Cuter Than:

Kittens wrapped in bunnies wrapped in unicorns dunked in baby sauce.

The new Softlightes video... LA locals:
Watch.

Bush is 'da shit:

Ever wish there were a whole site dedicated to shit covered in Bush?
Look no further.

Suicide Wednesdays:

My friend Kelly is DJ-ing a new Suicide Girls affiliated night at Vine Bar. Go check it/her out. Vine Bar is the one w/ the upstairs area w/ Bean Bag chairs no? Yikes!
1235 N. Vine St.
9 PM - 2 AM - No Cover Charge

Let's not be subtle

With all the crazies and annoying mofo's roaming around Hollywood on any given day, I definitely need to invest in this.

Black Moth Super Rainbow are playing the Mercury Lounge soon. Besides having an incredible name, this song sounds like it belongs on a warped version of the Magnolia soundtrack. I think it's kinda dreamy. Check it out below. Additional MP3s are available on their official site.
Mercury show is 2/10 @ 7:30 PM. No LA dates yet but they will be down at Southby.

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Sun Lips

Mirah Remixed:

So I spent the entire day trying to track down this song. I'm not kidding. No one has posted it on a blog and it's not available at iTunes. You can't even stream 30 seconds of it on Amazon. Fucking balls crazy. It's a song that my friend Ted from the band Occidental turned me on to when he played it in his car and I lost my shit. I was trying to make a mixtape today and when I saw that Music For Robots had posted a track featuring Mirah it jogged my memory and I was on a mission. Thankfully, said robot was also the key to finding this track which he had stashed under his desk somewhere and was able to miraculously retrieve for me saving the day like Tom Green in Freddy Got Fingered.

Mirah - La Familia (Handsome remix)

Ballin Automatic

This has been out for a bit, but it's just too cool not to mention.

Adidas has custom designed shoes for all 30 NBA teams. The designs are hit-or-miss (mostly hit in my opinion), but the dopest part is that Dan The Automator has created original tracks to accompany each design which are all available for download. For FREE.

Click here to see the kicks and hear the beats. Get your ball on.

The Number 23:

My cousin's new movie, The Number 23 comes out the 23rd of the 2nd month of this year. Spooky. I got to check out the film about a month ago and it's one of the best thriller's I've seen in a really long time. The other C and I kind of flipped out ourselves, adopting some of Jim Carrey's psychosis over the number. He made a huge diagram dissecting various names and phrases and he looked like a crazy little wacko wang working ferocious equations while sitting cross-legged in the office. Here's a widget deal that they put together to promote the movie. Do with it what you will, just make sure you check out the movie cause it's F-King GREAT.

Virgitol Records...

Capitol and Virgin just united forces, yikes!

Via Coolfer.

Picasso's Before Ho's:

I like Brian Montuori's new art. Check him: The Nervous System on my Blog Roll >

Feeling Down

And need a giant kick to the heinie? Go to my buddy's blog and download some Malajube. It's a jam. They are playing the Echo 3/3.

Last Night:

I went to some event for Super Deluxe. They provided us with fried chicken and french fries from Dinah's, beer, whiskey and fun. Brad Neely is a goddamn genius, if you know what's good for you, click here and then choose the Professor Brothers sketch. You. will. laugh. your. goddamn. ass off. For real. Afterwards we went over to the Chateau Marmont where I ran into a kid I used to be in choir with in high school, now a member of the Chateau crew. We sat next to Zach Braff and Penelope Cruz and ordered some Newcastle and Pinot Grigio, because we're classy like that. Ye old Chateau is extremely odd in it's reputation and clientele but I can kind of dig on the old tymey, tucked away charm and class to it. My buddy Sussbomb used to work there, so we were even treated to some free bread and whatnot (sadly the only vegan thing on the menu.) All in all it was a pretty good time, though I'm paying dearly for it today. Please check out the video. It's great, I promise.

Tonight:

Light FM

The Valley Arena

Thieves And Liars

Stepsonday

This song...

Goes out to DTL, who probably doesn't even read my blog. And by probably, I mean he doesn't. I like listening to this little ditty when I'm feeling silly and trying to joyfully pass the last few minutes of work. A nice gentleman at the FADER put it on a mix for me.
Plastic Little - Brooklyn
Plastic Little
Excuse the mis-sizing of this pic, but Photobucket is bein a little absolute bitch.

Sebadoh:

I read the letters that you wrote....
When old loves become new. In celebration of the fact that I just bought my tix to see the re-united Sebadoh at Spaceland March 10th. I used to listen to this band from a shitty dorm room in a crappy boarding school down the road from P-ton NJ. Thank God for growing up.

Sebadoh - Black Haired Girl

PB&J

Between having to wait forever for my lunch today and all of the PB&J references (peter bjorn and john) I thought about one of my favorite Mr. Show skits: Why Me?

It's. so. good.

Things I Learned in Portland Last Week:

1) Doug Fir is the fucking JAM, why don't more cities have places that have good shows where you can feel like a CLASSY dirtbag hipster while also enjoying cheap happy hour drinks and feasting on blown glass Moose eye candy?
2) You CAN make a living doing pretty much anything when your rent is like a buck fifty a month
3) I'm not sure how I feel about bicycles being the rule rather than the exception when it comes to transportation, especially in the snow
4) It's a rad place to be in a band, since pretty much everyone can fit a make-shift studio in the basement of their cheap and dope-ass house
5) When I grow up I want to be a McMennamins brother. Their class of old-tymey hipster tested grandpa approved hotels and bars is off the chain

When it's pretty out it looks like this:

The Broken West:

Are playing tomorrow at Sea Level Records for their album release party.

Starts at 7 in the hood, re: Echo Park.
Listen here.

FADER issue 43 Release Party in my HOOD:

The FADER Magazine & Budweiser Select
Invite You To Celebrate: The Issue 43 Release Party

Featuring Performances by:
Ty & Kory
Ta'raach and guests
Georgia Anne Muldrow with guest Dudley Perkins
DJ sets by: DJ Blu Jemz and DJ Pubes

FRIDAY, January 26th
9pm-12:30am
RecCenter Studio
Echo Park
1161 Logan
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Please RSVP by Friday, January 26th at 3pm EST to: F43@thefader.com

Complimentary BUDWEISER SELECT
21+ ONLY.
Download the issue here.

Go get down w/ Chip N Erin:

I'm not emailing her for you,

Get a Blackberry!

One of the first people I met randomly in a bar in LA made this short for the Sundance Film Festival and you can vote for it. It's an animation involving the Doug Fir lounge (which I just saw for the first time a few days ago on my super fun amazing trip to Pland Oregone) and wood killing raccoons. The others are interesting too, just click here and choose Greenimation.

Another piece of his work:

Pink Muff Dance Party... et.al

If someone sends me a song called "Pink Muff Dance Party Vampire Resolve" by a band called Dead Bodies and it doesn't make my ears bleed, I'm definitely going to post it. Unless I'm just darn lazy. This track has some spookyish child vocals before it turns into an Art Brut sounding ditty. I'd be interested to hear the rest of the album...

Here's the track.

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If you have doubts take it.

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Good bands playing next Wednesday...

Today...

Today I made two discoveries on the way to and from Amoeba.

1. Pat O'Brien has 2, count 'em TWO stars on the streets of Hollywood. While walking East on Hollywood Blvd to go to lunch I spotted number 1, no big surprise since I had seen it before. Then on my way North on Vine St. later on I caught a glimpse of numero 2. Who wants to get some coke 'n hookers and go crazy with me on this one????

2. I'm not even going to dignify what emo jerk-ass cry baby record I just picked up at Amoeba... but out of the conversation Calvin dropped the most magical Conor Oberst slam I've heard. I heart Conor, but in all the heckling I've gotten over the years, never have I heard anyone call him Conor BLOWBERST. Ahahahahaha.

If you'd like to revisit that magical scoreboard of Pat O' Brien's, click here. Betsy will be so jealous.