Ron Burgundy, with a couple more videos via PopCandy, is selling Dodge Durangos now:
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mach SNL
For the last while I have been consuming SNL via the clips online the week after. This new season premiere was the first time in a while I have enjoyed more than one or two skits. Probably shouldn’t be a surprise being how much I love Tina Fey, but is also awesome that Mike O’Brien (of Seven Minutes in Heaven with Mike O’Brien fame) is now featured and exploited. This is probably the favorite one:
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Gotcha
In comparison to Leno, Kimmel’s man-on-the-street segment is much better than Jaywalking. His New York Fashion Week video was entertaining and worth a watch, but the last one asking people about Obamacare vs. the Affordable Care Act was more upsetting than funny. Maybe I’m selfishly upset that this government shutdown is affecting my camping trip to a national park. Maybe I am upset that some people are so fame-hungry to be on tv despite not knowing what they are talking about. Maybe I’m upset that people are forming staunch opinions based on little information. Maybe I am upset at how people’s answers on this video seem to expose a racism against/for Obama (even if it was shot/edited that way).
Or maybe it is all of that. I realize it may be a little too simplistic of a cause and effect, but it seems that a lot of ignorance and racism has caused the election of too many congressmen who would rather shut it all down than try to fix things or compromise.
Sorry to ruin this video if just wanted to laugh, but here it is:
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Stroke Me
New Albert Hammond Jr out in a couple days. Came out of nowhere.
http://www.stereogum.com/1495521/albert-hammond-jr-rude-customer/mp3s/
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Rock and/or Roll
Earlier I did a post about the new rap and top 40 I’ve been catching up on. Kanye may have claimed that rap is the new rock and roll, but most people, including Jimmy Kimmel, knows not to take him too seriously.
So if you want some actual rock’n’roll to consume on this friday start with Turf War. I talked before about how amazing their first album was, and now Rollo & Grady posted a link to a collection of covers they are releasing through their tumblr that includes Sam the Sham’s Wooly Bully and Waylon Jenning’s Ain’t Living Long Like This.
The that R&O post caught my eye is because I have been bingeing on Waylon ever since I saw in the Spotify feed that Brendy listened to a few. Ain’t Living Long Like This, Luckenbach, Texas, Good Hearted Woman, Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right, or the Theme from Dukes of Hazard are all great jams. Thanks, Brendy.
Another jam I found on Spotify was Fats Domino’s Jambalaya which lead me to see that many people had covered that song originally written by Hank Williams. One person that covered it was John Fogerty, but the album, Blue Ridge Rangers, was not on spotify or even released on cd. It’s unavailability made me obsess about listening to it. After finally finding a way to, I found it is more straight country than CCR’s chooglin’, but still really good. Check out his cover of Hearts of Stone or She Thinks I Still Care. On the Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again, he does covers of John Prine‘s Paradise, Ricky Nelson’s Garden Party, and the Everly Brother‘s When Will I Be Loved.
If that is not enough, you can go back to Rollo and Grady and their Youtube video sessions to check out Natural Child.
Or if the better antidote to too much rap and top 40 is watching Zach Galifianakis hit Justin Bieber with a belt, then here is that: