The Guardian’s Dr. John Briffa deconstructs the health benefits (or lack thereof) in the Gorillaz’ rider.
Murdoc’s rider
• A magnum of Dom Perignon 98 – love this mixed with orange juice
• Rum – Murdoc home-brew special. Must be at room temperature
• Malibu x 2 large bottles – beats having to climb coconut trees to brew my [...]

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Please do yourself a favor and go read the conclusion of The 50 Worst Songs of the 00’s, F2K over at the Village Voice’s blog. I’ve read it several times already today, and I laugh harder each time. It’s a vicious deconstruction of Counting Crows featuring Vanessa Carleton covering Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi.” There’s [...]

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Every time I see this, I chuckle.

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I can’t really remember what the mid-90’s band Lotion sounded like offhand, but I do remember the rumor that reclusive author Thomas Pynchon was allegedly a big fan, which was as random as it was puzzling. Well, it turns out the rumor was little more than some fancy meta-publicity stunt created by the band, though [...]

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Odd, but hypnotic and amusing video editing synced to Joy Division’s classic.

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The Guardian has been on a roll this week. Today Steven Wells has a piece on the correlation of your music taste and your intelligence. The results, uhh, slightly irked Mr. Wells, but the fountain of gold that spewed forth had me tearing up with laughter. To distill the results: turns out if you [...]

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American Idol doesn’t care about singers; it cares about ratings. Quota for pointing out the obvious reached for today. So, it should surprise just about no one that a show that purports to be a singing competition would enlist a non-singer of the non-singer-est ilk in that of one Kanye West. West is certainly [...]

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It’s been almost 25 years since Prince cruised around on his purple hog in Purple Rain. A lot has changed in that quarter of a century interim. Prince is no longer starring in vanity (intended) film projects. Nor is he cruising around on two good hips. I’ll give him this, though: the man still [...]

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Hilarious post on Craiglist by frustrated musician (unedited):
I have a punk rock band who’s been wasting time with shitty players and douchebags for months. I’m looking for some more losers to continue to waste time and money. If you don’t have a car or can’t drive then you’re perfect. If you need someone to wipe [...]

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Brian Eno tortures a dive bar. gold.

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I have the first two episodes of Season 2 of Flight of the Conchords DVR’d and ready to go, about which I am very excited. I think tonight is the night. Even more exciting is the fact that Bret and Jemaine are taking the show on the road this spring. I had a chance to [...]

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Next time you hear "When Doves Cry", you can pull up this handy flow chart to follow Prince’s "logic."

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To try to make up for missing his show at the “Fabulous” Fox in Atlanta last weekend, I just got around to reading this interview Tom Waits conducted with himself. And it’s exactly the amount of crazy and cool I thought it would be. Highlights:
Q: What’s the most curious record in your collection?A: In [...]

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I’m a little slow getting around to this, but I just re-read it and laughed the whole way through: Meathead over at Buddyhead rips Rolling Stone and Coldplay’s Chris Martin a new one. Easy targets, I realize, but they were both asking for it. For RS to call Chris Martin a rock god is [...]

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“When (not if) you see a white male with a full iPod, ask him if all of his music is legal. If he does not immediately launch into a diatribe about his right to pirate music, you might have to nudge him a bit by saying “do you think that’s right?” The response will be [...]

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I’m not going to comment on this or even post a photo. Just read the article.

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I almost ran over a guy here the other day he stepped off the curb in front of my car. I instinctively honked my horn and he yelled “Don’t hit me, I am in a band.” I wanted to yell back, “Yeah you and every other person in this town. Use the cross walk.”
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From a commenter:
“this is my favvvies song atm
my dad used to play it in the car when i was ikkle
now im 15, and i jus cant get enuff of this song man!!!
lovin the oldies XD”
Amusingly, I saw Pulp 15 years ago. I suppose the commenter was just a zygote at that time. For [...]

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This year’s drawn-out primary season might have you wrestling with election fatigue, but that’s no reason to neglect your duty to participate in Name of the Year’s 2008 Tournament. The first round of voting is going on now.
So let us forget momentarily Messrs. Obama, McCain, Paul, Huckabee, Nader and Mrs. Clinton. The time has come [...]

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