By Jeff on Jan 28, 2011 in Daily Distractions, Music, Videos | 0 Comments

Bob Mould & Peter Buck covering Neil Young and Cheap Trick from a 1990 show in Georgia. Yup, it’s great.
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By Jeff on Jan 21, 2010 in Music, Unearthed Videos, Videos | 0 Comments

The Posies? Sugar? Why these two videos you may ask? Because this lucky boy is going to see Mr. Mould & Jon Auer (The Posies, Big Star) in NYC tomorrow night at some fancy place called The City Winery.
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By Jeff on Dec 9, 2009 in Daily Distractions, Time Wasters | 0 Comments

Handy Site for Screw-It-Yourselfers: There, I Fixed It Santastic: Very cool customizable “From Santa” video for the kiddies. “It’s Funny Because It’s True”: Eight ways to kill an idea Do They Know It’s Christmas? The Award-winning Canadian hardcore band Fucked Up has just released their star-studded remake of the Band Aid holiday classic. It features [...]
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By Jeff on Apr 2, 2009 in Daily Distractions | 0 Comments

Big Phoot: Wildlife photographer Todd Marrone took a Polaroid of a phanatic in its unnatural habitat. Perspective: infoMania’s Ben Hoffman chimes in on the new Facebook: F*ck My Facebook! Top-notch Time Waster: “The 10 Best Aqua Teen Hunger Force Episodes” selected by the show’s creators. This American Life – Live! Our pal Dave Hill will [...]
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By Jeff on Jan 16, 2009 in Music, Unearthed Videos, Videos | 0 Comments

Remember Friday Night Videos? You’d watch it back in the 80s after a six-hour D & D marathon waiting all night for “Subdivisions” by Rush? Sweet. Well since I don’t go out much on Friday nights, I figured I’d bring the show back, but will a lot less crap. Actually no crap. This will be [...]
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By Jeff on Dec 23, 2008 in Music, Time Wasters | 0 Comments

The average life span of a song on my Nano’s “Heavy Rotation” playlist is about a week, then I clean house and load up some more goodness. (Gotta keep my cardio-funk-tae-bo workouts fresh, am I right, ladies?) A few fantastic tunes did manage to avoid the old heave-ho due to their brilliance and I’d like [...]
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By Jeff on Nov 12, 2008 in Daily Distractions, Tech, Television | 0 Comments

30 Rock is a great show, fabulous! But it seems to be on the trajectory that has doomed many a fine comedy: “Let’s jam pack it with Big Name Guest Stars every week! Seinfeld! Oprah! Aniston! Jonas Brothers! The Pope! Awesome!” No, not awesome.
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By Jeff on Mar 3, 2008 in Music, Podcast | 4 Comments

Topics: Epcot, Dark Sky Parks, The Smurfs Movie, Scandinavia, Puppet Comedians, Daytrotter, Perfect Whopper Construction, Album Covers. Playlist: Bob Mould, Wolfkin, Vampire Weekend (Daytrotter Session), Say Hi, Snake & Jet’s Amazing Bullit Band and Ferraby Lionheart. Preview: “That sounds like the worst trip anyone could ever go on.” Play Now: http://www.usedwigs.com/pod/podcast44.mp3 Subscribe: iTunes Website: www.usedwigsradio.com [...]
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