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Saturday, December 3, 2016

Creepmas 2016 Day 2: The Aquabats! Super Show! Christmas Special

I am very excited The Aquabats uploaded this full episode to their YouTube channel! Merry Creepmas!

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Pop Culture League: ZOMBIES!!!

Pop Culture League Challenge: Zombies

Last week, the League had some great responses with some monstrous articles, so let’s keep with the Halloween theme this week (and maybe for the rest of the month!). This week’s challenge to the Pop Culture League is…

Zombies

The dead have arisen!

When I think of zombies, this is what comes to mind...

CEREAL!

MUSIC!

NOX ARCANA -ZOMBIES INFLUX, playlist

CARTOONS!

VIDEO GAMES!

Check out these other fresh zombie posts by other fellow League members:

Brother Midnight

The Toy Box - Zzzzzzzzombiessss

Toy Break - RE1!

Alexis - Is terified of zombies

Mr. Smith- Zombie favorites!

20 B4 2000 - That infamous Tarman!

AFB - Triple League topic combo with a look at Monster High!!!

Jon's 9th League Challenge!

Brian - The League Captain himself takes a look at MacFarlane toys

Welcome new comer Cassie Winters!

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

April Rain or Shine Mix Tape

Side A (Rain)

1. The Legend Of Zelda - Song Of Storms [From Smash Brothers]

2. Resident Evil - Mansion, First Floor (Extended)

3. Swallow Falls - Mark Mothersbaugh - Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

4. The Aquabats! Super Show! "Burger Rain" (2012)

5. "Singin' in the Rain" (Title Song) 1952 ~ Gene Kelly

Side B (Shine)

1. Variations on "Sun's Song" from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)

2. Walking on Sunshine, Futurama

3. The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun

4. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

5. Sun is Shining - Bob Marley

"Hidden" Tracks

Earthbound (SNES) - Dunes Desert

Super Mario Brothers 3 (NES) - World Map 2:Desert Land Theme

Paza Rahm - Frog

PRESS PLAY!

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Return of The Aquabats! Super Show!

Gloopy Toys commercial, pre-The Aquabats! Super Show!

If you are fan of the rock n' roll super heroes The Aquabats! then you have heard of The Aquabats! Super Show! Sadly, through no falt of their own, the show has been cancelled after the 2nd season.

Christian Jacobs (secretly the band's leader, MC Bat Commander, shhhh) had this to say:

Jacobs admitted he was surprised by this turn of events, noting "Everything we heard was that the show has been a real Cinderella story for the Hub and that it was rating really well with viewers. We just assumed that we'd eventually go back into production or at least get picked up for Season 3", but ultimately concluded "it is what it is" in regard to the network's decision. Despite this, Jacobs remained optimistic about the series' future, saying "Given that we now live in a world where people are streaming TV shows directly onto their iPhones & computers, and given that companies like Netflix & Yahoo! are now picking up so much new content for their customers...I just find it hard to believe that The Aquabats! Super Show! is really over. I mean, we haven't even made any toys yet".^[7] He concluded by stating "It took us almost 15 years to get that TV series made. And even though we've got a bunch more concert dates lined up for the rest of this year, our first priority is to find a new home for The Aquabats! Super Show!".

Hopefully Super Show! isn't truly over yet and we will someday see real life Aquabats action figures! I have no doubt this will happen eventually, since Jacobs created the hit TV show Yo Gabba Gabba and there are loads of toys! Toys are even a topic in the song Playdough, so you know they're near and dear to The Aquabats collective heart. In the mean time we have The Aquabats Super Vlog to enjoy.

The Aquabats Tour Utah
The Aquabats Vs. Krampus

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Creepmas Day 5: Scruffy Scruff by Gloopy

Friday, December 4, 2015

Creepmas Day 4: Little Brother by Gloopy

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Halloween Mix Tape 2015

Side A

1. This Is Halloween - The Nightmare Before Christmas – Danny Elfman

2. Thriller - Michael Jackson

3. Monster Mash - Bobby Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers

4. Monsters Wedding - The Aquabats Vs The Floating Eye of Death

5. Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.

Side B

1. Quake Main Theme - Nine Inch Nails

2. The Front Hall – Biohazard 2 (Resident Evil 2) - Masami Ueda

3. The Thing on the Bass Amp – The Aquabats Vs The Floating Eye of Death

4. Ghost House - Super Mario World – Koji Kondo

5. Shadow Temple – The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Koji Kondo

(Hidden Tracks)
Dread Iternal - Bill Laswell
Prophecy of The Black Widow - Umberto
Night Has A Thousand Screams - Umberto

Listen and watch HERE!

Monday, March 16, 2015

My Blog's Ultimate Mix Tape! (a re-stolen idea)

Derek over at Goodwill Hunting 4 Geeks recently posted his blog as a mix tape. He explained:

"So back in May of last year, Steph over at Nerdjoy posted something awesome (she does this a LOT actually, so be sure to check out the rest of her blog too... but this particular instance informs the post you are about to read, so I'm singling that one out). She answered the question above [What would you're blog sound like if it was a mix tape?]. It was a question originally posited by Joie Fatale over at the Confessions of a Book Pimp blog, but it was through Steph that I discovered the idea."

