The coolest jumps in the history of...jumping

Man, the 3rd, 2nd and 1st jumps are, genuinely, insane. I think i posted the full video for the second jump way back in the day. But this shit is nuts.

Brink Cinematic Trailer

Actually one of the coolest trailers. This game is supposed to involve a "parkour" element, but mostly it's just a "point to where you want to go and we'll take you there quickly" element. Still, looks rad.

The best cat ever - the trololo cat

So funny! You just can't help but lose it.

God i love video games

New Ghost Recon: Future Soldier trailer looks so damn epic. You gotta appreciate the work that went into this. One of the best trailers i've seen, easily.

Wicked trail bike video

This is just one of the easiest things to watch ever...good music, sweet skills. good stuff.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

i'm always the last to post...here's the new OK Go! video

...which is quite awesome. The song's catchy and the Rube Goldberg thing is just straight up great. So fun to watch.

Enjoy!

Zach Galifinakis is damn hilarious...

This is the most awkward thing EVER. But it's so good. I've totally posted this before, i realize that now.

Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis from Between Two Ferns

Ninja keyboardist knows how to jump and play piano

I think it's just awesome that a lot of the popular indie/electro/retro-revitalize bands (great example is the Valerie and Friends compilation) are actually creating music that sounds similar to the 80s as well as shitty German electro-pop (no offense). But i do really think it's great.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Wicked! Michael Cera in an Islands' music video

Saw these guys at the Mod club (sans cera) and fuck they were great. really clean, super funky, just great to listen and dance to. here they are doing "no you don't" featuring Michael cera, which is just great.

New Caribou album could be pretty good.

Caribou, a indie/electronic/pop band released their last (and first, i believe) album Andorra a year or so ago and it was pretty good. The're related to another band, I want to say Manitoba, with some of the same artists. I'm not 100% sure on that, so don't quote me, but their next album is pretty good. They're on Merge records and if you haven't listened to any M. Ward, who is also on Merge (i believe), you should. Anyway, this is "Odessa" by Caribou.

I'm actually pretty pumped for Kick Ass

It looks pretty damn rad. And these red band trailers are great. the last one was brutally gory, which i think is just swell.

To be awesome

So what does it mean to be awesome? It means a lot of things, too many to count. So instead of counting, let's list them.

It means growing a moustache for November, shaving it in December and then growing it again in January.
It means dancing in your kitchen with headphones on while making a grilled cheese.
It means writing a post about it.
It means being so full of awesome that it comes out your armpits in the form of sweat.
It means being able to bite your fingernails so precisely that you never have to trim them (awesome and pretty gross).
It means knowing who Dolph Lundgren is and that he plays drums, sings (badly) and is an actor, martial artist and model.
It means being obsessed with the game Robot Unicorn Attack!!!
It means having a bottle of liquor with a cobra in it that has another snake in its mouth.
It means being yourself (or being me).
It means being a source of new music for friends (that share your awesome taste in music).
It means constantly pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable and appropriate.
It means defining genius based on being able to make loose connections because you're good at making loose connections.
It means always being able to say "oh yeah, I saw that yesterday" when someone shows you a new and cool internet video.
It means picturing three wells when you say "Well, well, well."


It means buying what you thought were baby blue shoes off the Internet, only to find out they were teal and being happy about it.
It means loving the small things in life more than the bigger things.
It means recognizing that the last thing could be taken in a dirty way but writing it anyway.
It means stopping to pet almost every dog you pass.
It means being like, or knowing, this guy:


It means being grammatically correct in your text messages.
It means lovin' life.
It means knowing how to play frisbee by yourself.
It means being cool with having the last name "Notzl-Keyser."
It means not shaving for 6 months while you're traveling, looking like this and being happy about it:



Whatever "awesome" means...

This is just straight f'ed

I don't know what to make of this. At first it's uncomfortable, then it's random, then it's more random and then it's violent and then it's just fucked. I love these kinds of videos...so unpredictable.

Dolph Lundgren will croon his way into your heart

At first, when he was singing, I thought "this is pretty cool." But when he kicked the boards the guys were holding and then broke the ice blocks, i knew i'd found something special.



skip to the 1:20 mark if you're the impatient type...

A new game! Meat boy

Meat Boy! a semi-traditional scroller, you're a piece of meat trying to go places (story of my life). Fun and addictive (story of my life).


Play Meat Boy

Another fun little game

just so i can find it later. Simple game. Just press "x" to go from roof to ceiling and avoid obstacles and holes.

Robot Running Game

Most amazing game ever!

