Guitarist, vocalist and founding band member Brad Van also owns a retro gaming arcade.
Aliens
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Chicken-Fried News: Stellar scratch
Sen. Tom Coburn’s 2014 Wastebook included money spent on a book that teaches you how to communicate with aliens.
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Grabbers
On an Irish island, the whales and villagers alike are being attacked by an alien creature that thrives on blood and water alone. Looked like Lisa Nolan (Ruth Bradley, Alarm, In Her Skin) picked the wrong two weeks to sub as an officer there. Her jaded partner, the functioning alcoholic O’Shea (Richard Coyle, Prince of Persia: […]
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It’s a bird, it’s a ‘swinging’ UFO …
We’re not sure if it was an epic party or what, but the craft (literally) hung around all night, apparently, just, you know, blinking its colored lights “and swinging back and forth.” Might it have been hanging from an extra-long cosmic string, like in an Ed Wood movie? Even aliens couldn’t find anything else fun […]
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Dark Skies
The first sci-fi-heavy effort from Blumhouse Productions, that mighty machine of menace that brought you the Paranormal Activity pictures, the film focuses on the Barrett family. Lacy (Keri Russell, TV’s The Americans) is a Realtor; Daniel (Josh Hamilton, J. Edgar) is an architect, but currently unemployed in the midst of the Great Recession. Because of […]
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Earth versus the flying saucers
Falling Skies Sunday, 8 p.m. (TNT) “Falling Skies” is a superior alien-invasion series because it cares about the humans more than the aliens. In the prologue, we learn about a horrifying chain of events through the perspective of a child’s drawings: The aliens came and conquered, forcing survivors to form ad hoc resistance factions. The […]
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Battle: Los Angeles
If the alien-invasion flick often looks like a video game, that’s because it’s written like one (as in barely), as a loose string of missions for its gung-ho Marines: Rescue civilians from a police station; take them to safety; destroy the mother ship. That’s the simple-structured path for our cardboard, interchangeable heroes, led by a […]
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Space invaders
Sometimes the band name defines the band, and in others, the sound defines the name. In the case of Oklahoma City trio Aliens Vs. Robots, it’s a little bit of both. “It came from our music, from what I thought the music sounded like,” bassist David Steele said. “We were playing our song ‘Invasions’ and […]