Good Job at Failing, Gigantic Crumbling Music Biz

OK Go have a new single-take video that's sure to tear up the internets. Except their record label doesn't understand how to do this, and they've disabled embedded video for blogs and sites and whatnot. It's amazing that people with degrees in marketing and PR have no idea how Web 2.0 works, or how to use it as a promotional tool. The record industry will be dead in ten years. Tops.

...Oh, and the lists still exist. Just somewhere not called this blog.

Milestones & Rebranding

That last post on the Pixies was my 100th on the new blog. I guess it's not so new anymore. Considering the old one had around 400 posts, I've still got a ways to go. Also, I need a new name for this kiddo. The New Xanga just isn't cutting it anymore...

However, if I kept it for another four or five years, it might become ironic. Right?

Right?!

friemblies

Alex Belth at bronxbanterblog has a short post about Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks and nostalgia this morning, inspired by a Q&A in the NY Times with the men behind "The 2,000 Year Old Man." Check out Alex's thoughts and snippets of the bit from YouTube. What struck me most came at the end of the Times article, with this interplay between Brooks and Reiner:

Q. Sixty years later it seems you see a lot of each other now.

REINER Yeah, we got that big screen [gestures to incredibly large flat-screen monitor] to look at television.

Q. So you come here, Mel, and you watch TV together?

BROOKS Almost every night. He’s got a wonderful housekeeper-cook and we decide on a menu and a movie.

Q. What did you watch most recently?

BROOKS We watched last night “The Peacemaker.” With Nicole Kidman and, come on. [He gestures to Mr. Reiner.]

REINER George Clooney.

BROOKS Right. It was two and a half stars at the most. Good performances, very silly, you know.

REINER We look for movies with the line “Secure the perimeter.”

BROOKS Yeah, we like movies that say, “Secure the perimeter” and/or “You better get some rest.”

REINER “Lock all doors!”

BROOKS “I want a five-block seal!”

I need to watch more movies with funny friends. Seriously.

blog fail

Yes, I fail at September. I fail at consistency, too. I guess Joe Morgan will never sing my praises. Rats.

Champions! -- Vanilla Coke AND Josiah Pics

Not even a contest this time. Nothing can withstand the flavor explosion that is Vanilla Coke. Gone for a while, but back in grocery stores everywhere just in time for Columbus Day festivities. Actually, it's been back in stores for well over a year now. But I just noticed.

In unrelated news, my brother and his wife have a new blog filled with pictures of their baby. David has finally joined the brave new interwebs.

Oh, did I forget to tell you, blogging world? Imanuncle. What now!

Eraser (1996) - Starring Arnold Scwarzenegger

What in tarnation happened to Catfish Haven? No, not the band, the totally rockin' Blog?

Jake. Jeff. Please don't tell me you erased this awesome depository of ridiculous awesomeness?

Life in spinning. File nots found. Records left unrecordededededededed. Like taping over Charlie Hayes making that sweet, sweet catch. (((Oh God, it was sweet!))) I feel like throwing up.

ADDITIONALLY:

I really need to update the blog roll. Zillion sorries to all the folks who've blogs have moved. Basically, I'm lazy. Also, I'm not sure anyone but Keith Goldfuss and my brother stop by here anyway. So you probably didn't even notice.

FINALLY:

Seriously, where the hell is that goram blog.