My friend Ben sent this to me. Wasn’t feeling it at first but they have definitely grown on me. From their youtube: “We went out in the forest this morning and recorded this cover of the wonderful song “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song” by Fleet Foxes, our favourite band right now. We saw them live this weekend in Sweden and it was absolutely amazing. If you get a chance to see them live don’t hesitate for a second!

www.myspace.com/thisisfirstaidkit
MP3: http://www.mediafire.com/?ketodqdk0xb”

This is hilarious. Reminds me of that In Living Color skit with David Alan Grier and the stuffed German shephard.

The South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) has launched a viral campaign to attract new work and staff to the region by raising awareness of the South West’s creative industry credentials.

The campaign, which has been planned, produced and seeded by Bristol-based viral agency Rubber Republic, aims to highlight the strength of the creative industries in the South West and its working environment. (more…)

I guess this is a British soft drink company. They mention a “Ronson family.” Thought it was kinda funny.

Saw this on Kanye’s blog…really amazing. It’s the dude Brains from Thunderbrids dancing like Napoleon Dynamite (the way he drinks the water) meets D-Quan’s Dance Moves (the way he dances) meets like Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker (it’s a marionette). Definitely better than Citroen’s Dancing Robot-Car commercial

If you haven’t watched this video and/or heard this song in a while, watch this clip. Just wanna take a moment to address the epic nature of this track and contextual significance. “Big Pimpin’” was the last single off Vol 3 (it almost didn’t come out) but was also the most commercially successful single from Jay’s fourth album, as well as his most successful solo single, as it reached #3 on The Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Rhythmic Top 40 chart (”I Just Wanna Love You” also hit #3). What’s more it was UGK’s first introduction to the the mainstream and Gloria Velez is so fiery in it.

This is both hilarious and mildly offensive.
“Connecting to your server. No, your server is not your waiter or waitress at your favorite coffee shop.”
“Let’s search for listings about embroidery”

This is a couple months old but I just saw it. Amazing

From Elitaste

I saw this as a banner ad on myspace today (it was animated) and just thought it was ridiculous.

Times are rough. I got fired from a management company I was working at a year ago; a week before Christmas. That was scary. And that was before this economic recession. I’m just so thankful for what I have going and to be making a living off music. According to some of my friends and Gawker.com:
The 850 layoffs at Viacom today—including hundreds at MTV—are claiming the livelihoods of tons of hardworking people who did their jobs well without ever receiving fame and fortune. And just like when a jumbo jet crashes with hundreds of souls aboard, the first question is: “Were any celebrities involved?” You know you were thinking that, you heartless swine. Well (according to an unconfirmed rumor from an inside tipster), your third-favorite MTV correspondent-for-life, John Norris, was laid off today. After the jump, we’ve got other reports from the Viacom scene.

* “Its bad at Vh1 on Hudson Street. Dozens let go. Security guys on each floor “observing”. Lots of staff across the board gone, some that have been here for many years. The mood is bleak.”
* “Awkward day here at MTVN. I’m a humble Production Assistant for Nickelodeon, and we just found out all we low level staff are okay for the time being. The layoffs on our floor were pretty dramatic: an entire department laid off, and our senior vice president, and a department head at N@N. Looks to be more of a management/higher-up bloodbath from here. And Nickelodeon is one of the few brands actually making money…”
* “I work at 1515 Broadway (the Viacom building) and in the elevators, the newstory about the 850 layoffs keeps coming up on the captivate tvs. Pretty classy…”
* “So far at least 5 people have been let go from MTV.com. Mostly producers and associate producers who were supposed to be creating original content. Well, they haven’t been producing anything for awhile and the writing was on the wall.”