Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Screaming Mechanical Brain at Rock House November 9th

This post has been put off long enough. Sorry about the delay, there has been a lot going on. I almost died and such. Well not really, but I was pretty sick for a week after this event, and stuff. God I hate giving you excuses. I suck at life. Anyway, without further ado, my review of Lazy Hawk Promotion's show, featuring Screaming Mechanical Brain and others.

So first off, this show, unlike most of the shows I have reviewed on here, was not at the Emerson. Instead, it was at the Rock House off of Keystone and Hanna. I like this place. I've only been here once before for a Harley Poe concert which also featured Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes. 

The Rock House is a bar, but they really put a lot of effort into making it a nice local music venue as well. They have a good stage location so everyone can see no matter where they are in the bar.  Plenty of places to sit, fantastic drink specials, enough space to move around, their service is really excellent too. I recommend this place for any local show. rockhouseindy.com 

So I went up there with my good friend Mike, who is my Bcast co-host, and we met up with some other awesome friends. Some other guy sat with us and bought a round of Coors, which I thought was pretty funny since I hate beer, and Mike doesn't drink. It's ok though cause Liz does and we just traded bottles so I'd have an empty one. Problem solved.

We got there in time to see the last song by Bizarre Noir. I thought they were fun and engaging. They weren't the kind of band to jump around and stuff, but it was a good opener to get into the swing of things. There would be plenty of rowdiness later.

Coffinsville kinda reminds me of a mix of Primus and Metallica. The lyrics aren't complicated, but the music itself is decent. They played a song called Deathrider, which I can't find on Youtube, so I guess you'll just have to go see them sometime. I could really tell that they are musicians for the love of the music. They're clearly not writing masterpieces here, they're having fun.

Ideamen were probably the best band all night to be honest. As they were doing their sound test, I told Liz, "If they're half as good as their sound test then they are going to be awesome". And I was right. They're really energetic, and have 7 members, but only 6 were there at the time. The dude on keyboard, yes they have a keyboardist, is super dancy. The only gripe I really have about them is that's their singer seriously reminds me of an ex who I do not get along with, and that was hard to overlook. But I can't hold that against them really. They have kindof a jazzy, ska sound. I'd love to see these guys again.

And then, there was Screaming Mechanical Brain. These guys were the headliner I guess. Their name was the biggest on the poster. I don't know. I guess a lot of people like them or something. I just didn't get them though. They had good music, and good audience interactions between songs. The lead guy liked to say a lot of things that didn't make any sense, like he had tourettes or something. You all might be interested in them a lot more than I was. I'm not saying they're bad by any means, I just didn't get the overall image of the band. I mean one dude was dressed up like the Mysery Machine from Scooby Doo, and all the way on the other end of the stage, another guy looked like some kind of weird, gay biker or something with lipstick smeared all over the side of his face. And there was everything in between. I was confused, and didn't know where to look, and it was distracting from the music.

The last band, which is a little weird since the headliner already played, Exit the System, who I can't find anything about online. If you know them, put links in the comments or something.  I really liked this band.
Their setup was really interesting. It was all dark and goth, and they had costumes which were all black and white and ripped up. The singer's costume looked like an assassin hood. I thought it was cool. The music reminded me of Orgy; industrial and electronic, but heavier than Orgy. They had a very cool sound, but in reality it was just two guys on tom drums and a singer and a synthesizer for making all the industrial bits... so most of the music was synthesized. Don't hold that against them though, it was still good.

They even had a neat light and laser show. Sadly, with all light shows, they typically use a fog machine, and I'm kindof allergic to the fog, so we had to leave before these guys were finished. Would have been ok if they opened a door, or had some fans going or something. I suck at life. I can't even handle a fog machine, ugh.

Anyway, it was all around a pretty good time. Check out some shows at the Rock House sometime. If you're in a local band, play there if you're old enough.

Monday, October 22, 2012

Ripple Zombie Walk



The Zombie Walk in Broad Ripple was this weekend. I was really impressed with a lot of the zombie makeup, and some people were really in character. Some people actually chose to go as a "response team" and they were on top of SUV's and shooting zombies with toy guns. Very funny. 

So if you are unaware, this is annual event that accepts donations of canned food for needy people. I'm not sure whether it is affiliated with a church, or a specific charity or anything. Last year they raised about 5000 pounds of food with only 1000 or so participants. 

It was definitely a good time. After the walk, which happened around dusk, and didn't last very long, my friend and I just hung out around Ripple. The Vogue hosted a Zombie Prom for all the walkers, but we didn't go. I have a bit of a grudge towards the Vogue after they wouldn't let me in one evening and were assholes about it. Said my ID was fake. And I'll have you know, I have never once had a fake ID. Anyway, they did up the outside of the building pretty good, and I would have liked to see what the inside looked like. If anyone has pics, send them to me and I'll post them up here. Or just post them in the comments or something. 

So word of advice if you go next year: get there early to find a decent parking spot. They say makeup is from 5-7, but if you get there at 7, you'll completely miss the whole event while you're looking for parking. 

Friday, October 19, 2012

Been Gone so Long

Hi everyone! I know I've been slacking on this site for a while. And I really need to get out there and do some more local reviews!

Well money's been tight, as I'm sure you can all understand. In addition to that, I've been putting together a new site for my podcast. You can check it out at bcastcult.com . So all my movie reviews and any events related to horror, or sci-fi are going there now.

So now that that's pretty much self sufficient, I'm back. I know you missed me.

So here are some upcoming events that I'll be reviewing.

The Emerson is hosting this event which will include Cast From Perfection and many others. I can hardly wait for this!

At Rave Motion Pictures, they're doing a live Rifftrax showing of Birdemic, which is a really terrible version of "The Birds". So that should be exciting. - that review will probably be on bcastcult.

There will be a zombie walk in Broad Ripple, that I'm attending, and you should too. details here .

And that's just the beginning.

If you know of any interesting local events, let me know in the comments, and I'll try to get a review on it.

Be sure to check out bcastcult.com while you're waiting for more content here.

-Malaria

Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Beef and Boards "Chicago"

Totally went to Beef and Boards for the first time this past Sunday. It's located up by the Pyramids, and if you don't know what the Pyramids are, take a good ride around 465, and if you can't figure it out, then you're probably retarded.

So I went there with Mike from the Bcast, and his parents who are not from the Bcast, but are still awesome. We had a pretty good time despite this obviously being a venue for senior citizens, but you too can have fun there.

The place is a theater meant for showing plays, but first they give you food. And it's pretty good food. I mean it is a buffet where they cut roast beef for you, and you can choose which cut you get. And everything else tastes pretty good too, but when there's a roast beef involved, you really don't care about anything else.

The servers come around all the time with fresh beverages and they don't spend a lot of time bothering you with decisions to make. They just get in, and get out and leave you to enjoy your company.

After everyone is finished, they start the play. This time, we saw Chicago. The musical play, not the musical group. Both are great in their won ways, but they are not similar at all.

All in all, it was a really good experience. I recommend you try it if you like good service, food and plays. Take it back from the seniors! This should be a thing for all ages!

Beef and Boards

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Part 2: Cake: my heroic journey and epic escape from the clutches of doom

All the town screamed. Some in terror and some cackling with delight. There was nothing to be seen in the darkness. Nothing but Wizard Fire cascading through the heavens.

The lights returned suddenly, and lo and behold, on the stage was none other than the Sorceress Metric and her three musical minions. They had crept in under the cover of darkness, for if the guards had seen them, they would have put up a grand exposition and denied their entry.

She began her sorcery. It was like that of another land. Like German pop, 80's synth, psychedelic Pink Floyd songs of walls. Though much better than I am able to describe. Their spell fell like a mist over those taking shelter in the theater. Then suddenly, many lights, geometric in their ways shone throughout the structure. They danced in the air like magic, for magic they were indeed.

Then the rains died down and the atmosphere seemed less threatening than it had just prior to the blackout. The Sorceress and her minions had done what they came to do. The hour grew late and the event seemed to be drawing to an end. Would we get to see Cake this cold rainy night, or was our journey all for naught? It was already past the hour that these events usually subsided and weary travelers made their way back to their home lands.

The lights rose to normal proportions though the sun had already set. many theatre employs scuttled to the stage to bring out sound amplifying gadgets and strange doobly instruments. They even hanged an elaborate tapestry in honor of the Fellowship of Cake. Cake would play this night!

Oh joyous noise! The crowd cheered for them as they finally arrived. They made haste and played the most popular songs out of their expansive repertoire. They must finish by the stroke of midnight, or face massive consequences from the town ordinance.

Half way through, they made pause and gave the gift of a tree to a stranger. The greatest honor one could hope to receive from persons hailing from the land of Iconoclast. From music to life.

After they finished, my party made our weary trek home. Running into more, but minimal rain. Where I wrote in my internet diary,

"My friends and I went to a Cake concert featuring the Wombats and Metric. It changed venues last minute, and the thunderstorm caused a nearly two hour delay. But it was awesome!"

The End
Part 1

Monday, September 10, 2012

Part 1: Cake: my heroic journey and epic escape from the clutches of doom

I had just returned from the mystic land of Dragon*con when I was first offered the invitation. The musical fellowship of Cake was requesting audience in the nearby Park of White River State. I had eagerly accepted this invitation as I have often been told of their great works, and had borne witness to a variety of their more popular pieces. Fast following my acceptance of the invitation, I had begun the time of planning for the travelling of this short journey.

All seemed well until my beloved cousin mentioned that he had heard news of Cake's decision to instead hold the event in another land. This seemed preposterous as it was nearly time for my departure. My feathers had been ruffled in my realization that this news held true, and Cake would indeed be presenting their fine arts in the distant land of Klipsch. 

My cousin and I decided to band together along with his new and former housemates and a white mage to ensure our safe travel to the distant land. The road to which was long and littered with many other weary travelers' homeward bound quests, which would prove to make our adventure quite perilous indeed. 

Whilst on the road we told many tales, and pondered on the reasonings why the fellowship of Cake had made this last minute decision to change our destination. Could it be that this was all a ruse to confuse the enjoyers of Cake? Was this some dastardly ploy? Was the Cake a lie? Perhaps the evil anti-Cake, the Chocolate Cake, was just out to make our merriments full of despair. They would be sure to sing quite the opposite of the songs that we had grown to know well. We felt insistent that at our journey's end we should find not our beloved bardic fellowship, but instead a baked good with yet a single candle and the signature face of a troll. 

With ominous clouds billowing overhead we reached the modest Castle of Klipsch wherein presided many a meadery, pubs, and outlets for clothing goods. In the midst, stood the Grand Theatre of Klipsch. To enter into the town we were one by one subjugated to a mild search of our persons. Guards carefully checked our pockets and purses for any means or gadgets by which villains might cause harm to their otherwise law abiding patrons and guests. 

Once inside our party made way to the theatre where we were to choose our seating arrangements for the remainder of the night. Every seat was quite good. We were pleased that on the stage we saw no sign of baked goods. Many of our fears had melted away when we were reassured that the fellowship of Cake were in the vicinity and would be performing that night. 

I for one, was delighted to find out that not only were we to experience the arts of Cake, but we were also about to witness the foreign oddities of Wombat, a bardic band from the other side of the world hailing from Liverpool, and named for the exotic creature presiding in lands down under. Liverpooleans must be strange indeed as I am convinced that The Wombats are actually marsupialous wombats who are dressed as human men dressed in women's skinny pants. 

Alas, the Wombats proved to be evil wizards. Their enchanting tunes brought forth the storm of all storms. The ominous clouds from before turned the skies as black as night and rolled over blocking the sun from horizon to horizon. The cold hateful winds blew away the castle flags and leaves of trees into the theatre and onto every patron. Thunder and lightning threatened us from every direction. The local towns folk hurried to cover their most valuable structures and items from the impending rains.

Tears fell from the heavens in a monsoonious downpour. The sound of the drops from the clouds could be likened to that of dark soldiers marching into the castle. The lightning was a mighty fire breathing dragon. Fellow travelers scattered for their individual camps just outside the castle walls as others took cover under the faulty shelter provided by the theatre. The air grew colder and the rain dampened my garments. I put my thoughts to warmer days as I shivered under the pavilion. I should have thought to bring my overcoat. Then suddenly, the lights went out. 

End Part 1
Part 2

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Linkin Park and Incubus at Honda Civic Tour

So I attended the Honda Civic tour at the Klipsch venue last night. I was super excited to see Incubus and Linkin Park.

I had never seen Incubus before and so many of my friends who have seen them play a live show have told me that it was the best concert they had ever seen. "life changing!". Well, I don't know what happened, but it was not really that good. After a short opening act by Mutemath, Incubus went on second. It was still bright daylight. Usually the big acts don't start playing until the sun goes down. So I was pretty caught off guard when I heard them start to play while I was in line to enter the contest to win the awesome Honda Civic SI.

After Incubus was done, it took Linkin Park about 45 minutes to set up their set. They had a lot of pyrotechnics, and a projector show, and a pretty elaborate stage set up, so I can see why it took so long. The bad part was that they usually play music between sets, but instead of that, they just re-played a couple commercials about Linkin Park, and the Honda SI they were giving away. When they finally stopped all that and started playing music - The Beastie Boys - people actually cheered. It was kinda funny.

The Linkin Park set was pretty good. They played all the old music, and a lot of new music too. So even people like me, who stopped following them after Meteora, could have a good time. At one point during their second or third song, the loud speakers for the lawn section gave out, and they were out for a good minute, but when they came back up, they didn't seem to have any more problems for the rest of the night. The visuals for the show were pretty neat. I'm pretty sure Mike Shinoda had something to do with them because he's into that whole graffiti art thing.

Linkin Park was good, but the thing that really bothered me about the whole night was that nobody seemed all that enthusiastic about them at all. Usually you can take a look at the crowd on the lawn, and see some pits, or at the very least people jumping around. Strangely, it looked like nothing but a sea of zombies.

I didn't let that stop me and my friends from having a good time though! I just wish that one day, Linkin Park will play with Korn again.

Bcast Episode 1 Companion

Here are some links to all the stuff we talked about during this episode.

Sega Stuff Podcast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF48RvNEHCs

From The Ponder Couch
http://pondercouch.blogspot.com/

 Lloyd Kaufman wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Kaufman

 All I need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger
http://www.amazon.com/about-Filmmaking-Learned-Toxic-Avenger/dp/0425163571

 Troma
http://www.troma.com/

 Cannibal The Musical
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iqtP0fR07M

 South Park Studios
http://www.southparkstudios.com/

 Ernest Scared Stupid
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101821/

 Army of Darkness
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106308/

 Rocky Horror
http://www.rockyhorror.com/

 Mystery Science Theater 3000
http://www.mst3k.com/

Age of Consent Map
http://tinyurl.com/8bbbh3c
Alferd Packer story
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alferd_Packer

Evil Dead 2
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092991/

Sam Raimi
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000600/

The Hobbit
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/
Bruce Campbell
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0132257/

Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way
http://www.amazon.com/Make-Love-Bruce-Campbell-Way/dp/0312312601

Bubba Ho-Tep
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281686/

Alien Apocalypse
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404756/

Reasons for Guys to see Titanic
http://www.examiner.com/article/18-reasons-why-titanic-is-not-a-chick-flick

Kevin Smith
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003620/

Clerks
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109445/

Clerks 2
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424345/

Dogma
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120655/

JossWhedon
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923736/

Cabin in the Woods
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259521/

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Holy Shit! Linkin Park and Incubus

i realized last night while making the podcast that today i am going to the linkin park and incubus concert. i guess that's what happens when you have your tickets for 3 months. pro tip: do not forget about concerts that you've already purchased tickets for. will write all about it when i get home :)

Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Mike and Malaria make a podcast

Thought it would be fun to make a podcast with Mike. So we did.

Search for Bcastcult on itunes or subscribe on the website bcastcult.com

In it, we talk about B movies and normal movies and stuff. It's pretty cool.

We're still trying to figure out the whole podcasting/hosting thing. It's not nearly as easy as Youtube is for videos. I wish Google had a podcast hosting app.