Here it is, “The Manifesto of Mother Monster,” set to become the most watched, and therefore the most important, music video of all time. There’s a long pseudo-religious intro which is vaguely reminiscent of Revelation 12. The whole thing makes you miss the good old days of Poker Face:
These clever boys came up with a response video to last week’s very popular Rear View Girls video:
Here’s another reminder that St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner. In Chicago, for instance, St. Paddy’s Day is a big deal. Windy City offices close for two days due to low productivity on the green day itself and the hangover time wastage which inevitably follows the next day. I never thought I’d miss …
St Patrick’s Day is right around the corner:
Kina Grannis has a new video out, In Your Arms, and a new album, Stairwells, to be released soon. Below is the new song and vid. Success is moving too fast to allow her to put in the time necessary to make either the song or the vid terrifically fantastic. They’re both just OK, and …
Here it is, the official interview, loaded with classic lines: Good Morning America: Exclusive: Charlie Sheen Says He’s ‘Not Bipolar but ‘Bi-Winning’ (02.28.11)
Here it is, but don’t worry, the dreaded F-word has been taken out. I hope she wins another Oscar so we can see what she does for an encore:
This is trending big in the wake of the Academy Awards:
Here is video from a mass cycling event in Brazil during which a car drives through the crowd of cyclists. Reports claim no one killed, but judging from the speed of impact in the video, some people must have been badly hurt. Viewer discretion advised.
Rocker John Cale, of Velvet Underground fame, made an appearance on American television show, I’ve Got a Secret, on September 16, 1963. Filmed only two years before he was to found the Velvet Underground with Lou Reed, in this clip Cale appears to be an overly grave, studious chap with what must have seemed like …
When I saw that a Big Bang show was trending big, I hoped it would have something to do with Dr. Sheldon Cooper, but no, it’s an Asian boy band:
A friend died last Wednesday. It might seem odd calling him a friend, since I never saw him in the flesh, never spoke to him on the telephone, and have no idea what he looked like. On the other hand, it might not seem so strange. Having such friends seemed and seems strange to me. …
Here’s the promo for Charlie Sheen’s Tuesday interview with 20/20 on ABC. Also, he’s got a ten million dollar tell all book for which he’s hoping to find a publisher:
The Sonics—“Louie Louie” (Etiquette 1965, 2:57) The Kinks invented Power Chord Rock in 1964 in the UK, and lo, it was good. We Yanks (via Link Wray’s “Rumble” in 1958) had already provided the world with Distorted Dread Rock, but it remained for this Pacific Northwest teen dance combo to match The Kinks’ achievement Stateside. …
“Or is it the clothes you wear?”