Results tagged “fridayafternoondiversion”

The sun is shining! It's kind of warm! And this is how that all makes us feel!

Had Jonze and Eggers been honest in just what audience their adaptation of a beloved and twisted children's book truly was, the end result would've looked like this.

It's Halloween weekend -- or as I like to call it "Christmas for Adults -- so let's take in a few Diversions today. Y'all deserve it! First up is Editor-in-Chief Marcus showing off his finest moves on the dance floor.

We don't know where Rich finds this stuff, but it IS almost magic.

If this is the direction advertising is headed, we like it. Honest. Straightforward. Direct. EPIC.

We admit we've always wanted a keytar of our very own, but were never sure we'd be able to pull it off. Well move over keytar, the QChord is here and anyone can play!

Not since Pee Wee Herman had his bike stolen have we felt such pity for a victim of such theft. Watch this video and see if we can't help Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me host Peter Sagal reclaim what's rightfully his!

First of all, what this world needs is more car commercials featuring people ion lab coats. Secondly, we used to own a Gremlin and will attest to its utter awesomeness.

Monotonix is playing Logan Square Auditorium tomorrow night. I can not stress enough how much you should go see their show. There are some bands we think everyone should see at least once before they die, and Monotonix is one of them.

We've been hearing this damn song so much we reckoned it was about time to check out the original video for it again. Also, file under "everything seems epic when this song is playing."

Tom Schraeder, a longtime local favorite musician of ours, is throwing a little release party tonight at Beat Kitchen. A cassette tape release party. We knew once vinyl started getting big again magnetic tape couldn't be far behind! The details for the show are in the video below, backed by Schraeder performance of a live tune just for you.

Look, I think we can all agree that Perez Hilton is a talentless twit, but his name as sponsor on the marquee should NOT keep you from seeing Ladyhawke at The Metro tomorrow night! Her self-titled debut garnered a well deserved spot on our music best-of list last year, and it still hasn't worn out it's welcome on ye olde tankPOD. Watch the magic in action.

Now, will any fans of Creed show the courage to come out and admit their mistakes too?

It was only a matter of time before someone gave the remix treatment to Marcus' temper tantrum triggered by squirrels getting at the wires and bringing down our publishing platform. Since I have to deal with his outburts I'd like to thank the remix creator for at least giving me something to slip into DJ sets and make all the hassle worthwhile.

Today's Diversion shows the importance of community, of working together, and in uniting to create one tripped out video.

Last weekend, resting on the couch after DJing until 5 in the a.m., we happened to pop in a DVD of a flick much favored in our younger years and now we just can't get the theme song out of our head. Maybe we can get it stuck in yours too?

This is EXACTLY what we needed to see given today's incredibly depressing weather.

We were hoping to bring you the Mannequin Men's wacky fun loving video for "Massage" of the Chicago rockers' latest, Lose Your Illusion Too, but technical difficulties (we assume you'd actually like to hear the song too) prevent us from doing so. As a fall back, please enjoy this other just-released video for "Cream Rises" of the same album. It's not as goofy, but it does feature a bunch of dancing, drinking, and debauchery ... stuff we're looking forward to getting down to as soon as we skip out off the office this afternoon.

This amusing short includes ex-Chicagoan George Ketsios as the, erm, "Prius Face." It also provides further proof that those rear-view mirror/cameras are just plain creepy.

We still maintain the Transformers movies would suck much less with humans as Autobots/Decepticons instead of some weird insect-looking CGI crap.

It's only a matter of time before your cat starts DEMANDING cat massage!

anulman reccomended we watched this, we did, and now we're hooked. Consider this the flip side of our earlier Diversion.

Words don't do this justice. John Hughes (remixed 2009).

The Muppets hit Detroit and team up with The Electric Six. Mayhem ensues.

Seriously, watch this whole thing. It is so worth it. Tell me it doesn't totally make you want to go!

We are hoping against hope that this song got voted onto The Flaming Lips' Sunday night setlist at Pitchfork.

Really, the title says it all.

In light of yesterday's mid-air mishap, we feel it's important to go over the fundamntals of in-flight safety. Consider this a PSA.

We raved about the last Dinosaur Jr album so it's pretty easy to see why we just can't get enough of this video. Dig it.