Hey, 48 hour party people (because we all strive to go harder, don’t we?), here’s what went down this week on the Web:
Famous People Category: Fever Ray won an award and gave maybe the best acceptance speech ever, “grotesque fancy”, post-next lev, etc. DJ Drama once taunted: “WE GOIN’ AVATAR ON THESE BITCHES……BIGGEST MOVIE EVER!” What he said came true. Pitcher Bill “The Spaceman” Lee, one of Major League Baseball’s freest spirits, weighed in on Andre Dawson’s controversial HOF selection and supplies us with the best quote of the month: “I was really the only commie on the team. They’re all entrepreneurs, capitalists now.”
An unreleased, somewhat artsy and boring video for Lil Wayne’s “Money On My Mind” (Tha Carter II, 2005) surfaced. Tagged: Miami, Worldstarhiphop.com, gotta respect the video hustle, etc.
The best live video of Deerhunter is here, finally. Warning: your face might start melting off around the 2:30 mark. FFO: white noise, ambient, krautrock, no wave, pedals, light shows. In his last week on “The Tonight Show,” Conan O’Brien blew NBC’s money in a sickening yet completely necessary fashion. Animal Collective made the first big drug film of 2010 with ODDSAC, and it premiered at Sundance on Tuesday. Old chum Dennis Hopper announced he is dying, and getting divorced for the fifth time (because even an ol’ dogg who’s dying still barks). Graffiti legend TAKI183 granted a rare interview. And a new Jimi jam popped up: “Valleys of Neptune.”
Local Disturbances: An idiot woman fell into a Picasso during an art class at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday. Arrogant butt ripping in New York’s club scene is a good look, but arrogant rocking out in Wisconsin could get you fined.
Space: NASA to old Rover ‘Spirit’ (stuck in sand since ’09): “Take a load off there, buddy.”