And we’re back with Phenomenal Video Saturday, where I scale back my ostensible weirdness and talk about music, without bad jokes! Check out last week’s PVS right over here. Today I have for you all a video you may have actually seen when it first came out at the end of 2008: it’s another performance… Continue reading Phenomenal video Saturday: Bon Iver
Category: Video
One Good Man: The happy Mormon movie you’ve been waiting for!
This is a big step, you guys. And I don’t even mean that in a snarky way! Mormons don’t really have a lot of legit movies come out, and this one looks legit! Good for them. I’m happy, progress and togetherness, ya know? But there’s a problem with this movie and it’s the fact that… Continue reading One Good Man: The happy Mormon movie you’ve been waiting for!
I have never seen anything cuter (and slightly disturbing) in my life
…Besides your MOM! HAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHA! Anyway, here’s a dog that can’t get up, and it’s super adorable. The only thing more disgustingly cute would be if “Yakety Sax” was playing in the background (example: hamster in wok). See, I mentioned “Yakety Sax.” This is totally a music blog, haters!
Dirty Projectors news OMGZ
In the next step of our elaborate ploy to turn Knox Road into a Dirty Projectors fan site, here’s a video of the band playing “Cannibal Resource” on Letterman. Was anyone else mentally prepared for Dave Longstreth to suddenly grow devil horns while he was singing? Even I was creeped out, and I’m a Satanist!… Continue reading Dirty Projectors news OMGZ
It’s a duck fashion parade kind of day
I know exactly what you’ve always wanted. Here it is. The best thing ever: Oh, oops! My bad again, you guys. I meant the worst thing ever. Look “Dubbo Show,” animals do not belong in costumes. They don’t like them. They never will. Just like your dog hates being dressed up like a bumble bee… Continue reading It’s a duck fashion parade kind of day
[MP3] The Alexandria Kleztet: “Cantina Band”
Normally I wouldn’t give much mind to a CD in my mailbox from a Klezmer band. I appreciate the thought, guys! That’s just not really what we do here. But I thought I would give the D.C.-area Alexandria Kleztet a chance. And it’s a good thing I did! In between their traditional Jewish Klezmer songs… Continue reading [MP3] The Alexandria Kleztet: “Cantina Band”
Phenomenal video Saturday: Radiohead, ondes Martenot edition
I’ve been waiting, like, days to post this video, because it’s phenomenal, you see, and I have to reserve such phenomenal videos for Saturday. I guess. First iteration of PVS is right here. This week we have a performance of Radiohead‘s “How to Disappear Completely,” a favorite of mine, performed live by Thom Yorke, Johnny… Continue reading Phenomenal video Saturday: Radiohead, ondes Martenot edition
Phenomenal video Saturday: Joanna Newsom
I’ve been watching this video about once every two days for the past two weeks, and I’m absolutely enchanted. It’s rather old (2007, which was, like, before Merriweather Post Pavilion even came out), but it’s gorgeous all the same. It’s a performance on Later…with Jools Holland by my fiancée, Joanna Newsom, of “Clam, Crab, Cockle,… Continue reading Phenomenal video Saturday: Joanna Newsom
Avatar looks less than good (bad?)
James Cameron’s Avatar has had high expectations. Since it’s his first movie since Titanic, everybody’s all “It’ll be great. Oscars all around.” So we finally get a look at the masterpiece today and it looks… bad? I hate to say it, but what the hell is going on? The man who was hailed for amazing… Continue reading Avatar looks less than good (bad?)
Exit Clov raising funds for the Typhoon in Taiwan
The ladies of Exit Clov (Emily and Susan Hsu) took to the airwaves and decided to personally do something to help raise money for the victims of Taiwan’s Typhoon Morakot by making a short home music video. Do what you can to help (per their description below). Plus, you get an up close and personal… Continue reading Exit Clov raising funds for the Typhoon in Taiwan