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Academy Award Winning Trailer

So well done. My favorite part:

"My name."
"My name."
"Catch phrase!"

Movie of the Year (already): Gentlemen Broncos

Have you seen this movie? I know 2010 just started, but it's my movie of the year. From the writers of Napoleon Dynamite, it is exponentially better - original, hilarious, and even manages to have great action scenes.

We all have a handful of favorite movies we love so much that they serve as a people filter - if so and so doesn't like the movie, then I probably don't like so and so. Well this is one of those movies for me. It's got Sam Rockwell, Jemaine Clement from Flight of the Conchords, and a slew of other hilarious actors and actresses. If the preview doesn't get you, I don't know what will. The lovely people at %$#^Tube put a 30 second ad before it starts...

Words Cannot Express...

...my reaction to a) this music video and b) the band's YouTube bio, which reads:


These Christian Rockers from Midland Texas know how to rip and shred! Boston Tea party? No Thank you! This time Final Placement is not stopping for tea nor any drink! Rock N Roll is what quenches these gnarly dude's thirst. Lets fly in the sky and rock with the lord!!!

I love the attitude. THIS is entertainment.

Drunk History

An excellent mix of education and entertainment, accompanied by a vomit bucket.

V Sparks - This Band is Phenomenal

Last night I went to the Elbo Room in Chicago to see a band called V Sparks. I've worked with the bassist, Keith, who's a killer musician, so I knew they wouldn't suck, but I had no idea what I was in for. Quite frankly neither did most people at the venue. I grabbed a couple of PBR's, planted myself up by the stage, and was immediately blown away...initially by the fact that they had glitter and pastel make-up on.

V Sparks is shockingly good. They put on one of the best live performances I've ever seen. I'd heard their studio tracks, which are upbeat and pretty tight, but their live show is a whole new ballgame. From an audience's perspective, the drummer and bassist provide a proactive backbone: steady, energetic, with the drummer yelling at the whole band to "alright alright go! go!" between songs to keep it moving.
The lead singer and keyboardist, V, sounds like Thom Yorke (Radiohead) with Freddy Mercury flair. I realize how that might sound like a little much, but you can disagree with me after you've seen them - I highly doubt you will. He has a showman's confidence and walks the walk. At one point I thought I heard a second lead guitar until I realized that it was the lead singer Thom Yorke-ing it up along with a guitar solo.

The guitar player is officially awesome...and I don't take that compliment lightly. When he gets up on stage, you think he's going to be the quiet guy in the corner. The other guys get sarcastic during sound check and make a show of set-up while he, Prescott Kagan, quietly goes about his business. I should have known better after the sound booth asked him to turn down his Marshall stack and he just said no. The guy plays an all-white, limited edition Airline quitar, has glitter on, and wears a tie and vest, so quite frankly I was hoping he would be good just to avoid potential disaster.
The guy rips. His playing was tight, solid, and loud right off the bat. Then he starts slowly going more and more berserk - by the end of the show he was dripping sweat and drooling on the guitar, and full on snarling. And his playing is, as is the theme, shockingly good. I didn't see him hit a single light note.
I could go on, but the point is that you've got to see V Sparks live. The two times I went up to get more beer, I turned around to see every single person in the venue riveted. No one talking - every single person, including the bartender, was 100% focused on V Sparks ripping it up.
They're playing South-by-Southwest, sell their studio tracks on iTunes, and are on MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/vsparks. I can't imagine that labels won't start hitting on them after SXSW.

OK Go Does It Again

If you haven't seen this already, it's a must. It just came out, but I'm sure it'll reach a million hits soon. Has to be one of the greatest music videos of all time.