Popmaterialist / A blog about pop (music)

Previously you’ve seen Miss Schaal as a horse. Now you can see her as “an angry erotic sheep.” Hot!

After Metallica revealed their “Revolutionary Pricing Tiers” for their Mission: Metallica experience the parallels between Microsoft and Metallica got scary.
Why am I calling Metallica the Microsoft of music. Well, firstly, both Microsoft and Metallica have had a troubled relationship with the internet. Recently for Microsoft, the Yahoo debacle has drawn attention to the company’s online [...]

Since I seem to be posting about French New Wave directors on this Friday I thought it would be intellectually appropriate to post this meditation on the nature of loneliness and the related desire to reach out and touch the world with one’s body. The feelings of alienation expressed in this video both from other [...]

Leonard Cohen Sleeveface
Originally uploaded by Husky

I’m not. And please don’t call me Shirley.
I must have been the last one to be clued in on this. Thank you Popped Culture. These people even have websites and groups. Blows. My. Mind.
Sites:
www.sleeveface.com
Damn Cool Pics
Flickr groups:
i am… a record cover
LP portraits
Update 2008/05/16:
Also, Gawker.

While Flight of the Conchords are great Kristen Schaal is equally great. Ever since viewing this clip on Dead-Frog.com I haven’t been able to get this ditty out of my head. Annoying.

Did you know that Jack Bauer was big in Japan? Well, he is. So big, in fact, that the Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. hired Kiefer Sutherland and a bunch of production people from the show 24 to make a series of ads for the company’s CalorieMate power bar.
Japanese advertisers have a long history of using Hollywood [...]