This, folks, is just seriously awesome: OK GO takes on the Muppet Show theme. Yes, that’s every bit as cool as you’d imagine, complete with lots of Muppet references (“OK GO and the Muppets? That sounds pretty exciting. Let’s watch cat videos.”) and even a nice OK GO treadmill in-joke.
The vid promotes The Green Album, a set of twelve Muppet tunes performed by pop artists like Weezer, The Fray, and My Morning Jacket. Released yesterday, it’s available digitally and in CD form now. How cool is that?
The Green Album [Muppet Wiki]
Via Amazon
(via @TheOperatorGWC)
Earlier this year Warner Bros’ Alcon entertainment made entertainment news headlines by acquiring the “film, television and ancillary” rights to Blade Runner sequels, firing up the rumor mill with possibilities of new Blade Runner content — though not a remake/re-boot as “Alcon’s franchise rights would be all-inclusive, but exclude rights to remake the original.” Fans much lamented the possibility of a Scott-free ‘Runner future. Weep no more, though: Today Alcon announced that Ridley Scott will helm the next Blade Runner.
While most GWC denizens are sci-fi/fantasy geeks, there’s a healthy number of us that have fallen in love with the musical TV show Glee. Something about awkward high school misfits belting their hearts out in the face of overwhelming unpopularity speaks to anyone who’s ever sat at the wrong lunch table. But if you’re still not convinced to trade your phasers for a high F, let me introduce you to a musical that might help get you in the right mood.
Years before he peeled his face off in The Last Starfighter, Robert Preston charmed and connived his way through my favorite musical, The Music Man.
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Music fans, take note. John Boswell, a recent Galactic Watercooler guest and producer of the Carl Sagan inspired A Glorious Dawn video/song, has added yet another entry to his playlist of science-themed multimedia musical works. Our Place in the Cosmos takes its place, appropriately, beside Dawn and We Are All Connected on Boswell’s website, Symphony of Science. This new song features the inimitable Sagan, as well as evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, and the late astronomer/cosmologist Robert Jastrow. The message continues in the spirit of the previous two, and leaves one with a sense of wonder about the universe and the brilliant minds who have taken on the task of figuring it all out.
Mr. Boswell has been making additions to his website since his appearance on GWC, notably several remixes of A Glorious Dawn, as well as a free ringtone. He’s also cut a 45rpm vinyl album of the song, available from Third Man Records, which I picked up recently as a personal memento of the GWC Cosmos arc. Hint: The B side holds a special surprise.
Symphony of Science [Website]
Colorpulse [John Boswell's Other Music Project]
Many GWCers will likely agree that one of the greatest qualities of Battlestar Galactica has been its storytelling — its ability to reach toward its viewers and connect with them on an emotional and intellectual level. A perfect example is the gut-check we all felt at the end of Season 4.0 when the fleet arrived at Erf, the so-called promised land, only to find it a charred nuclear wasteland. But despite the excellent storytelling, this would all be somewhat lacking in emotion without the soundtrack to back it up. Fortunately, Bear McCreary was at the musical helm once again to make the show’s finale soundtrack the most powerful yet.
An intrepid GWCer (whose name we’ll keep secret to protect the guilty) pantsed a camera to slip it by the House of Blues security staff and bring you these photos from the show. Yes, they’re a little shady. But hey: they (note my Chasing Amy pronoun game) weren’t able to pull the camera out much. Photos are good, but not worth getting kicked out over, right?
Just remember that some of those murky blobs are Edward James Olmos (above, left), Katee Sackhoff, etc.
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