Attractive Pleaseea-Burger

Tonight we'll find ourselves at The Earl in East ATL for a three ring circus of a show.

9:30 pm @ The Earl
Get a load of this line-up:

Attractive Eighties Women
(the band of my co-worker and fellow cartoon maker Mack Williams)

Pleaseeasaur
(the band we did animation for on their Comedy Central Records debut DVD)

Neil Hamburger
(old timey insult and gross-out comedian we've never met but still love)

All in one place, and performing just for you.
If that isn't enough to get you excited, it's Zombie Sitcom's f'ing birthday.
Set phasers for debouch.

Same as it ever was.

Saturday Night we made our way to Chastain Amphitheater to see the great David Byrne perform songs he and Brian Eno have created together over the years. These songs included quite a few Talking Heads classics, as well as a bunch of new material from Byrne/Eno's newest album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.

[photo by carrieoke13 via flickr]

I know I talked all kinds of trash about Chastain. You see, the seating arrangement at Chastain got me all in a twist. The area closest to the stage is filled with tables and chairs, these seats belong to season ticket holders, or members, and are very expensive. There is also the understanding that these people will bring picnic baskets full of food and drink to consume before the show. People who buy tickets specifically for one show must either buy the cheap (but not inexpensive) seats far behind the diners, or find a Member who is willing to part with their tickets.

All my griping was for not, because the seats we got were so good it didn't matter that we were behind people eating dinner. In fact, the show was so good that as soon as David Byrne began to play those people eating turned away from their meals and enjoyed the show.

Davd Byrne put on an amazing show, his set list was divided between old and new songs, all of which had been produced with or somehow involved Brian Eno. The show began with the new single "Strange Overtones" a song that has quickly become one of my favorite David Byrne songs of all time. Combine that with three super-charming background dancers, who started the show by "stealing" all the back-up singer's microphones "forcing" them to perform in odd places around the stage, and the show was destined to be a heart breaker.

Ok, here's the part where I admit that we brought a picnic basket to the show. I know! After all my complaining about people eating. Well, I have to tell you, my wife filled our basket with cross-cut finger sandwiches and thermoses full of liquor. Watching David Byrne while drinking Mint Juleps and eating pimento cheese sandwiches couldn't have felt righter! I take it all back Chastain, although, you have David Byrne to thank for most of that.

David Byrne himself has a great journal entry about the concert, and about how excited he and his band and dancers were to be called out for a third encore! He described it as a "human roar." He also talks about how they were warned that the audience at Chastain "might be a picnic crowd that would view the musical acts as background for their Southern social get-together." He too was thankful it turned out differently.

We're huge fans of David Byrne around here. In our eyes he's one of the last remaining relevant American Artists. Not just because of his music, which is still great, but because of his willingness to be a part of, and create great Art. While in Atlanta, he talked about riding his bike down Peachtree Street so he could go to an art gallery opening. Biking down that Death Tunnel reveals a true commitment to the arts! It's just refreshing to have an artist in America (that's still alive) that you can respect and look up to. (though if he keeps biking down Peachtree, he may not be alive for long! Ah-cha-cha!)

We'd like to send a special thanks to Nova for hooking us up with these awesome tickets.

Everything that happens...

will happen today.

This album is the first collaboration between David Byrne and Brian Eno in over 30 years.

We were lucky enough to score tickets to the Byrne/Eno concert coming up in September @ Chastain here in Atlanta. This was pretty difficult considering Chastain's byzantine ticketing system that offers the best seats to "members" who are served DINNER during the concert. These "members" must buy tickets for 3 shows at a time. The rest of us, who I like to call "the fans," are seated behind the "members" who are eating instead of watching the show.

It's worth it to see David Byrne.

I was born to give and give and give.

I like the new Weezer album.
Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)

I don't love it. But I really like it.

This is Weezer's sixth album, but only the third to be given a color. I'd love to be able to say I've broken the Weezer code... Then I'd tell you that those Weezer albums that are assigned colors (Blue, Green, Red) are more in line with a "traditional" style of Weezer music, and that the intervening albums are experimental indulgences. That would be really interesting, but I'd just be making that up... I think.

The facts are: Like the other color albums, this album does a good job of giving me the type of Weezer songs that I enjoy listening to and singing along with. Even if that's something Rivers Cuomo likes to make fun of.

"Everyone likes to dance to a happy song
with a catchy chorus and beat so they can sing along"

It's still true. Three songs off this new album are currently available as tracks for Rock Band on Xbox and PS3. I haven't gotten them yet, but you can bet I'll buy them tonight. I'm really looking forward to singing along to the catchy chorus on The Greatest Man That Ever Lived.

Also, I know it destroys my theory, but Pinkerton should have been a color album.

Also, also, we should have some news next week about the play RP and I wrote for Dad's Garage titled - FWD::

You get smaller while the world gets big

The more you know you know you don't know shit.
"The Whiz Man" will never fit ya like "The Whiz Kid" did.

Limozeen

I get so sick of these old metal bands re-forming just to milk extra dollars from their fans.

In other news:
We are working on a new cartoon. Because of that we are swamped with work at 70/30 Productions, and this weblog will continue to suffer. So we've set up a twitter account for the sake of quick information dissemination.

check it out here, or watch the sidebar, thanks!

This was a triumph.

!-- I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS --!

Our beloved be-bearded Jonathan Coulton will be returning to Atlanta in March!

Jonathan Coulton @ Variety Playhouse Sat. March 22nd.

You might remember Jonathan Coutlon from that time he was an awesome recording artist who gives away and sells his music on the internet. Oh and he also wrote that popular Portal Song that everybody went nuts over on the internet.

see:

Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip vs. Boingboing.net

A little more information about these mysterious British fellows, straight from the soruce.

obviously... (via boingboing)

We're Back

We had some routine maintenance to perform here at clunkyrobot.com and of course it didn't go like we planned. Anyway, we're back, and running smoothly. 

To celebrate our triumphant return to the blogosphere we'd like to offer you a nice piece of television history. 

30 years ago today the lovable Elvis Costello was banned from Saturday Night Live. Just 5 seconds into Less Than Zero, Elvis stops his band and begins to play Radio Radio, a song that SNL felt was too "anti-media" to be played on air.  This "switch-a-roo" would get Elvis Costello banned from SNL for 12 years!  Later this event would be parodied in the fine political comedy Bob Roberts starring Tim Robbins.

There's no guarantee that this will stay on youtube.

Alright Still

We have a soft spot for Lilly Allen, and I'm not exactly sure I can tell you why...
But I'll try.

It might be the result of her being a perfect swirling mixture of very specific things that we find awesome. It might be her dance-hall, feel good music combined with her feel not-so-good lyrics. It could even be her voice, which we find soothing and brithishly enraging all at once. Although, in all likelihood it's because we think she's hot, especially when she's trash talking fashion models or pining for spaghetti bolognese.

Well now there's an even better reason to think she's super. She just might be hitching a ride in the TARDIS. Yes, she is being considered for Doctor Who's new companion. Doctor Who is famous throughout the world for being a show about a time and space traveling immortal who is always accompanied by an attractive female companion. That's just how things like that work ok?

We've been watching The New Doctor Who and totally enjoying it. We're even fans of Torchwood, the series most recent spin-off. The Doctor's first companion in the new series, Rose, was played by Billie Piper, who herself was a British Pop Star prior to being on the series. And while it's sometimes and unpopular opinion around here, we liked The Doctor's newest companion Martha Jones played by Freema Agyeman even more than Rose.

Attractive Pleaseea-Burger

Tonight we'll find ourselves at The Earl in East ATL for a three ring circus of a show.

9:30 pm @ The Earl
Get a load of this line-up:

Attractive Eighties Women
(the band of my co-worker and fellow cartoon maker Mack Williams)

Pleaseeasaur
(the band we did animation for on their Comedy Central Records debut DVD)

Neil Hamburger
(old timey insult and gross-out comedian we've never met but still love)

All in one place, and performing just for you.
If that isn't enough to get you excited, it's Zombie Sitcom's f'ing birthday.
Set phasers for debouch.

Same as it ever was.

Saturday Night we made our way to Chastain Amphitheater to see the great David Byrne perform songs he and Brian Eno have created together over the years. These songs included quite a few Talking Heads classics, as well as a bunch of new material from Byrne/Eno's newest album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.

[photo by carrieoke13 via flickr]

I know I talked all kinds of trash about Chastain. You see, the seating arrangement at Chastain got me all in a twist. The area closest to the stage is filled with tables and chairs, these seats belong to season ticket holders, or members, and are very expensive. There is also the understanding that these people will bring picnic baskets full of food and drink to consume before the show. People who buy tickets specifically for one show must either buy the cheap (but not inexpensive) seats far behind the diners, or find a Member who is willing to part with their tickets.

All my griping was for not, because the seats we got were so good it didn't matter that we were behind people eating dinner. In fact, the show was so good that as soon as David Byrne began to play those people eating turned away from their meals and enjoyed the show.

Davd Byrne put on an amazing show, his set list was divided between old and new songs, all of which had been produced with or somehow involved Brian Eno. The show began with the new single "Strange Overtones" a song that has quickly become one of my favorite David Byrne songs of all time. Combine that with three super-charming background dancers, who started the show by "stealing" all the back-up singer's microphones "forcing" them to perform in odd places around the stage, and the show was destined to be a heart breaker.

Ok, here's the part where I admit that we brought a picnic basket to the show. I know! After all my complaining about people eating. Well, I have to tell you, my wife filled our basket with cross-cut finger sandwiches and thermoses full of liquor. Watching David Byrne while drinking Mint Juleps and eating pimento cheese sandwiches couldn't have felt righter! I take it all back Chastain, although, you have David Byrne to thank for most of that.

David Byrne himself has a great journal entry about the concert, and about how excited he and his band and dancers were to be called out for a third encore! He described it as a "human roar." He also talks about how they were warned that the audience at Chastain "might be a picnic crowd that would view the musical acts as background for their Southern social get-together." He too was thankful it turned out differently.

We're huge fans of David Byrne around here. In our eyes he's one of the last remaining relevant American Artists. Not just because of his music, which is still great, but because of his willingness to be a part of, and create great Art. While in Atlanta, he talked about riding his bike down Peachtree Street so he could go to an art gallery opening. Biking down that Death Tunnel reveals a true commitment to the arts! It's just refreshing to have an artist in America (that's still alive) that you can respect and look up to. (though if he keeps biking down Peachtree, he may not be alive for long! Ah-cha-cha!)

We'd like to send a special thanks to Nova for hooking us up with these awesome tickets.

Everything that happens...

will happen today.

This album is the first collaboration between David Byrne and Brian Eno in over 30 years.

We were lucky enough to score tickets to the Byrne/Eno concert coming up in September @ Chastain here in Atlanta. This was pretty difficult considering Chastain's byzantine ticketing system that offers the best seats to "members" who are served DINNER during the concert. These "members" must buy tickets for 3 shows at a time. The rest of us, who I like to call "the fans," are seated behind the "members" who are eating instead of watching the show.

It's worth it to see David Byrne.

I was born to give and give and give.

I like the new Weezer album.
Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)

I don't love it. But I really like it.

This is Weezer's sixth album, but only the third to be given a color. I'd love to be able to say I've broken the Weezer code... Then I'd tell you that those Weezer albums that are assigned colors (Blue, Green, Red) are more in line with a "traditional" style of Weezer music, and that the intervening albums are experimental indulgences. That would be really interesting, but I'd just be making that up... I think.

The facts are: Like the other color albums, this album does a good job of giving me the type of Weezer songs that I enjoy listening to and singing along with. Even if that's something Rivers Cuomo likes to make fun of.

"Everyone likes to dance to a happy song
with a catchy chorus and beat so they can sing along"

It's still true. Three songs off this new album are currently available as tracks for Rock Band on Xbox and PS3. I haven't gotten them yet, but you can bet I'll buy them tonight. I'm really looking forward to singing along to the catchy chorus on The Greatest Man That Ever Lived.

Also, I know it destroys my theory, but Pinkerton should have been a color album.

Also, also, we should have some news next week about the play RP and I wrote for Dad's Garage titled - FWD::

You get smaller while the world gets big

The more you know you know you don't know shit.
"The Whiz Man" will never fit ya like "The Whiz Kid" did.

Limozeen

I get so sick of these old metal bands re-forming just to milk extra dollars from their fans.

In other news:
We are working on a new cartoon. Because of that we are swamped with work at 70/30 Productions, and this weblog will continue to suffer. So we've set up a twitter account for the sake of quick information dissemination.

check it out here, or watch the sidebar, thanks!

This was a triumph.

!-- I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS --!

Our beloved be-bearded Jonathan Coulton will be returning to Atlanta in March!

Jonathan Coulton @ Variety Playhouse Sat. March 22nd.

You might remember Jonathan Coutlon from that time he was an awesome recording artist who gives away and sells his music on the internet. Oh and he also wrote that popular Portal Song that everybody went nuts over on the internet.

see:

Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip vs. Boingboing.net

A little more information about these mysterious British fellows, straight from the soruce.

obviously... (via boingboing)

We're Back

We had some routine maintenance to perform here at clunkyrobot.com and of course it didn't go like we planned. Anyway, we're back, and running smoothly. 

To celebrate our triumphant return to the blogosphere we'd like to offer you a nice piece of television history. 

30 years ago today the lovable Elvis Costello was banned from Saturday Night Live. Just 5 seconds into Less Than Zero, Elvis stops his band and begins to play Radio Radio, a song that SNL felt was too "anti-media" to be played on air.  This "switch-a-roo" would get Elvis Costello banned from SNL for 12 years!  Later this event would be parodied in the fine political comedy Bob Roberts starring Tim Robbins.

There's no guarantee that this will stay on youtube.

Alright Still

We have a soft spot for Lilly Allen, and I'm not exactly sure I can tell you why...
But I'll try.

It might be the result of her being a perfect swirling mixture of very specific things that we find awesome. It might be her dance-hall, feel good music combined with her feel not-so-good lyrics. It could even be her voice, which we find soothing and brithishly enraging all at once. Although, in all likelihood it's because we think she's hot, especially when she's trash talking fashion models or pining for spaghetti bolognese.

Well now there's an even better reason to think she's super. She just might be hitching a ride in the TARDIS. Yes, she is being considered for Doctor Who's new companion. Doctor Who is famous throughout the world for being a show about a time and space traveling immortal who is always accompanied by an attractive female companion. That's just how things like that work ok?

We've been watching The New Doctor Who and totally enjoying it. We're even fans of Torchwood, the series most recent spin-off. The Doctor's first companion in the new series, Rose, was played by Billie Piper, who herself was a British Pop Star prior to being on the series. And while it's sometimes and unpopular opinion around here, we liked The Doctor's newest companion Martha Jones played by Freema Agyeman even more than Rose.

Attractive Pleaseea-Burger

Tonight we'll find ourselves at The Earl in East ATL for a three ring circus of a show.

9:30 pm @ The Earl
Get a load of this line-up:

Attractive Eighties Women
(the band of my co-worker and fellow cartoon maker Mack Williams)

Pleaseeasaur
(the band we did animation for on their Comedy Central Records debut DVD)

Neil Hamburger
(old timey insult and gross-out comedian we've never met but still love)

All in one place, and performing just for you.
If that isn't enough to get you excited, it's Zombie Sitcom's f'ing birthday.
Set phasers for debouch.

Same as it ever was.

Saturday Night we made our way to Chastain Amphitheater to see the great David Byrne perform songs he and Brian Eno have created together over the years. These songs included quite a few Talking Heads classics, as well as a bunch of new material from Byrne/Eno's newest album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.

[photo by carrieoke13 via flickr]

I know I talked all kinds of trash about Chastain. You see, the seating arrangement at Chastain got me all in a twist. The area closest to the stage is filled with tables and chairs, these seats belong to season ticket holders, or members, and are very expensive. There is also the understanding that these people will bring picnic baskets full of food and drink to consume before the show. People who buy tickets specifically for one show must either buy the cheap (but not inexpensive) seats far behind the diners, or find a Member who is willing to part with their tickets.

All my griping was for not, because the seats we got were so good it didn't matter that we were behind people eating dinner. In fact, the show was so good that as soon as David Byrne began to play those people eating turned away from their meals and enjoyed the show.

Davd Byrne put on an amazing show, his set list was divided between old and new songs, all of which had been produced with or somehow involved Brian Eno. The show began with the new single "Strange Overtones" a song that has quickly become one of my favorite David Byrne songs of all time. Combine that with three super-charming background dancers, who started the show by "stealing" all the back-up singer's microphones "forcing" them to perform in odd places around the stage, and the show was destined to be a heart breaker.

Ok, here's the part where I admit that we brought a picnic basket to the show. I know! After all my complaining about people eating. Well, I have to tell you, my wife filled our basket with cross-cut finger sandwiches and thermoses full of liquor. Watching David Byrne while drinking Mint Juleps and eating pimento cheese sandwiches couldn't have felt righter! I take it all back Chastain, although, you have David Byrne to thank for most of that.

David Byrne himself has a great journal entry about the concert, and about how excited he and his band and dancers were to be called out for a third encore! He described it as a "human roar." He also talks about how they were warned that the audience at Chastain "might be a picnic crowd that would view the musical acts as background for their Southern social get-together." He too was thankful it turned out differently.

We're huge fans of David Byrne around here. In our eyes he's one of the last remaining relevant American Artists. Not just because of his music, which is still great, but because of his willingness to be a part of, and create great Art. While in Atlanta, he talked about riding his bike down Peachtree Street so he could go to an art gallery opening. Biking down that Death Tunnel reveals a true commitment to the arts! It's just refreshing to have an artist in America (that's still alive) that you can respect and look up to. (though if he keeps biking down Peachtree, he may not be alive for long! Ah-cha-cha!)

We'd like to send a special thanks to Nova for hooking us up with these awesome tickets.

Everything that happens...

will happen today.

This album is the first collaboration between David Byrne and Brian Eno in over 30 years.

We were lucky enough to score tickets to the Byrne/Eno concert coming up in September @ Chastain here in Atlanta. This was pretty difficult considering Chastain's byzantine ticketing system that offers the best seats to "members" who are served DINNER during the concert. These "members" must buy tickets for 3 shows at a time. The rest of us, who I like to call "the fans," are seated behind the "members" who are eating instead of watching the show.

It's worth it to see David Byrne.

I was born to give and give and give.

I like the new Weezer album.
Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)

I don't love it. But I really like it.

This is Weezer's sixth album, but only the third to be given a color. I'd love to be able to say I've broken the Weezer code... Then I'd tell you that those Weezer albums that are assigned colors (Blue, Green, Red) are more in line with a "traditional" style of Weezer music, and that the intervening albums are experimental indulgences. That would be really interesting, but I'd just be making that up... I think.

The facts are: Like the other color albums, this album does a good job of giving me the type of Weezer songs that I enjoy listening to and singing along with. Even if that's something Rivers Cuomo likes to make fun of.

"Everyone likes to dance to a happy song
with a catchy chorus and beat so they can sing along"

It's still true. Three songs off this new album are currently available as tracks for Rock Band on Xbox and PS3. I haven't gotten them yet, but you can bet I'll buy them tonight. I'm really looking forward to singing along to the catchy chorus on The Greatest Man That Ever Lived.

Also, I know it destroys my theory, but Pinkerton should have been a color album.

Also, also, we should have some news next week about the play RP and I wrote for Dad's Garage titled - FWD::

You get smaller while the world gets big

The more you know you know you don't know shit.
"The Whiz Man" will never fit ya like "The Whiz Kid" did.

Limozeen

I get so sick of these old metal bands re-forming just to milk extra dollars from their fans.

In other news:
We are working on a new cartoon. Because of that we are swamped with work at 70/30 Productions, and this weblog will continue to suffer. So we've set up a twitter account for the sake of quick information dissemination.

check it out here, or watch the sidebar, thanks!

This was a triumph.

!-- I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS --!

Our beloved be-bearded Jonathan Coulton will be returning to Atlanta in March!

Jonathan Coulton @ Variety Playhouse Sat. March 22nd.

You might remember Jonathan Coutlon from that time he was an awesome recording artist who gives away and sells his music on the internet. Oh and he also wrote that popular Portal Song that everybody went nuts over on the internet.

see:

Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip vs. Boingboing.net

A little more information about these mysterious British fellows, straight from the soruce.

obviously... (via boingboing)

We're Back

We had some routine maintenance to perform here at clunkyrobot.com and of course it didn't go like we planned. Anyway, we're back, and running smoothly. 

To celebrate our triumphant return to the blogosphere we'd like to offer you a nice piece of television history. 

30 years ago today the lovable Elvis Costello was banned from Saturday Night Live. Just 5 seconds into Less Than Zero, Elvis stops his band and begins to play Radio Radio, a song that SNL felt was too "anti-media" to be played on air.  This "switch-a-roo" would get Elvis Costello banned from SNL for 12 years!  Later this event would be parodied in the fine political comedy Bob Roberts starring Tim Robbins.

There's no guarantee that this will stay on youtube.

Alright Still

We have a soft spot for Lilly Allen, and I'm not exactly sure I can tell you why...
But I'll try.

It might be the result of her being a perfect swirling mixture of very specific things that we find awesome. It might be her dance-hall, feel good music combined with her feel not-so-good lyrics. It could even be her voice, which we find soothing and brithishly enraging all at once. Although, in all likelihood it's because we think she's hot, especially when she's trash talking fashion models or pining for spaghetti bolognese.

Well now there's an even better reason to think she's super. She just might be hitching a ride in the TARDIS. Yes, she is being considered for Doctor Who's new companion. Doctor Who is famous throughout the world for being a show about a time and space traveling immortal who is always accompanied by an attractive female companion. That's just how things like that work ok?

We've been watching The New Doctor Who and totally enjoying it. We're even fans of Torchwood, the series most recent spin-off. The Doctor's first companion in the new series, Rose, was played by Billie Piper, who herself was a British Pop Star prior to being on the series. And while it's sometimes and unpopular opinion around here, we liked The Doctor's newest companion Martha Jones played by Freema Agyeman even more than Rose.

Attractive Pleaseea-Burger

Tonight we'll find ourselves at The Earl in East ATL for a three ring circus of a show.

9:30 pm @ The Earl
Get a load of this line-up:

Attractive Eighties Women
(the band of my co-worker and fellow cartoon maker Mack Williams)

Pleaseeasaur
(the band we did animation for on their Comedy Central Records debut DVD)

Neil Hamburger
(old timey insult and gross-out comedian we've never met but still love)

All in one place, and performing just for you.
If that isn't enough to get you excited, it's Zombie Sitcom's f'ing birthday.
Set phasers for debouch.

Same as it ever was.

Saturday Night we made our way to Chastain Amphitheater to see the great David Byrne perform songs he and Brian Eno have created together over the years. These songs included quite a few Talking Heads classics, as well as a bunch of new material from Byrne/Eno's newest album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.

[photo by carrieoke13 via flickr]

I know I talked all kinds of trash about Chastain. You see, the seating arrangement at Chastain got me all in a twist. The area closest to the stage is filled with tables and chairs, these seats belong to season ticket holders, or members, and are very expensive. There is also the understanding that these people will bring picnic baskets full of food and drink to consume before the show. People who buy tickets specifically for one show must either buy the cheap (but not inexpensive) seats far behind the diners, or find a Member who is willing to part with their tickets.

All my griping was for not, because the seats we got were so good it didn't matter that we were behind people eating dinner. In fact, the show was so good that as soon as David Byrne began to play those people eating turned away from their meals and enjoyed the show.

Davd Byrne put on an amazing show, his set list was divided between old and new songs, all of which had been produced with or somehow involved Brian Eno. The show began with the new single "Strange Overtones" a song that has quickly become one of my favorite David Byrne songs of all time. Combine that with three super-charming background dancers, who started the show by "stealing" all the back-up singer's microphones "forcing" them to perform in odd places around the stage, and the show was destined to be a heart breaker.

Ok, here's the part where I admit that we brought a picnic basket to the show. I know! After all my complaining about people eating. Well, I have to tell you, my wife filled our basket with cross-cut finger sandwiches and thermoses full of liquor. Watching David Byrne while drinking Mint Juleps and eating pimento cheese sandwiches couldn't have felt righter! I take it all back Chastain, although, you have David Byrne to thank for most of that.

David Byrne himself has a great journal entry about the concert, and about how excited he and his band and dancers were to be called out for a third encore! He described it as a "human roar." He also talks about how they were warned that the audience at Chastain "might be a picnic crowd that would view the musical acts as background for their Southern social get-together." He too was thankful it turned out differently.

We're huge fans of David Byrne around here. In our eyes he's one of the last remaining relevant American Artists. Not just because of his music, which is still great, but because of his willingness to be a part of, and create great Art. While in Atlanta, he talked about riding his bike down Peachtree Street so he could go to an art gallery opening. Biking down that Death Tunnel reveals a true commitment to the arts! It's just refreshing to have an artist in America (that's still alive) that you can respect and look up to. (though if he keeps biking down Peachtree, he may not be alive for long! Ah-cha-cha!)

We'd like to send a special thanks to Nova for hooking us up with these awesome tickets.

Everything that happens...

will happen today.

This album is the first collaboration between David Byrne and Brian Eno in over 30 years.

We were lucky enough to score tickets to the Byrne/Eno concert coming up in September @ Chastain here in Atlanta. This was pretty difficult considering Chastain's byzantine ticketing system that offers the best seats to "members" who are served DINNER during the concert. These "members" must buy tickets for 3 shows at a time. The rest of us, who I like to call "the fans," are seated behind the "members" who are eating instead of watching the show.

It's worth it to see David Byrne.

I was born to give and give and give.

I like the new Weezer album.
Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)

I don't love it. But I really like it.

This is Weezer's sixth album, but only the third to be given a color. I'd love to be able to say I've broken the Weezer code... Then I'd tell you that those Weezer albums that are assigned colors (Blue, Green, Red) are more in line with a "traditional" style of Weezer music, and that the intervening albums are experimental indulgences. That would be really interesting, but I'd just be making that up... I think.

The facts are: Like the other color albums, this album does a good job of giving me the type of Weezer songs that I enjoy listening to and singing along with. Even if that's something Rivers Cuomo likes to make fun of.

"Everyone likes to dance to a happy song
with a catchy chorus and beat so they can sing along"

It's still true. Three songs off this new album are currently available as tracks for Rock Band on Xbox and PS3. I haven't gotten them yet, but you can bet I'll buy them tonight. I'm really looking forward to singing along to the catchy chorus on The Greatest Man That Ever Lived.

Also, I know it destroys my theory, but Pinkerton should have been a color album.

Also, also, we should have some news next week about the play RP and I wrote for Dad's Garage titled - FWD::

You get smaller while the world gets big

The more you know you know you don't know shit.
"The Whiz Man" will never fit ya like "The Whiz Kid" did.

Limozeen

I get so sick of these old metal bands re-forming just to milk extra dollars from their fans.

In other news:
We are working on a new cartoon. Because of that we are swamped with work at 70/30 Productions, and this weblog will continue to suffer. So we've set up a twitter account for the sake of quick information dissemination.

check it out here, or watch the sidebar, thanks!

This was a triumph.

!-- I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS --!

Our beloved be-bearded Jonathan Coulton will be returning to Atlanta in March!

Jonathan Coulton @ Variety Playhouse Sat. March 22nd.

You might remember Jonathan Coutlon from that time he was an awesome recording artist who gives away and sells his music on the internet. Oh and he also wrote that popular Portal Song that everybody went nuts over on the internet.

see:

Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip vs. Boingboing.net

A little more information about these mysterious British fellows, straight from the soruce.

obviously... (via boingboing)

We're Back

We had some routine maintenance to perform here at clunkyrobot.com and of course it didn't go like we planned. Anyway, we're back, and running smoothly. 

To celebrate our triumphant return to the blogosphere we'd like to offer you a nice piece of television history. 

30 years ago today the lovable Elvis Costello was banned from Saturday Night Live. Just 5 seconds into Less Than Zero, Elvis stops his band and begins to play Radio Radio, a song that SNL felt was too "anti-media" to be played on air.  This "switch-a-roo" would get Elvis Costello banned from SNL for 12 years!  Later this event would be parodied in the fine political comedy Bob Roberts starring Tim Robbins.

There's no guarantee that this will stay on youtube.

Alright Still

We have a soft spot for Lilly Allen, and I'm not exactly sure I can tell you why...
But I'll try.

It might be the result of her being a perfect swirling mixture of very specific things that we find awesome. It might be her dance-hall, feel good music combined with her feel not-so-good lyrics. It could even be her voice, which we find soothing and brithishly enraging all at once. Although, in all likelihood it's because we think she's hot, especially when she's trash talking fashion models or pining for spaghetti bolognese.

Well now there's an even better reason to think she's super. She just might be hitching a ride in the TARDIS. Yes, she is being considered for Doctor Who's new companion. Doctor Who is famous throughout the world for being a show about a time and space traveling immortal who is always accompanied by an attractive female companion. That's just how things like that work ok?

We've been watching The New Doctor Who and totally enjoying it. We're even fans of Torchwood, the series most recent spin-off. The Doctor's first companion in the new series, Rose, was played by Billie Piper, who herself was a British Pop Star prior to being on the series. And while it's sometimes and unpopular opinion around here, we liked The Doctor's newest companion Martha Jones played by Freema Agyeman even more than Rose.

Attractive Pleaseea-Burger

Tonight we'll find ourselves at The Earl in East ATL for a three ring circus of a show.

9:30 pm @ The Earl
Get a load of this line-up:

Attractive Eighties Women
(the band of my co-worker and fellow cartoon maker Mack Williams)

Pleaseeasaur
(the band we did animation for on their Comedy Central Records debut DVD)

Neil Hamburger
(old timey insult and gross-out comedian we've never met but still love)

All in one place, and performing just for you.
If that isn't enough to get you excited, it's Zombie Sitcom's f'ing birthday.
Set phasers for debouch.

Same as it ever was.

Saturday Night we made our way to Chastain Amphitheater to see the great David Byrne perform songs he and Brian Eno have created together over the years. These songs included quite a few Talking Heads classics, as well as a bunch of new material from Byrne/Eno's newest album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.

[photo by carrieoke13 via flickr]

I know I talked all kinds of trash about Chastain. You see, the seating arrangement at Chastain got me all in a twist. The area closest to the stage is filled with tables and chairs, these seats belong to season ticket holders, or members, and are very expensive. There is also the understanding that these people will bring picnic baskets full of food and drink to consume before the show. People who buy tickets specifically for one show must either buy the cheap (but not inexpensive) seats far behind the diners, or find a Member who is willing to part with their tickets.

All my griping was for not, because the seats we got were so good it didn't matter that we were behind people eating dinner. In fact, the show was so good that as soon as David Byrne began to play those people eating turned away from their meals and enjoyed the show.

Davd Byrne put on an amazing show, his set list was divided between old and new songs, all of which had been produced with or somehow involved Brian Eno. The show began with the new single "Strange Overtones" a song that has quickly become one of my favorite David Byrne songs of all time. Combine that with three super-charming background dancers, who started the show by "stealing" all the back-up singer's microphones "forcing" them to perform in odd places around the stage, and the show was destined to be a heart breaker.

Ok, here's the part where I admit that we brought a picnic basket to the show. I know! After all my complaining about people eating. Well, I have to tell you, my wife filled our basket with cross-cut finger sandwiches and thermoses full of liquor. Watching David Byrne while drinking Mint Juleps and eating pimento cheese sandwiches couldn't have felt righter! I take it all back Chastain, although, you have David Byrne to thank for most of that.

David Byrne himself has a great journal entry about the concert, and about how excited he and his band and dancers were to be called out for a third encore! He described it as a "human roar." He also talks about how they were warned that the audience at Chastain "might be a picnic crowd that would view the musical acts as background for their Southern social get-together." He too was thankful it turned out differently.

We're huge fans of David Byrne around here. In our eyes he's one of the last remaining relevant American Artists. Not just because of his music, which is still great, but because of his willingness to be a part of, and create great Art. While in Atlanta, he talked about riding his bike down Peachtree Street so he could go to an art gallery opening. Biking down that Death Tunnel reveals a true commitment to the arts! It's just refreshing to have an artist in America (that's still alive) that you can respect and look up to. (though if he keeps biking down Peachtree, he may not be alive for long! Ah-cha-cha!)

