Monday, February 28, 2011

HAVE YOU HEARD?: FALLEN ANGELS "SEXY BOY"

AXE [client] just put out a commercial for their new scent, AXE Excite, which features an exclusive cover of Air's 1998 classic track "Sexy Boy" by a choir called The Fallen Angels.

Hear the cover in full: http://bit.ly/hzk201

Watch the commercial:

Friday, February 25, 2011

HAVE YOU SEEN?: KE$HA "BLOW"

Dear Ke$ha,

I already loved you. I saw your music video for "tik tok" and thought to myself: that's me circa 2005, but cuter and with a record deal.

You effortlessly barrel through life like a drunken bat out of hell, making out with boys, throwing them to the wayside, and treating the world like it's your giant glittery disco ball.

i fucking love you.

You didn't have to win me over, but holy eff, did you ever.

UNICORNS?!

MOTHER FUCKING UNICORNS?!

AND JAMES VAN DER BEEK?!

AND RAINBOWS?!

Britney, Katy, Gaga... they all wish they were as effortlessly amazing as you.

I love you.

I love this video.

you are my spirit animal.

Love,
Ultragrrrl

Thursday, February 10, 2011

HAVE YOU SEEN?: MAT DEVINE IS MY HERO

I dont know how this ended up on my hard drive, but it did. And i'm not sure if Mat wants me to share it, but I am until he tells me to remove it. This is genius. This is why i love him.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

I'M HOSTING A PARTY!

It's an OPEN BAR party during Social Media Week. I hope you can make it. Please go here to RSVP:



There's going to be a camera crew from The Ish Entertainment interviewing people about how social media has had a significant impact on their lives. We're hoping to capture some really compelling stories. If you have one, please RSVP and come!!!

VINTAGE COMMERCIALS

Inspired by a conversation at work with Casey and Julia regarding champagne shaped bathtubs, I decided to look up vintage commercials. Many of these will just be familiar to those living in the NYC area during the 80s, but they're still fantastic.


All you have to bring is your love of everything...


and in the center of it all...




the magic, the mystery, the memory will live forever...


at petland they care...


these prices are insane...


rides and attractions... non stop action...

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

THINGS I LEARN THE HARD WAY

OMD the ad agency


Is not the same as:

OMD the band from the '80s that I was raised on.

WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN

As nearly 2 million people march in Cairo to demand the removal of the President, I was walking like an Egyptian when I was 8 years old:



Wednesday, January 26, 2011

23 AND ME

My brother Lawrence participated in the 23andMe genetic profiling.

My world was rocked a little when I found out that my mom's side is genetically Scandinavian, Moroccan, and Spanish, while my dad's side is Russian, Polish, Pakistani, Indian, and Asian.

Check out these maps. The areas that are darkest are where my genetics most likely come from.

UPDATED: A message from Lawrence:
Not quite: First, the dark colors are where the population of R1a1a and H1o are larger percentages. It doesn't necessarily mean origin. Second, those are just the Y-chromosome and mtDNA, respectively. What's more important is what population we're closest to and, according to my DNA, I'm right at the nexus of Palestinians, Bedouins, and Druze. That location, of course, is Israel:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5136/5390526431_34f7914674_o.jpg

So, mazal tov! When archeologists find my bones 10,000 years from now, they'll know I'm an Israelite.





Tuesday, January 25, 2011

A SEAL SCREAMING LIKE A MAN

I nicked this from Ke$ha's site and was in tears. Maybe it's just been one of those days, but this shit is hilarious:



HAVE YOU SEEN?: ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD

The latest installment in the Zeitgeist The Movie series came out today.

WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

(image courtesy of http://senorgif.memebase.com)
  • It appears as though 2010 was among the most deadliest years caused by natural disasters.
    "Some 373 natural disasters claimed the lives of more than 296,800 people last year, affecting nearly 208 million and costing nearly $110 billion, according to annual data compiled by the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) of the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, and supported by the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), the UN body charged with helping coordinate efforts to achieve substantive reduction in disaster losses and build resilient nations and communities."
  • The terror reigns in Mexico as the drug cartels continue to cause needless murders throughout the country. In Juarez, seven men were assassinated by Mexican drug dealers while playing soccer and appeared to hold not ties to the drug cartels in the northern part of the country.
  • Russian President Medvedev chastised the security and management team of the Domodedovo Airport in Russia after a suicide bombing caused the death of approximately 35 people.
  • The food industry will be introducing new labeling to let you know how much you should regret eating that cookie.
  • Indonesia is jumping onto the crop circle craze about 20 years too late. A crop circle was discovered. Authorities suspect human intervention. Duh.

Monday, January 24, 2011

STUPID CUTE FACES

If you can't get any work done today because you're too busy looking at their faces, you can blame @karenplusone.

WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING





HAVE YOU SEEN?: CAT'S EYES

A few years ago, in a life long ago, Stolen Transmission (my now defunct record label) signed The Horrors. I love The Horrors.

The singer, Faris Badwan, launched a new band (in addition to the horrors) called Cat's Eyes and filmed the video for the song "I Knew It Was Over," from their first gig which at the Vatican. NO BIG DEAL.

more info at gigwise. video below. thanks @karenplusone for the link:

Thursday, January 20, 2011

ASTROPHYISCS!!!!!

Last night, my friend Robin Monheit, I attended The Secret Science Club at the Bell House which featured the amazing Astrophysicist Charles Liu. Astrophysics is my favorite kind of physics after quantum and particle, but after watching the amazingly hilarious, informative, and delightful Charles Liu... i may have to rethink that. The place was PACKED. At least 300 people, standing room only, and quiet enough to hear a pin drop. The crowd was filled with the kind of people you might expect at like, a Warpaint show... not the type of folk you might expect at a science lecture. Are science lectures the new indie rock show? Fuck, i hope so.

There's video of the lecture below -- 1 minute segments because that's how my G1 works... but the video also includes me on stage singing a couple songs with Liu. Kind of surreal. I was as excited about that as I was when AndrewWK put me up on his shoulders during one of his shows in 2003.

Anyway, I asked people to submit #astrophysicspickuplines on twitter. Here are the entries (including my own):

sarah lewitinn
I want to get theoretically physical with you and let you explore my clusters... maybe even my black hole.
Rosemary Gonzalez
RT @: I want to matter to you.
Kevin DeStefan
@
@ I'm CERN your bosons are giving me a raging Hadron.
A Second City Saint
@ let's go & play "Large Hadron Collider": you shoot your proton beams & make my particles accelerate
Danny Gonshor
Imma let you finish, as soon I spontaneously combust all up in you

Tom Fiffer
@
@ @ Sure, size matters, but everything is relative
David Capogna
RT @: I Wanna Some Of Your Phi!
Tom Fiffer
@
@ @ You're going out a white dwarf, but you're coming back a star!

Tom Fiffer
@
@ @ Is your universe expanding, or is that just a slide rule in your pocket?
Tom Fiffer
@
@ @ Can I show you my particle accelerator?
Allan M
@ "Hey baby, what's your sine?"
sarah lewitinn
I want to feel your skin before I see it (because light travels at 108,000 miles/hr). @
sarah lewitinn
I want to matter to you.

Johnny McDaid
@
@ ' I'm sensing some really dark energy between us...will you sleep with me?'
Johnny McDaid
@
@ 'who took the stars from the sky and shoved them up your ass?'.
Johnny McDaid
@
@ ok so how about 'Uranus is my favourite planet.'

sarah lewitinn
Show me your antimatter.
Justin Warfield
@
@ "is that a flux capacitor in your pocket, or...."
Aaron Steinbach
@
@ "hi, I like super-novas, do you?"
chantal claret
@ I have this big bang theory that I wanna test out with your help.
»
chantal claret
@ I like your pi's
Tom Fiffer
@
@ @ Can I show you my particle accelerator?
Maria Garcia
@
@ "I'd love to be the tangent to your curves"
chantal claret
@
@ come with me if you have a thing for white dwarfs with black holes




And here are the videos:
























These next bunch of videos are of me on stage singing Astrophysics songs with Charles Liu: