the Truth commericial that makes you hate Truth commercials

I understand what it’s trying to get at but how….annoying. I mean, yes, what if I know someone addicted to gummy bears?

“Candy Land” – CocoRosie (2004 Touch & Go) La Maison de Mon Reve

Brawl Street: Stewart Renders Cramer Speechless

It’s hard to believe the collapse of the global financial market was completely out of nowhere. It’s hard to believe some of the most educated people in the world thought it was okay to hand out so many bad mortgages and to defraud people out of their investments, retirements, and homes.

Yet, it’s unfair to exonerate the public from blame.

Yes, we shouldn’t believe everything we read but we do and knowing that, those all too important middle men in news media are responsible to be as honest as possible to their audience. Unfortunately, CNBC didn’t get that memo.

Thursday, host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show With Jon Stewart went head to head with the slimy host of CNBC’s Mad Money with Jim Cramer.

As expected, viewers witnessed 30 painful minutes of Cramer saying more or less nothing which may or may not be attributed to an overall lack of legitimate answers. However, Stewart shined.

Stewart highlighted the sheer idiotic reasoning behind CNBC’s irresponsiblity and  inactivity in forewarning viewers of the impending crisis. What was most intreguing/ distrubing was the discrepancy between what CNBC is and what it markets itself as.

Check out the actual interview here and judge for yourself.

“Rats” – The Kinks (1970 Reprise) Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround

Animal Collective’s “not gonna get very far from Baltimore”

Why do we love/hate old people? When it comes to good music, we love old people because they’re honest.

Old people are beyond the hype. Old people don’t care what Pitchfork has to say or what the latest underground band’s doing. Old people know whats up and that’s why we love them.

BUT, they’re always right and that’s why it’s hard not to hate them.

Breakfast at Sulimay’s is the new gold standard for everything good. With a rambunctious cast, this zany trio’s not afraid to see Animal Collective for what they really are: “repetitious” and “as bad as ‘Rocket Man’.” When it comes to Young Jeezy’s “Black Dreams” the song was rejected by the majority.

“We have an African American president now and this guy (Young Jeezy) takes us right into the ghetto.” – Joe/ my boyfriend

All in all, Bill, Ann, and Joe are images of what we’re all working to become: lifetime music snob, small town hipsters.

It’s alright if you thought Merriweather Post Pavilion was an amazing album. Now that you know it’s absolute BS, you can stop listening and just move on.

Just remember: “Don’t forget you’re girl scouts and buy a box of cookies”

“My Girls” – Animal Colletive (2009 Domino) Merriweather Post Pavilion

Rock Me Lil’ Wayne (“Prom Queen” Video)

This is inarguable, this is fact: Lil’ Wayne is everyone’s favorite borderline psychotic hard rocker/ face-tattooed/(former) gang member/rapper. Fact.

“Prom Queen,” the latest single from Rebirth, Lil’ Wayne’s rock album set for release on April 7, features the creepiest lyrics and a whole new video!

The video appeals to the awkward teenager in everyone. Apparently set during Lil’ Wayne’s super-fly high school years, the video features all star cameos from our favorite band from high school, Korn.

The entire concept behind the song seems all too familiar. Dare I compare it to Avril Lavinge’s 2002 hit, “Sk8r Boi“?

Take a listen. Take a Look. And judge for yourself.

“Prom Queen” – Lil’ Wayne (2009 Cash Money) Rebirth

Blank Dogs (NYC + my new favorites!)

Did I pick a good week to emerge from Allston or what?

Last night, Handsome Furs played at Mercury Lounge, Monday, Cursive at Music Hall of WIlliamsburg, and Thursday, Death Set at the Shank, among many other bomb-ass shows this week in the big apple.

However, the acts I am looking forward to the most include tonight’s line-up for Make the Product’s two year anniversary bash presented by Less Artists More Condos.

Featured in the night of mayhem: Blank Dogs.

Branded one of the bands to watch in 2009, Blank Dogs isn’t actually a band at all. An one man act, Blank Dog’s experimental new wave is reminiscent of a strung out cross between Ariel Pink and Bauhaus.

For those who won’t have the opportunity to get their minds blown tonight, Blank Dogs is also playing a show next Saturday with Crystal Stilts, Silk Flowers, and Women at Music Hall of WIlliamsburg.

“Epic Moves” – Blank Dogs (2008 Sacred Bones) On Two Sides

Who Watched the Watchmen?

The reviews are in…and they’re, mixed.

Time Magazine’s Richard Corliss gave the film an A for effort but continued by saying:

It probably won’t make even alternative movie history. It certainly contains its share of popcorn breaks: hit the concession stand whenever Dan and Laurie start their mooning. [...] this ambitious picture is a thing of bits and pieces. Yes, the bits are glorious, the pieces magnificent. Still, this Watchmen is more like a swatch-man.

Ouch. The New York Time’s A.O. Scott, envied Dr. Manhattan’s foresight while watching the film:

If I had that power, the 2 hours 40 minutes of Zack Snyder’s grim and grisly excursion into comic-book mythology might not have felt quite so interminable. (“It will never end,” says Dr. Manhattan. “Nothing ever ends.” No indeed.) Also, an enhanced temporal perspective would make it possible to watch “Watchmen” not in 2009 but back in 1985, when the story takes place, and when the movie might have made at least a little more sense.

Movies based on books (especially books with huge cult followings as Watchmen) are hard to honor on the big screen. It’s because people can’t get past their own interpretation. They’re looking for their experience with the novel to be reflected on screen. Wrong.

Going to the movie theatre, don’t expect your own post-apocalyptic 1985, don’t expect your own Dr. Manhattan, and for god’s sake definitely don’t expect you’re own, ideal, vision of the Watchmen on screen.

If that’s what you’re looking for, read the book…again and again and again with the lights off,  different voices for different characters, and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness on repeat.

If you’re still set on you’re $10 ticket, take the Watchmen like you’d take your popcorn: swimming in butter and with a grain of salt.

“Alright” – Supergrass (1995 Parlophone) I Should Coco

‘Watchmen’ opening credits:

Watch the incredible ‘Watchmen’ opening credits online!

“The Times They Are A-Changin’” – Bob Dylan (1964 Columbia) The Times They Are A-Changin’

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SRING BREAK! (death set + ninjasonik + totally michael + team robespierre + cerebral ballzy)

Yo! It’s srping break 2009 in t minus a week! For the first time in an eternity, JC&L will emerge from her Allston/Boston cave and head south to Brooklyn!

Here’s what’s good:

friday 3.6 @ ART LAND GALLERY AND BAR
|||||Lara Goetzl’s First Gallery Opening!

–an art student at FIT NY Goetzl will display her latest creations for the world to see! (plus, there’s a bar!)

\\\\\\\609 Grand St. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
\\\\L-train to Grand St. (10 min. from Manhattan) 10pm/$?/21+

also….

thursday 3.12 @ THE SHANK
||||Death Set & more!

++Here’s what’s going down++
:: DEATH SET
:::: Team Robespierre
:::::: Ninjasonik
:::::::: Totally Michael
:::::::::: Cerebral Ballzy

\\\\\\\\98 Bayard St. in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
\\\\\G-train to Greenpoint or L-train to Metropolitan (8pm/$?/all ages)

Happy Spring Break!

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