That’s FOUR TIMES NOW
FOUR TIMES this silly series about talking planets has made me cry.
I’m totally not obsessed at all, I promise.
Their animation of the collision between Theia and Proto-Earth was very well done. Very emotional.
Edit: Theia arc! Watch it, nerds.
Spaceballs 2
The only sequel I am in full support of, honestly, because it was prophesized.
Learning About Letters (and being terrified of the letter “V”)
I’m pretty sure I’ve blogged about this before, but we had this on VHS when I was a kid and it’s still in my head somewhere.
Comments:
- The hair on that lilac Muppet at 1:51 always made me super happy. It looks like such a nice texture.
- “‘C’ is for Cookie” is a banger.
- The deadpan delivery of “Harry the Horse” at 9:05 is great.
- In Bert’s defense, “linoleum” is a pretty awesome word.
- That story for “V” (19:50) terrified me as a kid. I’d leave the room every time, haha.
- That segment from 21:09-22:38 was always one of my favorite parts.
Woo!
Final
I’ve only seen the first three Final Destination movies, but apparently there’s a new one coming out in May. Maybe I’ll watch the remaining ones I haven’t seen yet in order to get sufficiently terrified of everything in the world and then watch the new one at some point.
Excuse me WHAT
You can buy the ORIGINAL Sims game on Steam now?
You can buy the Sims 2 on Steam now, too?
AND THEY BOTH COME WITH ALL THE EXPANSION PACKS AND STUFF????????
???????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!?
I don’t care how glitchy it sounds like they are; I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED
Edit: Nate bought me The Sims 2 Legacy as a birthday present. He has no idea what he’s done.
Edit again: I modded the everloving shit out of my original Sims 2 game; I wonder if I have all those mods somewhere and if they’d work in this game…
Edit again again: OF COURSE IT WAS
Oh Pixar, what the hell is this?
This art style makes me want to claw my eyes out. Luca had it, Turning Red had it, Soul…I think had it?
(I know nothing about Soul.)
That freaking generic bean mouth thing…I hate it. They did normal faces in Inside Out and Inside Out 2…why devolve like this?
UGH.
More SolarBalls. SORRY NOT SORRY
They’ve released the Planet X Arc video, which, like the Moon Revolution Arc video, is a compilation of all the videos related to the Planet X story.
It’s three hours long.
This is, as most things are on my blog, mostly for my own reference, but if I’ve gotten any of you hooked on this series, here it is for you as well:
Edit: Okay, so I watched the whole thing while I was painting today (I take a long time to paint, haha) and this story is so much better compiled like this compared to all the little videos one by one. I originally considered the Moon Revolution arc better, but that’s because that story had just concluded by the time I discovered the series and by the time I got to those videos, they had already released the compilation. But I think I like this arc even more now that all the related vids are put together like this.
I don’t think y’all understand…
Remember back in 2008 when I fell fast and hard in love with Metalocalypse and it became my absolute favorite show for like a decade and a half?
That’s what’s going on with SolarBalls right now. I mean, come on: a show about talking celestial bodies, all with distinct personalities? That’s right up my alley.
I am so freaking invested in it, haha. The main sources of enjoyment are, of course, the characters and the story. But I also love thinking about all the behind the scenes work with the animation and voice acting. That just makes it so much better.
Just…aslsdhfafhdfalfsdhghg I love it.
DaleRiver
So Nate has decided to subject himself to the utter madness that is post-season-1 Riverdale. I guess we watched through most of season 2 together before he bailed the first time (I, as you know, am a true Riverdale fan through and through and made it through the WHOLE GODDAMN SEVEN SEASONS OF MADNESS), but I guess my not-at-all-exaggerated descriptions of some of the later shenanigans won him over and we’re giving it a second shot.
(Nate, you have no idea what you’re doing. Turn back now.)
Anyway, since we’re diving back in, have some “Riverdale as vines” videos. I know I’ve posted the first one on here before, but there are more.
That Black Hood one at 0:26 is so accurate, hahaha. 3:04, too.
1:40, hahaha.
Pooldead
So my mom, Nate, and I got pizza tonight and watched Deadpool and Wolverine.
It was pretty great.
Without spoiling anything, my favorite part was probably Chris Evans, haha.
Or the inclusion of this song, which I can’t get out of my head now:
Havin’ a Bud
Not a single modern commercial has had the cultural impact of this thing. Not a one.
Well, okay, maybe this:
Anyway.
Hahaha, what the hell was this show?
I remember watching Freakazoid as a kid, but I don’t remember it being quite so insane, hahaha.
This is like if they took late 90s internet and made it a show.
Is the toast brave, too? Or is bravery not transferable that way?
YO so I found The Brave Little Toaster the other day on YouTube and have already watched it like seven times.
(I’m not going to link it here because it seems like every vid I link to gets taken down and WE’RE NOT HAVING THAT FOR THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER)
Mom, I know I traumatized you by watching this so many times when I was a kid, but it really is a good movie, haha. I get that “City of Light” song stuck in my head more often than I care to admit.
I had such a crush on that lamp when I was a kid, haha.
ANYWAY. Here’s said “City of Light” song so YOU can get it stuck in YOUR head, too!
Squid
Remember like two months ago when I mentioned that the best scene in SpongeBob SquarePants was that scene in “Band Geeks” where they were all playing at the stadium?
This is a close second.
(Can you tell I don’t have anything interesting to blog about today? I’m nervous about baseball, shut up.)
Two Unpopular Media Opinions:
1. Breaking Bad did not live up to the hype. It was good, but it wasn’t as good as I was expecting it to be given all the praise.
