Whaaaaat, weezer have a new single out? It’s good? And the video has a bunch of web-celebs in it?

Well now that’s just good news.

Weezer - Pork & Beans

I literally cannot get this song out of my head - the same thing is happening to Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles at the moment and so he feeds my condition by playing it regularly - so I thought I’d share. Anyone else like it? It’s called “That’s Not My Name” and it’s by The Ting Tings.

I really love songs that have a lot going on towards the end - especially if there are contrasting vocal lines playing over each other. I feel like it gets me every time, always a winner - yet the only other example I can think of while here at work away from my ipod is Taking Back Sunday’s “Cute without the e (cut from the team)” which is the only one of their tracks I like, but I really like it. Thursday do it a fair bit too on Full Collapse, I really like that album too.

But enough chatter, here’s the video:

Jonny sent over a link to a remarkable bit of graffiti stop-frame animation today - check out the video here.

An ambiguous animation painted on public walls. Made in Buenos Aires and in baden (fantoche).

I had to share… that’s just amazing, I can’t imagine how long it must have taken to complete.

So I found myself having a stumble around this afternoon and happened upon a page entitled “The Strangest Internet Video Online Ever“. They weren’t joking, it was quite insane - but not in a gross way, fear not. The five minute animation reel is pretty funny and quite inventive, so I thought I’d try and see who made it based on the “Cyriak” tag at the end of the video.

That led me to the creator’s site, which in turn explained that this was his showcase reel. One of the most memorable things about the video for me was the crazy tune going on in the background - which, it turns out, is made by Cyriak too as one of a number of Electronica tracks available via their Myspace music page. The track used in the video is “No more memory”.

If you’re a fan of the animation of Terry Gilliam used on Monty Python, I’d recommend taking a look at this Cyriak’s work.

Sensationalist title? Yea probably. Still, I was watching Traffic Cops on BBC1 a few nights back and I couldn’t actually believe my eyes at one point. Two brothers were being restrained by members of the public in a Tesco Express store after they assaulted a man who had earlier commented that their behaviour outside the store were disgusting (they were urinating against a wall…)

I’ve tracked down the episode on Youtube but it starts on the previous story, an Italian dodgy driver - so if you fancy taking a look at two guys completely out of control (they’re grunting and snarling, they sound unhuman… and one of them is quite literally foaming at the mouth with anger) then check out this video, it all starts at about 5 minutes in.

This country… it worries me that things could get like this sometimes - while these two are an extreme example, this sort of thing is more and more prevalent.