Fantastic news for fans of that lovely brooding baritone emanating from the mouth of Leonard Cohen. The legendary Québécois songwriter “will tour with his band in Canada and the U.S. in May and in Europe in the summer, according to leonardcohenforum.com. Details will be announced in February.” Fucking awesome, considering I was like 14 the last time he toured in earnest — so I’ll be there, and I’ll pray they recreate this gem on stage:
Or you can save some cash, wait until Yom Kippur and switch out your local cantor’s sheet music with Seems So Long Ago, Nancy. All yokes aside, we hope this septuagenarian genius genuinely wants to tour and that this isn’t an old man trying to live right after being ripped off for millions by a trusted associate.
One of our loyal readers sent in this video and message, and because we’re in full Jessie Spano On Caffeine Pills Mode (there’s never any time!), we thought we’d just copy off his paper. So take it away Frank: “This video brought me great joy and thought I’d share. It makes me want to stand up, because Baba O’Riley is kind of like my national anthem. Also, it’s Dr. Seuss, who is the man.”
And we promise a full slate of regular postage tomorrow…or your money back.
There’s really nothing objectively funnier than a sketch or an interview that leaves you wondering whether you’re supposed laugh, cry or touch yourself lustily. And this morning our friends at the Sly Oyster pointed us towards one such Funny Or Die video — it’s comedian Zack Galifianakis interviewing “actor” Michael Cera on the faux interview show, Between Two Ferns. Poor Li’l Mikey.
Goddamn, that’s just hilarity personified. It’s truly great because deep down I think all of us want to molest Michael Cera. No? Just me? Ahh, that’s bullshit.
So just how awesome is Microsoft founder Bill Gates? This guy can apparently pick up a phone and get Slash to play some Guns ‘N Roses licks any time, anywhere.
That’s what happened during Gates’ last-ever keynote address at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Check out the video, four minutes into it. Ya know, I’m betting Gates can also have you killed, or at least waterboarded.
Lost in the Slash freakout is the fact that the girl before him rocks that shit.
We’re sure this one’s making the rounds virally, but our main man Coach just alerted us to a spectacular piece of video. You may have seen Sweet Child O’ Mine through the years covered by Texas, Sheryl Crow, Most Precious Blood, Akasha featuring Neneh Cherry, Schmoof, Flat Pack, Luna, Chester the Pup, Dead Tongues, DJ Dex & A, or The Aluminium Group (or none of those except Crow, more likely), but never have you seen it covered like this. Unfortunately this clip’s only one minute long — it’s an advertisement for something called Channel V — but it’ll surely rock your shit with sitars and yelping Indians. Just awesome stuff.
The University of Georgia absolutely crippled overmatched Hawaii in last night’s Sugar Bowl, the Bulldogs making the islanders look more like Rainbow Flag-Waving Nancy Boys than Rainbow Warriors (though that’d be too long a nickname).
The highlight of the game may very well have been the National Anthem, arranged and performed exceptionally by New Orleans’ own Bonerama. Our friend J-Love is quite possibly the band’s real-deal #1 fan, and she’s pretty damn cool, so by some sort of modus tollens or ponens logic corollary, we’re also big fans of the ‘Rama. So when they get airtime in front of 80,000 people and the entire football-watching populace, we think that qualifies as news. Take it away, gang:
It’s only fitting that the band generating the biggest industry buzz in 2007 would also make the biggest splash on New Year’s Eve.
Clay Aiken-Yorke and the rest of the Radiohead fellers put in a solid 52 minutes of work last night, webcasting a dynamic (mostly) studio performance that showed off how the material off In Rainbows may sound live. And after one listen, I’m ready to throw down the poundage to see them wherever they play in these United States. Give it a whirl yourself; the video’s courtesy of Al Gore’s Current TV invention:
Man, that’s just mesmerizing stuff, and I’ve never even been a huge Radiohead fan. Faust Arp in a field? Thom Yorke’s 15 Steps gyrations? Awesome shit. At this point, I believe anyone who didn’t think In Rainbows was the album of the year is either deaf or lying, or a lying deaf person, like that time Marlee Matlin said she’d “definitely call me” when leaving my apartment that one marvelous night.
As you’ve no doubt noticed, we’ve taken our foot slightly off the accelerator. It’s tough to post a full slate of nonsense when there’s very little in the way of news coming from the music industry. It’s like Europe in August out there.
Also, I’m in the middle of an English football marathon on the Fox Soccer Channel. It’s Boxing Day, and there’s a full slate of matches taking place in our old mercantile motherland — so I’ve been watching nonstop action from 8 am ’til this very second, on through the next few hours. It’s endurance, really. So to honor my love of all things English and all things Couch, let’s turn to Watford Football Club’s biggest fan to serenade us this afternoon. Man, I fookin’ love this performance…ladies and gentleman, Elton John.
Also, I’m pretty sure that’s the third time I’ve posted this video in this site’s history…
The world moves on a woman’s hips; the world moves and it swivels and bops…
It’s Friday, it’s 3 pm, and many of you will be off for the next few weekdays for a holiday that I believe celebrates the birth of Santa. So let’s get straight to the point here: The following video could run for Mayor of Awesometown. It’s the Talking Heads + King Crimson’s Adrian Belew, it’s Rome in 1980, and it’s The Great Curve. I’ll let those factors speak for themselves and cease any more yapping:
