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Archive: December, 2012
I’m still posting standout tracks/videos every night at midnight for some reason. (Click here to see them all so far.) Duet of the year?
Jack White - Love Interruption from play bleu on Vimeo.
I’m still posting standout tracks/videos every night at midnight for some reason. (Click here to see them all so far.) Midtown Dickens is a band of folksy sweethearts in the Be Good Tanyas kind of way, and their 2012 album, Home, is straight-up gorgeous. Video’s pretty nice, too. Better go get the skimmer.
Midtown Dickens - "Walk, Don't You Run" from Trekky Records on Vimeo.
View galleryAfrobeat is alive and well, and Antibalas is an adept steward of the genre. In fact, it seemed as though Antibalas channeled Fela Kuti during their hour and 50 minute set at Union Transfer last night — not surprising considering they’re the house band for the Broadway musical Fela!
We have way too much fun with our Instagram account (follow us @phillycitypaper!), but City Paper staff photographer Neal Santos (@nealsantos) is the real deal when it comes to snapping gorgeous shots of people and places around the City of Brotherly Love. Every Friday, in this space, he shares a handful of his week's favorites.
Super Crappy Funtime (SCFT) is a podcast hosted by Philadelphia comedians Dan Scully and Kevin Lau. Like most of our local comedy podcasts, it's just two comedians talking about stuff. No gimmicks. No shtick. It’s just two laidback funny guys tackling big issues, like pop culture, local comedy and other weekly podcasts. (They often have guest comedians from the Philly scene.) Recently, Dan and Kevin sat down with us to talk all things crappy and fun.
City Paper: How did you guys get started?
Dan Scully: Podcasting always seemed like a fun, low-effort way to essentially "get more stage time." I had toyed with the idea of starting one, but didn’t have the technological know-how to do IT. Kevin had the geek cred, so we just started winging it and, before long, fell into a great rhythm.
Kevin Lau: I used to have a podcast before I started comedy in Philly, but the idea of SCFT stems from Dan and [Philly Comic] Dan Eastman wanting to do a podcast that I was going to produce. Then I dropped out of the comedy scene because I didn't love what I was doing and I wasn't sure if it was for me. On my time off, all I could do was think about comedy and what current life experiences I could turn into a joke. So one day I texted Scully from a Barnes and Noble to ask if he was still interested in doing it and he said "Fuck Yeah!"
CP: Has SCFT affected your craft outside of the podcast?
DS: Forcing myself to follow a schedule, and to record podcasts even when I'm not in the mood has curtailed my lack of discipline. Speaking in hourlong intervals about minutiae has helped cut the fat out of my comedic voice. Also, between promoting the show and scouting guests, I've become more active in the scene and have made important friendships and connections with other comics.
KL: Having a weekly show has definitely been good, because [it forces me to meet] deadlines. Artists, especially comics, are the laziest people you can ever come across and I am no different, but I am better about now because I don't want Dan mad at me.
Local filmmaker/screenwriter/actor (he gets taken out by Nucky in an upcoming Boardwalk Empire!) David Kushner sent me this funny video he shot at North Shore Beach Club and a few other spots around Philly. Heads up: This video features Hasidic Jews dancing in shiny gold thongs, so your boss may not be thrilled about you blasting it at work.
Happy Hanukkah!
Everyone expects death at a funeral home, but nobody foresaw the untimely demise of funeral director William Raymond O'Reilly himself. Perhaps he was murdered at the hands of his wife or underneath one of his many mistresses. Hell, the ol' bloke probably inhaled a few too many cheesesteaks and Tastykakes. No one knows for sure, but the unambiguously queer duo of Lance Pawling (pictured, left) and Messapotamia Lefae will be hot on the case at tonight's performance of The Bereaved.
Pawling and Messy Lefae have transformed the Napoleon Gallery (319 N. 11th St.) from an exhibition space for static art to an interactive funeral home. Beginning at 6 p.m. and continuing every 20 minutes, the two will engage in a series of 7-minute whodunnits with the promise that no two acts will be alike. With the sartorial wit of Lefae coupled with Pawling's indisputable talent for avant-garde installation art, expect this performance from these Dumpsta Player vets to be somewhere between grotesque comedy and campy melodrama. Dress in your best mourning garb or risk death for standing out like a loser.
I’m posting standout tracks/videos every night at midnight for some reason. (Click here to see them all so far.) Thee Oh Sees are always good. This video is NSFW. Unless you work at the kind of place that lets you watch violent videos that end in bathroom sex. Then it’s kinda tame. And you work in an interesting place.
Miley Cyrus is back in town and already her boyfriend is all hot-n-bothered. OK, not really. Yes Cyrus returned to her man, currently residing in NJ while filming Paranoia in Philly. No word yet on when/if she’ll finish those MilkBoy Studio tracks started in August that we dropped exclusives on weeks ago. As for her fiancé Liam Hemsworth, there he was Saturday night at Midtown Continental, being nice to the crowd, taking pictures with pre-bridal revelers and POWEE, he very possibly gets pelted with a rock and goes into Saturday-night’s-alright-for-fighting mode. Cheggitout.
The annual holiday DeBella DeBall has gone lowdown and dirty and upscale and tony in its history. For year 30, it’s a spruced up, dressy affair at Vie on North Broad, this Dec. 14. This invite-only faithful listener affair of his WMGK-FM radio show will feature music from Johnny O & The Classic Dogs of Love, David Uosikkinen’s In The Pocket, featuring The Hooters, Tommy Conwell and The A’s’ Richard Bush.
No vandalism is good vandalism, but when you graffiti Le Bec Fin on Walnut Street and steal Fergie’s bike, you hurt us all, especially considering that, according to bike-know-it-all Michael McGettigan, that bike of Ferg’s has seen 20 years of faithful service. Tis a shame at any time, this season in particular.
If you haven’t read my Southwork preview in CP, you really should. Beyond gearing up for the release of its debut CD this weekend, the Philly septet drops its first-ever video for “Peace of Mind” today. They liken the video to brainwashing techniques used on characters in the TV show Lost. Ooh, spooky.
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