Who Knew...?

Lilly Allen has a tattoo of Homer Simpson on her wrist. You can see it better in the latest issue of Rolling Stone.

Power Pop Super Group From Bizarro World

Tinted Windows - comprised of Taylor Hanson (Hanson), James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins), Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne), and Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick) - seems to be generating some buzz on the internets lately. Their album debuts on April 21st, but in the meantime, we can enjoy this clever homage to seventies and eighties late-night music shows.

Hear the entire first single and read more here.

This Alphabet Makes My Pants Tight

Belles Lettres, courtesy of Avant Garde Magazine No. 14 (1971), courtesy of People for the Ethical Treatment of Typography
... (NSFW in a seventies hippie kind of way.)

Catchy Wednesday

My sister offered this for my musical ennui. Hawksley Workman. Maybe it's just finding someone who walks down the street the way I do, but it strikes me as not bad.

What Are You Listening To?

Lord, I'm musically constipated. I could probably find some undigested hunk of something in my musical intestines, but in my laziness, I've been falling back on comfort food: The Hold Steady, Green Day, Nirvana. Anyone listening to anything bristling with fresh life these days? I went back to Guided by Voices for a bit, but it didn't last. All suggestions welcomed.

Maybe the musical malaise goes with the time of year: gray, cold, wet, and uninspiring. Great time for Mardi Gras, to rouse you out of it. Why are all the best excuses for public drunkenness related to religious holidays?

Class Act

Thom Yorke stops the show to get help for an audience member and doesn't miss a beat. One more reason I love this band.

10 Days

These clips of Rorschach reaffirm my belief that this movie will stomp ass. (He actually says "hurm.")

Ideas Worth Spreading

I've gotten kind of hooded on Ted.com recently. Ted is an acronym for Tasty Elephant Dung...no, seriously, it's for Technology, Entertainment, Design and has tons of tasty videos of speakers from the annual conference. It's basically a bunch of eggheads talking about creativity and technology, and things like that, but they are consistently engaging. The two that I have enjoyed most are by David Merrill, discussing computerized tiles that he invented, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi talking about "Flow," which is kind of like the zone, but deals as much with creativity and work as athletics.

There's also a pretty cool one about Robots taking over our lives. Don't we have a bastardo who has a robot fetish...?

Conan

Tonight is Conan O'Brien's last Late Night show before moving into Leno's time slot. Daily Beast has a collection of some of his best stuff, including this video of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog outside the opening of one of the Star Wars movies. It's a bit long, but wicked funny all the way through. Of course, Jay will be offended, but who cares really?

Jesus Christ, What Else Can It Mean?

Sean Delonas, editorial cartoonist for the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post is catching seven shades of shit for yesterday's piece. Before I saw it, I assumed that publicity whore Al Sharpton was overreacting ... again ... but now I'm not so sure.

Shit?

Back on December 11, Bettie Page departed for that great photo shoot in the sky. She was 85.

Anybody know about this?

Half Life 2 Short Film

From YouTube:

Directed by The Purchase Brothers.

The Escape From City 17 short film series is an adaptation based on the Half Life computer game saga by Valve Corporation. Originally envisioned as a project to test out numerous post production techniques, as well as a spec commercial, it ballooned into a multi part series. Filmed guerilla style with no money, no time, no crew, no script, the first two episodes were made from beginning to end on a budget of $500.

Dan Meth's Trilogy Meter

I agree with almost all of these. Anyway, thought it was an interesting way to visualize suck.

By the way, Dan Meth is this guy.

Friends

Now that Dave has the blog perked back up, I'll contribute this inspiring gem, that we may all remember what it is to be friends. Group hug!

I was late to this party......

I didn't get into Guided By Voices until a couple of years ago. I was so out of it, I didn't even know the band was the source for Jay's old blog's name. This is a great slice of Big Star style pop rock that the rest of you were probably sick of several years ago.

I'm pissed....

....that you Bastards have let me live all these years without filling me in on the amazing Brit punk band 999. Contemporaries of the Stranglers, the Pistols, the Clash, etc., these guys were fantastic. I'm angry with Jay as he is our local anglophile and I'm angry with Andrew because he is an actual Anglo.



Carry on- but don't you ever let me catch you not informing me about a great band ever again.

Blog Lift!

Things seem a little slow and down around here lately. What with Andy and Mike's work travel, my busy schedule, Joe's unemployment and Jay's general lethargy, things around the ol' Bastardos universe seem a little grim. To alleviate all of that, I am recycling this oldie but goodie that never ceases to make me laugh. EXTREMELY NSFW LANGUAGE!!



Now buck up, friends, and tally ho!

Lipton covers Bale

Since we haven't quite beat this one completely to death yet, here's the great James Lipton from Conan.

I spent the week in Jacksonville, FL. As some bastard once expressed it, "work travel sucks." But hell, it's a 3-day weekend in the financial world.

OMG!

Let's see how long the sobriety thing lasts now...

Mandy Moore is engaged to rocker Ryan Adams, her rep confirms to Usmagazine.com. Moore was spotted wearing a ring while grocery shopping with Adams in L.A. today.

See stars' hot engagement rings!

I guess that explains this.

Been There

I really should not laugh this hard with bronchitis.

Catchy Monday

I think this has been around for a while, but I must say it is very hummable.

Move over Obama!

This handy website allows one to upload any photo and create a poster much like the above A2 version. Highly addictive, but you have to register before you can download a printable version.

Before he was a Batasshole..

Self-important prick, but I love this scene from Empire of the Sun. Child actors should get 2 in the back of the head on their 13th birthday. In a universe comprised almost completely of empty space, what a shame to find there's about 6 feet too little of it.

Shit...

Lux Interior, founding member of the Cramps is dead.

Some 30 years ago, with the King still warm in his casket, Lux rose like a zombie from the primordial swamp as a twisted, grotesquely libidinous, werewolf Elvis from Hell, and the mask – if it was a mask – never came off. The Cramps went one step further than punk rock: they didn't merely go back to basics, they stripped rock'n'roll naked and flaunted it in its lethal distilled form: as a relentless sex east, a psychotic release, a nihilist post-apocalyptic celebration, the ultimate in trash culture.

Sigh...

Surfin' Dead

TV Set

Can Your Pussy Do The Dog?

Christian Bale Is An Abusive Asshole

Listen from the Terminator 4 set as Bale rips into the director of photography.

Pink Slip

I got mine.

Morrissey heard it was Jay's birthday

So he posed in his birthday suit. An actual promo for the upcoming album or maybe one of those "I'd rather go naked than wear fur" PETA ads. Hoping this is not the stage costuming for the upcoming tour.