If you’re a fan of Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! and Depeche Mode, you’ll probably dig this video. If you’re just a fan of just Tim & Eric, you might too. If you’re a fan of Depeche Mode and have never heard of Tim & Eric, you might need a minute. This is
Bacon kid: Bacon Is Good For Me (tha remixx)
I think Star Wars kid just found a new member for the viral phenom support group. Taking bets on how long it’ll be before we get some lightsabers up in this vid. Download the mp3 here, and know that you’re providing a young reality television star with a chance in this world.
Did World Trade Center designer Daniel Libeskind just build an homage to Van Halen?
I’m really hoping he did: Tangential to live music, but I thought you’d want to know.
Fan-sourced music vid makes me want to hear more Grizzly Bear
Fans are amazing things, particularly fans like this. I haven’t given Grizzly Bear much of an ear, but just the fact that a fan did this makes me want to listen closer. This video makes me want to get in it, if just to chill with those bunnies with the goggles on for a minute.
Al Yankovic’s :20 Weezer-Smashing Pumpkins polka rarity
Via Twitter Al Yankovic shares an outtake rarity from “The Alternative Polka” (iTunes link), which apparently met the cutting room floor due to a misunderstanding with Rivers Cuomo. Which is dumb for Rivers — everyone knows you’re not part of the cultural zeitgeist until Weird Al covers you. Though this is a sample of a longer
“Don’t be a square” – a brief video history
Here’s a cultural non-sequitur worth discussing: where did Quentin Tarantino get the idea for Uma Thurman to draw a square with her hands in Pulp Fiction? I ran across a video this morning that got me wondering, and IMDb gave a few contradicting ideas. In fact, I found four different sources that all do the air
I will take this guy over Peter Frampton any day
vs. this? No contest… via BoingBoing
The pentatonic scale, everywhere Bobby McFerrin goes
I’ve been a big Bobby McFerrin fan ever since “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” was drubbed into my brain on the bus in sixth grade. If you haven’t heard anything besides that track, which was practically a novelty hit, you should know he’s a genius. This video should convince you of that. via BoingBoing
Dirty Sweet @ Spaceland, 7/16/09
Well, it took almost exactly two years, but I have finally made it to a second Dirty Sweet show. I’d say that it was worth the wait, but honestly I wish I’d made it out to see them again sooner. “Born to Bleed” and one more song
These United States: “First Sight” video live
Here’s one for our Second Stage. Since most of America missed These United States at the Echoplex Thursday, here’s a taste of one of their mellower songs, “First Sight”: