Boing Boing's Holiday Gift Guide part six: DVDs and CDs
Here's the final installment in this year's Boing Boing holiday gift guide: a compendium of the top sellers from the last year's reviews. Today we wrap up with DVDs and one CD.
Don't miss the previous installments: kids' stuff, fiction, gadgets, comics and nonfiction.
Freakazoid - The Complete First Season
The best TV cartoon since the Max Fleischer era, on DVD
Original Boing Boing post
Tekkon Kinkreet
Absolutely extraordinary comic fuses manga and French comics in a story of violence and lost boys in a surreal Japanese cityscape
Original Boing Boing post
DAVE MCKEAN'S KEANOSHOW
Surreal gorgeous short videos on DVD
Original Boing Boing post
Masters of Science Fiction: The Complete Series
Stephen Hawking hosts a science fiction TV show
Original Boing Boing post
Alphabutt
(Kimya Dawson)
Weird, jangly, hilarious awesome music for kids
Original Boing Boing post
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I really would like to add Lafitte's Return volumes 1-4 from Pirates for the Preservation of New Orleans Music. Each volume collects a variety of pirate music artists including Ska, Techno, Metal, traditional, and even a song about the phreaker Captain Crunch. Each CD is over 79 minutes long and has a minimum of 20 tracks.
The proceeds from the CD sales go towards buying musical instruments for the New Orleans public schools. You can read more about the charity, as well as get more information about the CDs, at www.PPNOM.org
In the vein of awesome kids music, I'd highly recommend The Terrible Twos. It's a sweet acoustic/folk based songs for kids from Matt Pryor of 90's emo sensation The Get Up Kids.
www.myspace.com/theterribletwosband
Released their second CD this past July and it's fantastic! Highly recommended.
Did anyone actually like Masters of Sci-Fi?
I thought it was terrible.
Freakazoid is awesome, but The Venture Brothers is spectacular.
The one episode of Masters of Sci-Fi I saw was obvious and overwrought. It did not inspire me to watch any more episodes.
And I second the nod to The Venture Brothers. Full of awesome.
ventures, yes. but don't forget :aqua teen hunger force, 12 oz. mouse, drinky crow, or my personal fave: metalacalypse. dethklok rulez!`
How could you leave off Avatar: The Last Airbender, the third season box set of which was just released this year?
That is one amazing show. It starts slowly, but after the midpoint of the first season, you won't believe it's "just another kid's show."
I think this might be a sign of impending dementia. I was dumbfounded when Masters of Science Fiction showed up in the original post, but I had charitably assumed that Cory had gotten excited about the prospect of a show "hosted" (if you can call it that) by Stephen Hawking before he actually had an opportunity to view the wretched thing. Now here it is again on a holiday gift guide. WTF?
No, please for the love of all that is holy, do not get this DVD set for anyone that you care about. It is pure awfulness packed into a box. If you have to get a gift for an annoying co-worker because your office insists on a forced holiday gift exchange, and you run across a bargain-binned Masters of SF, then by all means go nuts. Otherwise, do yourself a favor and take a pass.
I think you need to add at least one more copy of the comic book Tekkon Kinkreet to this list of DVDs and CDs.
Isaac: I think you need to add at least one more copy of the comic book Tekkon Kinkreet to this list of DVDs and CDs.
I basically came here to say this. That's only three copies so far. I think they need to have at least five. ;)
Now hold on just a minute there, Cory. Unless you are in the incredibly privileged position of having been sent a pre-release copy of Keanoshow, you're talking about something that doesn't exist, at least as a purchasable item. My understanding (gleaned from Googling the web, in which all truth resides!) is that the release was cancelled, after having been already postponed several times. Consequently you're recommending a gift item we can't actually buy anywhere. Really useful, matey! Actually, it's also rubbing salt in a wound, since I've been eagerly awaiting Keanoshow ever since its imminent release was first rumoured, a year or two ago. Anyone know the full story behind the non-release, and whether it ever WILL be released?
pvincent: Anyone know the full story behind the non-release, and whether it ever WILL be released?
I was at a Graveyard Book signing last month, and I got chatting to Dave McKean's wife, who is possibly the nicest woman in the world. I've been waiting for Keanoshow too, and when I mentioned it she told me it's all manufactured and ready to go, but is delayed because of a rights issue. Something to do with a Django Reinhardt song, iirc. She seemed pretty frustrated about it.
There are a few copies of Keanoshow available online on Alibris.com.