Seattle has treated me wonderfully so far, but it has also worn me out with too much fun and too much food. Fortunately, the Internet offers many spectacles for your amusement and careful consideration. Here are some that grabbed me this week:
From Friends, etc.:
Nerdcore buddies Doctor Popular and MC Lars have a new musical video up, in which Lars drops names and Doc drops a great chorus and flexes his legendary bod (is this how he got to be so Popular?).
Via Suicide Girls: Sam (sometimes known as Fractal Suicide) is raising money for a cancer treatment facility in honor of a friend she recently lost. 18 Suicide Girls posed for the gorgeous “Fuck Cancer” print that you can pick up for a small donation at Sam’s site. [Thanks to the always-mindful SFSlim for pointing this out.]
Paul Ford reviewed 700-something South by Southwest mp3s last year, six words at a time. I thought he was insane. This year, he did over 1,300. I’m not sure what I think he is, now. Tired, probably. Possibly a newly-minted alcoholic. I know I would be.
Amanda Lee is blogging prodigiously again.
Musical Interlude:
DM Stith – Pity Dance
Lily Allen’s cover of Womanizer is better than Britney’s original. If only she’d cover the video, too.
Momus posted a video for an alternate version of Jahwise Hammer of the Babylon King, a song from his latest record. Sunglasses. So many sunglasses.
Assorted Good Stuff:
I don’t know this Jessica Stam, but I think I like her.
This poster by Matt Jones gets right to the heart of things. Yes yes yes. I found it via Merlin Mann and Warren Ellis — the first time I’ve ever seen anything reposted by both of them. I think that’s less a coincidence and more a comment on the universal appeal of Matt’s message.
Updated: there’s also a t-shirt.
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