A Big Fat Waste of Time

This Is Me

Thinking About An Old Friend Today

The Felice Brothers "Ruby Mae"

This is a new band I am really liking called The Felice Brothers. I think in another life I lived in a super cold, wooded place where everyone was pasty white and depressing.

Happy Mother's Day, Ma

HBO 1983 Intro

When you're a pop culture junkie, shit like this makes you all sentimental.

Give Me A Happy Ending: The Pirate Movie

When I was about 11 years old, The Pirate Movie played constantly all summer on HBO. I became obsessed with it. Not having a VCR, I recorded it on my audio tape recorder and listened to the music over and over again in my room at night. (How weird was I?) Imagine my delight when I saw that it was coming on television this afternoon--on my day off. I'm DVR-ing it now and marveling at the strange sensory-memories coming over me as I watch. A more ridiculous movie has never been made and it makes me believe in happy endings again.

"Dance Party USA" Was The Original "Last Night's Party"

Back in high school, (yes I am THAT old), my best friend (gay) and I used to rush home after school to watch "Dance Party USA" with his older brother (also gay) who was in college. We weren't watching because we idolized the show. We were actually watching in utter disbelief of the amount of cheese produced in New Jersey (the home of the show.) But today when I looked up some old footage of it on YouTube, I was shocked to see how fucking hip the whole thing appears 20 years later. Or is it that the hipsters in Williamsburg are just super fucking dorks? Yeah. That sounds better.

The American Apparel Billboard Mystery Solved

Remember the obnoxious American Apparel billboard on Houston and Allen I blogged about a few months ago? The one on which someone climbed up and spray-painted, "I wonder why women get raped?"

I Wish I Could End All My Spots With Murder

Found a treasure trove of ancient Muppets commercials on YouTube today. Hilarious, madcap and macabre. Gives me hope for those of us who started our careers in the ad game.

Um, This Is Cool. Search For A Song, Any Song. And Play It.

SeeqPod Music beta - Playable Search

This playlist I call, "Together We Are One, Separated We Are Two"