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NIGHTMARE

Welcome to this Wednesday’s Post featuring the Official Music Video by Lee Hardcastle for the Song “NIGHTMARE” by the Band Love Automatic.

Lee Hardcastle is a British Animator Who Specializes in Stop-Motion Techniques. He is Famous for His Handmade Independent Animations. His Work includes Original Remakes of Emblematic 1980’s Action and Horror Movies, as well as Parodies of Animated Series and Video Clips. His Work is Known for its Violent and Gory Content. He has worked with Many Companies including Momentum Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Adult Swim, and has Also Worked with Notable Artists such as Sufjan Stevens. Besides Being a Kick Ass Animator Lee Hardcastle was a Member of the Band Shit The Bed. Hardcastle once explained His Work as “I make Claymation that is Not for Children.”

All the Information I was able to Wrangle about the Band Love Automatic is the Following. Love Automatic is a New York band made up of ex-members from Senses Fail & Armor for Sleep. Their EP debut ‘Organ Donor’ is now available for download from major retailers.

PLOT: A Paranormal Research Team conducts a Seance (A Meeting where People Attempt to make Contact with the Dead) when Things Go Horribly Wrong the Team Ends Up Meeting Their DOOM!

Thanks For Reading/Watching,

Presented By Les Sober

For Shits and Giggles: “Existential Threat” By Sparks

I think its safe to say we have all had day’s where it seemed the universe has dropped its pants, and is taking a colossal cosmic crap on your entire fucking life. Those are those days you spend going hour after fucking hour wondering “Why Me?” or “What the fuck did I do to deserve this bullshit?” as the universe plays a fucked up game of cat and mouse with your current reality. It can get so fucking intense that you may actually consider that you have somehow offended the Powers That Be (God, universe, fate and so on) and now are being punished in some bizarre manner.

This bring me to today’s post the official music video for ‘The Existential Threat’ by Sparks (also known as Halfnelson), taken from their 2020 album ‘A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip’. Sparks is an American pop and rock duo formed in 1967 consisting of brothers Ron Mael on Keyboards and Russell Mael on vocals. Sparks are known for their quirky approach to songwriting which is often accompanied by sophisticated and acerbic lyrics often about women or Shakespearean literature references, and an idiosyncratic, theatrical stage presence, typified in the contrast between Russell’s animated, hyperactive frontman antics and Ron’s deadpan scowling. The band is also noted for Russell Mael’s distinctive wide ranging voice and Ron Mael’s intricate and rhythmic keyboard playing style. Sparks have been far more successful in Europe compared to their native United States, though the band maintains a loyal cult following American non the less.

The video for the song was done by none other than one of our favorite animators cyriak. Cyriak Harris, known Mononymously as Cyriak and His B3ta Username Mutated Monty (Harris has been a Regular Contributor to the British Website B3ta since 2004), is a British Freelance Animator and Composer. He is known for His Surreal, Creepy, and Bizarre Short Web Animations with the Frequent Use of the Droste Effect, and Features Original Dance/Electronic Music By Harris as Well.

Enjoy.

See You Around,

Justin Sane

For Shits and Giggles: Breakfast

Welcome to the Latest Installment of For Shits and Giggles featuring Breakfast by One of Our Favorite Animators cyriak.

Breakfast is an Old Piece of Footage (Film) from a PSA on Traffic Safety that Evolved into a Music Video by cyriak. Cyriak is a Freelance Animator based somewhere in the UK. The software He uses is Photoshop and After Effects for Animation and Fruity Loops for Music.

Side Note: If Anyone is Curious about the Guy in the Video, His name is Richard Massingham and He made loads of these Weird Public Information Films back in the 1940s. You can Search His name if You want to find them.

Enjoy.

Thanks For Watching,

Presented By Les Sober

DINNER IS NOT OVER (Animated)

Welcome to this Installment on Tidbits For Shits And Giggles Featuring the Animated Music Video Dinner is Not Over by the One and Only Mr. Jack Strauber.

Jack Stauber is a Singer, Songwriter, and Animator from clean, Pennsylvania. Jack also Publishes under the Name Jack Stauber’s Micropop, in which He releases Hist Short Songs from His Social Media or Extended Versions of His Short YouTube Songs. So Far, there are Six Micropop EP’s One Compilation Album, and One Soundtrack Album. Jack Stauber’s Music is often Described as Avantgarde, or Indie Alternative. His Music is a Blend of Pop, Electronic, and Folk.

Strauber’s Videos typically include MS-Paint Animation, 3D Animation, and Other Mixed Media. Nearly all of His Content is Recorded onto a VHS Tape, giving it an Old-Timer Aesthetic. Themes within the Videos may be that of a Typical Song or Something More Cryptic in Nature. Strauber also makes Animated Cartoon Shorts using Microsoft Paint, but more Recently His Videos have been appearing in Different or More Unique Styles of Art. He has also Gained Attention on the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, and has Aired One of His Videos on an Episode of “Off the Air”, made an “Adult Swim Smalls”, Created a Whole Mini-Series called SHOP: A Pop Opera, and made the a Short Film Titled OPAL.

