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  • My Favourite Things: March 2013

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    MARCH

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    Three. It’s a magic number, so I’m told. This is also the number of months that we’ve all survived in 2013. And man, let me tell you, March has also felt three times longer than the average month. Maybe that’s just me but I’m glad we’re finally at the end of it. Phew! Despite my own personal misgivings it has still been a great month for cool stuff online. Here are my favourite ones:

    1) Sweded Iron Man 3

    For anyone who doesn’t know what “Sweded” means (and obviously, you’ve never seen the Michel Gondry movie Be Kind Rewind) here is the urban dictionary definition:

    The summarized recreation of popular pop-culture films using limited budgets and a camcorder. The process is called sweding. Upon completion the film has been Sweded.

    The fine folks of Cinefix have done a shot-for-shot remake of the Iron Man 3 trailer using not much more than some flashlights and cardboard. It’s immensely satisfying.

    2) The Venture Bros. Preview

    As is well documented, we’re big admirers on this site of the dynamic duo Doc Hammer and Jackson Publik. So you can well imagine just how excited we are to get our grubby mitts on Season 5 of The Venture Bros. We’re not there quite yet but [adult swim] have released a 5 minute preview and that will have to do for now.

    3) Good Parenting

    In another example of parents doing it right, I’ll let YouTuber Mike Mika speak for himself:

    My three year old daughter and I play a lot of old games together. Her favorite is Donkey Kong. Two days ago, she asked me if she could play as the girl and save Mario. She’s played as Princess Toadstool in Super Mario Bros. 2 and naturally just assumed she could do the same in Donkey Kong. I told her we couldn’t in that particular Mario game, she seemed really bummed out by that. So what else am I supposed to do? Now I’m up at midnight hacking the ROM, replacing Mario with Pauline.

    *Stands up and applauds*

    4) The Making of Mormon

    The Book of Mormon has won endless awards and is seemingly a hit with both audiences and critics. So considering everyone loves it, then everyone should also love this hour long documentary on how the show was made featuring interviews from the cast and creators. Enjoy!

    5) Le Sexoflex

    I played Le Sexoflex‘s first album “Le MiXXXtape: Invagine the Pussibilities” an inordinate amount of times. It’s my go-to party starter. It’s been a long time coming (huh) but their second album “The Naughty Contest” is now available to download. CLICK HERE to do so. For a taster (so to speak) check out the video for “Suck Dick, Eat Cheetos”.

    Oh, and if everything in the above paragraph didn’t give it away already, it’s NSFW.

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    And that’s it! My favourite things of the last month.

    – Aaron Poole is the creator of finger-only gloves. He is also more accurately an internet whore and rarely leaves the house. If you like what you read here check out his blog http://aaronfever.blogspot.com

  • My Favourite Things – September 2011

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    September

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    This month has become a bit of blur for your faithful internet reporter. A trip to Dragon*Con in Atlanta at the start of the month combined with a tour of the UK towards the end and this Irishman is ready for a quiet October. However, it has resulted in my month’s Favourite Things to be a much more personal one than normal. So read on for my rambling recommendations of this past September, below.

    1) Molly Lewis

    I was lucky enough to be on two panels at Dragon*Con with Molly and hang out with her a little bit. Not only is she an extremely talented musician but she’s also a lot of fun.

    I’ve been listening to her EP I Made You a CD, But I Eated It on pretty regular rotation and shall now recommend it to you.

    You can purchase and listen to it and more via her bandcamp page. But for a taster check out this video below of her most recent song.

    2) Sylvester McCoy

    Since meeting the man during Con weekend I literally can’t shut up about it. He is such an awesome actor and genuinely down-to-earth human being. Not only was he hilarious over the course of the weekend but was a delight to everyone he met. I can’t wait to see him in the forthcoming The Hobbit movies. Gush, gush, gush.

    We’ve shown it here on the website before, but it’s worth reposting until the cows come home. If the cows do indeed know their way. Sylvester McCoy cold reads the Pandorica speech originally acted by Matt Smith. Prompted by our very own Ken Plume.

    3) Jonathan Coulton

    The always personable (and hairy) Mr Coulton was another musician to make a dent in my September. His new album Artificial Heart was released this month and you should be listening to it or buying it here and then listening to it.

    And for a hint of some of the musicality that lies within, listen to this hear thing with pictures.

    4) The People’s Republic of Venture

    Run by the wonderful Anne-Marie, PRoV does a kick-ass job every year of giving out cool Venture Bros. swag to the masses at the Con. Lots of badges, pin-up cards, cool tins, essentially anything you can think of. For example this great pin which currently sits atop my night stand.

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    And she was even kind enough to make us some FRED ribbons for our Con badges too!

    You should bookmark the Venture Compound blog page for updates and news.

    5) The Bluetones

    Everyone might be talking about R.E.M.‘s announcement to call it a day this month but they weren’t the only band hanging up their guitars. The object of my teenage musical obsession for a long time, The Bluetones, played their final ever gigs this month. After six studio albums and a 17 year constant touring schedule they decided to call it quits.

    I have been a rabid fan since I was 15 (please note, that is not 17 years ago, I’m not THAT old) and have been to several of their gigs which often requires flying to England to do so.

    This month I had the opportunity to catch two of their final shows, along with a bunch of friends I’ve met because of the band over the years. It was emotional.

    Here is a song of theirs, the video was directed by Edgar Wright who happened to put their songs in both Spaced and Scott Pilgrim. So there.

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    And that’s it! My favourite things (and people) of the last month.

    – Aaron Poole is the creator of Rave Moth. He is also more acurately an internet whore and rarely leaves the house. If you like what you read here check out his blog http://aaronfever.blogspot.com