April 25, 2008
CALLING ALL ROBOTS: oohlala is spending all her time on SpaMblR. won’t you please join? 

CALLING ALL ROBOTS:

oohlala is spending all her time on SpaMblR. won’t you please join? 

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BONER ROCK FOR YOUR SPRING AND SUMMER: Van Halen / Panama

“Model citizen, zero discipline.”

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April 19, 2008
Music for Saturday mornings: Blur (with Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier)/ To the End 

Music for Saturday mornings:

Blur (with Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier)/ To the End 

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April 18, 2008

Teenage Boner #4:

A Tribe Called Quest/Bonita Applebum

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I want, I want, I want: Smorkin’ Labbit!

I want, I want, I want: Smorkin’ Labbit!

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LOOK LOOK LOOK: SpaMblR! A website that takes your favorite spam headlines and makes them into art. Pass it on! Send stuff in! Repo your spam! 

LOOK LOOK LOOK: SpaMblR!

A website that takes your favorite spam headlines and makes them into art. Pass it on! Send stuff in! Repo your spam! 

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April 17, 2008

Heart/Crazy On You (live)

The Unicorn animation from the previous post led my mind to Heart, naturally. I went through a serious Dreamboat Annie/Little Queen phase in the late nineties and I still have the coke mirror Heart logo belt buckle to prove it. I even blew my vocal chords trying to sing “Barracuda” at a budget karaoke club in Bay Ridge once. My throat was already shot from a weed-fueled clambake in my friend’s car only moments before. Lessons learned: don’t party in Bay Ridge if you can help it…and don’t even try to karaoke a vocally-charged Heart song, let alone when you are HIGH. Another lesson learned: when you are faced with a long guitar solo in the middle of your karaoke performance, just twirl. Pretend you’re wearing a cape and that the more you twirl, the more you’re impressing everyone in the room with your magical wizardry kahoots.

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The Steve Miller Band/Abracadabra (Thanks for bringing this to my attention Miss Erin K.!)  Here’s the thing- the genius of this video is not limited to my good pal Backstreet Pete’s observation that it makes him (and I quote) “want to go retreat into my rapture bunker.” It’s not even the numerous hi-tech special effects that put Max Headroom or Clash of the Titans to shame either. It is, in the end, YouTube user comments like these, as pointed out by Backstreet Pete: “It sucks that youtube only plays mono. The stereo version of this song was and is way ahead of its time. The cleanest synths ever in a song, period.”

The Steve Miller Band/Abracadabra
(Thanks for bringing this to my attention Miss Erin K.!) 

Here’s the thing- the genius of this video is not limited to my good pal Backstreet Pete’s observation that it makes him (and I quote) “want to go retreat into my rapture bunker.”

It’s not even the numerous hi-tech special effects that put Max Headroom or Clash of the Titans to shame either. It is, in the end, YouTube user comments like these, as pointed out by Backstreet Pete:

“It sucks that youtube only plays mono. The stereo version of this song was and is way ahead of its time. The cleanest synths ever in a song, period.”

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WTF was that debate last night? After waiting all day in anticipation for what might end up being their last debate together, I end up having to watch Obama field questions about wearing a flag lapel pin?? Or how about those super important questions about old members of the Weather Underground? For real, ABC??

WTF was that debate last night?

After waiting all day in anticipation for what might end up being their last debate together, I end up having to watch Obama field questions about wearing a flag lapel pin?? Or how about those super important questions about old members of the Weather Underground? For real, ABC??

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April 16, 2008

Get out of the office and into the springtime video for your hump day:

Belle and Sebastian/Legal Man

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April 15, 2008
Flashbacks: Foppish Dandy Disregards Local Constabulary “In addition, he is described as dominating conversation, eating all the comfits, wickedly quipping bon mots derived from village gossip and comporting himself generally in a manner most unbecoming and unsettling…”

Flashbacks:

Foppish Dandy Disregards Local Constabulary

“In addition, he is described as dominating conversation, eating all the comfits, wickedly quipping bon mots derived from village gossip and comporting himself generally in a manner most unbecoming and unsettling…” •
April 14, 2008
Robot test #5: Does this article speak to your very soul?  “The bleeps and bloops, they kind of invade your brain.”

Robot test #5:

Does this article speak to your very soul? 

“The bleeps and bloops, they kind of invade your brain.”

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Happy Monday! Richard Dawkins will ease you into a saner, better week- I promise.

Happy Monday!

Richard Dawkins will ease you into a saner, better week- I promise.

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April 13, 2008

Music for Sunday mornings:

The Pandoras/ It’s About Time.

See also: “You Don’t Satisfy.” 

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April 12, 2008
The Monkees/ Porpoise Song From their surrealidelic 1968 film Head, co-written by thee Jack Nicholson.

The Monkees/ Porpoise Song

From their surrealidelic 1968 film Head, co-written by thee Jack Nicholson.

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