Tuesday, March 16, 2010

I’ve got absolutely nothing. You? Here’s some Beefheart. He is the very best.

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Monday, March 15, 2010

Extra sucky Ray Stevens, not-even-close-to-famous for his awful, awful 70’s novelty hit “The Streak,” is back again to prove why wingnuts will never, ever be capable of taking over the music industry.  In his latest jag rag for teabaggin’ jerkoffs, Stevens pays homage to Sarah Palin, but according to Ray’s publicist Elroy, who is obviously editing Steven’s Wikipedia page, the satire is sooooo skillfully crafted that anti-Palin people might be fooled:

This music video is about Sarah Palin and it takes the derogatory phrase caribou barbie and twists it around as a compliment. The video uses a Palin impersonator and through the help of sight-gags it takes aim at several high profile newscasters on cable television. The video also parodies Sarah Palin’s image and it’s possible that those who do not like Palin will perhaps misinterpret the song’s meaning as an attack on the former Alaskan Governor instead of hearing it as a pro-Palin message, which it is.

Watch this at your own peril. Stevens has plans for you, Obot.

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Everyone’s posting Lady Gaga’s new “Telephone” music video because you get to see her nearly nekkid in it and watch her make out with Steve Buscemi while she’s wearing lit-cigarette sunglasses, but this version of the song, while not great, is much better and the young lady from Pomplamoose would never get nekkid or wear lit-cigarette sunglasses (but I think she might make out with Steve Buscemi)...

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Sunday, March 14, 2010

I knew nothing about Italian pianist/composer Einaudi before I saw this video so I looked him up via the indispensable AllMusic.com and found a quote from him describing the album this song can be found on: “A night-time landscape. A garden faintly visible under the dull glow of the night sky. A few stars dotting the darkness above, shadows of the trees all around. Light shining from a window behind me. What I can see is familiar, but it seems alien at the same time. It’s like a dream—anything may happen.”

Works for me.

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/14/10 at 08:04 AM
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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Normally I don’t like posting videos that have already gone wildly viral and the song doesn’t do a helluva lot for me, but none of the generally plugged-in semi-geeks I was out drinking with last night had seen this new entry from the band who delivered one of the best music videos ever and it just flat out fucking rocks in a million different ways, so here you go.  Enjoy. [via Ed at ginandtacos who asks A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION]

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Friday, March 12, 2010

I’d like to send this one out to Basement Dwellin’ Andy Breitbart...

UPDATE: Above link fixed. Try again.

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

I was just in the sun for six glorious days (an electricity-free cabana on the ocean).  It was great to be pretty much totally unplugged (I’ve got a helluva lotta catching up to do regarding the Ticklegate MASSAcre) but it’s good to be back. Thanks to my OUTSTANDING Rumproast co-bloggers for keeping this joint hopping while I was gone.

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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Erstwhile respected journalist annoying gadfly and attention addict Elinor Burkett did herself no favors on Oscar night when she barreled into “Music By Prudence” director and co-producer Roger Ross Williams and bogarted the mike, but she did assure that a documentary acceptance speech garnered attention, so perhaps she performed a purple-encased act of altruism after all.

Below-the-fold bonus: music from Liyana, the Zimbabwean musicians profiled in the film, verified to be 100% marimbalicious.

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Saturday, March 06, 2010

There are times when a belief in a literal, Lake o’ Fire hell would come in handy—if only for the hope that a person like Karl Rove will eventually roast in it:

“[D]id Bush lie us into war? Absolutely not,” Rove wrote in his 516-page book, “Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight.”

“Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it,” he wrote. “Congress was very unlikely to have supported the use-of-force resolution without the threat of WMD. The Bush administration itself would probably have sought other ways to constrain Saddam, bring about regime change, and deal with Iraq’s horrendous human rights violations.”

“But I am under no illusions; the failure to find stockpiles of WMD did great damage to the administration’s credibility,” he wrote. “Our weak response in defense of the president and in setting the record straight, is, I believe, one of the biggest mistakes of the Bush years.”

He goes on to say, “So who was responsible for the failure to respond? I was. I should have stepped forward, rung the warning bell, and pressed for full-scale response. I didn’t.”

Oh, so your regret is that you failed to spin it properly? Please proceed directly to hell.

[Bonus music vid after the jump.]

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I stumbled across two different opportunities to download some rare Jonathan Richman recordings (see below) and got locked into a massive Richman listening session, including revisiting one of my favorite albums of all-time, The Modern Lovers, which I had ignored for way too long. Here’s what I think is an unofficial video for the song “I’m Straight” from that album and three rare live music video that perfectly capture what makes the childlike Richman (and his shows) so special.  Enjoy.

The Modern Lovers—“I’m Straight”

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Wednesday, March 03, 2010

This music video is the creation of director and “pie baker” (WTF?) Molotov Mitchell, who has done work for WND, is a REALLY GOOD CHRISTIAN (he has “ZEALOT” tattooed on his arm), and, according to his YouTube channel, is inordinately obsessed with homosexuals (seriously, just scroll ... TEH GAYS HAUNT HIS HETERO DREAM WORLD!).

The only nice thing I can say about this video is that it’s better than anything the Young Cons have ever done and if that bar were any lower it would be poking up sod in China. And congrats to Islamophobic “Constitution Kate” and birther “The MZA” (Meathead Zipper Attack?) for being two of the whitest people I’ve ever seen in my life. Now everyone point and laugh because pasty wingnuts are rappin’ again! Yaaaaay! [via Instaputz and Wonkette]

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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

After hearing this song by the Heavy, used in a recent Kia commercial, several times in the background as Chris was watching TV on Sunday, it has become a quite pleasurable earwig.  Now it’s your turn…

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Sunday, February 28, 2010

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