Welcome To The Terrordrome

For a while now I've been thinking a game like Terrordrome should exist: a fighting game starring horror movie characters.

This game is heavily influenced by Mortal Kombat which, if you think about it, has many characters that belong in a slasher film actually. All your favorite Slashers are in it: Freddie, Jason, Ghostface from Scream, Mike Myers from Halloween, Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Chucky...even Ash from Evil Dead and Army Of Darkness.

I've embedded a video of some gameplay footage below. You can check Terrordrome's official site here where you can download a demo if you have a PC (it won't run on Macs easily). I have a Mac so I can't play it. I'll have to be satisfied watching videos of the game for now.

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Costume Quest Trailer

Tim Schafer (probably best known for his original Xbox masterpiece Psychonaughts) is a real visionary when it comes to creating groundbreaking and extremely entertaining videogames.

His new game Costume Quest has a genius premise. It's halloween, and peoples costumes turn them into all sorts of different beings. Actually, there's kind of a Buffy episode like this game. Kind of.

The premise for Costume Quest is a great way to get unicorns, robots, dinosaurs, skeletons...and so on, all into one game. And, presumably you can BE these things by dressing up as them. Which is awesome. Also, Halloween is probably my favorite holiday.

Here's the trailer:

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Battles

Grinderman

This video for Grinderman's song "Heathen Child," off their forthcoming second album Grinderman 2, is insane in the best way.

I know little about Grinderman except that its a side-project type band run by Nick Cave.

The "Heathen Child" song is alright, but its video is pretty damn amazing. This video is an awesome nightmare, and the sort of thing more music videos should be like:

[Via Pitchfork TV]

Star Wars Lego Mural

This is not a mural for the game "Lego Star Wars." This is an Empire Strikes Back mural made of Legos.

It's amazing:

[Via @UGOdotcom]

New Little Big Planet Marvel Costumes

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Brady Bunch Gets Low

My friend the very skilled filmman Joe Delaney made this excellent video in which the Brady Bunch get down to a hip hop (and high school dance) classic: "Get Low" by Lil' Jon & The Eastside Boyz featuring the Yin Yang Twins.

In naming this project, Joe made a bit of an error saying that "Get Low" is a Lil' Wayne song. It isn't, but don't hold that against him because "Brady Bunch Gets Low" is fucking awesome:

Scott Pilgrim-ize Yourself

The Scott Pilgrim comics are pretty good. They aren't my favorite comics in the world by any means, but they're fun and well put-together stories.

What's best about them is Bryan Lee O'Malley's wit and the downright lovable characters he created through Scott Pilgrim's six volumes.

The Scott Pilgrim movie coming out tomorrow is making for a lot of hubbub in pop culture about Scott Pilgrim, and now there's a thing where you can made yourself into a Scott Pilgrim character.

I gave myself the Scott Pilgrim treatment. Here's Scott Pilgrim-ized Nick:

Here are some more avatars I didn't make. They're all in color and are of famous people unlike Mr. Nick, friend of the hero.

Here's Kanye West:

Here's James Murphy Of LCD Soundsystem:

Here's Zooey Deschanel:

And Here's M.I.A:

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Chef!

Bad Art

Apparently there's a museum for "Bad Art" in the Eastern Massachusetts town of Somerville.

Here are some of the museum's choice paintings (with names by yours truly):

Fun Dogs

Michael Jackson x Dream Horse

Eggplant Horror Family

Finally, here are some paintings in the Bad Art museum that I personally don't think are "Bad Art." That's probably because they are pictures of cats (the names are still my own):

Cosmic Pets

Beast Wars

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Malcom Vs. The Bagel

Today at Kids Kung Fu camp I ended up involved in a kid named Macolm's imaginary world in which a giant bagel terrorized New York City. At one point I played the voice of Barak Obama on the telephone and it was pretty awesome. I channeled Jimmy Fallon for my Obama voice.

Malcolm called the president asking for ropes to bind the Bagel. And, of course, Obama gladly provided them. But, the Bagel proved to strong to be tied up by ropes. In fact, most of what Malcolm tried was unsuccessful in destroying or capturing the damn thing.

In the end, we needed the assistance of another kid, the super-inventor Gordy. Gordy built a giant toaster which he used to toast the evil Bagel and then Malcolm ate it.

Then, we rebuilt New York using crayons.