This is the new video by Cincinnati indie pop heroes Bad Veins, and it’s a great song called “Dancing on TV” with an outstanding video which is not just outstanding because it stars our own Chris Hardwick as the host of a 1970′s TV dance show, although that’s nice, too. Go watch it, then we’ll talk.

Okay, you saw it? Good. It’s just an accident of timing that it’s been released this week in the wake of the passing of Don Cornelius, since it’s an homage to the kind of TV dance show of which Soul Train was a leading example (especially with the evocation of the “Soul Train Line”), but it’s fitting. As a member of Teh Olds, I will admit to having watched cheesy local dance shows of the era back when they actually roamed the earth and I can vouch for the video’s depiction of those shows. In fact, they were even cheesier (oh, for the days of Dancin’ on Air on channel 17 in Philly, with big-haired kids from South Philly and the Great Northeast fighting for camera time). And Chris’ rhyming patter practically channels old Philly DJ and TV dance show host Jerry Blavat (“The Geator with the Heater, the Big Boss with the Hot Sauce”), which would be REALLY eerie if Jerry Blavat wasn’t still alive.

Anyway, this video is a taste of Bad Veins’ new album “The Mess We’ve Made,” which will come out on April 24th. They’ll be touring throughout the Midwest, South, and Northeast in support of the release, too, first with We Were Promised Jetpacks, then, after shows on their own in Philly, Annapolis, Boston (Allston), and New York, with Two Door Cinema Club; the schedule’s at this link at Consequence of Sound. And if you see the movie Chronicle, their song “Gold and Warm” is on the soundtrack, so pay attention.

My friend Max Landis made this fantastic mini doc about how DC killed Superman and subsequently un-killed him.

Appearances by a lot of famous-y people and then me.

If the movie was like this, maybe it would have been a bigger hit.

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1. Channel 101 program Intimate Indiscretions gives you a look into the sexy annals of American History (NSFW) that also involve time travel and lasers.

2. Whatever you think of Bobcat Goldthwait’s stand-up, there is no denying he is a dark comedy genius with his films. Just watch the red-band trailer for his latest film, God Bless America.

3. Every once in a while, there are interview segments with people who aren’t comedians that make people think, “They need to do comedy in some way or another.” Stephen Colbert’s interview with author Maurice Sendak on The Colbert Report is such an interview.

4. Here’s a very funny music video with a bunch of really funny people (Alia Shawkat, Maria Thayer, Kurt Braunohler, Gabe Delahaye, and more) that ISN’T directed by Tom Scharpling: Hospitality’s “Friends of Friends”, directed by Scott Jacobson.

5. Jon Stewart proves that goofy chases and obviously fake wigs are still a solid combo for comedy.

Neat? It’s 10 fucking seconds long!! There are almost as many black frames in the video as there are frames of things. Why did they even bother?!?! Photographs would have been more beneficial. “In case you didn’t know, here are the people in the movie.” Wow. Thanks, I guess.

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Did you know Andy Richter did voice work for Skyrim? Oh, sure, others have taken all the credit, but once you’ve heard this clip from Conan, you’ll see that Andy provided that special sound that takes the game to a whole ‘nother level. Like anyone else could get that “OH MY GOD! HOLY (BLEEP) A DRAGON!” line quite so perfect.

The Jingle Punks Hipster Orchestra is pretty adept at getting attention for their musical stunts, like string-heavy orchestral-style renditions of everything from the Black Keys to MGMT to a whole Nirvana covers EP, and for their recent offering of a hip-hop “lullaby” for the newborn Blue Ivy Carter. This time, they’ve posted their medley of TV themes, five minutes of songs you know by heart, and they’re wearing matching track suits, so you know they mean business. You get The Office, The Simpsons, Friends, and several others, and it’s also a reminder that the art of the TV theme is one that’s been diminished over the years (to the point where some shows barely have any music at all) but really should be preserved. Unless you don’t think the theme to Doctor Who (or, for that matter, Gilligan’s Island) is art, in which case I don’t know you anymore.

Because sometimes you just need to express yourself in a particular fashion, here’s a montage of shots of people in movies extending their middle fingers to the world, scored to the most appropriate song for the occasion, the NSFW version of Cee-Lo Green’s biggest hit. Adults, kids, animals, everybody’s doing it. One digit says so much, doesn’t it?

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0:06-0:10: Hmm, this has the unmistakable aroma of Europe already.

0:10-0:14: Gravelly-voiced trailer narration is a sadly dying art. However, anytime you hear it, you know it’s going to be a “good one.”

0:14-0:20: Rampant CGI. Looks a little like Minority Report, doesn’t it?

0:20-0:25: Oh, for fuck’s sake. A prison in geosynchronous orbit around the Earth? That would be the largest space object ever built. Way to use space for its intended purpose, fictional future world leaders.

0:25-0:30: It’s a good thing ships are slower in space, otherwise that gun would be incredibly inefficient.

0:30-0:35: Alright, the plot of this film, you’re asking us to suspend and awful lot of disbelief here. Would they really send a hot blonde up in outer goddamned space to a prison full of the planet’s most insane and dangerous criminals?

0:35-0:44: Well…that escalated quickly.

0:45-0:48: Okay, really? The hot woman is the PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER. If you really cared about her you would have realized this had narrative linchpin written all over it.

0:48-0:53: There’s always just one man. No one ever says, “Well, luckily I know like five or six guys who could probably do it; let me get on Twitter and see who’s around.”

0:54-1:02: What exactly is he good at besides causing multi-car pile ups? I’d also like to that voice actor Corey Burton for redubbing whoever the president is talking to for the purposes of the trailer.

1:03-1:10: Guy Pearce as Hugh Jackman as John McClane as Snake Plissken.

1:11-1:16: In this future, the space program is bigger than Apple.

1:16-1:25: How exactly is he FALLING? There’s no gravity in space, last time I checked, so he’d just keep going forward forever or until something stopped him. Have people totally forgotten the science part of science fiction? (The answer is yes)

1:26-1:27: Of course it’s from the producers of Taken. It’s another movie where Maggie Grace has to be rescued, I really hope “damsel-ing” is prominent on her list of skills.

1:27-1:35: Again, the gravity generator will hold him up.  Fine, but why then does the bad guy fall to his death? Come on, fellas, you’re losing your heads.

1:35-1:40: You’d think she’d be a little more grateful to see someone who wasn’t actively trying to rape her.

1:41-1:49: She’s really wearing the best disguise I’ve ever seen. I’m surprised it didn’t work.

1:49-1:52: It’s falling out of the sky… How unprecedented.

1:53-2:00: It has been quite a while since we’ve seen a good insane Scotsman on the big screen. So it’s got that going for it.

2:00-2:06: It is kind of cool to see Guy Pearce in just a straight up badass role, that’s pretty rare for him. Is he going to follow in Liam Neeson’s footsteps and play nothing but that now? Will Pearce get to fight off wolves in a few years?

2:06-2:12: Shots of nothing at all, good for any trailer. Also, they seem to have taken a good amount of liberty in telling the story of the NBA’s recent lockout. Fewer tattooed convicts, though.

2:13-2:23: And no trailer is complete without an oral sex joke.

Hooray to this movie for being outwardly ridiculous from the first shot of the trailer. I’ll probably see it.

-Kanderson liked this movie the first time he saw it, when it followed him on TWITTER

You know how we love all things Muppet and Henson, so we can’t pass up this rarity from the AT&T Archives, a short film made for a business seminar held by The Bell System in 1963. There’s even a flatulence joke in there. And it shows how pretty much everything Jim Henson did was infused with his trademark wit.

It’s great that so much of this stuff has managed to survive and we get to see it. We’re lucky that way.

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