Sex:  a sure way to captivate an audience.  Media and entertainment industries have exploited our fascination with reproductive processes and, sometimes, perversions of that routine.  This video, titled "Porn", takes a mix of clips from the 50s, 60s, and 70s.  Check it out:

It's kind of weird to look at this vinatage stuff sometimes, because you really have to wonder just how much the perception displayed in this mashup has really changed.  In terms of mainstream media, the idea of sexual horror is still draws a crowd.  Take Megan Fox's new movie, for instance:

Now, maybe these are related on the level of disturbing sexyness, but the trailer for Jennifer's Body suggests that we can sort of mock the concept of a murderous, monstrous vixen who kills every guy she screws.  Some other movies haven't been as tongue-in-cheek:

Species attempted to take itself very seriously, as a genetically-engineered hybrid human/alien attempts to reproduce in order to create a beachhead for an alien race bent on killing humankind.  And to wrap this post up, let's go only slightly further back in time and remove science fiction from the equation:

Is Buffalo Bill all the more frightening because of his sexual ambiguity?  What is more frightening: the thought of an innocent girl getting murdered, or the idea that her killer will be using her body as material to become a cross-dresser in human flesh?  Clearly the questions of how sexual horror is used to captivate audiences and what it says about us as a collective audience is one that can't be answered immediately by a blog post.  Still, they are ever-present, and therefor worth considering.

(post by Rema Rahman)

Glenn Beck may be a cable news staple but one thing is very clear – he is no journalist. Instead, the man flails himself around Fox News as an actor, a nonsensical lunatic, a raging bull wedged behind the confines of a camera lense. So what better way to celebrate this poor excuse for a pundit than to countdown the top five videos of classic Glenn Beck moments. It was hard to narrow it down for there are just so many!  Here’s what stuck out to us most:

5. HIT-ON GOES HAYWIRE

This is arguably Beck’s first coming-out of crazy. It was back during his CNN days, when he was pretending to be more of a democrat and in doing so, creeps out an US Weekly reporter by inviting her to take some nudie pictures for him after the interview, in the name of an American Idol scandal. Was he kidding? We’d like to think not.

4. MISS MARY WACK, WACK, WACK

Playing like a 3rd grader on the school playground, Beck takes a moment to make fun of President Obama’s disabled aunt, silently mouthing that he stole her cane and giving himself bunny ears.

3. GET OFF MY PHONE

More than his constant crying, we love it when Beck shrieks like a hysterical teenager that just won concert tickets off the radio. Except, he’s talking about important things like the country’s deficit. The beauty of the internet also bought us the remix. PS – Why do these guys love to scream?

2. PRETTY FUELISH

Is all that making fun of Barack Obama just a huge ploy because Beck is really just jealous and wants to be president himself? Because here he actually pretends to be, literally pouring gasoline on a guest and fellow Fox News employee, which is somehow supposed to symbolize what Obama is doing to the country. Yay, we’re all on fire!

1. THE 9/12 DEBACLE

The infamous 9/12 project produced Beck’s best signature moment complete with his aforementioned crying and empty stares into the camera. Here, Beck calls out to the people – you are not alone! – to stand up for their country, surround “them” and act the way they did the day after the tragedy of 9/11. Perhaps Glenn himself should’ve go back to that thinking as well.

The California stop of Comi-con '09 has just passed us by with even more nerdy glory than ever before.  Actually, it might be fair to say that with the advent of big-budget comic book cinematic adaptions and sci-fi hitting great television ratings Comi-con is becoming more and more mainstream every year.  Today, we'll take a little trip through some of the more interesting developments and previews of this year's Cirque-De-Sci-Fi:

If you've never seen the Showtime original series, then you should. It follows a serial killer named Dexter, who also happens to chase serial killers as a member of the Miami Metro Police Department. Total sickness, at it's best.

TR2N is a really weird way of saying "Tron 2". This trailer is something of a lower quality, but we like it because you really get the excitement of the crowd. The original Tron is so classic that even today there are little Tron cults all over that like to pretend like the original had really great special effects. TR2N will probably PWN all over it.

This bizarre and vintage-looking trailer is for a film named Mutant Swinger from Mars, which captures some of that old school cult-classic vibe we've come to expect from the sci-fi portion of Comi-con. Variety is the spice of life, don't ya know?

Okay, okay! Here's the mainstream portion of our post! After the huge success and critical acclaim of the first Iron Man movie, the world will be expecting a whole lot from the sequel. Alas, no official trailer for Iron Man 2, just yet. This one is for the official video game, slated for release right alongside the movie. Sorry, guys.

Naturally, we couldn't let you get away without exposing you to what Comi-con is REALLY all about. That is, gawking at weirdos that use the event as an excuse to dress up rather inappropriately for days. Quote of the Year: "I am never normal at the beginning of a photo." You ain't kidding!

This makes more sense than anything in the viral video world that has ever been circulated.  Weird Al returns to his parody rocker calling with a Doors spoof called "Craigslist".  The director of the video also did Tenacious D, and it seems like Weird Al totally went nuts trying to make something crazy awesome with this song.  But you can read about it some other time.  For now, let's watch:

Viola!  Now that's some serious internet meme-age.  Weird Al should totally do more internet-themed stuff like this.  He'd be pretty successful at it.  Thanks to URLesque (@urlesque) and Twitter for alerting us to this masterpiece.  Until next time, happy tubing!

Not that we were lucky enough to attend, ourselves, but E3 always causes such a rucus on the internet that it's hard to ignore.  Every year stunning new game trailers and promises of fantasy to carry us outside of the living nightmare that is the recession, and remind us that even if banks can't spend money on us anymore, we can still waste our rent money on such wonderful treats as these (as soon as they're available, of course).  Here's to the nerd in all of us as TheDailyTube brings our favorites from E3 into one beautiful blog post!

 

Star Wars: The Old Republic

The big joke is that this trailer looks better than all three of George Lucas' prequels put together.  For serious, Bioware is making this look like the MMO to end all MMOs, once and for all, until something better comes out.  If you go to the official website, you can get a great look at all the conceptual art, which apparently isn't being changed as they program it into the game's engine, as well as plenty of behind-the-scenes looks at how they create a totally virtual, interactive and cinematic experience taylor made for internet nerds like you (and me).

 

Ruse

HAHAHAHAHA NO! This game is not played as the video depicts, you n00b.  Actually, there is a level of similarity between this conceptualized teaser and the type of gameplay that you'll experience in Ruse, just without the touch screen.  The game aims to redefine the real-time-strategy genre on a level that hasn't really been achieved since the days of Warcraft 2.  You can find actual gameplay videos all over for this one, but just imagine how crazy it will be when you can finally control the whole army of a nation in this fashion, rather than just a scenario?

 

Project Natal

Project Natal is Microsoft's answer to Nintendo's Wii, basically.  Physically interactive gameplay is what they're aiming for, and they add facial recognition, voice recognition, and a whole bunch of artificial intelligence to try and one-up Nintendo's smashing success.  Of course, this is Microsoft we're talking about here.  Who knows if all of this will play out as well as this contrived little teaser lets on.  The real seller is the artificial intelligence, which you can check out over at the official site.

 

Ghostbusters: The Video Game

For some it was Scribblenauts.  For some, it was the new Super Mario Bros. for Wii.  In fact, besides the last three games mentioned, there doesn't seem to be a real consensus as to what are the other games to keep an eye on this year and next.  For us, it was a charming 3D remake of a precious, precious classic franchise that we actually featured in Web Stars back when it was first mentioned.  The most awesome thing about this E3 pick? You don't have to wait half a year to play a demo.  In fact, Ghostbusters: The Video Game comes out this month, so once you finish reading this, you can give it a try and admit to yourself that bustin' makes you feel good.