MIB for Taco Bell!

Heart Melt.

Puppy takes the most adorable bath. I could watch this all day. All day, I tell you!

Undercover is back for the Holidays

A.V. Club Undercover is doing a holiday edition. 10 Bands, 10 Songs, 2 Rules: It has to be a cover and somehow holiday related. The first is The Walkmen covering Lindsay Buckingham’s “Holiday Road.” It’s adorable.

Introducing: The Security Pin

“SECURITY!™ is an 18k gold-plated sterling silver pin with white diamonds on the front and back of the piece. An opulent interpretation of the shoplifter’s worst enemy.”

Designed by artist Justin Gignac. Fabricated by Max Steiner Design.

Pretty cool idea, yeah? Attaboy, JG.

Halloween 2010!

Everyone post up their photos of their costumes and what you were dressed as:

Collin: Nepali

Daniella: Daria

Skunk! Thank you white duct tape. I’m kind of bummed you can’t see the full effect of the giant rat’s nest of hair I made on the top of my head.

It’s funny cuz its true. Womp.

My obsession with stationary, now in iPhone format

Now that the blog doesn’t look somewhat hideous anymore, I made a promise to a fwend (cough, cough, Collin) that I would blupdate more.

I’m going to start with something for the ladies. And lady iphone users, at that. If you’re like me- and obsessed with paper. And stationary. And pens. And pretty things. This app may be for you. I’m pretty pumped for it’s release mid-month. I’ve never been so excited for an app release date before. Nerd.

{via Design*Sponge}

Little Obama

Any questions?

via HMP Northington

South Street Seaport riot at Drake, Hanson and Ninjasonik show.

So yeah there was a riot last night at a show with three very different artists playing. I can’t say I’m surprised. Here’s what The Village Voice’s Zach Baron said:

The primary theater of battle? The northern side of the Seaport, where fans standing on the balcony in front of shops and restaurants began raining bottles down on the crowd below, who promptly returned fire. As things escalated, the bottles turned from plastic to glass. Then, at the peak of the fight, kids on the upper level began tossing steel chairs off the balcony. That was when people really started to run. It was also about at that moment that the police finally broke through the crowd and stormed the second level, where they too were momentarily pelted with bottles. We watched a few kids on the deck attempt to shove or otherwise assault the cops who were trying desperately to clear them out. In turn, more than one officer took out her baton, though the police had the situation in hand relatively quickly.

After that, it was mostly crowd dispersal, and stray fights. Helicopters buzzed overhead. Standing across from the Seaport, we watched as hundreds of kids suddenly went scrambling away from the stage area in terror. We asked one why he was running. “Mace,” he said.

A.V. Club’s Undercover

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