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November 9, 2010
Kanye West sings on a Delta flight
Between all the drama surrounding George W. Bush’s admission of how the Kanye-Katrina moment was his lowest in office and the ongoing Taylor Swift imbroglio, Kanye West just can’t seem to stay out of the spotlight. (I guess that’s kind of the point, right?) It seems he can’t even take a plane flight without getting some recognition.
On a Delta flight from Minneapolis to New York, the multi-platinum artist who thrilled SXSW attendees at the Fader Fort in 2009, grabbed the PA system (presumably with permission and not in an act of one-upsmanship —- though it would be funny if he grabbed the mic during safety instructions and told the flight attendant, ‘I’m’a let you finish, but, the exits at the back of the plane are some of the best exits of all time.’). He then spit a few lines from his hit song “Gold Digger.”
The excited (I assume) fan who took this YouTube video either thought the noise was coming from God or was trying to videotape the speaker above her seat.
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September 10, 2009
Dallas Cowboy and former Aggie Martellus Bennett's love affair with Cap'n Crunch
If you combined slick lyricist K’Naan with slant-rhyming Emily Dickinson then subtracted talent and a dictionary and divided by 1,000, the result might sound a little like this unbelievable rap from former Texas A&M student and current Dallas Cowboy Martellus Bennett.
Bennett, about whom the Ft. Worth Star Telegram once wrote “had more memorable quotes than memorable catches at Texas A&M,” is apparently quite the kid at heart. A very rich kid who likes Cap’n Crunch. A lot. He also seems to have a penchant for old Nintendo games, as it sounds like his DJ on this track is Super Mario, straight out the dungeon level.
And, if this dude really does dig on Cap’n Crunch for lunch, it’s going to be a long season for the Cowboys offense (hope, hope). If anyone can figure out how to make this into a ringtone, I would be eternally grateful.
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August 27, 2009
OMG, there's a bear in my yard! (kind of)
Back from vacation and trying to get back in the swing of things. In the meantime, really enjoying the hard-hitting journalism coming out of Fox8 in Cleveland.
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August 18, 2009
Busting a move (glow sticks not included)
With Lollapalooza now over, I wonder if this guy is already queuing up for tickets to the run of aftershows at Stubb’s during ACL (Sound Tribe Sector 9, Thievery Corporation, Ghostland Observatory). I think that may be Gene, the camp cook from “Wet Hot American Summer,” in the background.
This video originally appeared on the Leshock Value Blog. Thanks to Paige Maguire for the tip.
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June 8, 2009
Bret Michaels gets crowned at Tonys
Update: The AP is reporting that Bret Michaels fractured his nose and busted his lip in the incident written about below.
Did you see the Tony Awards last night? Of course you did. It totes rocks.
For those of you who didn’t, 80s hair legends Poison performed their cheesed-out “Nothing But A Good Time.” Why was Poison at the Tonys? Because frontman Brett Michaels is starring in Neil Labute’s “Reasons to Be Pretty,” of course.
Actually, the band was playing with some of the cast of “Rock of Ages,” which was nominated for Best Musical but totally got pwned by “Billy Elliot, The Musical.”
Anyhoo … the band ended its tune with guitarist C.C. DeVille, Michaels and bassist Bobby Dall leaning in to hit the final excruciating note. As the song came to it merciful conclusion, DeVille and Dall hightailed it back onto the raised stage as a massive piece of scenery lowered from the ceiling. Unfortunately for Michaels, he preened one second too long, missed his cue and as he tried to hustle back to his mark, got clotheslined by the set and ended up flat on his back as Stockard Channing took the stage.
Maybe Michaels should stick to mining groups of skanks to find ‘love’ on VH1. (We laugh because we’ve heard reports that he is not in any sort of critical condition.)
Check the awesomeness … and what the hell is with that weird shoulder shrug/clinch Michaels does as the end of the song?
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June 2, 2009
The power of positive thinking, dance (and possibly drugs)
Sometimes people just need a reminder (or inspiration, or the safety of not feeling ‘uncool’) that it’s OK to cut loose and get down in public. Witness this cat at the Sasquatch Music Festival in Washington.
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April 10, 2009
Rainn Wilson and Rivers Cuomo wonder what if God was one of us
You know how sometimes you can hear a cover of a song you really don’t like, maybe one you never liked, maybe even loathed, and it sounds a thousand times better? Maybe it’s just an aversion to the original recording artist or a preference for the covering artist, but whatever the case may be, what is often revealed is the quality of the actual original songwriting. (Or does it actually still suck? I can’t decide. Ambivalent Friday.)
