Still chill out there, oddly enough

Not the best time in the year for early-morning classroom appearances.  Anyways, for those of you forced to venture out into the arctic winds, I've got some cold-weather songs bundled up and waiting after the jump.

I just wanted some geeky 80's synth tunes

And then it turned into this whole thing.




There's a Part 2? Well, okay, sure -- let's give it a listen. Or pageview. Whatever.




Sticking with the New Traditionalists-era synths, but dialing down the visual complexity...




Bringing visual complexity levels back up to critical capacity...




I'm not a crazed fan of the animation in this one, but the music has a nice Lemon Jelly chill to it.  Turn your speakers down first -- the test pattern tone at the beginning is a bit insistent.

My dad introduced me to Tonio K.

Er, well, okay -- he didn't introduce me to the man, you understand. But he did introduce me to this album.




Weird Al has mentioned that Tonio K's one of his heroes. You can hear the influence here:



That's not the official video. But it's dead on message.


Here's a couple more peas in that particular pod.

And now we step away from the rock-and-roll room...

Well, that was pretty damn heavy...

...so here are some tunes to help chill us all out.

Techno ZZZ's v1.01

Allow these next few selections to tug you to sleepytime.

Traveling

I need to get out of the house. The only difficulty is deciding on mode of transportation...

So maybe terrestrial travel is too tame for you

Try these, then.




I resisted getting into the excellent Love and Rockets comics for the longest time. If I'd never accidentally started in on those Penny Century comics, why, I'd never have known about this:

Shinobi showdown!

A handful of randoms

First off, some Smiths.








Then some Germans...






And then...

Spedaamo Archives

Spedaamo Corflanctal Teledormonobono Flengette Analysis Report started out as a repository for hallucinatory animated works, but I occasionally added particularly eye-catching non-psychedelia. It's much easier now to segregate animations by type, so nowadays, the Spedaamo posts are strictly visual psychedelia I've found (and remembered about) online.For impressionable minds and molecular-level dumbasses, allow the first vid to assuage your discomfort at finding a large cache of colorized, flashing pixels on a computer screen.



I don't know of any way to combine YouTube and Vimeo clips into one playlist, so the Vimeo vids are hiding after the jump.

NSFW - Emily Youcis.

Music is involved, somehow.



This, too.

NSFW - Not for the easily offended homophobe

My goodness, no.