Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Josh Rouse CNN Interview
Interesting article/interview with Josh Rouse from cnn. Pretty big deal for him getting his name into a major media outlet.
Take Away Show Friday - MusicNOW Festival
This show is a 30 minute montage of shows recorded at the MusicNOW festival. The first song comes from Sufjan Stevens and is very good. Go to 6:19 for his song.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Campaign Ads for Kids
Great stuff here. (#9 is distasteful but the rest are alright...I vote for 12)
The Dark Knight DVD
Found a link about all the extras that will be on the DVD when it comes out. "Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of the Dark Knight" looks to be pretty good judging by the clip.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
8-bit ink
I think at one point in your tattoo life you just don't care what you put on your body...this is that time for these people.
My Current Bandcrush - Nizlopi
I have a serious bandcrush on Nizlopi. I've been listening to them for the last 2 weeks non-stop. I featured Nizlopi a while back now. Ever since I first heard them I was hooked. Such a very unique band because there are only two of them but they have 4 instruments/sounds at once: lead vocals, guitar, bass and beatbox. You have to see: (I can't believe that guy can beatbox)
Here is an official video of a song called Girls:
This is my favorite song of theirs:
Also a very good song:
I currently have been listening to their "Half These Songs Are About You" which features on most songs a whole band but it is a very good album. I would recommend cycling through all their songs on iTunes, especially Helen, JCB, Extraordinary, Call It Up, Long Distance Love, etc...
Here is an official video of a song called Girls:
This is my favorite song of theirs:
Also a very good song:
I currently have been listening to their "Half These Songs Are About You" which features on most songs a whole band but it is a very good album. I would recommend cycling through all their songs on iTunes, especially Helen, JCB, Extraordinary, Call It Up, Long Distance Love, etc...
Monday, September 22, 2008
Beverly Hills Ninja 2?
As the title says there is going to be a Beverly Hills Ninja sequel and who would be the top choice to star in the movie but the Hoff?
The movie is less of a sequel than it is some sort of bizarre reboot. This Beverly Hills Ninja is about a white kid who grows up with an Asian family, and convincing himself he’s the legendary dancing ninja… whatever that is. When his Sensei is murdered, he follows in Farley’s footsteps and heads to Hollywood to track down the killer. Imagine David Hasselhoff as a dancing ninja. That’s a movie I’d pay good money to see.
New James Bond song
The Alicia Keys and Jack White partnership on the new James Bond song is streaming here.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Album Review - Josh Rouse "The Best of the Rykodisc Years"
Allmusic reviewed Josh Rouse's latest album "The Best of Rykodisc Years":
Listening to this collection of tracks taken from his years recording for Rykodisc (1998-2005), it's plain that Josh Rouse arrived fully formed. From his first release (1998's Dressed Up Like Nebraska), he was already a thoughtful writer with a heartbreakingly intimate voice and the unfailing ability to wrap his melancholy in warm and sweet melodies. He made some very fine albums over the seven-year stretch and The Best of the Rykodisc Years selects three or four songs from each. The progression from album to album is slight but noticeable. Starting off on Nebraska, Rouse seems earnest and slightly restrained, but by the time of 2003's 1972 Rouse was feeling frisky enough to drop the stunningly poppy and pretty goofy "Love Vibration." His next album, 2005's Nashville, will probably go down as his masterpiece and the four songs here make a case for Rouse as one of the foremost practitioners of intelligent and adult, but also sweet and teenage, pop of his era. If disc one presents a strong over view of Josh Rouse, disc two of the collection presents enough rarities to send Rouse fans into fits of joy. It gathers up all the tracks from the 2001 EP Bedroom Classics, Vol. 1 (which includes a lovely, stripped-back version of "Sad Eyes," a track that later showed up on Nashville) and seven demos and previously released outtakes. It also includes a previously heard outtake, "Princess of the Porch," which was part of a rarities disc released with The Smooth Sounds of Josh Rouse DVD. If Ryko had added all the tracks from this disc two, it would have been an unbeatable package. As it stands, though, it works both as an intro to the heartwarming sound of Josh Rouse and as a collector's item.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Billy Blanks Never Would Have Done This
(thank you to my brother who never ceases to find the best of youtube)
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Best lyric of all time
From Tribute by Tenacious D:
And maybe the second best lyric of all time from the same said song:
This is not The Greatest Song in the World, No
This is just a tribute.
Couldn't remember The Greatest Song in the World, No.
No!
This is a tribute, oh
And maybe the second best lyric of all time from the same said song:
'Ti Tuga digga tu Gi Friba fligugibu Uh Fligugigbu Uh Di Ei Friba Du Gi Fligu fligugigugi Flilibili Ah
(Bow) (Bow) (Bow) (Ooh) (Bow) (Bi)
Fligu wene mamamana Sacrebleu!
Album Review - Kimya Dawson "Alphabutt"
Kimya Dawson, of Juno fame, has a children's album out. Allmusic reviewed:
Since Kimya Dawson's adult albums are filled with cutesy-pie rhymes and schoolyard singalongs, it makes perfect sense that the singer/songwriter has given herself over to a full-on children's album. It also makes perfect sense that it's called Alphabutt, as Dawson has always shown a propensity for juvenile jokes, and that title should also be a tip-off that just about every other song on this 15-track LP sports a joke about farting. Kimya doesn't limit herself to farts: there's poop and pee, even references to growing hair "down there," all delivered with a child's fascination with discovering their body -- and sometimes delivered with a couple kids singing along, too. Such enthusiastic participation from a few tuneless kids highlights the fact that Dawson designed Alphabutt purely for young kids. These are not songs for the parents, nor are these tunes meant to educate or even entertain: these are the kinds of songs that kids chant in the backseat when they mean to annoy their parents.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
North End Thistle
One of the best sports stories of all time: North End Thistle and their 18 year losing streak. If you have time, watch the whole thing.
Inflatable Russia
Now that US defense has gone to digg to see these images, Russia must come up with another full proof plan to fool us.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
51 Things not in Google Maps
I think I have a serious addiction to this kind of stuff: 51 locations blurred out in google maps.
Official DJ music video?
In light of Tyler posting "Chocolate Rain", I thought I would nominate Weezer's "Pork and Beans" as the official music video of Distraction Jackson. Unfortunately, YouTube disabled the embed feature, so here's the link.
The nomination is not so much for the song as it is for the ridiculous use of famous YouTube faces. Check it out!
The nomination is not so much for the song as it is for the ridiculous use of famous YouTube faces. Check it out!
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Album Review - Mitch Hedberg "Do You Believe in Gosh?"
One of my top three favorite comedians of all time Mitch Hedberg has a new album out called "Do You Believe in Gosh?". Great to see more Mitch Hedberg despite his life position of not being alive. Allmusic reviewed
Gone far too soon, Do You Believe in Gosh? is the first posthumous Mitch Hedberg release, one recorded live in Ontario, Canada in early 2005 when the surreal comic was working on an album that would never be. Anyone familiar with the Live in Chicago bootleg will recognize quite a bit of the material here and might also notice how it's being refined and worked into a routine worthy of official release. Unfortunately, it's not quite there yet and not up to the standards of Hedberg's two official albums -- Mitch All Together and Strategic Grill Locations -- which somehow did the impossible and linked a slew of Steven Wright-styled one liners into a cohesive end-to-end listen. This is Mitch warts and all, desperately trying to regain a rhythm when jokes start to fail and only sometimes getting in that Hedberg groove where "wow man" meets relaxed focus. The good news is that the drugs that ended his life don't seem to be affecting this set at all and the lines that do work are numerous and work splendidly. After wondering how clean the inside of cleaning fluid bottle must be, he offers "If I had a dollar for every time I said that I'd be making money in a very weird way." "Now is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus or a really cool opotamus?" is typical Mitch and the riffing on how tough kids in Venice must have "canal smarts" is hilarious. The liner notes feature scribbles from Mitch's notebooks plus a short, sweet, and heartwarming note from his widow Lynn Shawcroft. Not the Hedberg CD to start with, but for his rabid cult following this is a necessary purchase.
Ten Apologies and One Goat to you
I apologize for my lack of posts over the last week. Real work took a high precedence over DJ and I was on a business trip that didn't allow me to get on the internet machine. The Chocolate Rain video below should make up for the lack of posts. I'm back on the posting and you'll be seeing more from me. All 20 some of you that visit this site regularly, I thank you.
For your lost efforts of checking the site and finding no new posts I give you extremely expensive gadgets, creative ads and:
For your lost efforts of checking the site and finding no new posts I give you extremely expensive gadgets, creative ads and:
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Chocolate Rain
I have no idea why I was not one of the 28 million to watch this originally but I am now enthralled by whatever he is singing about:
Album Review - Okkervil River "The Stand Ins"
Pitchfork had an album review of Okkervil River's sophomoric release "The Stand Ins". They received an 8.0 from Pitchfork which is quite high in their rating system. Excerpt from the article if you're too lazy to click the link:
Sheff wants to look beyond common pop song notions to discover something truer and more essential, no matter how disillusioning it may be, which is the central, enthralling contradiction for Okkervil River: Even as they ruthlessly deconstruct pop music, they make great pop music. The darker Sheff gets, the more honest he sounds and the more absorbing the song. By that equation, the stand-out on The Stand Ins is "Pop Lie", an exquisitely bleak dismantling of singer-songwriter pretensions. The pop singer lies in his songs, "and you're lying when you sing along!" (Hey, Hold Steady...) It's not hard to imagine a venue full of excited fans singing along, although it's difficult to determine whether he would view their participation as a bitter irony or a sincerely funny cosmic joke. Or if he would just smile and enjoy the moment, knowing that any listener can take that pop lie and make it true.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Oasis and One Serious Fan
I thought the feud was between Noel and Liam, not with random audience member. Body check at 1:30:
Friday, September 5, 2008
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
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