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Someone just sent me this video of a live action stage performance of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out from (honestly...where else?) Japan. looks like Intro > Don Flamingo > Promenade Jog cut scene > Great Tiger > Game Over screen. It made me smile. The live music and sound effects make it.
Punch-Out Live (video)
I don't follow College Football even slightly...but last night was one of the most exciting games I've ever watched. And how great is that picture?? Vince Young, after losing the Heisman to Reggie Bush a few weeks earlier, does "the pose" with the National Champion Trophy under his arm! So good. Especially after dickhead Leinart claims postgame that they were still the better team, but just couldn't execute. So lame. I thought this Bill Simmons' diary seemed particularly mailed in...most likely due to the fact that he knows nothing about the sport either, so I won't hold it against him. It was especially amusing to read him talk shit about Young at the beginning at the game, just knowing that by the end he'd be slobbering all over him. "I now have him ranked above every NFL QB except for Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Carson Palmer." came a mere 3 and a half hours after "There's no way Vince can succeed in the NFL." As Simmons would say, high comedy.
I would love the Jets to get Vince Young with the #4 pick, tho it seems now that he may not last that long. He'd be the exact type of superstar the Jets need to get their shit back together and have people care about them again. I've been a Giants fan since birth, but have nothing against the Jets. They've just always been the absolute most boring team in the league. I think a new Vinny would do them wonders.
(pic above via the recently returned Spinach Dip)
My friend Cara burnt me a CD a few weeks ago with two bands on it that I had never heard, but she assured me I would like. And like I did. While I would listen to the CD sometimes on my computer, I never got around to loading them onto iTunes because the songs had no track information on them. Right around the same time I got the disc, I started reading all about Tapes n' Tapes. I could have sworn that one of the bands on my disc was them. I was telling people that I liked Tapes n' Tapes, that I was looking forward to their shows, might review them, all that. Turns out the band on the disc wasn't them at all. It was Cassettes Won't Listen. Not the same band. Not even close, really.
Shocked, I went to download some actual Tapes n' Tapes mp3's, and the unconvincing Wolf Parade comparisons started to make a little more sense. They're very good too, but surely you've read that already somewhere else. Now I'm actually excited for the Tn'T shows coming up next week. As I am to see Cassettes Won't Listen at Pianos on Feb 23.
Tapes n' Tapes - Ohama
Cassettes Won't Listen - Lunch for Breakfast
I don't remember when I first heard of Forward Russia!. I know my buddy Greg has mentioned them a bunch, but I just can't remember how or why the name stuck. Regardless, they are playing a live set on BBC Radio 1 this afternoon, and Mark (I think his name is Mark) from Editors just mentioned in an interview that they were the best band they've toured with. Since this city is apparently about 2 weeks away from full-blown Editors fever (their second show sold out in just hours this morning), I suppose that should come as a strong recommendation. Except that they don't really sound anything like them. FR! is more along the lines of Bloc-Party meets The Futureheads meets The Kaiser Chiefs meets Test Icicles meets We are Scientists meets etcetera etcetera...You get the idea. Maybe a bit louder and spazzier version of all those tho. I hear something different in every new song and it's all really really exciting and good.
They'll be at SXSW, then in NYC at Mercury Lounge on March 23.
A strange New Years. It straddled a fuzzy line between an eerie, lonely calm and balls-out lunacy that led to my flickr account becoming completely unsafe for work. (Especially if I have you tagged as a friend...otherwise, it's not bad.)
I haven't been to a show in about 2 weeks now, which kinda leaves me with not so much to talk about here. Haven't seen anything since the Spin party at Rothko. (And no, I don't count Juan Maclean at Motherfucker, who I thought were dull and awful and didn't bother paying attention to.) From the looks of it, I may not step foot into a club for the rest of the week either. My next must hit show is Gibbard a week from today. (With Andrew Kenny and Matthew Caws opening, if you hadn't heard...) Till then, I've got nothing.
My big question is...what the fuck happened to that Strokes show??? They were supposed to squeeze it in over the last couple days I thought...Now they're giving Chicago and Seattle love this week, but no new york. The last e-mail said we'd hear back today (January 3rd) with more details on everything, so we'll see. I listened to the new album a lot over the weekend and my opinion hasn't changed on it, except that the songs I initially enjoyed I now like even more, and the songs I was indifferent about I'm starting to like less. I really hope to see them live before they play whatever giant venue they're planning on for the spring tour.
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