- The Pine Box Boys
Because murder ballads and sexually ambiguous creatures-formed-from-crystal-and-clay are ideas that belong together in front of us! Murder ballads! - Bourbon Crow
From murder ballads to what Joe Poole does when he's not tearing shit up with Wednesday 13. Imagine country music made by someone who thinks Marilyn Manson is kind of a poncy poseur. Yeah. Perfect for building castles in pine forests to!
2012-11-03
Streamed: Castle Story in Appalacia
2012-10-13
BSU Live! Spiky Balls, Online Conventions, and Sectoids!
It’s like we’re being all professional or something. I don’t know, guys, this is pretty crazy.
- +Operation BSU
- Some ground rules:
- MANDATORY: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.
- FORBIDDEN: chiton, mandible, pseudopod
- http://tinyurl.com/PlusOperationBSU
- http://youtube.com/user/SquidLord
Tonight’s Spackle includes but is not limited to:
- +Chris Tregenza for 20min of behind the scenes of what it takes to pull off a successful online gaming convention.
- Indie+ 2
- 6d6 Kickstarter
- An Omnipocalypse Warning!
Tonight’s Trailer Trash, however, is glorious in all the ways glorious things should be. The link:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6D75AEE97286853B
And the trailers!
- Blood Bowl! (Chaos Edition is on sale for $10 this week! Jeez!)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3xsSN7UEFI
- http://store.steampowered.com/app/216890/
- Ratings: Alex: +1, Eric: +1, Dawn: +1
- Tai Chi Zero
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LSX_UH0F9g&hd=1
- Ratings: Alex: +5, Eric: +4, Dawn: +1, Ginevra: +3
- Alex Cross (+Dawn Jones has been waiting on this one)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O990qnemIso&hd=1
- Ratings: Alex: +2, Eric: +4, Dawn: +5 Ginevra: +2
- Until Dawn
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yQsa3uwkR8
- http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/08/14/until-dawn-new-ps-move-horror-game-announced-for-ps3/
- http://www.supermassivegames.com/index.php/games/until-dawn
- Ratings: Alex: +3, Eric: +2, Dawn: +2
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown (with a possible Let’s Play announcement!)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O08TIyE9FsA&hd=1
- http://www.xcom.com/enemyunknown/
- http://store.steampowered.com/app/200510
- http://youtube.com/cynicalbrit
- Ratings: Alex: +4, Eric: +3, Dawn: 0, Ginevra: 0
As always, check out the movie trailer list before the show, straight off YouTube, and weigh in with your opinions and ratings on the Squid Lamarckian-Dillante Scale of -5 to +5, with the dreaded Zero Goose Egg and the worst possible result right in the center!
10pm Eastern, Saturday nights, they will always be ours.
2012-10-12
BSU News and Reviews YouTube Playlist Now Live! Starring Rock 'N Ribfest @ Lawrenceville, GA!
Very badly.
On the plus side, you get to see some of our first experiments with two-camera interview shoots, which I hope to become a far more frequent pleasure in the future as I bang out some guidelines for the cameramen on who shoots what and when.
Also note that you didn't mishear, that's me out there in front of the camera, not the Big Leneski as is customary. I typically try to never, ever appear in front of a camera. Ever. It's just too horrifying to be allowed on a regular basis. But since Mike was slacking off -- the skiver -- it was in my tentacles to actually interview people.
Don't get used to it. [shudder]
There are seven interview/review segments in the lot, including the following places:
- McCray's Tavern
- Oyster Bay Seafood Cafe
- The Big Pig
- Local Republic
- Spiced Right Rib House
- 108b Events
- Texas Roadhouse
If we missed you at this year's Rock 'N Ribfest, we apologize with mighty and vast earnestness, but there was only so much room in our gullets. If you'd like us to come by your place of business, eat free food, and then talk about it in public, feel free to get in touch with us at this address and we'll try to make a special trip out to bother you where you work and give you international exposure. While I get free food.
Everybody wins!
2012-09-23
BSU Live! Turn On Your Torchlight, Pirate 19th, and Other Spackle!
Saturday night is alright -- for fighting! And murder! And the most exciting transmedia call-in talk show on the surface or immediate orbit of the planet Earth.
- +Operation BSU
- Some ground rules:
- MANDATORY: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.
- FORBIDDEN: innocence, riot, militia
- http://tinyurl.com/PlusOperationBSU
- http://youtube.com/user/SquidLord
Tonight’s Spackle includes but is not limited to:
- Better Than Wolves
- Torchlight II
- Talk Like a Pirate Day
- September 19th
- http://www.talklikeapirateday.org/
- Tiger Dive!
And … er … some other stuff, I’m sure. Somewhere in here.
Random links!
Mike
- http://www.youtube.com/gregdasgo
- http://www.facebook.com/greggosgameshows
- http://improv.uga.edu
- http://www.alma-atlanta.com/
Spencer
Mike has decided to See To It with four delicious flavours of Pringles:
http://www.pringles.com/products/flavors
- Loaded Baked Potato +1
- Cheeseburger +4
- Frank’s RedHot Wing Sauce / Buffalo +4
- Habenero Salsa +2
Eric is seeing to these two entrees:
- Amy’s Kitchen Teriyaki Wrap
- Amy’s Kitchen Non-Dairy Burrito
- http://www.amys.com/products/product-detail/burritos-and-wraps/000070
- After consideration, updated to +4
Tonight’s Trailer Trash, however, is glorious in all the ways glorious things should be. The link:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6D75AEE97286853B
And the movies!
- The Canyons (Teaser)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7L7gjKHWU
- Eric: +3, Mike: +1, Alex: 0, Ginevra: 0, Spencer: 0, Dawn (0, +5 cinematography)
- Gray State (Concept Trailer)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy7FVXERKFE
- http://www.indiegogo.com/Graystatemovie
- Alex: -1, Spencer: -2, Eric: +1, Dawn: +1, Mike: +1, Ginevra: -3
- I Declare War
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfEGoJh8FXQ
- http://samaritanentertainment.com/IDW/main.html (the whole damn summary)
- Spencer: -1, Eric: -1, Ginevra: +1, Alex: +3
- Easton’s Article
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3c9yC3Gqzk
- Alex: 0, Eric: 0, Spencer: +1, Mike: +1, Ginevra: +1, Dawn: +1
- State of Decay
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8yvLrjnGdU
- Ginevra: +2, Mike +2, Eric: +1, Spencer: -2, Alex: +3
As always, check out the movie trailer list before the show, straight off YouTube, and weigh in with your opinions and ratings on the Squid Lamarckian-Dillante Scale of -5 to +5, with the dreaded Zero Goose Egg and the worst possible result right in the center!
10pm Eastern, Saturday nights, they will always be ours.
2012-08-15
Livestream Test Channel is Go!
I've been tinkering with some live streaming options beyond Google Hangouts, and this is actually one of them. Hopefully, I'll break out some live game streaming from time to time and it'll go in automagically.
More options for creating more entertainment for you.
It's what we do.
2012-08-04
2012-07-30
Testing the Waters: Straight to G+!
I'd like to test that theory.
2012-07-21
EPISODE156 - BWE: Short Bastards and Self-Involved Plants
Betas. Who loves ya baby? Apparently, it's companies who want you to help you bug test and promote at the same time! This weekend is the last Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event before launch, with the Asura and Sylvari finally in. How's that going? We'll talk about that as well as other betas and Free2Plays. All that chased by the ever-lovable Trailer Trash. C'mon in tonight; I promise to use the Fist of Science!
Logan*: ok, when you nmusted or did whatever, it stopped
Logan*: muted
Logan*: if you dropped off audio, Pro shows you still there
The SquidLord: Rebooting sound capture. Sec.
Logan*: ok, you dropped and now I don't have audio. rebooting
EPISODE155 - Trailer Trash and Down, Loaded Up And Truckin'
After last week's successful Microscope Afterparty, and in honor of all this week Indie+ (http://indieplus.org) running on Google Plus, we'll be having a short show this week, just 30 minutes, and JUST Trailer Trash, so that we can head on off over to the Hangout On Air for another face-first run into Microscope! Let's jam on the trailers and then go jam on a whole new world, what say? And if it's not Saturday yet, check the Indie+ schedule to see if there are any cool panels or solid games you might be interested in.
decadent_east: Afk.
Logan*: uhh....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Semiapies: http://indieplus.org
Semiapies: https://plus.google.com/104356358088070229382/posts
Semiapies: https://plus.google.com/s/indieplus
2012-07-07
EPISODE154 - Under the Microscope and Into the Tubes
Oh, hey, right, I really need to schedule this thing. Sure, I can do that. And... stuff. You know, get all excited! Like that! Yeah! Microscope tonight, we'll be talking about it since that's tonight's Afterparty Event, along with some discussion about what to do with NEXT week's show during Indie+! Oh, yes, and Trailer Trash, that exploration of all that is good, just, and righteous about film, book, and game trailers. That could be a long list...
Nelal Hurcran: I hesitate to ask, but how bad is my sound?
The SquidLord:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltFQJu7LZWA
TakeiG: Captain Sulu on the bridge.
TakeiG: At ease, gentlemen.
TakeiG: alright I'll be calling in then
2012-06-30
EPISODE153 - Hot-Damn, Psi*Run and Indie+
You know what? It's time for a little shake-up. It's time for the Earth to move. Tonight we pull the choks out and get something new off the ground. SPACKLE TIME! What's Spackle Time? It's new! Tonight we're talking a little Psi*Run, which I'll be running a game of after the show in the afterparty Hangout, as well as why I'm prepping for an online convention, indie+! But we wouldn't leave you in the lurch, there'll be Trailer Trash, with the wonderful array of incisive media criticism you expect from us. Which is, er ... (a lot?)
sabradell: G/D Talkshoe will not fricking let me call in again
sabradell: I turned off my firewalls, have a good connection and do not have Skype or anything running
sabradell: pro
sabradell: Talkshoe pro
sabradell: LOL
2012-06-23
EPISODE152 - Things Are Going Off, One Way Or Another
This weeks the beez return to their hives and they'll be telling you about how runny the honey is while you're watching. There is a pronounced absence of dick. Sometimes you'll just get A LOT better after taking something for your headache. And if there's time, there'll be random acts of kindness. That and Trailer Trash which opens tonight with one of our favourite things on Earth and an actress from one of the best movies tonight. Catch us live or listen after the fact on http://operationbsu.org!
Semiapies: Maybe a 2:1 would be better than 1:1.
Semiapies: (For this drink.)
Semiapies: I am muted?
TakeiG: thank you
The Big Leneski: Oooohh mmmmyyy ~
2012-06-17
EPISODE151 - Put a Little Love in Your Mouth, Mummy!
It'll be funky tonight. You'll get up into our horns and we'll get all funky in your mouth, like any good show should! It's a three-way, three-way tonight! We know more than what bears do in the wood. And you'll get a real mouthful right at the end of the News Cycle. Plus you'll get a good, solid chunk of the best and brightest Trailer Trash in the business. Bring your friends, bring your enemies, bring your need for a good time and we'll stick it to you!
Koolguy: hey
Koolguy: eating a lot of food, so i'm muting myself
Koolguy: i always have fun on this or logans cal
Koolguy: commence primary ignition
The SquidLord:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7dUWaTmD0k
Koolguy: spooky ass song but i like it
The SquidLord: Here Come the Mummies - Single Double Triple
Koolguy: nice my friend
The Big Leneski: so 70s!
Koolguy: 70s we're the time
Koolguy: lots of similar music and fun times
The Big Leneski: http://www.herecomethemummies.com/
The Big Leneski: http://blog.operationbsu.org
Koolguy: yeah it was epic
The Big Leneski: +Operation BSU
The Big Leneski: 724 444 7444
The Big Leneski: call ID 33899
Koolguy: i like funky...
The Big Leneski: http://tinyurl.com/operationbsu
The Big Leneski: witty comment!
Logan*: only thing I can say is "Squid, FUNK you"
Sarry: for some reason I now have the theatrical version of Thriller video playing in my head.
blissful_kaos: I am just sticking with being in the chat tonight. woo
Sarry: first time
Sarry: Hahahahahahaaa hey alexander
blissful_kaos: Because I don't want to forget not to hit mute and get on a good rant.
Koolguy: uh, yah
Logan*: and you are missing my wonderous intro.....the show is not the same without introing me
Koolguy: nope
blissful_kaos: I need to get to texas to make him feel better.
The Big Leneski: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nope-chuck-testa
The Big Leneski: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nopeavi
Sarry: I normally have work etc when this is on....is there a way to call in free Im wondering lol....should i try the talkshoe live pro one?
Koolguy: im lookin forward to that
Koolguy: very damn dead
blissful_kaos: xlite sucks as far as I can tell.
The Big Leneski: http://icanblink.com
blissful_kaos: Blink is awesome.
Sarry: or move to the USA? LOL
Logan*: http://www.talkshoesupport.com
Logan*: page 7
Sarry: Or you can move here!
Koolguy: lord what?
blissful_kaos: Me and Pie...
Sarry: XXXXXXXXXXX
Koolguy: thats better
blissful_kaos: All up in the living room.
Koolguy: i'd love hearin that
Koolguy: OH YEH!
Koolguy: i love this
Sarry: brb
Koolguy: favorite show type
The SquidLord: http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/11/12166943-widow-of-atlanta-cop-who-died-during-three-way-sex-is-awarded-3-million?lite
The SquidLord: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_an_Eiffel_Tower_sex_act
Koolguy: sex can do that if done long enough
Koolguy: nope, definitely not
Sarry: gee the format of talkshoe pro is way different
blissful_kaos: blink is better for talking on air... and talkshoe pro sucks. :)
Sarry: didnt want to waste time right now but I will look later :-)
The Big Leneski: http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20120614/10303/squid-inseminate-korean-woman-calamari.htm
The Big Leneski: http://gothamist.com/2012/06/15/squid_are_having_sex_with_your_mout.php
The Big Leneski: http://www.thefrisky.com/2012-06-15/help-me-please-cooked-squid-tries-to-impregnate-a-womans-mouth/
The Big Leneski: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2159692/Womans-mouth-falls-pregnant-squid-biting-sea-creature-scientists-claim.html
Sarry: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/15/squid-sperm_n_1599591.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news
The Big Leneski: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spermatophore
The Big Leneski: http://www.biolbull.org/content/212/3/177.short
Sarry: I aactually saw it originally here for news in australia where i am http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8484536/squid-sperm-inseminates-womans-mouth
Koolguy: british and australian women, my type and a half
Sarry: Hahaha thats what Alex tells me!
blissful_kaos: now, we're all scared of alex's junk.
The SquidLord: http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20120614/10303/squid-inseminate-korean-woman-calamari.htm
The SquidLord: http://gothamist.com/2012/06/15/squid_are_having_sex_with_your_mout.php
Sarry: try this www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuq70AeFmns
The SquidLord: http://blog.operationbsu.org/2012/06/here-come-mummies-certainly-came-and.html
Koolguy: viewing it ina few
The Big Leneski: http://www.herecomethemummies.com/
Koolguy: what a band
Logan*: So is it FAZZ?
