Thepunkguy

so I am back…

some links for you and welcome home to me..

a. Illustrations of people from the Wire HERE.

b. the Obits play 3 shows in nyc HERE. So does Sufjan HERE>

c. Fleet Foxes with Dungen below.

Fleet Foxes “Your Protector” with Gustav Ejstes of Dungen- First Avenue 8/9/09 from Stacy Cupcake on Vimeo.

d. I AM FRIENDS WITH SLUTS.

e. Food Face plates HERE>

f. I actually like THESE.

g. lovely..

flight patterns from Charlie McCarthy on Vimeo.

h. PS RADIOHEAD gives away a free song right HERE, right now.

i. death squads..

A real quick Demons in the DVR, a post about things I come across in my DVR and have to rewind or fast forward …

I am sure you have all seen THIS COMMERCIAL FOR VCAST … where some dumb ass jock gets “pumped up” at the gym to Fall Out Boy and then gets a call from his bitch… wait, he doesn’t say bitch but you know he just got done telling his muscle-y straight waxed ‘friends’ about how well she goes down on him, thus reaffirming his heterosexuality, while admiring his body in the mirror. Yes?

You know that Fall Out Boy must HATE this commercial more than life itself. They must say, “Hey didn’t that dude kick our asses for years in high school??”

This is the potential trouble when you lend your music out to commercials, prior to knowing what context the music will be used for. Of course, assuming Fall Out Boy didn’t…

I tried to follow this up with something the band might have said on their messageboard but all I saw where posts like this… “can someone send me the link of that video of the girl who’s like “1′M 4 R34L F4N 0F T41,P!4TD, 4ND F0B C4US3 1 H4V3 TH3S3 SH1RTS FR0M H0T T0P1C!!!111!1one one one” and “Why does Fall Out Boy like monkeys so much?” no shit.

Grrr, either way, this commercial makes me cringe more than almost any other one out there with the exception of a FEW.

As a freelancer, I spend a little too much time in front of the DVR. Here are some more things I have noticed:

1. Zach Braff is a bad kisser. I mean I don’t know personally, but for the two times that I have seen him kiss someone on Scrubs, he looks very awkward and weird doing it. Can I get an Amen? Anyone?

2. Commercials I hate more than syphilis: That one that whistles every time it starts, it’s a fast food one. Maybe taco bell? Or Burger King. UGH!, that Domino’s pizza one with that dude who thinks he’s ripped off the delivery guy and screams. and I can’t stand that VW one where the cars crash. That shit give me LSD Vietnam Flashbacks. Swear. Not only does it not make me want to buy a VW but it makes me never want to step in another car again. BRUTAL.

3. Why does Todd Oldham from Top Design, sound like he is narrating a children’s story everytime he speaks.

Damn you DVR! Ill be rid of you one day!

Yes back again. Jesus, I watch too much DVR. Here is what my DVR teaches me.
1. As much as I want to hate MTV2, I still Dvr Subterranean on Sundays at Midnight and oh yeah, I really like it: This week they featured the new Cold War Kids, new Arctic Monkeys, new Peter Bjorn and John, the Shins, new Annuals, new Trail of Dead, POS feat. Slug and the new Shins videos. Damn. Right?

2. Slayer on Kimmel was really disturbing in a way that might mother might have been watching!

3. The computer graphics in Weird Science are comparable to those in TRON.  Sort of Awesome!

4.  People who watch mtv2 stink, need ringtones, need to lose to lose weight with Hydroxycut and sometimes buy Volkswagens from Swedes posing as German Hip Hop artists.

Since I am a freelancer, many of my days are spent working while the other days are spent catching up on all the TV that I like and miss during my sometimes hectic work week. Everytime I hit the DVR, I find something that either makes me reconsider my thought process or something that really grinds my gears. So I figured I would write about them in a segment I am calling DEMONS in the DVR. Here is the first entry:

1. While watching the Colbert Report, the one with Bill O’Reilly on it, I noticed that my DVR kept stopping on these new Quizno’s ads. The ones that are made intentionally to destroy DVRS cause it’s just a single screen, saying something about a new Mesquite BBQ / Avocado soup or something! QUIZNO’S, I used to like you before you came between me and my DVR. Stop messing with it! Make real commercials or I am going to ostracize you and start prank calling all your tristate locations.! This is the reason that I already banned DEWARS!

2. While watching SNL from Saturday night, I noticed two things. One: whomever was the sound operator on that show, should be fired immediately. The sound cut out for almost 30 seconds during one skit and then for the first 45 seconds of one of AFI’s songs. Not that I really missed those 45 seconds but come on, haven’t you guys been doing this show for like 30 years? Get the mics checked. Two: Why is Unicorn not Unihorn? Does anyone have a good answer for me?
thanks.