Sunday, January 21, 2007

We have such sights to show you!

Alternate Hellraiser related blog title: We'll tear your blog apart...

So yeah, our unhealthy fascination with Clive Barker's Hellraiser has reared it's twisted head once again. Apparently there's work being done on a remake (zomg), look forward to it ladies and gentlemen, if this film stays true to the original, we'll all be in for a hell(raiser) of a ride.

I'll be honest, I can barely think and writing this seems... unnatural, words seem to have a hard time flowing. I can attribute this all to the fact that someone in the other room is drilling a hole (I can only assume) very, very loudly. Why? Well, I'm not sure, it's not even that late, but it's dark outside and that should be enough, damnit! Man, it's way worse than that though, I can FEEL the sound violently working its way into every damn crevice of my brain. But, I'm sure we all have our own problems, so I digress...

There's unrest in the internet, my friends. Case in point, this little gem right here: http://music.ign.com/articles/755/755929p1.html. For whatever reason, IGN feels the need to represent itself as a leading authority in every possible facet of life. Man, I can't even wrap my head around this one. "Hey, let's watch a couple of specials on the history of metal, read some wikipedia articles and make a list on something we have no right touching (Franics' virginity?)." Someone issue a fucking restraining order between IGN and metal. If "When you think of death metal, you think of Sweden. When you think of Sweden's death metal scene, you must always start with Opeth. They are the Metallica of the genre..." is a legitimate, admissible sentence in your mind, you should be ruthlessly hung like the dictators before you as Dismember and At the Gates defecate upon your precious Opeth albums. Nuff said.

This thing is slowly turning into a novel (novella), so I'll try to wrap it up. Francis is working on the webcomic, for the first time in two weeks, and we're working on making notes for the new show (first one of the new year OMG). New artists on The Gene and Mike Show band wagon include Hordes of Yore and Mistur. Stick around, if you will, we have such sights to show you!

Did you catch that thing I did at the end there,
Mike

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Forests in Fire and Gold

I know I'm a little late to give y'all a Christmas present but if you're Ukrainian like me (I'm looking at you Nokturnal Mortum and Drudkh!) then that's only a couple of days so Happy Holidays everyone! And a *little extra something for the Jews ; )

*Man I remember reading about Valfar's brother being buff in reviews of the Sognametal show but damn I was not expecting Brock Lesnar in corpse paint! I guess that whole football thing didn't work out for him...

2006 was quite the year in The Gene and Mike Show's history (arguably the best history). Specifically it was our first, but it was oh so much more. Remember that time Yngwie J. Malmsteen dropped into episode 5 for an interview? Or the blog heralding Dinobot's linguistic majesty? If you don't you better go back and relive the magick because 2007 is here and it should hold more action then you can shake a stick at (excuse my graphic language). A new podcast episode should be uploaded shortly and a webcomic is already in the early stages of development. Watch the hilarity unfold at Francis' new art blog Baptised in Fire and Rice (We still love the Bathory puns here, especially those that exploit racial stereotypes?). The webcomic will be titled A Toast to Civility and Restraint, as Francis failed to mention in his vague and sexually provocative ramblings, and we have plenty of sketches we're dying to show internet.

Now if you'll excuse me I believe I hear the call of my Slavonic blood,
Gene "I hope I didn't come off like a National Socialist" Parmesan

EDIT
Uggg, this new color scheme is like sex for your eyes...

Stream Episode 11 (Remember to use quicktime or realplayer not windows media player like I wrote last post! Don't make me repeat myself!)

Sexy Flash Player

-Mike (probably could've used sex or sexy a couple more times)