the point, Sir Walter.

WALTER
My point, then, Knave; there be no reason, if sweet reason doth permit, in enlightenment’s bower—and reason says thou art the worthier man—

DONALD
Yes, Sir Walter, pray, merrily state the fulcrum of thy argument.

THE KNAVE
My colleague, although unfram’d and unreferenc’d, speaks plain and true. That these toughs are those at fault, we are agreed; that I stand wounded, unrevenged, we likewise are agreed; yet you circle the meanings unconstantly, like blunted burrs, unstuck where they are thrown.

Read the rest here: Two Gentlemen of Lebowski.

This is very cool. It’s a 40min fan-made prequel for Lord of the Rings. Hopefully it won’t get taken down by the powers that be!

This looks great! Of course, it’s just a CGI trailer, but it’s very epic.

And now, for something completely different for your Monday Music Video. Here is some of the nerdiest R&B you might ever hear. Enjoy!

NSFW!!!

And now another Monday Music Video, folks! I’ts from a band called Bear in Heaven. I’ve been listening to their latest album, but sadly there aren’t any videos available for the songs from it, so you’re getting a slightly older one, but it’s still good stuff!

Here’s your much-delayed Monday Music Video. I didn’t forget, I just couldn’t decide on what to post! So here’s a song that you might’ve heard/played in Rock Band 2. It’s actually a band formed of Harmonix employees, which is kinda cool. It’s actually a good song, to boot! Enjoy!

Christmas is nearing, and as such, it’s time for some Christmassy tunes. This one’s from Sufjan Stevens who did a whopping 5-disc Christmas album set. So here it is as your Monday Music Video! Merry Christmakwazannukah folks! (I found out Ramadan is in August, so I had to leave it out. I could incorporate Eid, but I’m not sure how to best do it: Christmakwanzannukeid? Christmeidkwanzannukah? These are tough questions!).