The Big Leneski:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbOz9nFOItY
Koolguy: sex stunt man, wowo
Sarry: pmsl at the youtube vid
The Big Leneski:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CZ0hnMyEQI
Sarry: of here come mummies...
Sarry: wonder how much toilet paper they use to wrap themselves?
The Big Leneski:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWF0bBKhe6o
The Big Leneski:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKdWj9-VMzs
Koolguy: heh
Koolguy: woa, nice
Koolguy: no sense, looks seductive
Koolguy: i like this
The Big Leneski: http://blip.tv/brows-held-high/bhh-the-man-who-fell-to-earth-mpg-5370618
The Big Leneski: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_(film)
The SquidLord:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPSQOomMWro
Koolguy: wtf!
The Big Leneski: http://www.vg247.com/2012/06/12/wreck-it-ralph-gets-official-game/
Sarry: scale of +1 to what? lol!
The Big Leneski: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_High_(2005_film)
blissful_kaos: Our rating system is -5 to +5
blissful_kaos: Of how much we want to see it...
John Carter: Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Big Leneski: garble
Sarry: ahhh the audio is breaking on me!! :-((
The SquidLord: Is TalkShoe hating us?
Logan*: major garble
John Carter: I duidn't mean to
The SquidLord: Hmmm, TS is thrashing.
Logan*: better
The Big Leneski: yup I dropped it was so bad
Logan*: it is gone again
The Big Leneski: still trashing on my end.
blissful_kaos: Yuck.
Sarry: oh it wasnt just me then? I was blaming AUSTRALIA! lol
blissful_kaos: I'll translate what Alex is saying.
blissful_kaos: He's bitching.
The SquidLord: Bzzz-robot-hmmmm.
John Carter: thank you MegaTron
The Big Leneski: close it.
blissful_kaos: Loudly.
blissful_kaos: Yeah, we still can't hear you.
John Carter: back!
The Big Leneski: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron:_Uprising
x0xPiex0x: gone again
John Carter: oh wait
blissful_kaos: At least it's the end of the show.
Sarry: gone again
blissful_kaos: It wouldn't even let me mute myself.
blissful_kaos: Talkshoe is fucked.
The SquidLord: Sigh.
The SquidLord: I see I'll be doing a hard edit.
The Big Leneski: stick a fork in us
John Carter: end of line...
The SquidLord: I think we're done here, folks. Le sigh.
2012-06-15
Here Come the Mummies Certainly Came, and Funked Us Good
It's exactly what it says on the tin. |
It's like Broadway, but ... not. |
A couple of weeks ago, I was shambling along the streets of Athens, GA, home of fine musical acts like REM and Man or Astroman, and I wandered within line of sight in front of the newly reopened and remodeled Georgia Theater. What to my wondering eyes should appear but the upcoming playbills! Not just any playbills, but hidden among the piles was a thin green flimsy promising the near-immediate appearance of Here Come the Mummies!
I turned to my faithful schmooze-master and PR coordinator, The Big Leneski, and I said, "Holy shit, Here Come the Mummies!"
Whereupon he dove to the concrete in a three-point combat stance and said, "Where? Where?" while fumbling for the butt of his non-extant crossbow or M-16. I think maybe we've been playing a lot of zombie games and the mention of the undead, well, it was swift and concerning.
"No, dumbass. On the upcoming shows! Here Come the Mummies! They're great! Imagine a bunch of guys who dress like mummies, get up on stage, then throw down the rockingest hard jazz you've ever heard, all the while cracking mummy sex jokes! They're awesome!"
The lights are right for a par-tay. |
Right? Right? Beuller?
Right. I'm brilliant and in possession of the best taste of any producer / editor / news coordinator ever. I'm writing this, so I get to craft the backstory. If I've learned nothing else from my years of watching CNN, MSNBC and Fox, I've learned that!
