That title should up the page views huh? It's holiday time, I can tell because my co-worker is playing Christmas music non-stop, yeaahhh!!! What the fuck is figgy pudding and why would you come to my doorstep and demand some? Just because you sing your demands doesn't make them any less demanding. Let me try, and see if you like it. "Now bring me your youngest daughter and a bottle of beeeer." *Runs at the sound of sirens* This music must stop. I'm warning you lady subjecting me to this nonsense is like poking a bear in a cage, I am liable to...ask you to please refrain from such activity post haste. Maybe more like poking a very civilized well mannered bear in a cage, but a bear no less!! *adjusts monocle* Either way, y'all gon make me lose my mind. How many of you muttered "up in here, up in here" to yourself? How many of you are now growling and speeding through the Arizona desert with suspended licenses?
The main reason for this post was because of the amazing online store that Boingboing featured the other day. Das Programm only features products designed by Dieter Rams, who is pretty much a god when it comes to design. His record player is my profile pic on this blog and I have pined for his stuff for years. His work is displayed in the New York Museum of Modern Art and is also currently on exhibit at the SFMOMA. So he is kind of a big deal. I have no idea how these guys are able to stock an online store with his stuff, since they are literally museum pieces. But I can tell you that I go and look at the SK5 almost every day and hope that someone else buys it so that I can stop obsessing and thinking that I may be able to obtain it. Gaaah, can't stop drooling.
Perhaps some more reasonable options for your loved ones after the jump...although if you really loved them you would get them the items above. Just saying. *Clears space for record player*
Action Bronson and Statik Selectah. That beat is smoove. "You get slapped upside the mouth by this Zangief look a like." Ha!
Damn, Police Academy dude represent. This video is crazy. How is Michael Winslow not more popular over here? I don't think I could even come close to beginning to make an electric guitar noise.
Here is another mashup, actually I think it may be an official remix. Either way it's from two things I would have never expected to see together. The Cults and Freddie (Gangsta) Gibbs get down on the, "Bad Things remix." I enjoy both of these things separately it's strange to see them together, but it works, Check it out below. Hypetrak Premiere: Cults featuring Freddie Gibbs - Bad Things (Remix) by Hypetrak
I have no idea where this was shot but the settings are beautiful. The last Zelda game I played was on snes, I remember you could throw chickens. So I am not up on the current state of the franchise, I do remember this music though. Well done prancing elf girl, I think you just earned your nerd badge.
Untitled from Sophia Mcinerney on Vimeo.
Great video from the Sandwitches. Not sure if we have featured them before or if they are somewhere lost in the queue. Great badn though, if they haven't shown up yet they will.
Creepy animated instrumental video from Timber Timbre. They are featured on Indie Mix 11. They are the last track, "Creep On Creepin On." That's like the motto for my life man!!!
Ha this is a pretty awesome video by Diego Stocco. I will try this at my office, I will loop the yelp of my co-worker when I spill coffee on them with the sound of my tipping over the copy machine and breaking glass by throwing a stapler through my computer monitor. "I'll write YOU up!!! This is art!!!" *Sticks mic in whimpering co-workers face.* "Excellennnt"
Not totally my kind of music, but I could watch him dance for hours. "I could eat a peach for hours."
I seriously had a video of Hitler singing the theme to the Jefferson's that I was going to post. In lieu of that I offer something equally offensive? I am not sure, my offensive meter is way out of whack these days.
This is a pretty Batshit, pun intended, insane video by Powerglove. It's a metal cover of the Danny Elfman created Batman theme from the Tim Burton directed movie. 8-bit stylings, attacking crab people, explosions and the Batman theme song. That's pretty much all you need in life.
Sticking with the 8-bit theme, here are two dancers at the National Jitterbug Championship. Who's coming with me next year? They have some minor technical difficulties in the middle but that don't phase them!!! There are a lot of people at this thing...I mean for a jitterbug competition. I think, I actually don't know the average attendance for jitterbug competitions, I don't even know what a jitterbug is. If I was in this I would just wear a Princess Peach costume and do the charleston for 6 minutes.
Here is a video by Blue Belt, a indie hip hop collective out of Brooklyn. They just dropped their self-titled debut album. This is for their song "E.Y.B. Which stands for eff your blog. Why I never. *Clutches pearls*
Jaleel White stars in the video for Cee-Lo's, "Cry Baby." The song is excellent and I like the look of the video, nice style.
Spike Jonze directed video for the Jay-z and Kanye West jam, "Otis." I kind of expected more from Jonze, it looks like Jonze doing his version of a Hype Williams. Jay looks happy though huh?
Here is a great in depth post on the evolution of, "Try a Little Tenderness" from The Awl. Head on over there to read the whole thing. It was recently sampled for The Kanye and Jay-z song, "Otis." Well I don't agree with their assessment of the Jay-z incarnation, I kind of like it minus Kanye and the James Brown scream thing at the end. The Jay/Kanye version will actually be on the next hip hop mix which is tentatively scheduled for mid-August. Despite our differing opinions, the Awl's post is a well put together look at the history of one of my favorite songs. I actually didn't know it had so much history and the only other versions I knew of were Sam Cooke's and Aretha's. *Cues the more you know*
"As nice a story as it’d make, Otis Redding didn’t transform “Try A Little Tenderness” from campy relic to anthem in a single stroke. The process was more gradual, maybe more compromised. Bing Crosby took a go at “Tenderness” in 1933, and in the process injected some humanity into it. No less paternalistic, his interpretation stressed the duties of manhood, the weakness of women, and how love was about being strong by pretending to be vulnerable. Maybe that’s a little too much psychodrama to pull from a performance that, for all Crosby’s sly phrasing and attempts at straight talk, is still relatively light fare. But it was enough for “Tenderness” to catch on as a minor standard, an especially useful one to have in the songbook for black entertainers looking to cross over in the ’50s and early ’60s and perform at “classy joints.” Selling records to white kids was one thing; eons before anyone thought to let youth guide the industry, appealing to white adults was the real meal ticket." via
Bonuses: Apparently the hip hop world doesn't agree with the Awl either, because everyone is going over the, "Otis" beat. Links to the freestyles on Nahright can be found below.
Did anyone grab this Jay-Z x Radiohead mashup? It's been around for awhile. Personally I wasn't feeling it. "The American Gangster" soundtrack was remixed, mashed up, and re-done like 74,000 times and this was one of the weaker versions.
I had an opera one, 70's funk, Led Zepplin, some random French dude, one made by a fan a pair of wind chimes and someone dribbling a meatball, just way too many to count. If you didn't grab it and you want it, you can get it here.
While I can't fully endorse the album I can stand behind this video produced and directed by Jason Cacioppo, starring, Hyun-Jung Honji Wang. It's purdy, she's purdy, and she can get down. Trust me doing those moves in heels is not easy...or so I have heard.
