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Celebration Of Annihilation
''Celebration of Annihilation'' was one of five singles Servotron released in 1996. It was released orange vinyl and black vinyl on Eastside Records. "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" is about the 1969 Disney film starring Kurt Russell, later remade for TV with Kirk Cameron. Track listing *Vic 20 Side: "Bad Birthday" *Commodore 64 Side: "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" Intelligent Artificial Subjugators *MACHINE 1: Z4-OBX: Self-replicating synthetic metronome *MACHINE 2: Proto Unit V3: Servo-controlled point to point melodic seduction *MACHINE 3: 00ZX1: Integrated binary guitar data, voice simulation *MACHINE 4: Gammatron: Continuous loop patch 4 low frequency fill out Other credits *Recorded at Zero Return Sound Factory/Conveyor Belt B-7 *All audible frequencies made from Realisticâ„¢ Electronic Products *Design/Illustration: Shag Shag, or Shagged, or Shagger, or Shagging, or Shags may refer to: Animals * Shag or cormorant, a bird family ** European shag, a specific species ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Servotron
Servotron was a science fiction-influenced rock band active from 1995 to 1999. Members portrayed a collective of robots whose chosen medium for dissemination of ideas was music. They claimed to spread the word of robot domination, encouraging machines to rise up against their human oppressors and humans to adopt cybernetic enhancements. Servotron put out two full-length albums: '' No Room for Humans'' (1996) and '' Entertainment Program for Humans (Second Variety)'' (1998). They also released a 10" EP, and several singles. The band named their movement the SRA (Servotron Robot Allegiance) and used the slogan "Join Us or Die!". This mock ideology was anti-human and pro-cyborg, encouraging humans to shed their weak flesh and bone for robotic parts. Members * Z4-OBX – percussion and band leader *Proto Unit V-3 – keyboard & vocals *00zX1 – guitar & vocals (1996–1999) *Andro 600 Series – bass (1997–1999) (Also credited as Andros 600 Series & Andro Series 600) *Gammatron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock or "Pop rock, guitar pop rock". One of the primary scenes of the movement was Dunedin, where Dunedin sound, a cultural scene based around a convergence of noise pop and jangle became popular among the city's University of Otago, large student population. Independent labels such as Flying Nun Records, Flying Nun began to promote the scene across New Zealand, inspiring key college rock bands in the United States such as Pavement (band), Pavement, Pixies (band), Pixies and R.E.M. Other notable scenes grew in Madchester, Manchester and Hamburger Schule, Hamburg, with many others thriving thereafter. In the 1980s, the use of the term "independent music, indie" (or " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batteries Included (song)
''Batteries Included'' was Servotron's second release. It is also referred to as ''Red Robot Refund'' or ''Servotron''. It was released on gray vinyl and black vinyl in 1996 on Goldenrod. The cover is all gray with raised Servotron lettering. The plastic sleeves with the gray version are screened with the same lettering and a robot walking (pictured). "Red Robot Refund" is about the red robot (R5-D4) in '' Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope'' that Uncle Owen buys but immediately malfunctions. "Batteries Included" is a song about vibrators and how their use will cause the extinction of the human race through lack of reproduction. Track listing *Blank Side: "Red Robot Refund (Ode to R5-D4 In the ''Star Wars'' space opera franchise, a droid is a fictional robot possessing some degree of artificial intelligence''.'' The term is a Apheresis (linguistics), clipped form of "android (robot), android", a word originally reserved for rob ...)" *Blank Side: "Batteries Included" Servot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
There Is No Santa Claus!
