Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuits

Taco Bell Commercials

In an effort to keep this from being an entirely music focused blog, I'm going to post several classic Taco Bell commercials from throughout the ages. I was never a big fan of the chihuahua, although the phrase "Yo Quiero Taco Bell" is one of the most important cultural memes of our era. However, I won't be posting any of those commercials as they are really notably unblogworthy. I also won't be posting any Taco Bell commercials from the past 5 years as I don't remember any that were actually funny enough.

This guy really quiero'ed Taco Bell:


Also, I seem to remember a mythic golden age of late '90s early '00s Taco Bell commercials that I remember as being the best/funniest commercials ever. Unfortunately I can't seem to remember what any of them were about, nor can I find any of them online. Perhaps I was at an age where I was misjudging the quality of certain things in my life. If anyone can think of any of the one's I might be partially remembering please let me know. BONUS PICS OF ME AND MY FRIENDS EATING AT TBELL AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST!!!!!

This one is the best by far, I wonder if Santa's laughing like that because he thinks he used logic to trick you into going to taco bell twice a week or because of something much more sinister...:


The description says it all - It was the year 1995 - Taco Bell rolled out the Double Decker Taco, and this made Shaq and Hakeem homosexuals.:


This one has a song by a wannabe Huey Lewis and the News EVERYBODY LOVES TACOs:


Here is truly a WTF TBell Commercial. There are so many things wrong with it. Seafood taco salad, discount Corningware bowl, that guys face????:


This is the least noteworthy but I just really love the song:


Here's me getting my Taco Bell at a rest stop on the way home from our Youth Gathering Retreat:



These are my friends from the retreat, for some reason they wouldn't let me sit with them or brush my teeth on the floor of Taco Bell even though they did:

Seriously though, I can tell you what is ostensibly going on in that picture, but there's got to be something else to it.

Eliza - That's What She Said

This is Eliza and the That's What She Saids. I don't know what they sound like but I do know that they rock.



TRACKLIST:
Rock-A-Bye Your Baby
The Big Hurt
I Wanna Rock (I Wanna Roll) (w/ The Breeze)
Mocking Bird
So Little Time
Stuff Like That There
Love's A Hurting Game
A Fool Such As I (w/ The Breeze)
In My Life
I Go To Rio
Deed I Do (Dat)
You're Gonna Miss Me
Second Hand Love
That's How Strong My Love Is
Shake A Hand
One Fine Day
We Bee Jammin'

She also does a duet on her other cd with a man named Bo Schronce who looks like this:



Also, this came out in 1999 in case you needed some temporal grounding after learning about this masterpiece. (I certainly did, and it made a lot more sense once I knew).

And no bump would be complete without a shoutout to the producer. WHAT UP CURTISS CARPENTER I LOVE YOUR RADIO SHOW KING CURTISS'S BEACH CLUB I LISTEN TO IT WHENEVER I'M IN LUMBERTON. WHICH ONE ARE YOU? HERE's TO HOPING YOUR'E THE GUY GIVING THE SUCKIT TO THE CAMERA.



Does looking this stuff up count as internet stalking?

BONUS EDIT!!!!: In looking for more pictures of Curtiss Carpenter I came across a memorial site for my new favorite artist of the day. I will attempt to recreate the memorial here:

In Memoriam
Dominic Vroman
September 25, 1975 - March 6, 2007

Which one is your favorite/represents you the best? I like the mexican baby one a lot, boy doesn't that binky look huge and awkward around his neck? Bonus for the But also the baby is too cute not to mention.

The Dead Texan

I was in Philly this weekend, they have a lot of cool record stores there. I was gonna buy And Their Refinement of the Decline by Stars of the Lid on vinyl, but then I found this cd/dvd from something called The Dead Texan which is a collaboration of Adam Wiltzie of Stars of the Lid and Christina Vantzos.



The songs are great, they're like shorter and more direct but just as ambient/epic as anything by Stars, but the videos are really what makes it. Theres a video for each tracks and they are really just amazing. They totally capture the feel of the music, simultaneously lo-fi, personal, and utterly grand in scope.

Heres some clips of the stuff that I could find on youtube. If you're into Stars of the Lid at all and/or like watching music videos, I highly recommend you go to Kranky's (that's the record label) website and buy this right away.

Aegina Airlines


The Six Million Dollar Sandwhich (this one's so awesome on a big screen)


The Struggle


And now, to lighten things up a little bit, here's something funny from one of my favorite youtube contributors:

The Knife Interview

I came into work late again so I don't have much time. But heres a video that made me laugh:

Dominique Leone

Anyway, so there's this guy Dominique Leone who's not that cool looking or anything. I think he may have written some reviews for Pitchfork (another Pitchfork reference, I'm sorry) but I found out about him through a different source.


Whew I've got to make sure this doesn't turn into just a music blog.

I got his EP when it came out. It was like four or five songs and nothing really great. The first track was decent alt-house or maybe trance? I don't fucking know. The rest were scattershot. Good moments, boring moments you know the drill.



The last track kind of blew me away though. It's nothing special. Best lyric: "Conversational... can you hear it... no... you can't." It sounds like someone playing a repetitive piano riff on a midi controller set up to Ableton with some stock keyboard sound preloaded in. The singing fleetingly sounds like a wanna-be Roger Waters with way too much chorus on his voice (wasn't that always the case?).

Somehow, it works though. It's gotten under my skin. I've listened to it 1,000 times. I'm working on getting the actual album, which has been garnering some pretty positive reviews.

NONE OF MY FUCKING LINKS WORK ON THIS WEBSITE! They either get cut off or they don't show up at all.

In the mean time just go to his damn site www.dominiqueleone.com and scroll down towards the bottom and click on B3: Conversational. It's the best I can do.

If anyone knows a simple method for doing my own hosting PLEASE let me know.

Scandinavian Accents Are The Best

I don't really know what there is to say about this.