Feeling lethargic on this fine Friday morning I had the good fortune to come across this new video for “Omstart” by Keigo Oyamada a.k.a. Cornelius. Calling this mellow would be an understatement and in many ways the song is almost a backdrop for the simplistic, yet highly effective visuals. All in all, it fit my mood perfectly.

Cornelius Omstart music video [YouTube] : TV in Japan

Same deal as last time, gentlemen: you find me in the heaving crowd, I’ll do you up an Octobee, on the house. (clue: my hair is mintyblonde, and I will be dressed as a biplane-hijacking escapee from Mad Max’s personal bellydancing troupe)

This is Bong-Ra’s first US tour, and he’s augmented by a lineup of excellence including Pneumatic Detach, and Enduser, craftsman of one of my and Qais’ all-time favorite albums, Bollywood Breaks.

Ectofriend DJ Intoner, who put the show together, will be spinning between sets.

In case you, my treasured readership, are not yet familiar with Bong-Ra, allow me to advance the notion that he is fucking insane:

As for the rest of the cast, just click your dainty pointers below to be bathed in the relevant phat beats.

Bong-Ra pre-show tickets available [DNA Lounge]

Those Alpha-Centauri cluster bastards didn’t know who they were messing with when they absconded with little Jimbles McGüllohanie. You see, Little Jimbles was the latest in a long line of abductees, a paternal legacy of ending up on the business end of an alien probe worn smooth as a riverbed stone by centuries of scientific investigation.

It’s no surprise then that he was hell-bent on being the first man in his family to go his whole life without suffering the indignity of obscene extraterrestrial curiosity; it was his only ambition from the very moment he’d learned his family’s dark secret. The day those space hopping fuckers stole his dream from him (and subsequently his anal virginity) they spelled their own doom. As you can see by his brutal arsenal of alien destruction, Jimbles aims to take his vengeance through the skin.

jmmmmmmmmmmmn [Babyart]

Earlier this week, Weird Tales and oft adored Ectomo favorite Steven Archer began a year long art project that is certain to end in non-euclidean tragedy. Each day, Weird Tales will reveal a new Lovecraftian piece created by Steven — all of which are for sale at obscenely low rates — ending the project once the Earth has completed its annual drunken wobble ’round the Sun.

While I’d love to see this project completed it seems unrealistic not to expect some kind of massive psychological break resultant from spending each day rendering the various visages of creatures that inhabit the noplace between worlds. On day 360 I’m blowing town for the arctic. A five day head start should be just enough time to get out of the path of the octo-godlet that, even now, grows inside poor Steven’s head.

Some pieces from Rika Eguchi’s The Last Supper featured in the “How To Cook Docomodake?” exhibition in New York held in October of last year.

Photos tagged Docomodake [Flickr] uploaded by watz : Pink Tentacle : ectochat : Thanks, Mable!

From the Spanish television series Cruz y raya.com comes “Los Simpsons”, a skit in which the comedy duo paint themselves yellow, slap giant fake eyes on their faces, and pretend to be Homer and Marge Simpson. The effect is, shall we say, less than comedic.

spanish simpsons funny (WARNING CREEPY STUFF) [YouTube] : Laughing Squid : Cartoon Brew