He Backed Off As Well

I have no idea how this video hasn’t made our blog. Since we experienced the opening of Chicago’s newest KU bar - The Crossing - we got to relive the 2008 title game. So in honor of the new bar, the team, the great Bill Self, here is the best player from the Miami Heat hitting the biggest shot during their college basketball career - which none of those players can say.

And since it is the start of the weekend, enjoy this iPod buster.

B.O.B. - Magic ft. Rivers Cuomo

Scissor Me Timbers

This song has been stuck in my head for days, and what's the best way to get a song out of your head? Post it on a blog so you can hear it again.

More TV Talk

I realized that I hadn't contributed to the blog since last Friday so here are some more of my thoughts on the new TV season.

Lone Star
Canceled? Already? Now I have to get over Tyra Collette all over again.

Glee
The music teacher on this show is so annoying that I can't even fast forward through episodes anymore. Looks like I now have 25 extra minutes on my hands on Tuesday evenings.

The Office
I almost completed the Dungeon course on par in Stick Golf during this episode. In my opinion, The Office and Entourage are secretly competing in a game of "Who Can Mail in Their Episodes Faster".

CHIEFS!

New Conan Logo

Tory tried posting this earlier today but he said he was failing, so I wanted to post this and throw the link to all teamcoco’s downloads for the image. I’m a big fan of it. I think it’s young, simple and very unlike Tonight Show way of life of appealing to everyone. I bet it becomes way more recognizable than Jay’s chin drawing for his Big Dog Productions that runs seconds after he claps his hands and thanks his 90’s guest.

Head on over to teamcoco.com for more downloads.

Welcome Back New TV: Community, Modern Family Still Great; Baldwin Still Rules

Having all my fav comedies back makes me - if I may steal Elsa’s phrase from Last Crusade - ‘giddy as a schoolboy'. Community and Modern Family haven’t missed a beat, and I’m still amazed Baldwin didn’t win another award for his portrayal of Jack Donaghy. This guy nails it out-of-the-park every scene. So much in fact, I’ve decided to add a new bit to our lovely blog: Great Jack moments. Now, I’ll try and keep up on it, but it all depends on how fast Hulu gets clips up - and by ‘Hulu’ I mean my VHS tapes because they have two circles right in the center of the plastic rectangle.

Also, this clip will have to tie us over until I get my Frasier meets Dexter show staring O’Quinn and Emerson from Lost as I proposed on 100% (check the hard-hitting piece section to the right).

Happy Wednesday Eve

Enjoy this tid-bit of music for Wednesday Eve. I recently saw them live at the Metro in Chicago on Saturday, and I was very impressed and entertained. Enjoy 'Wet and Rusting' by Menomena. Also on Saturday, came the news that Max Weinberg will not be returning to lead Conan’s band when he returns in November. It appears long-time band member Jimmy Vivino will take over for Weinberg, TVguide.com reports. So sad. I was a big fan of the ‘Max Weinberg Seven’ during Late Night. They played a variety of new and old music and always sounded loud on the TeeVee. But Vivino seems like a good band-leader for the TBS adventure.

Great Buy of the Day

Tory introduced me to this shirt on the website homage.com and it’s a must get for any University of Kansas basketball fan. I highly recommending jamming onto their site and picking it up. Rock Chalk

Some New Tunes For Friday

Have I ever mentioned that I love talented female musicians? There's just something about a gal that can sing. The Dead Weather lead singer, love you. Girl on Glee that constantly wears skirts and knee socks, really love you. Well, Sharon Van Etten, welcome to the club. You had me at "said".

TV Review

Chad's post earlier in the week has inspired me to give my own review of NEW TV shows that I have watched this week. Ready? Here we go.

Running Wilde
I watched about 10 minutes then went looking for the performance plan on my TV. It's making weird noises when the volume is up too high.

Undercovers
10 minutes into the show the Mrs. and I made fun of the two main characters running and laughing during a scene and deleted it from the DVR.

Lone Star
This show kept our attention because we found a lot of similarities to Friday Night Lights.

Boardwalk Empire
Haven't watched it yet.

That's all. Tonight's lineup includes a lot of old favorites so there is no room for new shows. TV!

Hey, I Was There!

Here is a new song from Margot and the Nuclear So and So's that they played at Lincoln Hall on September 19th. Overall, the show was good, but I thought they played a little too much new music making it hard for the crowd to get into it. Or maybe I just needed more beer?

Monday Night TV Review

I know all of you guys are waiting for my review of Monday night’s new fall premiere. So here it is:

I watched Chuck last night.

Powerful stuff! Oh man, sit on that for awhile. To another important matter, I’m going to dedicate this song - courtesy of last night’s Chuck episode (see spoiler free review above!) - to the girl on the Howard train around 6:00 p.m. She made her way from the middle of the train to where I was standing by the doors and gave me a look. She could have been the lovely Anna Friel’s younger sister, and then she transferred to the brown line at Fullerton. Maybe some other day I’ll see you and say nothing - again. We didn’t exchange a ‘puff of love’ (see earlier long-winded entry) but a moment nonetheless.

Something for Chaddy

Since the countdown clock at the top of the page says 48 days and not 0 days until the return of Conan I give you a new video of him answering fan email. This sandwich looks like something that I could get into. Minus the mayo of course. Mayo is gross.

Monday Morning Music

Mix Tape Friday

Here are some tunes to start your weekend. Now go root the Jayhawks on at your local pub, unless you prefer to watch at home. It's on ESPN you know.



Free Energy - Free Energy
Heartless Bastards - All This Time
Julian Casablancas - Out Of The Blue

Oops! Spagett! I Forget!

Happy late Birthday post, Tory! Enjoy this awesome clip from 30 Rock.

And They Call Me Mad?

Here is the new print ad for Conan’s new show, Conan.

Also, here is Conan’s spoken-word re-telling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein that is up at teamcoco.com. They also play the interview of Conan done by Jack White. It is definitely worth a listen if you got the time.

HAVE A LISTEN HERE

Thanks to teamcoco.com for having that up for us!

How You Doing?

This made me laugh so hard I had tears in my eyes. It's a prank call that was on the Howard Stern Show. I really need to get Sirus radio.

Quote of the Day Meets Stumble Upon of the Day

Today during lunch I was messing around on stumbleupon.com and came across a website that just listed quotes from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I thought this was the perfect opportunity to give you two bits in one post. These two made me laugh, enjoy!

“Let me tell you a little lesson, buddy. The cream always rises to the top. And I’m about to show you the white, hot cream of an eighth-grade boy.”
-Charlie Kelly

“Yes, my good man, I’ll have the milk steak, boiled over hard, and your finest jelly beans...raw.”
-Charlie Kelly

Some Booze Cruisin' Music

Tomorrow is Booze Cruise 4! Or "Booze Cruise Lite" as I like to call it since it will be about half the size of the last three years. Oh well, that won't keep me from enjoying an icy cold bohemia style beer on Lake Michigan.







Since we'll be cruising in September instead of June I thought this was appropriate.

What’s Your Porn Name?

Sorry, Tory, but I’ve been a little busy. I’ve been trying to think of my favorite made-up porn names. Now, in the Community clip above, they say your porn name is made up of: your grade school and favorite soft drink. If that is the criteria, then my name is: Indian Hills Dr. Pepper

However, I’ve always been told it’s your middle name and the first street you lived on. So: Kurt Crestway.

Using this criteria for years, I have come across some of my favorites from my friends, like: Michael Columbus and Michael Woodbine.

Then there is first pet’s name and the first street you lived on. Leaving me with: Wolfgang Crestway.

What do you all think? What’s your formula for your porn name? Leave us yours!

Sports Videos!

I love KU basketball highlight videos and montages, but not when they're set to this song. I really really hate this song. I cringe at the thought of this being pumped through the fieldhouse this season. However, this video does get me excited for the 2010-11 Jayhawks. Late Night is only about a month away!

GameON from Kansas Jayhawks on Vimeo.

And here is the newest episode of The Gridiron. Not only does it rip off HBO's Hard Knocks, but now it seems to be dipping into the Friday Night Lights pool with their music selections. I'm predicting that the next episode will have one of the following:

1. A walk on hippie quarterback named Sunshine joins the team
2. A Vince Vaughn like player plays himself onto the prep team
3. A player with a troubled past has to make a choice between his gang or a new unlikely friendship

THE GRIDIRON - WEEK 1 from Kansas Jayhawks on Vimeo.

From the Mrs.

Our place is currently under a lot of construction and every morning the wife and I are woken up at 7:00am by the sounds of hammering, drilling, pounding, and best of all the construction worker's boom box. That's right, boom box. I've seen it, it looks exactly like the one my dad keeps in the garage. It's large, black, has paint on it, and right in the middle between both speakers is the cassette deck. They don't bring tapes though, they listen to the crappiest radio stations Chicago has to offer. According to the Mrs. this song was just being pumped outside of our sliding glass door. She likes to think they started dancing in their hard hats, but I think they just turned it up and there was a lot of "Oh Yeah!" and "Here we go!" exchanged when the first notes were heard.

I would also like to point out that once again Chad has disappeared from the blog. If he doesn't give up his job as KC Wolf soon I may have to change the banner at the top of the page to say "A Conversation With Myself".

Play Count - 0

I'm getting really tired of the music in my iTunes library, the podcasts I subscribe to, and listening to people breakdown football games that haven't been played yet on sports radio stations. Today I decided to make a change, I'm only listening to music in my library that has a zero play count. Surprisingly, there are a lot of songs I have not listened to, here are a couple favorites from this morning.




AND

Jemina Pearl - Retrograde

Final Days of Summer

Summer is ending here in Chicago and we need to start preparing for a long winter. Here are a couple songs by The Long Winters to help us ease into the next eight months.

“Hey Bones, You Pissed?!"

Couldn’t agree more with Tory: laughter, stories, and music is what we need. Before all the fun and games return, I would like to post this video of Arcade Fire’s “Rococo,” for I will forever associate this song with late August 2010 and my trip to Omaha.



Wherever you are reading this, I hope you enjoy...

"Is There a Six Flags Down There?"

I think the best way to get this blog rolling again is with a good laugh. Enjoy the latest Between Two Ferns with guest Sean "Spicoli" Penn.

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: Sean Penn from Between Two Ferns