David Prime, The Big Leneski, and the SquidLord lurk in Taste of India. |
We're real journalists, damnit! This proves it! All I lack is the little brown hat with the "PRESS' tag on it.
I'll get me one of those hats, my pretty. Just you wait and see.
Once you're good and soused, it's poor form not to go get some of the finest food that lies within the city you've been fulminating within, and for that we hit my favourite old stand-by, Taste of India. This is a place full of curries and tandoori and that most holy of foods, kema naan, but for my entree I order one thing: tandoori steak.
Blasphemy! Delicious, wonderful blasphemy. |
Tandoori steak. Is there a word for how inchoately blasphemous I am? I must be pretty horrific since I almost successfully asked the waitress out to dinner.
Eventually, it was time to go settle in to the Theater and check out the seating arrangements. The rebuild of the interior was nice indeed. The entry goes right by a smallish bar. You walk forward and down to the floor level, which is roughly the size of the 40 Watt a few blocks away, though about 30% wider ... but the stairs winding up the side attract your attention, and your eye travels up, up, up, noting along the way the three tiers of further rail-side / table seating, where all the adults sit. At the very tip-top ...
... There is another bar.
Take into account that this is a venue which is now known for having a bar on the roof and throwing $2 roof parties, and you can see what this really is. The Holy Grail for journalists.
Up on the rooftop, click click click. |
But not too badly yet. We've come in right after the doors open, stumbling down from the bar on the roof (thank Hades for elevators). The place is ... surprisingly empty. A scattering of upper-middle class couples, a minor fistfull of college kids kicking around with no place better to go on a Thursday night until school is back in session. Us.
It's a strange crowd, especially for a college town in the off-season.
This is where we start pointing out things that got liveblogged from the concert itself, which you can catch a great amount of over on the Operation BSU Google Plus page, where its all been neatly placed in the posting feed.
Mummies Alive! And funking you up. |
The brass section knows no fear. |
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"Why would you think we're into bondage, anyway?" |
Damnit.
If I were a proper music journalist, I'd already have an entire set list, probably stolen straight off the stage at the end of the set and meticulously noted upon with multiple colours deliberately working out every what and wherefore of each individual song and how the light board guy must've programmed the macros, and what brand of foot pad the lead singer used purely from the shape of his foot prints in the dripping sweat of the front row.
I'm not that kind of journalist. I have video!
Here is a thing that happened. The Mummies have a song called "Let Your Freak Flag Fly." Simple enough, right? Only their stage show involves bringing out two massive flags marked "FREAK," going all colour-guard on our asses, then handing one to another mummy on a tricycle that proceeds to ride all around the stage, waving his freak flag high.
I realize that sounds unbelievable, so here's more footage from a live show out in California.
The freak flag was well and truly flown.
Which was rather a theme of the night. If you've already gone out there, digging around, looking for Here Comes the Mummies videos and music, you know that there's a strong thread of -- I can't say "alternate sexuality" in good conscience. Maybe "omni-sexuality." The Mummies are sexual beings. They want to stick it in anywhere it'll fit, and if that takes a little stretching or maybe some consensual cutting, that's fine too. What I'm saying is that there are a lot of overtly sexual events that are positively commonplace on stage.
For instance, someone might strap on a cowbell attached to a belt (or, more specifically, a "cowbelt") then run out on stage, thrusting their hips in rhythm and asking the crowd who wants a little more gong in their thing or on their dong.
Everyone wants more gong for their dong! |
And we have a volunteer from the audience. |
No one doubts the power of a three-piece horn section to funk your face off. The guy in front certainly learned about it. |
"Freak flag? I'm wearing it!" |
Careful, you'll get some funk on ya. |
"Them! Kill all of them! The Leneski so commands!" |
While the Leneski threatens, David Prime takes this opportunity to shit his pants in sheer terror. |
It's a tongue-off. The woman in the back seems inordinately happy about this. |