tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171247292024-03-13T09:27:01.479-07:00Pop Culture Is My CurseOne man's obsessions and opinions about life, the universe, and whatever... in the United States of America, in Buffalo, and beyond.BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.comBlogger808125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-48092212203485685792008-08-19T18:39:00.000-07:002008-08-19T18:41:11.866-07:00This is done. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Now. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://dudepresides.blogspot.com/">http://dudepresides.blogspot.com/</a>BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-54316540557931404802008-07-07T12:09:00.001-07:002008-07-07T12:09:37.799-07:00Hot in Buffalo<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/y8NgAVHegDc' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/y8NgAVHegDc'/></object></p><p>It's Brasil hot in BFLO.</p></div>BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-9471200563419417742008-07-07T12:00:00.001-07:002008-07-07T12:00:56.088-07:00Seu Jorge - Live at Montreux - Tive Razão<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/6z6-AbSXl4A' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/6z6-AbSXl4A'/></object></p></div>BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-73931688579732528332008-05-21T19:28:00.001-07:002008-05-21T19:28:16.757-07:00Regis <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/utTUSh53kI0' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/utTUSh53kI0'/></object></p><p>Love that Regis!</p></div>BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-74871567029310169392008-05-11T13:10:00.001-07:002008-05-11T13:10:29.347-07:00THE EMPIRE STRIKES BARACK<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/a8lvc-azCXY' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/a8lvc-azCXY'/></object></p><p>Perfect.</p></div>BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-82293829378647459822008-05-03T10:11:00.001-07:002008-05-03T10:11:19.204-07:00Dr Who Season 4 Episode 2 Next Time trailer and credits<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/NpfPWzP7KEA' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/NpfPWzP7KEA'/></object></p><p>Because the BBC's promos for next week's episode of Doctor Who are so much cooler than Sci-Fi's.<br /><br />Also, the theme music is pretty fucking cool in it's entirety.</p></div>BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-66939274500342386852008-05-03T07:57:00.001-07:002008-05-03T07:57:18.162-07:00The Black Keys - Strange Times<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/tRKeCNqycE8' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/tRKeCNqycE8'/></object></p><p>Enjoy the Black Keys where and when you can because after that Secret Machines show with a 100 people at the Town Ballroom last night you know they ain't coming to Buffalo any time soon.<br /><br />Come on now, don't you hipsters get it? If you just wear the funny clothes and act all quasi pretentious without occasionally "making the scene"... without representing for your area... then you're just posing. Putting on phony airs. Wanking.<br /><br />And "the scene" in your area? If it even exists other than in your minds... it becomes lame... sorry... and eventually extinct.</p></div>BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-70252552384898127292008-05-03T07:51:00.001-07:002008-05-03T07:51:32.672-07:00Homecoming <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/ngHDYzhDBk4' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/ngHDYzhDBk4'/></object></p><p>You just know these dudes pull mad chicks. <br /><br />And the drummer looks like Eva Green.</p></div>BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-88932265797973444262008-05-03T07:47:00.001-07:002008-05-03T07:47:57.411-07:00The Teenagers - Love No<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/_0zfU9P50Is' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/_0zfU9P50Is'/></object></p><p>Ummm... ice cream.</p></div>BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-19154001517193057912008-05-03T07:43:00.001-07:002008-05-03T07:43:03.563-07:00The Teenagers <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/JshkoBVFy3Y' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/JshkoBVFy3Y'/></object></p><p>Thanks for coming to Buffalo Teenagers. Don't judge us too harshly based on our lame ass attendance.</p></div>BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-18815983174263888372008-04-29T19:09:00.002-07:002008-04-29T19:13:57.588-07:00Finally got around to watching the first episode of <strong>Robin Hood</strong> season 2 and it was awesome. An exquisite hour of adventure, cliffhangers, dashing heroism and glorious villainy. Yes Keith Allen is jim dandy as the vile Sheriff, but this week Richard Armitage looked positively Vaderesque stomping about as Sir Guy of Gisborne, tossing Maid Marion's dear old dad around, and buring down her house. They're really going for broke this season and I can't wait to see where and how far it goes.BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-66703114028504290332008-04-29T19:09:00.001-07:002008-04-29T19:09:29.731-07:00<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/fzm1DY3hJL8' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/fzm1DY3hJL8'/></object></p></div>BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-39168851556689638672008-04-29T18:58:00.000-07:002008-04-29T19:06:03.769-07:00<a href="http://music.msn.com/music/forbes/miley-photo-saga/?GT1=7702">Miley Cyrus is one </a>of the biggest fools ever or we're the biggest saps ever. Wasn't it a couple of months ago that she on <strong>60 Minutes*</strong> saying that she'd never pull the shit that she's pulling now?<br /><br /><br />Ah yes... a role model to MILLIONS OF GIRLS.BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-66236057376829753272008-04-27T20:20:00.000-07:002008-04-27T20:33:46.691-07:00Spike TV gets props for actually showing in their entirety the credits to <strong>Star Wars</strong>. Yes they are sped up, but still that's pretty cool.<br /><br /><br /><br />Random <strong>Star Wars</strong> Observation (I wish I could number them for you): the scene at the end of <strong>Episode II</strong> with Darth Sidious and Count Dooku walking, chilling and plotting is the total analog of that scene of the Death Star (Mark 2) from <strong>Episode VI</strong> when Darth Vader greets the Emperor (Darth Sidious)... and walks, chills and plots. Both scene's take place in a hanger, I think the Emperor even says something about "everything going according to plan" in both scenes, but craftily enough the roles are reversed (in <strong>II</strong> it's the boss greeting the underling whereas in <strong>VI</strong> it's the underling greeting the boss) and the different settings (the dreary hanger in <strong>II</strong>, the Death Star shuttle hanger in <strong>VI</strong>) underscore just how far the Sith came.... before being defeated by those damn Skywalker kids. Very nice there George-I hadn't noticed that until tonight (when I caught the end of <strong>II</strong> on Spike- as you might have guessed). Very nice indeed.BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-58041782250652588372008-04-27T20:00:00.000-07:002008-04-27T20:06:43.525-07:00OK, that was a wacky one two punch during game two of the Western Conference Semis on VS: my mind didn't know how to respond to the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">stimulus</span> generated by the commercial for Penn and Teller's new TV show <em>Bullshit!</em> in which they say "bullshit!" repeatedly on regular cable TV or the profound hotness radiated by the commercial for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Showtime's</span> upcoming <em>Secret Diary of a Call Girl</em>... starring <strong>Doctor Who</strong>'s Billie Piper (sweet wholesome Billie Piper)?!? My brain <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">seized</span> up. Seriously.BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-55967444128416854662008-04-27T09:22:00.000-07:002008-04-27T09:31:27.128-07:005 Reasons5 reasons why <strong>Vampire Weekend</strong>'s debut album is too good to be true:<br /><br /><ol><li>It sounds too good. It's sonic presentation is perfect. No "debut album" comes this artful and sonically ambitious. It doesn't happen.</li><li>It's baroque, literate and classy yet tuneful, occasionally crass, and infinitely rump shakable.</li><li>U2 and R.E.M.'s debut albums weren't this perfect.</li><li>The cd design is pefect: the photography, fonts, layout are all preternaturally cool, and yes, perfect.</li><li>It reaffirms the virtue and value of of the cd as a piece of art and mode of musical conveyance in an age of the cheap commodification of popular music.</li></ol>BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-31511780814570668462008-04-27T09:13:00.000-07:002008-04-27T09:22:24.867-07:00Folks I watched <strong>The Moyers</strong> this week and his interview with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was a humdinger. Anybody watching it for new tidbits or ammunition came away terribly disappointed. Will it make a difference? Of course not, it contained too much information... too much TRUTH to be contemplated by white folks patently un-eager to look the fullness of the American Experience in the face (what Bill Moyers literally calls "the Full Monte"); plus it called out the corporate media for it's complicity in a great many things and therefore will not be mentioned in said corporate media. Maybe we'll get lucky and his press conference tomorrow will make some positive waves.... but I'm not too hopeful.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />* I don't even want to know what the kids in private schools are learning about our great nation. Actually I do- it probably explains a lot.BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-87068281758921107752008-04-26T16:41:00.001-07:002008-04-26T16:41:42.857-07:00Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/rpcHRgUx8mU' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/rpcHRgUx8mU'/></object></p><p>Beware a little classy potty language.