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It’s impossible to cover every bit of new music that comes out during the week, so every Friday, we’ll be doing an end of the week music roundup. It’s called Final Track, and we’ll count off a few songs released during the week that are worth giving a listen to. (Banner via)
Today we’ve got: Joey Ramone, R Kelly, the xx, Leonard Friend, and more.
As you may have heard, Mick Jagger is hosting and performing on SNL this weekend, where he’ll be joined by Arcade Fire and the Foo Fighters. So, naturally, Jagger is appearing in a number of spots NBC is running to promote the occasion.
In the spots, Jagger is joined by Kristen Wigg and the two just seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly. Seriously, their chemistry is just great and the spots, which you can view in the video below, come off as engaging and funny — they actually make me want to make a point to watch SNL this weekend, which says a lot.
At 10am est, the general public will be allowed to buy Facebook shares, making a bunch of people very, very rich, at least temporarily before the latest tech bubble bursts. The days of Old Economy Stephen this is not.
I suppose I should probably go on record here with a prediction: Facebook will fail in an epic way and we’ll all look back and laugh at this one day when Mark Zuckerberg is the new Myspace Tom. Of course, I’m not the only one who thinks this will happen, and the reasons I feel this way are numerous and frankly I’m too brain dead today to lay them all out (mainly it’s born out of my belief that a business that’s so widely hated simply cannot be sustained), but I wanted to get it out there. Needless to say, I won’t be buying any Facebook stock.
With that said, the soon-to-be-filthy-rich like shady citizenship renouncer Eduardo Saverin are already congratulating themselves and their soon-to-be-filthy-rich cohorts, on Facebook naturally.
As I’ve mentioned previously, few things delight me more than David Letterman trashing Jay Leno, so when I learned that Conan was going to be Dave’s guest for the first time in 13 years last night, I made sure to watch it live, because I figured that the whole thing would involve a healthy serving to Leno-bashing. It did not disappoint, and from the moment Conan came out it was obvious there was a giant, big-chinned elephant in the room.
“I think the longer we just sit here, the more uncomfortable it will make Jay,” Letterman quipped after a moment of semi-awkward silence in the beginning. Conan added that Leno was probably in a satellite truck somewhere watching a live feed of the interview. And he probably was, which means he saw them both mocking his shaky head, a moment immortalized in the GIF above.
Anyway, the Leno-bashing parts of the interview are embedded below. Enjoy…
One of the biggest problems researchers in academia face is the fact that people lie constantly, for reasons ranging from shame to really just wanting the test subject money to finding it hilarious to mess with PhD candidates.
But, increasingly, academics are discovering a method of communication with test subjects that offers a much higher chance of truth: texting.
According to the study that revealed this:
It probably shouldn’t come as any surprise to you that advertisers hate your DVR/TiVO because they are convinced it leads to people fast forwarding through commercials, which it does a lot of the time, but then again people have been getting up during commercials to go the bathroom or to make a sandwich in the kitchen for as long as television has existed.
Still, advertising people are positively freaking the f*ck out over the new DVR that Dish Network just unveiled: it skips over all the ads in the shows Dish customers record, effectively erasing them, and eliminating the need to fast forward through them. Just press play, sit back and enjoy your favorite shows.
At one point during my time living in New York I had a roommate who was an aspiring fashion designer who supported herself while attending design school by working as a dominatrix. Often she’d come home and tell me stories about her clients, many of whom were Wall Street guys eager to be spanked, talked down to and humiliated, among other things. It was fascinating to hear about how the masters of the universe enjoyed being dominated in their private time.
So this video by Animal New York in which Eric Kelly, a pull-no-punches boxing trainer at a gym in NYC’s financial district, goes about teaching Wall Street “miscreants” how to box — ripping them to shreds verbally in the process — hit close to home and brought back some memories. It’s also one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time.
Hey guys, remember social mobility? Man, that used to be awesome. The last couple of recessions have been particularly ridiculous, prompting excuses based on the explanation that this is just a “new economy,” which raises the question: what was the “old economy” like? Many of us are too young to have experienced its benefits as adults.
Fortunately, a new meme emerged last week to explain how the economy worked back when a good standard of living came easier for WASPy heterosexual males with American accents. Thanks, Old Economy Steven, you frikkin’ bastard.
All pictures via Quickmeme unless otherwise noted. Thanks to Gorilla Mask for the tip.
To be a true rock star, in the most Almost Famous meaning of the term, you need to do three things: 1) Rock and roll all night, 2) Par-tay ev-er-y day, and 3) Have a ridiculous sex life. You think Megadeth became a huge band because of their musical ability? Ha. It’s because the ladies told true stories about how Dave Mustaine is a “considerate lover.” How do I know this? It’s not because my mom told me. Rather, I read about it on Groupie Dirt, a website last updated in the early 2000s that chronicled the sex lives of famous musicians, as told by the people who’d know best: groupies. And your mom told me.
Here are my 10 favorite “stories.” You’ll never think of Billie Joe Armstrong in the same way again.
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