Fair Use Law Season 4

More Good Music You Should Know About: Innerpartysystem's American Trash

2011-04-19T13:22:00.000-04:00

Here at Fair Use Law we like to share with you the greatest music videos floating just under the radar. So when a chance comes to feature a band for a second time thanks to a catchy song and an inventive video premise, we jump on that chance. Innerpartysystem's second EP, Never Be Content, was just released and with it the first single's music video -- American Trash. Keep watching as things progressively get more awesome as the seconds tick by:

Episode 424 - "Welcome To The Hometown Buffet Of My Armageddon"

2011-03-05T19:07:00.003-05:00

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: Episode 242 of the Fair Use Law Podcast. The reunited Triceratops Tribunal huddle up in the secret dungeon of podcasting to discuss a variety of topics including the real person who's WINNING in this Charlie Sheen mess, a thorough review of all geek-centric TV shows on broadcast TV today, the worst thing you could ever see while lasertagging, and Natalie Portman becoming this generation's Murphy Brown. All this and more Netflix movie recommendations made fresh to order just for you.

This week on the podcast, we continued our WINNING streak of recommending new Netflix Instant films for you to peruse. This week's selection was the super low budget but ultra high quality indie love story-cum-alien invasion movie, Monsters:

This week also marked the joyous re-reunion of my DVD of Cloverfield and my person. To celebrate I give you a video that only I might get, but if you are crazy enough to figure out what it is, you will love me for it. I give you "It's a Lion!"

Hulk Hogan angered the WWE this week by announcing that his good friend the "Mouth from the South" Jimmy Hart was returning to Wrestlemania to manage Jerry the King Lawler before the WWE itself could. Does Jimmy Hart managing Lawler sound odd to you? It might because you remember the #1 smash hit of the 80s: Wimpbusters!

And finally this week we discuss the recent Oscar win of Trent Reznor and his musical heterosexual life partner Atticus Ross. While I hate posting videos from You Tube that are just music with a slideshow, this video for the band Error's Homicide shows various pics of the CD itself. Marvel at how it's both a mini-CD and a regular sized CD at the same time, thereby making it the most powerful CD of all:

Good Music You Should Know About - Innerpartysystem (again)

2011-03-01T19:19:00.001-05:00

It's always my pleasure to share with you new music videos from bands that might somehow find themselves off your radar. One such video is the new visuals added to the Innerpartysystem single "American Trash," bringing with it a motif not unlike Orgy's Stitches but with a bit of a 2011 touch:

Episode 423 - "I Awoke In Some Kind Of Depeche Mood"

2011-02-28T11:58:00.002-05:00

Welcome to the octagon that is Fair Use Law episode 423! This week the triceratops tribunal receive manna from heaven in the form of Charlie Sheen's escapades which is just begging for a recap. We also discuss the unfortunate circumstances of reviewing Grindhouse movies, the shock rock of new wave, Alex Jones singing our favorite childhood anthems, and what movies you can willingly one star on Netflix. All this and the weirdest hentai subtitle translation of all time!

We start things off with a bit of a music video oddity. In the early 80s, Alice Cooper was too drunk to remember what his image was. So with a little help from some friendly neighborhood synthesizers, he released one of the greatest underappreciated synthpop CDs, Flush the Fashion, with its single "Clones (We're All)," which has since been covered by the likes of Smashing Pumpkins, Penal Colony, Bile, and others:

Also discussed and recommended this week was the 1995 cyberpunk thriller "Strange Days," directed by Katheryn Bigelow and written by her ex-husband James Cameron. It's recently been added to Netflix Instant, so there's no reason to avoid it:

And, if you learn anything from episode 423, let it be that Honeycomb Big, yeah yeah yeah, as big as a GIANT:

Episode 420 - "Why Would ACME Make Such A Product?"

2011-02-06T14:43:00.003-05:00

Welcome back my friends to the podcast that is buried under 3 feet of pure ice. This week on Fair Use Law, the recently thawed out Triceratops Tribunal discuss the coming Super Bowl and it's effective male repulsion, the horrible invention that is Pajama Jeans, the sad realization that the live action Smurf movie is definitely happening, a flashback to an ironic flag football injury, and help a listener with a Steampunk concern. All this and Glenn Beck vs. a Stegosaurus on episode 420!

How are you going to celebrate this Porn Sunday? The XXX Church has a few ideas of things you probably shouldn't be doing ~~but will totally be doing anyways~~:

When you are done with all your Porn Sunday "activities," what's the best way to lounge around the house and recoup? Pajama Jeans, of course! They are as fashionably as real jeans and as low class and tacky as pajama pants.

With the Black Eyed Peas as Halftime entertainment for the big game, you have to wonder just who they turned down to settle on such a pick. If they are truly desperate for someone next year, may I recommend Ray Stevens, of the Streak fame. Not only are all his songs as universally awful as "Time Of My Life (Dirty Bit)," they are all vaguely racist against Muslims and full of pigheaded crazy-conservative conspiracy theories and doublespeak. Put him onstage with Toby Keith and we have a show America can be proud of:

Want to avoid Porn Sunday and/or football all together? Why not spend the Lord's Day the way God intended: by gawking over Bai Ling's incredibly weird nipples. There's no better place to do so in than with the Cyberpunk Direct-To-DVD "classic" Gene Generation:

If you are a University with access to an animation studio and Tetsuo the Iron Man director Shinya Tsukamoto, who wouldn't attempt to make a short viral clip to help promote your campus? I'm sure the follow clip will tell you all you need to know about the Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Italy:

And lastly, a very rare and a very backstage glimpse into the makings of a Wrestlemania. This year's big rasslin' event will take place in the Georgia Dome, and they just posted the following video on YouTube showing the WWE's pyrotechnic artists running some tests fireworks off to see what they could get away with on the field. Warning: it could get loud:

Good Music You Should Know About - Society Burning

2011-01-10T22:36:00.001-05:00

There are a few things we love here at Fair Use Law: video games, excellent youtube videos that pay tribute to nostalgia, and industrial music. It's pretty rare when we can post a music video that features all three tastes tasting great together. I present to you Society Burning's new music video, Nausea ad Neauseam, off their first CD in years, Internal Combustion:

Episode 416 - "Rec 2? Damn Near Killed 'Em!"

2010-12-28T00:12:00.002-05:00

Happy Snowflake Day, Fair Users, and welcome to the 16th episode of Fair Use Law case file #4! This week we've got the four-square Triceratops Tribunal in the studio for a special Christmas/end of the year wrap-up edition of the podcast. Topics discussed are the ultimate hatred for New Years party glasses, females complaining about painful sex, accidentally showing your friend pornography, and the horrors of mixing a little kid, Attention Deficit Disorder, a sharp pencil, and a poor teacher's eye. All this and we discuss our favorite movies, TV shows, and CDs of 2010 for your approval!

This week on the podcast I brought the knowledge with the obscure trivia of one hit wonder (by design) KLF side project the Timelords and their manufactured hit tribute to Doctor Who, Doctorin' The Tardis. Here they are on Top of the Pops, miming a performance that includes Gary Glitter samples and Daleks. What more do you want for nothing?

"KLF?" you might be asking, "Why does that band name sound so familiar?" Well, you are probably confusing them with KMFDM like most people do. If that's not it, though, perhaps you remember their few 90s dance techno hits in the US, like 3 AM Eternal:

What happens when Mel Gibso... wait, I mean a man Mel Gibson is playing crosses over the mental event horizon and can no longer communicate freely with the ones he loves? Well, if he was in the upcoming Jodie Foster directed movie the Beaver, he'd talk with a Beaver hand puppet and wouldn't be instantly institutionalized like a real person would be if he attempted something this insane:

Also this week we wrapped up the year 2010 with our favorite movie, video game, and music picks. My pick this year for best CD without a doubt, #1 with a bullet, was Everything Goes Cold - Vs. General Failure. A great mix of perfectly produced and mixed industrial rock with insane samples and some tongue-in-cheek lyrics, it's the perfect CD to listen to while speeding through traffic. Need more convincing? Here they are at the legendary DNA Lounge performing their epic song FAIL:

Sonic The Hedgehod Can Be A Dick Sometimes

2010-12-21T22:07:00.003-05:00

The famous underwater levels of almost every Sonic the Hedgehog game can be the bane of gamers too spastic to wait for a large air bubble. But what about poor sidekick to the blue blur himself, Tails?

Take a Yogi Bear CG Movie And End It Better!

2010-12-13T21:25:00.000-05:00

What's the only way to salvage the travesty to mankind that is the new CGI/Live Action hybrid Yogi Bear Movie? Remake the ending using the Assassination of Jesse James as an influence:

Video Game Music Sorbet - Mickey Mania

2010-12-11T22:44:00.000-05:00

Every Saturday here at the Fair Use Law Magical Castle, we like to sit in a giant tea cup and eat delicious creamy treats in the shape of Mickey Mouse ears while listening to the best video game music of yesteryear. With Epic Mickey arriving and either rocking your world to its very core or just being the best Nintendo 64 platformer released this decade, what better time to flash back to the days of the Sega CD and the underrated and often forgotten gem that was Mickey Mania:

Good Music You Should Know About - Eisbrecher

2010-12-06T21:46:00.003-05:00

What would Rammstein sound like if they had a bit of a more electronic, almost 90s europop synth section and vocal harmonies, ala Ace of Bass? Well, thankfully the band Eisbrecher is there to show us the way with their song Schwarze Witwe, and the way is hypnotically catchy:

Pizza Power Fight!

2010-12-03T20:28:00.002-05:00

It's a Ninja Turtle tale as old as time: who gets the first case of pizza power in TMNT the Arcade Game? Sometimes it's best to just let the Ninja Turtles talk it out amongst themselves. They did not do that this time, unfortunately:

Episode 413 - "Memory Foam: It's Real Brain Food!"

2010-12-01T19:12:00.002-05:00

Welcome ladies and gentlemen to episode 13 of the 4th Fair Use Law case file as the Triceratops Tribunal is joined for a second week by the Mathemagician Skeesix for a mystical magical tour. This week we discuss the quickest and dumbest way to lose all feeling in one of your appendages while at work, the true meaning behind Alice in Wonderland, the Jay-Z/Freemason conspiracy theory we might have made up out of boredom, and the sad sorry state of the current season of South Park. All this and the movie Jennifer's Body is referenced more times in 90 minutes than it has been in the last two years on this week's podcast!

This week we discussed the less than stellar concert attendance of the band Black Light Burns, a vastly under-appreciated industrial side project starring Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit fame. Here is their video for the song "Lie," a song that probably would still be played on modern rock radio if it were released in 1996:

Last week, during our 100th episode, we discussed the great 90s one hit wonder "Detachable Penis" by King Missle. So consider it kismet that I could find a fan made music video for that song mixed with footage of the show Ugly Americans, which we discuss in this week's venture:

What happens when the colossal Giant Khali, former WWE Champion and Indian movie superstar, meets up with Pamela Anderson on the Indian version of Big Brother? Worlds colliding in ways only Spider-1 from Powerman 5000 could predict, my friends:

Just how long has Fox primetime programming been kind of almost sorta been warning us about impeding natural tragedies in ways almost no sane person can decypher them? We may have never knew if not for the help of whackadoos on Youtube:

And finally we end the show notes for episode 101 in a most awesome fashion: creating a spectacular visual light show using video mapping. In Prague, for a clock tower's 600th birthday, the citizens celebrated with what might be the closest we've gotten to Back to the Future 2's 2015 holographic ads mankind has been able to reach so far:

The 600 Years from the macula on Vimeo.

