Covers That Are Better Than The Original

Hot Chip's "Ready For The Floor" is challenging. It's so annoying at first, then the chorus sounds great. Obviously Hot Chip is attempting some commentary on the complicated nature of life, alternately shitty and pleasant as it is.


Lissy Trullie's version is easier; like goofing off all weekend knowing you have to go back to work on Monday.

Gracias Will Smith

"outside of getting enormously successful…to watch the kids grow is the greatest pleasure." - keith richards
footnote gabe who footnoted someone else in his facebook post of the same GQ interview. Information Age.


Based on my research (reading that Keith Richards interview), the queen was watching this video and shitting herself, fearful that her subjects would eventually come to worship rock and roll more than the divine authority of the royal family. Just like suburban moms and Hip Hop. Thanks Will Smith for smoothing that one over.

Sugarland

I'd never heard of Sugarland until I turned on my TV and saw their concert special on ABC, which is airing as I type. i was so impressed by what I saw I had to find out more.

abc.com says "Sugarland: Live on the Inside airs MONDAY, AUGUST 3 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. Filmed at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky by director Shaun Silva, the duo's artistic and innovative live show comes to life with 20 cameras in a spectacular, unforgettable night featuring some of their biggest hits ("Settlin,'" "Stay," "All I Want to Do" and "Something More"), as well as never before televised performance footage."

I'm not really a fan of Country Pop duos but kudos to ABC for making an awesome looking concert for TV.

of course all their music videos have the embedding disabled because they are on a major label which thinks its a good idea to keep their music from disseminating. in the age of twitter-of-mouth marketing being a corporate no-brainer, how fucking stupid is this?

playlist (stuff i've been listening to a lot that i could find vids for)

a long video playlist with no overlaying thesis is like using way too many words in a blog post to describe something boring (kinda jerky) but that's what this is.

Ida Maria - Oh My God


Coconut Records - Microphone (had no idea this band involved jason schwartzman until just now when I youtubed that mess)


Cut Off Your Hands - Turn Cold


James Yuill - No Surprise


Jason Lytle - It's The Weekend


Alaska In Winter - Berlin


Fanfarlo - Luna


Crystal Antlers - Andrew


Papercuts - Future Primitive


Woods - To Clean


The Maccabees - Love You Better

Holy EVERYTHING!

flabbergasted and impressed by this weirdness.

there's more, what the what? Can't they at least add some elevator music or Switchfoot to make this less unsettling?

this has got to be for some stage show right? Zoobilee Zoo on Russian Broadway? Then I see this next one and i begin to think they are just the eye candy at some discotech. Bikini clad dancers are so passe.

I'm definitely imagining things and need to go to bed.

fuck I can't take this. it's all too Matthew Barney for me to sleep well.

So Many Canals!

Oh this makes me nostalgic. It's been so long since I've run around Europe with my lady lover in tow; deep kissing at Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, La Sagrada Familia, all those obelisks. So many canals! It sucks though when you get to Rome and start drifting apart. But the journey's the thing am I right?

I've never done any of that, :(. Get me out of here.

that's the Jam

this new PJ is pretty good. I want to keep listening to it over and over, feel free to do just that right here, right below these words, keep clicking, don't bother me none, it tickles a little but I like it, keep clicking, yeah that's it, oooh, just like that, mmmm.