I’m not sure if you guys have been checking this stuff out as it happens, but it’s a really awesome project.
They explain the project at the beginning of every video so I’ll spare you my own drawn out explanation. All you need to know is, current bands of varying sorts cover songs from a list of songs that A.V. Club makes in a tiny room at their office.
Today’s:
The Antlers do Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here”
Other stand-outs worth watching:
Ben Folds does Elliott Smith, Wye Oak does The Kinks, and Ted Leo covers Tears For Fears
It’s not the big one we were promised. But it’s a start.
As previously mentioned, IndieScreen, a new movie theater at 285 Kent Avenue (at S 2nd Street) in Williamsburg (on the same block as Glasslands), is expected to open for business officially by the end of June. Before then, the theater will be hosting films for the Brooklyn International Film Festival which runs until June 13th. Check out the schedule at their site. Tonight, Monday June 7th, you can see THE “FLESH CHAPTER 1, ANGLE OF TRAJECTORY”, “DISPOSABLE”, and “HIGGS, INTO THE HEART OF IMAGINATION”. Trailers for all three of those below.
The theater will also be screening films as part of Northside Festival, happening June 24-27.
The 12-rows, 93-seat theater (which has a 17-feet by 8-feet screen) will be accompanied by a restaurant and a full bar, AND will be hosting live music. Their website is still under construction, but there’s more info about what they have there and how you can host an event there if you click around enough.
Via BrooklynVegan
According to some nutso Tea Party website Obama can be seen hanging out in the 1993 video for “Whoomp There It Is” by Tag Team. Here is a very handy gif they have made for your viewing pleasure:
I am going to pretend this is true. Obama you so cool!
About a hundred beers, cigarettes and memories later, the gang is back. And not one jellyfish sting!
Just found out they have Shiner (and Lone Stars) at this place Rodeo Bar & Grill on 27th and 3rd. I’m going there after work on Friday and I want all of you to join me. They have real Texas BBQ and (supposedly) one of the best margaritas in the city. check it out.
I know it’s out of the way, but let me know if you want to come drink my favorite beer in the world with me. I’m going to call and make sure they’ll have it before we go so look for an update around noon today.
*UPDATE:
Vader Voice: “NOOOOOOOOOOO!!” They have stopped carrying it as of this year… my life is now in shambles… I’m in a place that only Shiner Bock can get me out of…
*UPDATE 2: I’ve decided to go anyway. No Shiner, but hell, they have Lone Star damnit and that’s pretty good too. They also have great BBQ and margs. so yeah… let’s go! expect an email about this.
And this is how I felt…
Well, shit. I like Diane Keaton as an actress just as much (or maybe a little more…hello, First Wive’s Club!) as the next gal, but christ! She is way, way cooler than I thought. This month’s T Magazine Profile in Style follows Keaton, and this woman has some pretty impeccable taste.
Diane’s new obsession is: barns. Barns!
These are some of her pillows. I have been looking for pillows exactly like this! Di-ane!
She calls stuff like this “genius.” And she loves graphic quilts. Graphic quilts! I love graphic quilts!
This is the entryway into just one of her homes. Cool it, Keaton.
She likes dark wood, white walls, Roy McMakin architechture and she’s “mad for old type”.
Ugh, see for yourselves.
