I watched this five times in a row.

I honestly believe that Youtube is the greatest thing that has happened to our culture. One might argue that the Internet is more important. And they'd be right, only because the Internet is the conduit for Youtube.


The last fifteen seconds just might blow your myeeend(freak).

Let's Have a Pity Party!

(depressing songs that sound upbeat)
MC Honky - "What a Bringdown"
From the album "I am the Messiah," side project of Mark Oliver Everett/Eels
Of Montreal - "I Was Never Young"
Totally! I never even liked cartoons! Sniffle!
Har Mar Superstar - "Alone Again, Naturally"
A cover that makes me want to crawl under the covers.
Bruce McCullough - "When You're Fat"
Dave Foley is my favorite Kid in the Hall, but "Shame Based Man" makes Bruce McCullough a close second.
Spinto Band - "Brown Boxes"
There's never been a sadder kazoo chorus.

Can't leave out the man who invented the genre:
Morrisey - "Tomorrow"

Haribo Gummy Summer Jams

Well actually only four regulation summer jams, I'm not sure any song with a Paul Auster reference can be considered a "jam" per se* but I think I love Fionn Regan's lovable moppet-troubador stylings. Caribou's song just makes me want to run around naked in California. Yeah I was Google-imaging Ryan McGinley photos earlier today.

Dragonette -"I Get Around (Midnight Juggernaut Mix)"
Professor Murder "That's How They Getcha (Chinkuzi Riddim Version)"
Jason Fox -"Aunt Jackie"
Lil Wayne -"Back On My Grizzy"
Fionn Regan-"Put a Penny In the Slot"
Caribou-"Caribou - Melody Day"

*Prove me wrong, Dangerdoom. Don't try to prove me wrong, Paul Barman.

Jerry Orbach Eyes

I look at this ad every morning on the 6 train, and the first time I saw it I thought about that Chinese horror movie "The Eye," where a blind girl gets an eye transplant and starts seeing creepy-ass ghosts everywhere like the eyes' former owner did. It made me laugh to imagine that happening to the two people who got Jerry's eyes, where they can see perfectly, but once in a while they get flashes of mundane shit like the "Law and Order" craft services table and Benjamin Bratt's face.

The Kooks - "See the World"
Depeche Mode - "World in My Eyes"

Related: The ad's ubiquity (and excellence) begat this inevitable, well-conceived, shaky-on-the-execution comedy skit.

Puncturing the safety seal

Whatup. The purpose of this blog is to give songs to my hot hotties* since my computer's got no burner drive. That'll be coming soon, but for now I'll direct your attention to my two new favorite things.

This is the jail they put people in for being too awesome:


Some people apparently find mashups irritating, or simply a fad past its prime; a played-out result of too many ADD-afflicted nerds with a copy of Pro Tools. This ADD-afflicted nerd says mash 'em up til there's nothin left, and if you're anything like me, you're going to go here right now and download this:

http://www.thehoodinternet.com/2007/06/mixtape-volume-one.html

Guaranteed to keep you gyrating all summer long.

*My Jennys, my Mollys, my Pandas, my Rodneys.