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09/18/2007
Kelly, "Let Me Borrow That Top"
From Liam Sullivan, the man who brought you "Shoes," comes another music video starring the delciously bitchy Kelly (Sullivan himself). Actually, first there's a four minute, non-musical intro with a quirky look at Kelly's whole family, and the hilarity that ensues when her Aunt Susan, an earthy lesbian folk singer, comes to visit.
But then Kelly's neighbor Caitlin comes home with a cute new top, and the musical highjinks get underway. Chearleaders! Ninjas! Heaven! Riots! LisaNova! Dave Navarro! Margaret Cho! This video has everything!
Seriously, betch. Let Kelly borrow that top. She's earned it. (Don't make me have to betchslap the dumb out of you.)
06/18/2007
John Mayer: Public Apology
John Mayer may be the King of Sissy Rock, but never let it be said that the guy doesn't like to mix things up. He got white people dancing on Chappelle's Show, he donned a bear suit to chat with fans on his own show (the little seen and creatively named John Mayer Has a TV Show), and now he's broken out this tearful post-show confession at Red Rocks Ampitheatre.
Seems that John's regularly scheduled backstage pit bull fight went awry during the show, and things went downhill from there. Oopsie.
I'm sure an angry letter from the National American Pit Bull Terrier Association is on its way as we speak, but I myself prefer to focus on the positive, such as John's fine use of the word "truncated." You don't get a lot of good "truncated" nowadays.
Pan away!
12/04/2006
Polytechnic - Man Overboard
Haunted by the howling of backup vocals and the repetitive pulse of the piano, this new track from the UK band Polytechnic has been named NME’s track of the week. The popular UK music mag NME describes Man Overboard as “a hypnotic marching anthem for dreamers on woozy prescription pills.”
With their album dropping in UK stores today, the Polytechnics' new track sounds a bit like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah with a raging hangover. According to Stockard Channing of Stereogum, “the first time we bumped into Manchester's Polytechnic, we just couldn't get over just how much Clap Your Hands Say Yeah came through in the band's sound. It wasn't just in the nasal, Alec affectations; it was in the use of bass as melody mover, the simple, snare and closed-hat indie beats.”
Regardless of the song's inspiration, this video is beautifully traumatic and we love the dapper sparrow. With the urban sprawl devastating the half-man-half-bird's very being, the ink-on-paper animation style is as gritty as it is mesmerizing.
