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    Lolla

    DIOYYAnyone with plans to go to Lollapalooza this summer should be excited after the announcement of the official lineup. One band that looks like it could be fun to see is a band called Does It Offend You, Yeah?. First read about them at My Old Kentucky Blog, but fell in love with them from a fan-made video thats below. Come on, sometimes, the only reason you like a song is because of the video. Right? Check out their myspace or at hypemachine. The real video is here. (more…)

  • Improv Everywhere

    “Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places,” says their website. Every new post is a new “mission” and the people that participate are “agents.” Sounds like something Joan would come up with. They have some great missions: one where two hundred people don’t where pants while they are on the train, one where a bunch of people dress up with blue shirts and khakis and go into a best buy to fuck with everybody, and one where they find a stranger in bar and pretend its his birthday. Here is a video from something they called a MP3 Experiment. The mission is to download an mp3, meet at a park and press play on that track all at the same moment. Its in four parts, here is the first.

  • Parkour

    A while back, NPR had a story about a new urban “sport” called Parkour. It reminds me of when kids went skitching with their rollerblades on the back of cars. There are gyms that are popping up that help teach how to do it right, because if you keep watching more youtube videos, you will inevitably see many attempts at mastering the urban jungle but instead faceplanting.