I'm Thankful For... The Muppets!

and Jim Henson. Yessir.




Word of the Day: Anthropomorphic

Miike Snow vs Takashi Miike

Yep. This is a totally rad song. I play it once a day for sanity. And to keep dancing between my ears.

You should start that video for Animal ... then push play on this Takashi Miike clip.



Or use that youTube crossfader that I made fun of last week:

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Weird

This is a face video.


It would have been easier to just turn the camera over rather than the bodies attached to these faces... but whatever.

Obits play The Bell House in BK on New Year's Eve. Probably stuff from their 2009 album I Blame You, released on SubPop. Which is good.

Radio Radio

Time for internet radio!

I'll be on your computer again this Saturday night on All Over The Shop, sans Ben and Stu.

There's a mystery guest scheduled so... tune in for the tunes!

And if you're into the archives, I'm found on:

Oct. 10th and 31st for guest spots.
Oct. 17th for the solo act.

Ohbijou

Just catching wind of this gift from the north country.

Pretty pretty.



The 2009 album from this Toronto youngster-sister duo fronted indie-pop septet ~ Beacons ~ offers quite a few gems to be explored. Including Wildfires... thanks Joy!

And, enjoy.

Dan Auerbach

The multi-instumentalist best known as the guitarist and lead vocalist for The Black Keys, Auerbach has some solo business cookin'. He released Keep It Hid earlier this year on Nonesuch and I heard he played a great set on Wednesday night here in NYC... thanks Dnugg.

Keeping form with the Keys' drone and drum... here's The Prowl.



Yeah. I'm feeling a little Bob Log III too. And because I recently read a great quote regarding the Log... here's some Boob Scotch.



Tom Waits says:
And then there’s this guy named Bob Log, you ever heard of him? He’s this little kid — nobody ever knows how old he is — wears a motorcycle helmet and he has a microphone inside of it and he puts the glass over the front so you can’t see his face, and plays slide guitar. It’s just the loudest strangest stuff you’ve ever heard. You don’t understand one word he’s saying. I like people who glue macaroni on to a piece of cardboard and paint it gold. That’s what I aspire to basically.

Naked lips. Er, lip? Just watch...

The Flaming Lips have a new album - Embryonic.

And their new video is quite a package itself. Find it here on NME.com

As per usual, Wayne Coyne gets all Prisoner ~ more on that below ~ with the bubble, recruits the masses to get naked on bikes and births them from a birthing fur-bubble in the woods of Portland, OR. Obviously.

But what wasn't was the song... I have to say that I like the sound of this Watching The Planets number. I've noticed The Lips from quite a distance since their 2002 Yoshimi smash. It's just that Wayne always has too much noise going on. Not that this track doesn't... Awe, hell. It's probably just the boobies and penises distracting me from noticing. Hooray!

So this is the intro to The Prisoner.


It's an all-time favorite of mine and my lady's. It's a BBC sci-fi thriller TV series from the 60's staring Patrick McGoohan ~ armed with his most distinctly classic speech pattern ~ who's trying to figure out where the hell is is and who the hell's in charge. And he ain't no number.

There is also a six-episode miniseries set to air on AMC this month... starting this Sunday actually. And while my fist is shaking in their direction... Ian McKellen will star as Number 2 and that James Caviezel ~ dude who was Jesus for Mel Gibson ~ will reprise McGoohan's role as number 6.

And Christopher Nolan ~ Momento and a couple of those Batman movies ~ has been rumored for a film adaptation. Don't fuck it up dude.

Brilliant? Or? Wait, wait... Nope. It's not.

Some genius has given the masses mix-infinitum.

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I guess it was bound to happen? But I certainly didn't see this one coming.

Am I to suppose there will be an onslaught of youtube videos of two youtube videos with crossfades from Lady Gaga lip-syncing tweens to kitty-antics and meows and dudes on skateboards? And stuff..?

Jesus.