I have to learn to play a new instrument

And to learn how to play my new musical instrument, I went to Youtube.

Where I found this absolute delight. I recommend watching all the  way to the credits.




I've subscribed to Bob Ebdon's Youtube channel. Apparently he's based in Lincoln UK, so it will be hard to get him to an Astronaut Love Triangle practice.

Recruitment time?

BoingBoing has found a serious candidate for the drummer we've been looking for.

The Three Suns: Beyond the Blue Horizon

Beyond the Blue Horizon from Bill Domonkos on Vimeo.

Original from the 1940s at the Prelinger Archive

Questions for Astronaut Love Triangle:

• Could we get alien heads with big blinking eyes?
• Or clear dome helmets?
• And should we re-record this as Beyond the Blue Event Horizon?

Brett Domino shows us how to do it

Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby "Do You Remember That"

Hadfield and Puppets

From the "We would have done this first but we're too lazy" file:

 

More Glove and Boots on Youtube

and their Blog

p.s. For this post, I tried to put "International Space Station" as the location, but Google said "Unable to find location, please try a different query." I'm disappointed, Google.

Happy Holidays from Astronaut Love Triangle, Vincent Van Gogh and the Space Aliens

We've just been outclassed

Estonia's entry in the 2013 Eurovision contest may have just completely outclassed Astronaut Love Triangle as a conceptual art/musical collective.

We dream of YouTube comment threads like theirs.

Astronaut Love Triangle salutes Chris Hadfield

And Ed Robertson and Jim Creeggan and the Barenaked Ladies and the Wexford Gleeks from Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts and the CBC, for transporting aboard the spacepunk bandwagon, or a reasonable facsimile thereof! I hope we've properly acknowledged everybody.

Performance at the Michel-Ange Café

(photos mostly by K. Anderson Link for Full Size Slide Show or Flickr Set )


Astronaut Love Triangle can strongly recommend the Michel-Ange Café as a performance venue.

And we garnered some compliments ourselves:

• ...You were very entertaining and clever. Such fun. Please keep us on your  listserv of groupies. (AB)
• Fantastic show. I loved everything and everybody. (SS)

Performance on Saturday, Oct. 13 au Michel-Ange Café

Space punk from your favourite performance art collective in Ottawa's coolest new intimate venue.

Joined by the fabulous:

• Sally Robinson (opening)
• Elizabeth Riley Band (closing)

Sat, October 13, 8pm – 11pm

35 Laurel Street, Ottawa (Le Michel-Ange Café) map

$9 at the door

Rolf Harris: Is the dance over?

I'm on a Rolf Harris kick this weekend.
Had to share this video with you.

This is from a British show called the Money or the Gun and every week a different performer did a version of Stairway to Heaven.
I think Astronaut Love Triangle needs to get a wobble board.

Bollywood's Answer to the Beatles

From Janwar (1965). I want to see this movie. IMDB says:

Mr. Srivastava lives a very wealthy lifestyle with his wife, and two sons, Mahendra and Sunder. He plans to get both his sons married to women from equally wealthy backgrounds. This does not happen, as Mahendra falls in love with Seema, who is poor and lives with her stepmother. This creates considerable acrimony in the family, and Seema is not accepted as a daughter-in-law. Unable to find a solution, Mahendra takes to alcohol and falls in the bewitching clutches of a beautiful courtesan by the name of Bahaar. 

While vacationing in Srinagar, Sunder meets with Sapna, who also comes from a poor family, falls in love with her and wants to marry her. She, too, falls in love with him. After the vacation, the two then part company. The next time Sapna sees Sunder in the company of a pregnant woman, and overhears that Sunder is soon to be a father. Did Sunder decide to obey his father's instructions after all? If so, what is to become of Sapna?

The Ottawa Public Libary has a bunch of Bollywood titles, but they don't have this one.

The Internauts - Who You Calling Spineless?

It's all about invertebrates.

Cover art concept for our conceptual 45 RPM conceptual art single

A little All Hallows Eve music

Hallowe'en is coming! A video collage with appropriate backing track from The Strangelings, covering Donovan. Can't get much eerier than that!

Brett Domino - Jurassic Park

Brett Domino has the best instruments and he knows how to use them.

Young the Giant - "Cough Syrup"

Interesting use of food colouring.

Space Girl by The Imagined Village

From Wikipedia:

The Imagined Village is a folk musical project founded by Simon Emmerson of the Afro Celt Sound System. It is intended to produce modern folk music that represents modern multiculturalism in the United Kingdom and as such, features musicians from a wide variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The name of the project comes from the 1993 book The Imagined Village by Georgina Boyes.

MeekaKitty's Star Trek Girl