whole brevity thing
the dude abides (bryan jones)Archive for September, 2008
saving silverman vol.31
Toad The Wet Sprocket is one of my favorite late 80′s-90′s bands. They produced consistently great tunes. Here’s lead singer Glen Phillips covering I Want A New Drug originally recorded by Huey Lewis And The News.
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be kind rewind vol.7
David Elsewhere Kollaboration 2001
The backstory via Wikipedia:
David “Elsewhere” Bernal (born August 2, 1979) is an illusionary dancer from Santa Ana, California. He became known through a viral video clip (Often titled Kolla2001) of himself dancing to Kraftwerk’s song Expo 2000[1] recorded at the Korean-American talent show Kollaboration in 2001.
The clip showcased Bernal’s characteristic take on the contemporary dance styles of popping and abstract waving. Performances of these dances were rare at the time, and the clip became very popular when it circulated on the internet — so popular that in November 2006 the viral marketing company, The Viral Factory, collated page-impression figures from websites such as YouTube and Google Videos. They determined that, as of November 2006, this video had been viewed over 200 million times, making it the 8th most viewed video.
Elsewhere is still popping away today, but now he gets paid for his limberosity. Here is his most recent commercial work for the MotoRokr E8.
If you still want more, Motorola has set up a YouTube channel just for Elsewhere… and the phone, too.
gone in sixty seconds
This aggression will not stand man.
I just got off of the phone with the fine folks of Bank of America, and it appears that my bank account has been emptied by some dude cruising the truck stops of Tennessee.
Here’s the scam: you use your credit/cash card at a gas station and the gas station’s lax security allows your bank account info to linger on the local network just long enough for a scumbag with skills to pull your digits and head out the door with access to all of your dough.
That is until the dough has all been spent, which took just less than eight hours. In a way, I pity poor little skillful scummy, ’cause he robbed the wrong dude… man, I’ve got three kids and a mortgage and the first of the month is about a week away. I would have loved to have been there when the card was denied due to insufficient funds. Surely he expected that gravy train to carry him a little further, like, all the way across Tennessee.
Here’s the lesson to be learned: Stick to the gas stations you know well. I would say “the gas stations where you won’t get robbed” but for the last two years, they’ve all been robbing us. According to B of A, (most likely) this is the joint where I was scammed: Pilot Travel Center
No Good Deals has more on this sad state of affairs.
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saving silverman vol.30
Straight outta Denmark crazy, hipster, white kids Alphabeat covering Digital Love originally recorded by Daft Punk.
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the fringe connection
Photo Credit - some dude named Joel
Mecca. Shangri-La. Heaven. Call it what you will, Austin, TX is a very special place. There’s this vibe to Austin that is unlike any other place. I was raised an hour down the road from Austin in San Antonio, and this urbanized hippie hollow has always been special to me.
A couple of days ago, I found myself back in the holy land for few hours. This was a work trip, but c’mon, I couldn’t pass up a chance to slip into Waterloo Records (Quick visual – think High Fidelity with a little more heart) for an hour or so. Sweet Providence, there was vinyl everywhere, an entire wall dedicated to Texas Brewed music and I even found a limited edition 10th Anniversary Big Lebowski DVD Set. Life was good.
Reconnecting with my musical roots reminded me that I’ve been meaning to post a mixtape of the tracks that I’ve been living with all summer long. I know that the folks in my office are ready for me to move on to some different music, but, I go back to this playlist at least every other day.
Whole Brevity Thing - Summer 2008 Mixtape
You can download the entire mix here. [ZIP]
- When Water Comes To Life / Cloud Cult
- White Winter Hymnal (Black Dominoes remix) / Fleet Foxes
- A-Punk / Vampire Weekend
- Fools / The Dodos
- Bag Of Hammers / Thao [MP3]
- Lolita / Throw Me The Statue
- Like It Or Not (Version 2) / Architecture In Helsinki
- Pork and Beans / Weezer
- I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You / Black Kids [MP3]
- Crawl / Kings Of Leon
- Them Kids / Sam Roberts
- Right Hand On My Heart / The Whigs
- In A Cave / Tokyo Police Club
- Great DJ / The Ting Tings
- Death To Los Campesinos! / Los Campesinos!
- The Good Old Days / The Lodger
- 5 Years Time / Noah And The Whale
- Tonight I Have to Leave It / Shout Out Louds
- Abandon / French Kicks
- Black Fur / Fredrik
- Heretics (Early Version) / Andrew Bird [MP3]
- First Sight / These United States
- Sunshine / Paul Westerberg
Merry End of Summer!
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be kind rewind vol.6
Crazy Man Dancing In Best Buy
Earlier this week, the man took me to Austin for a little business. Sandwiched between business and the flight out of Mecca, I got to spend some quality time at Waterloo Records.
Given a little bit longer taste of Texas, I’m sure that I could have given this dude a run for his money.
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