Here's a video for LCD Soundsystem's "Dance Yrself Clean" featuring Muppets giving a rooftop performance. It's very well-executed for a non-professional Muppets production.
(If you're not familiar with the song, it doesn't kick up a notch until around the 3 minute mark.)
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Seedy
Hey, long time no blog. I've been busy (see previous post).
I saw this amusingly-written NY Times article on growing plants from seeds found in the kitchen, i.e. those that come in your produce or spices. In discussing the hardiness of some types of seeds, an anecdote is cited: "In 1940 when the Natural History Museum in London was bombed and the fire brigade played their hoses upon the ashes, seeds of the legume Albizia cheerfully woke up and germinated on the herbarium sheet where they had been placed in 1793." In addition to that being a cool story on its own, I really love the personification of the legume. The image of these seed-Van-Winkles being oblivious to the fact that they're in a busted display case in a war zone (and sprouting happily) is funny and sort of touching.
And, did Mercedes-Benz really use that Janis Joplin song in their Super Bowl ad? I can deal with an Iggie Pop song about heroin being used to promote Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, but licensing a song for the exact inverse of its intent seems like it's crossing some sort of shamelessness rubicon.
I saw this amusingly-written NY Times article on growing plants from seeds found in the kitchen, i.e. those that come in your produce or spices. In discussing the hardiness of some types of seeds, an anecdote is cited: "In 1940 when the Natural History Museum in London was bombed and the fire brigade played their hoses upon the ashes, seeds of the legume Albizia cheerfully woke up and germinated on the herbarium sheet where they had been placed in 1793." In addition to that being a cool story on its own, I really love the personification of the legume. The image of these seed-Van-Winkles being oblivious to the fact that they're in a busted display case in a war zone (and sprouting happily) is funny and sort of touching.
And, did Mercedes-Benz really use that Janis Joplin song in their Super Bowl ad? I can deal with an Iggie Pop song about heroin being used to promote Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, but licensing a song for the exact inverse of its intent seems like it's crossing some sort of shamelessness rubicon.
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