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It has been soo long since the Wang's last post, that even the Wang himself don't remember much. But since u gentle readers all sit patiently glued to ur RSS feeds of WWW, The Wang figures its about time for another infamous update. Of course, like a good blogger, the Wang keeps notes for things he wants to blog about. But as a bad blogger the Wang will dump the entirety of 1.5 month of stuff in one giant post. This might get long... That's what she said!! (and it might include a lot of random links like that one there.)

First off, the almost two month old post that the Wang should of wrote for Coachella 08'. Since it is very late, The Wang will cut it short.

It was fun.

Here are more photos than u can shake a stick at:
-The Wang's Flickr Coachella 08 Set
-Sunggnus' Flickr He Haz a photo pass.
-Ourcommon's Flickr stuff, very pretty.
-Miss Black's I'm w/ the Band Set
-Girl from Long Beach
-Jackiebutler's Coachella Group.
-Lastnightsparty's photoset (some NSFW stuff)
-LAist's coverage Day 1, Day 2 & Day 3
Damn it, I truly miss the LAist. They were nice enough to post a "where to eat" @ Coachella list. That's right SFist u've been warned, shape up or u r losing ur spot in the Wang's RSS feed.

Some of the memorable moments include The Flogging Molly Mosh out, the Gogol Bordello Mosh Out, which lead to famous drum riding, and yes, you r right, one of those hands holding up the drum is, in fact, of the Wang. The Wang was up front and right. When the the drum flew, the Wang brought forth his super human strength and carried the Gogol Bordello Dancing girl, by himself with the aid of a few. The Wang and friends, camped this yr @ Tent City which basically involve staying up late and waking up tot he heated tent fighting for a shower spot. Mr. Starfizzy did battle with the electronic charging wall daily. He is an avid documentor with a very small battery.

Other things of note:
-Best Video Ass Shaking.
-Roger Water Lost his Pig and then found it.
-Prince did his "Second Coming" thing and played for like 3 hrs. The Wang Squad enjoyed it from a distance, safe from the rabid fans. But we did miss the epic music momemnt of him covering "Creep". being Prince, he proceed to remove every video on Youtube of it... thank god the internet is beautiful place. So here it is: Prince Covering Creep.
-The Wang does regret not being able to be at multiple places at once... or to have the willingness to stay late enough to see Fatboy Slim




Of course the rest of today's Giant Panda Post will be paw style... one after the other. A lot of crap. Feel free to skip around or go back to your pron. Also, some of these things might be month old news.

Are you ready for the final season of BSG? Don't forget, tomorrow night will be the 2nd coming.





And the best way to recall last season is this:






And in case need more reasons to watch BSG, here are 10 more, delivered by the cast on Letterman.


In case you missed te first three seasons, here's Sci-Fis very own "What the Frak is going on."

So this past weekend was the end of the big GDC event which blurred right into WonderCon, the tiny sister of ComicCon. The Wang wasn't really involved with the GDC, cept by proxy of a visiting WoW friend. But the WonderCon did lure the Wang with some panels, that were minorly related to the Wang's work. Which turned out to be completely unrelated. But the whole potential lead the Wang to learn about professional free pass for WonderCon. So free cons = good cons.

We're not really going into a WonderCon review, but the Wang will note that he sat in a J. Michael Straczynski panel. JMS is most well known for Babylon 5, which is a legendary TV show. It had some of the best television seasonal arcs. But unfortunately due to crappy art design and dated special effects, it might be really hard for anyone to pick up the DVD sets and start watching it these days. JMS now is doing a lot of comic work and might be involved with a lot of future movie scripts. Specially with all the new comic to movies that are coming out, all these famous comic/TV writers are getting great exposures.

Now back to the main topic of today's post, the Oscars. Yes, here at WWW we're looking at the Oscars. Normally we flee from this type of direct media coverage reserved for The Daily 10, Defamer, or any of Perez Hilton's blogs. But this last year was actually a pretty good year for film. So in old school style, we jump right in to the paw listings.


Mahalo Daily's Monday post: Oscar in 60 sec. A great list but they miss a few important gems, one of which is the win by Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová's for their great song "Falling Slowly". Here is their Oscar live performance, which the Wang thinks that Glen toned down his usual vein popping performance during the high climax of the song. This of course lead to the best moment in Oscar history where John Stewart brought back Markéta Irglová to let her finish her cut-off-ed speech. She proceed to give one of the evening's most memorable speech about how hope unites us all. Here are the texts to the full speech for both Glen and Markéta, from Firstshowing. And if all this coolness isn't enough to convince you to go see this gem of a indie film then you are dead to me and might as well take you RSS feed for this blog off you readers. So go watch Once, or prepare for the burning wrath of the Wang.

Here's the FirstShowing, Full List.


I hate transformers, but really Visual Award? At least thanks to the Onion, Michael Bay gets his Oscar @ the cost of a $120m digital production. He did make that "AWESOME!" commercial. how the frak did Golden Compass win this? Really? I mean the Wang digged the airships, but it was clearly no match for the 10,000 pieces of moving metal fighting another 10,000 pieces of moving metal that is Transformers. And Bourne ran off with 3 technical awards. Great movie, but it felt like they gave it to Bourne for the trilogy, not Ultimatum.


I was rooting for Ellen Page for Juno. But since every prediction and their mother's prediction was for Julie Christie and the fact that the movie, Away From Her, was directed by Sarah Polley, The Wang was swayed... But I guess it is good that Tilda Swinton got it in the end, which shocked everyone. And ended the Wang's internal struggles. Because there's enough Wang for both Ellen Page and Sarah Polley. Email me. (makes phone gesture.)


Sure I like Johnny Depp in his myriad of characters, but really? How did that Sweeney Todd clip even fit with the others?!


Great Speech Quotes: Joel Coens: "...letting us continue to play in our corner of the sandbox"


Plus who knew, Clooney was the man. He predicated most of the acting nods. He's truly as they say, "old Hollywood". He's got it all, class, style and devilish smile. The Wang aint gay, but if George showed up an bought us diner, hey u never know... I'm just saying, not gay.


Ebb and Flow of Movies:
 

NYT gives us this wave-like visualization of movie grosses in the last few years.


On Monday night, the weekend ended in a really fun concert with Missy Higgins @ The Independent. She was rather funny with a few Aussie/American jokes, some humor about how her Target bought Bra kept falling of her shoulders (ZING!!), how she finally got her song into Grey's Anatomy and the overall comments on the American accent, which she demo-ed for the audience. Fun times were had and the Wang probably had the fun-est time at a "Pop" concert. There was something about the happy upbeat energy that Missy Higgins was going off on.


And in the end all this seemed make a really fun music weekend for the Wang. And in the recent artistic posting line, we end the day on a grammy winning music short dedicated to Johnny Cash:



THANKYOUs:
My Extra Life, Firstshowing.net, Vulture

( photo by: [Zakkaliciousness])


This of course is the artistic mindset left by the music of one of the Wang's favorite movie of the year, Juno. The general gist of the movie is that 16 yr old, sarcastic high schooler, Juno finds out she's pregnant and goes on the movie length journey of understanding love and maturity. Director Jason Reitman of Thankyou For Smoking fame, brilliantly delivers this indie darling of a film with a witty script and slightly off-the-wall comedy.With Quotes like these gems:

Rollo (Rainn Wilson): That ain't no etch-a-sketch. That's one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

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Juno MacGuff: You should've gone to China, you know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events.

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This movie comes around the corner with its witty, brilliant acting from everyone; from Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons, & even Jennifer Garner, in seemingly small role that turns a whisper of a character into a pretty nice side plot of the story, that seems to comment on the whole question of maturity and relationships. J.K. Simmons as the funny and understanding dad has got to be one of the best dad's in movie history. The Wang only wishes that his future father-in-law would have that kind of humor and open minded-ness. Of course seeing that the title character Juno is pretty much the witty equivalent of a wet dream center fold, plus indie guitar playing skills.



This leads us to the soul of our musing, the soundtrack. The sound track is mainly filled with the works of Kimya Dawson, in her many guises. She's either performing with her old claim-to-fame, The Moldy Peaches, or her solo stuff, or her recent co-lab with The Antsy Pants. Kimya Dawson is labeled as Anti-Folk. Which at first, the Wang was lost to the labeling and genre. Of course after an evening with the Moldy Peaches titular album, smack the concept home in its wordy, witty, & experimental sound. Though overall, the music used in Juno tend to be what the Wang originally felt as some sort of kiddie-folk or twee-folk. With lyrics about love, life, hamburgers and vampires all fueled by Kimya Dawson's childish voice. Her seemingly young and innocent voice is instantly shattered when one noticed the lyrics and topics that smartly flow off her folk-style guitar like verbal syrup.

Also included in the Juno soundtrack is a few songs the movie use to hammer home the character's love of music. Juno of course prefers the 1977 punk era, as her counter point, Jason Bateman defends the grunge era of 1993. Songs include "All the You Dudes" by Mott the Hoople and "Superstar" by Sonic Youth. Check out this great entry by Indiemuse.com which include a few tracks. (SPECIALLY check out Kimya Dawson's Loose Lips) Kimya Dawson really adds to the movie, from its title-opening track to the ending song which cements the movie, "Anyone Else But You" cover by Ellen Page and Michael Cera, originally a Moldy Peaches song by Adam Green and Kimya Dawson.

This leads us to the interview with Ellen Page by Pitchfork, where we learn that:

Ellen Page: [Juno director] Jason Reitman and I were meeting for maybe the second or third time and he simply said, "Well, what do you think Juno would listen to?" Immediately I said the Moldy Peaches, and he, I guess, wasn't familiar with their work, so I hopped on his computer and I played the Moldy Peaches for him. The next thing I knew he'd fallen in love-- rightfully so, they're awesome-- and he was in contact with Kimya Dawson, who is the female in the band, and he added the song at the end of the film, which is a Moldy Peaches song. That song's been in my life for years, actually; there's a lot of sentimental value there. And the next thing we know Kimya Dawson is doing the music for the film. It was really incredible how that all worked out because it just feels perfect.

So the Wang puts two paws up on Juno, and the soundtrack which is now available on iTunes, and in Jan. in hardcopy. Of course you can just get some Kimbya Dawson stuff to work you over till then.

The Moldy Peaches - Nothing Came Out (MP3) : Inspiration for the opening pic..
The Moldy Peaches - Anyone Else But You (MP3) : The song that sets the mood for Juno.

And just to catch up on the old days of WWW glory, a few recent things on the Wang's RSS reading list, paw style:
Tad Safran of the Times stirs the British Hen House with this Op-Ed on how American Women groom themselves better. Of course this lead to a nation-wide (British Nation) fervor and scorn by the ladies, which earned a second article.


Tabula Rasa may not be the best MMO around, nor may it be top dog, but the Wang donated some time, and gives it its just deserves. But what really hits the sweet spot is the fan base that took Richard Garetts new world to heart and created more fanfic and roleplaying than any Tauren cow cosplay will ever do. Here's an example from Massively on Remembrance Day. And from tabularasaroleplayers.com of their fan gathering on Dec. 21, Remeberence Day, basically a memorial honoring the day when Earth fell to the alien invaders, The Bane.


The year end round up video games and games of the year is too long to keep track of. But the Wang was sorely entranced by the Gaming Club on Slate.com.  The Gaming Club is a mimic of Steven Totilo of MTV's Multiplayer Blog and N'Gai Croal of Newsweek's  Level Up Blog 's usual vs Mode. Its normally a series of emails that would debate/discuss a specific game or video game related subject. This time for their big year end round up they included Seth Schiesel of NYT and Chris Suellentrop (most currently of Slate) into their mix. They brought forth an email roundtable that talks from everything from game design to the criticism of video games. Specially in the light of the recent events involving Jeff Gerstmann, which promoted the entire industry a new to critically comment on the field of Video Game Journalism. None the less, this was a great read about video games, industry, and and what it means to be critical.


Also related to video games, the MTV Multiplaer Blog's Tracey John also wrapped up last weeks great series of article of Women Working in Games. Tracey goes off and interviews Morgan Webb (X-Play/G4TV), Janet Pickard (Game Girl Advance), Elspeth Tory (Ubisoft), Brenda Brathwaite, and Tali Fischer (Sega). Of course hidden under the subtlety of the general interviews is the questions about the recent Jade Raymond incident. But overall it's a great set of interviews about the whole industry from journalists to developers to PR. Sure the topic is about women, but it gives a nice view of the field and the people in it. Personally, the Wang comes to the conclusion that the industry seems to be embracing the female influx, but the it's the webtard players that seems to be dumbing it up for the male populace by scaring off most of these women from forums and comments.


On that note, here's a nice review of Bioshock from the Mighty Pony Girl. Yes it has a female perspective. I give her credit for reading Fountainhead before playing the game, just to get the full experience.


And since the Wang hasent been blogging about everything that was cool of recent, here's a cool link to the semi-spoiler-best-ending-ever-for-a-video-game-credit-sequence of Portal: GlaDOS - Still Alive (Youtube link). Of course if you have not experienced it, please give it a try, Portal is one of the best games this past year. Plus its short, fun and well written. It comes in slightly around 3 hrs. (without the repeatable time trials) and packs a great subtle story telling all wrapped in witty dialog. Of course the entire Orange Box is pretty worth it, for it contains Portal, Half Life, HL: Episode 1 & 2 and Team Fortress 2. TF2 is the bastard child of The Incredibles and online multiplayer mindless fun. Plus if you have the time, you should check out the "Meet the ____" videos on YT. Some of them are hilarious.


THANKYOUs:
Level Up Blog, Massively, MTV's Multiplayer Blog, [Zakkaliciousness]

There were never any good old days
They are today, they are tomorrow
It's a stupid thing we say
Cursing tomorrow with sorrow.

Gogol Bordello -- Ultimate

Photo: John

So the Wang usually does drop album reviews. Specially since the Wang enter the music scene rather late in life and is still sending half of his time catching up on the old rock legends and classics. So seeing stuff about the upcoming movie about Bob Dylan, "I'm Not There", the Wang was naturally happy to see the story of another musical icon via some indie film introduction. Since the late arrival on the English music scene, the Wang had to had most of his musical experiences with the icons like the Beatles via movies like Across the Universe and with Walk the Line for Johnny Cash. And for a new generation, the Wang included, these things may be an insult to some of the older hardcores, but there r a great way to get the new folks a slice of these icon's greatness. Covers songs re surge a interest about the original singers. Though the Wang have this weird theory that the first version of a song u listen to, tends to be the one u like more. But that's just personal opinion. Since "I'm Not There" isn't released in the US till Nov. 21, the Wang has very little to say about it except links to the Wikipedia entry and a Youtube trailer. The movie does have some strong actors/actress portraying Bob Dylan at different personalities. Amongst those are Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, and Heath Ledger.

So the topic of this post is mainly about the Original Soundtrack of the said movie. Never having much encounter with bob's music cept maybe the closest would be The Wang has heard some Wallflower songs... (yes, I said Wallflowers) Which of course is no where close to Bob Dylan's music, cept being from the same gene pool. So there Wang was, a collector of sound tracks and random music. The "I'm Not There" soundtrack pops out with names like Karen O, Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine, Jeff Tweedy, Yo La Tango and even the duo from the Swell season, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova. Amongst many more. U might as well just check out the Wikipedia entry for the full list. Not to mention the super guitar group called the The Million Dollar bashers, which includes the guitarist from Sonic youth and Wilco. Some of the guitar in the songs smack of old school rock classics and brings a modern twang to some of these songs. Not the Wang has much to compare to with the old, original Dylan stuff. But he's definitely going to be on the lookout for some old tracks just to get a mix and feel for things. If one thing he's learned in his old age is that, any experiences is perceived differently, at different ages. So a song u heard when u were 12 probably means something completely different to u at age 30. So the Wang recommend all u old Dylan purist to give the album a try also. Why not, some of it can be good. I mean Karen O, Iron and wine really brings their own flavor to some of these really good songs. Even Mark Lanegan of Queens of the Stone Age brings a Johnney Cash esque cover of The Man in the Long Black Coat.

There r just too many good tracks, so the Wang will post the first one that came up in the random shuffle which caught the Wang's attention:

Sufjan Stevens Covering Ring of Bells (MP3)


P.S. Rabbit! Rabbit!

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Sigur Rós - Hoppípolla
Sigur Rós - Hoppípolla video Stream

So the Wang has been resting from a Weekend long fun time in the desert that most of us call Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The Wang must admit, after seeing the lineup this year the Wang wasn’t as excited for the festival as the Wang was last yr. When the lineup was soo packed that the Wang barely had time to walk between stages. This year rather, Mr. Starfizzy had some last min. emergencies that took him out of the party-o-fun that is Coachella 2006. So instead the Wang hooked up with old co-worker friend Mr. Rock and his entourage.

The Wang must admit the Coachella fest was definitely a lot more fun once u realize that the true fun of Coachella isn’t trying to see as many bands as u can, but rather to enjoy the fact that u r with some 60k ppl, hanging out in the middle of the desert to watch some sweaty dude scream into a receiving end of a electrified cable. And especially since some of these 60k ppl, are hawt women. Still the Wang caught some good music, had some good snacks and had a fun time just chilling and vegging out on the grass this yr. Plus the Wang has discovered his liking to post rock. Thus the usual 7p-9p Coachella block, that consist of cool post bands that bring in the beautiful desert dusk. This yr, the Wang was treated to the likes of Sigur Rós, Yeah Yeah Yeahs (ok not so post… but nice), and Mogwai. IN fact the Wang was having the funnest time on Sunday really enjoying the post/ambient rock and watching girls spin lights.

The Wang also ended the day with a lot of weird lighting/shadow pictures… Think it had something to do with being stuck in the masses of ppl walking out, and all the spot lights in the parking lot.

Much as the Wang would like to give the list by list view and review of all the bands the Wang saw, I’m quite sure u, the gentle readers would have better things to read than my opinions on individual bands. So the quick and dirty list/bullet style sum up of the weekend:

Bands I saw…

Saturday

• The Duke Spirit: they were cool, a bit country. And the only country the Wang likes r and Chan Marshall of Cat power… (ok Altanta is like High South, but still country right?)
  
• Clap Your hands and Say Yeah: The first full act the Wang saw. Great stuff, rocking, and the Wang even met Josh Radnor from How I Met Your mother. Also CYHASY gave us this moment of Digital Photography Zen.
  
• My Morning jacket: The Wang hoping that they would play more of their non-singing post rock songs. They didn’t.
  
• Imogen Heap: Dispite some Keyboard, mixer, iBook issues, Ms. Heap pulled off some cool electronic tunes for the crowd. Having the perfect “golden hour" time slot, she gained some cool soft warm lighting with her freaky flower keyboard stand.
  
• Sigur Rós: Nothing like watching the desert cool down into the night and listening to the cooness of Sigu Rós. The wang still has no idea what the hell, jónsi sings about. But he sure looks like he’s singing his soul out of his neck. Here’s an example of a Sigur Rós experience.
  
• Franz Ferdinand: Whom plainly rocked out like it was 2005
  
• Corndog: diner.
  
• She Wants Revenge: SWR’s Justin Warfield clearly had a Prince fetish growing up. ( u cant really see his open shirted dancing stylings, but trust the Wang…) But SWR did bring out these hawt hawt punk brides that is probably somehow related to one of the most spankable cover ever.
  
• Rushing home in traffic to meet Mr. Rock @ his place.
  

Sunday

• James Blunt: Who was poppy good. He didn’t play the Wang’s favorite “Goodbye Lover" song though. But this was definetly part of the more main stream Coachella lineup. The Wang thinks the tent was filled with OC watching, Vans wearing, American Apparel ‘s running short wearing, hippsters. Which isn’t a bad thing… specially how this was definelty a yr of short shorts and summer dress…
  


• Heineken: Beer time in the beer garden.
  


• Matisyahu: The Wang and Wang friends caught Matisyahu from a distance… He was definetly one of the best dressed singers… Shirt and Black pants and all. Not the Wang’s style of music but that song they always play on the radio is catchy… “King Without a Crown."
  


• Sleater Kinney: The Wang parts from the Wang friends, as they all flock to the Techno tent in preparation for the 3rd coming of Madonna. The Wang hangs around the main stage for the girl-on-girl action of Sleater Kinney. Though entertaining, I think the Wang should of went to see Bloc Party. The Wang think’s that last years Bloc Party experience was rather disillusioned and they deserve a second chance. But Hawt Hacky sack girl and her skirt-flip kicking technique entranced the Wang… til…
  


• Yeah Yeah Yeahs: All the Wang can say at this point, that the Wang was sooo tripped out that the Yeah yeah yeahs were some sort of distant soundscape. All the Wang can remember was that Karen O was awesome and red… But they were good. The Wang wished that he was more coherent at the time to enjoy more of the Y^3s. But then the dusk time in the desert is a magical time… magical.
  


• Mogwai: They were also magical. This is when the Wang learned that some of the best things at Coachella inst necessarily the Music stages. But sometimes its just about hanging with the ppl near the stage, having the music in the background, and taking weird photos of swirly lights. But Mogwai played a great post-rock set. Combined with the chilling desert air and the quietness (everyone was at Madonna tent) of the fields, this was one of the best moments of Coachella 06.
  


• The Go! Team: Not that they were bad, I think the Wang made a mistake picking them, and just wandered off to watch some more cool ppl and basically taking photos and drifting around.
  


• Scissor Sisters: They rocked. The Wang met up with Mr. and Mrs. Rock and Rocked out at the Scissor Sister performance. More folks danced out jumping up and down. Beach balls flew and women shook it like it was the 80s. The Sisters were just Fabulous, gorgeous… Filthy Gorgeous. They played some of the Wangs’ favorites, like “Laura", “Filthy Gorgeous", and “Take your Mama Out." It was a partying time and great way to end a fun yr of Caochella.
  


• Walking out with the crowd:
  

Items of note

The Wang even found Mr. Starfizzy’s long lost love:


Photo by gcomnz

Gayest Coachella ever! -as stated by Mr. Rock’s friend, whom writes for some sort of publication for Las Vegas.

Coachella made the Wang felt the back home with the Island spirit of Aloha!

I heard Daft Punk was also playing…

And Madonna proves to us that she uses deodorant.

Dude!

Video: Scissor Sisters

Video: Tesla Coil

Use the grappling hook, Luke

Not sure who these folks r, but the Wang saw them running around the fields and dubbed them The Coachella Power Rangers and Alpha 5, on the left.

Regrets…

The Wang is now an official fan of Annie from Giant Drag. too bad the Wang missed u, next time…

Missing Be Your Own Pet. here’s Adventure Video to wet ur whistles.

