Where’s the peanut butter?!

Pork & Beans is the best video evar:

Added almost a year ago and 16 million views - how did it take so long for me to see this?

I feel like I”m slipping…

This took me a minute to figure out, but is brilliant:

Am I hallucinating? I cannot believe the lineup for this year’s Sasquatch. Ironically, the bands I want to see most are bands I’ve either passed up in the past or who put on what I thought were marginal shows: the Cure (yes, it hurts very much to say that), REM, Stephen Malkmus, Kinski, Mates of State. Or worse, who I know from the Grey’s Anatomy soundtrack (thank you, Rilo Kiley). But then the Flaming Lips will also be there and when I last saw them 14 years ago (!!!) at Lollapalooza, they were incredible, and I keep seeing and reading things about their shows since that make me expect them to be even better. I can’t wait!

Hey - I just found out that the wildly popular band Spoon are not the band Spooner, who I’d heard in high school and didn’t care for. Looks like I have some catching up to do.

This handy instructional video from Ira Kaplan and Ed Kranepool finally lifts the shroud of mystery:

I just got my drive array set back up with all my music and videos. It’s terrific, but it’s bedtime. I end tonight with one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands:

Time to Quit - Luna
oh oh oh, yeah yeah yeah
It’s gettin’ warm already
We’re goin’ for a ride
I love the Motel 6’s
I’m feelin’ pacified

Forget about your parents
They never cared a bit
Leave the doctors behind you
I think it’s time to quit

Here are some bands I’d like to know better - a somewhat random selection based on who’s on KEXP’s year end countdown of their listener top 90.3 albums and from bands I don’t know well. I missed part of the middle of the countdown but this should keep me busy:

Film School - I can’t remember this so well but it sounded pretty good

Sigur Ros - I kind of know them but I heard more of their music on KUT in Austin and Hvarf-Heim just seems really, really good

Tullycraft - If you can not love “The Punks are Writing Love Songs” then you’re no friend of mine. But if you can listen to it twice in a row and not get annoyed, you’re probably about 16 years old.

Les Savy Fav - missed their Neumo’s show but these cats knock out some rockin jams.The Hold Steady - I think I was supposed to be really into Lifter Puller and can tell I’ll love these guys. Some day. For now, I know that “You Can Make Him Like You” from Boys & Girls in America is terrific.

The Twilight Sad - I feel pretty weenie to fall for a band with such a pretentious name (especially when the song I know by them is “And She Would Darken the Memories”) but boy these guys are hot.

Elliot Smith - yeah, I’m a little slow on this one…

Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - bring that beat back!

Maps - Jesus and Mary Chain-y droning stuff I’m a sucker for lately

The Blakes - I really dig every song I’ve heard by these guys - why haven’t I seen them yet?

Cloud Cult - I’ve heard enough to think they might be a band I’m really not into, but not quite enough…

Animal Collective - Peacebone and its video really capture the nightmare experience. Not sure yet whether this is enjoyable but it’s definitely interesting.

Andrew Bird - is great.

Jose Gonzalez - covers Massive Attack? And he’s swedish? Wow…

Amy Winehouse - as far as coked-out looking H junkies go, she’s #1 in my book.

Okkervil River - they were one of my bands to check out in 2006, too, and I never got around to it.

The Shins - file alongside Elliot Smith, but I can’t deny that a couple weeks ago I heard a song on the radio that I liked before realizing it was the Shins.

MIA - I’m a total sucker for that Clash sample.

This is all kinds of awesome - it’s just missing Dave Kendall and I could convince myself I’m back in high school. Or the Night Flight lady and it would be junior high.

It went like this:

• I announce: “Speak Slow” by Tegan and Sara is the best pop song of eleven eleven, two thousand and seven.
• Erin Dean says: “Killer Queen is way better - that’s what I’m learning on Guitar Hero”
• me: “Nuts to that - either of Tegan or Sara could have totally out arm-wrestled Freddie Mercury. Is ‘Speak Slow’ even in Guitar Hero?”
• Erin: “I have no idea but if it is, we duel.”
• I: go to Erin’s profile page, find some fruit ripe for the picking in the form of a movie quiz she scored 74% on, I score a crushing 93%

And just like that, I like Facebook. I’m so fickle with my internet fads but unlike all the other busted social networking sites, facebook is actually fun.