So this happened all the time, even though we like to pretend it didn’t.
In Britain! I meant to say it happened all the time in Britain!
We were way cooler over here in America…
This happened three years after that video. Why is it weird his legs are on top?
Last night was the first time I ever watched Fox’s ADHD (Animation Domination High Definition, I think). This was the opening:
I was blown away. It was succinct. It captured the week’s pop culture highlights. Including a potential SPOILER.
But I was extremely drunk. My Detroit Tigers had almost completed a post-season no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox, which was also a 1-0 victory. I honestly had to have had almost (if not exactly) ten Blue Moons.
So is this brilliant? Click each day for the relating link:
Let me know what you think in the comments. I’ll be at the bar.
Why the long face? More importantly, why the big heads?!
I’m from Detroit. Born and raised. I lived in the city 89.47% of my life (I did the math.) So it brings me great pleasure to know that my hometown’s former mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, has been sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for a myriad of fraud charges, while I escaped one – that I voted for him his first term.
Instead of pooring pouring one out for Kwame, I thought this song might be a better send off:
Former Kwame posts:
Well that didn’t take long.
The so-called-artists of Subway apparently don’t exist in their advertising department.
Take a look at their latest commercial:
Why am I up in #arms, you ask? Jimmy Fallon (and Justin Timberlake) already took a crack at this last month:
But what should I expect from a place that makes sandwiches?
1992 doesn’t sound that long ago (unless you were born in or after that year of course), but this anti-piracy ad certainly dates the date:
Speaking of outdated, check out this meeting of the old and the new. The ending before the ending is pretty good, and of course, so is the middle. If you’ve never heard Leonard Nimoy singing the original version of the song he’s singing (no spoiler), then click here. Otherwise, enjoy:
I was waiting to write this (as well as many of my other posts) until I could remember the fourth band I’ve noticed going V crazy. Allow me to introduce to you a possible new V trend. Band names that contain unnecessary V’s:
Now I’m starting to get really mad because the fourth band replaced the U with a V like CHVRCHES did. Maybe y’all can help. Here are their videos to fill space:
When I do figure it out, I’ll be sure to add to the comments section.
And if you’re wondering how can I call this letter injection an impending trend? Let’s see… do you remember the likes of Blink-182, 311, Sum 41, SR-71, Matchbox Twenty, 3 Doors Down, Third Eye Blind, Eve 6, Eiffel 65, Seven Mary Three, Finger Eleven, and Maroon 5? Notice any pattern?
Oh wait! Maybe it’s not the letter V… what if it’s a Roman numeral?
Maroon V anyone?
For those of you that are new – I call stealing something in the name of art liberal borrowing.
For those of you that knew – what didn’t you tell the new people?
My latest discovery comes in the form of Hey Rosetta’s Red Heart. Though it’s not as cut-and-dry cut-and-paste as some of my cases, I think you’d be remit to not admit a blatant similarity to Better Than Ezra’s In the Blood. Take a listen to the opening melody structures and meet me down below:
Okay it’s more like a liberal liberal borrowing. Or maybe one just reminds me of the other. Kind of like how the opening of Churchill’s Change reminds me of Dean Martin’s Sway:
Oh what do you know about anything!
I used to be a fairly religious person, but I’ve grown up. I could get into arguments over the matter, but this post was enough arguing for me. Do your thang and I’ll do mine. That being said, I still can enjoy a clever song about the man/woman/matrix upstairs, and here’s A Handful Of Acceptable Songs About God:
It’s a playful tune about looking at the world through the lens of youth. It also makes God a woman three years before Kevin Smith did.
The Devil’s just looking for some wholesome lovin’. And you can’t have God without the Devil.
God as a cigarette-smoking bum? Much better than Joan Osborne’s bus rider…
I had a coworker way back in the day that got really mad about this song (or rather, that Sarah McLachlan covered it). My response? “You don’t see anybody writing letters to Santa saying he doesn’t exist.” My coworker didn’t get it.
Punchline!
(SIDENOTE: Did you know he says “Oh” seventeen times in a row?!)
What if I had a blog back in 1999? Might I have written a post like this?
Just when I thought March of ’98 couldn’t be far enough behind me, another shitty, catchy, cash grab, ego trip of a song (?) has appeared on the airwaves, like an audio boil on FM’s backside. The prior culprit: Jimmy Ray’s Are You Jimmy Ray? This January’s cold sore with a backbeat: Eminem’s My Name Is. See which one is more cloying and annoying:
Did we really need another self-referencing pop tune? Is this Eminem guy spoofing Jimmy Ray or ripping him off? Luckily, the Jimmy Ray hype machine didn’t last long, so here’s to an expedient Eminem melt-in-the-hand send off.
(SIDENOTE: In reality, I still don’t like My Name Is much… Guilty Conscience was the song that changed my mind about Mr. Marshall Mathers. Conversely, I really liked Fred Durst starting with his Faith remake and then Nookie. Funny how things work out, eh?)
I am not a fan of Depeche Mode, but this family from Columbia sure is. After watching these, I heard Enjoy the Silence on the radio, and I couldn’t help but smile.
(SIDENOTE: When I was in high school, um, let’s see… 20 years ago… I remember this one girl gave a speech in our Honors English class about how squids are people, too. I thought, “Squids aren’t people. They’re squids!” Apparently, this is what they called goth back in the day at my school, and goths squids liked Depeche Mode. Don’t worry, I know what you’re thinking – He took Honors English?!)
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