I took it as further evidence of my exceptional parenting when my 17-year-old son perked up at the sound of Laurie Anderson’s “O Superman” coming across from the TV and pronounced “Awesome song!” In my head, I was congratulating myself: My son knows Laurie Anderson’s music! I am a good dad! I am a good dad! But this moment of parental pride was sullied when I realized that familiar “hah hah […]
After the apocalypse the only things remaining were the desert, some wealthy (and competitive!) Euro-disco freak-a-zoids, and a grapefruit. Oh, and also a sliver of post-nuclear genetic material, which would later be identified and decoded by the machines as the rapidly mutating, radioactive stem cells of that instrumental break from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” – y’know the one, that part where the zombies do the zombie dance. The scientists, because they had nothing better […]
A couple weeks ago, Chicago-based alt-rockers OK Go put out their latest born-to-be-wildly-viral video – this time, it’s essentially a commercial for the Chevy Sonic in which the band performs their song “Needing/Getting” while driving a course lined with various musical instruments that are strummed, plucked, banged, plinked, and otherwise crashed into by a seemingly random array of objects attached to the car, thus creating the song’s musical (sorta) accompaniment. Each couple of lines, […]