October 16!

Anybody gonna watch season two? I'm in.

Save A Pretzel For The Gas Jets

Rick Perry, via Bad Lip Reading.

Oh Yeah!

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So the show was great. Nick Lowe is an absolute treasure. He played solo acoustic and then joined Wilco for a couple of numbers during the encore. Tweedy was grinning ear to ear while Nick was up there. Wilco were excellent and it was great being so close to Pat Sansone as he shredded. Tweedy looks about 35 pounds heavier than I last saw him....

Wow!

Nailed it.

Dave Started It

How had I never seen this SW mash-up before?

For the Nerds (Jay)

Here's a pretty cool site. This fella has created figurines of the Star Wars characters in a variety of genres (western, noir, medieval, etc.). Jay has probably already posted this.

Have A Smoking Weekend!

Tom Waits' Private Listening Party

New album, Bad As Me, out next month.

Noooooooooooooooo

R.E.M. has decided to "call it a day as a band." They've had a pretty good run, although they were pretty much phoning it in after "Automatic for the People" and to a lesser extent "Monster". Dare I say it's the end of the band as we know it and they feel fine?

For me these guys were the first glimpse into the world of music that wasn't pumped into your ears via 80's radio. They were, ahem, iconic alternative music trailblazers, and I will always regard "murmur" as possibly the best album of all time. And by the way, they will always be the version that included drummer Bill Berry, and the one that you could never understand what the hell Stipe was singing. That trio bullshit never worked.

Oh well, all good things must come to an end. Just enjoy this video of them in their prime...

Pure Being

Saw this:


which brought this back:

He's The One Who Likes All Our Pretty Songs

Bastards of a certain age might recall the Northwest outfit Nirvana, who celebrate the 20th anniversary of one of their more popular albums this week. Sirius XM runs Nevermind Radio on its Channel 34 starting Friday. Included: a Jon Stewart two-hour town hall with Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Butch Vig.

Did the gameday thing at FSU yesterday to see my Seminoles lose a heartbreaker. That, a hangover, and being in the doghouse all at the same time. Yay!

If Friday Can't Be Catchy, At least it Can Be Sexy

I told her to stop sending these pictures, but they never listen, do they...?

Hmm, No Thanks

My New Favorite Quote

“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.” Barry Switzer

The Rising

We can't Forget The Past, but fortunately we have the Boss to help us get through. Anybody remember this album? It was Bruce's reaction to the 9/11 attacks, and his first with the E-Street band in years. I found myself going to it over and over when it first came out, but haven't listened to it in years before pulling it out again yesterday. As usual, Bruce manages to capture the stories and emotions of the aftermath of that horrible day without being overly sentimental or employing the tacky schmaltz of the million Nashville pricks and their flag-drenched tributes.

See also: Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

Har Har

Well ... ?

Who says you can't polish a turd? Same basic flavor, a few improvements. Still tweaking the top, don't panic ...

Catchy Friday

Born Alone

Video from new Wilco record, The Whole Love, out in 20 days. Ryan Adams also has a new one out any day now. Anything else exciting coming down the pike?

Whoa

Jonny Quest opening titles recreated by Roger Evans using stop motion animation. Amazing.

In 1964, Jonny Quest aired to rave reviews as the first, adult action/adventure cartoon in prime time. It had cool jazz music by Hoyt Curtin and terrific, high contrast pen and ink design work by Doug Wildey. As an animator and long time JQ junkie, I had always wanted a set of Jonny Quest action figures but, due to high production costs, the show only lasted one season; not long enough to spawn any kind of serious toys or other merchandising tie-ins. So, almost 50 years later, I made my own. Here is my Valentine to one of the coolest, if not THE coolest, cartoons ever to spin up the imagination of a 53 year old man now going on six. Enjoy!

Behind the scenes here.

Touching

Louis C.K. gets emotional talking about Carlin at a recent tribute.

TGIF!

Have a good long weekend, Bastards! Go Seminoles!

Lucas Is At It Again

Star Wars Blu Ray comes out September 16. Lucas has been tinkering ... again ... In the first clip, he's changed Obi Wan's Krayt Dragon call to sound like Kenobi dropped a barbell on his testicles or something. In the second, Vader says No - not once, but twice - before throwing the Emperor down the shaft. Lame.



How do you bastards feel about these two "improvements?"

Catchy Friday

Big Deal - Chair by Big Deal