You Better Squatch Yourself


Well it didn’t take long for scientists to discover that the so called bigfoot corpse, that I wrote of in an earlier post, is indeed a costume. Beginning with a hair analysis sample, in which the hair is burned, Squatch’s fur melted right into a ball proving it to be synthetic. Not long after that, as the corpse thawed out, it was discovered to be no more than a well made rubber costume.

I’m no where near surprised that the corpse was a costume but what truly puzzles me is, “Why did these guys do it?” I guess the obvious answer would be for the recognition, even it did end up making them look like a couple of con-men, I guess any publicity is good publicity. Though there’s no way they could of made any dough on this stunt, buying the costume and the materials had to be damn pricey, doesn’t seem likely that the scientists could of given them all that much for it, I guess they’re just a couple of nuts.

I have no idea how these guys managed to get this kind of attention, especially the press conference they got but you gotta give them props for their ability to convince people of what they’d supposedly found. I hear they have a website where they detail all of their Bigfoot ventures, so that might be worth checking out for more on these two “explorers”. There you go, thought I’d just put some closure to this little story, life goes on.

Squatch Went Down to Georgia


Recently in the world of weird, two Georgian’s have revealed in a California press conference to have finally discovered the corpse of a “Bigfoot” in their native Georgia. Rick Dwyer (a car salesman) and Matt Whitton (police officer) claim to have found the 7-ft creature’s corpse while hiking and on August 15th and announced to the press that they’ve hand selected scientists to do DNA testing on this creature.

Thus far scientists have yet to come to a definite conclusion as one DNA test came back inconclusive, one containing traces of human DNA and another of opossum. The creature which was placed into a large freezer is currently being investigated and now being prepared for an autopsy,

If you ask me this is all pretty cool, the fact that this is being so heavily looked into gets me to thinking that this will be a good story as it unravels in the future. Another addition to the lore of Bigfoot that’s generated a lot of renewed interest in the mysterious creature, though like many similar discoveries I’m sure this will come up as just another prank or scam. lots of details have been sketchy including; where they found creature, what they were doing and so on and so forth. Not to mention the fact that they insisted on having their own scientists examine the creature. I’m surprised this has gotten the media attention it has online so until there’s some conclusive evidence released, this sounds like a big fat hairy hoax.

The story still developing so if your curious I suggest you check out the articles, it’s some crazy stuff.

Post Movie Bullet Points: 2001: A Space Odyssey

I just finished 2001, and I thought I’d share my experience through a series of bullet points. These thoughts may or may not be in chronological order and may or may not have to do with the movie.

  • These monkeys rock.
  • Whats with that black thing?
  • These monkeys are bad ass.
  • I wanna see space chimps.
  • Wait, no I don’t.
  • Where the hell is Buster?
  • How come these two douches aren’t sleeping?
  • HAL is a little bitch.
  • This score rocks
  • The Superman theme rocks.
  • Not really about the last half hour of this.
  • That first ship kinda looks like an escape pod.
  • This looks sweet.

All in all pretty sweet movie. See you next time.

Mundaneday

Bored? Than why not take a peak at this video fellow Cat Fancy blogger Colin Wessman, Adrian Swan, Paul Otten and myself made in August 2007, but wasn’t posted on YouTube until a few days ago. Hopefully this means there will be more filmed sketches and what not from the Cat Fancy crew these days so keep watching.

For the most part I just need to up my view count, so even if you’ve seen it I think you’d better view it a few more times to get the full impact.

R.I.P. Isaac Hayes


Isaac Hayes
1942-2008

In what’s beginning to look like the most depressing August in recent memory, I’m sad to post that legendary baritone-voiced, musician/actor Isaac Hayes has passed away. Found earlier today after collapsing on a treadmill Isaac Hayes was pronounced dead an hour later at the age of 65, a cause of death has yet to be released.

So what can I say about the legendary personality behind the oscar/grammy award winning Shaft theme, the villain from the cult classic Escape From New York or as I remember him best the voice of Chef till his umm, demise. It’s just damn depressing writing these RIP’s and especially when it’s someone you’re a moderate fan of, peace out Isaac.

R.I.P. Bernie Mac


Bernie Mac
1957-2008

It’s always a shame to see any performer pass away before their time so suddenly. It’s especially grim to see someone succumb to pneumonia (supposedly brought on by Mac’s sarcoidosis) being that you figured that’s a illness that could be properly treated these days, but I guess not. Star of the long running Bernie Mac Show, Mr. 3000 and one of my favorite holiday comedies Bad Santa, it’s a real downer to see a comedic personality like Bernie Mac pass away regardless of how much of a fan you were or weren’t. I’ll make this brief as I’m no Bernie Mac expert but I give my deepest sympathies to his fans and family.

Falling Down


I’m pretty sure I told most of the Cat Fancy crew about this, but for anyone else who isn’t aware, this fall will be totally sweet regarding upcoming albums. Browsing the web I couldn’t believe that Kings of Leon’s new album “Only By the Night” not only comes out this year but next month. As of September 23, 2008 KOL will release their 4th album, which is described as a heavier rock oriented record only a year after their previous album “Because of the Times”, there’s even a single up on their MySpace titled “Sex On Fire”.

For October or as I prefer to call it “Rocktober”, which will at least be a good month for me will see Oasis releasing their seventh studio album “Dig Out Your Soul” on October 7th which is supposed to be a more groove based upscale kind of album similar to “Be Here Now” which I’v never really been a fan but the song lengths are significantly shorter on this album, so hopefully it’ll be a lot tighter. On October 13th both Leed’s pub rockers The Kaiser Chiefs and English wimps Keane will have albums out titled “Off With Their Heads” and “Perfect Symmetry” respectively, sounds like a good day to me. Weezer will also come around town to the Key Arena on October 11th which is a saturday, so that might be fun after I check how reasonable the ticket prices are and find out when they go on sale.

November has a lot of unspecified release dates but so far it looks like both U2 and The Killers will have new albums out. U2 has already set a release date, at least that’s what it says online of about November 18th. The working title is “No Line on the Horizon” but that could be subject to change, either way that could be cool. The Killers have sure been keeping their fans busy with an the release of “Sam’s Town” in 2006, a B-Sides compilation “Sawdust’ in 2007 and now a new album this fall. Not much is known yet but the album’s working title is “Day and Age” and should be out in late November. Franz Ferdinand is supposed to have an album out in November as well but info on that is sparse so I’ll just sit here and wait.

That’s pretty much all I’ve heard about so far, but who knows what surprise will be waiting around the bend. After that secret release of The Raconteurs last album back in spring I’m ready for anything, so bring it.

(Pictured above Caleb Followill, lead vocalist/guitarist of Kings of Leon)