My own private British Invasion

So my (loved her) long-time friend Joy — perhaps you know her? — had the audacity to publicly challenge me to participate in this music meme thingy she’s hawking. She was all “I bet you won’t do it. Too good for memes, are we?” (said in that finely-tuned British lilt of hers, which somehow makes everything she says sound like a razor-sharp Oscar Wildean witticism), and I was all “Bring it, limey! I WILL BURY YOU, IMPERIALIST LAND-GRABBING SWINE!” And then she goes “Hey, we earned those Falkland Islands, dammit!”, and I was all “Huh? Oh yeah, and you needed those to advance your vital global strategic sheep-herding, yarn-spinning, and moist-rock-mining initiatives. Right.” And then she got all “In YOUR FACE, Pilgrim!” To which I retorted “Your Queen is a filthy mullosk!”

You get the idea.

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Toby Take A Bow

Past experience tells me there are some Smiths fans in the hiz-ouse. This one’s for all y’all.

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, “Toby Take A Bow”

Nu Shoez

We spent three freakin’ hours at Stride Rite yesterday (NO EXAGGERATION), battling parent-child throngs who were, like us, hellbent on taking advantage of the last day of their Spring sale. But, as you’ll see below, I think its safe to say that our epic Mall-bound suffering was worthwhile and not in vain:

Nu Shoez

Cutest. Shoes. EVAH.

Its like a whole cadre of clowns puked a rainbow on her feet.

VICTORIAN EXPLORER IS SAVED BY A COPY OF PUNCH MAGAZINE!

I have nothing of any import or interest to say today, so why not go see what happened 100 years ago?

Alternately, you could always twirl-a-squirrel.

And there’s always SEXYDROWNWATCH. Just sayin’.

What reduced me to tears at SXSW this weekend

Jamie emailed this to me while I was in Austin, and I am not ashamed to say that I OPENLY WEPT upon viewing it, despite being wholly unable to make out a single goddamn word of it (I think the song is supposed to be something Tweety Bird of Looney Tunes sings in some video we have? Perhaps one that was translated into some ancient, dead dialect? And then retranslated back into Engrish (but not English)? Or something? [shrugs]).

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Love, For Want of a Lesser Word

A music video from my friend Bob Massey, aka the righteous Gena Rowlands Band, aka one my favorite people in the whole entire universe:



That’s one helluva long scarf.

PS: GO BOB!!!