My friend Aubrey posted this over at her blog, and I thought it was great.
The Rules:
1. Put Your iTunes on Shuffle.
2. For each question, press the ‘next’ button to get your answer. (or listen to each song, like I did.)
3. You must write down the name of the song no… Read More
Jon Vermilyea, whose Beasts books gave me an eyegasm at Barnes & Noble recently, has something even cooler than a flying pizza on his site (though, yes, there absolutely is an anthropomorphic slice on his page).
A Greek myth/Saturday morning cartoon mashup? Sign me up!
He-Man and the 13 Trials of Eternia
And his amazing new… Read More
This song burrowed into my ear, planted eggs in my brain, and now there are tiny hipster parasites calling all the shots. And forcing me to keep this on repeat. Peaches meets Le Tigre meets Chromeo meets God.
Is it too early to call it?
Song & Music Video of 2009.
This week’s things that made me laugh… and a few lollers that were emailed to me (keep the emails coming- victor [at] purewest [dot] us).
(more after the jump)
By Andy Marino
There’s an interesting moment in the Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster when drummer Lars Ulrich explains that there won’t be any guitar solos on the St. Anger album because he doesn’t want the record to sound “dated”. Lead guitarist Kirk Hammett responds quite reasonably that a Metallica record with zero guitar solos is immediately dated; an… Read More
By Jeremy Kotin
Do you ever have days that are just so crappy that you want to share them with the rest of the world. Like this, for instance:
“Today, I tripped over my own shoelace after explaining to my boyfriend that my shoes being untied were good luck for me. He then took that as the grand opportunity to… Read More
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
I don’t really know why, but I get emailed all the time by Venture Capital Firms. I must have gotten on some kind of odd mailing list. The other day Play Hard Sports got more funding to continue the creation of a free massively mulitplayer online football video game. Which pretty much means the world is… Read More
By Jeremy Kotin
1. FOOD Shake Shack
Step down Pop Burger, Shake Shack is officially the place to go when the munchies hit. Seriously, the best, most juicy, delicious burger you will ever eat (don’t take offense Westville, yours has different merits). Add to that some delectable cheese fries, the right balance of crisp to crunch and salted… Read More
Tomorrow marks 100 days since the BP oil spill in the gulf. I know they “successfully” capped it, but as long as that sucker is still leaking, I’m saying there is still an oil spill. But this disaster got me thinking a lot about the good old days of folk – when popular music regularly included anthems… Read More
Unless you have been living under a rock, you are quite familiar with the body (of work) of Isaiah Mustafa. Mustafa is a former wide-receiver in the NFL, and currently has a talent contract with NBC. He might be better known to you as The Old Spice Guy (heretofore known in this post as OSG). But just in… Read More