Childish Gambino

Poor blog, I still love you, you neglected piece of crap.

Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover, released his album Culdesac today. You can download it for free! Have some summer fun with Donald Glover and his indie-rap stylings. He produced it himself so you know it's good and he's got the mad cred.

PS. Buy Drew's (of Toothpaste for Dinner fame) Na$tyjam$ under the name Crudbump at the site for Crudbump. (Imma shill)

All the GaGa covers you never wanted to see.

This is just a heads-up link to another blog (BestWeekEver.tv). The editors there dredged through tons of YouTube Gaga covers and helpfully pointed out the demographic breakdown of who posts themselves singing "Let's Dance".

10 signs you have a lady gaga cover song on youtube

Oh, ps, apparently The Fame Monster leaked. Check out ONTD if you want the dl links.

Hey kids

I am the proud owner of Chris Dane Owens' Blue Stone. I'll be reviewing that for your reading pleasure soon enough. I'm also going to be having a chat with him which I'll post in a couple days. I like talking to and about him because he's so genuinely kind. Also, I was pleasantly surprised by the track "Superhuman". It's kind of cheesy nineties-sounding techno, but I like it. This could get me some flack, but it reminds me of Moby/Recoil. Honestly, Moby and Recoil/Alan Wilder do cheesy things, too, so chill.

Add this to your bookmarks: http://www.justhearit.com/ Search the web for any song and find it immediately. It's pretty remarkable. It helps that it picks up Youtube links as well.

Also I'm getting tweets from the Leto brothers saying that the new 30 Seconds to Mars album is almost completed. I'm not sure if they mean recording or post production or what and I don't really want to go deeper into that because, come on, it's 30 Seconds to Mars.

Let's finish things up by posting a video to Adam Ant's "Puss'n Boots" off of Strip (1983). Strip era Adam is so damn attractive, it's criminal. Also this video features the shortest leather mini I've ever seen combined with the longest thigh-high boots. Sassy!

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OMG, this blog is a year old!

Let's take a step down memory lane, shall we.

~*The Chocchiphopera Highlight Reel*~

(1) I rediscovered Square One Television and learned the Angle Dance.

(2) I interviewed Chris Dane Owens at the height of his internet notoriety and made a friend. (Aww.)

(3) I helped spread the news of Warner Music's failure to utilize the publicity tool that is YouTube.

(4) I took inspiration from the film Kissing Jessica Stein and created a sexy-ugly picspam to ring in the new year.

(5) I discovered the magic that is Vitas' unearthly voice.


Macro courtesy of zestylime

Popshifter

I have a friend who contributes to Popshifter, an analytically-minded pop culture magazine. I just enjoyed two articles from their latest issue. So I thought I'd share. Enjoy.

"Worst Ideas for Rock Photography" and a review of Morrissey's Years of Refusal.

Today is a lazy day

I'm too busy feeling ennui over the movie to be made about Monopoly.

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/11/12/open-thread-worst-band-to-put-on-a-mix/