Every Anime Opening Ever Made

2010-11-30T22:39:00.002-05:00

As much as we love anime here at Fair Use Law Labs, even we can't help but notice the opening sequences of said animated adventures repeating the same tropes over and over again. A sweeping run through a meadow, a random silhouette of one of the female characters nude, a young girl turning her head towards the camera... all of these can be seen in countless animes almost verbatim. Want proof? I give you Exhibit A-Z:

Get Real Japan - Boom Boom Satellites

2010-11-22T13:15:00.002-05:00

Here at Fair Use Law we like to open your eyes to the exotic rock music of the land of the Rising Sun. But sometimes seeing a metal band wearing more make up than most Mariah Carey concerts doesn't hit the spot. It's times like that when we hit up bands like Boom Boom Satellites: an innovative Japanese industrial rock band that cuts out the Glam Rock thrills and adds in a lot of Eastern influences. So influenced by the Nine Inch Nails and the Gary Numans of the world, they even opened up for said Numan on his last US tour to rave reviews. Please to enjoy Easy Action:

Episode 410 - "Mama Cass Said Knock You Out!"

2010-11-12T13:09:00.002-05:00

Oh hai, interwebs! Welcome to episode 410 of the Fair Use Law podcast. Join us as we count down to our upcoming 100th episode as Randy and Dan discuss the sad and pathetic state of trick or treating, how to teach little kids about the reproductive systems through poorly planned Halloween costumes, the correct way to watch Paranormal Activity 2, and being let down by the double bill of Kevin James and Vince Vaughn hosting a comedy tour. All this and we make way too many jokes about Demi Lovato's rehabilitation for "self destructive behavior" just for you!

This week's episode is in tribute of the noble and brave Soldier A:

This week we recapped the recent Halloween shindigs and various goings on that we took part of. And while other podcasts and websites might harp on or criticize the trend of sluttifying female Halloween Costumes, we honor it with the best sexy Halloween costume of all time: WWE's Victoria's sexy Peanut Butter Jelly Time Banana!

Also this week we review and recap a bit of the recently released Paranormal Activity 2. While the movie might have been just what the doctor ordered for us, the sequel could have been so much better if only it had Queen Latifah in it:

A few weeks ago on this very podcast we talked about director Uwe Boll trying to save money by filming both a historical documentary/drama based on Auschwitz and a sequel to Bloodrayne, both using the same sets. Well, apparently he's going for the Hat Trick since he's using the same sets and actors again, this time for... Blubberella. Women, Fair Use Law apologizes on behalf of Uwe Boll's sense of humor:

And finally, I give you the best game you have never played -- Octodad! How does an octopus adjust to fatherhood? How does a player control Octodad when each arm can be used independently of itself? And does this game secretly endorse bestiality?

Video Game Music Sorbet - Lufia

2010-11-06T15:15:00.002-04:00

Every Saturday here at the Fair Use Law blacksmith/loot booth, we like to sit back in our +3 cape with our sword of truth and relax to the music of video game yesteryear. This week we turn our targets to Lufia, a classic RPG that recently got the big production upgrade on the Nintendo DS:

Episode 409 - "I Willed My Uterus Full Of Baby"

2010-11-03T22:55:00.004-04:00

Welcome back friends and well wishers to episode 409 of the Fair Use Law podcast, the all purpose bathroom cleaner episode. This week, the still reunited triceratops tribunal of Dan, Randy, and Baker open the books and read the minutes allowed about the recent coked up fun of Charlie Sheen, the circle of life that was True Life: I'm A Homeschooler, and the exact moment you know you are in the wrong community college. All this and Dan might have been trapped in his own Jigsaw contraption to see Saw 3D this week on the podcast.

This week's podcast is brought to you by Blanka Meter Maids Incorporated:

For you, our viewers, I go to such lengths to include footage shot by director McG of Kirsten Dunst frolicking in a way too short skirt through hentai stores in Akihabara:

True Life: I'm A Homeschooler was a subject of discussion this week, but it surely didn't point out the biggest issue with being homeschooled - your mom as teacher:

What would a horribly incorrect Christian Ska band ode to a homeschooled girl sound like? Especially if it was mixed with footage of Sims 2? I think Band of Believer's Homeschool Girl shows you what's what:

And lastly, the failed Nick at Nite original sitcom Hey Honey, I'm Home was brought up. Little known fact: No Ordinary Family and Dexter hot mom Julie Benz got her start in this very dubious project:

Happy Halloween From Fair Use Law

2010-10-31T12:31:00.004-04:00

Let us celebrate this most sacred of holidays with an in depth investigation on the real issue hitting the American Heartland this October 31st: Monster Parties - Fact or Fiction:

Episode 408 - "Rohypnol Is Certainly A Mindfreak"

2010-10-28T13:17:00.002-04:00

Episode 408 of the Fair Use Law is here and it’s a Graveyard Smash! Join the once again reunited Triceratops Tribunal as we discuss the much vaunted history of Monster Mashes, how to pick up attractive women using Mindfreaks, the hidden dangers of just about every piece of McDonalds food you ever ate, why the Nintendo Entertainment System isn’t known for survival horror, and the terror of canceling Tivo! All this plus more tales of how Dan became the King of Electricity and the biggest monster of them all: Khloe Kardashian.

It's a monster mash! It's also a graveyard smash!

I'm as shocked as you might be that someone not only remembers the NES game Monster Party as much as I do, but they actually did an OC remix of the main theme of the game:

If acoustic remixes of poor NES game theme songs doesn't get you laid, Criss Angel has a mindfreak that just might work for you:

To promote the new Chevrolet in China, some people decided to play real life Pac-Man using the new Cruze. Despite how many ghosts were eaten or how many lives lost, the real winner is us!

Wondering just what kind of candy to give out this Halloween and all out of ideas? Why not swing for the fences and go for the record books with the World's Largest Gummy Worm (and not at all innuendo for a female sexual device in any way, shape, or form!):

Monday Night Smackdown - Botchamania 150

2010-10-25T11:36:00.000-04:00

What better way to unwind after a long weekend of Brock Lesnar being knocked out and Undertaker being buried alive on a PG-rated family friendly Linda McMahon-approved WWE PPV than with a little Botchamania. Celebrating its 150th episode of Sabu falling on his face and Macho Man saying incoherent things, I give you the goods:

Good Music You Should Know About - Plastilina Mosh

2010-10-21T21:55:00.000-04:00

Back in the late 90s, the music press swore up and down that the next big music thing after the grunge invasion would be a wave of techno or electronica bands. Much to the chagrin of synth fans like me, the music listener at large mainly turned their noses up at this movement, instead supporting ska and swing bands. But a few really great alternative rock bands with electronic undercurrents got through, such as the Mexican band Plastilina Mosh with their song "Monster Truck:"

Plastilina Mosh - Monster Truck
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Episode 407 - "Laser Tag - The Most Hateful Of All Sports"

2010-10-20T12:39:00.000-04:00

Welcome back my friends to the podcast that never ends with episode 407 of Fair Use Law. This week we walk the tightrope between making fun of politics without being political as we discuss why a Fry Cook should never run for public office, how to use a publicly traded entertainment company to make friends and influence voters, the WWE’s recently started “Stand Up For WWE” campaign. All this and we throw our support behind the It Gets Better campaign and Presidential Mythbusters while also making fun of Justin Bieber for being intimidated by 12 year olds.

This episode of Fair Use Law is (fake) brought to you by Lazer Tag... now hotter than ever!

With President Obama appearing on a December 8th episode of Mythbusters, what better way to celebrate than with a "Too Hot For Discovery Channel" Myth. In the following footage shown at a Mythbusters panel, Adam and Jamie try to bust the myth that pretty girls do not fart, much to the dismay of female build team member Kari:

I was audibly aghast on this week's podcast that my cohost and producer had never heard of the internet meme video, Kenya, which is the only place to see tigers and lions. Luckily YouTube is here to catch us all up to speed. Warning: this song will get stuck in your head.

One thing every Fair User can agree on is that Sky Line looks to be the movie of the winter season for us sci-fi nerds looking for a quick fix. Here is the latest trailer for said film, featuring excellent alien tentacle glory:

And lastly, let us mourn the loss of the Cox-Arquette marriage with footage of David Arquette joining the ranks of such wrestling greats as Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, and Big Van Vader by winning the WCW World Title:

Inception + Psychonauts = Inceptionauts!

2010-10-19T21:16:00.001-04:00

What do you get when you mix one of the most unlikely bock office smashes of the summer with one of the most critically acclaimed video games of all time? You get something that's bigger than the sum of its parts as we enter the mind of Inceptionauts!

Monday Night Smackdown - Invisible Mysterio

2010-10-18T22:48:00.000-04:00

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you visual evidence of the existence of a wrestling legend known across the sea all the way to the land of the Rising Sun. I'm, of course, talking about Invisible Mysterio, a man known as much for his mystique as for his skill. Even those he has beaten cannot describe what he looks like and often remark that they never saw their prolonged beating coming. Take a look for yourself:

Super Happy Sunday Anime Opening - Soul Eater

2010-10-17T16:43:00.001-04:00

Sunday is the Lord's Day and also the day to rock out to the best anime openings that tickled our peach in the prior week. This week we focus on the awesome opening to the anime Soul Eater, featuring the song "Resonate" by the Fair Use Law-approved J-pop/rock band TM Revolution. Like the song so much to watch the anime? The entire series is currently up on Netflix instant streaming!

Episode 406 - "Swiffer No Swiffing!"

2010-10-15T19:00:00.003-04:00

Welcome ladies and gentlemen to episode 6 of the 4th season of Fair Use Law… take 2! This week the triceratops tribunal learns why the record button is such an integral part of the podcasting process. Also discussed are the recently leaked Deadpool script and the stupidity that followed, the recent hell that broke loose on the View, Michael Lohan’s excellent plan to be Father of the Year, the overwhelming disappointment that comes with meeting your favorite cartoon characters, and the internet’s undeserved hatred of Dora the Explorer.

Today's episode of the Fair Use Law podcast is brought to you by Vincent Price shilling for Polaroid!

This week we shared in our mutual remembrance of one of the most puzzling gimmicks in WWF history: Akeem the African Dream as managed by all time great manager, the Reverend Slick:

What happens when you mix a Shania Twain song with footage of the long forgotten existence of Venus de Milo, the female Ninja Turtle? You get this music video and the sad fact that you now remember the long forgotten existence of Venus de Milo, the female Ninja Turtle:

Now to close out this week's Fair Use Law episode show notes, we bring you video evidence of just what happens when a Koopa manages to get a star before Mario can get his greasy plumber hands on it:

Monday Night Anime Opening Raw - To Aru Majutsu no Index II

2010-10-11T19:36:00.002-04:00

What better way to celebrate the weekly wrestling and/or football night than with some beautiful Anime openings? This week we highlight the opening to the recently debuted To Aru Majutsu no Index II with its opening theme, "No Buts," which sounds like what Pendulum would sound like if they were an anime opening:

Episode 405 - "I’d Hate To Taste Johnson Flavored Soda"

2010-10-06T20:07:00.002-04:00

Welcome to episode 5 of the Fair Use Law podcast: Season 4. This week we come to you almost live yet soaking wet, buried underneath the watery graves of Captain Basement Flood of the Annoying Pirates. Topics discussed this week include our recent review in Re-Gen Magazine, an atypical outing to see the movie Let Me In, the greatest that No Ordinary Family has become, Wang Chung throwing the ironic cover song gauntlet down, and Nicky Minaj having no clue what anime is. All this and we fulfill a listener’s request to name our own favorite podcasts!

