Eye-Catching Ad, Cool “Sixteen Candles” Poster, Bad Beatles Cover, Knit Jeans, Crazies on Craigslist and More!

By Jeff on Sep 16, 2009 in Daily Distractions, Music | 0 Comments

What Are Words For? Vampire Weekend’s new wordless banner ad showing just a polaroidish photo of a very cute preppy girl is pretty darn brilliant and quite effective. I clicked it and like you, I don’t usually click anything (unless its animated or has something to do with fungus). The ad leads to the vamps website , which has some words. The alluring, 80s-tinged photo makes me want to reread a Jay McInerney or Bret Easton Ellis novel… and score some coke. It doesn’t however, make me want to listen to Vampire Weekend, but then again, no ad could.

Comfy! Knit Jean Lounge Pants (The kids at @Primer are wearing these at the office and loving them.)

More “This Is Why Your Heart Hates You”: KFC’s Double Down Sandwich

“I need someone to hide easter eggs in my apartment when I’m not home.” This odd request and more human scariness from the “20 most bizarre Craigslist adverts of all time”.

Mmmm… Taste Like Penguin: “The first chapters of ALL Penguin’s latest novels are available to download for FREE!” Taste here and follow @PenguinBooks.

In Honor of All The Fab Four Hoopla: Attempt to enjoy Dusty Springfield’s Beatles medley with friends Mireille Mathieu, Juliet Prowse and Burt Bacharach (who wisely refused to join in):

Read: GRID! Why? Because “Grid inspires the people of Philadelphia to create a more just, livable and sustainable city.”

New Lou Barlow! Lou has a new album coming out soon (on Merge Records) called Goodnight Unknown. I heard a couple tracks and I’m excited, sounds peachy. Here’s a medium-energy documentary about the making of the new platter. Be warned, Lou is a pretty mopey guy but he also has a great sense of humor that does pop up during this meditative little movie.

“Dear NBC, DIE” I LOVE this very impassioned rant against NBC and the Jay Leno hype. Kudos @drewmagary

“COMEDY AT 10PM?! UNHEARD OF!… I’ve never done that, NBC. I’ve never known what it is like to laugh at that hour. I am not sure I’m biologically equipped to handle it. I’m so used to setting that hour aside to watch doctors fuck each other and then perform open-heart surgery at that hour. That hour is not meant for laughter. It is a dark, intense 60 minutes of each day. All I want to do at that hour is brood, and look over corpses for forensic traces of the Miniature Killer’s calling card. Comedy? At 10PM? I DON’T KNOW IF I’M PREPARED FOR THE REVOLUTION.”

Can I borrow your underpants for 10 minutes? New “Sixteen Candles” Poster from Jay Ryan at Mondo Tees (there’s a “Breakfast Club” homage to boot):

Let’s Now Quote: Farmer Ted.

Listen: The new record from The Bomb, Speed is Everything, is so very rockin’. If you dig Naked Raygun, Jawbox, Pegboy and the like, and enjoy a healthy dose of big fat “Oh oh oh ohs!”, you are in for a post-punk treat. Guest appearances from J. Robbins, Bob Nana, Dan Yemin and Katy Radek. That’s great Jeff, but do they cover A Flock of Seagull’s “Space Age Love Song”? But, of course. More Info>

Download MP3: “Spaceman” by The Bomb

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