In a video filled with so much comedic gold—Wurster doing some fills on the dental patient’s arms and head, Laura selling her crafts, Jim’s full-frontal eagerness to re-join the band)—my favorite two things are the quick shots of Mac’s new band members: the needles hipster trumpet player and the girl keyboardist waving her hands overhead like an idiot. This video is right up there with the band’s classic “Watery Hands” video of old. It’s a killer song and the presentation perfectly captures the humor and spirit of a much-beloved band reuniting. I actually got some chills when the version 1.0 members stormed the stage and took over the instruments and started rocking out. Kudos to director Scott Jacobson (@straintest) and the stars @jonwurster and @superchunkband. Nice Ted Travelstead (@trumpetcake) cameo too!

Oh yeah, another highlight, Wurster strangling the drummer looked very natural. New CD drops tomorrow! More Superchunk

Update: Via the Director… “Also worth noting that the guys who play Mac’s crappy band in the video are actually a really GREAT band called @TheLoveLanguage.”

Topics: New Babies, New Studio, New Format, Entertainment Consumption, TV Talk, Guest Stars Ruin Everything, Avoiding Facebook Friend Requests, Daytrotter Downloads, Axe Cop and Video Self Defense Training.

Preview: “While most shows are working to polish, we are tarnishing.”

Playlist: Tre Orsi, Blue Giant, Double Dagger, Javelin

Play Now: http://www.usedwigs.com/pod/podcast74.mp3

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Website: www.usedwigsradio.com

Photo: I love when funny people with funny signs protest the protests organized by the knuckle-dragging humanoids like Westboro Baptist Church members (above) or those spelling-challenged Tea Party People. An “I’m with Stupid” sign expertly placed = always funny. More photos>

Digging Your Scene: Thanks to Tyler C, I have a new favorite time-wasting site: 120 Minutes Archive. Enjoy extensive playlists with links to videos from our Sunday night indie rock Shangri-La of yore. It’s the only place to get your late breaking Cactus World News. Just watch some “Bittersweet” by The Hoodoo Gurus (still awesome) and wow, MTV played Cro-Mags (’87) and Angry Samoans (’88) back in the day? Hardcore!

“Since 2003, we’ve been traveling back through time to rediscover and preserve the history of the legendary MTV U.S. series, 120 Minutes, which played alternative music videos with VJs, guests, and live performances, as well as its official successor, Subterranean on MTV2.”

Slice of Life: A Boy and his Pizzas

Thanks a Mouthful! We got some swell shouts from three of our favorite Philly news sources: City Paper, Philberity and The Fightins!  Hooray for us. They cited our high-end artwork honoring Citizens Bank Park’s  newest sweetheart, Pukemon.

Shhhhh…. Super Secret Philly Show! On April 23, WXPN “Free at Noon” concert series will have a big announcement about their special guests for the April 30th show. It seems all types — hipsters, jocks, geeks, classic rockers, the elderly, druids, trannies, lifters, pullers  — love this indie rock crossover band. We’ll post the big news at 12:01 am 4/30/10 on the dot. Hold tight until then.

Lava Lover: If you’re a professional vulcanologist and have not been interviewed on TV or in the paper recently, you should be embarrassed. Anyway… here are some pretty amazing ash-covered photos.

Bring It On, Lion. I am Programmed Not To Be Afraid of You. The Adventures of BeetleCam

BeetleCam Project Teaser from Will & Matt Burrard-Lucas.

Big Fat Jorts: Spot-on Review: The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Chasing Amy

Dashing Gals: Talk about UsedWigs…

So True! “Rescue Pets Will Love You Better” silkscreen poster. Only $25 at Little Friends of Printmaking.

Gabe puts an ingenious spin on your favorite “movie quotes.”

More Video Awesomeness: videogum.com

Turn off your creep filter and allow Gabe and Max  to show you how to blast those flabby delts. And remember, “take lots of tiny fast steps.”

More: Gabe & Max’s Guide to Man Style

And More More: videogum.com

Sorry Ladies, This Hunk is Taken: Inventor Le Trung has made himself a robotic wife and it looks like he plans to have sex with it. Way to go Trung! Thanks for smashing to bits all those creepy Japanese scientist stereotypes.  His next invention: a high-powered robotic douche. [via Gizmodo]

Man, I Love That Cars Song: Funny website Comic vs. Audience deliciously breaks down a local Philly TV spot:  Steak ‘Em Up.

More Gifts for Lazy People: “Ya know, I’m a bit winded after making that paper airplane, I’m just gonna put it down here and take a nappy… (yawn)… if there was only some sort of contraption that would throw it for me…”

Zach Galifianakis to Star in Talking Guinea Pig Movie: When I am not listening to the almighty WOXY, I am listening to The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling. This past week he chatted with comedian Zach Galifianakis for a couple hours. It ruled. Listen up here.

