Switchblade Comb

Dance party tonight at 7th St Entry courteous of our friends in Koo Koo Kanga Roo.

Sparklehorse played an enormous part in my serious introduction into music, right around 2001, and since then Mark Linkous has been one of my deeply treasured artists. It’s a Wonderful life remains one of my all-time favorite albums that really helped shape my tastes, and as a blogger who’s read by more than three people, I feel it’s my duty to eloquently state that this just fucking sucks.

You will be missed, sir.

“It’s a Wonderful Life”

“Apple Bed”

“Sea of Teeth”

Fisher Stevens worked on The Cove? That’s awesome. Hackers is awesome.

Hackers – Trailer

It’s bothered me for years that when everyone brought up female directors not given their due in the filmmaking world, they’d bring up the likes of Jane Campion, who was responsible for creating the most insultingly weak female character of 2009. However, they’d never utter the name of Kathryn Bigelow, because she was off doing ‘genre’ films important people aren’t supposed to care about like Strange Days, Near Dark, and Point Break.

Well, fuck that. Kathryn Bigelow is the best. And now she has an Oscar. Congratulations, madame.

There’s a million people that guest on the new solo album by Slash and most of them are terrible. There are a few awesome people like Lemmy, and Dave Grohl that play on it but would have been better is if he just took the following people who have guest spots and just made a whole album with them instead.

Drums: Steven Adler
Bass: Duff McKagan
Rhythm Guitar: Izzy Stradlin
Vocals: Iggy Pop

It’s not the original Guns N’ Roses but it’s pretty damn close.

Unfortunately it’s not the original lineup with Keith Levene and Jah Wobble, but hey, PiL’s touring! They will also be appearing on Jimmy Kimmel live on April 7 so that’s pretty cool.

Public Image Ltd. 2010 Tour Dates:

04.16 – Indio, CA – Empire Polo Field/Coachella
04.17 – San Francisco, CA – Grand Ballroom @ Regency Center
04.20 – Seattle, WA – Showbox at The Market
04.21 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
04.23 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
04.24 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
04.26 – Kansas City, MO – Midland Theatre
04.28 – Pontiac, MI – Crofoot Ballroom
04.30 – Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater
05.02 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues
05.04 – Boston, MA – Royale Boston
05.05 – Boston, MA – Royale Boston
05.07 – Toronto, ON – Kool Haus
05.08 – Montreal, QC – Theatre L’Olympia de Montreal
05.11 – Baltimore, MD – Rams Head Live
05.12 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
05.14 – Pittsburgh, PA – Club Zoo
05.15 – Atlantic City, NJ – The Borgata Music Box
05.16 – Northhampton, MA – Pearl Street
05.18 – New York, NY – Terminal 5

Public Image Ltd. – “Public Image” (from the debut LP Public Image)

SNL seriously under-utilized Zach Galifianakis last night, but this was pretty great.

Off of You Won’t Be Happy With Me, out March 23.

Tanaya Henry is wearing my shirt RIGHT NOW! Check it out!

View “SheWearsYourTee.com (Part 1 of 3)” here.

Stay tuned for “SheWearsYourTee.com (Part 3 of 3),” which I will post one week from today.

Anyone who knows the internet knows that Derrick Comedy is awesome.

Up above is their amazing alternative theme song to G.I. Joe, HERE is one of the best skits ever that you should’ve already seen, Bro Rape, HERE is their YouTube page that’s full of more awesome, and HERE is the trailer to Mystery Team, their first feature film which is funny as hell but way too long. It’s playing at the Uptown Theatre tonight (well, you missed it) and tomorrow at midnight-fifteen. Check it out.

“England!“

I just read THIS New York Times article about the second-wave of mumblecore, a genre I was really hoping would kind of be dead by now. It features films such as In Search of a Midnight Kiss and Medicine for Melancholy, which I guess aren’t as bad as Funny Ha Ha, but still aren’t very good.

Blah blah blah, complain. One day, the hipster subculture will die down to the point where no-budget, handheld, improv video films will focus on something else, but until then, here’s the trailer for Wallace Cotten’s spot-on mumblecore parody Nothing But Everything.

I laughed.

Looks like the sequel to the rather effective Spanish horror film [REC] (remade in America as Quarantine) is yet another Twin Cities premiere coming to the Uptown Theatre’s midnight film series.

It has been just 15 minutes after authorities lost contact with the people locked in the building under quarantine. Nobody knows what happens inside. A SWAT unit enters the interior of the house to monitor the situation and determine what is happening.

Fri & Sat, July 9 – 10
Midnight l $9

[REC]2 – Trailer