No Title Necessary

Its only at 13, 892 views (as of 7:50 pm), but if it doesn't get to 200 thousand by the end of tomorrow then my worst fears are confirmed: people just aren't into awesomeness.

Update: The video doesn't quite have as many views as I would have thought (stuck around 33,000) but the creators have chimed in on the Youtube comment thread:

so i think it's time we made a statement here. we never had any idea this video would make such waves. we have decided to open a profile on my space back slash cocons. please go add us. the page is still under construction and there are many more videos to come. thank you all and stay tuned. -90210 twins (and brian)

[via Jervenaut]

Crappy Musicians Keep Stealing Our Internet

I forced Tkid to write this little diddy because he found the media and, frankly, its fucking interesting... regardless of its truth.

Look familiar? Aside from the fact that you may recognize the rapidly un-indie-fying (i just made up a crappy word) Peter Bjorn and John, their video for Objects of My Affection looks eerily similar to a certain Flash game where the likeness of our President falls listlessly through space occasionally hitting and sliding off orbs. Can it be that the internet is affecting other mediums such as music and even the less impressive music video? I know email is huge, but who knew the impression this internet could have on modern life. What's next a line rider novella?

BONUS! :::
We found a copy of this game, but instead of Bush you get to fling around a cute little bikini clad girlie.

Bird Watching

Davis on the music beat, unbeatable. Here's a quick background, to set the scene:

On the Parisian Website La Blogothèque, photographer and filmmaker Vincent Moon regularly contributes a video feature called Les concerts à emporter ("The Take-Away Shows") in which he films emerging bands in distinctive locations around France, performing songs in one continuous take.

Andrew Bird has definitely got the best foie gras on Montmartre. Vincent Moon's video of Bird pondering around the 18th arrondissement is equal parts impromptu concert en plein air and study in public reactions to impromtu concerts. By the end of "Spare-Ohs," Bird is looking out over the hill onto the rest of the city below and Moon swirls the camera around to catch a 360 of the gathered crowd. And of course you're like, Whoa where did they come from? Because Moon's technique is carefully calculated to seem simultaneously in your living room and on a crowded street. Because if crowded streets were really like videos of a whistling fiddler and the children of Hamelin, then the world would be a better place. Extra points for the little spiritual-tinged song Bird picks on his fiddle and sings during the credits.

[via La Blogotheque]

Humps, Bumps and Irony

Murder is back.

With everyone clamoring about this video of Alanis Morissette mocking a Fergie song, I seem to be the only one pissed off, as usual. First of all, I didn't need Alanis Morissette to tell me Fergie sucks, because Alanis Morisette sucks too. Is she not aware of the irony here?

The funny thing is that this apparently isn't a new trend. Take this cover of Nelly's "Hot in Here" by some other dumb wench who thinks she's fucking cute. Has pop music gotten so bad that the only way to subvert it is through more pop music? It's actually almost worst hearing Alanis Morissette talking about spending all my money on her humps, because at least Fergie was a methhead for a while. Alanis Morissette is just some dumb bitch any one of us could have picked up off the side of the highway. Come to think of it, I also heard a plutocratic group of whores do a cover of that Britney Spears song "Toxic" a while back.

I won't be happy until someone brings me Gwen Stefani's head on a pike.

[via Murder's adolescent mind]
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Alanis Morissette Video
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