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Keiji Haino + Jim O'Rourke + Oren Ambarchi Live at SuperDeluxe, Tokyo Jan 30, 2012

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You are a saint and a hero, the true cousin of Sir Jesus Chtist. Brad Neely is one of the world's greatest living artists. And you're not alone - I think the still frames were sorely missed in the China IL show (though the animation was often very well done.)

China, IL: “The Funeral” | May 26, 2008 - 12:45AM | S00E01

This one feels daunting to me, and it’s not just because I cried while watching this. It’s more because I don’t know exactly how to adequately praise this one. I will say, I was excited to revisit this one, and it fuckin’ holds up. In fact, I was surprised by how much of this I remembered, because it’s been quite a while since I’ve revisited it. 

Brad Neely was maybe the best thing about Super Deluxe, excluding Tim & Eric Nite Live. I honestly feel remiss not including his Super Deluxe work somehow in a more chronologicalized way.

It wouldn’t be until much later until this became an actual weekly series. When it became a weekly series, it underwent a cosmetic overhaul, with actual animation instead of a rapid succession of stills which this special and Neely’s Super Deluxe shorts used. I always wished they’d stuck with this more minimalistic format; though I may be alone in that. I remember some people saw this show as a harbinger of bad things to come, animation-wise. People who couldn’t hang with Tom Goes to the Mayor for it’s limited-animation probably REALLY hated this.

The plot of this episode: Baby Cakes finds a diary belonging to a woman. She was a professor at his college, where his father works, as well as the professor brothers Steve and Frank. She dated Frank, and secretly despised him. She hated a lot of stuff about her life, and spilled her truth on the pages of her secret book.

Baby Cakes finds out that he’s dead, and in fact the diary was taken from just outside the site of her fatal car crash. Baby Cakes begins to cope with the fact that he’s in love with a dead woman, and also harbors the secret knowledge that Frank, who is despondent, but also oblivious to the fact that she hated him. Eventually Baby Cakes, in an act of posthumous love, dramatically reveals the truth at the woman’s wake. Frank runs naked towards the graveyard where she’s buried his friends all come to his rescue. 

I know this doesn’t all exactly sound like a hilarious romp. But Neely has a way with words and funny drawings that somehow make the material hilarious. Nearly every turn-of-phrase in this is meticulously written to be funny, and there are many expressionistic/imaginative tangents from these characters to keep it lively and interesting. There are subtle, blink-and-you’ll-miss-them sight gags. The imagery has great comic and dramatic timing. There’s references to the previous shorts thrown in there for those of us who’ve been along for the ride. It manages to be deep, soulful, hilarious, beautiful, and unpretentious.

It’s frankly incredible that I never got fully obsessed with the original shorts. I think that’s because I didn’t really like watching these on the Super Deluxe website. Sad! As a comedic influence, I underrate Neely drastically. There are all kinds of moments in this where I thought to myself “oh, I try to write shit like this all the time”. It’s sad to say that my barrier for appreciating him fully was a technical one. If I were able to buy these shorts on DVD and watch them in order on my television set, I probably would’ve repeated them into the ground. But. 

The shot of the three kids on bikes, sorta apathetically watching the funeral party bury the teacher. It’s a small detail and they show it for like, a second. This bit might be the single strongest memory I have of this show. It’s just so great. Sorta sums up what makes this great, at least in my mind.

Anyway: This originally began airing on Super Deluxe in four parts, with a few extra title cards. It flows great as one long thing, though. It seems like it’s supposed to be one long thing, in my opinion. I watched both versions, curious to see if there was a lack of censorship in the one scene where Frank freaks out and starts cussin’ up the wake of his lady love. The version I saw was still censored. It’s on Brad Neely’s Youtube channel. The thing is, these probably wound up on Adult Swim’s site as well in this format, so maybe the shorts got bleeped too, and and maybe that’s what survives. Not sure.