Such is the case for me (I think) with this video of Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo and actor Rainn Wilson performing a cover of Joan Osborne’s rather schlocky “One of Us.” The song will appear on Sirius Satellite Radio’s Alt Nation, as Cuomo and actor/musician Jason Schwartzman (“Rushmore,” “The Darjeeling Limited”) take over tonight at 7 p.m. for a countdown show that will feature premieres of new music by both men, including the Osborne cover by Cuomo and Wilson. I think I like it. Maybe I am just too worried about being cool. Or too busy being a hater. Always so hard to tell. Right, Marita?
From Sirius: “Weezer front man and solo artist, Rivers Cuomo along with actor/musician Jason Schwartzman of Coconut Records take over the Alt-Nation playlist, perform acoustically and interview each other in this exclusive Alt-Nation special! Rivers will talk about his work with Weezer as well as his second solo release Alone II: The Home Recordings Of Rivers Cuomo. Jason Schwartzman will talk about his solo project Coconut Records and how Rivers’ music has influenced him over the years. Rivers will also perform songs acoustically with various friends including actor Rainn Wilson of The Office on bongos!”
The rocker and actor riff comically for a bit before getting the music started. Skip to about the 4:20 mark for the music and Wilson’s dry John Bohnam reference.
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April 1, 2009
And now for something completely different/wrong
Much of America came to know former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee during last year’s presidential campaign. A few personal facts: he is a minister, lost a bunch of weight at some point and plays the bass.
Possibly wanting to steal some hip, younger viewers from MSNBC or CNN, Fox News decided it would be a good idea to show the fun and creative side of Huckabee on his Fox talk show recently. Either that, or they wanted to see if they could destroy people’s hearing and possibly melt televisions across the country. At the end of a recent show, Huckabee was joined by The FBN band — composed of his stage manager, some audio techs and a few other Fox flacks — to perform a cover of the Foo Fighter’s “Learn to Fly.” What resulted was one of the biggest TV train wrecks since the last time Glenn Beck was on air. Somewhere Dave Grohl is throwing up in his mouth. Or filing a lawsuit of some sort.
After crawling back from under my desk, I got to thinking … Statesman band? Michael Barnes on bass, Joe Gross on lead guitar, Chris Garcia on drums, Mike Sutter on keys, Chad Swiatceki on keytar and Michael Corcoran as manager? Excuse me while I call my agent.
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January 31, 2008
The kids like irony, right? And rock 'n' roll. Right?
There is reaching out to court the young vote, and then there is just reaching. The Clinton campaign has been firing off a bunch of online videos of late, and one of the latest, entitled “Hillary and the Band,” is a spoof on VH1’s “Behind the Music” series. What’s next? A P. Diddy “Making the Band” spoof starring Mitt Romney?
What’s worse, the campaign stole my trademark “okay” that I use to end all bad jokes.
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January 17, 2008
'I'll apologize, but I won't take off my sunglasses'
Oh, the teenage years — you think you know everything, you have respect for almost nobody and the world is your oyster, or your toilet, depending on how you look at it. I once posited that all teens should all be sent to an island for those years between 13-19 and made to hash it out a la “Lord of the Flies.” Of course, I am painting with broad strokes here, and I, of course, was a bit of a horror then, as I can still be now. But you get the point. Teenagers test parents’ and sometimes communities’ nerves to no end. And, apparently, there are teens down under who are as brazen and self-absorbed as the ones here in the States. Actually, there is a brash arrogance and glibness displayed in this video that I don’t think even the most spoiled and hubris-enriched American kid could pull off.
Check out this video from a newsmagazine show in Australia in which the anchor berates an obnoxious teen in hopes of getting the unrepentant youth to apologize for throwing an epic party that led to tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage. It’s like Jeff Spicoli meets a drunk reality TV ‘star.’ In fact, I am still having trouble believing this is real. Party on, Corey. (And, yes, I realize this has been floating around the interdigitubes for a while, but I could not pass up the post for those of you who, like me, are a little slow on the uptake.)
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November 30, 2007
Larry King and Wayne Netwon: The surreal world
Apparently I have made it a mission here to make fun of the aged Larry King. This clip is a bonus, because as much as it is making fun of King and his horrible segues and quasi-consciousness, the joke here is really Las Vegas has-been Wayne Newton. In this clip he takes some shots at the mean-spirited Johnny Carson, shots that mostly stem from Newton feeling insecure about his sexuality. He also claims to be a direct descendant of Pocahontas. The caption from CNN looks like it could have been pulled directly from The Onion: “CNN’s Larry King talks to singer Wayne Newton about his grudge against Johnny Carson and his link to Pocahontas.” I think Newton and King are both just doing extended comedy bits with their lives at this point, or at least I hope so. That would be sweet.
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November 28, 2007
Whoa Canada!
Canada takes PSAs seriously. Very seriously.
I was alerted to this video via the excellent sports blog Deadspin. Apparently Canadians take their Public Service Announcements a little more seriously than we do down here, as evidenced by this commercial running during Hockey Night Canada on the CBC. (Warning: This commercial is a little gruesome.)
