http://youtu.be/2QXmRj_e2PQ
Every instance of the phrase “attitude control” from The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager (that I am aware of), cut together in the most amusing arrangement I could find. Please let me know if I missed any.
Category Archives: Screen
They’re Made Out of Meat
I have before opined that the universe is likely sprawling with intelligences that are utterly disinterested in us because we are still biological, and therefore mortal, and therefore think and act on a timescale that must seem ridiculously hasty to them. To stretch the as-flies-to-wanton-boys metaphor a bit, consider the two-week lifespan of the fruit fly. How seriously could we take them as a peer society? Even if we did somehow figure out they were trying to communicate with us?
Bre Pettis showed me this video, which dates from at least four years ago and is derived from a short story by Terry Bisson, at Bay Area Maker Faire 2011 last weekend, and I can’t stop giggling over it. The video shows more than a smidge of Twin Peaks styling, plus a nod to aliens Kang and Kodos from The Simpsons (“We are merely exchanging long protein strings…”) at the end.
Screen Review: Cigarette Burns, John Carpenter
John Carpenter’s one-hour episode of The Masters of Horror series not only eclipses every other episode, but, for my money, everything else that Carpenter himself has ever done. And I say that as a Carpenter fan. The episode contains none of Carpenter’s characteristic camp, which I’ve always been able to take or leave, but plenty of the gore anyone who knows Carpenter’s work will be expecting. It’s fantastic and terrifying and will echo in your brain—like its brilliantly-evoked MacGuffin—for a long time to come. And although I will admit a weakness for “cursed object” horror, Carpenter’s filmic take on The King In Yellow does it almost exactly right. It even manages a straight-faced happy ending, which is an almost unbelievable achievement given the depths of darkness that come before.