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What follows is my attempt to piece together a complete listing of Brad Neely videos that were ever uploaded to Super Deluxe, along with upload dates and times. I’ve also included the descriptions from Super Deluxe. Where available, there are YouTube links. Shortly after this special, Super Deluxe was absorbed into Adult Swim’s website, where they offered a fraction of the Super Deluxe library with additional censorship to meet Adult Swim’s standards and practices.

NOTE: The running times listed are as they appeared on the Super Deluxe listing. I included them on the off chance that they would be required to help identify a particular video that may or may not have been retitled. For the most part it was unnecessary, but I don’t feel like deleting them. A few of the videos had a 0:00 running time attached, which is why some of them are not noted. I assume that was a glitch, because none of these videos are 0 seconds long.

ALSO NOTE: first there was a non-Super Deluxe short: Washington. I was trying to pin down a date, but the best I could do was I found an article from December of 2006 that said it played as part of the Spike and Mike Festival of Animation. I went to re-find this article and couldn’t. I guess that’s what I get for haphazardly closing tabs. A Brad Neely interview from the Super Deluxe era reveals that he sold the rights to the short to Spike and Mike along with the characters of Cox & Combes, which lead to him creating the Professor Brothers. I think they were characters from Creased Comics.

January 4, 2007 - 10:41 AM EST Professor Brothers - Bible History #1 Who says the Bible is boring? Our favorite scriptural scribbler, Brad Neely, breathes new life into the Sodom and G-town yarn, complete with sexy angels, ca-ca eating and lots of things that’ll send you to straight to Hell.

January 13, 2007 - 11:53 AM EST I Am Baby Cakes - Diary #1 The soon-to-be-popular myth of Baby Cakes begins here. In his very first diary entry, Baby Cakes introduces us to his wizard father, his role-playing friends and expounds on what it’s like to be a man-child still living at home.

January 19, 2007 - 4:40 PM EST Buh Buh (0:16) I Am Baby Cakes commercial for Super Deluxe [dot] com.

January 19, 2007 - 4:49 PM EST Good Person (0:16) I Am Baby Cakes commercial for Super Deluxe [dot] com.

January 19, 2007 - 4:50 PM EST Party List (0:16) I Am Baby Cakes commercial for Super Deluxe [dot] com.

January 19, 2007 - 4:56 PM EST Cat People (0:16) I Am Baby Cakes commercial for Super Deluxe [dot] com.

January 19, 2007 - 4:58 PM EST Doors (00:31) I Am Baby Cakes commercial for Super Deluxe [dot] com.

January 29, 2007 - 8:43 AM EST Professor Brothers present History Lesson #1 Who cares who shot JFK? Brad Neely’s Professor Brothers know the real story behind the slain prince of Camelot. And they’ve got a single-bullet sing-along that’s guaranteed to silence all the other crackpot conspiracies.

February 5, 2007 - 8:45 AM EST I Am Baby Cakes - Diary #2 (3:32) We all have to start somewhere, and Baby Cakes is no exception. Our favorite rapping role-player takes a trip down the family line to bond with his pops and grandpops over King Drunk beers, dysfunction and fire.

February 12, 2007 - 8:45 AM EST The Professor Brothers - Late Date (3:32) If you’re late for a hot double date, you’d better have a good excuse-like Frank’s. It involves explaining to the Professor Brothers’ boss, the Dean, why there are two soiled condoms lying in the backseat of his car.

February 20, 2007 - 8:49 AM EST I Am Baby Cakes - Diary #3 (2:48) A day in the park makes for some strange diary musings in Baby Cakes’ world. In his darkest entry yet, Mr. Cakes reflects on death, dream girls and the dreaded Brain Fuckler that he sometimes sees humping people’s faces in public.

February 26, 2007 - 8:58 AM EST I Am Baby Cakes - Baby Cakes Sees a Play (2:18) For hundreds of years, Shakespeare’s King Lear has asked, “Who is it that can tell me who I am?” Now we have an answer, courtesy of Brad Neely’s beloved man-child creation, Baby Cakes. He’s not afraid to get excited. Or to see a play.’

March 5, 2007 - 8:49 AM EST Professor Brothers - Office Hours (2:41) The Professor Brothers both like to make time for their students - they even schedule their office hours together. This helps when Steve wants to get Frank caught up on the new Kenny Winker tune. Haven’t heard it yet? Let Steve handle the monotone singing and you just rock out.

March 14, 2007 - 8:49 AM EDT Brad Neely - Bring the Gold (1:00) Blime us! This little bastard might be the first rapper in the age of bling to disavow real paper money. That’s because Brad Neely’s lil’ leprechaun only wants you to bring the gold this St. Patrick’s Day.

March 19, 2007 - 8:57 AM EDT I Am Baby Cakes - Diary #4 (3:08) A lovelorn Baby Cakes tells his diary, “When I was around her, I felt like a goblin made entirely out of wicked genitals.” We ask: who hasn’t felt that way about their dad’s girlfriend? Especially one named Shirley Moats.

March 26, 2007 - 8:39 AM EDT The Professor Brothers - Substitute (3:11) The Professor Brothers are always there for each other. When Frank needs to skip his US history lecture to run an errand, Steve comes through in the clutch. By offending each and every student with his utterly f*cked up take on America’s past.

April 29, 2007 - 11:47 PM EDT I Am Baby Cakes - The Role Play Tournament (2:34) In a perfect world, this jam would stay perched on top of the Billboard charts longer than “Dark Side Of The Moon.” Mic in hand, Baby Cakes spits some mad lyrics about D&D role-playing and his two-word philosophy: be aggressive.

May 6, 2007 - 11:25 PM EDT The Professor Brothers - Future Thoughts (2:33) What’s the future going to be like? Find out in this bizarro symposium curated by the Professor Brothers. Features cameos by Kenny Winker, Chimmy Chummy and Baby Cakes!

May 13, 2007 - 11:54 PM EDT I Am Baby Cakes - Lies (2:48) Oh, cruel and deceitful world. You have tried to deceive Baby Cakes for the last time. And he’s not going to take it anymore (without singing about it).

May 28, 2007 - 1:05 AM EDT The Professor Brothers - Fliff Night, Part 1 (2:39) Oh, what a night Frank had! Seems the Professor Brother was the life of the science department’s big Oppenheimer piñata party. That is, until the fliff throwing came to an abrupt end.

June 3, 2007 - 11:21 PM EDT The Professor Brothers - Fliff Night, Part 2 (2:17) Oh, how the fliff has fallen! In the second half of this Professor Brothers saga, Frank recounts how his big boozy night out turned ugly. And left him single again.

July 1, 2007 - 10:36 PM EDT Brad Neely - American Moments of Maybe (2:14) US history? Boooooring. Brad Neely’s alternative takes on America’s past? F'n yeah! Heck, he had us at the mere mention of Nat Turner’s Punchout.

July 12, 2007 - 1:45 PM EDT Kenny Winkler: Now We Can Make Love (1:41) Coming fresh off the success of his hit single, “Don’t Trust Me,” Kenny Winker presents the music video for his follow-up banger, “Now We Can Make Love.”

July 29, 2007 - 10:38 PM EDT I Am Baby Cakes - Diary #5 (2:06) Everyone needs a little time on their own. To wear wigs. To chronicle paranatural sightings. And to catch a Brain Fuckler.

August 12, 2007 - 10:41 PM The Professor Brothers - Movie Talk, Part 1 (2:36) Great news, students! Frank and Steve are now holding a lecture series on the great films of our time. First flick on the syllabus: “A Secret Place To S#!t.”

August 26, 2007 - 10:56 PM The Professor Brothers - Movie Talk, Part 2 (2:36) Seems Frank and Steve’s film lecture series is a smash hit. Next up for discussion: “Kitty Karloso,” “Ad Nauseam,” and an amusing animated feature.

September 27, 2007 - 8:38 AM The Professor Brothers - Jesus F**king Christ (3:38) Take your seat and prepare thyself for the Gospel of Frank. For whatever reason, the Professor Brother has decided to testify to his American history class about that magical carpenter from Nazareth.

October 14, 2007 - 10:07 PM I Am Baby Cakes - Group Therapy (2:38) Holy crap! Baby Cakes is finally back on the mic. And he’s got a laundry list of complaints to spit about. So, just close your mouth when you eat sh*t.

November 25, 2007 - 10:10 PM I Am Baby Cakes - Diary #6 (1:40) What is the meaning of life? That’s what Baby Cakes wants to know. But mostly, he just wants to know about human sexuality. In this latest diary entry, Baby Cakes explains it all.

December 7, 2007 - 3:45 PM The Professor Brothers - The T.A. Interview (2:48) Let’s talk about real sh*t. Frank and Steve need a new teacher’s assistant. One who’ll be prepared for after the bombs drop.

December 16, 2007 - 12:26 PM I Am Baby Cakes - The In-House Carol (00:48) Ho, ho, ho! Baby Cakes wants to share a very special Christmas carol with you this holiday season. And take his shirt off.

December 20, 2007 - 8:53 AM The Professor Brothers - Prisoner Christmas (2:50) Prepare yourself: This Christmas, the Professor Brothers are breaking out of academia and into a lil’ ditty about jailbirds.

January 22, 2008 - 8:46 AM I Am Baby Cakes - The Coffee Line (2:53) Next time a barista asks you “Grande or Venti,” do as Baby Cakes does and ask them right back: do you believe in God babies? Or magic spells? Or nothingness?

February 10, 2008 - 10:47 PM A Valentine From Eva (1:42) Everybody loves somebody sometime. Even if they’re one of the most universally despised figures in human history.

April 14, 2008 - 8:52 AM Fxck The Humans (1:24) It was bound to happen. All of the woodland elves, satyrs and hobgoblins are finally coming together for a ragtime protest ditty against us Homo sapiens.

May 5, 2008 - 8:55 AM China, IL: Part One - Romeo & Romeo (3:38) In the first installment of this four-part series, Baby Cakes delves into the diary of a fellow resident of China, Illinois. And discovers death.

May 12, 2008 - 9:16 AM China, IL: Part Two - Lives After Death (2:56) In the second installment of this four-part series, Professor Frank sounds off about Helen Keller and learns the fate of his ex.

May 19, 2008 - 8:38 AM China, IL: Part Three - Cruel Duel (3:15) In this third installment of Brad Neely’s four-part series, Professor Frank laments the lust, and Baby Cakes sets him straight.

May 26, 2008 - 8:49 AM China, IL: Part Four - The Lovers Reconcile (2:03) In the final installment of Brad Neely’s four-part funeral, Baby Cakes and Frank finally come to that final stage of grief.

AFTER THIS: Adult Swim commissioned a 12-part series called America Now. You can click that link to watch all of them. I don’t have dates for those yet, but I’ll poke around at some point for those.

BEFORE ALL OF THIS: Wizard People, Dear Reader, which I think is from 2005.

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My mom had this horn thing, like a vuvuzela but small and compact enough to fit into a large pocket. It was the closest thing we had to a family heirloom, that thing had survived several World Cup celebrations lmao. And they eventually confiscated it when she got overzealous & tried to sneak it into a Trump rally. I'm still bummed about it

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I'm sad that no one else on this site enjoys nick lutsko's comedy and we are overdue for another Saturday nick lutsko so I'm just going to post the last one here, it's 1 hour long by the way

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Sticker Sheets from the Cuphead SuperDeluxe Edition

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Hríd and Sky for Superdeluxe on Bluesky! Thank you so much 🩵💜

