My new favorite record label: Turquoise Jeep

So my friend sent me this video, for "Lemme Smang It" by Yung Humma ft. Flynt Flossy. Amazing.



I like how the words appear on the screen in different fonts. One of the best Youtube comments is "dude's got permanent rapeface on." And the record label is called Turquoise Jeep Music. Amazing. (Flynt Flossy appears to be Charlie Murphy, Eddie's bro.)

They have a bunch of other awesome jams too. For example, "Sex Syrup" by Slick Mahony ft. Yung Humma:



"Cavities" by Flynt Flossy, Pretty Raheem, and Whatchyamacallit.



Love Pretty Raheem's hair.

"Fried or Fertiziled" is another good one, as is "Stretchy Pants." Here's the commercial for their album, which I will 100% buy.



Pretty much all the other songs are amazing too.

Cereal

so here are a bunch of cereal commercials.











I ate all of these.

Ladainian Tomlinson is my new favorite football player

so I like funny athletes. Thus my new favorite.



My friend made the point that it looks like Eric Wareheim (of Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!) made it. He might be the old guy with the wig.

Arnold Schwarznegger's breakfast

so here is Arnold's breakfast. No, really. It's from his Twitter.

Sebastien Tellier is awesome

so I'm pretty surprised I haven't written about him before: Sebastien Tellier is a hilarious Frenchman who makes awesome 80s style electronic music with great videos. He kind of looks like a caveman or Jesus and dresses like Miami Vice.

Here's "Divine," which, shockingly, was France's entry into the Eurovision contest in 2008. Not shockingly, it didn't win, because it's actually good.

Sebastien Tellier - Divine from Lucky Number Music on Vimeo.

"Kilometer."

Sebastien Tellier - Kilometer from Lucky Number Music on Vimeo.

and "Roche"

Sebastien Tellier - Roche from Lucky Number Music on Vimeo.

Here's his website and Myspace. American Apparel is selling shirts with him on them too.

Marion Barry

so here's me and Marion Barry. He was a nice guy - happy to take a photo with me, asked me where I was from, etc. He went to college in Knoxville, where I'm from.

Basketball

So here's what I'm doing right now.


Kurtis Blow - Basketball - MyVideo

Best spam ever?

so I got this in my Gmail today - I don't know if it's spam or if the person sent it to the wrong email address (which happens pretty often with me). Anyway, it's pretty great. It's from an Italian domain.

Hi, my lovable, but forbidden fruit.
This is my e-mail.

Goodnight. I'll try not to dream about You.
I'll try to behave. It's not so easy some time. I don't know how many times I was almost to kiss You tonight.
But tis is not how a good guy should behave.

Goodnight... Ciao
(Italian man's first name redacted)

UPDATE: now that I look at it, I think it's real, as he sent it to another address similar to mine at Yahoo. Europeans are suave and hilarious!

St. Pat's

so it's St. Patrick's Day. We are having a whiskey party at my house, which is either a great idea or a terrible idea.

Here's a video about a famous leprechaun.



As Stephen Malkmus once said, "Irish folktales scare the shit out of me."

Snarf

so, here is Snarf.



Snarf is from the Valley of Snarfs, apparently.

Crapstone

so this is an awesome article, via my friend. I want to go to all these places.

Photo by Russell Bates/Ross Parry Agency

Barack Obama at Ben's Chili Bowl

so Barack Obama was at Ben's Chili Bowl on Saturday. Pretty cool.



Ben's is an old, famous place on U Street in DC. It's pretty great. He's eating with the mayor of DC, Adrian Fenty.

Senior Adult Choir

so this is pretty awesome:

Senior Adult Choir: Hey Ya @ Yahoo! Video

Happy New Year.

Deedie Dowdle

so apparently Auburn University may or may not have fired football coach Tommy Tuberville. I could care less about that. What I do care about is that Auburn's spokesperson is named Deedie Dowdle. That sounds like a cartoon character.

Auburn spokeswoman Deedie Dowdle said Monday the university stands by Jacobs’ statement that Tuberville resigned.

Say it ten times fast, it's fun.

This is just one in a long line of spokespeople with silly names -- Commander Flex Plexico, General S. Taco Gilbert III, and others.

Bat for Lashes

so I haven't posted about music in awhile, but I found this one courtesy my pal's Facebook - it's Bat for Lashes, aka Natasha Khan, an English singer-songwriter, and the song is "What's a Girl to Do?" It's a bit eerie sounding, with thumping bass, horror-movie atmospherics, and what sounds like harpsichords, and there's a bit of strange cutesiness courtesy of Khan's voice. The awesome video matches that tone, but don't let me ruin it, here it is:

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Bat for Lashes |MTV Music

Here's her Myspace and official site.

Gangsta

so I got this from the Philly Search. Pretty awesome.

Obama!

so Obama won! That's amazing. I was in Adams Morgan, DC when they called the election, walking down 18th Street. I heard chanting "5... 4... 3..." coming from the Duplex Diner, so I ran over and saw just as the graphic showing they predicted Obama to be the winner came up. Everybody went nuts at the bar, and my friend and I ran the four blocks to 14th and U Street, where a street party had already been happening. It was pandemonium.

There were hundreds of people all over, in the street, climbing on bus stops, chanting, singing, cheering, hugging strangers, giving high fives, on and on. I hung out in the street and met up with my friend, and we caught most of Obama's victory speech standing in a doorway of a bar on U, then met up with my friends who had been volunteering for Obama in southern Virginia. We went to DC9, which was an awesome atmosphere, and drank some there. Then at last call, about 2:30 am, we went back outside and it was still pandemonium everywhere - people honking, running around with flags, jumping on their cars. It was an amazing scene.

And I made this video from the night.



And I got quoted in this article (second page).

Palin as President

so this is amazing:

palinaspresident.com

Ecto Cooler

so anybody remember this stuff? I was a fan.

DC has no vote in Congress

so this is a pretty great video, it's the full version of a song I posted before.



If you live outside Washington, DC and think it's unfair that 600,000 people in the city don't have a vote in Congress, write your Congressman about it! That's the only way it's going to change, since DC can't do it!