Geek Force FiveCast 011 (Video)

I took a break from prepping my classes for this week to geek out about the announcement of a three-hour Lost season finale and the arrival of my copy of the physical CD version of Ghosts I-IV by Nine Inch Nails.

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Fett’s Vette Music Video (NSFW)

A music video has surfaced for MC Chris’s “Fette’s Vette,” and Geekologie calls it “okay”. I think it’s a little bit better than “okay,” but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it great. It features clips from Star Wars and a couple of other sci-fi films that MC Chris mentions in the very funny but very not-safe-for-work song.

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Robin Finck Returns to Nine Inch Nails

If the official Nine Inch Nails Flickr stream is to be believed, guitarist Robin Finck has rejoined Nine Inch Nails. The Flickr peanut gallery seems to be very much behind this move. Me, I’m not loving it (yet). While I love Robin Finck, and while he will forever be a part of the “classic” NIN line-up in my mind, I think that the With Teeth-era line-up, the one featuring Aaron North and Jeordie White, put on far more entertaining and far more consistently solid shows than the Finck/Lohner line-up ever did. I challenge you to listen to In This Twilight (Live 2005-2007), the only Nine Inch Nails bootleg you simply need to own, and then tell me that the 2005-2007 version of Nine Inch Nails can ever be topped. These guys played songs like “Heresy” and “Last,” personal favorites of mine that older versions of the band seemed afraid to touch, and they pulled those songs off. They really did.

All that aside, you can be damn sure that I’m going to try my hardest to find the money and the time to see whatever version of the band is on the road this summer. They play the Worcester Centrum DCU Center on August 8. Anyone else going?

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Y Kant Tori Read Comic Books?

Comic Book Resources has a new, vastly-improved layout today, as well as a story on a forthcoming comic book based on the music of Tori Amos. It sounds like it will be very interesting, and maybe even very good.

[Comic Book Tattoo] features no stories that simply illustrate her heavily narrative lyrics. “We didn’t want a book that just had interpretations of the songs; comic book versions of music videos,” Hoseley explained. “It was important to both Tori and I that this stand on its own as a killer set of comic stories regardless of whether you were a fan of Tori’s or, for that matter, if you were even aware of her music. The stories had to be great comic stories first and foremost, and that drove most of the creative and editorial choices.”

The “girls” that will be featured in the collection include “Leather,” “Caught A Light Sneeze,” and one of my personal favorites (yes, because of the backing vocals by Trent Reznor) “Past the Mission.”

It’s being put out by Image Comics and not Marvel, and so therefore doesn’t really fall under the umbrella of my Geek Force Five, but I’m going to file this one under Marvel Comics anyway, just because I can, and because it makes more sense there than under Geek Force Reserves.

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Ryan Seacrest To Host Three-Way

Editor’s Note: In case the date-stamp didn’t make it clear, this article was part of GF5’s April Fool’s Day Joke for 2008.

Ryan Seacrest will host a special three-way American Idol competition, Geek Force super-spies have learned. The competition will be between Sarah Silverman, Jimmy Kimmel, and Elizabeth Banks, each of whom has made a splash in the music industry this year with their “I’m Fucking So-and-So” songs. Silverman, of course, started the trend with “I’m Fucking Matt Damon.” Kimmel shot back at Silverman with “I’m Fucking Ben Affleck.” And Banks trumped the both of them by proclaiming loudly and proudly, “I’m Fucking Seth Rogen.”

Producers are in talks with Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson, and Paula Abdul to reprise their roles as absolutely horrid judges of American musical talent.

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