Animated Shorts #4

Coffee, the elixir of life. I'm your typical recovering alcoholic, smoke like I may never be able to smoke again and drink coffee like I did my liquor, day and night, gallons at a time.  Not snooty about my coffee, but I can't stand the cheapest stuff that tastes like it was swept off the floor.  That's what they brew at work, tight budget and all, I choked it down for years, gotta have that java fix, even though it's straight from hell.  Our secretary (from the fair land of Costa Rica, where coffee is cherished), these days brews a "secret" pot of the good stuff that a few of us are blessed to thankfully enjoy. From another email sent by my Gramps, entitled "Breathalyzer (the written test)". I'm not sure if my Grandpa knows that I grew up to be the raging-est of alcoholics or that I managed to clean myself up almost 9 years ago.  Also not sure if there would be disappointed and then relief, probably best to just leave that alone.  One of a few things left that I have a hard time forgiving myself for, is my DUI, 13 years ago.  Must have drove drunk 1000 times, but what made this so "special" was there was an accident and my son was sitting next to me in his car seat.  Not my proudest moment by a long shot, in fact, along with 3 or 4 other events, something that should damn me to hell.   So there is inherent humor in the activities of a stumbling bumbling slurring drunk, but there's some thing tragic there too. Figured I needed to insert some music in this non-musical post...Epic female fronted in Spanish EBM/Industrial (did I mention it was epic?) by way of my electronic music prophet Rafael Prayers... Hocico - Without a God

Super high quality, sci-fi gore and brutality... "PostHuman"

[video width="640" height="360" mp4="http://mustard-relics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/PostHuman-sci-fi-action-animated-short-film-directed-by-Cole-Drumb.mp4"][/video] Short but "sweet"... "The Sad Tale of Bad Breath Joe"

[video width="640" height="360" mp4="http://mustard-relics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/The-Sad-Tale-Of-Bad-Breath-Joe-Disturbing-Animation.mp4"][/video]

this one's a trip, good action and I love claymation... "Ward 13" http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=5375f05d7ae4

Melt-Banana - Lefty Dog (Run Caper Run)

New Melt-Banana video...this new incarnation is growing on me... "Lefty Dog (Run Caper Run)" [video width="640" height="360" mp4="http://mustard-relics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Lefty-Dog-Run-Caper-Run-MELT-BANANA.mp4"][/video]

The Day My Kid Went Punk

The 80's were an interesting era, so much plastic, so much aerosol, you could redesign yourself with a can of hairspray.  This ABC Afterschool Special aired the year I graduated from high school, unbeknownst to me (I didn't watch too much TV at the time), I only just discovered it.  Didn't watch the whole thing, kinda skipped through, but apparently this young lads romp into punk rock was based on attention seeking, his family just wasn't making him feel special.  At this point in my life I pretty much completely subscribed to the Crass-ism that punk was dead.  Looking back and I guess it's true today, the music we listen to plays such a big role in our cultural identity.  Societies kneejerk reaction is always on the outside looking and in this case it's comical and pathetic...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEptCSLhgfk]