Hilarious interview. I like Arnett’s attack on Williamsburg (Brooklyn-hipster-epicenter) and “ironic-bicycles.” The claim that Doc Martens are punk and not “90′s-hipstery” merits a laugh, too.
I miss Gob.
Archive for January, 2010
Will Arnett and Matt Zaller Creeptastic Improv Interview
January 26th, 2010Elyria, Ohio | Behind the Scenes of Presidential Advance
January 23rd, 2010Cool to see both a school I attended class at and a company I’ve done business with in a White House video:
Conan’s Tonight Show Finale, Neil Young, and Lynyrd Skynyrd
January 23rd, 2010
9/1970 – Neil Young releases releases Southern Man, a song describing the racism towards blacks in the American South.
2/1972 – Neil Young releases Alabama, a song rehashing the theme of Southern Man.
8/1974 – Lynyrd Skynyrd releases Sweet Home Alabama in response to Young’s Southern Man and Alabama. Frontman Ronnie Van Zant sings the following lyric:
“Well, I hope Neil Young will remember; a southern man don’t need him around anyhow”
1974-1977 – Ronnie Van Zant is seen at live shows and promo pictures wearing a Neil Young t-shirt, taunting Young.
10/1977 – Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd and one tour manager perish in a place crash in Mississippi.
1978-2000 – Rumors that Ronnie Van Zant was buried in the Neil Young t-shirt repeatedly cause fans disturb and desecrate the Florida grave site. Some of the fans/grave diggers report seeing Van Zant’s body in a black Neil Young t-shirt.
2000 – The remains of Ronnie Van Zant and another band member are relocated to an undisclosed location. (source)
1993-2009 – Conan O’Brien hosts NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien for 2,725 episodes.
6/2009-1/2010 – Conan O’Brien hosts NBC’s Tonight Show for 146 episodes before his position as host is revoked by NBC in a national debacle, with fans and supporters in uproar.
1/22/2010 – Neil Young performs Long May You Run on the final episode of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.
For the farewell segment, Conan plays lead guitar in a cover of Freebird, joined by Beck, Will Ferrell, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, and Ben Harper. Singer Will Ferrell wears the same style Neil Young t-shirt Ronnie Van Zant was seen wearing during the 1970′s.
Maynard James Keenan, Puscifer, Blood into Wine Trailer
January 18th, 2010We bought our Puscifer tickets for the Lorain Palace Theater show in March.
I’ve loved Tool/APC for over 10 years and am usually interested in everything MJK creates. BONUS: while Puscifer is going on a large-venue big-city North American tour, they are playing the 1920′s-era Lorain Palace Theater. I can only think that the Ravenna, Ohio born Keenan sought this venue out specifically for reasons unknown.
Check out yet another side Maynard side project (read: making wine in Arizona), Caduceus Cellars. The movie looks pretty promising:
Late Night’s Best Breaks Down The NBC Debacle
January 16th, 2010I had bookmarked countless videos regarding the drama around the NBC Tonight Show this past week to catch up on this weekend, but became bored as I made my way through them. Spend 5 minutes and watch the best late night host on any time slot and network break down the situation, David Letterman:
The Cleveland Beer Scene Gets Even Better
January 12th, 2010
Come June, Clevelanders will be able to grab a pint at a new brewery on 25th St. just North of The West Side Market. After 5 years, Andy Tveekrem will be leaving Maryland’s Dogfish Head as the Brewmaster and will be joining the owner of Cleveland gems The Bier Market and Bar Cento to create a new brewery in one of Cleveland’s finest bar districts.
Looking forward to some more quality, Cleveland-brewed IPAs!
Read the full article here.
Why Live Nation, House of Blues, and Radio 92.3 Cleveland Suck Hard
January 9th, 2010Anyone who knows me personally understands my extreme distaste for all things in and related to the “main-stream” music scene. Attack this introduction statement however you may, but the following is one of the MANY reasons why.
I’ll start by reminding you of the 12/2007 – present day recession that the US currently finds itself in as well as the common belief that it was caused by large creditors and banks abused by a population who charges everything; blindly chasing the American Dream only aiding to the collapse of the American Economy. Consider this with the huge news story this past week which was Arianna Hufftington’s blog about moving your money away from the large banks (i.e. Citi) to help limit their power.
Enough about all that – fast forward to this morning… I found out yesterday from a friend (who heard from Radio 92.3) that Passion Pit, the electronic indie pop band from Cambridge, would be in Cleveland playing a show in March. “Terrific”, I thought – a band that I really enjoy (see #1 here) is coming to Cleveland – with low ticket prices, to boot!
Tickets went on sale this morning at 10am. I hopped on the Live Nation website only to find that the only way to buy tickets is with a promo code. Presales and promos aren’t anything new – however this presale code was the first 6-digits of your Citi Credit card, and labeled as such.
I thought fast, all credit cards have a specific 6 digit prefix, much like checking accounts and routing numbers. Since all Citi cards have the same 6-digit prefix, I Google’d it, and sure enough found what I was looking for. I pasted in the found 6 digit code and voila – I was in. Pretty bogus system, right? Wrong. I was able to make my way through the ticket pre-purchase process; creating an account, shipping & billing info, et al. Upon payment, I used my Visa CheckCard: “ERROR: The Credit Card does not match the code used in the promo.”
To buy tickets to see Passion Pit any day before the day of the show, you have to have a Citi credit card. You can’t pay cash, check, or even use any other credit card/checkcard. This is absolutely insulting. Leave it to Live Nation, an despicable radio station and a shitty-franchise of chain venues (HOB) to allow and condone this type of system.
Items that are used to promote signing up for credit cards:
- Cheap Passion Pit tickets
- Free Plastic Indians baseball helmets at Progressive Field
- Free T-shirts on college campuses
- Discounts at retailers, “Save 25% right now by signing up”
UPDATE: A friend of mine has a Citi card and we have obtained our tickets. Thanks to her choice of bank, we can enjoy our music as allowed by Radio 92.3 / Live Nation / Citi / The HOB. Shame on Passion Pit (their agents and label) for being a part of this system too. Fuck y’all.
Good tours this Spring.
January 7th, 2010April 2010 looks pretty promising; I’ll be seeing Yeasayer at The Grog Shop in Cleveland and The xx with Hot Chip at the 9:30 in D.C.
Yay for drum machines and samplers.
2009: What a year it was!
January 4th, 2010If there’s anything more hilarious than The Daily Show it’s The Daily Show’s best clips for entire year packed into a 3 minute clip. Hilarious:
