ah man, that is heartbreaking. clearly this woman has the emotion maturity of, like, a ten year old, and rather than trying to help make that better, her husband exploits it because genuinely finds it hilarious, and thinks a good deal of other people will as well. and the worst part is, he's probably right.
"she's fine and adorable. :)" ??? fuck. some people just don't get it.
anyone who claims to be a "big time hipster" is, by definition, not a hipster. more to the point, this is an extremely promising song, and i cannot wait for more. and even if this were bar rock, which it is not, there wouldn't necessarily be anything wrong with that. the hold steady has pretty much perfected that genre.
so, that was pretty great. this isn't new for the muppets or anything - they've been doing it since the seventies. but this sort of reminds me of where the wild things are, in that it appeals to children, but you have to be an adult to really understand and appreciate it, and that the creators have to find some way to balance the two audiences. with that said, i really appreciated animal's part in this. instead of describing this really horrific circumstance involving his mama, he regresses into what kids do in their infancy at the sound of their mama's name. it's, i don't know, precious.
i don't really have anything to say about the song choices, but dave foley has certainly hit a new low. i mean, celebrity poker showdown was at least watchable.
pretty harshgum around here, but i don't know. it looks pretty good to me. and i thought the squid & the whale was pretty great. and james murphy contributing new music for the soundtrack isn't hurting things, either. i'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt.
plus, with this economy and our 10.2% unemployment rate and whatnot, this country needs to see a character (played, no less, by multimillionaire ben stiller, who likely added multimillions to his multimillions in agreeing to the role) whose completely content doing nothing. amirite or amirite? motion picture panacea.
i know we're sort of spoiledgum around here what with our gabe delahayes and our don drapers and whatnot, but i really can't see how a response like this can be dismissed the way you've dismissed it. it's not littered with asterisks telling you where it was and wasn't sarcastic, but c'mon. "A side doomed to a painful, drawn-out, utter and complete defeat. Like the Plantagenets in the Hundred Years' War. Or whichever one was the cat in 'Tom and Jerry'"?? that's hilarious. they know who lost the hundred years' war, but they don't know tom was the cat? (they know tom was the cat.) that's good stuff.
it's extremely self-aware, ironically poking fun at itself, and it's written with the audience - colbert and, inevitably, EVERYONE who watches the colbert report - in mind. they're embracing the feud, either hoping to reap the benefits of their continued advertisement on the show, OR realizing that they probably won't win or lose any consumers because of it. it's not like anyone who already uses miracle whip to watch this and go, "wait a minute! miracle whip is disgusting!" y'know?
maybe i'm missing (part of) the joke here, but did miracle whip really send that letter to colbert? if so, kudos to them. it's good to know that people who make a living by basically advertising lard as a condiment don't take themselves too seriously and, on top of that, have a pretty excellent sense of humor.
he's so genuinely sincere (and, oddly, only with the lyrics. he in no way feels the music itself.) that it sort of makes me feel bad for the lot of love i gave him.
and, he solicits album proposals? can we brainstorm this? i nominate wish you were here, but only if we could watch him the entire time.
ben, i've got to say, you've had perfecter gifs. oh and PLEASE (DON'T) CLARIFY! and ...or is it because YouTube is the best and represents the most thoughtful and incisive dialog in America today? There's probably no way to know for sure. lots and lots of love.
s'pose i'm going to be in the minority here, but it's not like you need the onion or comedy central or abbott & costello or woody allen or WHATEVER to tell you that people who like sports can be funny and smart, or, perhaps the correct term here is witty.
all you would have had to do, and i know this might have killed you, is have watched one episode of sportscenter in your lifetime. i'm not one of those guys that goes to bed watching it or anything (i don't have cable!), but the anchors write their own stuff to narrate the highlights with, and when i do watch it, i will actually laugh out loud at it. you have to understand the context to think it's funny or witty, but it draws heavily from pop culture, not unlike this blog.
you people should know that contextualization is pretty key - that you have to be one of the gang, conditioned to the (from the outsider's perspective, fairly ho-hum) memes everyone around here takes to. i know when i first got here, and i read "i'll fuck you til you love me faggot," it scared the absolute shit out of me.
i guess what i'm trying to say is that i'm pretty fucking excited it's basketball season, but i also like thinking of cow-related movie titles.
so this means one, two, or all ten of them will only be in every twelfth news headline for - what? - the next three and a half years or so? this changes everything.
having only recently watched the first three episodes of season four of it's always sunny, i will definitively say frank reynolds. and if you disagree, i'd recommend watching season one again.
how had i not heard of that site before?
i'll agree that it's a good list. and the descriptions are good. they don't take themselves too seriously. still, i must favor pitchfork's list, if only because it gave me a pretty decent list of cds to order for the library i work at.
you raise a pretty good point. honestly, i don't see what difference there is here from all of stereogum's favorite bands jumping on the twilight bandwagon for the new moon soundtrack. these are great opportunities for these bands to get out there, to appeal to a larger audience with music that we consider great. you're afraid of losing your indie cred because hot topic's going to start blasting bon iver? what's indie cred? who cares? these guys deserve the attention they're getting.
phoenix isn't going to start making terrible music now that they've garnered commercial appeal. what's creating the commercial appeal for these groups is the part where they're making genuinely great music. and that's a very, very good thing. the more people that listen to this music - the less i hear about lady gaga and taylor swift and miley cyrus and nickelback and everything that's come out of the american idol enterprise save "since u been gone" - the more faith i have in humankind.
and, yeah, i get it. wal-mart?! BOO!!! HISS!! it's not like these guys are shopping at wal-mart or wearing axe body spray. they're just taking their money and thanking their lucky stars.
yeah! and, while we're at it, where's talking heads: 77, and magical mystery tour, and black star, and kind of blue? where's the dixieland jazz band, for god's sake?!
what do you think this list will look like in ten years when they make it all over again? certainly different, yes, but kid a, yankee hotel foxtrot, and funeral aren't going anywhere. they are one-of-a-kind, near-perfect albums.
you can't possibly expect an objective list that chronicles an entire decade while you're creating it within that decade. but pitchfork knows (certain types of) music, and their analysis (of those certain types) of music is pretty on pretty much all the time. that's why stereogum pulls 90% of its news from pitchfork. that's why we expected them to post something about this list right before the long weekend. and that's why i'm pretty confident that this is a fairly legitimate list. did you read that description? that man feels music.
that being said, veckatimest higher than yellow house is a travesty, and that list in ten years will almost certainly reflect that.
i don't have cable, or even a digital converter box, and i work every thursday until 9 (central). but i do have hulu (you guys got hulu?). so, that said, i'm pretty much a week behind everyone living in sivilization, but the couple of episodes i've seen of community have been extremely promising. some kinks to work out, sure, but it's going places. and it's always sunny and the office aren't exactly on the wane either.
now, my apologies if i'm going all sacrilege here, but does anyone have an honest opinion of flash forward? as far as existential broadcast television dramas are concerned, i think it's pretty decent. i can't say i'm hooked, but the pilot certainly left me wondering what the hell happened. and, i mean, you've got to be able to change the future, right? ANYONE?
so, there's this episode where dennis and dee decide to do something with their college degrees, right? and they sit around on stoops and listen to biz markie for a while, right? and then they decide they need to go on welfare in the meantime, right? so dennis pretends to be a recovering crack addict and dee pretends to be mentally retarded. welfare lady doesn't buy it, and so - oh, jesus. this isn't helping anything.
i think this alleged (or, as scott pointed out, apparent) chicken fucker said something that offended ol' ern's sensibilities right before they went on air, and ol' ern, never shy nor sober in the spotlight, took the opportunity to zing him back in front of a somewhat larger audience.
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