Connoisseurs of crazy should definitely read this likable Nicholas Cage interview. (forget where I saw it linked, credit where credit was due).

keithphipps:

Terrifying horse mask has the greatest customer image gallery on Amazon

Over the course of editing today’s “When The Commentariat Attack” Inventory I ran across this terrifying horse mask. What I didn’t realize until now is that the terrifying horse mask has an amazing gallery of customer images. My favorite is above. There are eleven pages of such photos. Enjoy, and sleep well.

Yeah, do click through and check out all these photos. HORSE.

Aren’t Oscarbatory films like The Artist, Hugo, and Midnight in Paris the high brow equivalent of the Transformers, easing the viewer into the same warm nostalgia bath, just with the particulars adjusted to reflect a different audience’s adolescent fixations? Might they even be even more meretricious because they rely on the borrowed auras from the canonical works/figures they reference (Méliès rather than Mégatron) to activate feelings of barely-earned recognition, which somehow invokes in the audience the false spirit of learning, or at very least, the smug satisfaction of the pub trivia warrior?

I mean, I feel this way about ‘em so that’s why I haven’t seen ‘em. I could be wrong!

Uptown Downstairs Abbey Part 1. (BBC Comic Relief SPOOF).

! Did Calvin Johnson invent “Cat Flag” in the 80s? Signs point to yes.

via VBS “Practice Space”.

Winner! Free Fudge For All!

“Future Starts Slow” - The Kills

I guess no one liked this album, but this was probably my #1 single of 2011. I listened to this incessantly this summer + early fall, particularly when going to the gym. I would sort of fantasize about what 2012 would bring, since by that time I knew I would be unemployed, debt free and ready to start a new life. I had plans. And cliched as it is, you know what they say about plans. Everything went haywire, but thankfully, I still have a future, no matter that for the present, I have to kind of take things one day at a time.

areasofmyexpertise:

BEST SHOW FOR LIFE

gearwhore:

Annie Clark of St. Vincent playing around with her new custom built pedlaboard - Part 2

*Extremely adorable.

gearwhore:

Annie Clark of St. Vincent playing around with her new custom built pedlaboard - Part 1

*Extremely adorable.

I don’t play guitar, but for some reason yesterday I was obsessed with looking at guitar effects, and I came across this endearing (2 part) video of Annie Clark trying out various new effect pedals. Recommended if you like people making great faces and crazy noises.

I want to dress in a bear costume and throw cakes in people’s faces

“Timing is everything. Chemistry is something that you don’t just throw in the frying pan and mix it up with another something, then throw it on top of something, then fry it up and put it in a tortilla and put in a microwave, heat it up and give it to you and expect it to taste good. You know? For those of you who can cook, y’all know what I’m talking about. If y’all can’t cook, this doesn’t concern you.”

Kevin Garnett, ladies and gentlemen

the album functions awfully well as background listening—a form of grim, repetitive mood music. It might be nice to put on if you planned to spend a long afternoon renovating a sex dungeon or beating someone up.

Nitsuh Abebe on “Lulu”

Marry me.

timheidecker:

“Todd Barry Is An Idiot”

written by @timheidecker

Vocals: @aimeemann

Guitars, Electric Piano: @Mpenn

Drums: @toddbarry

(In response to Todd’s tweet: Yo @aimeemann. Hear you’re recording @timheidecker song. BIG mistake. I’ll whip up something better & fax it to you later.)

Weirdly, I was listening to The December 1, 2009 Episode of the Best Show on WFMU, which featured both Miss Mann and Mr. Barry both in the studio when I saw this link. Also reblogged for the “What if Todd was one of us?” backing vocals, of course.