Video: Toad the Wet Sprocket for your Saturday!

Yes!

America’s Nastiest Sinus Infection has me running a little late this morning, but before I run out to start another beautiful June day, I want to share something AMAZING with you.

Toad the Wet Sprocket is doing some shows together this summer, and last week they stopped by the studios of Radio 104.5 in Philadelphia to perform four songs.

Click here to watch the videos — at the very least, PLEASE watch “All I Want” — and don’t forget to check out the amazing solo adventures of Toad’s very own Glen Phillips sometime, too.

“Whatever happens will be.”

Have a great weekend, kids.

Remembering Stan Winston

The Aliens in Aliens …

The Terminators in the Terminator movies …

The dinosaurs in Jurassic Park

The monsters in Monster Squad

The scissor hands in Edward Scissorshands

The amazing armor suits in Iron Man

My favorite movie monster of all time, the Predator …

… and so many, many other memorable creature characters were created by Stan Winston, who lost his battle with cancer on Sunday. He was only 62.

I go to the movies to be entertained and to be taken away, and guys like Stan Winston are a big part of why I love movies so much.

He was a master craftsman who still believed in doing things the old-fashioned way at a time when too much of Hollywood is relying far too heavily on shoddy computer effects. Stan built his special effects from the ground up, and they never looked anything less than entirely real (and often flat-out terrifying).

Please check out this massive tribute to Stan on Ain’t It Cool, and thanks to our friend, fellow blogger and one-time house guest Kyle for sharing the sad news with me yesterday.

We’ll miss you as much as we’ll miss your work, good sir, and I’m so glad we had you for as long as we did. Like a true legend, you will live on forever through your work.

Joker hacks pizza site, reveals Two Face!

Uh-oh.

So, there’s a new website up for the Gotham City Pizzeria, and in typical Joker fashion, he’s already hacked into it.

Keep your eyes on the “H” and the “A” in “GOTHAM.”

“HA.”

Get it?

Oh, Joker.

Anyway, as you look at the “HA,” you’ll see it start to wiggle and jerk, and then it will explode into a jagged red “ha ha ha” when you put your mouse over it.

And if you click on “HA,” it will take you to something I’m going to tell you right now that you SHOULD NOT WATCH if you are avoiding spoilers for this movie.

It’s a short scene from the film that reveals, from the back, a small portion of the makeup we’ll be seeing on Aaron Eckhart’s Harvey Dent after he gets disfigured and becomes Two Face.

Harvey’s got too much smog in the noggin to reveal himself to us on his own terms, so it looks like The Joker has taken the initiative to give us our first glimpse at one of Batman’s most classic and tragic villains.

And I THINK the actor playing the cop at the bar might be Ron Dean, who was one of the cops who interrogated Harrison Ford in that amazing improvised scene in The Fugitive, but I’m not sure.

Proceed with caution.

Better yet, don’t proceed at all, because July 18 is just a month and a day away.

How sweet the sound. :)

On a quick note, I took my parents to see The Incredible Hulk for Father’s Day (and they loved it), but all my dad could talk about when it was over was the Dark Knight trailer they showed before the movie.

This movie is going to be huge, folks.

And I think it’s going to be bigger and better than any of us can even comprehend yet.