I’m not as intrigued by funnyordie.com as some people seem to be - mostly because I find the name to be annoying and also because I try to avoid things associated with Will Ferrell.
Nevertheless, this video of Zach Galifianakis interviewing Michael Cera is one of the funnier things I’ve seen in a while.
Ellen Page and Michael Cera send some musical love to Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody.
After milking their last (admittedly fantastic) CD for nearly three years, We Are Scientists are back with a new album and a new video. ‘After Hours’ is the first single from the new CD entitled ‘Brain Thrust Mastery.’ The album was recorded in beautiful Sausalito, California without longtime drummer Jake Tapper, who left the band in November and - according to Wikipedia - “formed an association of bearded men, conducted through a month’s worth of interviews, and is in works to start a promotional tour to show off all types of beards that one man can sport.” OK.
Here’s the video for ‘After Hours,’ which sounds a little like some sort of generic British new-wave to me. I’m not terribly impressed on first listen, but maybe it will grow on me.
That in these chaotic times, Americans have their priorities straight.
RIP Sam the Butcher. I hope you and Alice are busy gettin it on in that great big meat locker in the sky.
If you catch him leaving school or going to basketball practice, Alex can seem like any other New York kid. He has long shaggy hair and big round cheeks, and looks young for his age (he turned 14 last month). He’s student-council president at his private school on the East Side. According to his Facebook profile, he likes “Golf, Tennis, Baseball, basketball, Soccer, Knicks, Waterskiing” and musicians like Akon, “Weird Al” Yankovic, and Black Sabbath. He likes to skateboard. He likes cool clothes. He talks a lot on his cell phone. He worries about girls he likes and whether they like him back.
But Alex isn’t like other boys his age. He’s had free rein over the streets of Nolita since before he can remember, and he quickly learned the rules of that playground, turning his relationships with the neighborhood’s shop owners into access to free gourmet meals and designer clothes and trendy sneakers, then turning those freebies into even better stuff (like courtside Knicks tickets), and leveraging those perks into even more valuable things, like connections to athletes, rappers, nightclub owners, and so on. On any given day after school, you can find him strutting down Elizabeth or Mulberry or Mott, past the foundations of his barter operation. He’s worked at Supreme, the clothing store and skate shop on Lafayette. He’s helped the chefs at Peasant. On Sunday mornings, he likes to get to DiPalo’s early, before the noon rush, and stretch the mozzarella with Louie, the cheese store’s owner, and kibitz with Violanda, his 80-year-old mother. He helps out at Papabubble, a designer candy store that opened recently on Broome Street, and hawks peanuts at Vinny’s Nut House on Mulberry and Grand. “He’s like a man trapped in a baby’s body—that’s how I always describe him,” says Vinny Peanuts.
Yes, it’s directed by Michel Gondry, and yes, it’s crazy weird - in a good way.
A bouncy cover of an ELO song.
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