We'd like to send a special thanks to Nova for hooking us up with these awesome tickets.

Everything that happens...

will happen today.

This album is the first collaboration between David Byrne and Brian Eno in over 30 years.

We were lucky enough to score tickets to the Byrne/Eno concert coming up in September @ Chastain here in Atlanta. This was pretty difficult considering Chastain's byzantine ticketing system that offers the best seats to "members" who are served DINNER during the concert. These "members" must buy tickets for 3 shows at a time. The rest of us, who I like to call "the fans," are seated behind the "members" who are eating instead of watching the show.

It's worth it to see David Byrne.

I was born to give and give and give.

I like the new Weezer album.
Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)

I don't love it. But I really like it.

This is Weezer's sixth album, but only the third to be given a color. I'd love to be able to say I've broken the Weezer code... Then I'd tell you that those Weezer albums that are assigned colors (Blue, Green, Red) are more in line with a "traditional" style of Weezer music, and that the intervening albums are experimental indulgences. That would be really interesting, but I'd just be making that up... I think.

The facts are: Like the other color albums, this album does a good job of giving me the type of Weezer songs that I enjoy listening to and singing along with. Even if that's something Rivers Cuomo likes to make fun of.

"Everyone likes to dance to a happy song
with a catchy chorus and beat so they can sing along"

It's still true. Three songs off this new album are currently available as tracks for Rock Band on Xbox and PS3. I haven't gotten them yet, but you can bet I'll buy them tonight. I'm really looking forward to singing along to the catchy chorus on The Greatest Man That Ever Lived.

Also, I know it destroys my theory, but Pinkerton should have been a color album.

Also, also, we should have some news next week about the play RP and I wrote for Dad's Garage titled - FWD::

You get smaller while the world gets big

The more you know you know you don't know shit.
"The Whiz Man" will never fit ya like "The Whiz Kid" did.

Limozeen

I get so sick of these old metal bands re-forming just to milk extra dollars from their fans.

In other news:
We are working on a new cartoon. Because of that we are swamped with work at 70/30 Productions, and this weblog will continue to suffer. So we've set up a twitter account for the sake of quick information dissemination.

check it out here, or watch the sidebar, thanks!

This was a triumph.

!-- I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS --!

Our beloved be-bearded Jonathan Coulton will be returning to Atlanta in March!

Jonathan Coulton @ Variety Playhouse Sat. March 22nd.

You might remember Jonathan Coutlon from that time he was an awesome recording artist who gives away and sells his music on the internet. Oh and he also wrote that popular Portal Song that everybody went nuts over on the internet.

see:

Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip vs. Boingboing.net

A little more information about these mysterious British fellows, straight from the soruce.

obviously... (via boingboing)

We're Back

We had some routine maintenance to perform here at clunkyrobot.com and of course it didn't go like we planned. Anyway, we're back, and running smoothly. 

To celebrate our triumphant return to the blogosphere we'd like to offer you a nice piece of television history. 

30 years ago today the lovable Elvis Costello was banned from Saturday Night Live. Just 5 seconds into Less Than Zero, Elvis stops his band and begins to play Radio Radio, a song that SNL felt was too "anti-media" to be played on air.  This "switch-a-roo" would get Elvis Costello banned from SNL for 12 years!  Later this event would be parodied in the fine political comedy Bob Roberts starring Tim Robbins.

There's no guarantee that this will stay on youtube.

Alright Still

We have a soft spot for Lilly Allen, and I'm not exactly sure I can tell you why...
But I'll try.

It might be the result of her being a perfect swirling mixture of very specific things that we find awesome. It might be her dance-hall, feel good music combined with her feel not-so-good lyrics. It could even be her voice, which we find soothing and brithishly enraging all at once. Although, in all likelihood it's because we think she's hot, especially when she's trash talking fashion models or pining for spaghetti bolognese.

Well now there's an even better reason to think she's super. She just might be hitching a ride in the TARDIS. Yes, she is being considered for Doctor Who's new companion. Doctor Who is famous throughout the world for being a show about a time and space traveling immortal who is always accompanied by an attractive female companion. That's just how things like that work ok?

We've been watching The New Doctor Who and totally enjoying it. We're even fans of Torchwood, the series most recent spin-off. The Doctor's first companion in the new series, Rose, was played by Billie Piper, who herself was a British Pop Star prior to being on the series. And while it's sometimes and unpopular opinion around here, we liked The Doctor's newest companion Martha Jones played by Freema Agyeman even more than Rose.

Attractive Pleaseea-Burger

Tonight we'll find ourselves at The Earl in East ATL for a three ring circus of a show.

9:30 pm @ The Earl
Get a load of this line-up:

Attractive Eighties Women
(the band of my co-worker and fellow cartoon maker Mack Williams)

Pleaseeasaur
(the band we did animation for on their Comedy Central Records debut DVD)

Neil Hamburger
(old timey insult and gross-out comedian we've never met but still love)

All in one place, and performing just for you.
If that isn't enough to get you excited, it's Zombie Sitcom's f'ing birthday.
Set phasers for debouch.

Same as it ever was.

Saturday Night we made our way to Chastain Amphitheater to see the great David Byrne perform songs he and Brian Eno have created together over the years. These songs included quite a few Talking Heads classics, as well as a bunch of new material from Byrne/Eno's newest album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.

[photo by carrieoke13 via flickr]

I know I talked all kinds of trash about Chastain. You see, the seating arrangement at Chastain got me all in a twist. The area closest to the stage is filled with tables and chairs, these seats belong to season ticket holders, or members, and are very expensive. There is also the understanding that these people will bring picnic baskets full of food and drink to consume before the show. People who buy tickets specifically for one show must either buy the cheap (but not inexpensive) seats far behind the diners, or find a Member who is willing to part with their tickets.

All my griping was for not, because the seats we got were so good it didn't matter that we were behind people eating dinner. In fact, the show was so good that as soon as David Byrne began to play those people eating turned away from their meals and enjoyed the show.

Davd Byrne put on an amazing show, his set list was divided between old and new songs, all of which had been produced with or somehow involved Brian Eno. The show began with the new single "Strange Overtones" a song that has quickly become one of my favorite David Byrne songs of all time. Combine that with three super-charming background dancers, who started the show by "stealing" all the back-up singer's microphones "forcing" them to perform in odd places around the stage, and the show was destined to be a heart breaker.

Ok, here's the part where I admit that we brought a picnic basket to the show. I know! After all my complaining about people eating. Well, I have to tell you, my wife filled our basket with cross-cut finger sandwiches and thermoses full of liquor. Watching David Byrne while drinking Mint Juleps and eating pimento cheese sandwiches couldn't have felt righter! I take it all back Chastain, although, you have David Byrne to thank for most of that.

David Byrne himself has a great journal entry about the concert, and about how excited he and his band and dancers were to be called out for a third encore! He described it as a "human roar." He also talks about how they were warned that the audience at Chastain "might be a picnic crowd that would view the musical acts as background for their Southern social get-together." He too was thankful it turned out differently.

We're huge fans of David Byrne around here. In our eyes he's one of the last remaining relevant American Artists. Not just because of his music, which is still great, but because of his willingness to be a part of, and create great Art. While in Atlanta, he talked about riding his bike down Peachtree Street so he could go to an art gallery opening. Biking down that Death Tunnel reveals a true commitment to the arts! It's just refreshing to have an artist in America (that's still alive) that you can respect and look up to. (though if he keeps biking down Peachtree, he may not be alive for long! Ah-cha-cha!)

We'd like to send a special thanks to Nova for hooking us up with these awesome tickets.

Everything that happens...

will happen today.

This album is the first collaboration between David Byrne and Brian Eno in over 30 years.

We were lucky enough to score tickets to the Byrne/Eno concert coming up in September @ Chastain here in Atlanta. This was pretty difficult considering Chastain's byzantine ticketing system that offers the best seats to "members" who are served DINNER during the concert. These "members" must buy tickets for 3 shows at a time. The rest of us, who I like to call "the fans," are seated behind the "members" who are eating instead of watching the show.

It's worth it to see David Byrne.

I was born to give and give and give.

I like the new Weezer album.
Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)

I don't love it. But I really like it.

This is Weezer's sixth album, but only the third to be given a color. I'd love to be able to say I've broken the Weezer code... Then I'd tell you that those Weezer albums that are assigned colors (Blue, Green, Red) are more in line with a "traditional" style of Weezer music, and that the intervening albums are experimental indulgences. That would be really interesting, but I'd just be making that up... I think.

The facts are: Like the other color albums, this album does a good job of giving me the type of Weezer songs that I enjoy listening to and singing along with. Even if that's something Rivers Cuomo likes to make fun of.

"Everyone likes to dance to a happy song
with a catchy chorus and beat so they can sing along"

It's still true. Three songs off this new album are currently available as tracks for Rock Band on Xbox and PS3. I haven't gotten them yet, but you can bet I'll buy them tonight. I'm really looking forward to singing along to the catchy chorus on The Greatest Man That Ever Lived.

Also, I know it destroys my theory, but Pinkerton should have been a color album.

Also, also, we should have some news next week about the play RP and I wrote for Dad's Garage titled - FWD::

You get smaller while the world gets big

The more you know you know you don't know shit.
"The Whiz Man" will never fit ya like "The Whiz Kid" did.

Limozeen

I get so sick of these old metal bands re-forming just to milk extra dollars from their fans.

In other news:
We are working on a new cartoon. Because of that we are swamped with work at 70/30 Productions, and this weblog will continue to suffer. So we've set up a twitter account for the sake of quick information dissemination.

check it out here, or watch the sidebar, thanks!

This was a triumph.

!-- I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS --!

Our beloved be-bearded Jonathan Coulton will be returning to Atlanta in March!

Jonathan Coulton @ Variety Playhouse Sat. March 22nd.

You might remember Jonathan Coutlon from that time he was an awesome recording artist who gives away and sells his music on the internet. Oh and he also wrote that popular Portal Song that everybody went nuts over on the internet.

see:

Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip vs. Boingboing.net

A little more information about these mysterious British fellows, straight from the soruce.

obviously... (via boingboing)

We're Back

We had some routine maintenance to perform here at clunkyrobot.com and of course it didn't go like we planned. Anyway, we're back, and running smoothly. 

To celebrate our triumphant return to the blogosphere we'd like to offer you a nice piece of television history. 

30 years ago today the lovable Elvis Costello was banned from Saturday Night Live. Just 5 seconds into Less Than Zero, Elvis stops his band and begins to play Radio Radio, a song that SNL felt was too "anti-media" to be played on air.  This "switch-a-roo" would get Elvis Costello banned from SNL for 12 years!  Later this event would be parodied in the fine political comedy Bob Roberts starring Tim Robbins.

There's no guarantee that this will stay on youtube.

Alright Still

We have a soft spot for Lilly Allen, and I'm not exactly sure I can tell you why...
But I'll try.

It might be the result of her being a perfect swirling mixture of very specific things that we find awesome. It might be her dance-hall, feel good music combined with her feel not-so-good lyrics. It could even be her voice, which we find soothing and brithishly enraging all at once. Although, in all likelihood it's because we think she's hot, especially when she's trash talking fashion models or pining for spaghetti bolognese.

Well now there's an even better reason to think she's super. She just might be hitching a ride in the TARDIS. Yes, she is being considered for Doctor Who's new companion. Doctor Who is famous throughout the world for being a show about a time and space traveling immortal who is always accompanied by an attractive female companion. That's just how things like that work ok?

We've been watching The New Doctor Who and totally enjoying it. We're even fans of Torchwood, the series most recent spin-off. The Doctor's first companion in the new series, Rose, was played by Billie Piper, who herself was a British Pop Star prior to being on the series. And while it's sometimes and unpopular opinion around here, we liked The Doctor's newest companion Martha Jones played by Freema Agyeman even more than Rose.

Attractive Pleaseea-Burger

Tonight we'll find ourselves at The Earl in East ATL for a three ring circus of a show.

9:30 pm @ The Earl
Get a load of this line-up:

Attractive Eighties Women
(the band of my co-worker and fellow cartoon maker Mack Williams)

Pleaseeasaur
(the band we did animation for on their Comedy Central Records debut DVD)

Neil Hamburger
(old timey insult and gross-out comedian we've never met but still love)

All in one place, and performing just for you.
If that isn't enough to get you excited, it's Zombie Sitcom's f'ing birthday.
Set phasers for debouch.

Same as it ever was.

Saturday Night we made our way to Chastain Amphitheater to see the great David Byrne perform songs he and Brian Eno have created together over the years. These songs included quite a few Talking Heads classics, as well as a bunch of new material from Byrne/Eno's newest album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.

[photo by carrieoke13 via flickr]

I know I talked all kinds of trash about Chastain. You see, the seating arrangement at Chastain got me all in a twist. The area closest to the stage is filled with tables and chairs, these seats belong to season ticket holders, or members, and are very expensive. There is also the understanding that these people will bring picnic baskets full of food and drink to consume before the show. People who buy tickets specifically for one show must either buy the cheap (but not inexpensive) seats far behind the diners, or find a Member who is willing to part with their tickets.