Let's start things off the Wang Chung way tonight with both the performances mentioned this episode from the failed NBC Experiment, Hit My Baby One More Time, including the 80s popstars doing Nelly's Hot In Here:

Also discussed this week was the recently released Let Me In, the star of which is one Chloe Moretz. I'm not exactly sure what the follow video is or why it's on YouTube, but I'm pretty sure we're all on a list now that I posted it:

While its stay in theaters was short and sweet, Hatchet II has won our hearts by being an Unrated movie given even a limited run in a major theater chain like AMC, let along the fact that it's a sequel to a Direct to DVD release. Want to join us in all the retro slasher flick gore fun? Check it out:

On a Snooki from Jersey Shore dating show, would the prize be to never ever get close to Snooki? If not, a Wild Snooki just might appear:

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

And finally, here is a list of some of our favorite comedy podcasts for your listening pleasure: Never Not Funny, Jordan Jesse GO, Pod F Tompkast, the Nerdist, Doug Loves Movies, and the 40 Year Old Boy.

Video Game Music Sorbet - Scott Pilgrim Vs The World: The Game

2010-10-02T13:06:00.003-04:00

Every Saturday at the Fair Use Law 8-bit nostalgia anonymous support group, we like to sit around and reminisce about the time where portions opened doors and playing as Toad wouldn't get you laughed out of a room all while listening to the best video game music from yesteryear. Today we have a special mindscrew selection for you: a current game that just recently came out and its retro, 8-to-16-bit soundtrack by famed chiptune gods Anamanaguchi. Grab your lightswords and remember to pick up all the loose change your victim turns into, for here is Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The game:

Episode 404 - "We’d Have To Carbon Date This Hate!"

2010-09-30T21:02:00.002-04:00

Oh hi interwebs! Welcome to episode 404 of the Fair Use Law podcast, bringing you all the misdirected URL inanity one can only expect from the place where intelligence goes to die. This week two-thirds of the triceratops tribunal discuss their new found obsession with the Room, horrible alternative rock bands you only discover by playing Columbia House Russian Roulette, the sad depression only the sitcom Unhappily Ever After could bring about, and the weird revelations the questions “Would you like to donate blood today?” brings about. All this and stripper tip embargoes, shady nursing practices, and Captain Planet teaching us all about AIDS!

Hey guys, remember the 90s? Want to wish you didn't? Here's Maypole's Concrete Shoes, a song that's about... an overly raspy singer, I guess?

When you need a song like that flushed from your brainpan, who you gonna call? Thunderbusters!

One of our favorite video games of recent time just might be Team Fortress 2. And one of our favorite past times is dancing like it's an iron forging warehouse to C&C Music Factory. Thankfully, there's a mod that combines both our loves:

Completely unrelated to the previous video (I swear) I give you another great piece of history brought to you by Japanese pro wrestling. Razor Ramon Hard Gay was one of Japan's biggest wrestling personalities, even branching out to various animes, prime time drama shows, and the music charts with his Japanese version of YMCA. But what happens if he takes a little bit too much damage during a match? He evolves into SUPER HG!

And finally, have an issue with addiction? Why not get some advice from Bobcat Goldthwait via a bunny hand puppet thanks to Unhappily Ever After:

Episode 403 - "Horde Me And Guns, Baby!"

2010-09-23T12:23:00.002-04:00

Welcome ladies and gentlemen to episode 403 of the Fair Use Law podcast. This week the triceratops tribunal is once against unified as Baker makes a quick stop in Northern Connecticut to record a audio conversation adventure and remember the Haunting. Topics discussed this week include, but certainly are never limited to, how not to create a hoax by throwing acid in your own face, the visage of Christine O’Donnell and how it has haunted Dan for nearly a decade, Uwe Boll’s fun filled romp through retelling history and then finding a way to profit off the tax breaks from it, and how to truly help the homeless of Orlando by not helping them at all.

We begin things off with one of the best fan-made movie trailers online. What happens if, 10-15 years from now, an over the top director like Michael Bay decides to take the Pokemon franchise into a dark and gritty direction like he did Transformers? We'd get Pokemon Apocalypse!

Speaking of forcing animals to fight, stand up comedienne Jackie Kashian loves animals... but hates their owners. Much like prior stand up comedy music videos done by Kyle Kinane and Patton Oswalt, here is Jackie Kashian's "Funny Animal Joke:"

Once again on Fair Use Law, the topic of the demonic satellite dish vs John Ritter movie Stay Tuned came to the forefront. To jump start your nostalgia, here is a fan made compilation of all the movie's various commercial parodies:

When it comes to commercials, how does a Japanese video game company like Capcom sell its new video game in its homeland of Japan when it's much more popular in the States? With its new Dead Rising 2 commercial, I think we all learn the wonderful answer to that question:

Continuing the commercial trend of this post, Sweden has provided the world with more everyday knowledge for your everyday life. Sometimes, when you decide to have sex with your supervisor from work, it's best to take precautions:

And lastly this week, a special treat for all you Fair Users out there. Here is a full cartoon short from 1963 entitled Hobo's Holiday. Come for the bindles and hobo stews made out of found boots and tin cans, stay for the almost Flintstones-ian production design:

Good Music You Should Know About - Birthday Massacre

2010-09-21T22:49:00.002-04:00

Leaving off where Evanescence left off and adding a bit of Hot Topic over the top anime flair, the Birthday Massacre bring industrial metal with just the right mix of crunching guitars and melodic vocals. On their latest single, "In The Dark," they perfect their trademarked sound even more:

Episode 402 - "There Are No Burning Bushes In Farmville?"

2010-09-16T16:10:00.002-04:00

Hola Listeners and welcome to the second episode of Fair Use Law Season 4. This week we never forget as we discuss all the ruckus and hoo-haa that came with September 11th this year, the hidden messages of Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center movie and why they don’t exist, why Freemasons ruin Conspiracy Theories forever, the instant racism one can only find at a makeshift and slapdash Tea Party protest, and the ultimate letdown that is the reality of Lingerie Football. All this and La Parka might just lip sync at the VMAs!

With America being so under attack by made up forces and 24 hour news station talking heads, it's time that we all unite as countrymen and patriots and focus on the real enemy -- Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde. For a re-enactment of their various attacks on the American way of life, we bring you live footage from this movie theater:

Who would help lead us against this 4 colored menace? So many heroes come and go in the span of our existence, but there's only one man who has been to the other side and knows the weakness of these masterminds of terror. That brave American is none other than the Chairman of the Board, La Park. What? He's Mexican? Crap...

One of the most valued commodities during any war on pixelated ghosts is downtime. Some nice R'n'R. What better way for our men in yellow sphere costumes to relax than with the tantalizing thought of females, in lingerie, playing the American sport of Football? Why, that sounds almost too sexy to be entertaining! Thankfully, the Lingerie Football League has taken precautions to remove any entertainment and/or sexiness from their sport for you:

So it looks like our war on ghosts isn't going very well. We've tried a Lucha Libre wrestler with a chair. We've tried forcing dancers, models, and strippers to slam into each other at full speed while wearing booty shorts with bows. We're all out of ideas. Just who are we gonna call?

That should do it! Mission Accomplished, fellas!

Never Forget to Enjoy the Silence

2010-09-11T16:33:00.000-04:00

With the news and the media going insane about thirty different things this September 11th, my ego would like to be the lone voice of reason that asks the world to sit down and share in the glory that is one of the greatest bands on earth performing one of their best songs high atop the New York skyline in a simpler time:

Episode 401 - "I’m Having My Own Stanford Prison Experiment Right Now"

2010-09-09T12:28:00.003-04:00

Welcome new players to the brand new, leveled up season 4 of the Fair Use Law podcast. To start things off right this week, the torosaurus tribunal discusses horrible band names that compare your band’s music to mental and physical experiments, the downside to up syndrome, the shocking revelation of a Japanese female video game presenter, hilariously named asthma camps, group showers, the 2010 VMAs, and the latest in sexist video games.

The 2010 VMAs take place this weekend, and Fair Use Law will be on the case with a live twittercast and review/recap over at Iceanvil.com. In the meantime, please to enjoy this horribly confusing promo for the event featuring at least 8 different time periods and Nicky Minaj:

Also announced this past week is the eventual release of Duke Nukem Forever by a competent designer: Gearbox Studios, the makers of Borderlands. News of this almost apocalyptic event swept PAX 2010 and made every video game fan either shrug in disbelief or instantly get a nerdrection. If the finished product looks even half as good as this trailer from a few months ago does, I can't wait to try it:

Speaking of video game bliss, as part of their big Fall Arcade event, the adventures of Super Meat Boy will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade soon. Why should you care? You play as a piece of meat trying to save your girlfriend piece of meat from an evil fetus in a jar that wears a suit. That should be all the justification you need:

In other geekery news, the recently revamped X-Force, featuring a Wolverine-led team of coldblooded killers in what can best be described as the X-Men version of Tokyo Gore Police has come to the end of its first volume. So much like Fair Use Law, it's leveling up for a whole new season... this time including hookers, and blackjack, and Deadpool!

And finally, coming to a theater near you this fall, "From the Mind Of M Night Shyamalan:"

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Good Music You Should Know About - Kazy

2010-09-07T12:16:00.004-04:00

Every once in a while here at the Fair Use Law sanitarium we like to feature a music video of a band you might have never heard of. This week we feature Kazy, a band discovered in a most weird place: during the grindhouse movie classic Zombie Strippers starring Robert Englund and Jenna Jameson. Mixing atmospheric production with some classic metal techniques, Kazy is definitely the perfect music for the undead to work the pole to:

Episode 326 - "Gentlemen, My Semen Has The Floor"

2010-09-06T16:00:00.002-04:00

Dun dun duuuuuun! Welcome to the season finale of season 3 of the Fair Use Law podcast. Join us as we delve deeper into the almost Sonic the Hedgehog-ian theories of the Discovery Channel gunman, unearth an instrument of terror the likes of which even Jigsaw hasn’t touched yet, get way too serious about the recent Xbox Live price increase, and then make a mockery out of real life politics. All this and the truth behind psychiatry as dictated by a crazy religion based on Science Fiction!

Scientologists get a bad rap from the internet at large who view them as only a crazy nutso cult that believes in aliens and nuclear bombs being dropped into volcanoes. Luckily, Scientologists themselves are more than willing to explain to you what their beliefs mean to them:

Personally, I subscribe to the church of Reverse Sexy Jesus, where he rocks me all night long... backwards!

While last week we highlighted some of the goodness the god of Netflix bestowed upon us in the past two weeks, we also discovered some horrible atrocities against man. One such horrible mistake left un-aborted on Netflix Instant Streaming is the Garbage Pail Kids Movie, the first movie to not only be based on a trading card series but to be so proud of said fact that they promote themselves as such. Courage!

And as a special added bonus to this week's shownotes, in honor of episode 326 closing out our third season, I give you the ENTIRE first episode of the Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures to watch right here, right now. Reveal in the awesomeness and casual racism:

Episode 325 - "GM Jesus Will Ban Me From The MMO Of Life"

2010-08-25T22:44:00.002-04:00

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: More Fair Use Law! The penultimate episode of the third Fair Use Law case file brings with it many stirring chills and/or thrills including more talk about Jurassic Park than anywhere else this decade. Also: proper Drive-In etiquette, weird Japanese viral marketing, almost every Tears for Fears song title ever released, the awesomeness that will bring about world peace that is Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game, Netflix bringing the love in September, and more!

What better way to start the podcast than with the Last Dinosaur of them all, Denver! He's my friend... and a whole lot more:

Keeping the Jurassic theme going, did you know TV show Dinosaurs not only had the most depressing last episode in the history of mankind but also a crash-grab musical CD? It sure did. And he's the baby and you've got to love him:

Coming September 1st to Netflix is literally thousands of viewing options that will enrich your life with enjoyment until the end of days. Also: the Garbage Pail Kids Movies:

Found in a lost expedition through the ashes of Old Hollywood comes the first attempt to make a movie adaptation of Marvel's Mighty Avengers from the 1940s. Excelsior!

And to close out our show notes for this week: a visit to the fabled Swedish Chef as he attempts to make Popcorn Shrimp. For full enjoyment of this video, turn on the in beta testing "Translate Captions" to English to see a translator's slow descent into madness:

Episode 324 - "Babs Bunny Is Not Canonical!"

2010-08-19T10:00:00.000-04:00

Incoming episode 24 of the Third Season of Fair Use Law. Do you accept? More Information: The Torosaurus Tribunal discusses the continued non-existence of triceratops, the rise and fall of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, how even Universal Studio employees groan M Night Shyamalan, and recount the recent violence against famous people who matter (and Tila Tequila) at this year’s Gathering of the Juggalos.

Want to know way more about the annual Gathering of the Juggalos than any one person should in one 15 minute sitting hosted by two of the stupidest, most vacant idiots ever cast to shill shit? Courage as I present this year's 11th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos infomercial. Oh yes, this is a thing:

How do you successfully troll a gathering of angry, clown facepainted teenagers who are hopped up on drugs and sexual frustration? Andrew WK sure does level up while making his attempt:

Also appearing for the amusement of angry Juggalos is the comedy gold of Gallagher. In his old age, he seemed to have dropped any pretense of being a stand up comedian and just became a sledgehammer welding maniac, not unlike an angry Kirby:

As if killing music and wrestling wasn't enough, ICP has set their sights on also killing movies. What better way to start their cinematic careers than with a western comedy, which are so en vogue today:

After all that Juggalo related viewing, I need a way to forget I know this stuff exists. If only I had a way to go back in time... or back... to the future!

What's the one thing that can make the upcoming Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game more awesome? I think the games developers have it covered, good sirs:

And finally, let's play a game of compare and contrast. Up first is the next M Night movie, Devil, about a bunch of people trapped in an elevator with someone who might be trying to kill them:

Let's compare that to the 2007 film Black Out, about a bunch of people trapped in an elevator with someone who might be trying to kill them:

Vhat a Tvist!

Video Game Music Sorbet - Super Mario Bros Advanced 4: eReader Edition

2010-08-14T16:03:00.003-04:00

This week on a very special Video Game Music Sorbet, the Fair Use Law adolescent torosaurses sit back and marvel at a combined event. Not only are we about to provide you with the music of Super Mario Bros 3, which some might say is the best Mario Bros of all time, but we're also going to educate. When ported over to the Game Boy Advance as Super Mario Bros Advance 4, Mario Bros 3 was tied into the recently launched (and triumphantly failed at marketplace) eReader. By buying packs of Mario Bros 3 cards you scan into the eReader, you could unlock bonus items and levels never before seen in this classic NES game. The follow video runs down almost (if not) all of them:

In The Year 20XX, Scott Pilgrim Faces The World

2010-08-13T21:34:00.002-04:00

After falling in love with the movie Scott Pilgrim vs. the World last night, what better way to soak in the afterglow than to wait for the August 25th Xbox Live Arcade release of the retro throwback Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: the Game? In this recently leaked pitch video presented to Ubi-Soft that eventually led to the celebration of Geek Culture we have coming out now. Stay for the Mega Man, River City Ransom, and countless other NES references. Stay for the chiptune versions of Smashing Pumpkins, the White Stripes, and others:

Episode 323 - "Never Leave The Door Open For AquaBuddha"

2010-08-12T12:28:00.000-04:00

Welcome back, my friends, to the podcast that never ends with episode 23 of the 3rd Fair Use Law casefile. This week Randy and Dan tackle a bevy of topics including but not limited to: Dan possibly forgetting his own last name, Rand Paul’s worship of AquaBuddha, the awesomeness of JetBlue’s Severance Package if you break Federal Law, the gossip girl-esque tabloid stylings of Gawker, and the future of Direct to DVD B-Horror Movies… China!

Before we get to the usual absurd commercials and internet videos of the show notes, I give to you our new sponser: the official drink of psychotic chainsaw welding ferrets. I'm, of course, talking about Diet Mountain Dew:

Have you missed the cinematic adventure that is Full Moon Pictures' Head of the Family? Well, we took the bullet so you don't have to. Please to enjoy the trailer for this wondrous testament to the human spirit if the human spirit was a giant southern head mad scientist:

It's like pulling off an old band-aid: the faster we get through this the less painful it will be. With that raucous introduction, I give to you the other crown jewel in Full Moon Pictures' crown: Killjoy - the killer urban (sometimes) clown:

Now, if it's two things that flow through our veins like blood and alcohol here, it's weird independent music you probably have never heard of and the Japanese movie directing skills of one Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus, Godzilla: Final Wars, Midnight Meat Train). Combined rockjazz pianist Eric Lewis' piano destroying cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" with the visuals only this great visionary from the land of the rising sun can provide and we have dissonant perfection:

Our continued love of Oregon Trail can only be leveled up when innovators take banking and dysentery to the next level. And by that, of course, I mean turning Oregon Trail into Exitebike with wagons:

And finally, I don't know why Snooki feels the President of the United States has to know who her tanned munchkin ass is, but the Sims version of her really did seem to take things to the extreme thanks to Taiwanese news coverage dramatization:

Daniel Tosh Spoils Human Centipede So You Don't Have To Watch It

2010-08-10T13:37:00.000-04:00

In this uncensored and uncut 25 minute segment from last week's episode of Comedy Central's Tosh.O, Daniel Tosh spoils just about everything about Human Centipede in a way that is 250% more entertaining than actually watching the movie:

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Billy Idol Is Cyberpunk: Iron Man

2010-08-09T10:52:00.002-04:00

This past week, in the Fair Use Law cyberframe, our Lawnmower Man brought to our attention the under looked and often mocked 1993 concept album by Billy Idol: Cyberpunk. While others might look at it with scorn as an established rock icon uses and abuses the cyberpunk subculture for his own means, we couldn't care less and just like the delightful synths and chilled songs. The only single Idol has continued to acknowledge from this CD, however, is Shock to the System, which has one of the coolest music videos ever. Look for the Tetsuo the Iron Man influence!

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Video Game Music Sorbet - Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

2010-08-07T15:37:00.000-04:00

Every week at the Fair Use Law crematorium/Halloween superstore, we like to sit back on our red blood cell-themed bean bag chairs and share a goblet of the best video game music of the past. This week we feature Legacy of Kain, a game featuring a character that just might be making a return in future DLC for the Xbox Live Arcade game Lara Croft:

Friday Night Netflix: Thirst

2010-08-06T12:57:00.002-04:00

Every Friday night, Fair Use Law, as a public service to all couples who would rather stay home and cuddle in front of a game console or blu-ray player, recommends a Netflix movie available instantly.

This week Fair Use Law recommends the experimental Asian vampire movie Thirst for your viewing pleasure. Directed by Korean cinematic genius Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengence), the film features beautiful set pieces, Park's usual flare for visual editing, and a very effective and almost superpower-twist on vampires that leaves Twilight in the dust.

Episode 322 - "How The Grinch Stole My Virginity"

2010-08-04T23:13:00.003-04:00

Episode 22 of the third season of Fair Use Law? All up in your earballs! This week the triceratops tribunal apologize for a grievous mistake made during episode 321 and take the necessary penance to atone for their sins. They also discuss the new season of VH-1’s Scream Queens, whether 3D movies have jumped the shark (in 3D!) or not, the wonders of being Charlie Sheen, former Pee-Wee Herman’s Playhouse star’s children going to porn, and Linda McMahon’s nut shots coming back to haunt her.

How does Japan handle the House 8:47 Faraway Stare? By having the crossover to end all crossovers: Gregory House MD vs. Blackjack!

Now for a quick political word paid for by the people against Jim Ross's crotchal regions:

Speaking of wrestling, how is Shawn Michaels adjusting to the retired life after his last match against the Undertaker a few months ago? I think he's adjusting just fiiiiine:

He annoyed you with the Sham Wow. He angered you with the Slap Chop. He then delighted you with the Slap Chop auto-tuned. But prepared to be angered and/or annoyed all over again with the Underground Movie 2010, featuring Lindsey Lohan's scram bracelet:

And finally, what's the only way to make an action packed gunfight even better? I think psychedelic flowers would be the only answer you can possibly come up with:

Oregon Trail... THE MOVIE

2010-08-03T20:30:00.003-04:00

Just when it seems video games being turned into movies has jumped the shark, someone comes along and builds a higher, less jumpable shark to aim for:

Good Music You Should Know About - Iconcrash

2010-08-02T19:18:00.002-04:00

Lionsgate Studios holds a special place in Fair Use Law's heart as it seems just about every movie we go to see has been released by them in some fashion. However, they are but a vengeful god as they have also massively screwed up distribution of some grade A movies that should have played in theaters. Among them was Midnight Meat Train, the spooky English language directing debut of Versus writer/director Ryuhei Kitamura. Much like the movie, the soundtrack was also shuffled to the back burner, which is a disgrace because Finland's Iconcrash should have had the exposure. They truly sound like the Finnish Stabbing Westward in all the good ways. Please to enjoy, Strange Strange Dark Star:

Friday Night Netflix: Freaked

2010-07-30T16:05:00.000-04:00

Every Friday night, Fair Use Law, as a public service to all couples who would rather stay home and cuddle in front of a game console or blu-ray player, recommends a Netflix movie available instantly.

For the first entry in our new weekly feature here at fairuseradio.com, what better way to go than with a classic cult movie that not enough people have heard about but everyone should: Freaked. After the success of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bonus Journey, Alex Winter branched out with an MTV sketch show called Idiot Box which eventually led to one of the weirdest movies ever made. Reportedly cooked up over a lot of drugs with the band the Butthole Surfers, Freaked has everything you could want in a movie about environmental pollution: Mr. T in make up, rastafarian eyeballs toting machine guns, more stop motion animation than humanly possible, and even styrofoam cups... though they are bad for the environment. Keep an eye out for Keaneu Reeves as Ortiz the Dog Boy in an uncredited role!

Sushi Typhoon: Eat Sukiyaki!

2010-07-29T19:09:00.000-04:00

What happens when you fall into a very niche form of cinema from another country only to have all your favorite directors unite and form their own production studio? Why, you get to be named the happiest me of all time! Sushi Typhoon has been on my radar for a while with their first big releases Alien vs Ninja and Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl coming out soon on Funimation DVD in the US. This week at Comic-Con, though, they released their preview reel featuring not one movie I don't want to watch now. Especially Helldriver, which looks like Tokyo Gore Police somehow turned up to an even more 11-y 11:

Episode 321 - "He Died From A Back Order Of Sadness"

2010-07-28T21:49:00.002-04:00

Come on in, listeners, for episode 21 of third season Fair Use Law. This week the triceratops tribunal recover and unwind from both a tornado hitting the studios and a live rock presentation at a local bar. We also recap how to get rich quick without even really trying using Celebrity Rehab, welcome Amanda Bynes back to the C-List, book Wrestlemania main events around Eli Roth’s Bear Jew character, and recap the best movies of Comic-Con including Saw 3D and Tetsuo 3: the Human Bullet.

Hey 3-2-1 Contact, can you give me a funky beat rap song about architecture? I know you can!

Now something that is vital to our interests. Gary Numan is starring in Die Hard's latest car battery commercial and it officially is the most awesome thing ever:

Let's keep this nostalgic 80s hit train a rolling with Captain EO! Here is the Thriller part of the Captain EO ride movie only this time the audio has been swapped out with the original Thriller demo, Starlight. Groove to the original lyrics!

One of the best movies of Comic-Con 2010 I accidentally forgot in the heat of recording this episode is Suckerpunch. A weird mix of psychological thriller and over the top Matrix-style action featuring the adorable Emily Browning from the Uninvited looks to be the best movie to watch come March 2011:

A soon to be classic movie coming out a little bit sooner than that? Piranha 3D, bringing the classic B-movie experience of watching people get murdered by aquatic life in 3D back to cinemas where it belongs:

And finally, at this year's Comic-Con, during the annual WWE Figure panel (this time hosted by new license owner Mattel), one of Fair Use Law's biggest idols made his first WWE appearance over 15 years. Ladies and gentlemen, we're finally getting a figure that's too hot to handle, too cold to hold, funky like a monkey, oooooooh yeah:

It's Game On Time With The Guild!

2010-07-27T22:54:00.000-04:00

It's been a long time, we shouldn't have left you without a dope beat to step to. To step to. To step to. So to make it up to you I present the latest music video from the cast of the Guild, this time turning their attention from late 80s dance pop to Bollywood. Of special note is the fact that this song was produced and recorded by Jason C Miller, lead singer of the band Godhead. He even has a cameo as "Bald Real Life Gang Member." Keep an eye out for him if you want to see a kinda scary bald goth bust a goofy move:

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&from=sp&fg=shareObject&vid=8cb424dc-cbdb-40be-90c5-8fb450462d2f" target="_new" title="Season 4 - Music Video - "Game On"">Video: Season 4 - Music Video - "Game On"</a>

Men: It's Finally Time To Prove Yourselves

2010-07-21T19:06:00.002-04:00

Aren't you sick of girly love movies like Twilight, Sex in the City 2, or Inception ruling the box office? Well Lionsgate definitely is... and not just because they have millions riding on the Expendables being profitable. So men, this August 13th, tell Hollywood that they can take their girly-girly foofoo movie crap like Iron Man 2 or Predators and shove it where the sun don't shine!

Good Music You Should Know About - I Fight Dragons

2010-07-20T14:00:00.000-04:00

It's very rare that the WWE shows off a band before we do here, but I must apologize for this mishap and promise it'll never happen again. I Fight Dragons are everything we love here at Fair Use Law: catchy hooks, chiptune programming, retro throwbacks to Pac-Man, Mario, Mega Man, and Pole Position. And their video for Money even features some very awesome 3D animation towards the end that will rock your socks off:

Wrestling + Magic = Murder!

2010-07-19T21:24:00.001-04:00

Japanese wrestler Mr Magician is a man of many hats. He's a gifted high flyer, known for flipping in the air so much that he regularly misses his opponent or lands on his own head. He's also a skilled illusionist, known for being so good at the art of sleight of hand that you can actually see his hands move during it. So what happens when he takes his skills to the ring? CSI: Japanese Pro Wrestling!

Video Game Music Sorbet - Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts

2010-07-17T13:00:00.000-04:00

Every Saturday at the Fair Use Law paranormal research society/bake sale, we like to sit back with a tall glass of Hi-C's Ecto Cooler and listen to the freaky music of video games past. With yesterday's release of the trailer for Mega Man Universe sparking our interest in Sir Arthur, what better music to do the Monster Mash to than the soundtrack to SNES classic, Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts?

Mega Man Universe - If Geek Heaven Were A Thing

2010-07-16T15:03:00.003-04:00

To say this announcement trailer for Mega Man Universe is good is like saying the Mona Lisa is adequate or the Statue of David is kinda masculine. No, this trailer for Mega Man Universe is both a tribute to everything geeks everywhere holds dear and the greatest piece of art Capcom has released in years. You get pseudo-claymation Mega Man, Cut Man, various Mega minions, and even guest appearances from Street Fighter's Ryu and Ghosts 'n Goblins' Sir Arthur. Stay tuned to the very end for a special geektastic surprise!

The Greatest Segment In The History Of Our Sport

2010-07-15T18:19:00.001-04:00

There's no shortage of awesome in the following clip from WWE Monday Night Raw. Using their continued theme of having a guest celebrity host their show, they played off this past week's guest, Florence Henderson's, biggest role. We not only get an appearance from Goldust (with 35% more ass) but even a rare cameo from the most evilest clown ever, Doink!

Episode 319 - "Hindenberg Juice - Taste The Humanity"

2010-07-14T13:57:00.002-04:00

Welcome ladies and gentlemen of the evening to episode 19 of the third case file Fair Use Law has brought to the table. This week, an abbreviated Triceratops Tribunal tries to plug the giant gap of pop culture references currently spewing in the gulf of our minds. Topics in our cross hairs include our first announcement of product for mass consumption, the recent MPAA/Government crackdown on Piracy, “Operation In Our Sites,” the cosplay wins and epic fails of Connecticon, why a Dilaudid party will most likely end poorly for anyone, why Uwe Boll’s Rampage is not as cool a movie as you’d think it’d be by title alone, as well as about 30 other topics and more!

With Operation In Our Sites taking us closer and closer to the future Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails fortold, what better cautionary tale for today's cyber pirates than the video for NIN's Survivalism? Take particular interest in the video's censorship manner:

Let's keep the block rocking beats going. Take it away, Mel Gibson Voice Mails:

Uwe Boll has shocked and surprised the cinema loving public by releasing a series of movies that are not video game based that actually are pretty decent in a direct to DVD movie sense. While you might think Uwe is taking on Cloverfield with his movie Rampage, it's really about a returning war veteran going gun crazy. And in the movie Stoic, where he goes against type in casting Edward Furlong as a junkie jail inmate:

With Super Mario Crossover making people discover their love of the original Super Mario Bros all over again by including characters from other games, unfortunately not every character that applied got the callback:

And finally: one of our favorite movies here at Fair Use Law is the Fly, the classic 80s movie that somehow made Jeff Goldblum even creepier. But what if, instead of having his DNA merged with a fly, he had his DNA merged with a Nintendo Entertainment System? That answer is brought to you with a too-amusing-to-actually-be-a-commercial commercial from Toshiba:

8-BIT GARY from DOCTER TWINS on Vimeo.

Super Mario Sidewalk - Best Short Film Ever

2010-07-13T13:17:00.001-04:00

Augmented Reality... for months now it's been a term that has caused bewilderment and confusion to the likes of me. But with this simple demonstration featuring Super Mario Bros, a sidewalk, and the magic of technology, I think I'm beginning to take the fast lane on the technology superhighway:

Super Mario Bros. from Andreas Heikaus on Vimeo.

Good Music You Might Have Written Off - Switchfoot

2010-07-12T19:19:00.002-04:00

With their modern rock hit single "Meant To Live" being overplayed even to this day, it was easy to write off Switchfoot as a flash in the pan one hit wonder. I know I did. That was until I heard The Sound (the John M Perkins Blues). By adding a few extra layers of keyboards and noise to their music along with a chorus that can only be described as shout along, they have crafted a song even I had to check the band out again for.

Video Game Music Sorbet - Kato & Ken

2010-07-10T18:15:00.002-04:00

Every week at the Fair Use Law dojo/Hungarian BBQ, we like to sit back with some yakisoba and listen to the music of classic video games. This week we turn our attention to the PC Engine classic, Kato & Ken, based on a Japanese variety show. When it was brought over to the US for the Turbografix-16, they replaced all the wacky Tokyo goodness with the borring JJ & Jeff, so if you want to hunt down a classic experience that may or may not involve 16 bit poop, the original is the only way to go.

Episode 318 - "Today Is Not Really Opposite Day… Or Is it?"

2010-07-09T09:41:00.003-04:00

Welcome back friends and well wishers to the 18th episode of the third Fair Use Law case file. This week the triceratops tribunal endure a never ending northeast heatwave to explain just how to comfortably to keep yourself and your genitals, recap the WWE-esque shenanigans that took play as the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating championship, point and laugh at Lindsey Lohan like the rest of the internet, find Velma from Scooby Doo strangely sexy, and more.

What better way to start the last show notes that will feature World Cup items than with the upcoming game from Activision, Vuvuzela Hero:

Also announced this past week was the YouTube debut of Cat Shit One, the most adorable interpretation of war ever! Debuting on July 17th and running until September, we'll be the first to post it here as soon as it gets fansubbed. In the meantime, here is the latest trailer:

What happens when you mix the world of Major League Eating with World Wrestling Entertainment? You get Kobayashi crashing the end of the annual 4th of July Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest:

The best way to cap off a national holiday weekend is to revel in the schadenfreude of a celebrity's continued downward spiral. This week, the object of the media's disdain was one Lindsey Lohan, who was so cognizant of her own career's trajectory that she filmed the upcoming Hollywood Blockbuster, I Know What Killed My Career:

Starting next week on MTV 2 we have the ultimate wrestling adventure: Lucha Libre - Masked Warriors. Featuring long time Fair Use Law favorite, La Parka, and his crazy masked friends, Lucha Libre presents a high impact, high flying alternative to the often mundane WWE:

And finally this week we learned the reason Japanese people answer a phone with "Moshi Moshi" on the podcast. So what better way to end the show notes than with the Sexbomb Girls singing "Moshi Moshi Chikiyaki," the most earwormingly catchy J-Pop song I can find:

Episode 317 - "They Brought Meta-Thor Back From The Dead!"

2010-07-01T21:44:00.002-04:00

Como si dicen, amigos bueno? Welcome to episode 17 of the third case file Fair Use Law has to present. This week the Triceratops Tribunal plays a fast and heavy hand of their favorite game: Free Association Theater. Topics in our cross hairs include Linda McMahon’s inappropriately saucy political mailing/centerfold, Chris Brown’s recent attempt at career rehabilitation via taking Michael Jackson’s advice of looking at the man in the mirror, the touch decision of Vampire vs. Werewolf love Twilight presents, and the tricky legal wranglings of non-disclosure agreements. All this and Dan sets out to slightly annoy F-list celebrities/convicted felons.

Before we get to the usual show note inanity, I think it's time for a little Public Service Announcement. I think this commercial serves to inform us of a very serious point: Left 4 Dead needs an all-mom sequel stat:

What would help you protect your children even more than unnecessarily heavy armament? Light gun combat!

When Oprah throws down an offer to win your own TV show, a lot of the crazies come out of the woodwork hoping to be the next Dr. Phil or Rachel Ray. For every hundred stay at home moms that want to teach us how to scrapbook, though, we get an honest to god voice of our generation who should, by all logic, win this competition and then every daytime emmy ever. That person just happens to be Zach Anner this time:

Also discussed this week was various run-ins with the stars of E!'s Pretty Wild reality show/microscope into everything that's wrong with the E! Network. Just how low did executive producer Chelsea Handler scrap to put together a show? She gave the most vapid, brand name obsessed, charged with felony theft airheads 30 minutes a week. Here's a sample that just might be short enough to avoid brain damage:

Man, after that you kind of need a YouTube video chaser to wash the bad taste out of your mouth. Thankfully the people behind Total Recall: The Musical have continued fighting the good fight and have given us Conan the Barbarian... the Musical:

Danimal vs. Animal Stare To The DEATH

2010-06-27T13:44:00.000-04:00

OK Go have made a pretty healthy viral name for themselves thanks to some hipster cool and out there music videos and the tunes to back them up. Animal of Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem has built a solid, Hall of Fame worthy career out of hitting things until they break and screaming. But when you compare apples to apples and drummers to drummers, who can stare at the other the longest without blinking? Finally, an answer for the ages:

Postscript: Yes, that's Zach Galifianakis calmly partaking in the spectacle from the sidelines. His beard is just that cool.

Video Game Music Sorbet - Kid Icarus

2010-06-26T11:37:00.000-04:00

It's been a while since we spent an easy going Saturday here at Fair Use Labs, just wearing nothing but our lab coats and relaxing with an elixir or two. Thankfully, the announcement of the 3DS and the return of Kid Icarus has relit our fire for relaxing music of games years past. So this week we pay tribute to Pit and the Eggplant Wizard. And as a bonus, I have included the symphonic remix of the main theme included in Super Smash Brothers:

The Jack Chop: With Free Fahkin' Glowstick!

2010-06-25T10:07:00.003-04:00

One of the best US horror movies of recent times almost flew under my radar. Hatchet, starring the geeky computer nerd from Avatar and the self-proclaimed token black guy from Not Another Teen Movie, is just the right mix of comedy, self-aware 4th wall breaking, and homage to be worth watching for any horror fan. Mix that with it being the only US release that comes close to the arterial spray of movies like Machine Girl or Tokyo Gore Police and you have a winner that's available on Netflix streaming right now. To help promote their movie, they released the following infomercial for the Jack Chop, the ultimate Jack-o-Lantern carving accessory:

Episode 316 - "Was The Iron Curtain Meant To Keep Zombies Away?"

2010-06-24T12:18:00.000-04:00

Welcome wrasslin’ and bible verse fans to episode 316 of the Fair Use Law podcast. This week the triceratops tribunal manage to get almost all Steve Austin references out of the way before the opening theme and then proceed to discuss Perez Hilton’s revealing fascination with Miley Cyrus, the retirement of one of the great thespians of our day, how great Dan was at baseball, and more in what can only be described as the most free-form Fair Use Law ever!

We start off this week's show notes by presenting to the world that Randy was not crazy and there actually was a movie starring Nick Cannon as an undercover cop in a high school. What's worse: this movie or the fact that he remembers it?

Another movie discussed this week was Dead Snow, a horror movie featuring Nazi Zombies which seems to have landed the "miss" side of hit or miss for some of us. Want to judge for yourself? Here's the subtitled trailer:

You might say, "Dan, this week you talked about Nazi Zombies, El Superbeasto, and music. No way you can combine all three into one video." Thanks to Hard 'n' Phirm and the animated directing of Rob Zombie, I totally can:

This is either the most horrible thing I've ever included in a show notes, or the most oddly catchy. I apologize for having this Perez Hilton song about STDs stuck in your head for days, but ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Clap:

Also discussed this week was the recent twitter-announced retirement of Amanda Bynes. Did you know she started stand up comedy at 10 years old and managed to be MC'd by Arsenio Hall? Of course you didn't, because this video is a ticket to bizarro world. While her delivery might be a little Beauty Pageant-esque and the jokes a bit corny for anyone not 10, she definitely had better stage presence than most rejects from Last Comic Standing this year:

And finally, World Cup fever is spreading like Swine Flu so fast that it's even infected normally only-blood-drenched recesses of Doom .wad files. What's the ultimate weapon to stop hordes of Mars alien psycho killers? The ever annoying Vuvuzela:

Fair Use Law's Game of e3: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

2010-06-23T19:33:00.001-04:00

While much sadness was had when it was announced as a downloadable game for the 360 and PS3 in lieu of being the ultimate Nintendo DS game of all time, we still have to hand it to Scott Pilgrim vs the World for making life just that much more worth living. You get references to everything from River City Ransom, Guitar Hero, Akira, and more just in this 90 second e3 trailer, so one can only imagine how much more great nostalgia is to come. Please to enjoy:

Episode 315 - "One Red Ring To Rule Them All"

2010-06-16T17:33:00.000-04:00

This week during a very special visual presentation-in-aural form of the Fair Use Law podcast, we celebrate episode 315 with a recap of the Microsoft and Nintendo e3 presentations, point and laugh at Ubisoft attempting to get us to breathe for in-game achievements, fill out living wills with Gary Coleman’s corpse’s common law wife, wonder how someone could possibly make an entire documentary based on a font, and create our first 3D short film presentation. Order now and we’ll even throw in Charlie Sheen never learning that leaving your car unlocked leads to hilarity and a special Netflix recommendation.

This past week was the big e3 conference and Ubi-Soft left no expense unspared by hiring a TV personality with only a marginal knowledge of gaming to host a gaming presentation featuring games that feature no actual gameplay. Be amazed as everyone's favorite TV personality, Joel McHale, has to take one for the team as he "shows off" the upcoming clean living simulator/Energy Booster Inn-Ergy:

What could possibly get me interested in this kind of non-gaming video game? Oh, I dunno... how about 35% more ass?

Now that those stupid bee horns are starting to be outlawed the world over, it's time to drown out the sorrows of society with something equally annoying: Waka Waka! I present to you Shakira performing it live in lieu of the officially released Waka Waka video since it has 100% more Shakira and 100% less soccer:

Now onto something that should be a World Class sport: Autistic Thai teenage girls kicking the asses of stunt men until they quite possibly are dead. This is from the movie Chocolate, one I can't recommend enough for you Netflix users:

Speaking of Netflix Instant Streaming, did you know that not only did someone make a whole documentary about a font but they also had the guile and gumption to not only release it but also get it on this internet service? If you really like clean text, I can't recommend a documentary about a font more than Helvetica:

Vince Sham-Wow is now tap dancing on the grave of Billy Mayes by being hired to actually promote a product that might sell: Eminem's new CD. What better way for Eminem to get the word out on what could be his most serious, heart felt record ever than with a parody of an infomercial that was already better with autotune? Nothing, because this commercial might become its own religion. That's how good it is:

Get Real Japan: Maximum the Hormone

2010-06-14T01:32:00.003-04:00

For people who watch the Death Note anime, Maximum the Hormone is no stranger to you. But for those of us who's Death Note soundtrack exposure only goes so far as wildly inappropriate Red Hot Chili Peppers songs, it comes as quite a shock that such a crazy and original J-Metal band would get such a high profile gig as doing the opening to one of the more critically acclaimed animes of our time. Mixing a sound that I can only describe as early System of a Down thrown into a blender with the Franz Ferdinand, I give you Bikini Sports Ponchin:

Episode 314 - "Wait, My Nuts Are In HD?"

2010-06-10T18:16:00.003-04:00

Welcome ladies and gentleman to the most irrational episode of the Fair Use Law episode ever: episode Pi. We celebrate all things 3.14 as the triceratops tribunal recap the horrible, horrible failure that was the 2010 MTV Movie Awards. Other variables in this week’s equation include recent alarming baby news that may or may not just be the plot to Junior, discussion on how there can be only one Jessie James, way more information than anyone needed about urological adventures, and the perils of leaving Mr. Game & Watch in charge of offshore drilling.

Just what happens when you leave the Gulf of Mexico in Nintendo character control? We get a possible future Cloverfield sighting. Just think about the Cheep-cheeps!

Another hot topic this week was this past weekend's MTV Movie Awards which were produced by everyone's favorite asshole, Les Grossman. But can Les Grossman fill your cup? I think this show opening including the guys from the Hangover more than proves he can:

Les Grossman dance at the awards from Benjy Rogers on Vimeo.

Also this weekend I was amazed to find myself being the only person who knew who female country/pop singer Jessie James was and that she is not, in fact, the racially-discriminating former husband of Sandra Bullock. What opened my eyes to this fairly attractive female despite me hating any and all country music? Commercial bumpers she filmed for MTV last Halloween:

That's pretty festive and all, MTV, but can you give me something a little bit more sexual in nature? Sure you can!

Via the Hellsing OVA, I present to you the magically murderous properties of the Konami Code when it's not being used to increase anime girl breast size:

Gentlemen behold: more Team Fortress 2 parodies!

A Mortal Kombat Reboot... That Works?

2010-06-08T22:42:00.002-04:00

Mortal Kombat is in dire straights, folks, and not because they get money for nothing and their checks for free. With Midway folding faster than an N-Gage first party developer and the rights of Mortal Kombat being auctioned off in what can only be considered a fire sale, the recent revival of Street Fighter with the 4th game in that series just shown a light on MK's problems. Could a gritty, Hollywood revamp full of gore and more realistic characters be the way to go? I can't say, but I can say that I love this short film/proof of concept and hope Warner Bros continues with it as a full length project. Warning, Mature Content... frosty:

Episode 313 - "Stand Before The Murderball Tribunal"

2010-06-04T19:21:00.004-04:00

This week on the 13th episode of case file 3 of the Fair Use Law podcast, we welcome back Baker into the fold as the triceratops tribunal discuss all the topics important to tweens and adults today. Among them the awkwardness of having a family member become born again, the sad and tragic state of bathroom floors when you are on A&E’s Hoarders, Gary Coleman’s Diff’rent Stroke, and more!

With his untimely passing and the brewing storm that is sure to be the aftermath of his estate, it's best to remember the good times with Gary Coleman. Sure, we could talk about the time he almost got molested by the bike shop owner, where America learned to laugh again, but my mind immediately races to Coleman's starring role as a murderous psychopath in Postal 2:

Another topic this week was a recap of the recent Memorial Day A&E Hoarders marathon, allowing us all to go down a rabbit hole of obsessive collecting and lazy housekeeping. What happens when you try to tell a hoarder to clean up their mess? If you are this patient, the garnish-loving Nadine, you enter into HOARDRAGE, leaving you blind to the pickle-needs of your loved ones:

Sure, collecting mounds and mounds of trash and human waste could be detrimental to one's health, but so often the worst kind of hoarding is overlooked by the media: Data Hoarding. Thankfully, A&E (via the UCB Theatre) have shown a light on this growing technological epidemic:

If you ever find yourself as a gringo at the big lucha libre match-o, bare this in mind: never fuck with a luchadore's mask. If you do, La Parka might have to punch some sense into you. And yes, this is real and I'm sure it hurt like hell:

With the recently released Mega Man 10 including such fearsome bosses as fan favorite Sheep Man, maybe Capcom has finally started scrapping the bottom of the barrel for their robot overlords:

And finally, did someone request a compilation of outtakes featuring Orson Welles attempting to hock wine in commercial form while obviously intoxicated out of his mind? I hope it was you, because here it is:

Good Music You Should Know About - How To Destroy Angels

2010-06-01T15:11:00.002-04:00

The idea of an established musician starting a side project so his wife can sing lead vocals is nothing new. In fact, if you are KMFDM, you double down and let your wife be lead singer of your long established band, too. So when Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails announced that NIN was going on a break and then introduced the world to How To Destroy Angels, a new side project featuring his wife, it didn't seem like quite an odd concept. Now that their debut EP has been released (and for free even), you can bask in the NIN-meets-trip hop atmospheric noise:

Episode 312 - "Space Is Definitely NOT Hot For Teacher"

2010-05-26T21:09:00.002-04:00

Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the non-denominational church we all meet in while in purgatory that is episode 312 of the Fair Use Law podcast. This week 2/3rds of the tribunal tip-toe around the finale of Lost, forget that 24 ended like the rest of the country did, roll our eyes (or get secretly interested in) the weirdest trends in this season’s anime line-up, and put on our best Jesse Ventura conspiracy theorist role play while discussing the fringe minority’s worries about the 2012 London Olympics. All this and Bret Michael’s body’s continuing holy war against Bret Michaels and the start of the Britney Murphy’s Dead Sleazebag Husband’s Foundation for the Arts.

With Lost ending this past weekend, all that's left are the memories... and the unanswered questions:

With the controversy building that they are nothing but representations of the all seeing eye logo of the Freemasons, what will become of the 2012 London Olympics mascots, Wenlock and Mandville? Before we can know their future, we have to know how they came to be:

Could the Freemasons really be behind something so infuriatingly cute as those two? I'm sure our good friends in the 90s industrial rock band Penal Colony know for sure:

With the discussion this week turning to the naughtier side of anime, it's as if our ears all received a Bad Touch, indeed. So here's the catchiest one hit wonder of all time mixed with one of the cutest animes of all time, School Rumble:

Oh no, teenage werewolves are haunting our high schools and blocking our mall entrances with their desperate needs for attention and acceptance!

And finally, with the finale of 24 receiving only a 8% boost in viewership thanks to poor promotion and lack of viewer interest, I give to you my alternate idea on how the end of Jack Bauer's day-long adventure should have played out:

Good Music You Should Know About - Curve

2010-05-25T10:13:00.000-04:00

Back in the mid-90s there was one female fronted band that seemed to rule the alternative radio charts. This was not it, unfortunately, as that band was Garbage, a band some people would say got their industrial rock/pop style from this band: Curve. From the United Kingdom, Dean Garcia wrote the music and Toni Halliday was the sultry voice providing grade A music that never seemed to reach the masses like Shirley Manson and company did. Since then, Toni has started her own projects and Dean Garcia has contributed to numerous projects, such as KGC with Lucia and Sascha of KMFDM. I give to you their best video for the song, Missing Link, which was featured (and curiously not mocked at all) on Beavis and Butthead:

Fund It! - Azureus Rising

2010-05-24T11:31:00.000-04:00

The internet is a great way to get word out on a movie you want to make via a shorter demo reel or proof of concept. The latest animation studio to try their hand at this technique of getting the studios' attention is the Sunset Black with Asureus Rising. Their movie pitch revolves around a cross between anime and Mega Man (Stinko Man?) fighting giant robots in awesomely rendered CGI. As someone who paid 10.50 to see 9 in regular 2D, I'd gladly shell out the same to see this project a reality:

When Good Warp Whistles Go Bad

2010-05-23T13:42:00.000-04:00

Continuing our Mario Fanboy lust as we reach critical Super Mario Galaxy 2 mass, I present to you this tragic "what if" story. What if the warp whistle you have so desperately believed in even since the Wizard hit theaters suddenly malfunctioned and you found yourself in a weird world of new dimensions and a faint urine smell? I think it'd go something like this:

Video Game Music Sorbet - Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

2010-05-22T07:03:00.000-04:00

Every Saturday at the Fair Use Law mid-world ghost house/bonus star road, we like to sit back wearing our Tanooki Suits with a nice, tall, frothy Doki Doki Panic beaker of relaxation. With Super Mario Galaxy 2 coming out in mere days for the Wii, what better way to prepare for Zero-G Yoshi action than with the last major sequel to a Mario game on a console: Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins?

Combat Evolved Goes German Pop

2010-05-21T17:35:00.002-04:00

What happens when you mix the imagery and characters of Halo with the soul-wrenchingly mass produced sounds of German pop music? You get this abomination unto the lord:

The Pinnacle Of Anime As An Artform

2010-05-20T13:41:00.001-04:00

It's not everyday I'm flustered with hyperbole, but I can safely say that I have found the greatest animated sequence by the country of Japan ever created in the history of forever. This is a clip that needs no back story and is even better without it, from the current running anime series Mayoi Neko Overrun! I do warn you, it does get a little NSFW with the fan service at the 2 minute mark, but even your supervisor/manager/boss/significant other would be hard pressed to fault you for marveling at this clip's excellence:

Episode 311 - "You Never Go Portal-To-Mouth!"

2010-05-19T16:28:00.002-04:00

Hark the triumphant prophecy spoke truth: the triceratops tribunal has been rebuilt, now with an added fourth corner of justice as Baker makes his celebratory debut for case file 3 in this 11th episode. Discussion of the week turns to Providence, Rhode Island, where some of us were forced to pay to enter the gates of (club) Hell to see an industrial rock concert that may or may not permanently injury a cast member in a cliffhangerish manner. All this and we discuss VH-1 telling us who not to date, taking Jersey Shore back from the Jersey Shore kids, NBC’s boneheaded move to kill Heroes off without the hope of a regen blood resurrection, and the passing of Dio’s torch.

The world of metal has lost its grandfather this week with the passing of Dio and his metal horns hand gesture. What's the best way to pay tribute to such a voice? With the D, of course:

Another topic near and dear to our hearts this week was the unfortunate (but not unexpected) cancellation of the Heroes televised drama broadcast serial. Not much more can be expressed but the eternal blue balls of geeks everywhere who never truly got the all out Peter/Sylar fight to end all fights on the show, so I pay tribute with a nu-metal cover of Snap's I've Got The Power:

Replacing Heroes on the schedule for NBC this fall is the Cape, a surprisingly similar superhero show that seems to play fast with costumes and special effects, something Heroes might have lacked. I want to hate it for ending my favorite show of the last 3 years, but I just can't. Here's a preview:

On the other hand, I can hate NBC's newest sitcom, "Outsource," using the hilarious premise of focusing on jobs being outsourced to India. They seemed to have created this sitcom by taking the Office, removing the comedy, and replacing it with vague racism against the entire country of India. No good can be had here, only sadness and demons:

Yes, that was bleak. I think the only way to salvage our great combined psyche is with some Breakfast with Zangrief:

And to close the shownotes for episode 311, where we were sure to take it down down down, I give you a live performance mentioned during the episode by the band Chemlab. Of course I must add some disclaimers: it's filmed from the audience by a fan, so it's not the best sound or video quality. And also the lead singer may or may not be cosplaying as a blackface Ric Flair.

Get Real Japan: Aural Vampire

2010-05-17T18:54:00.001-04:00

What happens when a robot cowboy and a Japanese vampire chick get together? Surely a bloodbath, but also some of the catchiest J-Pop/electro industrial released this side of Transylvania. Why do I have a feeling that AV's lead singer is everything Tila Tequila ever wanted to be, including attractive and talented?

Episode 310 - "Have You Met My Wife, The US Constitution?"

2010-05-12T15:54:00.000-04:00

Welcome ladies and gentlemen to episode 10 of the third Fair Use Law case file determined, as always, to bring you the latest and late breaking news about Mickey Rourke’s bird. This week we’re joined by frequent triceratops tribunal replacement pitch hitter Skeesix as we discuss the wake of the Iron Man 2 premiere, the ins and outs of how not to cosplay as Gambit, the best seat in any theater to Hedonism Bot it up in, why you should be watching Spartacus: Blood and Sand, and just what Super 8 has to do with the growing Cloverfield conspiracy. All this and we point out the extra geeky easter eggs you cool moviegoers probably missed during the Iron Man sequel.

With all the buzz and excitement for Iron Man 2 clouding geek eyes throughout the United States, sometimes it's easy to forget that there's an Iron Man anime coming out where he apparently fights Justin Hammer as played by Captain Harlock:

You might ask yourself why all the crazy outcasts these days want to walk around all day cosplaying as Gambit from the 90s X-Men cartoon. I think I can answer that definitively with the help of Alien Ant Farm channeling Michael Jackson: he's a smooth criminal:

We here at Fair Use Law would like to pay tribute to a man who gave his life to help promote World Wrestling Entertainment and McGruber: R-Truth. The stunning lack of this hitting the mainstream press is sure to make anyone ask, "What's up?"

Also discussed this week was Christopher Nolan's Inception, which has its trailer featured before the Ironed-Man Sequel Movie Spectacle. I, being the weird niche film asshole that I am, motioned that parts of said movie might have been "inspired" (see also: stolen) from the Pang Brothers' Re-Cycle. Watch the trailer and decide for yourself:

Speaking of niche movies, the director of the Cube Trilogy of movies this week announced that he'd love to make a video game sequel/prequel to his trilogy in the near future. Would such a game work? Most definitely, as this version in Garry's Mod shows us:

What if the "Cube" itself were metaphorical, though, and you just happened to be a giant turtle living in a world of mushrooms, pipes, and jumping plumbers? I give you the most torturous of torture porn movies of this summer movie season: Koopa's Hell:

And finally, going out on a musical number, I give you a production that I will be forced to listen to for at least the next two weeks... two weeks... two weeks. I give you Total Recall - the Musical:

Good Music You Should Know About - Schizo

2010-05-10T23:23:00.002-04:00

One of the goals of having an 80 gigabyte iPod classic for me is to have at least 1 CD featuring bands from as many countries as possible. Last week, however, I noticed the terrible oversight of not having any industrial rock/metal from Korea on said information pod. Luckily I found the band Schizo, who can best be compared to Powerman 5000 or Static-X only with the world's cutest female bass player:

A Sunday List Of Liked Things: Shaft Animation Openings

2010-05-09T13:07:00.000-04:00

As a new feature here on Fair Use Law, every Sunday we'll be posting a few themed youtube videos that summarize and itemize a variety of things the geeks at End Game Studios can't get enough of. To get the ball rolling, we start things off with Shaft anime openings. Known for being an animation studio with a unique and off-beat sense of visuals, each and every one of their openings could justifiably be a legit music video.

