New CC album

The Counting Crows just released a new album. Okay, who’s going to listen to it first? Not me.

Dude, really?

Telling the NYT about your ’shroomin’?

Anyway Björk Funstuff in t’days NYT

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Effin Affleck

I laughed shamefully at this video. I love Sarah Silverman… and Perry Ferrell(??).

In case S needs an emo boost

This is my current go-to mood elevator: 

I know we’ve all been casting about for a show to see…

What could be better I ask? 

These things always come in threes.

So I’m done after this. But seriously, this could be one of the best commercials I have ever seen. And the blog post I filched it from made me cry I was laughing so hard. Money quote: 

Seriously - what the hell kind of commercial is this? You’ve got some weird bear getting ready to go at it with a smoking hot bikini-clad doe, and all these zebras are shooting off Orangina cannons all over some slutty-looking octopus, and then the sexy panda’s top falls off and you’re like, “Wait… WHAT?! SLOW DOWN!” Unless you’re French, in which case you’re probably used to companies using implied interspecial anthropormorphic sex to sell orange soda.

Voila!:

Dude…

Have you heard Muff Potter’s Placebo Domingo?  Seriously, don’t.  But this is the level of communication you arrive at when you start with german music on last.fm.  But with your permission krank it for the kings of early 70’s Kraut RAWK Ton Steine Scherben Snows a comin’ and we’re antsy…we bought Beruit’s new album…so far so good…liking it a lot…we went to the shitty local (please note that local isn’t really true nor is it really their goal) record store’s free wine, meat, cheese and tequila evening to buy it.  I can say with a fair amount of certainty that our many drinks, grabbing of swag, and chincy purchases left the old strictly discs in a foul and rather regrettable mood…I as a customer, felt disliked not appreciated…eh but fuck ‘em…they uphold a dinosaur brick and mortar for the old white men who listen to jazz  (note the magic of googling Jazz Codger).Speaking of fun music places, the kind gentleman will direct his kindly browserticulator viewing apparatus toward  the far land of daytrotter.com one should note that faithful reader Heinrik Emilsson notes of a recent Malmö gig for Club 8 “The good “old” Skåne-band Club 8 played last night atDebaser. It was OK. But where are the GUTS? Pretty people, without feeling, but I guess thats the thing…”fuck Heinrik, what’s that old drunken sot know anyway…The pretty IS the feeling 

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Right luvly people:items of note:Email this AM from Monster Movie, everyone’s favorite post-slowdive pop outfit…

 Save Arseholes From Satan’s Power  

Monster Movie love Christmas. We also love a Double A-side. And, as the girls that walk passed us in the street know, both sides are always A-sides with Monster Movie.We have been working well hard in our West London shitholes, to come up with these gifts that won’t stop giving. We have recorded two Christmas songs, as we threatened we would. One, the A-side, is called ‘Emmanuel’ and it’s electro-pop. The other, the A-side, is called ‘Christmas Card’ and it’s a bit of a mid-tempo ballad. Both these songs will be available from the 1st December until the 24th December via our web-site in two formats:Homemade CD-R single. We made the songs and we’ve made the cover. We take the blame for everything. For $7 (postage & packing included) you will get a CD-R in a Christmas card made by Monster Movie, we will even make the card out to you so please enter your first name in the PayPal form and any other instructions you have for us, Monster Movie. This will be a limited edition of 100, all hand-numbered. Download. Both songs will be available for download. There will be a Donate button by the downloads, so you can have these for free, but remember we are not as rich as Radiohead (simply because we are not as good as Radiohead), and we’re saving up to record an album, please don’t make us do it on our Clock Radio/Tape Recorder. Please understand that we have day jobs and might not be able to post the cards off immediately, but we will do our best. P.S. If you go to this:http://www.club-wish.co.uk/wishbtpxmas.htmlBoth our songs will be available on a free compilation CD-R. Unfortunately, Sean Hewson will also be playing Glam-Rock for a couple of hours at the beginning of the evening.

Step into Christmas 

So that’s that with that…Grizzly Bear Notes. B McC notes in his music blog that one of his friends (a dedicated music nearbyer) has posted two fun YouTuberoos of an Icelandic Dinner with the members of Grizzly Bear.So here’s a story about a Wise Gnome and here’s the daring food portion of the drinkfest.

Good Christ.

Please spend just 10 minutes randomly youtubeing. Just 10 minutes. Pick one song, any song, and then look at that little side-bar on the right. You will find things like this.