Premise:

As Any Child Knows Dinner is Not Over (and You May Not Have Dessert) until You’ve Cleaned Your Plate especially when it comes to Vegetables, But Have You Ever Tasted Death?

Enjoy.

Thanks For Watching,

Presented By Les Sober

MILKMAN (Animated Music Video)

We were Perusing some of the Awesome Animation from David Firth (One of Our Favorite Animators) that He did under the Moniker fatpie2. While We were mucking around We Located this Little Slice of Insanity and Couldn’t Be Happier for It. It’s a Music Video that was Animated by David Firth (aka fatpie2) for the Aphex Twins Song MILKMAN from the Girl Boy EP as Well as Some Versions of the RDJ Album.

All We can tell You about the Video is well Not a Whole Hell of a Lot. Your Ears hear a Cosmically Melodic Collage Radio Alternative Rock like Song, and Your Eyes see some Horrifically Violent Imagery of Murder and Mayhem straight out of a Slasher Movie from the 80’s. These Conflicting Messages from the Two Different Senses causes the Brain to Scramble to make Sense of the Vast Contrast in Information. The Video starts like a Kid’s Show Cartoon as the Lyrics pertain to a Milkman and Then a Bit About HIs Wife. After that things get pretty fucking Weird. The Only issue We have with the Song is the Lyrics get fucking Undecipherable, and End up sounding like a Melodious Moan of Sorts. Anyway after We follow the Milkman on His Delivery Route (and Meet His Charming Wife) He is Inexplicably Murdered by a Psychotic Customer at when He Visits Their House for a Delivery. The Killer is a Deformed Inbred Head Case and Necrophiliac Circa the Movie The Hills Have Eyes Who Proceeds to Murder the Shit Out of Everyone He Encounters. The Sick Serial Killer Murders and Mutilates His Various Victims in a Variety of Classic B Horror Movie Methods. So Whats the Meaning of it All? Hell if We Know.

Enjoy.

Thanks For Watching/Listening,

Presented By Les Sober

Filthy Apes and Lions

We Here at FYB are Quite Amused to Present the Claymation Music Video “Filthy Apes and Lions”. The Music and Vocals are By Mark Stoemer and Animated as well as Directed by Lee Hardcastle (Who happens to Be one Of Our Favorite Animators Who’s Work We have Featured Several Times Here at FYB). The Song was a Writing Collaboration between Mark Stoemer and Lee Hardcastle.

Mark Stoemer is an American Musician and Songwriter. He is Best Known as the Bassist for the Rock Band The Killers until 2016. In Addition to His Work with The Killers, Stoemer has Released Three Solo Albums one being 2017’s Filthy Apes and Lions. Stoemer also joined The Emo Band The Smashing Pumpkins to Tour in Support of the Band’s Ninth Studio Album Monuments to an Elegy (2014), and Produced The Howling Bells’ Third Studio Album The Loudest Engine.

Stemer Talked about the Songwriting Process behind the Single “Filthy Apes and Lions”: I was doing a Stream of Consciousness, Surrealistic Exercise where You just Write Out Whatever’s on the Top of Your Head, and Then I Started CreatingRhymes, Not Really Knowing where I was going, and then that’s where I got the Lyrics for the Song.

Shit The Bed was a Hardcore Punk Band with Grindcore Tendencies from Leeds, UK Formed in 2000 by Jordan Ramoth, Richard Kenyon, Dom Smith, and Lee Hardcastle when They were in High School. The then 14 Year Old Band Members used to get Together to Share Their Mutual Love of SST Records as well as Other Shitty Bands that 14 Year Olds are Into. In 2006 Shit The Bed put Out Their first and Only EP Titled Camel Bite! that has amassed a Niche Cult Following over the Years since its Release. The Main Lyrical Themes are Gary Coleman, Computer Games, and Massive Natural Disasters. In Addition to Playing Drums in Shit The Bed Hardcastle also made Music Videos for the Band.

Enjoy.

Thanks for Listening/Watching,

Presented By Les Sober & FYB

Tidbits For Shits and Giggles: The Ghost Song

In this Installment of TIDBITS FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES We have a Two for One Special of Sorts as Ghost Song features the Music of David Byrne and the Artwork of Stephen Gammell.

David Byrne is a Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Record Producer, Artist, Actor, Writer, Music Theorist, and Filmmaker who was a Founding Member and Lead Singer (as well as the Principle Songwriter) of the New Wave Band The Talking Heads. Byrne has Released Solo Recordings and Worked in/with Various Artists Mediums including Film, Photography, Opera, Fiction, and Non Fiction. Byrne was also Inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The Song in the Video is called HORSES
Album: IN SPITE OF WISHING AND WANTING

Stephen Gammel is an Illustrator of Children’s Books who is Best Known for His Gruesome, Nightmarish, Surreal, and Unsettling Illustrations for Alvin Schwartz’s Short Horror Story Trilogy Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

Thats for Viewing/Listening,

Presented By Les Sober

FYB Musical Monday Part One: The Band Known As GHOUL

As part of FYB Musical Monday We are Showcasing the Trash-Death Metal Grindcore Band from Oakland California known as GHOUL!