To start things off, here's one of my personal favorites. It's Shaft's opening to their season of the Negima? anime featuring one of the most frantic opening themes ever combined with some awesome visuals:

Now for something a little bit more rocking: the opening to Maria+Holic. When you have an anime about a boy disguised as a girl to attend an all-girl school rooming with a closeted lesbian, there are some interesting ways you can go with the opening of said narrative. Shaft decides to go completely insane and make up 4-5 other ways to go about it in full red paint-as-blood splatter gory:

Time for even more rockin' J-Pop with the opening to Pani Poni Dash, an opening that explains nothing about the anime it bookends yet still includes enough awesome visuals to retain your attention until the episode starts. And this was just the 1st of 3 different openings this series had:

And we end things with the weirdest opening yet, if that's even possible. Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei has had many many openings and endings in its various series. This one comes from the final Goku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei OAD that came with the series' manga as a special incentive and seems to throw all its other openings in a blender and hits frappe. It almost seems like a Franz Ferdinand video directed by David Lynch:

Video Game Music Sorbet - Marvel vs. Capcom 2

2010-05-08T15:39:00.002-04:00

With their recent announcement of future releases, Capcom let the cat out of the bag and debuted the trailer for the third Marvel vs. Capcom game in the franchise. While it remains to be seen if some of the more obscure Marvel vs. Capcom 2 characters that I loved are brought back (Tron Bonne, ServBot, BB Hood), early screenshots do show what appears to be Deadpool's silhouette, marking his first appearance in a Marvel fighting game. So let's celebrate the Merc with a Mouth with the jazzy big band music of Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and dance the way of Amingo, the giant Mexican cactii:

Episode 309 - "The Tenth Commandment Is 'Magnets Be Magic, Yo!'"

2010-05-06T20:47:00.003-04:00

Welcome movie goers to the Tribeca-sized Movie Themed 9th episode of the 3rd Fair Use Law case file as this week we wax cinematic about all things that gleam our attention from the Silver Screen. Among the topics for the Triceratops Tribunal this week include Iron Man 2 being the place to be amongst our geeky brethren, the top secret JJ Abrams trailer before Iron Man 2 that may or may not be Cloverfield 2 (and which may or may not break Dan’s heart depending on the outcome), the letdown that is actually watching the Human Centipede versus just hearing about it, 90s Super Sentai Shows that weren’t Power Rangers and how they helped shape a better tomorrow, Nine Inch Nails’ long overdue involvement with Tetsuo the Iron Man, and just who invented the concept of musical side projects involving someone’s wife singing anyways?

Edit: I promised during the podcast that I'd post the official JJ Abrams trailer as soon as I can when it hits the interwebs. Luckily for you, for the time being, here it is. From producer Steven Spielberg and director JJ Abrams I give you Cloverfield 2: Electric Boogaloo... AKA Super 8, a movie that has nothing to do with Cloverfield:

What better way to start a collection of show notes than with a insane clown tribute to the miracles of the world like... uh... pelicans trying to steal your cellphone? Okay, juggalos, I'll give you a pass on that one, but I'm pretty sure a whole religion will agree that the pyramids weren't so much magic as slave labor:

After that Insane Clown overdose, I do believe we need a chaser of pure genius. To that effect, I give you the greatest person who ever lived in the history of forever - the Japanese Scat Man:

Keeping the music going and pushing it to 11, here is the official music video for Art School's Lost Control, the theme to the new Japanese gore-comedy Robogeisha, featuring all the insanely over the top and oddly sexual visuals you'd expect from a movie with said title:

What spawned all these movies like Robogeisha into the world? Why it had to be the original humanoid combat horror movie, Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Thanks to Quentin Tarantino never being held up by the Pussy Wagon, we now have another sequel to Tetsuo coming out in almost entirely English, the Human Bullet:

If you like KMFDM, you are probably familiar with the lovely Lucia and her wonderfully female high notes of industrial grrl fury. What you are probably less familiar with is her prior band, the alternative rock band Drill. Here's their video for their second single, Innuendo, which gives you a pretty good idea of where Lucia was before she met Sascha and changed arena rock forever:

And finally, as promised during the podcast episode, I give to you the secret gag dub of VR Troopers. Legend has it that, after finding out their show was canceled and they were soon to be fired, the entire cast got liquored up and re-entered the ADR studio to redub their already offbeat sentai show. The results? Drunktastic:

Celebrate Cinco De Mayo With A Machete!

2010-05-05T19:54:00.002-04:00

Listeners of the podcast will know that I do not hide my love of all movies exploitation and grindhouse, so the pseudo-sequel to Robert Rodriguez' Planet Terror, Machete, has always been on the back of my mind ever since we left Rose McGowen and her rocket launcher leg. Thankfully the movie took so long to produce that it actually somehow broke the laws of time and space to become more politically relevant than ever before. I'll be throwing popcorn at people in front of me during this special engagement this fall!

Good Music You Should Know About - Caramel

2010-05-03T21:29:00.002-04:00

Continuing our flashback to the late 90s of under-the-radar alternative rock hits, we'd be remiss if we did not discuss the band Caramel, who had a modest but still face meltingly awesome hit with their song Lucy. Almost a mixture of the bass-y rhythm section of a band like the Violent Femmes mixed with the whisper/scream bravado of Folk Implosion, I can't imagine why this band didn't take off more than they did:

Episode 308 - "True Life: I Was Iron Man"

2010-04-28T14:37:00.000-04:00

Welcome back my friends to the podcast that never ends: it’s episode 308 of Fair Use Law! This week, hopped up on democracy, the triceratops tribunal sample 2 out of the 3 potential new Mountain Dew flavors so you don’t have to. Still buzzing over the ability to vote for freedom, they quickly cover Bret Michaels’ pissing in the eyes of god and god blinking, how Marvel could totally veer its way out of a real life drunk Iron Man situation, the recent Tito Ortiz/Jenna Jameson Oxycontin-on-a-pole match, Tokyo-3’s best Evangelion-themed convenience store, and more!

Mountain Dew might be taking this whole Dew-mocracy thing a little too strong, what with Chuck Norris willing to kick voter apathy's ass:

With recent events proving that Bret Michaels might be taking a break from looking for nothing but a good time and talking dirty to one and all, would you say is this recap of his accident at the Tony's is funnier or maudlin:

Also this week, while discussing the train wreck that has become Courtney Love and Hole's career, I mentioned Melissa Auf der Maur's new viking-concept themed CD. Here is the first single from it, Out of our Mind, a song I can only describe as Queens of the Stone Age if it were female and awesome:

What would an entire convenience store made up to appease the heartstrings of Evangelion otaku look like? Luckily for you, I happen to have some Angel Attack fight music-backed footage of just such a location:

Shinji Ikari, how do you feel about Evangelion as a whole, especially this whole convenience store business?

And lastly, since Comedy Central spent 2 seasons forgetting it had it on its schedule, we shall provide the Drawn Together Movie: The Movie with some additional advertising via this advertisement-like advert:

Tributes: You're not not doing them wrong!

2010-04-26T19:09:00.000-04:00

The best part of any hacky commercial on TV nowadays are the cutaway scenes of normal everyday folks, like you or I, attempting our mundane, hard to manage lives without said product to guide us and failing miserably. Thanks to the internet and Youtube, we now have the definitive tribute to these scenes all in one failable place:

Huges Yused's Used Used Car Lot

2010-04-23T20:53:00.002-04:00

With the world in its current state of rainbows, lollipops, and run on delusions sentences, you must be looking for a good use for all that extra fictional money you have sitting around. Lucky for you, I know a salesman who has just a commodity that would be, and I quote, "right up your alley:"

Used Used Car Lot starring Paul F. Tompkins from The Midnight Show

You Can't Fire EEEEEEVVVVVIIIILLLLLLLLLL

2010-04-22T20:37:00.000-04:00

Poor Funaki... he's been with the WWE since 1998, always staying just under the radar whenever the annual spring cleaning of the roster/pinkslip giveaway commences. He had a great last few years as Kung Fu Naki, the disco dancing ninja with a heart of gold, but I'm sure all his fans would remember him for being truly evil... INDEED. Relive the evil with this old Kaientai vs. Tajiri promo and Smackdown match!

Episode 307 - "The Only Thing That Grows There Is Sadness"

2010-04-21T22:35:00.005-04:00

Es bueno el jamons y el quesos mis amigos as the Fair Use Law podcast have finally hit the fabled level of 307. This week in an action packed, double sized edition of X-Factor comics, the triceratops tribunal try to hide their geekgasming glee over the over the top violence and language of Kick-Ass, come up with the worst name ever for a Harvest Moon farm and then can’t stop using it, wonder if the Phillies fan who projectile vomited on an off duty cop just might be a secret mutant, and worry about Gary Numan’s well being after the god of volcanoes being against him ever playing in the United States again.

Starting things off with the adorably inappropriate awesomesness, here is a deleted scene (I'm pretty sure) from the movie Kick Ass where Nicholas Cage, playing Big Daddy, gives his daughter, the #1 scenestealer of the cinematic adventure Hitgirl, her birthday present and a little pop quiz:

When a morbidly obese possible-mutant vomits on an off duty police officer and his daughter, I promise you that Fox 29 is there:

We also discussed our lack thereof of nostalgia for Liz Phair on the podcast, as we could not remember a single note of her music yet remembered she showed nipple on an album cover. Having uncovered this old Letterman performance, I can see why our minds would try to repress her music, because she sounds like someone blew up a copy of Sony's Singstar:

As a consolation prize for Gary Numan after missing Coachella this past weekend thanks to God's volcanic ash fury, here's an excellent HD video of him performing "Cars" with his new guitarist Robin Finick and his last band, Nine Inch Nails. Come for the moog solo, stay for the hot tambourine action!

And lastly, another week, another Naughty Bear teaser to end our show notes with. This might just be Fair Use Law's most anticipated game of 2010, folks:

Good Music You Should Know About - Soak

2010-04-19T12:35:00.000-04:00

Back in the 90s, plenty of bands were signed by major records only to be ignored by the masses and later found by teenage kids with Columbia House memberships. One of those bands for me was Soak, a post-industrial band from Texas that has a sound that could only be described as "Live gone Industrial." They had a minor hit on local modern rock stations with the song "Shuttergut," but here is their one and only music video for "Me Compassionate." Reveal in the 90s bass!

Video Game Music Sorbet - Final Fight

2010-04-17T19:29:00.002-04:00

Every Saturday here at the Fair Use Law Fight Club/Community Outreach Center, we like to sit back with a turkey leg we found in a telephone booth and listen to the music of our video game youth, like the arcade classic Final Fight. With last week's release of Final Fight Double Impact on Xbox Live Arcade, a whole new generation of boys will be sexually confused by their attraction to Poison, who is a girl in everything but the official game biography where she's really a he who's just damn good at tucking it in. Even Mike Haggar has to throw the towel in on that one!