Robot Unicorns...there are rainbows and stars and addictive gameplay. it's pretty much perfect. But, it's got music and stuff in the beginning, so just click the link below to play it. Super fun!

Robot Unicorn Attack!!!

Cuuute dog snowboarding!

I knew they could skateboard, but snowboard?! Dammnnnnn! He looks pretty stoked. And it's interesting that it seems to be mostly bulldogs that are so good at this. Must be the low centre of gravity.

Really neat video art

This is from an artist out of cologne. It's a beautiful play of images, movement, all within the city space (which i love).

Lionheart - the street fighter edition

Who needs to see the whole movie when you can watch it without all the plot and character development that Van Damme movies are so well known for?

Aziz Ansari is less annoying than Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaandy

You must be kinda stupid.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Molina & Johnson plus some wicked gamin'

This is a beautiful combination of gorgeous and rather heart-wrenching music with some fantastic old-school video gamin'. I talked briefly to the kid who put it together and he said there was something lonely in the video games that went well with the music and I must agree. Especially in the skill of the player...it alludes to the solitary nature of the player and the time alone required to reach such ability. Anyway, it's wicked.

The Morning Benders

I just found these guys and i like'em. easy to listen to, which is always nice, with an up-tempo feel that just makes you want to swing your hands and snap your fingers.

Dammit anna:


Boarded doors:


Waiting for the war:

I just learned about Gymkhana

This is Ken Block, the founder of DC shoes and he's just a damn wicked driver. This is from Top Gear and it's easily one of the coolest things i've seen in a long time.

New Hot Chip's hot shit

This is the video for their upcoming album's title track "One Life Stand."


Hot Chip - One Life Stand (MySpace Exclusive)

Hot Chip | MySpace Music Videos

My dad's in google maps!

They're in prague maybe 4 times a year and on one of those trips, he happened to be outside the apartment just as the google maps car drove by.


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Paper parkour

This is pretty rad...a stop motion parkour video.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

well well well

I laugh every time i say this now.

Grandma's trippin out

I would both hate it and love it if my grandma was like this. Unfortunately she's no longer with us...

Shows you'll likely find me at

Because the thousands of people that read this blog should know.

14-MAR-10 WOODS / REAL ESTATE @ HORSESHOE 19+ $13.50

24-MAR-10 FRUIT BATS @ HORSESHOE 19+ $10.00

6-APR-10 CYMBALS EAT GUITARS @ EL MOCAMBO 19+ $10.00

14-APR-10 THE MORNING BENDERS @ DRAKE HOTEL 19+ $11.50

1-MAY-10 YEASAYER @ LEE'S 19+ $18.00

3-MAY-10 PIERCED ARROWS @ EL MOCAMBO 19+ $10.50 (Maybe)

Upcoming Albums of 2010

Well, really just for the first few months.

January

01-05

Joker: "City Hopper" b/w "Output 1-2" [Tectonic]
Kanye West: Storytellers [CD/DVD]

01-12

Ben Kweller: "Sawdust Man" b/w "Send Me Down the Road" [Bloodshot]
Owen Pallett: Heartland [Domino]
Jason Boesel: Hustler's Son [Team Love]
Jukebox the Ghost: Let Live and Let Ghosts [Rebel Group]
Kría Brekkan: Uterus Water 7" [Paw Tracks]
Laura Veirs: July Flame [Raven Marching Band]
OK Go: Of the Blue Colour of the Sky [Capitol]
Omarion: Ollusion [Starworld Entertainment/EMI]
Polysics: Absolute Polysics [Myspace]
Ringo Starr: Y Not [Hip-O]
Vampire Weekend: Contra [XL]
Woodpigeon: Die Stadt Muzikanten [Boompa]

01-18

Blockhead: The Music Scene [Ninja Tune] [physical release, out now digitally]
Fyfe Dangerfield: Fly Yellow Moon [Geffen] [UK Release]
Spoon: Transference [Anti-] [UK release]
These New Puritans: Hidden [Angular/Domino] [UK Release]
Various Artists: Pop Ambient 2010 [Kompakt]

01-19

Cold War Kids: Behave Yourself EP [Downtown]
Dinowalrus: % [Kanine]
Editors: In this Light and On This Evening [Fader] [U.S. release]
Eels: End Times [Vagrant]
The Hot Rats: Turn Ons [Fat Possum]
Josephine Foster: Graphic as a Star [Fire] [U.S. release]
Lindstrøm & Christabelle: Real Life Is No Cool [Smalltown Supersound]
Major Stars: Return to Form [Drag City]
Red Krayola with Art & Language: Five American Portraits [Drag City]
RJD2: The Colossus [RJ's Electrical Connections]
Scout Niblett: The Calcination of Scout Niblett [Drag City]
Spoon: Transference [Merge] [U.S. release]
Surfer Blood: Astro Coast [Kanine]
Susu: R and R and R [self-released]
Virulence: If This Isn't a Dream... 1985-1989 [Southern Lord]
Wetdog: Frauhaus! [Captured Tracks] [U.S. release]

01-25

The Shining: Blackjazz [Indie Recordings]
Yeti Lane: Yeti Lane [Sonic Cathedral]

01-26

AFCGT: AFCGT [Sub Pop]
Animal Collective: Campfire Songs [Paw Tracks] [reissue]
Basia Bulat: Heart of My Own [Rough Trade]
Beach House: Teen Dream [Sub Pop]
Bei Bei & Shawn Lee: Into the Wind [Ubiquity]
Citay: Dream Get Together [Dead Oceans]
Clipd Beaks: To Realize [Lovepump United]
David Bowie: A Reality Tour [ISO/Columbia/Legacy]
Four Tet: There Is Love in You [Domino]
Fredrik: Trilogi [The Kora]
Fucked Up: Couple Tracks: Singles 2002-2008 [Matador]
Charlotte Gainsbourg: IRM [Because Music/Atlantic]
Gigi: Maintenant [Tomlab]
Harvey Milk: Harvey Milk [Hydra Head]
Home: Seventeen [Jagjaguwar]
Infinite Body: Carve Out the Face of My God [Post Present Medium]
Interference: Viva La Interference [The Social Registry]
J Tillman: "Wild Honey" b/w "Black Barge" 7" [Western Vinyl]
Jaga Jazzist: One-Armed Bandit [Ninja Tune]
Jailbreak: The Rocker [Family Vineyard]
John Vanderslice: D.I.A.L.O. 7" [Dead Oceans]
Kevin Barker: You and Me [Gnomonsong]
KRS-One: Playlist: The Very Best of KRS-One [Jive/Legacy]
Locksley: Be in Love [Wicked Cool]
Loren Connors & Darin Gray: The Lost Mariner reissue [Family Vineyard]
Los Campesinos!: Romance Is Boring [Arts & Crafts]
The Magnetic Fields: Realism [Nonesuch]
Max Richter: Memoryhouse reissue [FatCat]
Moonface: Dreamland EP: Marimba and Shit-Drums [Jagjaguwar] [physical release, out now digitally]
My Brightest Diamond: Shark Remixes [Asthmatic Kitty]
Oh No Ono: Eggs [Friendly Fire]
Patty Griffin: Downtown Church [Credential]
Pit Er Pat: The Flexible Entertainer [Thrill Jockey]
Quail Lungs: Dumb DaDaDum 7" [Post Present Medium]
Retribution Gospel Choir: 2 [Sub Pop]
Robert A. A. Lowe & Rose Lazar: Eclipses [Thrill Jockey]
The Silent League: ...but you've always been the caretaker [Something in Construction]
Slow Six: Tomorrow Becomes You [Western Vinyl]
Small Black / Washed Out: Split 7" [Lovepump United]
Tape & Bill Wells: Fugue [Immune]
Thavius Beck: Dialogue [Mush]
Three 6 Mafia: Laws of Power [Hypnotize Minds/Columbia]
Various Artists: Casual Victim Pile: Austin 2010 [Matador]
Various Artists: Good God! Born Again Funk [Numero Group]
Various Artists: The Minimal Wave Tapes [Stones Throw]

February

02-02

The Album Leaf: A Chorus of Storytellers [Sub Pop]
Alexander Tucker: Grey Onion [Latitudes]
Blind Man's Colour: Wooden Blankets [Kanine]
The Brunettes: Paper Dolls [Lil' Chief]
FM Belfast: How to Make Friends [Kimi]
Malakai: Ugly Side of Love [Domino]
Midlake: The Courage of Others [Bella Union]
Mount Eerie: Black Wooden [Latitudes]
Pierced Arrows: Descending Shadows [Vice]
Priestess: Prior to the Fire [Tee Pee]
Skullflower: Strange Keys to Untune Gods [Neurot]
The Smith Westerns/Magic Kids: Split 7" [Fat Possum]
The Soft Pack: The Soft Pack [Kemado]
Toro Y Moi: Causers of This [Carpark]
U.S. Girls: Go Grey [Siltbreeze]
Various Artists: Bob Blank: The Blank Generation: Blank Tapes 1975-1985 [Strut]
We Are Wolves: Invisible Violence [Dare to Care]

02-09

Angelo Spencer: Et Les Hauts Sommets [K Records]
Ben+Vesper: LuvInIdleness [Sounds Familyre]
The Besnard Lakes: "Albatross" b/w "Four Long Lines" 12" [Jagjaguwar]
Best Coast: "Something in the Way" 7" [Post Present Medium]
David Bowie: David Bowie: Deluxe Edition [Decca/Universal]
Galactic: Ya-Ka-May [Anti-]
Georgia Anne Muldrow: King's Ballad [Ubiquity]
Hanoi Janes: Summer of Panic [Captured Tracks
Hot Chip: One Life Stand [Astralwerks]
Hunx and His Punx: Gay Singles [True Panther]
Kath Bloom: Thin Thin Line [Caldo Verde]
Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose: Bridge Carols [Holocene Music]
Massive Attack: Heligoland [Virgin]
Pantha du Prince: Black Noise [Rough Trade]
Phantogram: Eyelid Movies [Barsuk]
Redman: Reggie Noble 9 1/2 [Def Jam]
Title Tracks: It Was Easy [Ernest Jenning]
The Watson Twins: Talking to You, Talking to Me [Vanguard]
Yeasayer: Odd Blood [Secretly Canadian]

02-15

Errors: Come Down With Me [Rock Action]
Ewan Pearson: We Are Proud of Our Choices [Kompakt]
Peter Gabriel: Scratch My Back [Virgin]

02-16

Adam Green: Minor Love [Fat Possum]
Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore: Dear Companion [Sub Pop]
Dum Dum Girls: "Jail La La" 7" [Sub Pop]
Everybody Was in the French Resistance...Now!: Fixin' the Charts, Volume One [Cooking Vinyl]
Excepter: Presidence [Paw Tracks]
Field Music: Measure [Memphis Industries]
Freeway & Jake One: The Stimulus Package [Rhymesayers]
The Game: The R.E.D. Album [Interscope]
Gentle Friendly: Ride Slow [Upset! The Rhythm]
Jason Falkner: I'm OK, You're OK [Cobraside]
Juliana Hatfield: Peace and Love [Ye Olde Records]
Lightspeed Champion: Life is Sweet! Nice to Meet You [Domino]
Local Natives: Gorilla Manor [Frenchkiss] [U.S. release]
Moon Duo: Escape [Woodsist]
Preservation Hall Jazz Band: Preservation [RED]
Robert Pollard: We All Got Out of the Army [GVB Inc]
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra: Kollaps Tradixionales [Constellation]
Tindersticks: Falling Down a Mountain [Constellation]

02-22

Lonelady: Nerve Up [Warp]
Various Artists: Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics Vol. 1 [Angular]

02-23

Airbourne: No Guts, No Glory [Roadrunner]
Balmorhea: Constellations [Western Vinyl]
Clem Snide: The Meat of Life [429]
Daniel Merriweather: Love & War [J/Allido]
David Byrne & Fatboy Slim: Here Lies Love [Todomundo/Nonesuch]
Dignan Porch: Tendrils [Captured Tracks]
Efterklang: Magic Chairs [4AD]
Eluvium: Similes [Temporary Residence, Ltd.]
Erykah Badu: New Amerykah, Part II: Return of the Ankh [Universal Motown]
Free Energy: Stuck on Nothing [DFA/Astralwerks]
Fyfe Dangerfield: Fly Yellow Moon [Geffen] [US Release]
Groove Armada: Black Light [Cooking Vinyl]
High on Fire: Snakes for the Divine [E1 Music]
Holly Miranda: The Magician's Private Library [XL]
Martyn: Fabric 50 [Fabric]
Past Lives: Tapestry of Webs [Suicide Squeeze]
Quasi: American Gong [Kill Rock Stars]
Rocky Votolato: True Devotion [Barsuk]
Shearwater: The Golden Archipelago [Matador]
Shout Out Louds: Work [Merge]
The Strange Boys: Be Brave [In the Red]
Various Artists: Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox [Merge] [U.S. physical release]
White Hills: White Hills [Thrill Jockey]
Wolf People: Tidings [Jagjaguwar]
Xasthur: 2005 Demo [Hydra Head]
Xiu Xiu: Dear God, I Hate Myself [Kill Rock Stars]
Zeus: Say Us [Arts & Crafts]

Other February releases

Lil Wayne: Rebirth [Cash Money/Young Money Entertainment/Universal]
Various Artists: Mavis [!K7]

March

03-01

cliffordandcalix: lost foundling [Aperture]
New Young Pony Club: The Optimist [The Numbers]
Sam Amidon: I See the Sign [Bedroom Community]
Tunng: And Then We Saw Land [Full Time Hobby]

03-02

Golden Triangle: Double Jointer [Hardly Art]
Groove Armada: Black Light [Om]
Jaguar Love: TBD [Fat Possum]
Natalie Merchant: Leave Your Sleep [Nonesuch]
Rogue Wave: Permalight [Brushfire]
The Ruby Suns: Fight Softly [Sub Pop]
Shy Child: Liquid Love [Wall of Sound]
Usher: Raymond v. Raymond [Jive]
These New Puritans: Hidden [Domino] [U.S. Release]
The Whigs: In the Dark [ATO]

03-09

Alberta Cross: Broken Side of Time [Ark Recordings/ATO]
Aloha: Home Acres [Polyvinyl]
The Besnard Lakes: The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night [Jagjaguwar]
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Beat the Devil's Tattoo [Abstract Dragon/Vagrant]
Broken Bells: Broken Bells [Columbia]
The Bundles: The Bundles [K]
Frightened Rabbit: The Winter of Mixed Drinks [Fat Cat]
Jason Collett: Rat a Tat Tat [Arts & Crafts]
jj: jj no 3 [Sincerely Yours/Secretly Canadian]
Liars: Sisterworld [Mute]
Miles Kurosky: The Desert of Shallow Effects [Majordomo/Shout! Factory]
Morning Benders: Big Echo [Rough Trade]
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists: The Brutalist Bricks [Matador]
Titus Andronicus: The Monitor [XL]

03-16

Chamillionaire: Venom [Chamilitary/ Universal Republic]
Drive-By Truckers: The Big To-Do [ATO]
Freelance Whales: Weathervanes [Frenchkiss/Mom + Pop]
Gin Wigmore and the Cardinals: Holy Smoke [Universal Motown]
Happy Birthday: Happy Birthday [Sub Pop]
Seasick Steve: Man From Another Time [Ryko]
White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights CD/DVD [Third Man]

03-22

Black Tambourine: Complete Recordings - Deluxe Edition [Slumberland] [reissue]
Galaxie 500: On Fire/Peel Sessions [Domino] [reissue] [UK release]
Galaxie 500: Today/Uncollected [Domino] [reissue] [UK release]
Galaxie 500: This Is Our Music/Copenhagen [Domino] [reissue] [UK release]

03-23

Bettie Serveert: Pharmacy of Love [Second Motion]
Dillinger Escape Plan: Option Paralysis [Party Smasher Inc/Season of Mist]
Goldfrapp: Head First [Mute]
Jónsi Birgisson: Go [XL]
Serena-Maneesh: S-M 2: Abyss in B Minor [4AD]
She & Him: Volume Two [Merge]
Various Artists: The T.A.M.I. Show: Collector's Edition [DVD] [Shout! Factory]

03-30

Dum Dum Girls: I Will Be [Sub Pop]
The Living Sisters: Love to Live [Vanguard]
Sweet Apple: Love and Desperation [Tee Pee]

April

04-05

Black Francis: Nonstoperotik [TBA]

04-06

Harlem: Hippies [Matador]
Monster Movie: Everyone Is a Ghost [Graveface]

04-20

Flying Lotus: Cosmogramma [Warp]

Other April releases

Blunt Mechanic: World Record [Barsuk]
Jóhann Jóhansson: And in the Endless Pause There Came the Sound of Bees [Type]
Disappears: Lux [Kranky]

Other releases expected in the first quarter of 2010

Battles: TBA [Warp]
!!!: TBA [Warp]
The Drums: TBA [TBA]
Gorillaz: Plastic Beach [Virgin]
Here We Go Magic: TBA [Secretly Canadian]
Interpol: TBA [Capitol]
Jaill: TBA [Sub Pop]
Javelin: TBA [Luaka Bop]
Josiah Wolf: Jet Lag [Anticon]
LCD Soundsystem: TBA [DFA]
MGMT: Congratulations [Columbia]
Sally Seltmann: Heart That's Pounding [Arts&Crafts]

Operation Ivy!!!!

I was finally able to find this album on...itunes...yeah...and have been listening to it non-stop for the last few days. the first song posted is the best.

Healthy Body:


Unity:


Take Warning:


Room without a window:


"The position being taken is not to be mistaken for attempted education or righteous accusation. Only a description, just an observation, of the pitiful condition of our degeneration." Love it.

Junkies Runnin' Dry:

So appropriate.

Bad Town:


Big City:

Boy Least Likely To - "Be Gentle with Me"

A great song, so happy and nice - a great way to start the back to work grind. Nicer than the Operation Ivy i was listening to on the way into work...