To all space-babies and planet-dwellers tuning in – welcome. Thanks for making OL your choice in the galaxy’s foodcourt of edible debris. Tonight’s special is the charbroiled mindrot, served with   a side of over-enthused nerdgasm. Make sure you wash it down with an ice-cold beer.

This here is the MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE, the weekly joint in which I lay out all of the puddles of escapism I’ll be soaking up. Inspired, you then hit up the comments section and do the same. In the ideal universe, the MMC is the chillout tent we use to avoid the burden of the workweek. So c’mon, let’s dance.

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One of the most original and exciting sci-fi flicks of the past five years was directed by a man named Nacho. I speak of 2007’s Timecrimes and finally, after four years, Nacho Vigalondo is returning with Extraterrestrial. The first teaser poster is here and it has us asking “WTF is up with the tennis ball?”

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Milky Way Galaxy, home of us all, is apparently warped like a motherfucker. The discovery of a new arm of the galaxy has led to wonderful science speak describing why our galaxy looks like a fucking bottle cap.

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Wait, wait, wait! Stop the presses. So a franchise that allows for the player to design their own character and make essentially sculpt the fate of a galaxy is going to allow us to choose a sexual orientation? About fucking time.

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The folks at Art of the Title interviewed Angus Wall of Elastic, the creative group that designed the incredible cartographic orgasm that is the Game of Thrones title sequence – as well as several other HBO intros. Check out the interview here.

Press Start!, press select!, who gives a shit! This is the column where I blather like the droll man I am about five things that caught my eye in the world of gaming this week. Buckle up for the suck. As I type this, the PSN is reigniting its engines, and word unconfirmed by yours truly is that the United States can actually  play games online once more with their PlayStationing machinery.

There’s that! Pour a Dew out for my homies who have assuredly ended themselves, cut off from their virtual machine gunning and karate kicking.

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The first trailer for the Fright Night remake is here and it’s like watching the entire movie. Interestingly enough, the trailer shows everything except David Tennant as Criss Angel-ish illusionist Peter Vincent and Evil Ed turning into a vampire. Evil Ed’s final scene in the original always made me cry 🙁

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[face of a franchise presents two individuals that’ve fulfilled the same role. your task — choose the better of the two and defend your choice in the rancor pit that is the comments section]

Influenced by the NWOBHM, American metalheads of the early 1980s began shredding faster and partying harder. With art and life aping one another, the result was a new breed of metal called thrash. Yes, it’s a terrifying thought but thrash metal has been around for three decades. And nearly just as old as the music itself is the debate about who is most responsible for its inception.

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It’s been so long that the continual sour taste of True Blood has been washed out of my mouth. As the proprietor of a weekly True Blood re-cap, I’m going to watch this season regardless of whether or not it’s good. I have a fucking gig! However, I did find the trailer exciting. It’s got Alcide and Jessica looking all hot as fuck, some vampire fighting action time stuff, and it’s actually humors at moments.

Hit the jump to check it out.

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Us here in the Den of Omega are big fans of both Rian  Johnson and science fiction. The fact that they’re coming together in ‘Looper’ has us a bit erect. So while it’s typically not worth pumping one out over a single promo picture, I’m pretty stoked for this shot of Bruce Willis in said sci-fi flick.

Check out the big piggy after the break.

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