The Badass Playlist (for real this time, it's on there): Young Leaves

Here is the song! Last summer it was one of about 10 songs I would not stop listening to in the car to save my own life. (The others being mostly Mountain and Lynyrd Skynyrd. You might remember that phase. It was long, and I'm still not quite over it.) Attack In Black is a Canadian outfit who are/were on the same label as some other bands I like, leading to my discovery of them on the label website. Or something. It was along time ago, I kind of forget.
Hope you like it.


NOTE: I demand that all readers who encountered a surprising/perplexing commercial that seems to be advocating Mormonism leave a comment about it. Is it actually as funny as I found it? Discuss.

Anyway, before going to find it for the purposes of this post, I'd never seen this video. As I watched it became more and more apparent that I would love to be friends with these people. Reasons for this conclusion:
a) They like crappy old vehicles.
b) At least half of them see the importance of facial hair.
c) The like shopping for old junk/awesome stuff.
d) They find Prince "Hilarious Funtimes" Charles lovable enough to put his picture in their practice space.
e) They also associate this song with driving, road trips, and summer.

And good times were had by all.

New recent decision.

Remember when I said I am in love with George Stroumboulopoulos? (So much so that I look up how to spell his name ever single time I type it?)
Well, that's still true. Strombo is very precious to me.
However, my neverending supply of love has also been extended to Jian Ghomeshi, host of Qtv, writer, musician, etc.
He's so lovely and thoughtful and warm that anything he says suddenly seems to hold great importance. I'd be happy to have him represent Canada to the world.
Canadian national celebrities are so adorable.

Still.

So. Ill.
I want to puke everywhere. Anyone have suggestions for nausea cures? Pepto Bismol just isn't doing it for me anymore.
Also.. How are nausea and upset stomach different?
What about heartburn and indigestion?
The only unique symptom on that list is diarrhea, and I have an inkling that it's only in there because people wouldn't buy a drug strictly for when they are having poo issues as readily as they would a catch-all tummy drug.
Why not just call it that? "Catch-all Tummy Cure: For when your shit's fucked up. We don't want details, bro. Just deal with that. "
Perfect. I will be a millionaire by 20.

Can we just talk about how amazing Angelica Huston is?

Seriously, people, she is awesome.
I'm watching Ever After, in which Madame Angelica plays the most excellent bitch. Of all the imaginings and reimaginings of the Cinderella story, this one contains the most gut wrenchingly fabulous stepmother of them all.
ANGELICA FREAKING HUSTON.
I want to watch everythinng she's ever been in, hear every word she's ever spoken and bask in the glory of her raised eyebrows. If ever she were to look upon me with that deeply unimpressed expression, I would be incinerated with the pure intimidation.

You are Angelica Huston's bitch. Just accept it, as I have.

The Badass Playlist: Put It In My Video

If you are a reader of this blog and/or my friend, you've seen Community. (What? You haven't?! Go fix that, immediately. This post will be here when you come back.)
Back? Good.
As I was saying, Community is great. We all know it. What you may not know, however, is the equal greatness of Donald Glover individually. Besides being the actor behind Troy, he also wrote for 30 Rock, and raps under the name Childish Gambino.

Today's song is one of his.



As you might be able to tell, this song is about putting girls in his video. I'm assuming that by "it", he means "your asses", but that's just me being incredibly perceptive.
You can get this whole album for free, actually, at: http://culdesac-album.com/. So you can do that if you like. Or you can just listen to this song on repeat for like 2 hours and consider how the "small girls minus s m" line reminds you of Bo Burnham, as I have.
=)