All my griping was for not, because the seats we got were so good it didn't matter that we were behind people eating dinner. In fact, the show was so good that as soon as David Byrne began to play those people eating turned away from their meals and enjoyed the show.

Davd Byrne put on an amazing show, his set list was divided between old and new songs, all of which had been produced with or somehow involved Brian Eno. The show began with the new single "Strange Overtones" a song that has quickly become one of my favorite David Byrne songs of all time. Combine that with three super-charming background dancers, who started the show by "stealing" all the back-up singer's microphones "forcing" them to perform in odd places around the stage, and the show was destined to be a heart breaker.

Ok, here's the part where I admit that we brought a picnic basket to the show. I know! After all my complaining about people eating. Well, I have to tell you, my wife filled our basket with cross-cut finger sandwiches and thermoses full of liquor. Watching David Byrne while drinking Mint Juleps and eating pimento cheese sandwiches couldn't have felt righter! I take it all back Chastain, although, you have David Byrne to thank for most of that.

David Byrne himself has a great journal entry about the concert, and about how excited he and his band and dancers were to be called out for a third encore! He described it as a "human roar." He also talks about how they were warned that the audience at Chastain "might be a picnic crowd that would view the musical acts as background for their Southern social get-together." He too was thankful it turned out differently.

We're huge fans of David Byrne around here. In our eyes he's one of the last remaining relevant American Artists. Not just because of his music, which is still great, but because of his willingness to be a part of, and create great Art. While in Atlanta, he talked about riding his bike down Peachtree Street so he could go to an art gallery opening. Biking down that Death Tunnel reveals a true commitment to the arts! It's just refreshing to have an artist in America (that's still alive) that you can respect and look up to. (though if he keeps biking down Peachtree, he may not be alive for long! Ah-cha-cha!)

We'd like to send a special thanks to Nova for hooking us up with these awesome tickets.

Everything that happens...

will happen today.

This album is the first collaboration between David Byrne and Brian Eno in over 30 years.

We were lucky enough to score tickets to the Byrne/Eno concert coming up in September @ Chastain here in Atlanta. This was pretty difficult considering Chastain's byzantine ticketing system that offers the best seats to "members" who are served DINNER during the concert. These "members" must buy tickets for 3 shows at a time. The rest of us, who I like to call "the fans," are seated behind the "members" who are eating instead of watching the show.

It's worth it to see David Byrne.

I was born to give and give and give.

I like the new Weezer album.
Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)

I don't love it. But I really like it.

This is Weezer's sixth album, but only the third to be given a color. I'd love to be able to say I've broken the Weezer code... Then I'd tell you that those Weezer albums that are assigned colors (Blue, Green, Red) are more in line with a "traditional" style of Weezer music, and that the intervening albums are experimental indulgences. That would be really interesting, but I'd just be making that up... I think.

The facts are: Like the other color albums, this album does a good job of giving me the type of Weezer songs that I enjoy listening to and singing along with. Even if that's something Rivers Cuomo likes to make fun of.

"Everyone likes to dance to a happy song
with a catchy chorus and beat so they can sing along"

It's still true. Three songs off this new album are currently available as tracks for Rock Band on Xbox and PS3. I haven't gotten them yet, but you can bet I'll buy them tonight. I'm really looking forward to singing along to the catchy chorus on The Greatest Man That Ever Lived.

Also, I know it destroys my theory, but Pinkerton should have been a color album.

Also, also, we should have some news next week about the play RP and I wrote for Dad's Garage titled - FWD::

You get smaller while the world gets big

The more you know you know you don't know shit.
"The Whiz Man" will never fit ya like "The Whiz Kid" did.

Limozeen

I get so sick of these old metal bands re-forming just to milk extra dollars from their fans.

In other news:
We are working on a new cartoon. Because of that we are swamped with work at 70/30 Productions, and this weblog will continue to suffer. So we've set up a twitter account for the sake of quick information dissemination.

check it out here, or watch the sidebar, thanks!

This was a triumph.

!-- I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS --!

Our beloved be-bearded Jonathan Coulton will be returning to Atlanta in March!

Jonathan Coulton @ Variety Playhouse Sat. March 22nd.

You might remember Jonathan Coutlon from that time he was an awesome recording artist who gives away and sells his music on the internet. Oh and he also wrote that popular Portal Song that everybody went nuts over on the internet.

see:

Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip vs. Boingboing.net

A little more information about these mysterious British fellows, straight from the soruce.

obviously... (via boingboing)

We're Back

We had some routine maintenance to perform here at clunkyrobot.com and of course it didn't go like we planned. Anyway, we're back, and running smoothly. 

To celebrate our triumphant return to the blogosphere we'd like to offer you a nice piece of television history. 

30 years ago today the lovable Elvis Costello was banned from Saturday Night Live. Just 5 seconds into Less Than Zero, Elvis stops his band and begins to play Radio Radio, a song that SNL felt was too "anti-media" to be played on air.  This "switch-a-roo" would get Elvis Costello banned from SNL for 12 years!  Later this event would be parodied in the fine political comedy Bob Roberts starring Tim Robbins.

There's no guarantee that this will stay on youtube.

Alright Still

We have a soft spot for Lilly Allen, and I'm not exactly sure I can tell you why...
But I'll try.

It might be the result of her being a perfect swirling mixture of very specific things that we find awesome. It might be her dance-hall, feel good music combined with her feel not-so-good lyrics. It could even be her voice, which we find soothing and brithishly enraging all at once. Although, in all likelihood it's because we think she's hot, especially when she's trash talking fashion models or pining for spaghetti bolognese.

Well now there's an even better reason to think she's super. She just might be hitching a ride in the TARDIS. Yes, she is being considered for Doctor Who's new companion. Doctor Who is famous throughout the world for being a show about a time and space traveling immortal who is always accompanied by an attractive female companion. That's just how things like that work ok?

We've been watching The New Doctor Who and totally enjoying it. We're even fans of Torchwood, the series most recent spin-off. The Doctor's first companion in the new series, Rose, was played by Billie Piper, who herself was a British Pop Star prior to being on the series. And while it's sometimes and unpopular opinion around here, we liked The Doctor's newest companion Martha Jones played by Freema Agyeman even more than Rose.

Attractive Pleaseea-Burger

Tonight we'll find ourselves at The Earl in East ATL for a three ring circus of a show.

9:30 pm @ The Earl
Get a load of this line-up:

Attractive Eighties Women
(the band of my co-worker and fellow cartoon maker Mack Williams)