Or missing the sultry voice of Cat Power

On missing The Zutons and their sexaphone hawtness

Missing the Like girls…

Not seeing the Metric

Not meeting Master Shake

Need to get closer and/or a photo pass, cause this dude got a much better picture of the SWR Punk Brides.

On the interweb:

For more stories, the LJ, Coachella Community probably one of many…

A cool LA Weekly Review of Coachella by Alie Ward. Which can be best described as the Blog-style of journalism. Rather witty and funny… and with cool journalistic whips like:

As fans chuck glowsticks into the dangerously large crowd, I think to myself, “Someone’s gonna get beaned in the head with one of those." A moment later, I am beaned in the head with one of those.

More photos @:

Flickr’s Coachella 2006 Tag and the Coachella 2006 Photo Set

The Desert Sun’s Coachella 06 guide w/ Photo section

The Wang’s Flickr Coachella 2006 stream

arjanwrites’s Coachella Photo Set. He must have had a photo pass.

LA Times’ Photo Gallery

Stuff

And then there’s the random crap that’s been piling up… so here they r, paw style.

The Difference between indi scenesters and Emo boys

A new batch of Mac vs. PC commercials

A whole bunch of trailers: Casino Royale, Superman Returns,

The Japanese-ized Powerpuff Girl Z

The AMAZING Copperfield!!

And the Wang leaves u with the partying of Caochella, have fun and perhaps u 2 can be out int he desert next yr!

THANKYOUs:

Waxy Links, The Desert Sun, Flickr, LA Weekly

Amy Millan's Solo album, Honey from the Tombs Has been out for awhile now, like 2 yrs. But amy still finds time to hook up with Stars and Broken Social Scene to do the whole Canuck Indie pop scene. The Stars, being one of the Wang's recent favorite has been on the constent repeat section of the Wang-pod. This time we give u a little sample track from the ppl and Art&Craft who produces Broken Social Scene, Feist, Stars and Amy:

Skinny Boy

The softer side of the Wang brings u this: Time After TIme by Cyndi Lauper & Sarah McLachlan

Food Fight!. Actually a MTV commentary on something important I think, by Nerina Pellot.

Wes Anderson does American Express Commercial

The Wang gives u: Wang Net. Only using half its power, imagine the growth possibilities!

ZeFrank and Amanda Congdon has some sort of Vlog fore-play. Its V-Hawt!~

SNL brings us Mickey and the Disney Vault, comic gold.

From the mad genius of Tokyo Plastic, we get Creepy cool Dog Flash Animation

C for Cookie

Alright Hope Everyone is going to have a fun Coachella Weekend. If u happen to be one of those that dont get to go to coachella, here's something u can do at home to get the similar experience:

-Stand around inline at Ralph for 8hr and constantly try to move up in the 10 item or less line, just to snap a picture of the checkout girl.

-Walk around in ur swimming suit and really short jeans.

-Pop in an 8-track or 7" of Depeche Mode.

-Pop in something from Madona.

-dance properly

-Listen to KCRW's web radio channel or Indie 103.1

-Go to porta-potty near Westlake Blvd and use it. Then wash u r hand with some sort of sanitizing gel.

-Lay out on the front lawn.

-Take some photos with ur digital camera, in the dark.

-And the bestests part is to imagine ur dancing with the hawt girls at the Gobi tent, that should be some sort of walking American Apparel ad:

THANKYOUs:

Datawhat?!, The Dij, GoldenFiddle, Thighs Wide Shut, March Hare and BoingBoing

One day, some 20 hrs left… its Coachella 06, or aka high on desert sun and wind so u can stand around for 10hrs a day music fest. Last year was the Wang’s first visit to Coachella, much fun was had. This yr, the Wang’s Sophomore yr at Coachella, the Wang is more rdy to just relax and veg out at the Trance/Techno tent and chill with the homies. Prehaps this time the Wang can snap more shots with the camera and worry less about running around like a lost freshman.

Coachella Schedules are finally up!