the closest i’ll ever get to don draper.

this is how i would look in an episode of mad men. i think it’s pretty accurate, and not far from how i dress now. one of my biggest regrets about canceling cable is that we won’t be able to watch the new season of mad men.

set up your own scene here.

crackers.

on june 21st antony played a concert in amsterdam with the metropole orkest. not only was it filmed for dutch television broadcast (although four songs were cut), but it was also recorded for a radio broadcast (full set list and all the talking). thanks to the internet i have been obsessed with this concert. there is a beautiful version of the unreleased “christina’s farm”, a haunting cover of “crazy in love”, and a killer version of “ghost” (another unreleased song). “ghost” floored me when antony performed it a couple of years ago at the brooklyn academy of music. the highlight of the show is that he premiered a new song “salt, silver and oxygen”.  morgan is probably beyond tired of hearing this concert, i don’t think a day has gone by in the past month that i haven’t listened to it. a friend sent me a dvd of the show also, but i will save morgan and only watch it when he’s not home.

my friend birdantony is hosting downloads on his site. be sure to thank him in the comments.
go here for the audio.
go here for the video. (ignore the audio on that page, it’s not the complete show.)

“ghost”

“salt, silver and oxygen”

“crazy in love”

mobile device.

i keep seeing these commercials during heroes, i enjoy that they call it a mobile device. they’re trying to rebrand the car as a product. they must be stopped. it is a cute car though.

sorry about the lack of posting i’ve been a bit busy and a whole lotta sick.

bravo should pay you more.

padma lakshmi,as the host of bravo’s top chef, is easily one of the best reality show hosts you can find. she know’s what she talking about, is fair, and never seems to be mugging for camera time. and i’m no judge, but from what friends say, she’s quite a looker. this i find a little disturbing though, should she be treading in the same waters that paris hilton has sullied.

cable’s lament.

our cable was finally shut off today and here are a couple of things that we’ll miss. some of them we are definably better off without.

pop culture clip shows - the soup, the dish, best week ever

chelsea lately

msnbc – rachel maddow, keith olbermann

the daily show and colbert report-

most bravo shows- project runway, top chef, real housewives of atlanta, etc

mad men

torchwood

and of course the countless other crappy shows we get sucked into, which is the main reason we got rid of cable.

did i fall asleep.

dollhouse is joss whedon’s newest show, we are six episodes into it now and it seems to be coming together nicely. dollhouse tells the story of an underground firm that rents out programmable humans, or dolls, to the rich and well connected. the first crop of episodes were far from perfect, full of choppy editing and sometimes laughably bad acting.  thankfully they had compelling stories and huge potential.  from what i’ve read about the show last night’s episode was the first that fox let joss have total control over and it showed. from the beginning the episode had joss’s signature flow, humor and style. he excels at carrying multiple storylines, one or two season long and one that is wrapped up by the end of each episode. the episodic story is usually focus around what the doll is hired for, and the two (so far) season long story arcs are about an fbi agent investigating the existance of the dollhouse and the more interesting story of a dangerous rogue doll.

hopefully fox sticks with the show for a while and doesn’t cancel it, they have already doomed it with a friday night time slot. i end up watching it online most of the time. i have faith that the show can only improve.

his arms are warm.

antony & the johnsons on last night’s letterman.

this is the second time antony & the johnsons has been on letterman. i stayed up way past my bedtime to watch. for an antony fan, this is amazing. this performance had me agog. this is easily one of the best songs on amazingly highly recommended the crying light.

walk it out, walk it out.

i am wallowing in a pit of bad reality shows right now. even top chef is boring me. i’m glad that the third season of america’s best dance crew starts tomorrow. the two seasons of abdc that aired last year gave me some of the biggest television moments. this show is a natural extension of my love of dance movies. mainly i like that the crews get creative challenges and do all their own choreography. season one was all about kaba modern, and season two was all about fanny pak. you can watch all of the fanny pak performances here. i strongly recommend the speakerphone and get ur freak on performances, but they are all great.
neither of my favorites ended up winning. maybe i should start voting?

kept me from breaking.

i’ve been going through a fairly rough patch over the last couple of weeks. if it wasn’t for the following things i probably would have broke.

the second season of 30 Rock on dvd, and the start of the third season.

the second season of the incredibly inventive pushing daisies. please everyone watch this show, they might take it away, and that would be sad.

chelsea handler’s late night show on E.

the simple pleasures of ellen.

crosswords on my ds. i’ve done over 500 crossword and about 150 word searches.

korg ds-10.

seeing john hodgman at wordstock. this isn’t from wordstock though.

the new album from of montreal skeletal lamping, and a couple of bootlegs from the current tour. i’m seeing them in a couple of weeks.

the non-existent bootlegs from antony & the johnson’s recent orchestral tour.

there are a few other things that have kept me from being totally down, but i will be giving them their own post soon.

i also want to thank all my friends, i think i have the best group of friends anyone could ever ask for.
and a big hug and kiss for morgan.

a sweet surprise.

i’ll be posting a long TBA review soon, the festival has kept me busy over the last week. add in a xiu xiu show, reality show wednesday (top model and project runway), and a game night (yes, i actually played settlers of catan this time) and i have been left with very little down time.

for now enjoy these pro corn syrup ads that have been airing on television. it’s all part of corn’s ambition to take over the world.

in case you need to know why corn syrup is wrong.