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David Cronenberg has become a genius or is incredibly stupid. He and Grammy and Oscar-winner composer Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings) have teamed up with Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) to bring you The Fly The Opera, an operatic adaptation of Cronenberg’s 1986 film The Fly.
I don’t know much about operas but I do know who Plácido Domingo is, and they got him to conduct the U.S. premiere for the LA Opera, who commissioned the opera. In the world of stuffy music Domingo is a heavy-hitter, so having him involved adds some street-cred I would guess.
Time magazine described The Fly as “a profound parable on love and loss.” Uhm… what, no Brundle-Fly vomit?
Below Shore talks about The Fly The Opera.
This Saturday we’ll be attending Jeff Mach’s The Totally Normal Event, a benefit show for the SPARC Summer Experience which is a summer program for gifted youth combining elements of summer camp with the multilevel benefits of rigorous academic achievement. In other words a summer camp for really smart kids, much smarter than you and I most likely.
The event includes a tun of performers like The Dresden Dolls, Freezepop, The White Elephant Burlesque Society, The Mighty Mike Saga, Voltaire and many more.
You’ll also find all sorts of vendors and artists, including our big sister Grendel’s Den Design Studio offering spooky art, which we all know you dig.
There’s even a big interactive back-story and plot you can participate in throughout the event. Not too sure what it is but my bet is on some sort of fantasy based theme.
In any case it’s all for a good cause and you should go.
Yes, this is a clip of the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Briton (who the hell knew they even had one) performing Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit.
I’ll just let that settle into your brain for a moment.
Now on to the video!
Source - Neatorama
This mashup video of William Shatner’s version of Pulp’s Common People and clips of the Star Trek Animated series has been making the rounds on the Internets, as far be it for ZMP not to follow the crowd.
We’re going away for the Memorial Day weekend to partake of the grilled flesh of God’s Green Earth, attend a wedding, drink Pyrate Rum and practice our marksmen skills. So to kick off this thrill-a-minute weekend we give you one of the greatest geek-a-liciouses homemade music videos ever… the Rotersand Dalek Music Video. Bask in its asskickery and such.
This little video just made my week. It’s got the Ramones, the Scooby Gang, Casper The Friendly Ghost and the Bewitched cast, all in wonderful animation.
Source - stelos485
The picture is of guitar maker George Marlin’s Bigfoot electric guitar, during the Miami Beach Guitar Festival.
I think the picture speaks for itself really.
Source - Cryptomundo.com
What do you get when two types of geekdom, electric and gaming, collide? Video game themes played with musical Tesla coils. Very cool but still not as awesome as a Death Ray.
Mario Brothers…
Zelda…
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