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New Music to Motivate

 

Just for you, Matt!

Party Hard - Andrew W.K.
On My Way to the Cage - Rollins Band
Shake Your Blood - Probot
Whatever Didi Wants -NOFX
Tokarev - The Subteens
Delinquent Song - Voodoo Glow Skulls
Second Best - Pulley
Clandestino - Manu Chao
Think the World - All
Extreme Ways - Moby
Reject - Green Day
Everybodies Girl - The Dwarves
Andres - L7
I'm So Bad (Baby I Don't Care) - Motorhead
Cuckoo - Neon Horse
Auditorium - American Princes
Revenga - System of a Down
Gonna Leave You - Queens of the Stone Age
Du Hast - Rammstein
The Power is On - The Go! Team

What He Said

This week's been a pain in the ass. Enjoy your two day reprieve, bastards.

Week Eleven Weigh In

185.2, a one week loss of ... .2 pounds.

Total weight lost so far, 10.2 pounds.

No parties this weekend, so fewer excuses to eat like a fucking pig. We'll see.

Giving You The Bird

Brad Bird's acceptance speech for winning the Winsor McCay Award at this year’s Annie Awards. Watch the whole thing.

Working For The Potentate

Fulfilling my duties as Chief Concert Goer and Envy Inducer, or at least the former, I blew off doing my taxes and those work items I needed to catch up on, loaded up on cough syrup, and headed down to see my old friend Jonathan Richman last night. He's so much fun. He sang Pablo Picasso.

I would like to delegate a future assignment to Jay. Austin and the Mothersbaugh project, perhaps.

Amazon Now Doing Streaming Video

Now Amazon Prime members can stream 5,000 movies and television shows to a variety of Internet-ready devices for free!  Pretty sweet little bonus feature, to those of us not currently Nexflixing.  (Pictured: the sort of real Amazon the site was named for.)

I nominate a new Grand Poobah

I'm not even sure who the current Poobah is, but I'd like to nominate Eric as the new Grand Poobah. I nominate Eric because he probably has the least amount of free time. Eric, if elected, you'll be expected to spend 4-6 hours per day working on the blargh. You also have to sit up nights with Jay if he gets collicky. Any seconds?

Death

Death only ever released one single when they were active in the '70s. Thanks to the music gods for letting them be rediscovered. Faster than Punk, heavier than metal.

Animals are fabULOUS!!

Jay recently had the opportunity to narrate this footage of the honey badger. I think you'll agree that honey badger don't care!



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Week Ten Weigh In

185.4, a one week loss of ... 2 pounds.

Total weight lost so far, 10 pounds.

Only five to go!

Baby Gift for All

I read somewhere about the new Telekinisis CD 12 Desperate Straight Lines.  Caught it streaming on NPR's site and loved it.  Forget The Pacifier, Simone, check this out!

Now What?

Blog Brethren: Please welcome Simone to the extended bastard family! She arrived late Saturday night 02/12/11 - a valiant day for baby mama - and is our first.

You will all now commence with expert, personal & highly esteemed child-rearing advice. How have you so skillfully guided your own offspring from infants to true Li'l Bastards? Encapsulate the principles into a few memorable, pithy lines for me and for posterity.*

Simone won't say if she's a mod or a rocker. She had intrauterine exposure to high levels of Live McCartney Concert during early gestation, if that helps anyone get a feel for her particular needs.

*[Note: If you have not raised any youngsters, you are not exempt from this charge. You may find it simplest to generalize from techniques employed to nurture a cherished idea, chord progression or small mammal.]

New Radiohead Album

Radiohead have just announced that their new album is complete and will be available this Saturday February 19th!! Sweet.

It's called "The King of Limbs", and it will be available in two formats. You don't get to choose the price this time around though.

Week Nine Weigh In

187.4, a one week GAIN of ... 1 pound.

Total weight lost so far, 8 pounds.

I seem to moving in the wrong direction now ...

World Travel Shenanigans

I love travel. I've been called an idiot more than once. Thus, a new show called "An Idiot Abroad" is right up my alley. It's the brain child of Ricky Gervais. He sends his dim witted buddy Karl on a trip around the world just to put him out of his comfort zone and see what happens. Hilarity ensues and it's on the Science network. Ch-ch-ch-check it...

Stay Strong To Your Faith, Moron

I know I'm picking the low-hanging fruit here, but Jesus Christ ...

Tao Of The Dead

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead's newest. It's good. It has synthesizers and a 16 minute track that is in 5 parts. The tracks are listed by letters of the alphabet instead of numbers. There's a 14 page digital book that singer / guitarist Conrad Keely wrote and illustrated (he also did the cover -- again with the talented people). I think I sat next to the girl on page 14 of the book on a plane on my way to ACL a couple of years ago. No, seriously. Buy me a beer someday and I'll tell you about it.

Fear The Post-Modern.

Talented People What?

Tony Riff from itdrewitself on Vimeo.

Urge Wha?

Rock & Roll Submarine, the first album by Urge Overkill in 16 or so years (!) is set for release on April 26 of this year. I didn't like the last album, Exit the Dragon so much (it doesn't even have a Wikipedia entry!), but Saturation is still one of my all time faves. Lightning in a Bottle, indeed. Fingers crossed that the new one will have at least some of the old magic.

This Year's Super Bowl Brought to You by Your Favorite Director

Wouldn't it be fun if director's were in charge of the Super Bowl...

Shit

Avenge

Please don't suck. Please don't suck. Please don't suck.

I Find Your Lack Of Faith Disturbing

Just So We're Clear

Enjoy yourselves, everyone. Dave: please send chili.

Week Eight Weigh In

186.4, a one week loss of ... 1.2 pounds.

Total weight lost so far, 9 pounds.

Last week's .2 pound loss kind of freaked me out, so I'm glad to see more coming off again. I got on the scale today because I'm not sure I'm working out tomorrow.

Sound off!

Aaah'll Be Baack

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

The good folks over at College Humor had lots of free time on their hands, so they took some McBain clips from the Simpsons and stictched them into a short movie. Enjoy.

Reason # 4,532 That I Miss Austin

Austin needs a new name for its Waste Services department, so they thought they'd put out a call for input from the community. Look at the vote totals for the top nomination.

One of my earliest memories

Was always sad for the little orange dude.  Nobody's coming to play, my friend, because you're behind a security barrier.  

Friday Afternoon In The Universe

Jack Kerouac, DJ Shadow and Sean McClintock.

Pretty, pretty, pretty good ...

I've Got Your Comments Right Here

Background: "Axman13" posted a marginally coherent review of a flash game... and someone went to town with it.