Don't be a Halloweanie

Yes, dress up for halloween. No, don't go dressed as someone who comments, EVEN ONCE, about girls and their excuses to wear slutty costumes. That one's in the books, you might as well say dirt is dirty.

go as Joe Jackson in this video.

Pretty soon now
You know I'm gonna make a comeback
And like the birds and the bees in the trees
It's a sure-fire smash
I'll speak
To the masses through the media
And if you got anything to say to me
You can say it with cash
'Cause I've got the trash and you got the cash
So baby we should get along fine
So give me all your money 'cause I know you think I'm funny
Can't you hear me laughing
Can't you see me smile

I'm the man (I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man)
I'm the man that gave you the hula-hoop
I'm the man (I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man)
I'm the man that gave you the yo-yo

Kung fu
That was one of my good ones
Well what's a few broken bones
When we all know it's good clean fun
Skateboards
I've almost made them respectable
You see I can't always get through to you
So I go for your son
I had a giant rubber shark and it really made a mark
Did ya lookit lookit lookit all the blood
So give me all your money 'cause I know you think I'm funny
Can't you hear me laughing
Can't you see me smile

I'm the man (I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man)
I'm the man that gave you the hula-hoop
I'm the man (I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man)
I'm the man that gave you the yo-yo

Right now
I think I'm gonna plan a new trend
Because the line on the graph's getting low
And we can't have that
And you think you're immune
But I can sell you anything
Anything from a thin safety pin
To a pork pie hat
'Cause I got the trash and you got the cash
So baby we should get along fine
Why don't you give me all your money
'Cause I know you think I'm funny
Can't you hear me laughing
Can't you see me smile

not all bands are from Brooklyn

Some indie rock artists are from other, Smaller Urban Metropolis Areas (SUMAs) like Philadelphia. Even some good ones.

"Free Energy" from Free Energy on Vimeo.

Not soooooo different in tone and aesthetics and theme-ology and sound and attitude from Girls, eh? Is this a coincidence? Is this a movement? What is Newsweek©* saying?



*blogger not affiliated with Newsweek©

YouTubes!

Basketball is about to start up again....

Multiple announcers in this video make the dated reference to posters, as in the defender got dunked on so bad he will appear in a poster looking foolish. The term "poster-ize" came about sometime in the early 90s and has remained a stale part of the lexicon like a petrified pizza crust hidden in the back of a refrigerator. As much as I love thinking about Michael Cooper and his knee high white socks helplessly watching Michael Jordan fly through the air, the fact remains: Michael Cooper is now 50 years old. "Poster-ize" needs retiring, especially considering the NBA is obsessed with being hip and street. When are these fucks gonna start saying "Youtubes!" whenever someone gets dunked on. You don't have to come from the streets to make this shit up. It's Youtube.

...things commenced to go awry in earnest.

A Spike Jonze directed short starring Kanye West. thanks bpark for this (editor's note: they took this vid down. I'm sure it will surface again somewhere's else. oh well check out the next one.)

Spike Jonze / We Were Once A Fairytale from background on Vimeo.

Was snooping these same guys' vimeo page and saw this crazy promo for British TV show I keep hearing about called Skins.

Halfway Home from background on Vimeo.

Mind Burning

Age Old Question: Is MTV's current programming a response to consumer demand or are the tastes and interests of viewers guided by the content itself?

In other words, do youths just watch whatever you tell 'em to?

I don't know anyone who watches Current TV - online or on the couch - but they are sort of doing what MTV used to do with this youth-driven socially/politically conscious documentary show Vanguard.

Anyway, the idea of Cuba undergoing a second revolution sounds zany. But if something like that were to happen, I suppose it would have to some extent be the result of Cuba's proximity to America and the contaminant vapor of air-borne gray matter pouring from the smoke stacks of our mind burning media and entertainment industry.

This shit is moving, Ruth.

since i threw out some carlin, youtube is suggesting more. I found this bit I'd never seen or heard before. Incredibly esoteric stuff about TIME. It's as much TED lecture as stand up. Not positive, but I think this is what carlin refers to as his coke years.

"More shit from the bogus captain..."*

At least amongst the New Yorkers I'm connected to online, people were really geeked about this Chicago 6 Hipster Anti-Olympics Revolutionaries thing.

First of all, those crusties were agro-hippie anarchists. Second, obviously "hipster" has become like the term "cougar"; a buzzword that media feel is potent because - for all intents and purposes - mainstream fuddy duddies find it a humorous, with-it reference they are totally up on.

This fact begets another fact: the aesthetics and attitudes associated with whatever the public consensus decides constitutes hipster is about the be represented in a bad TV show sometime soon. I don't think Cougartown is very good.

*this is an intrajoke punchline from an old George Carlin act i used to listen to so often that such phrases pop into my head to explain phenomena I'm experiencing in realtime. What does your brain work like?