July 2008
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JOKE OF THE DAY -- an e-mail from my pal Inna
From: inna.xxxxxxxx@gmail.com To: SARAHSPY Date: Jul 30, 2008 3:02 PM Subject: Re: Haha I’m gonna mess it up cause I totally forget but i think it’s about some guy who’s some kind of foreign I think, maybe chinese, and this surprise party to do list is divvied up between him and some others and they keep telling him he’s in charge of supplies and then at the end when...
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Choose Your Own Adventure -- YouTube style
Oh man, remember Choose Your Own Adventure? Those YA books where you were presented with dilemma after dilemma & usually ended up dead in some rocket crash or avalanche (and then learned how to cheat by flipping back to where you started)? Well, now Cory “Mr. Safety” Williams of California-based SMP Films has adapted the phenomenon onto YouTube— in an original video series...
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"Tim Heidecker has risen from the dead! Season 3...
“He’s like Jesus Christ. He comes back alive all the time.” div#main{overflow:visible;} “This came out of Tim’s body. Now it’s yours, for sale.” Season 3 of the Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! begins today! Click here to stream this season’s opening episode online, and click to timanderic.com for more good wholesome fun. Previously on...
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Meet Mighty (mullet) Man: Guinness World Record...
TO RECAP: What did we learn from this video??? 1. With concentration, all things are possible!!!! 2. Mighty Man married the most supportive/tolerant woman in the universe 3. Receding hairline = not an obstacle to bus-towing 4. You too could pull a double decker bus with your mullet, if Mighty Man would only reveal THE SECRET INGREDIENT 5. Focus your chakras when you get a sec 6. Try as you might...
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Do you wasabi some of this SPAM SUSHI ?
This month, Hawaiian cookbook author Muriel Miura released a collection of recipes entirely devoted to everybody’s favorite processed pork product, entitled Hawaii Cooks with Spam. In it, you’ll find a variation of the California Roll, with Spam replacing the crab meat, according to NPR.org. From the article: More Spam per capita is sold in Hawaii than anywhere else in the United...
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Devendra Banhart discovers dating an adorable...
Venezualan folk rocker Devendra Banhart [Insound/Myspace] released a music video this week for his new single “Carmensita,” featuring an adorrrrable performance by none other than his current real-life ladyfriend, Natalie Portman. Spinner.com describes the video as: “a clip that is full of dancing, hammy special effects and tongue-in-cheek subtitles with questionable English...
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Discover new artists via 1" buttons through My...
MY MY, the “handmade and totally awesome” shop headed by creative genius Taryn Hipp, kicked off a new collaborative 1” button art project this summer that is now in full swing & worth checking out. The MY MY Artist Collaboration Project is a sweet and accessible way to connect with new artists via limited edition sets of 3 one-inch buttons— sort of like a reinvented...
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An introspective family weekend with the Muppets...
I’m out-of-state this weekend, visiting the family for my niece’s 2nd birthday. These days she’s pretty down with the Muppet Show, thanks to my sister Netflix-ing a lot of our old favorite episodes. Yesterday the three of us had a sweet little living room dance party to the following “Turn the World Around” performance from the episode featuring Harry Belafonte. ...
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Special edition "Insound 20" line debuts today for...
Last week I asked you guys to please buy me cool t-shirts & everybody ignored me as usual. Fine, no biggie. I’m over those now anyway— as my t-shirt wish list has moved on to the Insound 20. This line of limited edition tees, hooded sweatshirts, and posters was designed by concert flier genius Jason Munn of the Small Stakes. Debuting today, the 20 featured bands are: Built to...
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My Pal Ray offered to guest blog about the...
Thanks to our coolest, most hooked-up friend, us kids got to skip the crazy-long line to be VIPs at the Breeders pool party show yesterday! And, like total amateurs, that is pretty much all we talked about the rest of the afternoon. I spent 20 minutes of the Breeders set in line for the VIP toilet. There wasn’t a wait for the “regular people” porta-potties at the other end of...
It's no Joke(r): Batman's movie graphics mirror...
Editor’s Note: My friend & former co-worker Sharon is the loveliest of lovelies, and a fellow Brooklynite. She works as a copywriter for a Manhattan-based non-profit, as well as a marketing & PR consultant for ultracool design agency theMechanism. Being a bit of a superhero herself, she’s got some expertise in the topic of today’s guest blog… While strolling...
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I love the new video for She & Him's "Why Do You...
There’s a video now for what just happens to be my favorite track off She & Him’s Volume One (the project between M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel that made #1 on my Top 20 Albums of 2008 So Far). And I find it just as sweet and lovely as the song itself (as Stereogum says, “She should be in pictures”): MTVMusic VideosMTV ShowsEntertainment News I love all of it: Zooey, her...
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It's tee-time at Rumplo!
Do you guys know about Rumplo? If you did I’m pretty mad you didn’t tell me about it sooner. Rumplo is your online guide to the sweetest art/design t-shirts for sale on the web. There’s a lot more out there than just Threadless & Etsy these days (though they’re included too). Here’s how it works: On the site, users submit t-shirt designs they particularly like...
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Show's on the road: Catch my guest spot in This...
Nothing new for you here today! That’s because I took this show on the road— and am today’s guest contributor at one of my very favorite blogs, the crazy-unique & smart & silly This Recording. My post is part four in their summer reading series. You’ll wanna check it out HERE, if for no other reason than the bonus pic of me in a bikini!!!! (sort of, kind of,...
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"Who are the ad wizards who came up with this...
Editor’s note: I know April from my ol’ zine days, and have always enjoyed her celeb-befriending tales (from Anderson Cooper to Michael Stipe to Paul Rudd, just to name a hot few). April recently began doing stand-up in the L.A. area, where she currently resides. In her spare time she collects ridiculous Facebook ads— and she shares her favorites of these so far in...
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The Skype Laughter Chain: Hilarious experiment, or...
To promote their free video calling feature, Skype recently launched a viral “laughter chain” open to public participation. To join the chain, webcam-owners record immediate responses to video footage of people laughing (beginning with an adorably possessed baby, and followed by several of the most embarassing laughing styles you’ll ever encounter), which is watched & added...
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Jeff from the Acorn talks some smack on the Eve of...
Last month, the 185 members of the Polaris Music Prize jury released their Long List of the top 40 full-length Canadian records released from June 1, 2007 to May 31, 2008. Tomorrow the jury will reveal its 10-album Short List at Toronto’s Drake Hotel. Nominees include Ottawa’s The Acorn [Myspace / Insound] — who’ve played several overwhelmingly well-received shows in NYC...
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What you missed when you left the Frightened...
Photo by svetlana80 Last night at Southpaw I caught Scotland’s Frightened Rabbit [Myspace / Insound] live for the second time (last time was at Pianos, which I posted about here). These guys are my favorite band to see live lately, and quite possibly my favorite band overall. A friend met up with me but had to leave early, just as the band was really getting going, unfortunately. So,...
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Some musical collaboration proposals end with...
Here I am with today’s news from the world of cheesy musical collaborations! Soooo, Not-so-New Kids on the Block (today’s edition of People magazine. Apparently the gang of elderly men spent a whole day in the studio eating sushi and recording a new tune called “Full Service” for NKOTB’s not-yet-titled upcoming album. Somebody better pinch me, for I fear I may be...