quote of the week...


I don't like it. It's too concept album.

- Craig, on the new Decembrists concept album
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the loneliness of John Hughes...

and other topics, explored in my new post In Defense of Career Opportunities here.
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yet more doppelgängers...

Just for the record, this IS NOT me in the upcoming horror film Bonnie & Clyde Vs. Dracula...

Nor is this my friend Al working for Amtrak...

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start your summer...

The 2009 BEWARE OF THE BLOG Summer Mix...



RIGHT CLICK HERE to download as a file for your iPod, or play it now below...



Tracks Include...
Just Like Heaven • The Watson Twins
Moth’s Wings • Passion Pit
You Don't Have A Clue • Röyksopp
The Hardest Part (live) • Coldplay
Mushaboom (Postal Service Remix) • Feist
True To Life • Roxy Music
I Am John • Loney, Dear
Traveling Salesman's Young Wife • Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
How Can You Be Sure? • Radiohead
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follow the pied piper...


Everyone seems to have a Twitter these days. Everyone except the rats of New York City.

Now, they have a voice...

FOLLOW THEM HERE
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wanna watch nicolas cage
eat a cockroach?

Sure you do.

One of the strangest movies ever made, VAMPIRE'S KISS for your viewing pleasure...

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linked in...

Now available from POP PRINTS NYC's CAFE PRESS STORE is a variety of shirts featuring the missing link itself - IDA!



Get yours today by clicking here.

And props go to GOOGLE for making IDA their icon today too...
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best photo ever...

I snapped this candid shot of a woman waiting in the customer service department of Tiffanys (6th Floor). Fantastic...

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metrosexual jumps the shark...

I gotta tell you, I'm not really a big fan of this whole genre of bromance comedies like I Love You, Man, Knocked Up, or even Chuck and Larry. Me mixing fart jokes with "the whole shadowy borderland between male camaraderie and homosexual panic" (as noted in the latest Esquire) just isn't funny.

The trailer for the upcoming Humpday, about two straight guys that decide to film themselves having sex to impress their friends with their "outrageousness," is probably the most jaw-droppingly offensive premise for a film since Threesome. The big scene features these two dudes saying things like "okay, you go first" or "rule one, no kissing."

I mean, not for nothing, this Sundance selection needs to grow-the-fuck-up.

Far be it from me to judge it before I see it, but I guarantee that no self-respecting gay man will be rushing to a comedy where the punch-line's the awkwardness of two guys getting intimate.

It may, however, cause a few bromances to go all the way.
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awkward...

This is pretty much my new favorite website ever. Enjoy.
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do you have ghoulies?

This week on FORCES OF GEEK, I explain my strange fascination with Ghoulies.
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get ready
for the mother
of all podcasts...


THE MOTHER LOVIN' PODCAST

Over a nice steak dinner at Viceroy in the heart of Chelsea, Rachel and Todd discover that...

• It's never too late to stop sucking your thumb and move on to other oral fixations

• ordering anchovies on your pizza makes you feel like a fish out of water

• twitter may be a fad, but the baby boomers are freaking out

• chuck mangione can soothe the savage beast

• whole foods can drive rachel crazy

As alway, this and every BEWARE OF THE BABYLON podcast can be automatically downloaded from iTunes here.
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my nephew's got moves...

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clepto mnemonics...

Those annoying little music notes you hear at the end of commercials or the beginning of television shows aren't really jingles. In advertising, they are known as mnemonics. A good example would be the little ditty that plays before the phrase "I'm Lovin' It" for McDonalds.

When you go to the American Express website to pay your balance you are treated to this mnemonic, which also has been showing up at the end of their on-air commercials...



I love the tune, and actually get a little excited when it comes on. And then it hit me. I've heard this tune before. If you're a child of the 80s, you have too. Think way back...

Now listen...


Um, did AmEx actually lift the DONKEY KONG theme and turn it into their mnemonic?! You bet your monkey-ass they did.

Oh, the humanity.
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totally...

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dark and rainy was the night
but the weather in Radio City
was red hot hot hot...

Last night's DARK WAS THE NIGHT supershow at Radio City Music Hall was a once in a lifetime gathering of some of the most talented people making great music today.

Feist, Bon Iver, My Brightest Diamond, TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek, The National, David Byrne, and Sharon Jones brought their contribution songs to life on stage, and then some, performing favorites and some rare gems (including a first ever live rendition of Byrne's Don't Fence Me In cover).

The concert was recorded for NPR, so keep an ear to the ground for that. And if you haven't made a contribution to Red Hot and bought your copy of DARK WAS THE NIGHT, do so here.
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