Bodies of Water

This band has been growing on me all week. I first saw this video premier several days ago and though I still find it somewhat hoaky the song backing it up is solid gold.

Check em out.

Lenka livens up Portland

Music and drinks on a Tuesday night? Hell yeah.

Gabe Dixon from Nashville's The Gabe Dixon Band opened for Lenka at the Doug Fir Lounge at 9:00 PM.

The songstress and her band played for about an hour. Her breathy, pitch-perfect voice sounds amazing when she's singing her cute lyrics. Her music sounds fun, poppy and alternative.

But when she talks? It was worth showing just to hear her marvelous Australian accent. She claims that Portland is her favorite city and she'd love to move here. Some enthusiastic crowd members suggested that she could live with them. Lenka would be a great addition to the Portland music scene but for now we'll just have to wait and see.

An Overlapsation Situation

This guy has a really good excuse, man.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Bush ruins television

Apparently George W. Bush is adding another entry to his list of "American Institutions I Have Ruined or Otherwise Sullied" by pre-empting a hee-larious episode of NBC's Kath and Kim for his gawd awful farewell address.

Farewell indeed you humorless bastard.

Pet Furniture! EEEEEE!!

Today in adorable/batshit insane closet industries:

Pet furniture!

I defy anyway to find an object that isn't made more adorable by reducing it in size and putting a basset hound on it. Apparently there are a number of companies dedicated to recreations of people furnishings for animals and their imitations are surprisingly spot on.

It makes me a little bit resentful to think that someone's great dane is enjoying better home furnishing than me but the sheer cuteness of it probably covers the gap.

Amazon's discount bin

For those who still like to sometimes contribute to the coffers of the music industry, Amazon.com is having a 'Top Albums of 2008' $5 sale.

For the win! Esquire on MTV's Bromance

Since witnessing the awesome trainwreck that is the new MTV reality show Bromance, more appropriately titled Douchebag Seeking Douchebag, I've been preparing to unleash a hateful screed bemoaning the recent slate of basic-cable reality show males.

That's still in the works. (Also of note: VH1's Tool Acadamy.)

For now, I direct you to Esquire's Blog of Lists, which perfectly eviscerates the horrible, horrible Bromance.

A telling quote:

"bro•mance \bro-'man(t)s\ n : (1) the complicated love and affection shared by two straight males, often exhibited through physical acts such as wrestling, playing sports, and half-hugging. Ex: "Shut up, Monica! Chandler and I share a bromance that you'll never understand!"

vb : (1) The act of going to unusual lengths in order to woo a male friend. Ex: "Jeff from accounting hasn't accepted my friend request, so my plan is to bromance him with some Knicks tickets."

proper n : (1) MTV's new reality television show starring The Hills alumnus Brody Jenner as a d-bag man searching for a fellow d-bag man to join his posse of friends, through a process involving intimate chats and outrageous physical challenges, the likes of which manage to achieve a level of unintentional homoeroticism not reached since the Grecian Olympic era of girded loins."