'lil blogging break

Hi folks, as you might have noticed, posting is going to be light this summer - I have some professional stuff going on that's exciting but time consuming, and also some vacation plans that will hopefully untether me from my laptop. I'll continue to check in, and bring you stuff like this trailer for The Invention of Lying, Ricky Gervais's comedy about a world in which nobody lies, ever. All truth, all the time, for better or for worse - until one man (Gervais) discovers fibbing and all the power therein. A million fun cameos, and one of the funniest scripts I've ever read.

...and this, Michael Jackson's performance from the 1995 MTV Awards. Just a great mashup of his greatest hits. Sure, the lipsyching is plain as day, but his live performances were always about the moves, right? My first real attempts at "dance" were in first grade, in my best friends bedroom, listening to Michael Jackson and attempting what were probably some unwittingly perverse moves for a seven-year-old.



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mtv music, where have you been all my life?

MTV has launched new site MTV Music, featuring pretty much every music video you can possibly think of. 26 different Hall & Oates videos... I know what I'm doing tonight.

Old Springs Pike shakin' it on MTV

Check this out: one of Moxie's favorite bands, Old Springs Pike, was featured today on MTV, in a much-deserved resurrection of the old "you heard it here first" format that MTV did so much of in the network's heyday. I can't figure out how to get the video into blogger, but click here to see all the MTV fancyness. I'm so, so fond of these folks, and can't say enough about the joyful rambunctiousness of their shows and the soul-searing harmonies they regularly bust out. If you don't believe me, take MTV's word for it. John Norris calls them "a brilliantly distinctive musical force".

Just as a little taster, here's a video of the band playing their song "Hometown Hero" at Ars Nova. They're gonna be playing the Spiegelworld tent on September 10th, info here.