Here is more of the little things that didn’t deserve their own post but are worth a looky loo. Most of this is from PopCandy, if you didn’t know already.
Vampire Weekend and The Black Keys figure out how has their songs in more commercials this year on The Colbert Report.
I forget who I was just talking about all the characters on How I Met Your Mother having other things to do when the show finally wraps up, except for Ted. Turns out that Josh Radnor will do fine as long as there are movies that seem to be the same character he plays in HIMYM; check him out in this trailer.
I was trying to find some interweb evidence about this, and after some very minimal amount of research, I couldn’t find anything. So I remember watching the trailer for “The Fighter” and thinking that Amy Adams, for being a big ol’ movie star, did not look as appealing in the short shot of her in her underwear. Then I remember later watching the movie, seeing the same shot and think “is she wearing different underwear, because that doesn’t look as awkward?” After rewatching the trailer, I realized that somewhere in the making of this movie, someone had to have said “This is a great movie, except we should definitely add an unnecessary sex scene in it.” Then after putting in the movie, someone else probably said “I don’t know how we can sell this movie without putting a snippet of that sex scene -that doesn’t even belong in the movie to begin with- in the trailer. Lets pay an exorbitant amount of money to cgi a tv-acceptable level of underwear on Amy Adams.” I am not a perv, I just find it funny the lengths that are made to make movies sell better and also be acceptable for an American audience. Also funny, in the research looking for other people who noticed this, I found: cgi-ing off the clothes of Jessica Alba in Machete.
Despite looking like a Norwegian Gozer the Gozarian, Robyn has really grown on me. Though quite different from another favorite song from her, Konichiwa, Bitches, the song Dancing On My Own would be on a personal Top Songs Of The Year list, if I did one of those. You can watch the original video, or just see her perform it at the Nobel Peace Prize concert (cause thats real and not made up!?!): (its the second song)
I haven’t done too much digging for string bands; my previous experience with them was limited to enjoying .357 String band from knowing Kate Brice and not enjoying Yonder Mountain String Band from hearing Joan’s ipod. But after helping dj for a bunch of Irish kids who wanted to hear “Mum-feerd!” every week, I fell in love with Mumford and Sons, a folk-rock band from England who has been getting a lot or radio play recently. If you’ve only heard Little Lion Man or The Cave, definitely give the rest of the cd a listen.
Their all of sudden popularity seems to have forced stations like WXRT to start playing more folk/string bands like The Avett Brothers, another folk rock band from North Carolina who are also worth a listen. They have been around a little longer and have a deeper catalog to peruse. I had not heard of their last album, I and Love and You, until more recently despite being on many blogs’ best-of-the-year-end lists, being produced by Rick Rubin and even going #16 in the us charts.
While I might mock Joan for her love of the Yonder Mountain String band, she did introduce me to Old Crow Medicine Show, a nashville band that seem to be hugely popular (and not new at all) with some people and unknown with most others. Wagon Wheel, from 2004’s OCMS album, is an uncompleted song found in a Bob Dylan bootleg that was expanded to now be their most famous song. Probably one of my current favorite songs:
I probably posted this 100 Greatest Insults before; though its worth another watch even if I did. Of course I am trying to think of ones that they missed, but all I can think is that there should have probably been more Denis Leary, Denis Farina and/or Robert Loggia. Apparently there is even a sequel and, I was going to wait for another day for this, but I would probably forget: 100 Cheesiest Lines (which I think Austin or Kevin Staunton showed me). Here is that video:
