Author: Joey deVilla

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Last night’s Nerd Noise Night at the Horseshoe Tavern with headlining act The Cybertronic Spree was nerd-tastic. The opening acts featured musical performances ranging from folk to hip-hop to electronica, all covering topics of video games, sci-fi, and general geekery, much to the delight of the audience, most of whom came to the show from Fan Expo. I don’t think I’ve seen so many Wolverine claws at a Queen Street bar!

The Cybertronic Spree dressed up as characters from the 1986 Transformers movie (Hot Rod, Arcee, Rumble, Spike, Unicron, and a Quintesson) and played songs from its soundtrack — did an excellent job. Not only did they get the crowd dancing, they also played note-perfect versions of those oh-so-eighties tunes from the film, including its best-known one:

WIl McLean got some great shots of the band in action:

Ten years ago around this time, The White Stripes’ Fell in Love with a Girl was an alt-rock hit. One night, while having a group of friends over for dinner, my friend Meryle asked if I could play it on accordion. Not only did I know how, but I decided to give it a little Maurice Chevalier twist and perform it as if it were a modern-day version of his disturbing ditty Thank Heaven for Little Girls. My fake French accent is terrible; I sound like a cross between a drunk Pepe Le Pew and the guy outside Club Super Sexe on Ste-Catherine, but I rather enjoy my rendition of the song.

Nerd Noise Night — a wonderful evening of geek-centric rock — is happening tonight at the Horseshoe Tavern. Tickets are a mere $10, and they’re going fast. A number of bands will take the stage tonight, including The Cybertronic Spree, who dress up as characters from the 1986 Transformers animated film (the only animated Transformers work that features a swear word, and Orson Welles’ last film before he died!) and playing songs from the soundtrack:

In case you’ve never seen the film, a kind soul has shared it on YouTube. Until all are one!

A nice lunch with my family, with great food, then teaching my nephew some jazz basics on the piano. Hope your Saturday’s going well!

This amused me.

Nana nana nana nana nana nana nana nana FARMING!

If it were up to me to pick the new Doctor for Doctor Who, I’d have gone with Paul Johnson’s fake-anime version made in 2010. It’s based on the Third Doctor, played by Jon Pertwee from 1970 to 1974. Here’s real Pertwee…

…and here’s anime Pertwee, doing something the real Pertwee couldn’t: dropping some smackdown science on thugs in an alley!

Johnson’s anime Doctor Who takes place in Tokyo, so he’s seen fit to give him a Japanese companion, Tomo Kajiura, who seems to be a cop who prefers to wear Daisy Dukes:

It even has UNIT’s Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, still complaining that too many aliens are bulletproof:

There seems to be a legal requirement for anime, even fake non-Japanese anime, to have at least one schoolgirl uniform:

Of course, it’s not Doctor Who without bad guys. There’s The Master, see here in front of one of Japan’s ubiquitious canned coffee-dispensing machines. The coffee logo in the cartoon, Coffee Master, is modelled after the real-life brand Boss Coffee:

I rather like this faux-Japanese treatment of the Cybermen:

And of course the Daleks are there too:

It’s all pretty amusing, and it’s pure crack for someone who appreciates both Doctor Who and anime. Enjoy!