</p></div>BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-64197212457209471512008-04-26T16:35:00.001-07:002008-04-26T16:35:39.707-07:00Vampire Weekend - A-Punk<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/_XC2mqcMMGQ' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/_XC2mqcMMGQ'/></object></p><p>Oh yeah, Vampire Weekend are the best new band since Arcade Fire.<br /><br />Seriously.</p></div>BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-63611947028600020682008-04-24T15:15:00.001-07:002008-04-24T15:25:32.221-07:00As you can well imagine, I've been wandering in the wilderness these last 48 hours. It's not been pretty. I've been kicking around all sorts of shit; pondering grim possible outcomes, chewing on all kinds of gristle, and pulling at my hair (my beautiful hair!). Yesterday the Old Man himself, my dear father, laid his disgust as a lifelong Democrat over this shit and growing ambivilance about even voting this November on me. A lifelong Democrat and true blue UNION MAN. And he laid all of this on me.<br /><br /><br />Fuck people. We are totally entering the danger zone. This shit ain't funny any more. The waters have been muddied enough folks, we can't take 40 more days.BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-67973741302986626582008-04-22T17:17:00.001-07:002008-04-22T17:21:16.478-07:00But let me take a brief moment to reflect on the <strong>Flight of the Conchords</strong> album. It's hilarious and remarkably soulful. You can shake your booty and nod your head stylfully to it, and you don't need to have seen the first season of the frankly hilarious HBO series of the same name. Of course you'll want to run out to pick up the 2 disc DVD set (I believe it's cheap at Target) immediately after listening to the cd, but that's OK.BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-25354323823408875252008-04-22T17:12:00.000-07:002008-04-22T17:16:57.215-07:00All Is Quiet On The Western FrontI had to interrupt my pure enjoyment of the <strong>Flight of the Conchords</strong> album for MSNBC's coverage of the Pennslyvania Primary and shit damn it I am starting to feel a little loose. Not good. Loose.<br /><br />It's 8:15 PM. Dateline USA. We are chilling out.BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-33288905831960134852008-04-21T19:38:00.000-07:002008-04-21T19:51:51.081-07:00YowzaThe second season finale of <strong>Torchwood</strong> was mind blowing and much deserving of the pre show hype considering they killed off two series regulars. My only regret about the end of this excellent show's excellent second season- that I have to wait nine months until the start of the third season.<br /><br />And it's not like I am going without*- now that the fourth season proper of <strong>Doctor Who</strong> debuts this week on the Sci Fi Channel. Last Friday's airing of the 2007 Christmas special with Kylie Minogue didn't blow my mind. Kylie was nice, and she certainly presented herself well as a potential new traveling companion for David Tennant's Doctor, but it was a bit broad in it's humor and approach, a reflex perhaps when writer/producer Russell T Davies goes overboard with the darker elements that drag <strong>Who</strong> away from it's family show heritage (the episode is a decent send up of both <em>Poseiden Adventures</em> and <em>Titanic</em>- complete with a surprisingly high body count). Still kudos to Kylie for delivering the emotional punch the episode needed, and I hope they find a way to bring her back.<br /><br /><br />* <strong>The Sarah Jane Adventures</strong> are fun, and worthy of mention now that they're showing the first season proper of the show after last week's pilot episode. The writing is broad, fun, sly, and emotionally satisfying considering it's a somewhat derivative kids show. And it makes me laugh.<br /><br /> Is there nothing those crazy Welsh <strong>Doctor Who</strong>/<strong>Torchwood</strong>/<strong>Sarah Jane</strong> people can't do? Kudos also to Sci Fi for finding a way to preserve the show's fun cliffhanger's even though they are showing 2 half hour episodes a week.BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-84916186685556261492008-04-21T19:33:00.000-07:002008-04-21T19:37:16.345-07:00I can't get enough of G4's <a href="http://www.olivia-munn-pictures.com/">Olivia Munn</a>. She's more than just some bird who looks great in a bikini or Princess Leia steel bikini. She's got that something, that sense of ultra self awareness that hints of great depths roiling underneath the surface of this comely minx.BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17124729.post-73385515153609244162008-04-21T19:30:00.000-07:002008-04-21T19:33:22.458-07:00I'm excited about the first new Portishead album in 10 years, but I'm buzzing with glee and anticipation about the new (Reverend) Al Green produced by Questlove from The Roots. I was just watching some of Chappelle's Block Party the other day and was thinking to myself "dag, I wonder what that dude is up to right now?" and lo now I know. He is laying it down with the Reverend and bringing the Reverend and us back to basics, <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/19830818/page/19">and it sounds awesome</a>.BFLO Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10117877553850971323noreply@blogger.com0