Rules for golfing during the blitz – Boing Boing
Don Hertzfeldt’s Wisdom Teeth
In honor of my screening Everything Will Be OK in my film 201 class today — Don Hertzfeldt is a genius. He’s best known as the crass mastermind behind the ridiculous and brilliant Rejected, a collection of “commercials” that devolve into absurdity before collapsing on their own non-sequiters. That particular short was much-loved in my … Read more
Overlooked album: The World/Inferno Friendship Society’s Addicted to Bad Ideas
Watching The Maltese Falcon again a few weeks back reminded me of The World/Inferno Friendship Society’s Addicted to Bad Ideas, a fantastic slice of cabaret-punk that manages to push most of my film- and music-geek buttons. Concept albums in general tend to intrigue me, but a concept album about 1940s and ’50s character Peter Lorre, … Read more
30 Day Song Challenge, Day 30: Your Favourite Song at This Time Last Year
A year is a long time ago, but I think I was probably cycling between two nostalgia-minded Canadian releases at that point. First came Gigi’s Maintenant, a perfect throwback to early 60s girl group pop spearheaded by Nick Krgovich and featuring vocals from a roster of Canadian (and occasionally American) indie all-stars. It’s a throwback, … Read more
30 Day Song Challenge, Day 29: A Song From Your Childhood
Like any good budding nerd, my childhood contained above-average exposure to Weird Al Yankovic. It’s widely known that most of his songs involve taking a song you know and vaguely like and replacing the lyrics with references to either food or popular movies — a winning formula if ever there was one — but much … Read more