2. I don’t understand the appeal of Stranger Things, I don’t think I ever will, and shows that take like a decade to release all their seasons should be launched into the sun.
END
HOLD UP
You mean to tell me that all the male characters in SolarBalls are voiced by THE SAME PERSON??
That is some ridiculous talent. I mean, listen to this:
All of those voices are the same dude. He also does like a dozen or more moons, too. And Astrodude. And Houston.
I’m a sucker for great voice acting, and this is great voice acting. Like I’ve said in the past, there have been at least three times when this freaking series about talking planets has made me cry, and all three have been due in large part to the amazing voice acting.
And now I love this series even more, hahaha.
GeekOut BandPants
The SpongeBob SquarePants episode “Band Geeks” originally aired on September 7, 2001. Since then, there have been 276 more episodes of the show. “Band Geeks” still holds, in my opinion, the title of having the coolest scene in all of SpongeBob history:
Solved!
As many of you probably know from reading my blog, I’m not a movie person. But of the few movies I do like, most of them are space movies. More specifically, space disaster movies.*
I like space. I like disasters (both real-life and fictional). But I think the main draw for this particular genre is the fact that many of them have astounding soundtracks where there is at least one song that results in an unavoidable and severe emotional reaction (usually crying).
Examples (I’ve posted a lot of these before but I DON’T CARE):
Interstellar – No Time for Caution (Hans Zimmer)
The buildup to 2:36 is wonderful and the payoff is so good. I’m pretty sure I damaged my hearing by cranking this up too loud the first few times I listened to it.
Gravity – Shenzou (Steven Price)
I’m posting the clip of the movie where this song is heard because it syncs so beautifully with the amazing imagery in that scene. That breakup of the craft at 1:30. That shot of all the pieces entering the atmosphere at 2:46. The smoke and alarms at 3:00. I re-watched this scene for this blog post for the first time in like three years and I’m freaking sobbing over it, haha.
Armageddon – Launch (Trevor Rabin)
Did Michael Bay fit as many explosions into this movie as was physically possible for its run time? Yes. But the soundtrack is still great.
Mission to Mars – Toward the Unknown (Ennio Morricone)
This movie was…strange. But this even stranger song really fit the scene it was part of and is this weird combination of futuristic and retro (in my opinion).
And the big hitters:
Sunshine – Adagio in D Minor AND Capa’s Last Transmission Home (John Murphy)
Didn’t know this movie existed until I heard Adagio in some YouTube vid, looked up the song, and found this movie. The whole soundtrack is wonderful.
Apollo 13 – The Launch (James Horner)
I know, I know, I know. Every single year I post about this song. But this is honestly one of my favorite pieces of music to ever exist. That heartbeat of silence at the crescendo of music just after 6:17 gives me literal goosebumps every single time.
*Actually, I can’t think of a single movie set in space that does not involve a disaster…but then again, my knowledge about movies is almost nonexistent. Can anyone think of any?
‘Twas Brillig
(Blog post is 100% unrelated to Jabberwocky, sorry)
A core memory of mine is watching the Schoolhouse Rock multiplication songs back when we lived in Troy (first grade through third grade, I think). We had a VHS tape of them.
If you click on the title of that vid, it should take you to a playlist of all of them.
I still sing that “3, 6, 9…12, 15, 18…21, 24, 27…30” whenever I’m multiplying by three, haha.
Eight and Zero are ones I remember very well, too.
We had another Schoolhouse Rock VHS, but I can’t remember what it was.
Some Achievement Hunter Nostalgia
Anyone who ever watched Achievement Hunter is aware that Ray basically won every game he ever played. Here are two videos compiling some of his more dominant moments/wins. Because I miss these guys.
Him demolishing Gavin in the 2012 London Olympics (8:28) was great.
Edit: here’s another compilation:
That like three minute segment starting at 18:58 where they’re chasing him around in GTA is hysterical, hahaha.
These guys got me through 2012 and 2013.
This is the last time I’ll mention it, I swear
Okay, so I’m finally caught up on the old SolarBalls videos to get to the Moon Revolution (which they have conveniently uploaded as a full movie-length video, splicing all the relevant smaller videos together) and OH MY GOD THIS IS GOOD STORYTELLING.
Like, I’m not even kidding when I say that the plot, character development, and pacing is better than like 90% of modern movies and TV shows (especially TV shows). They also do a really good job of taking a crap ton of characters and splitting them up so that we follow smaller numbers of them at a time before they all get together again at some point (this was my favorite aspect of movies like Civil War and Infinity War – I loved how they dealt with so many characters). And like I’ve said before, the animation and voice acting are incredible.
So I’ll just mention it one more time and then shut up about it: watch SolarBalls, y’all.
This is old news now, I guess, but…
Achievement Hunter, the group of hilarious let’s play nerds who basically kept me virtual company throughout my math degree at the U of I, is disbanding/shutting down.
I originally discovered them through Tumblr; or, more specifically, I discovered Michael Jones/Rage Quit through this video while working at Pima (I watched a lot of videos via Tumblr on that job, haha):
I didn’t know what Rooster Teeth or Achievement Hunter were for a while after that, but after watching enough Rage Quit vids on YouTube, another one of their Let’s Plays with more than just Michael in it got recommended to me. I think this was the first video I saw with Geoff, Ray, and Gavin:
Then I was hooked. I got my mom hooked on them too, haha.
Anyway in honor of the tons of laughs I got from them over the years, here are some of my favorite videos of theirs:
And all the Rage Quits I listed here.
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