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GAH I HAVE BEEN FREAKING LOVING THESE REALLY GOOD ALBUMS (and slightly smaller projects) RECENTLY

Disclaimer: I know nothing about ‘music’ formally, all this is just my opinions. :)

Stick Season (Forever) - Noah Kahan

Favorite track: The View Between Villages - Extended

Obviously, I had to put this one. It feels like being alone in the woods where you used to walk with someone you were close to. Noah’s vocals are powerful and unique, and his lyricism is just stellar. Forever is the superdeluxe release of the project (LONG, LIKE 30 SONGS LONG), with all the collab versions he did, an extended song and a song not found anywhere else.

When We Were Friends - The Backseat Lovers

Favorite track: Olivia

Found this one because of the track Kilby Girl, which is an absolute BANGER. The whole project presents a wide variety of songs that are all tied together under a really great mix of fast and slow songs all full of 2000’s-esque alt vocals.

Miracle EP - Tors

Favorite track: Happy Enough

So imagine if you took Lewis Capaldi and made him do music like Marcus Mumford. Double the tempo, replace the depression for longing. That’s what Tors sounds like, and I am going crazy for them. The whole project screams ‘coming of age.’

Tourist History - Two Door Cinema Club

Favorite track: What You Know

We’re entering a very different territory here, but it’s definitely still incredible. I won’t spoil them, I want it to be a surprise for those who go and check them out because they go absolutely freaking crazy. Don’t sleep on them, for sure.

Clancy - Twenty One Pilots

Favorite track: Oldies Station

I couldn’t help but close out with this one, my favorite album of the year and the release that marked the end of an incredible, 9-year era. This album is a fantastic blend of so many of TOP’s old sounds, meshing Vessel, Blurryface, and Trench so perfectly. True to their M.O, it’s chock-full of lore but that doesn’t make it unapproachable to a new fan. The topics they cover are especially personal for someone who grew up on them, things like growing up, healing, and fearing setback in progress all hit home. Definitely my favorite here and definitely would recommend it to anyone! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4obFOTwU7aJzsIpeA1fIpB?si=GBQvubRlRm-Eq_PfWHkidg&pi=u-J04Ek4CaRvKf

I put them all together in one playlist for anybody who is interested!

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Vergelijking van de varianten van The Art of Andreas

Toen Sherpa aanvankelijk “The Art of Andreas” aankondigde, werden er 9 (!) varianten in het vooruitzicht gesteld: drie voor de drie talen Frans, Nederlands en Engels. Het ging om een normale editie, een luxe-editie, en een superdeluxe editie. Maar de onderhandelingen tussen de verschillende uitgevers sleepten maar aan. Vooral met de Engelse uitgave verliep het stroef. Uiteindelijk werd…

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a much deserved superdeluxe release for #80s pop #music with an #indie twist #voiceofthebeehive

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Ko-fi commission for superdeluxe of their OCs

Commission me here: https://ko-fi.com/sevxra/commissions

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50-årsjubileum för George Harrisons ikoniska album ”Living in the Material World”

Det firas med en exklusiv jubileumsbox som släpps idag via Dark Horse Records / BMG. Ursprungligen utgivet 1973, blev albumet en kritikerrosad framgång och innehåller klassiska spår som "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)," som toppade Billboardlistan.

Den nya jubileumsutgåvan innehåller remastrade låtar, exklusiva bonusmaterial och samlarobjekt som hyllar Harrisons musikaliska arv. Det är en särskild hyllning till ett album som fångade Harrisons spirituella och konstnärliga resa efter The Beatles.

