New adidas Star Wars commercial

Holy shit this is the coolest thing I've ever seen. Daft Punk, Ian Brown & Noel Gallagher, a light-saber wielding Snoop Dogg and Greedo trying to get David Beckham to play for Jabba's team -- all in the Cantina's World Cup viewing party. Holy fuck.

Props to: @emmawelles RT @rubicantekid: Adidas Originals' Star Wars cantina scene. Totally awesome. http://bit.ly/cUAXnc (thanks @ianfitzpatrick) 5 minutes ago via TweetDeck

Sunday at the Mid East: LAMB TAKEDOWN

The 2010 Lamb Takedown is coming!

I'm posting this now because it looks FUCKING AWESOME, and I'm already salivating over what these chefs can do each armed with 15 lbs. of lamp meat. This shazz is the same format as the Chili Takedown and Mac & Cheese Takedown, both previously at Great Scott, complete with equally amazing flyer. Mid East dot com has more details, but all the info you need is here.


"Ewe Will Be Rocked" lololololzerrama!

Report: Devils acquire Ilya Kovalchuk

OMFG.

Welcome to Jerz, Ilya. Bring it on, Eastern Conference... The quest for a 4th Stanley Cup is underway. LETS GO DEVILS!!!!!

4/28: Little Boots & Dragonette @ the Mid East

With a nod over at Hotline, because, well, hot damn! (And yes, that's me and Martina Dragonette on the right, ahem, taken after my DJ set at their GS show a few months ago): Perhaps the hottest dance show of the year hits the Middle East on April 28 when Canadian electro-pop group Dragonette teams with UK dance siren Little Boots.

That is correct: Dragonette’s devilishly sultry front woman Martina Sorbata and Little Boots, a.k.a. Victoria Christina Hesketh, on the same stage on the same night in Cambridge’s Central Square. Sweet mother of Mary, Hotline needs a cocktail.

Now if anyone can give Dragonette’s epic gazillion-light stage show a run for its electro-diva money, it’s Hesketh, who before destroying dance floors around the globe with mainstream-pushing hits like “Remedy” and “New In Town” supplied the vocal-purr for all-female synth-punk dancers Dead Disco.

Whew.

Sure, this show is still several months away, but it’s never too early to get acquainted. And ticket on-sale info will be posted when it becomes available, because this one might be tough to get into day-of-show. In the meantime:





Here are the full Dragonette tour dates, courtesy of High Rise PR:

DRAGONETTE ANNOUNCE FURTHER TOUR DATES
MAIN SUPPORT FOR LITTLE BOOTS THIS SPRING
March 6 - Neumos, Seattle, WA *
March 9 - The Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA *
March 7 - Hawthorne Theater, Portland, OR*
March 10 - El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles, CA *
March 12 - The Glass House, Pomona, CA *
March 13 - Casbah, San Diego,CA *
April 22 - Masquerade Hell Stage, Atlanta, GA
April 23 - 9:30 Club, Washington, DC
April 24 - Pure (Making Time), Philadelphia, PA
April 28 - Middle East, Boston, MA
April 29 - SAT, Montreal
April 30 - Phoenix Concert Hall, Toronto **
May 01 - Metro?, Chicago, IL

* with Fan Death
** Co Headline with Little Boot

Sherry Vine's shitty parody of 'Bad Romance'

While Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" still owns my entire fucking existence and is basically the herpes of pop songs, I've done well to steer clear of the myriad parodies floating around the Interwebz. But here comes NYC drag queen Sherry Vine's pants-shitting take on the insta-classic, and well... I dunno... This is remarkable, all in the name of dropping a deuce at the most inopportune times. "I don't want no Depends!" Wow. Just... wow.



I'm a stink bitch baby...

:::: Michael V's Top 40 Songs of the Decade ::::

And to close things out, here it is. No snarky commentary*, no hyperbole, no YouTube clips. Just a list of my Top 40 songs of the 2000s, a decade spent mostly in Boston (all but eight displaced months) and a time where I grew into the repressed-but-remarkably dressed person I am today. This is the shit. (*Might add commentary over the weekend, but it's NYE and I have shit to do...)

Top 40 songs of the 2000s,
by Vanyaland's Michael V

1. Kelly Clarkson “Since U Been Gone”

2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Maps”

3. BM Linx “Understanding Orange”

4. The Walkmen “The Rat”

5. VNV Nation “Beloved”

6. The Stills “Still In Love Song”

7. The Killers “Somebody Told Me”

8. The Strokes “The Modern Age”

9. Passion Pit “I’ve Got Your Number”

10. Pela “Lost To The Lonesome”

11. The Knife “Heartbeats”

12. The Rapture “House Of Jealous Lovers”

13. Miley Cyrus “See You Again”

14. Soviet “Candy Girl”

15. The Information “A Simple Plan”

16. Cascada “Everytime We Touch”

17. Franz Ferdinand “Michael”

18. Lady Gaga “Poker Face”

19. The Killers “Smile Like You Mean It”

20. Bloc Party “Banquet”

21. JJ72 “October Swimmer”

22. Adult “Hand To Phone”

23. Protokoll “Moving Forward”

24. Silversun Pickups “Common Reactor”

25. Fischerspooner “Emerge”

26. The Killers “Mr. Brightside”

27. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club “Love Burns”

28. VNV Nation “Standing”

29. Rihanna “SOS (Rescue Me)”

30. My Chemical Romance “Helena”

31. Sigur Ros “Olsen Olsen”

32. Hercules & Love Affair “Blind”

33. The Libertines “Can’t Stand Me Now”

34. Justin Timberlake “Sexyback”

35. Interpol “PDA”

36. Lady Gaga “Bad Romance”

37. Morrissey “Irish Blood English Heart”

38. The Kaiser Chiefs “I Predict A Riot”

39. Doves “The Man Who Told Everything”

40. Pela “Tenement Teeth”

xoMv.

Lady Gaga "Bad Romance" official video

SPEECHLESS. We're approaching Lola and Justine Frischmann levels of female worship here. *Sigh* (I discussed the song on Sunday.)

Rainy days versus Key Largo

Still the greatest song ever. Thanks to Videodrome for leaving me for dead last night.

Bacon-infused vodka tasting in Somerville

GET THE FUCK OUT NO FUCKING WAY HOLY SHIT LETS DO THIS. Read on...

We like to drink weird and unusual stuff. Do you?

Discover, sample and discuss an offbeat, unorthodox wine, beer or spirit at these expert-led tastings, held every other Tuesday at Downtown Wine & Spirits in Davis Square. RSVP below to reserve your spot; spaces are limited to 20 for maximal boozeducation.

Next event: TUE OCT 6, 2009 :: 7-8PM :: BACON BOOZE
It's well-known that everything tastes better with bacon, and how else to gild the lily than to intertwine it with awesome drinking? (We don't know. We really don't.) This is the tasting that will smite all tastings. Canvas the smoky-porky-buzzed gamut with DownTown's own bacon-infused vodka (with tips on how to DIY at home), smoked beers (the taste is practically liquid bacon) and wines "reminiscent of bacon." Right. Come pig out with us.

This kitten: Nom nom nom

It's not all hard assed pissing and moaning over here any VL.HQ. Nom nom nom nom...

3D artist creates "street caves"

Holy shit, this is the coolest thing EVER, courtesy of a great head-up story and photo essay from Nine MSN. 3D street artist Edgar Mueller has created "caves" on streets in Canada, Germany and now London, England, and his work, all done with acrylic wall paint, is pretty fan-fucking-tastic. For full appreciation, click the photos in the link and watch unfold it step-by-step. Amazing.

So the next HARD fest in LA...

... Uhhhhhhhh, yeah. Los Angeles knows how to roll with the dance musics. But I guess if Boston can pack out the HoB with A-Trak and Diplo/Switch, LA can fill the effin LA Forum.

NME spreads for Yes Giantess

After posting about the wonderful NME blogjob that my boys Jan and Chase from Yes Giantess got the other day, I've since been tipped to a legit print SPREAD in the music mag about our favorite synth-jam upstart. "Perverse pop fetishists turning hipster promise into pin-up reality." -- You said it, NME. You said it.

Gunnar Stahl movie-worn jersey on eBay

I still collect hockey jerseys, so while this isn't my cup of tea I'm sure it's someone's white whale. For a Buy-it-Now price of $1,000, you can own the movie-worn jersey of Gunnar Stahl from "D2: the Mighty Ducks." I shit you not. This might be the coolest thing to ever hit eBay.

U2 in Davis Square Somerville?

According to my boy Jed Gottlieb at the Herald, U2's secret club show is going down at the Somerville Theatre. Not exactly an intimate club, but whatever.

Free E-Marce

Yesterday afternoon everyone got word that Throwed's DJ E-Marce got into a bit of trouble with Johnny Law over the secret party at Wheelers Ice Cream. Well, I swiped this image from On That Tip, because it's just So Freaken Awesome. Eric is now a free man, but still, Winona Ryder ain't got shit on our boy!

I Wrestled A Bear Once

Speaking of Worcester's New England Metal & Hardcore Festival coming this April, clearly I Wrestled A Bear Once not only has the coolest name in the 2-day, 52-band musical beatdown fest (honorable mentions: Cattle Decapitation, Landmine Marathon, Austrian Death Machine, and Animals As Leaders) but the brutal Louisiana grindcore band also has the best album art I've seen in ages. Look at this motherfucking bear! (EP in stores Feb. 17, kids.)
IWaBO merch is pretty dope too, and aside from that super-aweeome "METAL JUST GOT GAY" rainbow flag t-shirt for sale on their MySpace, most of it has a creepy-coloful Jhonen Vasquez vibe going on. (Maybe that's even his work, I dunno, been a while since I dated a Living Dead Girl.) Now if I can only get past the savage ear rape the actual music gives me, I might have a new favorite band. Maybe.

Fleetwood Mac Hate Mail

Now I get all sorts of fun hate mail, but I may have received the BEST piece of hate mail ever this mornig from one John Blake, who hopefully isn't related to Robert:

You're a stupid, snide, ignorant, musically retarded piece of SHIT for insulting Fleetwood Mac. Whose cock did you suck to get your gig? Idiot.

Talk about the landslide bringing me down... Anyway, it should be noted that this reaction came after I insulted this band, seen below.

Trauma, and the Dick Slide

I have a new desk in the newsroom, and I'm way the fuck out in the open and all sorts of vulnerable. Can't be having any more "sad days" in the corner. Thankfully, I have this here DICK SLIDE to entertain the Vanyaland masses when I'm too distraught to post.

My parents are in a Tampa Bay Rays rap video

Mom shows up around :32, and Pops makes his cameo at :38, almost getting knocked out by "Cristol." I'm speechless.