I thought is was such an awesome idea that I instantly wanted to steal the idea as well! Below is the DIT Ultimate Mix tape, with links to YouTube videos for your listening pleasure! Just click on the song. Enjoy!

Side A

1 Playdough by The Aquabats

2 Rag & Bone by The White Stripes

3 Experimental Film by They Might Be Giants

4 White & Nerdy by Weird Al

5 Suitwalk by John Swihart

Side B

1 Dr. Who theme by Ron Grainer (Tom Baker 1974-1981)

2 8-Bit Cosmos by Bop

3 Ghostbusters theme song by Ray Parker Jr.

4 Ecce Homo Qui Est Faba composed by Howard Goodall

5 The Tape of Love by the Flight of the Concords

Honorable Mentions Mix:

Side A

1 Coraline theme by The Chidlren's Choir of Neice

2 Peewee’s Big Adventure Theme by Danny Elfman

3 Pool Party by The Aquabats

4 Pizza Day by The Aquabats

5 We're Going To Be Friends by The White Stripes

Side B

1 Dare To Be Stupid by Weird Al

2 The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme

3 Robot Rock by Daft Punk

4 Inside The Deku Tree by Koji Kondo

5 The Oh of Pleasure by Ray Lynch

Thursday, December 18, 2014

DI Treasures 2014 Ugly Sweater Contest

I competed in the Ugly Sweater Contest at work. Check out the invite:

The holidays are upon us and that means it is time for our second annual Ugly Sweater Contest! Join us in the lobby at 2 p.m. tomorrow (December 17) in your ugliest holiday sweater for a chance to win a $25.00 gift card.

Categories include:

Epic Fail
Overall Fashion Mishap
Just Plain Ugliest
Most Likely to go Viral.

The competition was fierce and I didn't even place. I wish I had a camera on me, because there were some great sweaters! The best ones are always home made. Besides, I'm not spending $20 on a new ugly piece of crap I will wear once a year! Here's an artists rendition of the coolest sweater in the contest (below). The contestant informed me the sweater was hand crafted by his wife:

Horrible, dark photos captured by HR.

I dressed like a winner, so I'm a winner in my book

So what about you folks? Do you have any hideous Christmas sweaters? I wanna see links in the comments people! (Keep it clean please)

Christmas Bonus: Seasons Greetings from The Aquabats!

Friday, December 5, 2014

Creepmas Day 5: The Aquabats vs. Krampus

This was a great episode! If you're a fan of The Aquabats, then you really need to watch The Aquabats Super Show! Like seriously, watch it already! The Aquabats! Super Show! Christmas Special aired last year. There was a complete episode available on Youtube, but it was removed. All that is now available to watch for free are short clips, hopefully Netflix will release season 2 soon.

MERRY KRAMPUS!

Sunday, November 9, 2014

The Aquabats Tour Utah

So yeah, I noticed that The Aquabats! Super Show! is filmed right here in the good old Beehive State! Here are a few locales I recognized:

Ream's Food Store! Ream's is a quick 10 minute bike ride from my childhood home! We used to ride our bikes and roller blade here after school and spend our pennies on candies and other childhood delights.

Camp Tracy! I spent many a winter camp here as a Boy Scout, as well as several Cub Scout day camps.

Lagoon! Utah's premiere amusement park.

The Aquabats also made an appearance at the Salt Lake Comic Con.

Friday, September 13, 2013

The Blue Meanies are coming! The Blue Meanies are coming!

This week’s assignment from the League: I’m feeling blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013 BY BRIAN 12 COMMENTS

It’s been a while since we’ve had a photo assignment for the weekly League of Extraordinary Blogger’s challenge. We’ve done green, and we’ve done red, so how about this time we do:

Blue.

Whoa, now I know I'm way late on this one and I went a little crazy, but heck, it sure was fun thinkin' of all the blue stuff I like!

When I thought of the color blue I immediately thought of the Blue Meanies from The Yellow Submarine movie. My Dad sent me a picture of one of his Yellow Submarine toys. It's George with a Blue Meanie!

What blue themed post is complete without any mention of Blue Laser, the Cheat Commandos sworn enemies. I'm really tempted to order some of these before homestarrunner.com disappears forever. I hope the Brothers Chaps are okay. Does anyone know what happened there?

Let's not forget my favorite superhero band The Aquabats! Someone really needs to create some action figures based on The Aquabats Super Show.

My beloved Captain Crunch T-shirt. The Cap'n cost me $10 plus 3 proofs of purchase. Totally worth it!

My favorite blue-haired Battle Troll, The Trollminator!

Something a little more cuddly, the blue Totoro!

Our brand spanking new local DI!

This Muppet Babies lunch box was under glass in the collectibles section of the DI. For just 5 bucks I had to pick it up! I love that show. It even still had a tag where it was priced at $20. My brother asked if I got it for Ava. I actually got it for myself, but I wasn't about to admit that. If Ava wants to use it when she's older she is certainly welcome to it. :)

Found this a while back at the DI for $5. Not only does it include The WoW Wrath of The Lich King Expansion, The original WoW and The Burning Crusade Expansion was also stuffed inside!