This cracks me up. Following Stephen Colbert’s attempt at running for president a few months back, I just read today in an article on CNN titled “Colbert earns ‘appropriate place’ at Smithsonian” that his portrait is now actually hanging in the Hall of Presidents. Or maybe I should say it’s hanging close to the Hall of Presidents. Erin M has a nice snapshot of the portrait up on Flickr.
Tired of those old Christmas classics, had too much “Grandma got ran over by a reindeer” have you? Sounds like you need to spice things up this Christmas and broaden the families listening horizons. The latest edition of Sound Opinions (The world’s only Rock and Roll talk show) features Andy Cirzan aka DJ Lo-Fi playing his “Santa Set …. further adventures in holiday obscura”. It’s a collection of random Christmas tracks that DJ Lo-Fi has spent years accumulating by scouring dusty record bins. There’s even a collection of some nice Christmas album artwork.
As 2007 comes to a close it’s time to look back at he albums we’ve listened to and the ones that flew under the radar. Pitchfork just posted their list of Top 50 albums of 2007 and it looks like I’ve got a lot of music listening to catch up on. Pitchfork for the first time this year is also conducting a reader poll, be sure to give your two cents. For a more comprehensive list of top albums from the year be sure to check out Metacritic’s Best of 2007 listings.
I’m a little late to the Mad Men table considering I missed the proper season, but I just caught my first episode last night thanks to AMC for doing an encore presentation of the series. Matthew Weiner, one of the producers / writers from the Soprano’s is behind the series which was part of the reason I wanted to check it out. Let me say, very nice opening title sequence! The opening reminded me of a modernized Saul Bass Vertigo kinda thing, specifically the movie poster more so than the movie credits. Before the show even started I was already very optimistic and looking forward to more good things.