Thanks for The Hair Hat, It’s Perfect, Exactly What I Wanted: Enough Good Gift Ideas, here’s a less-good, low-rent gift that you should only give to your annoying bald friends : Flair Hair.

No Nukes! Okay, Lots of Nukes! Just a little FYI to China if they start feeling their oats… (NSFW musical accompaniment)

“More than ten years after the end of the Cold War, the U.S. maintains 10,000 warheads and nuclear issues dominate international relations. These photographs reveal the missiles, warheads, bombers, submarines, and command centers that make up the United States’ far-flung nuclear infrastructure.”

Hey Kids, Don’t Go the Porn Route Just Yet: YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money.

The 10 Worst Predictions for 2008: Oops!

New Morrissey: Here’s (<<<) the Album art for “Years of Refusal” (2009). Love it.

GymBook: Based on the majority of my “friends” status updates, Facebook is just a public diary to let the world know if he/she went to the gym or not (feeling soooo lazy today!). And if he/she did go, then it’s also a wonderful  place to list his/her detailed workouts. This should stop now, right now, or I will start describing my bathroom visits. In detail.

Philly Comic Book Nerds, Enjoy: Here’s a very cool Charles Burns Video Interview. [via Philebrity]

Follow Us: Waste more time with us in small 140-character chunks on the Twitter (before it blows up): twitter.com/usedwigs

Holiday Cheer from Nirvana and RuPaul: The kids at Videogum dug up this old awkward and slightly sad gem:

“Right Turn, Clyde!” I usually forget everything I read at night by the time I wipe the morning sleepies from my eyes, but here’s a little tidbit on primate intelligence that stuck with me:

“There is a saying among primate keepers that if you give a screwdriver to a chimp, it will throw it at someone. If you give a screwdriver to a gorilla, it will scratch itself. But if you give a screwdriver to an orangutan, it will let itself out of its cage.” – Christine Kenneally, The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language.

(You probably already knew this, being a huge fan of  the world’s greatest orangutan documentary, like me.)

Continuing this thought… based on today’s wretched TV ads, if you a give a screwdriver to a middle-age white dad, he will immediately jam it in a plugged-in toaster and electrocute himself in hilarious fashion. Don’t worry though, he will be tended to by his much smarter wife (tsk! tsk!) and shown how to properly use the tool by his precocious 4-year-old child using a “Daddy, you’re such a dumb-ass!” tone. Ugh.

Office Über Alles: Videogum reports on The German Version Of The Office.

Philly Radio Gets Worse? Yes, It’s Actually Possible: The following might sound like satire, but sadly it is not. WYSP, always in a neck-and-neck race with WMMR for the planet’s shittiest radio station, is adding even more GnR, Metallica and Ozzy:

“Now billed as “94YSP The Rock You Grew Up With From the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s,” the station will play more from such artists as AC/DC, Def Leppard, Guns N Roses, Ozzie Osbourne, Pink Floyd, Van Halen and Aerosmith. The station will continue to play more recent artists such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam.”

Don’t worry, they’ll still spin some new stuff:

“WYSP management said the new format was not traditional classic rock, in an oldies sense. The station planned to play new material by Metallica and AC/DC.”

The other day I actaully heard a deejay on one of the stations get fake pumped up for a Billy Idol two-fer quickly followed by an AC/DC give-away promotion weekend thingamagig. Remember kids, no matter how bad your job is, you will never leave work with a sould more crushed than that poor guy.  {via Inquirer}

Screw Michael Phelps: Pop Candy reports “America has won the World Air Guitar Championships.”

Got a Beef with Adobe? If you’re a designer, I bet you do! So join the crowded club and post some of your own Adobe-related problems and gripes (and kudos if you have some) like these:

• “Stop creating new features and make your software fast, stable and straightforward.”
• “Lower your prices.”
• “Please make a lightweight version of the PDF reader”

The site has the attention of Adobe, so your venting should make a difference. Until then, I will continue to bang my mouse repeatedly and curse Dreamweaver CS3 with very very salty language for the whole offiice to enjoy.

What The Geeks Are Watching: Hippie Purchases Smart Car, Gets Chased By Ninjas On Rollerskates

The fun new site videogum.com, from the fine folks who bring you stereogum.com, just let the world know about the new doc, Monster Camp, or what I like to call, “What me and my larping pals did this past weekend while you were having sex.” It looks awesome.

More hearty laughs and other pop culture musings await you at videogum. Read Gabe’s inspiring account of a man and his beloved sign looking to “punch Al Roker” and make an appearance on “The Today Show”.

Website: www.videogum.com