Harmonize

Dan Harmon, creator of Community and podcast Harmontown, was on the Nerdist podcast and talked about trying to get out of a tv contract by creating something that the network definitely wouldn’t like. The way he did that was by creating something he would want to watch instead of trying to make something commercially successful. The result was the pilot for “Heat Vision and Jack“, with Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Ron Silver and Christine Taylor.

You should definitely watch the entire episode on youtube, but if you don’t have time, at least watch the title sequence, which should be queued up at 2:13 in the video below:

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Ahhhh!

According to this website, this song/video is going to take over the internet this week. It is disturbing, but I watched the entire thing for some reason. So sorry, or you’re welcome?

Yeah, sorry. To make up for it, Rolling Stone pointed me to Paul McCartney, who is re-releasing Wings at the Speed of Sound, tweeting an unearthed version of Beware My Love with John Bonham on drums?

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Influences Under the Influence

The Flaming Lips are releasing an album covering The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with a little help from friends including Miley, Moby, Dr. Dog, My Morning Jacket, Phantogram and more. Imagine you have really only listened to this drug influenced album not under the influence of drugs for 47 years. Then take that baseline and reinterpret the album with an even more psychedelic tone. That is this album. Take a listen to With a Little Help From My Fwends yourself over at NPR First Listen.

In somewhat of the same vein, Primus is releasing an album reimagining the soundtrack to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory called “Primus & The Chocolate Factory With The Fungi Ensemble”. To promote it, they are hiding 5 golden tickets among the vinyl release for free tickets to any of their shows for life. Nothing to listen to yet except this album trailer:

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