TWIN PEAKS Music Galore!

From aintitcoolnews, That's right! That gum you like is going to come back in style. Since March of this year Lynch has been slowly releasing unreleased tracks from TWIN PEAKS labeled as an "open album" steadily growing ever since. THE TWIN PEAKS ARCHIVE is now holding strong at 106 tracks totaling more than five hours of music! Each single track or small bundle is $0.99 while multiple track bundles are priced at $2.99 or $3.99. You can choose between high-quality 320kbps MP3s or Apple Lossless format.

I purchased about half the archive tonight and am currently downloading what I bought. I'll probably do the rest later tonight or tomorrow.

There's been no single show in the history of television that has stirred my passions quite like TWIN PEAKS. I still consider it the single most amazing program in the history of TV. Having all this music is a real treat. I wonder how long he can keep this going? How much more music is there?

I'd love hang red velvet curtains in a room floored with black and white herringbone tiles and play this entire archive on a continual loop 24/7.

...the birds sing a pretty song and there's always music in the air.

Horrorthon Faves Results!

Thankyou for your patience, and it's good to see the blog chugging along as usual. Using some precise and impressive technology (I have a mechanical pencil!), I will now sit down and tally the first ever Horrorthon Favorites.

Fuck! There are several ties. Hmmm...

The clear winner of the Best Theme category is Johnny Sweatpants's coverage of Evil Clown Movies, getting four whole votes, which is more than any other thing that got voted on. There were also multiple mentions of JPX's Found Footage roundup.

Funniest Review goes to JSP for Blood Harvest (thanks Tiny Tim!)

Best Discovery goes to JPX for finding Rare Exports, which is a testament to his bloggery because I seem to recall he tried to tell us all about it months ago.

Best Screenshot(s) goes to my series for Fiend Without a Face. (Aw, thanks!)

While nobody voted twice for the same comment, 50PageMcGee received multiple mentions, so he gets the Right Funny Bastard award.

At this point All-Around Favorite Review, Best So Bad It's Good Review and Most Obscure Discovery all feature several entries but not one that's voted for more than once.

Also of note, I added Best Caption and Most Asses to my own batch of votes, just to be difficult.

This has been a blast, but another format occurred to me: For next year, what do you think of everyone doing a combination Best Of/Faves post after the deadline is past, first running down their own favorite movie experiences and then showcasing their favorite stuff by the other 'thonners? We'll tweak the categories to cut down on overlap, but I think it might work.

(I don't know about you, but this "review everything and vote" business is insane. I'm going to keep an ongoing list from now on. I couldn't even remember my Funniest Comment, and I had one, too.)

I'll update these results if more votes come in, but good job, folks! It was very gratifying to call for votes and suddenly see 10 comments. The fact that we have all these ties only speaks to the vast array of talent we've got here.

See you on the blog!

John Carter Trailer

'Watchmen' writer Alan Moore joins Occupy Comics group, slams Frank Miller for criticizing protesters

From ew, Watchmen writer Alan Moore has joined Occupy Comics, an organization of comics-industry notables who are lending their support to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Moore’s fellow Occupy Comics signatories include Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead), Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), and David Lloyd.

The support of Moore and Lloyd is notable both because of the weight they carry in the comics community, and because it was their comic, V for Vendetta, which first introduced the Guy Fawkes masks regularly worn by Occupy Wall Street protesters.

Moore recently reflected on the protesters’ use of the V masks to the U.K. Guardian. “When you’ve got a sea of V masks, I suppose it makes the protesters appear to be almost a single organism — this ’99 percent’ we hear so much about,” he said. “That in itself is formidable. I can see why the protesters have taken to it.”

Moore has also slammed fellow comics writer Frank Miller. Last month, the author of The Dark Knight Returns wrote on his blog that the protesters are “nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists.” In a new interview with the website Honest Publishing, Moore describes Miller’s “Sin City stuff” as “unreconstructed misogyny” and claims there has “probably been a rather unpleasant sensibility” apparent in his work for a long time. “[The Occupy movement] is a completely justified howl of moral outrage and it seems to be handled in a very intelligent, nonviolent way, which is probably another reason why Frank Miller would be less than pleased with it,” Moore continues. “I’m sure if it had been a bunch of young, sociopathic vigilantes with Batman makeup on their faces, he’d be more in favor of it.”

Early Spoiler-Free Reaction: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Prologue

From slashfilm, Tonight I was invited to the IMAX Theatre at Universal Citywalk to get an early look at Christopher Nolan‘s The Dark Knight Rises prologue, which will be attached to huge screen IMAX prints of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol on December 16th 2011 (participating theaters list). I don’t want to reveal any spoilers, so my report will be pretty spoiler free — purely a reaction.

Like The Dark Knight prologue which screened before I Am Legend, this is the opening sequence from the movie — six minutes with an added minute-or-so teaser-style flash of imagery from the film. And just as The Dark Knight’s prologue was not what you expected — a bank heist thriller, this also takes you to a place you never expected the story to begin. And this opening gives Tom Hardy’s Bane a grand entrance — yes, just like the Joker got in the last film.

The tension-filled sequence is a spectacle on a grand scale, the grandest — in full screen 70mm IMAX. You will see a hiest like you’ve never seen it before — but what else do you expect from the director of Inception? There is a moments in this piece which feature Hardy in an unbelievable and breathtaking situation, which might be on par with Tom Cruise’s 1-mile high spotlight moment in Dubai. But the star of the sequence is not Hardy, or Nolan, but the IMAX format. It is clear after seeing this sequence that The Dark Knight Rises is a must see in 70mm IMAX. I can’t even imagine watching the film in digital or 35mm, missing out on much of the epic scope.

Read the full article here

George Takei, Prince of (Star) Peace

From toplessrobot, The wise, wonderful George Takei has stepped into the bitter war of words between William Shatner and Carrie Fisher, trying to broker peace between the two sci-fi franchise titans. I'm not 100% sure it will work, but god bless him for trying, and there's something incredibly awesome about hearing Takei say "May the Force be with you," if nothing else.

Men in Black III trailer

And Now Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Programming

Star Trek Themed Local Mattress Store Commercial

From geekology, So I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today (which, incidentally, is just a mattress on the floor because why pay for a bed frame or boxspring when you're already afraid of heights?) and it got me thinking: does my back hurt because my mattress is too stiff or because I drank my face off last night and my kidneys are shot? Life's little mysteries. This is a local Star Trek themed mattress store commercial. Would I go there to buy a mattress? No. Would I go there to intentionally pee on a Tempur-Pedic and try to get it at a discount? For you, yes.

Cool posters!

Mysterious Paper Sculptures

(From Central Stn)
One day in March, staff at the Scottish Poetry Library came across a wonderful creation, left anonymously on a table in the library. Carved from paper, mounted on a book and with a tag addressed to @byleaveswelive – the library’s Twitter account – reading:

It started with your name @byleaveswelive and became a tree.… … We know that a library is so much more than a building full of books… a book is so much more than pages full of words.… This is for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas….. a gesture (poetic maybe?)

 Read the entire story here.  It's really, really cool.