Sergio

A gothy holiday tree originally posted by @suodrazah@lemmy.world to !pics@lemmy.world

This is a cover of a song by Slade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Xmas_Everybody apparently The Cure played it at the end of a concert in London in 1987.

via Dani Sanchez on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/115743391777612805

(I still haven't figured out the best way to cross-post from mastodon !?!)

It's the holiday season!!! Time to listen to seasonal music from ICP:

1. "Santa's a Fat Bitch"
2. "Red Christmas"
3. "Santa Killas"
4. "It's Coming"

track listing from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Carnival_Christmas

EP link (full album): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOM_-alKo2U

Source: https://lemmy.zip/post/54999577

cross-posted from: !diy@slrpnk.net - check out that community for various projects and building/fixing stuff. In this case they were going for a LOTR/Mordor vibe but totally nailed a gothic aesthetic.

original text by @grober_Unfug@discuss.tchncs.de :

I felt like some kind of “what would a Christmas tree in Mordor look like” vibe. So I made one. My first attempt at a tiny bit of “terrain building”, with a very limited colour palette: black and grey.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/35577078

In 1993, estranged Street Fighters Ryu and Ken Masters are thrown back into combat when the mysterious Chun-Li recruits them for the next World Warrior Tournament: a brutal clash of fists, fate, and fury. But behind this battle royale lies a deadly conspiracy that forces them to face off against each other and the demons of their past. And if they don't, it's GAME OVER!

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1153576-street-fighter

The trailer's in French, but it's pretty obvious what's going on.

cross-posted from: !trailers@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Original title (FR): Astérix - Le Royaume de Nubie (Asterix: The Kingdom of Nubia)

The irreductible Gauls are turned into harmless children after a rare youth elixir accidentally ends up into the magic potion. To find the antidote and save the village from the Romans attack, Asterix and Obelix embark on a crazy journey to the far away Kingdom of Nubia.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1084728-asterix-le-royaume-de-nubie

The obvious comparison is Napoleon Dynamite since it has Jon Heder in it and a cast of quirky characters. The trailer makes it look at least moderately amusing. Tho apparently this movie went for a couple years without a distributor, after showing at a film festival a couple years back. And it looks like now it's only playing at one theater in LA? JustWatch says it's streaming on Amazon and Plex. Doesn't seem to be legally available outside the US. Anyway this movie is obviously bombing as a quirky indy, the only question is does it have what it takes to be a cult B-movie.

"Sometimes the crazy thing and the right thing are the same thing." Foggy Bottom Pictures has revealed a new official trailer for their kooky comedy film titled Tapawingo made by director Dylan K. Narang. After sitting on hold for a few years, this funky indie comedy is finally being released on VOD this December. It premiered at the 2023 Virginia & Dances With Films Festivals but was never released until now. Tapawingo stars Jon Heder, best known as Napoleon Dynamite, channeling that same quirkiness for this character. An oddball becomes the bodyguard for a misfit teenager and finds himself in the crosshairs of the town's family of bullies. Heder plays Nate – when he discovers Oswalt is the subject of relentless bullying at school, he assembles a team of misfits forming an unconventional security detail. The cast includes Jay Pichardo, Kim Matula, Sawyer Williams, George Psarras, Paul Psarras, Amanda Bearse, Chad Dukes, John Ratzenberger, along with Gina Gershon and Billy Zane.

https://www.firstshowing.net/2025/jon-heder-takes-on-bullies-in-zany-comedy-tapawingo-trailer/

Cross-posted from !trailers@lemmy.blahaj.zone Original post text:

An oddball becomes the bodyguard for a misfit teenager and finds himself in the crosshairs of the town's family of bullies.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/900407-tapawingo

This is different from the one posted last month.

Don't ever forget the true meaning of Thanksgiving:

And I saw a beast rising out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads
And a blasphemous name upon its head
And the beast that I saw was like a leopard
Its feet were like a bear's
And its mouth was like a lion's mouth

And to it the dragon gave his power, and his throne, and great authority
One of his heads had a mortal wound
But it seemed to have a mortal wound that was healed
And the whole earth followed the beast with wonder

cross-posted from: !trailers@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Concert film of The Cure’s November 1st (2024) performance at London’s Troy.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1573225-the-cure-the-show-of-a-lost-world

The November Sumo tourney day 9 (of 15) just finished a couple hours ago! Like last tourney I plan to post something here around the beginning, middle, and end of the tourney. You are encouraged to post whenever else you want!

Here's how you can watch the tourney:

Live / Replay:

• try searching on twitch, there are usually at least 3 different streamers providing live video feeds with English commentary, and it's fun to have a community to chat with in real time. The top Makuuchi matches start around 3am US Eastern Time though. At least one of the streamers does replays all day, usually of the entire day (including lower ranks).

Video Clips:

• youtuber DonDon makes a daily video of the "best 10" matches listed in English with replays including on-screen English analysis; those are listed here: https://www.youtube.com/@dondonsumo2/videos Besides the "best 10" of the top Makuuchi tier, DonDon also makes a "best 5" of the second Juryo tier.
• NHK makes a daily video that has all the top-tier Makuuchi bouts with English spoken commentary. This video is replayed on their web site several times during the following day (kind of like an old-fashioned TV station); you can see the schedule here: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/ look for "Grand Sumo highlights." After a day of scheduled replays, the video is put up for "on demand" access here: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/sumo/ and (possibly with additional delay) here: https://www.youtube.com/@NHKWORLDJAPAN/videos
• NHK immediately posts individual videos of each bout listed in Japanese with Japanese commentary. They are also re-doing their Japanese website... I THINK that to see the latest videos you look here: https://www.nhk.jp/g/ts/Z8WRRJ9K96/blog/bl/pm1VNbJpWQ/bp/pExrRxao2y/ and click on the topmost link that says "NHK ONE", it should look like this:

Click "I understand" to acknowledge that you're not in Japan (lel) and then scroll down til you see this button:

it might look like this:

click on that and you should see all the videos?!

• JSA immediately posts individual videos of each of the highest-ranked 10+ matches listed in Japanese with no commentary, here: https://www.youtube.com/@sumo-video/videos
• For the listings in Japanese, try automated translations if there's a lot of text. Alternately, look for something like: 9月14日 which in this case refers to the 9th month and the 14th day (September 14th). Automated translation doesn't work that well on sumotori names, but this is a great opportunity to learn them by sight! (The JSA web site has pictures of them all.)

Text Info in English:

• all results and standings and next-day schedule by sumodb
• results and more info from the JSA
• daily writeups by The Mainichi
• for commentary, see the tachiai fan site

Intro to Sumo

• introductory video
• more English-language intro videos at NHK's Sumopedia
• the wikipedia article has a lot of great information including on sumo terms.

SPOILERS OK IN COMMENTS!!?!!