This is a nice little infomercial of our favorite product with some of our favorite pitchmen doing their thing. No, were not talking Billy Mays, but, wait what, Weezer?? Check it out:
Makes me want to buy a snuggie (a.k.a backwards robe) immediately.
Thanks to Gabba for passing this along!
Another new clip from Them Crooked Vultures upcoming album has been released. “Gunman” is definitely the strangest and most out there so far. It’s danceable (as demonstrated by the skeletons in the video with wine bottles in their hands) and seems like it should be played at a rave fresh from the crypt. This just goes to show us the new album and the band is even more diverse than we expected.
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Most people think i’m crazy when I say this, but I wish we lived in a more formally dressed society. I’m sick of going to a nice restaurant and seeing someone in mesh shorts and a t-shirt that has a picture of a wolf howling at the moon on it or in an office where everyone has at least khaki’s and a button down shirt and some jackass is wearing jean shorts and a polo shirt, unbuttoned with their chest hair blowing out. Get real. Have a little respect for yourself.
Sweat pants are possibly the worst thing to happen to us. They only need to be worn when doing athletic activity, not Sunday morning grocery shopping. Do you need to know how low we have sunk as a society? Just think about Walmart patrons…need I say more?
Personally, I prefer the look of the 1940′s, 50′s and early 60′s. Suit, tie, formal hat when you are going out. I know that might be a little too intense for 85% of America these days, but at one point this was the norm (I blame Hippies for this undoing).
All i’m saying is that the American public once radiated class and now we look like a bunch of slobs who only care about comfort. Sadly, I think we are too far gone to ever fully recover.
The Green Day album, Dookie was a cornerstone of my youth experience. Everyone I know owned it. I use to love every song on the album. I still own it and i’m not sure if I legitimately still like some of the songs or if it’s based solely on nostalgic feelings. Either way, I never followed their career with much zeal after that album. I’m especially not buying their new status as aging rock opera art damaged bullshitters.
Anyway, driving home the other day I heard their song “Warning” on the radio. I hadn’t heard it since it came out about a decade ago. I didn’t care for it than and I sure as hell didn’t care for it now, yet it seemed somehow oddly familiar to me. I realized this was because it sounded identical to one my current favorite songs, “Picture Book” by the Kinks from their 1968 album, The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (I know, ridiculous title. But they are British and it was the 1960′s). Now i’m not a musician, so I can’t tell you if the cords are exactly the same. But they sound pretty similar to me.
Example #1, “Picture Book” by The Kinks
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Example #2, “Warning” by Green Day
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To my knowledge this isn’t the first time they’ve done something like this. Even in 7th grade when Insomniac was released I knew the thundering riffs of “Brain Stew” we’re just a rip off of the Chicago’s 1970 song, “25 or 6 to 4″. This one isn’t as exact, but you can still hear it. Green’s day version is alot slower and “grungier”
Example #1, “Brain Stew” by Green Day
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Example #2, “25 or 6 to 4″ by Chicago
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You be the judge
