Long time, No post?

apologies for the silence, but it was a hectic holiday season, and it sort of bled over into all of january. Your Geek World's headquarters (also known as Tyler's apartment) has moved, and we're still trying to get everything settled back down, but we recorded a couple of podcasts before packing up, so those should go up relatively soon-ish (by which I mean as soon as tyler has a chance to edit them).

unfortunately in all the chaos, we missed both Arisia (which Tyler intended to drag me back to, kicking and screaming) and MAGfest (which I talked him into attending instead since they were the same weekend this year, but the budget disagreed). Luckily, we still intend to try and make it to Wicked Faire for at least one day, and will most definitely be at Anime Boston and ConnectiCon this year (even if ConnectiCon was a hot mess of failure last year, we have such a long track record with them that we have to forgive it).

We have a couple of musical projects in the works, heavily involving the musical talents of Chris Whittier of Little Blue Pill and Dave aka Barycoise of Cabin Fever Express, so stay tuned for those in the near future. the first has been recorded and has a video in the works, but can be listened to here until then (yes, that's our own version of the Backin' Up song from youtube's Autotune the News). I'm trying to convince them that we need to do the theme song from Carmen SanDiego next, but so far, no dice. Stay tuned!

In other news, the new My Chemical Romance album that I mentioned excitement about in my last post, "Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys," is now out, and it's everything I ever wanted and then some. (look forward to a more in-depth review in the future!) If you love campy sci-fi and catchy, unapologetically american rock music, then I can't recommend it more, because this album is best summarized as being a neon dance party in the fucking Thunderdome, hosted by a pirate radio DJ from the future (no, really. it's set up as a radio broadcast from 2019, and features a few moments with fictional DJ Dr. Death Defying, portrayed by guitarist Steve, Righ? of Mindless Self Indulgence.) Definitely check out their youtube channel to hear some of the songs (both live and studio versions of several tracks have been posted) as well as some excellent bonus materials, including commercials and cartoons from the album's universe (and yet singer Gerard Way still insists it's not a concept album. Ok, buddy. If you say so.)


and finally, I need to mention that Lar DeSouza, an all-around awesome guy and artist of the excellent online comics Least I Could Do, Looking for Group, and the Gutters , has set up an online store for his non-comic related art. All of us here at Your Geek World are big fans of his art, and we strongly encourage you to check it out!

and now, I fear that I must end this otherwise unrelenting wall of text. Until next time, dear readers!

Hate me all you want

but I'm actually pretty stoked about the My Chemical Romance album coming out next month.



I've always been a fan of My Chemical Romance. They have a fabulously tongue-in-cheek sense of humor about themselves that I think a lot more bands should take to heart. they have fun onstage while being fun to watch, making them easily my favorite band to see live.

Anyone who knows me at all will pick up immediately on the aesthetic vibe of this video being pretty much what the inside of my brain looks like. It's like a ten year old boy circa 1995 on a post-Halloween sugar high trying to explain the Tank Girl movie, but without the kangaroos. There's nothing about it that I don't absolutely love. Plus, death by Power Glove. I mean, COME ON. The only way you could possibly hate on this is if you hate fun.


A word of warning, though: the song is catchy as all hell and WILL get stuck in your head.

it's a bird! it's a plane! it's another sketchdump!

and the award for 'weirdest shit on the internet' goes to...

I've spent the last two years with the same nagging question in the back of my head every time I peruse the internet. Is there anything out there that makes less sense than jedichefs.com?

After many exhausting hours of research, I've resigned myself to the fact that, as far as pages written in English (excluding fetish porn), there really isn't.

So, what's their deal?

I honestly have no idea. I've been poking around the website for over an hour, and I'm still not sure. I do, however, know that they raise money for Cancer Research UK, So I suppose that even nonsense has its merits.


I think the part of Jedi Chefs that's most confusing is the Celebrity Jedi Chef page, which is an alphabetized list of image galleries featuring pictures of celebrities, primarily from sci-fi shows, donning the website's signature floppy chef hats and wielding lightsabers. For the most part, the celebs look just as confused as we are, though some of them seem to have excellent sense of humor about the whole ordeal.

Alan Tudyk, for example, is looking a little scared. His former 'Firefly' co-star Sean Maher, however, seems to be taking it in stride.
The number of celebrities they've managed to get to take these ridiculous pictures is staggering. A considerable amount of the casts of Buffy, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, Stargate SG-1,various Star Treks, the new and old Star Wars trilogies, and folks from all over Doctor Who fill the list, making me wonder if perhaps the YGW Away Team needs a silly gimmick to get us some celebrity endorsements. I'm pretty sure there isn't anything the guys wouldn't be willing to do if it meant a picture of them with, say for example, Felicia Day.


I don't know what confuses me more: what's going on, or why so many geek celebs are in on it!

Matt Smith: not just a Doctor

also, apparently, something of a rock star.

What exactly HAS the Doctor been up to?

WARNING: THE VIDEO CLIPS IN THIS ARTICLE ARE EXTREMELY NSFW

So, Tyler and I were having a discussion about Paul McGann and how much we loved him in the Doctor Who feature film. While I was on the phone with him, I took a quick peek at McGann's IMDB page, hoping to find something we might have heard of, or that we would be able to find on Netflix.


And then we found this.



The funny part? We've seen this one before. Lesbian Vampire Killers was easily one of our favorite films of 2009, a horror comedy on par with Slither and Shaun of the Dead in terms of high-budget hilarity. Did you spot him?

How about now? (skip to about 1:30, or for a longer scene featuring McGann, jump to about the 7 minute mark)




That's right, he's the fabulously deadpan Vicar. And disturbingly enough, doesn't look any older than he did in 1996 as the Doctor.


Now, the movie is absolutely worth watching even without him. The stylish editing and cinematography could make it fascinating to watch paint dry, but the humor (which varies from disgusting and slapstick to deadpan wit) remains consistently entertaining from start to finish, even if the female leads are some of the worst actresses to ever deliver dialogue onscreen outside of a porn.

But if we needed any confirmation that McGann was the coolest Doctor, we've certainly got it now.

the greatest tumblr in the history of tumblr

Nimoy. Sunset. Pie.

that's right, folks. The entire tumblr is a collection of images involving Leonard Nimoy (mostly as Spock), sunsets, and pies.

be still, my heart!

Ever wondered what a fat man dancing to Beyonce in a unitard looks like?

Well, now you know.


I fucking love this guy! look at him rock out!


UPDATE!

when the YGW Away Team and some friends were talking about this video during a late night trip to Ihop, someone at another table overheard us and showed us this on his laptop. Apparently, this video is even older news than we thought, because Beyonce herself knew about it, and brought the guy onstage at a show last fall!

Get Your Comic Published In Five Easy Steps

1. Find a famous person to latch onto and ride the coattails. Bonus points if that person is a relative!

2. Trace your favorite comic panels and use them with little or no alteration. I mean, the originals sell thousands of copies worldwide, right? Maybe you can borrow a little of their success!

3. Take distinctive character designs from popular manga and mash them together, or mask their blatant plagarism with minor alterations. How could Greed from Fullmetal Alchemist look cooler? Give him a facial scar! How could Kenpachi from Bleach look any cooler? Give him white hair and change his clothes! Who is more popular in horror manga than Alucard from Hellsing? L from DeathNote! Put Alucard's mouth on L and you'd have a bloodsucking, crime fighting machine that will fly off of shelves!

4. ????

5. Profit!






So, for those who haven't heard, Gene Simmons' son, Nick Simmons, recently got a comic published in which pretty much every panel is a trace from Tite Kubo's long running hit series Bleach. According to this livejournal community, Kubo has been made aware of the situation, but wether he or VIZ (who own the U.S. distribution rights to Bleach) plan to take legal action is still unknown.

Kirsten Dunst is a Japanophile? Not Really. She's Just Pretending.

If you didn't already hate her for her run as Mary Jane in Spiderman, now she's taking being an annoying tool in a whole new direction: cosplay, and molesting random passersby in Akihabra. All while performing an overproduced cover of a song with racist connotations about the very people she is invading. Talk about class.

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/music/watch/v19838048wrs3Dgdy


Her 'serious business' sex-face is pretty hilarious, though. Especially with the blue wig.

Robert Pattinson Allergic to Vagina; Teenage Girls Worldwide Mourn

JustJared has brought a particularly hilarious interview with the Twilight star to my attention. Normally, I couldn't give a shit less about this guy, but the headline caught my eye.

you can read the entire article at Details Magazine's website, but be warned, the only thing more NSFW than the language is the accompanying photos.