Still Got It...

As with wine, Jack Nicholson and Beatles records, it seems I only get better with age.

This was done on a Pop-a-Shot game at Dan Otto's apartment complex. I was obsessed with breaking 150, and after 15 or so attempts I got 153. This footage comes from a game where I shot in the 130's.

'ceo' is NOT capitalized!

Why do I dig almost every band I hear from Sweden? Oh, it's because that lil' country produces some of the world's finest, freshest music. This guy, 'ceo', hails from Gothenburg.

Stolen Review:

ceo is Eric Berglund of The Tough Alliance, a guy who is apparently interested solely in the revelrous, flying-through-Fantasia-on-the-back-of-Falkor dance-pop we already heart TTA for. Which is awesome, really: When your style is essentially perfect, why mess with it? "Come With Me" is from an album called White Magic, which will be inducing smiles around the world upon its release through Modular on June 29.

ceo - come with me from Modular People on Vimeo.

Eddie Money Caught A Wave in 1987

It's rare that an artist can take one of Brian Wilson's songs and update it in a way that doesn't offend its original greatness. In the late 1980's, a magical time, the surf culture experienced a neon-fueled renaissance and brought with it some tubular beach music.

A lesser-known nostalgia/parody film called Back to the Beach, starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, captured the over-the-top corniness which was so prominent in both eras. This film reunited a bunch of the stars from the kitschy, beatnik surf movies of the 60's as well as randoms like Bob Denver (Gilligan), Stevie Ray Vaughn, O.J. Simpson and of course Pee Wee Herman. Along with a radical soundtrack, the movie features songs sung by cast members and comes across more like a musical, as did many of the 60's films it parodies. If you haven't seen this, WATCH IT. Easily one of my favorite movies of all time.

The soundtrack included covers of several well-known beach songs including Eddie Money's take on 'Catch A Ride (on a wave)' which opened the film and plays through the opening credits. This song encompasses the 80's surf scene as it was in many ways an homage to its roots in the 1960's. I believe it was released only on the soundtrack to BTTB, and is thus a rare gem of 80's pop perfection.

Just the song:

The 10-minute opening of BTTB, including 'Catch A Ride' (Careful, it'll only leave you wanting more):

And while we're on the subject, as it is one of my all time faves, here's an amazing song written by Michael Sembello (yeah, the guy who wrote 'Maniac' from Flash Dance) and performed by the majority of BTTB's cast:

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Whoever posted this 16-year old police dog's picture online said it best. They saved this image as 'fat_dog', which pretty much sums up what I love about it.

Literally EVERYBODY loves Sir Paul

Levek = Legit

David Levesque, out of Florida (?!), makes music under the name LEVEK. Here's a quote from his myspace site:

"I'm a bus driver that makes music. After a long day of elementary schoolers putting gum on my lovely pleather bus seats I enjoy a good space jam while sorting through the Disney VHS collection."

I don't know much else, other than the fact that he's an extraordinary talent, and his music is on another level.

Check out his tunes here: http://www.myspace.com/levek

Here he is doing an a capella cover of Grizzly Bear's 'Shift' (my favorite of theirs, btw):

Levek - Shift(GB A Cappella Cover) from David Levesque on Vimeo.

Wolf Gang - This is talent