Sign it bastards

A petition asking Marvel Entertainment and Disney to make things right with Jack Kirby's family. If you do, I'll have a special treat for you.

And Then There's This

John K of Ren & Stimpy fame recently contributed a couch gag. Disturbing.

I'm Lovin' It

I remember when that only cost 35 cents ...

Defective

Defective Detective by Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis.

Details here.

"London Calling" Comes to Rock Band 3

Is this one of the signs of the Apocalypse? The Clash. On a video game?! Does the Wii come with a bass guitar controller? Jay will need it...

Talented People Still Suck

Modern Times “is a low/no budget film created entirely against a green screen with friends as actors."


MODERN TIMES from BC2010 on Vimeo.


Behind the Scenes from BC2010 on Vimeo.

I would just like to point out that that's a Boards of Canada song playing during the second video clip.  Haters can suck it.

Well?

2010 was, in my humilde opinión, much better for new music than last year.  I couldn't get excited about much of anything released in 2009; in fact, it was so bad that I didn't bother to post a year end list on that other blog ...

So here's what I've got on my scorecard for this year, in alphabetical order.  (But honestly, if I had to pick just one, it would be Spoon's Transference.)

• Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
• Belle And Sebastian - Write About Love
• Devo - Something For Everybody
• The Hold Steady - Heaven Is Whenever
• LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
• The New Pornographers - Together
• Someone Still Love You Boris Yeltsin - Let It Sway
• Spoon - Transference
• Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
• Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - Brutalist Bricks

A Modest Proposal

The scale says 195.4 pounds, about 15 more than I'd like. Losing one or two pounds a week, making healthy, permanent lifestyle changes is the way to go.

Here's my simple plan:

1. Drink black coffee at home.  (I already do at work.)
2. Eat a healthier breakfast.  No more PopTarts and muffins.  Half a cup of oatmeal, handful of raisins (or chopped up banana), handful of almonds, cinnamon.
3. Eat a healthier lunch. I take my lunch to work four days a week, so that should be easy.  Turkey sandwich on wheat bread (no cheese), pretzels, fruit.
4. No more snacking after dinner.
5. No drinking during the week.  A beer or two every night is killing me.
6. I'll pay more attention to portion sizes.
7. I'll work out at least three times a week, but hopefully four.

Anybody else want to take the challenge?  We can weigh in once a week and post it here for additional motivation.  Come on, ya fat pussies.

Thanks A Lot, Joe

I've just wasted the last hour looking at hacked signs. Here are some I like, with lots more here. Happy birthday Dave, and TGIF to the rest of you forkers.

A Couple More New Ones

I Forgot To Post these last week what with Alex going to the great gig in the sky and all that. I was looking at my record collection the other day and realized that most of the albums I have physically purchased are weird shit that none of my friends would buy, so I wouldn't have the option of taping / swapping. Hence, I own every one of Pete Townshend's solo albums, but I have very few actual Who albums in my collection (except of course the essentials - Who's Next and Quadrophenia - Fuck You, Dave).

Anyway, continuing that trend, I offer "I'm New Here" by the recently de-prisoned Gil Scott Heron (I've been a fan for years), "Imidiwan: Companions" by Tinariwen (smoke a bowl and turn it up - you'll get it), and more along the lines of what we're used to here, Ted Leo and his Pharmacists' "Brutalist Bricks" (does Matador count as 'major label?').

I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.

Modern Toss

Found this last night on BBC America. It's Modern Toss, a series built around bizarre cartoon shorts and brief live-action sketches. Read more here, if you so choose.

This is Mr. Tourette, Master Signwriter, which made me laugh mightily.

The Hazards of Love

I found a used copy of The Decemberists CD from last Spring. There's a story developing throughout the album, which is a curious thing to find these days. It's not really grabbing me yet, but that may just be because it's more demanding than, say, a Ramones album. Fight Through Patiently and see what you think.

Flight Of The Conchords, Season Two

Entire first episode. Inspired.

Challenge for White Album fans

One of my Beatles loving friends recently challenged me to whittle the White Album down to one ten track album in running order. An ultimately pointless, but interesting exercise. Anyone else care to give it a shot? I'll post mine when you've finished.