I Got You On Tape – Spinning for the Cause

I Got You On Tape (inevitably, IGYOT) is an indie band out of Copenhagen with a low-key sound that ranges from gritty to hypnotic and everywhere in between. (No, I don’t know if those adjectives are on opposite ends of a spectrum or what. Shut up.)

Lead singer Jakob Bellens has a deep voice that comes across as uncomplicated and slightly bleak. In this live recording, it’s pretty rough at first, as if he was singing his way through the aftermath of a drunken break-up.

This track was on the SXSW 2011 torrent; this video is a live performance of the song from some show in Denmark. I liked it enough to go out and pull down the band’s first album (the eponymous I Got You On Tape, from 2006). The songs are all relatively slow-paced, like this one, but never drag. (And in most of them, Bellens sounds eerily like David Bowie.)

I’m finding a lot of high-quality alternative/post-punk music these days coming out of Denmark, Belgium, and the Netherlands these days. Last week it was Nid & Sancy, this week these guys… maybe next week, I’ll put up some De Staat.

[H]earing Republicans complain about the partisan tone of the speech is like watching a group of cobras complain that the local mongoose bites them too hard. Seriously, guys, you’re cobras. Suck it up. It’s just fucking embarrassing.

The Rude Pundit, on President Obama’s budget speech.

http://www.oprah.com/food/Tuesdays-with-Dorie-Baking-Blogs-Dorie-Greenspan

…but my wife, the fabulous Jules Someone, has been involved with this for about three years now, which means many much and much baked goodness around my house. All. The. Time. So bad, and yet so very very good.

http://www.loweringthebar.net/2011/04/at-long-last.html

Yeah, this. What the hell, people?

http://flic.kr/s/aHsjquNHHi

Brilliant Flickr set – albums reimagined as books. Wish I could figure out how to show one here, but just click the link and go see for yourself.

Time-lapse video of a flight from San Francisco to Paris, with some awesome shots of the aurora borealis.

I don’t watch enough Colbert. This one deserves some play. Walgreen’s? Really??

Also, I always love it when comics lose it on camera.

There are days when I love the Internet so much it burns my brain. This guy finds and compiles the bizarro results when Google’s satellite image processor goes a little haywire. Click through the photo to see the collection. Check out some of his other projects, too.

http://www.overthinkingit.com/2011/04/12/terminator-nitpick/

Thank goodness someone is thinking about this stuff.

This pretty much sums it up.