Gaga: Five Foot Two

Born this Way, Bad Romance… I know these tunes by cultural osmosis more than having listened to them in rotation. As a baby boomer, I’ve moved from pop to denser electronic and experimental genres, but I listen to all manner of playlists and  I wonder if given the limited...

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RIP, Cassini

We’ve now witnessed the passing of NASA’S greatest explorer, the Satellite Cassini, which flew nearly a billion stress-causing but mostly trouble-free miles to its destination, Saturn, sending spectacular photos and info every step of the way. The heroes of this mission,...

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Time Is the Jones

What would you do with YOUR time machine? Like, after you got over the mind-whack of what that actually meant. That you could dial up a time in the past and transport yourself there, knowing what you know now, walking amongst the populace as the secret God of Tomorrow. When...

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Happy Peace Day, Space Aliens!

Nukes, wars, megalomaniacs – it’s enough to make you wanna move to a nice, safe dictatorship and hide in a comfy cement cell. But hey, nothing changes a day in the life like a full-scale alien invasion, sci-fi style. You want peace on earth and someone to show you the way? There's...

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“Our Tomorrow” vs Software Tech

The end of my live retro scifi futurism show features an original tune called "Our Tomorrow" which is about connecting with intelligent life on other planets. Simple concept, dramatic tune, it starts quietly emotional, lyrics describing the frustration of not yet making...

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind, post-screening follow-up

What an experience to see it present day. Had a pre-screening dinner in the towering LA Live section of downtown LA with 50 new friends, all brought together by Paul Hynek, son of the man who worked closely with Steve Spielberg to bring the original movie to light 40 years...

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The Guns of Sci Fi

They shoot colored beams of light, in streams, lines and glowy balls. Interestingly, they all shoot slowly, to better illustrate the path they are taking and show off said balls. They're various forms of deadly, depending on the weapon. Some just stun their target, some...

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Dark Blather

This series cancellation brought to you by I-Former, the app that sorts out your past life and keeps mostly the best parts. Purchase a one-year membership and get two months of memories free. Click here for clone reconstruction. When you choose TablaSordidum, you're...

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Keepin' Up With the Jetsons

What's it gonna be like to run with the fast crowd in the year 2400? Will we still be waiting at rope lines to get into the coolest zero-grav clubs? Dropping big bucks on magnums of GoThereJuice and sporting the latest pomp-doos? I wrote this song to give myself a little...

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The Orville

Cool CGI, big music underscoring, shiny interiors and costumes that look like everyone is about to get in formation and march down the football field playing an arrangement of the latest Taylor Swift tune. The Orville (Fox, Sundays) made its debut last night with Seth...

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Where Retro Meets Futurism

In 1928, Fritz Lang unleashed his masterwork, Metropolis, on an unsuspecting movie-going public. No one had had ever seen the spectacle of a beautiful female robot brought to life via the genius of a possessed inventor using glowing animated electrical rings pulsating up...

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Mars vs Doonesbury

Surprisingly thought-provoking Sunday comic from Gary Trudeau, the beloved author of the 40+ year strip, who, along with Charles Shultz, ranks as the only artist to be regularly published with vintage re-runs while being listed as "On vacation" during most...

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This Sci Fi Weather

In 2004, the movie “Day After Tomorrow” depicted a freak weather system that inundates Earth with Armageddon-style weather, from tidal waves engulfing New York City to a permafrost that kills billions, while survivors hunker down awaiting a thaw. Cool CG, including your basic...

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Carl's Gold Record

Hey, it's the anniversary of the Golden Record -- the one that Carl Sagan lovingly assembled and pasted to the side of Voyager 1, sending it off into space for parts unknown. What do you put on a record meant for curious aliens to grok centuries from now?...

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Voices

My career has been a winding road of artistry and entrepreneurship-by-necessity. Fortunately, I've been able to make left-brain choices that closely supported right. Early on, I realized that working from home offered the great advantage of time and convenience and by my junior year in college, I had my first little 2-track tape studio set up in a...

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Monolith

Fifty years after the fact, the majestic black structure found on the moon by astronauts in the film 2001 still stands as a perfect metaphor for the mysteries of space. Left by some vastly superior race, they are present on Earth at the dawn of man and in the astronaut's...

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Close Encounters

Let me tell you about my experience with Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I’m old enough to have seen it first run at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood back in 1977 and this weekend is its 40th anniversary, celebrating with new prints in a one-week run at theaters...

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Unbearable Love

Solaris, the Stephen Soderbergh’s 2002 film starring George Clooney and Natascha McElhone, frames a classic story of heartbreak a billion miles from Earth, orbiting a mysterious planet in a space station sent to figure what’s up. Something big enough to fly Clooney’s eminent...

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