I just had a cute-stroke

Pygmy Jerboa.

A what?

I dunno, dude, but I want like 50 of 'em.

New Regina!

This album's gonna make my summer when it drops on 06/23/09.

You wait and see.

Preorder here.

Video for "Laughing With"

Get ready... Get set...

The 2009 Montage is still six months away 

(so you still have time to make your mark).

In the meanwhile, I made this little fluffy thing to tide us all over.

Music: 
"After Hours" by We Are Scientists

Listen and Learn

If you know me at all, you know how much I love Joe Pug's music.

If you're in Chicago, you need to be a Schuba's tonight or tomorrow night to hear him play.

This is a cool thing that happened that I TOTALLY missed out on because I was doing theatre.

What else is new?

Chicago Public Radio: One Musician Discovers it Pays to be Free

6 Concerts in 6 Hours

Singer-songwriter and former carpenter Joe Pug wanted to make a living as an artist, but was low on cash and needed to grow his fanbase in economical ways. And then he decided to giveaway his art.  Music critic Althea Legaspi rode along with Joe Pug one Friday night to learn more about this concept.

And here's the YouTube video of it all going down:

2008 Montage

NYC Montage

How to Be a Bat

How To Be A Bat [Life in Motion]

This is too cool.  Watch videos of bats (even VAMPIRE BATS!) doing all kinds of cool stuff like flying and...running.  No, really.  Watch 'em.

Bat on flower from Carl Zimmer on Vimeo.

From the Discover Blog.

In Tribute to Bea

There is just nothing to say about this.

Nothing does it justice.

Bea, you classy classy broad, you will be missed.

Pregnant Women are Smug

This one comes to us courtesy of Patti McGrath.

Thanks, Patti.

You've never even met Claudia, and yet you know her so well.

Man. French people are rude.

Incroyable et formidable!
KANGOUROU (REMI GAILLARD)
by nqtv

You Pretty Much Gotta See This

Because we all need each other.

Stand By Me from David Johnson on Vimeo.

Jason Webley Rocked the Empty Bottle last night

Ash and I were trombones.

I don't understand it, but I think it's groovy.

If this doesn't make you smile, I give up.

Just turn your speakers on and watch it.



Thanks, T&L.

Choose your next words carefully

SICK.

TRUTH.

This is what I keep telling you fools.

I DON'T CARE what some girl from my sixth-grade class is doing every second of every day, and I REFUSE to believe that she cares about my life!

I am hostile toward Twitter.

My mom's on Facebook.

I feel I know too much already.

if you like it then you should've put it on youtube

So I know the Single Ladies dance is SO last year (and SO played out), but please check out the undergrads at my academic institution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjnpIeBXuy8

(Oh, that place they are? That's Emerson's permanent Castle campus in Well, Netherlands.)

Do you know how BIG A BUS IS?

This is the best thing that's ever happened to buses, storage, television, and drunks.

Ever.

In the history of history.

And I also like that we are all his friends from the get-go.

Peep more awesomeness at the website he so lovingly directs us to.

The first sentences of the website's welcome page are:

"Tobias R. Jones, "Toby", [sic] grew up idolizing his favorite hood rapper Pokey Da Hot Spitta.  He followed his idol's life and gained employment as a Street Pharmaceutical Sales Rep [ed's note: drug dealer] in 2003.  Toby held on to that job for a year before he saw his Distribution Manager [ed's note: oh, sure] get shot.  Toby realized that the street life was not for him."

Good call, Toby.

You can't make this shit up.

Credit for finding this gem goes to my friend GD Kimble in NYC.  

(And PS, sadly, this guy is a Chicago-area comic who doesn't actually store anything anywheres.)

Our Work is Never Over

(credit for this find goes to my little sister)

I'm only sad I didn't think of this first.

Because you KNOW that I would ABSOLUTELY spend the time working this out and practicing it, just to get a one-off video out of it.  That's how I roll.

It takes about a minute to get going, but it's worth it, so be patient.

Plus, now I know all the words to this song.

Trying to find a way to use this in my Side Project Show

I've liked this song for a long time, but I just decided to look up the video on a whim.

It's breathtaking.

This is the most beautiful post-breakup song I know.

Stars - Your ex lover is dead
by Cooperative-Music

This scar is a fleck on my porcelain skin 

You tried to reach deep but you couldn't get in 

And now you're outside me you see all the beauty 

Repent all your sin ...

There's one thing I have to say so I'll be brave 

You were what I wanted, I gave what I gave 

I'm not sorry I met you 

I'm not sorry it's over 

I'm not sorry there's nothing to save 

The Moo and Oink, y'all!

Oh, yeah.

This is happening.

ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO (aka, the Baddest Part of Town).