I samband med släppet av George Harrisons 50-årsjubileums box släpps den outgivna låten "Take 8" av "Be Here Now", inspelad den 12 oktober 1972, samt tredubbla GRAMMY®-prisbelönta ingenjören Paul Hicks 2024-mix av originalalbumet. En ny video regisserad av Mathew Newton & Leah Mari Newton är också tillgänglig, som innehåller konst från Ram Dass ikoniska bok med samma namn med välsignelsen av hans stiftelse. Med texter som betonar Harrisons utforskning av andliga teman fick albumet djupt genklang hos publiken. Bara fem veckor efter släppet i maj 1973 hade både LP:n och singeln "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" topplaceringar på de amerikanska album- och singellistorna. Vid releasen beskrev Rolling Stone det som en "popklassiker", ett verk som "står ensamt som en trosartikel, mirakulöst i sin utstrålning." Albumets framgångar befäste ytterligare en segerserie som började med trippel-LP:n ”All Things Must Pass” som toppade USA-listorna i början av 1971. Senare samma år organiserade George två banbrytande välgörenhetsrockkonserter på Madison Square Garden i New York, i syfte att höja medvetenhet och medel för de svältande flyktingarna i Bangladesh. Tredubblade LP-livealbumet Concert for Bangladesh blev en global bästsäljare som slutligen fick det prestigefyllda GRAMMY®-priset för "Årets album."

Living in the Material World har nu remixats helt under överseende av Dhani och Olivia Harrison inför 50-årsjubileumssläppet. Remixad av den tredubbla GRAMMY®-belönade ingenjören Paul Hicks (The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, John Lennon) lyfter den nya mixen albumet med en ljuduppgradering, och levererar ett ljud som är ljusare, rikare och mer dynamiskt än tidigare.

“I hope you revisit Living in the Material World or discover it for the first time, and as you listen, share George’s wish for himself and mankind…..

Give me Love

Give me Peace on Earth.”, säger Olivia Harrison

"Finally, we are overjoyed to present to you the 50th anniversary package of George Harrison's 'Living in the Material World'. For those of you who are just discovering this album; This record was released in service and with deep love for all our Brothers and Sisters around the world who populate this dualistic system we live in called Earth. Peace be upon all sentient beings”, kommenterar Dhani Harrison

Tillgänglig 15 november, via Dark Horse Records/BMG, Living in the Material World 50th Anniversary Edition kommer att finnas tillgänglig i en mängd olika fysiska och digitala format inklusive en Super Deluxe Edition Box Set.

Förutom superdeluxe-formatet kommer albumet även att finnas tillgängligt på 2LP och 2CD Deluxe Editions, som båda inkluderar nya mixar av originalalbumet. 2LP Deluxe Edition kommer i ett gatefold-fodral med ett 12-sidigt häfte, medan 2CD Deluxe Edition kommer i en Clamshell Box med två tryckta plånböcker, ett 20-sidigt häfte och en affisch. Huvudalbumet kommer också att erbjudas individuellt som en 1CD, 1LP och begränsad upplaga 1LP färg vinyl exklusiva tillgängliga från den officiella George Harrison onlinebutiken (Purple Color Vinyl), Amazon (Clear Color Vinyl) och Barnes & Noble (Orange Color Vinyl) . Alla format är tillgängliga för förbeställning nu. För mer information om Living in the Material World, Klicka här.

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Love Serve Remember Foundation (LSRF) upprätthåller lärorna från Ram Dass och hans guru, Neem Karoli Baba. Som tidigare Harvard-psykolog och psykedelisk pionjär genomgick Ram Dass en omvälvande resa på 1960-talet efter att ha rest till Indien. Hans framstående bok, Be Here Now, förändrade en generation och bjöd in läsarna att omfamna mindfulness och andlig praktik. Genom onlinekurser, filmer, podcasts och mer, för LSRF sitt arv vidare, ger nya generationer insikter om andlig tillväxt och främjar en medkännande gemenskap som är dedikerad till osjälvisk service. För mer information  www.ramdass.org För mer information: www.georgeharrison.com www.materialworldfoundation.com www.darkhorserecords.com För mer information: Anette Ståhl / Enmusa Music, tel: 0707-180 120, anette@enmusamusic.com

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