December 2009
27 posts
“(T)he bleepy butt-scoper”
– Paul Thompson’s Review of The-Dream’s Love vs. Money on Pitchfork’s 2009 Albums of the Year: Honorable Mention List
Dear Mr. Thompson,
I want to thank you wholeheartedly for your choice to use the name of one of our products, The Bleepy Butt-Scoper, in your album review. As a...
Things You Should Know About Eggnog
According to both Martha Stewart and Herman Melville (who loved the holiday beverage so much that he devoted an entire chapter to it in Moby Dick - between “Nantucket” and “Chowder”), the perfect Eggnog mixture is one quarter egg, three quarters nog.
Eggnog is quite popular in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. So popular in fact, that the country, which is landlocked,...
Devo: "Girl U Want" →
The video for “Girl U Want”, the lead track off of 1980’s Freedom of Choice, finds Devo on stage playing before an audience. Sounds ordinary enough. This being Devo however, there’s a treasure trove of delightful oddities that pop up throughout the 2:58 clip which make it far from ordinary: the radioactive green and purple color scheme; the robot backup dancers in...
Portishead "Chase The Tear" →
perpetua:
This new Portishead charity single is kinda blowing my mind, but you have to click through to watch the video since they won’t allow embeds. “Chase The Tear” is very much in their melancholy film score wheelhouse, but not quite like anything they’ve ever done before. That synth part kills me, especially the way it pairs with the live drums, the drones, and that simple guitar solo....
The Day the World Stopped Caring About Eminem
The day the world stopped caring about Eminem, the rapper, simply Marshall once again, cried. The tears were small and thin, their journey from his swollen eyes ending at the bottom of his cheeks. It was as if his guts had been sucked out of him. He was no longer the hip-hop superstar unleashing corrosive rhymes upon the world but a mere husk of a man. The only controversy which surrounded him...
A GaGa Xmas →
Pitch for Lady GaGa’s Christmas television special, A GaGa Xmas
On This Day in History
Welcome to On This Day in History!
On This Day in History: December 7, 1941
Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett, two self-proclaimed “Hot Shots” living on a boat in Hawaii, fight over Kate Beckinsdale, a really boring nurse. They decide to have a “Hot Shots Showdown” on the beach - consisting of various challenges like “Who Can Look the Most Blank?”, “Who...
Album Closers
I was inspired by Vicky’s post a few weeks back about album openers to figure out what my favorite album closers were. Here’s ten of them (in no particular order):
“Sister Ray”, White Light/White Heat by the Velvet Underground:
Cale: “Louuu, I’m going tooo play so much lowder than youu on my ohhrgaan.” Reed: “Oh yeah, Johnny Boy? This distortion...
Think your kid isn't 'sexting'? Think again →
Living Room of La Mansión del What a Fool Believes
What a Fool Believes Jr sits on the floor in the middle of the room playing Super Mario Kart on Nintendo Wii. He sways along with the kart on a big-screen television.
Enter What a Fool Believes.
What a Fool Believes: Son? Would you mind pausing the game for a moment? I would like to speak with you about something.
What a Fool Believes Jr...
The Following Is A List Of People Who Should Be...
dyfl:
Please re-blog it far and wide. Don’t just click “like”: REBLOG IT. People need to see the names and neighborhoods.
These are the Democratic state senators who voted against marriage equality today. If you live in their district, don’t vote for them again; and if your district has a Democratic primary, you need to find out which candidate supports marriage equality and fund them, advocate...
The Limits of Control
Jim Jarmusch’s latest film is an ambient one. Like Brian Eno’s records in that genre, one can drift in and out of The Limits of Control, picking up on its esoteric melodies when they appear. Though I find the ambient genre to be a pleasant one, I typically go for works that are engaging. Despite this, and my apprehensions about the film being visually appealing but vacuous, I...
2009 - Year in Music or: God Bless You Animal... →
(If you haven’t seen the lovely posts by Matthew and Maura) Here’s the What a Fool Believes Year-End Music Collect-acular for the Animal-zing year that was 2009. It’s the first Year-End Music List on WaFB and most likely the last because the best album of every year from now until Infinity will be Merriweather Post Pavilion. Unless of course Animal Collective make an even...
