Other bands, including the Spoozys and Causey Way, set out to rediscover the giddy, parodic cheer of the B-52's, thus reviving a warped 1980's revival of 1960's garage-rock and surf-rock.
Click here to view Don't be fooled by the utilitarian title: Santa Claus is less a biopic of the jelly-bellied gift-giver than a warped Christmas fever dream in which he happens to play a supporting role.
They liked the warped 1950s crooner sounds they had created and decided to do more.
Unless, of course, you were getting the one held up by security: Warped 2004, Fullterton, California.
The accusations of misogyny began in earnest with Dancer in the Dark (2000), a warped musical that starred Björk as a blind simpleton-come-saint.
Like a warped version of the Christmas standard, by Tuesday we were up to potentially nine Ethiopian distance runners, six Georgian wrestlers, two Ukrainian biathletes, two Russian speed skaters and a multimillionaire five-times grand slam tennis champion who had tested positive for the Latvian-manufactured heart drug more commonly known as meldonium.
But it did not take long for him to figure out that many people assume that Mr. Malkovich is as strange and mysterious as the characters he plays: The dispassionately evil Valmont in "Dangerous Liaisons" (1988), a too-convincing psychopath in "Con Air" (1997), or even a warped, comic reflection of himself in Spike Jonze's "Being John Malkovich" (1999).
Paulson attended with the real life Marcia Clark, and apologized from the stage for viewing Clark through a warped lens at the trial two decades ago.
He influenced the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez with a wild deconstructionist take on hoary genre tropes and the sheer joy of celluloid chaos, and today he remains a warped visionary – still intent on sharing his unhinged take on life, art, sex and death.
Today's bonus system is a warped legacy of those old partnerships.
It's both unsettling and comforting, a warped creation that stands as one of the best scores of 2014.