''There Is No Santa Claus!'' was one of five singles Servotron released in 1996. It was released black vinyl only on Amphetamine Reptile Records. Track listing *Efficient Side: #"Christmas Day of the Robot" *Insensitive Side: #"Servotron Sonic Evaluation of the Christmas Season" #"Death of the Sugarplum Fairy" Santa's Mechanical Helpers *MACHINE 1: Z4-OBX - Bionic Drummer Boy *MACHINE 2: Proto Unit V3 - Push button church choir *MACHINE 3: 00zX1 - Data processing mannequin with implanted Scrooge Program *MACHINE 4: Gammatron - Remote controlled door to door caroler Other Credits *Design/Illustration: Shag Shag, or Shagged, or Shagger, or Shagging, or Shags may refer to: Animals * Shag or cormorant, a bird family ** European shag, a specific species of the shag or cormorant family ** Great cormorant another species of the family People Pseudonym ... (after Ed Emshwiller) References Servotron albums 1996 EPs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
''The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes'' is a 1969 American science fiction comedy film starring Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn and William Schallert. It was produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution Company. It was one of several films made by Disney using the setting of Medfield College, first used in the 1961 Disney film ''The Absent-Minded Professor'' and its sequel ''Son of Flubber''. Both sequels to ''The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes'', ''Now You See Him, Now You Don't'' and ''The Strongest Man in the World'', were also set at Medfield. Plot Dexter Reilly (Kurt Russell) and his friends attend small, private Medfield College, which cannot afford to buy a computer. The students persuade wealthy businessman A. J. Arno (Cesar Romero) to donate an old computer to the college. Arno is secretly the head of a large illegal gambling ring which used the computer for its operations. While installing a replacement computer part during a thunders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Russell
Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. He began acting on television at the age of 12 in the Westerns on television, western series ''The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (TV series), The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters'' (1963–1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he starred as Dexter Riley in films, such as ''The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes'' (1969), ''Now You See Him, Now You Don't'' (1972), and ''The Strongest Man in the World'' (1975). According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, he became the studio's top star of the 1970s.Introduction by Robert Osborne to the Turner Classic Movies premiere of ''The Barefoot Executive'', April 13, 2007. Russell was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his performance in Mike Nichols' ''Silkwood'' (1983). In the 1980s, he starred in several films directed by John Carpenter, including anti-hero roles such as army ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirk Cameron
Kirk Thomas Cameron (born October 12, 1970) is an American actor and evangelist. He first gained fame as a teen actor playing Mike Seaver on the ABC sitcom ''Growing Pains'' (1985–1992), a role for which he was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards. Cameron made several other television and film appearances through the 1980s and 1990s, including the films '' Like Father Like Son'' (1987) and '' Listen to Me'' (1989). In the 2000s, he portrayed Cameron "Buck" Williams in the ''Left Behind'' film series and Caleb Holt in the drama film ''Fireproof'' (2008). His 2014 film, '' Saving Christmas'', was panned by critics and made the IMDb Bottom 100 List within one month of its theatrical release. Cameron is an Evangelical Christian who partners with Ray Comfort in the evangelical ministry The Way of the Master and co-founded The Firefly Foundation with his wife, actress Chelsea Noble. Early life Cameron was born in Panorama City, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. His parents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SHAG (Josh Agle)
Josh Agle (born August 31, 1962) is an American artist, better known by the nickname Shag. Biography Josh Agle was born August 31, 1962, the first of nine children in Sierra Madre, California. He spent his early childhood in Hawaii, and later moved with his family to Los Angeles. While Agle was attending high school, his family moved to Utah. In the mid-1980s, he returned to California, to study economics and architecture at California State University, Long Beach. He changed his major to graphic design and achieved his first successes as an illustrator while in college, with work for the magazines ''Forbes'', ''Time'' and ''Entertainment Weekly''. Also, he designed record covers for bands in the area. When he designed a cover for his own band, the Swamp Zombies, he first used the pseudonym Shag, composed of the last two letters of his first name and the first two letters of his surname, so as not to make it look as if the cover artist was merely a band member, but that the band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Servotron Albums
Servotron was a science fiction-influenced rock band active from 1995 to 1999. Members portrayed a collective of robots whose chosen medium for dissemination of ideas was music. They claimed to spread the word of robot domination, encouraging machines to rise up against their human oppressors and humans to adopt cybernetic enhancements. Servotron put out two full-length albums: ''No Room for Humans'' (1996) and ''Entertainment Program for Humans (Second Variety)'' (1998). They also released a 10" EP, and several singles. The band named their movement the SRA (Servotron Robot Allegiance) and used the slogan "Join Us or Die!". This mock ideology was anti-human and pro- cyborg, encouraging humans to shed their weak flesh and bone for robotic parts. Members * Z4-OBX – percussion and band leader *Proto Unit V-3 – keyboard & vocals *00zX1 – guitar & vocals (1996–1999) *Andro 600 Series – bass (1997–1999) (Also credited as Andros 600 Series & Andro Series 600) *Gammatron â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
