…and all they have on YouTube are music files with pictures because NBC takes sharing violations seriously…ugh.

Yesterday some friends and I were talking and they referenced “Ras Trent,” and since I don’t watch much TV (except what’s on Hulu.com) I had no idea what they were talking about. After failing to find it on YouTube and mentioning that they didn’t know of a real iPhone app to watch Hulu, I decided to look it up today. And instead of just watching it and (hopefully) laughing, I decided to share the video on this blog (courtesy of Hulu.)

I am now in the loop. And it turns out I know 20 of this guy.

Now if I was a comics aficionado, I might have taken some umbrage at the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated cartoon series because of changes to the characters’ personalities. Luckiuly I was like 7 years old, thought pizza, sunglasses and skateboarding were cool and…well, I guess I still think pizza, sunglasses and skateboarding are cool. I have no problem with this.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 7 includes 27 episodes to be released for the first time ever as four separate collectible DVDs featuring one of your favorite turtles on each cover. Each disc includes different episodes from the season and a Mini-Classic Turtles Action Figure! Collect all 4 DVDs to complete your Season 7 set– even the cases fit together to complete a unified action scene!

Warning, terrible pun alert:

Shell-ebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles® and the coming arrival of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 7 collectable DVD series

Yikes.

One of the neat things about editing the Syntheis Weekly is that I get a first-had crack at the action before the paper even hits the streets. Last Friday I was proofing Mad Bob Howard’s column, and he referenced a fellow “outsider artist” (aside: something about the term “outsider art” or “outsider artist” makes me cringe, and therefore, encase it in quotes like some sort of literary specimin) by the name of Jonathan Troxler.

Easter is one of those bizarre holidays – quasi-religious, quasi-pagan, entirely alcoholic these days. It has really become a post-modern event. Thanks to Johnathan Troxler’s terrific and terrifying paintings I will never get the image of the crucified Easter Bunny out of my head. That and the three stooges strumming the guitar in a manger for baby Jesus and Santa Claus. This is Troxler’s older work – to me it doesn’t point to any particular warp or hiccup in his character – instead it asks of us a simple and direct question: What kind of sick freaks are we?

Three Stooges as the Three Wise Men, with Baby Jesus and Santa in the Manger? Sounds like my kind of religous art! Unfortunately I couldn’t find that particular image on any of Troxler’s sites, but I did manage to uncover a few other precious religous art specimens. Enjoy.

So the Harry Potter franchise is about to become the number one grossing cinematic what-have-you in the history of film. The top dog in all-time moneymakers. But, is it not worth saying that GROSS SUCCESS should be adjusted to the time of said film’s release? How is it even possible to compare the total dollars made with the Star Wars franchise to that made from Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings? I know that something like Star Wars has a huge head start, but at $2.50 a ticket (or whatever the fuck people paid in LA back in the fucking day) it’s ENTIRELY IMPOSSIBLE to compare the two. Yeah? Make sense? So anytime you see a headline balking about the new “top grossing film of all-time,” just remember that it doesn’t take into account anything other than current dollars and cents, and that money is in no way a sign of quality. FUCK YOU WAR OF THE WORLDS.

I guess Glenn Beck’s apocalyptic fear-mongering is even starting to scare his own guests. Check out Columbia University professor David Buckner taking a dive on last night’s show.

Those familiar with Tera Melos know the group as one of the foremost purveyors of intense, super-spastic math prog. But proving that everybody’s got a lighter side, Tera Melos now presents their take on a cult classic theme song from a cult classic television show: “Hey Sandy” from Nickelodeon’s fabled Pete and Pete.

“Hey Sandy” was originally penned by Polaris, which was actually just a pseudonym offshoot for the band Miracle Legion, thrown together specifically to lay background music for the show. It’s the opinion of this writer though that Polaris was fucking badass, and the little switch they flipped into side project mode turned the corner on real group.

Anywho, with a blend between authenticity and creativity, Tera Melos could possibly find themselves being referred to as “that band who covers the Pete and Pete song” amid the right circles, which isn’t so bad. Have a look at the Melos rendition below, and then peep the original here.