April 2009
45 posts
27 new Barenaked Ladies songs to choose from!
– Tyler Stewart - BNL drummer
The new, Steven Page-less Barenaked Ladies are in the studio working on a new album. For those of you who wonder whether they are still relevant, critics said their most recent two albums, released only a few months apart, “should not only stand as a creative high...
On set with Jerry Seinfeld. The next Curb season guest stars the whole Seinfeld...
– jeff garlin
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-26) →
Elvis Presley (50)
Camera Obscura (39)
Barenaked Ladies (37)
of Montreal (36)
The New Pornographers (24)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
This is the first and only time I have ever...
Greg: Got the job, sir. Only catch: starts out as, jesus, week to week.
me: CONGRATULATIONS, sir. That's really amazing. Very very excited for you.
me: I would not worry about this week to week business.
me: So you'll get the details on Monday, then?
Time Elapses
Greg: herro
me: Mommy and I are very proud of you, Greggy.
Time Elapses
Greg: oooo
Shuffled off his mortal coil
– First time in a while I’ve heard an expression and had no clue as to its meaning. In this sense, it means to kill.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/319800.html
Geocities Closes After 15 Years →
I started my first website in the Fall of 1996, hosting it in the “Heartland” area of Geocities. I wish I could find a trace of it, but it contained plenty of rainbow backgrounds, animated GIFs, and a lot of information about samoyeds.
Kinda sad to see it go.
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Liberia is situated on the West Coast of Africa, and serves as the shortest link...
– - From the Liberian embassy’s website.
Liberia is a strange, magical place.
The New York Times makes an example of Boston... →
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-19) →
The Decemberists (43)
The New Pornographers (25)
Bishop Allen (24)
Beck (16)
The Meters (16)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia
Knowing that all the “fun facts” people tell you are false makes you a lot less fun to hang out with.
People do not use only ten percent of their brains.
There is also no evidence that reading in dim light or sitting close to a television causes vision to deteriorate.
Shaving does not cause hair to grow back thicker or coarser or darker.
Hair and fingernails do not continue to...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-12) →
Camera Obscura (70)
Fleet Foxes (46)
Radiohead (31)
The Zombies (25)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (22)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
There were two things I was irrationally afraid of as a child. One) Getting stopped by the police while rushing to the hospital and dying as a result. And two) swollowing a seed and having it somehow get stuck in my organs and grow.
2009 is the apocalypse.
(via crushkilldestroy)
SOUTH PARK MURDERED ME LAST NIGHT AND IT’S PRETTY FUNNY. IT HURTS MY FEELINGS...
– Kanye West from his BLOG. (via robhuebel)
Oddly strange…
thedailywhat:
Movie Trailer of the Day: First official trailer for Mike Judge’s Extract, starring Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck,Kristen Wiig, Mila Kunis, and J.K. Simmons.
Synopsis:
Joel, played by Jason Bateman, is one step away from selling his flavor extract factory and retiring to easy street when a freak workplace accident sets in motion a series of disasters that put his business and...
Arcade Fire’s brand new MIROIR NOIR DVD is now showing for one week only...
– - pitchforkmedia
You may recall I recommended this back in December. Watch it, but watch it like a movie, not like an Internet clip.
The entire remastered Beatles catalog is finally being released on September 9.
– pitchforkmedia
Dave Eggers is an amazing guy. To say he started a publishing company, McSweeney’s, and wrote several great books including a Pulitizer nominee, just scratches the surface. Here he talks about the 826 National writing centers.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-5) →
Peter Bjorn and John (35)
Creedence Clearwater Revival (26)
The Welcome Wagon (26)
Bishop Allen (21)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (20)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Spokane man finds message in a bottle from 1913 →
This is why everyone should put a message in a bottle at least once.
Not to harp on the last Flight of the Conchords,...
J: Our story is the story of two guys who start at the bottom, and with a lot of hard work, continue along the bottom, and finally end up at the bottom.
B: It's a rags to rags story.
M: Who'd go out and see that?
J: I think I'd see that. More realistic.
M: But what if this is just the beginning of your story?
J: Then it's a slow start, isn't it?
So rumor has it, this might be the last season of Flight of the Conchords. If so, what a shame, because it only gets better every episode.
This is the first scene of the last episode, highly reminiscent of my old Nickelodeon favorite, “Mr. Frear’s Ears.”