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Populist: Items of interest this week

From Tarvu to BEAK>

Tarvu
Tarvu

Call of deity

Praise be to Tarvu! HBO has commissioned a sitcom from Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper based on their fake religious cult Tarvuism.

Keep it foolish

More evidence that Nathan Barley was actually an eerily prescient documentary from the future: Julian Casablancas seems to be sporting Dan Ashcroft’s “geek pie” haircut.

Fish food for thought

After Too Many Cooks, the latest very odd thing to come from Adult Swim is FishCenter, a live stream of the network’s office aquarium with people rambling surreally over the top. Strangely hypnotic, watch here.

Bunch of DIIVs

Slackers DIIV are offering fans the chance have their dreams re-enacted by the band as part of an immersive theatre performance project. The catch? It costs $10,000.

Maxed out

Mad Max: Fury Road is good and all, but could definitely be improved with a colour-saturated 80s-style trailer with ominous synths over the top. Oh look, here’s one.

What the Dickens?

The latest victim of the Avengers-ification of popular culture is, erm Charles Dickens, with the forthcoming BBC drama Dickensian plonking various characters from his books into Victorian London and letting them crack on with it.

Double bill

Perhaps because they’re a bunch of billy no-mates, krautrock band BEAK> are releasing a split EP with themselves, or rather “alter-egos” <KAEB (see what they did there?).