Sasquatch, Hedorah, Frankenstein–shades of all these famous monsters can be found in this pretty enthralling clip for Menomena’s “Cough Coughing,” directed by Jonnie Ross. Just when you think you know where this little creature-feature music video is going, it goes someplace else.

A hi-res version can be found here.

Now here’s a great horror video. It’s for the song “Sheena Is a Parasite” by UK outfit the Horrors (love the name, love the look, pretty sweet song too), and it’s directed by Chris Cunningham, whom horror fans will likely remember for his insanely harrowing clip for Aphex Twin’s “Come to Daddy,” or a longer collaboration with Aphex called “Rubber Johnny.” I’ve been putting off watching this thing for a month or so. Boy, do I regret it.

Damn.

I have no dog in this race, but Jason Adams wrote the following in his latest post in praise of Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain, and it’s a doozy:

Yes, Weisz’ character is written in the well-worn shorthand of The Perfect Gal, with big loving doe-eyes and a wicked laugh, who once ran ahead in a sexy dress and who now needs to be rescued.

“Who once ran ahead in a sexy dress”–pow.

Hi, I’m Sean Collins. Have we met?

Stacie Ponder on Candyman

My swell co-worker Rick Marshall’s five favorite scary movies

Mersidotes’s five favorite scary movies (the inspiration for Rick’s list)

Jason Adams whups on Yahoo! UK’s top ten horror movie list

Rich Juziak on Saw III, Chaos and “torture porn” horror films

An underwater photo from Loch Ness that diddled my sea-monster skittle

Idaho State University’s Professor Jeffrey Meldrum, Sasquatchologist and faculty pariah

Eve Tushnet wants you to read Love & Rockets

Eve Tushnet still wants you to read Love & Rockets

The University of Arizona Marching Band plays Radiohead so well that it literally made me cry

I’ve been drinking the Smuttynose Brewing Company’s Pumpkin Ale a lot lately

Nostromo Design makes some great horror t-shirts

The Symphony of Exploding Heads

I have now ordered Season One of Battlestar Galactica on DVD for the third time. The first time, a month went by before the seller informed me they were out of stock and refunded my money. The second time, I received some weird bare-bones version with different packaging and next to no extras. Let’s hope the third time’s the charm. So say we all.

I’ve returned to my seat at Horror Blog Steven’s Horror Roundtable this week, talking about a movie that scared the crap out of me as a kid. Here’s a clue:

Still kinda scares me now, actually.

Feast your eyes, glut your soul on the final Lost TVQB roundtable until, like, Valentine’s Day or something. I’ll miss you, fish biscuits.

Meanwhile, watch me jabber on about Dr. Strange: The Oath, Batman, Stormwatch: Post Human Division, 52, Gen 13, Punisher MAX, Superman, Tales of the Unexpected, and Ultimate X-Men in this week’s Thursday Morning Quarterback comic-book roundtable.

Lame

Lame

Lame

Gawker in particular should be ashamed of itself. This meme was cheesy and overplayed by Friday evening.

1) I’ve actually seen more people saying/writing “you’re gonna be sick of Borat catchphrases by next Tuesday” than I’ve seen saying/writing Borat catchphrases themselves.

2) The commentary on VH1’s Top 100 Songs of the ’80s is awfully perfunctory: They didn’t bother to say that “Just Can’t Get Enough” was written by Vince Clarke, who went on to form Yazoo and Erasure; they didn’t bother to say that “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” was a cover, etc. If all you’re going to do is have Godfrey sing the first line in the chorus and have the narrator say “the crowds thinned out in the ’90s, but such-and-such is still going strong,” is it even worth doing?

My day-job adventures continue:

Behold, the longest Lost roundtable review EVER.

And hear me sound off on Superman Confidential, 52, Justice League of America, Criminal, Ex Machina, The Exterminators, Midnighter, Tales Designed to Thrizzle, and X-Men: Phoenix–Warsong in our Thursday Morning Quarteback comics-review colloquy.