Handjives for the Masses

Hi, I'm Benjamin Korman, and I'm a real individual. I need your credit card number and date of birth. I love you.

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As of this month, I very happily work for this publication:

The Believer

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WitchHunt
Cajones
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Best Coast - That’s The Way Boys Are

A quick thought on watching the Superbowl:

As advanced as we consider ourselves,

We still allow ad copy to pander to us.

The scam exposed, it endures with our permission

as a parallel narrative running beside our lives

where we sit with an unbuttered baked potato

and a warm beer in multiple versions of Akron

leavened with foreclosure, heartburn and rain.

Their genius was to let us criticize them

until it became boring and obvious to do so.

Meanwhile they were up ahead, busily constructing a world

in which boring and obvious criticism

was about the worst thing you could do,

and when we reached them in time they were waiting

with their multiple Akrons,

always one link ahead in the chain of consent.

- Jeff Berman, Piano and Scene.

Harlem " Hippies "

witchhunt:

rockmaniac:

Harlem ” Hippies “
Album de 2010
Estilo: Indie-Rock-Garage
Origem: Austin,USA
http://www.myspace.com/harlemduh

01- Someday soon
02- Friendly ghost
03- Spray paint
04- Number one
05- Be your baby
06- Gay human bones
07- Torture me
08- Cloud pleaser
09- Faces
10- Tila and i
11- Three legged dog
12- Prairie my heart
13- Scare you
14- Stripper sunset
15- Pissed
16- Poolside

http://www.mediafire.com/?wm2zz5iozhj

Nice! More Harlem.

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Harlem - Psychedelic Tits

Here is a band that I’m very excited to see play. They will be at Monster Island Basement in Williamsburg this coming Friday.  Their album, “Free Drugs,” is the most infectious lo-fi indie punk record I’ve heard in a while.  Comparable to early Black Lips stuff, but even bouncier.

claireh:

benkorman:

Whalehammer Season 6 Premiere: New Years 3010

Ben Korman, you are my Backstreet Boys and N*Sync all wrapped into one spectacular individual

Claire: I am reposting this because it makes me feel all good and stuff.

claireh:

benkorman:

Whalehammer Season 6 Premiere: New Years 3010

Ben Korman, you are my Backstreet Boys and N*Sync all wrapped into one spectacular individual

Claire: I am reposting this because it makes me feel all good and stuff.

I’ve been stuck in my bedroom with what I’m pretty sure is a sinus infection the last couple of days, and I finally got around to watching Nathan Barley.  It’s great.  I’m amazed at some of the things they got away with doing on television.  Thanks, Dan and Nick, for talking about it all the time!
“Peace and Fucking.”

I’ve been stuck in my bedroom with what I’m pretty sure is a sinus infection the last couple of days, and I finally got around to watching Nathan Barley.  It’s great.  I’m amazed at some of the things they got away with doing on television.  Thanks, Dan and Nick, for talking about it all the time!

“Peace and Fucking.”

Here’s an interesting fact about Fred Armisen from Saturday Night Live:

Armisen began his career in 1988 when he moved from New York to Chicago to play drums for the punk rock band Trenchmouth. In the 1990s, he played background drums with the Blue Man Group in Chicago. He is currently endorsed by Shine Drums.

In 1997, he toured with Those Bastard Souls, a project of David Shouse of The Grifters which also featured The Flaming Lips’ Steven Drozd. He plays drums on three tracks on Les Savy Fav’s 2007 album, Let’s Stay Friends.

He is also part of the Portland, OR-based comedy duo ThunderAnt along with Carrie Brownstein, the drummer from Sleater-Kinney.

This is a hilarious bit.  I love the breakdown straight out of Suicidal Tendencies’ “Institutionalized.”

Whalehammer Season 6 Premiere: New Years 3010

Whalehammer Season 6 Premiere: New Years 3010

Whalehammer Season 6 Premiere: New Years 3010

Whalehammer Season 6 Premiere: New Years 3010

Whalehammer Season 6 Premiere: New Years 3010

Whalehammer Season 6 Premiere: New Years 3010

Whalehammer Season 6 Premiere: New Years 3010

Whalehammer Season 6 Premiere: New Years 3010

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Talking Heads - Mind

Pros and Cons of the last 24 hours:

PRO - Whalehammer Season Premiere.

PRO - Met with editor from The Believer today.  I’m a workin’ dude!

PRO - Got a bunch of music and television from Aladdin this morning.

CON - Too sick to leave the house! muted trumpet poots.

My dad gave me a Frommer’s “Europe for $50 a Day” book. The 1996 edition. I was like, “Pop, this is from 1996.” And he was like, “Europe hasn’t changed.”

-My dear friend Maria, on getting ready to leave for Rome.  Both she and her father are European Immigrants.

conniealba:

thedailywhat:

Infographic of the Day: “Tag, You’re It: 17 Museum Admissions Buttons From Around the World”
Collect ‘em all!
Embiggen.
[fastcompany.]

actually the PMA is free

The Met is free, too, if you want it to be!  I donate a quarter when I go, because I am a patron of the arts, and because the docents give me puppy dog eyes if I don’t.

conniealba:

thedailywhat:

Infographic of the Day:Tag, You’re It: 17 Museum Admissions Buttons From Around the World

Collect ‘em all!

Embiggen.

[fastcompany.]

actually the PMA is free

The Met is free, too, if you want it to be!  I donate a quarter when I go, because I am a patron of the arts, and because the docents give me puppy dog eyes if I don’t.