Wine Cellar For The Black Cat

17 year old Bianca Passarge of Hamburg dresses up as a cat, complete with furry tail and dances on wine bottles, June 1958. Her performance was based on a dream and she practiced for eight hours every day in order to perfect her dance.

STP H8N

Do you really have to blair your music super loud out of your headphones in the library?! Seriously!

Looks Like You'll Never Be A Concert Flautist

For The Curious

"Our Love To Admire" has been leaked and I've sampled four new songs, which will probably ruin the first listen of the whole record, but either way I've got commentary on the new song with the best title.

"There's No I In Threesome" is a really catchy song. It doesn't stray too far away from Interpol you've heard before, but has what I'd call more romance. Paul seems to have gained some more vocal chops as well and the vocal melodies have a greater presence. Then there's question of whether or not the title is said in the song, and it most definitely is. It's prominent.

Riding The Train

So, I am totally jumping on the internet bandwagon right now, but if you haven't seen this dramatic chipmunk video, it's worth watching.



Or, if you like your chipmunks with a British flair...

I Keep Forgetting

I'll take a potential hiatus from possibly inspiring a snack run, to give a tiny "future of the blog" update.

A questionnaire is coming, that's about it. If you're not familiar with the questionnaire, type it in the search bar in the upper-left corner and get an idea of what it's about. I think this will be the first questionnaire of 2007 as well. Man, I do really want an eclair though.

Pâte à Choux

Hey, it's National Chocolate Eclair Day!

MMMMMM

It's National Ice Cream Soda Day...delicious.

Wacky Stack

James Mielke over at gaming website 1up offered this great bit of insight.

"In fact, one recent case, where a school showed the film "An Inconvenient Truth" to its students, which drew the ire and legal protest from one parent, likening it to religion and stating that it was illegal to show such 'propaganda' -- disguised as scientific evidence, go figure -- in a school unless the school also showed a film that offered a distinct counter point. However, the main problem with this fucked up theory is that people don't make films about how great it is to fuck up the ecology."

You're still in my heart environment.

Woke Up At 6

This nothing like the 8am I'm used to.

Man, This Junk Is Funky!

I don't typically know the French as the funkiest of folk, but electronic pop duo Justice, out of Paris, is dropping some seriously funktagious grooves. They are said to be huge Michael Jackson fans, and on the single "D.A.N.C.E" it shows. It has a fantastic rubbery bass groove, and great super-disco synth string hits.



D.A.N.C.E

This Is So Pretty

So, I'm being super geeky and running my fourth browser. I downloaded the Safari Beta for Windows. It's really nice. I wrote more about this earlier, but somehow three or so sentences got cut off when I made the post. The new version of OSX, that comes out in the Fall looks great too. I suppose any computer purchase I make has to wait until then. The new version of OSX is $129 though, which is pretty reasonable.

Republican Debate

A quote from a conservative blogger:

"What it lacked in firepower, it more than made up in pointlessness."

Post Debate Analysis

That's Irrelevant

This seems really cute and funny. It also features Jermaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords fame with some type of a mullet and an eagle outfit. Oh yeah, it's called "Eagle vs Shark".

Sweater Weather

There's a band called Sweater Weather. That's fantastic. I love weather and sweaters. This band isn't too bad either. Think "Sujfan" Stevens but with a slightly stronger voice and less intimacy; more of a band atmosphere. Check out their myspace for three songs.

Hyperlink Adventure

World Environment Day?

I had no idea, until today. I suppose that means the campaign worked though.

Here's a student in Jakarta passing out free plants. Yes!

It's Just Raining On My Face

The third most popular comedy folk duo out of New Zealand, Flight of the Conchords, has a show coming up on HBO. In some type of hip campaign, HBO has the whole first episode on their website a few weeks before the show actually airs. Either way, it's hilarious.

Full First Episode

No Mr. Bond, I Expect You To Die!

This come from the Wikipedia article about Muammar al-Gaddafi, the leader of Libya.

"Gaddafi's personal bodyguard, the Amazonian guard, is composed of 40 African women who are martial arts experts and highly-trained in the use of weapons. The Amazonian guard accompanied him on his 2004 visit to Brussels."

I thought for a second it might be a joke, but it is completely real and something I only imagine a James Bond villain doing.

Penny Arcade

Super Tubro Cred Attack!!!

The crew at Human Giant kicked out this skit about being pretentious record store employees. Safe to say it's hilarious, and terribly well informed. Oh, there's also a brilliant Carlos D. reference.