Very Little is Known about the band Ghoul as they always seen wearing Masks/Hoods. The Members of the Band go by the Stage Names Cremator, Fermentor, Digestor, and Dissector. Though the Band’ Member’s Identities are meant to be Concealed, it is known the Some Current/Past members of Ghoul also play/have Played in Other Bands such as Impaled, Dystopia, Morbid Angel, Phobia, Asunder, Morosidad, and Wolves in the Throne Room. Ghoul has an extensive Line up of Characters featured in Their Lyrics, Including the Band Members Themselves. Most of the Information pertaining to Ghoul comes from the “Curio Shop Owner” who is one of Ghoul’s many Characters mentioned in Their Songs. Ghoul claims to be Mutants that herald from the Fictional Land of Creepsylvania. Below are 2 Official Ghoul Music Videos, A Live Concert Song Excerpt, and for those who find Themselves wanting to know/See/Hear more there is the Full Length Ghoul Concert Live at The National on 10/20/17. Enjoy.

Hope You Enjoyed this Massive Dose of Mutant Metal as Much as We Did.

Presented by Les Sober

FYB Wednesday Rockumentary: HEAVY METAL IN BAGDAD (with Bonus Video)

Just the Other Day during some inane Conversation I found Myself involved in I had a Moment of Clarity if You will. As I was trying to Pay Attention to what the Other Person was saying I noticed a Guy wearing an Old School Metallica T-Shirt which Suddenly triggered a Memory I had consciously forgotten about . The Memory was of a VICE Films Rockumentary I had seen Long ago (So long in fact I couldn’t tell You exactly how many Years its been) called HEAVY METAL IN BAGDAD. So when I got Home I hopped on Ye Olde Internet, Located a Copy of the Film, and I then Rewatched since it had been so goddamn Long since I had first Seen it.

It all Started in 2003 when the Heavy Metal Band Acrassicauda was the subject of a VICE Magazine Article, and with the Magazines Help the Band was able to Stage a Sold Out Show Two Years later in 2005 (Despite Saddam Hussein having recently being Ousted from Power). VICE Filmmakers Eddy Moretti and Suroosh Alvi returned to Iraq in 2006 in an attempt to Track Down Acrassicauda during the Horrific Iraq War. Moretti and Alvi literally risked Life and Limb in Pursuit of The Film as Americans, Reports, and Heavy Metal are all Looked Upon More than Unfavorably (to say the least) by Iraqi Society/Politics.

Acrassicauda is an Iraqi Heavy Metal Metal Band Who Played Live Shows during The Iraq War, and Under the Brutal Rule of Saddam Hussein. After Saddam and His Regime were Removed from Power Acrassicauda experienced a Surge in Fame and Popularity. Unfortunately the Band also Started to Receive DEATH THREATS from Fanatical Islamic Militants (Who believed the Band were SATAN WORSHIPPERS which is Absolutely and Completely False). Due to the Death Threats and the Increasing Violence in Bagdad The Band Members fled to Syria, then Turkey, and Luckily at Last the Band was Granted Refugee Status in America.

Hope You Enjoyed the Heavy Metal Mayhem as Much as We Did.

Thanks for Watching,

Presented By Les Sober

Cartoons That Aren’t For Kids: The Bad Egg and Molton Light

We start this Installment of Cartoons That Aren’t For Kids with the Award Winning Cartoon “The Bad Egg” Directed by Bala Vikram Veturi. “The Bad Egg” is a Fable of Sorts if You Will, a Cautionary Tale that warns One against the Consequences of Choosing Greed Over Need. That is to Say Choosing What You Want OVER What You Actually Need. Humanity has always, and especially in Today’s Times confused “Want” with “Need”.

A Prime Example of this is When the Wife of a Good Friend of Mine called Me up one Night Engulfed in Frustration. He Told Me that His Wife WANTED to Buy a New 90 inch TV to replace Their 60 Inch TV for NO OTHER REASON than She simply WANTED a Bigger TV in Reality.

When I asked My Friend about His Wife’s Reaction to Him stating the 90 inch TV was a Unnecessary (and bit impulsive) Purchase at the Time He told Me that once He started to Object She told Him that “They NEEDED the New TV.”, and Honestly thats Exactly what She Believed to be True. The Cliche that “Your Possessions End Up Owning You” could Never be Truer.

The Second Cartoon is Chad Van Gaalen’s “Molten Light” by Chad VanGaalen Who did The Animation as well as Providing the Music Accompaniment. “Molton Light” which also Serves as a Cautionary Tale of Revenge Warning One That Their are Consequences for One’s Actions. That and Some of Those Consequences can Hunt You Down and Kill You.

Hope You Enjoyed These Cartoon’s Cautionary Tales of Greed, Jealousy, Murder, Cannibalism, The Supernatural, and Revenge as Much as We Did.

Presented By Les Sober