So who ARE that insufferable indie couple in the new Hyundai TV ads?

think it's Amanda Palmer ???

also wtf @ tall dude with red puffy ski jacket and pyjama pants/1990 happy pants

if you're chugging whiskey, you're allowed to throw the horns, no matter who you are

but yes, mysterious pyjamaman is mysterious

This review pretty much sums up my experience with the concert. It omits some of the more entertaining small bits of the night (like the improvisation after 3 keyboard malfunctions or Amanda, while in the balcony telling a mother of someone that "this is no time to be taking pictures," and to "touch my vagina") though…

TOUCH MY VAGINA

words to live by

heard it was one of the best shows of 2010, in all honesty, and comma quite likely comma 2011 as well

comma UGH comma

comma coma comma comma argh

if you're chugging whiskey, you're allowed to throw the horns, no matter who you are

― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 8:20 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no way dude. horns get earned. 5th graders can chug makers

fifth grader chugging makers and paying digital tribute to our southern lord = dude

^truth

ok, true. get that dude up there in place of these squares tho imo

i like the c86 version of "twee" a lot -- somehow it's preferable with a dose of UK gloom/sarcasm and loud/distorted guitars. the 2010 iteration of "twee" (especially as done by shiny happy kids from the u.s. and canada) is just infantilism. i'm not a class warrior but i look at nataly dawn and think "white, christian, nordic surname, has 'good' (straight, blondish) hair that isn't a wisp out of place, her contented face signifying that nothing bad has ever happened to her other than the painless death of a pet goldfish." Basically, congratulations, you "win" at "life." Your prize is you get to pretend you're a baby. Goo goo ga ga. Ka-ching.

...damn

infantilism appeals to all sorts: black & white, rich & poor, attractive & not so much so. nataly dawn may have seen some shit for all i know. the intense hatred of comfortable twee seems predicated as much on contempt of the comfortable as distaste for their cutie-pie boo-boo noises. me, i don't hate the comfortable even when they're white christians with nordic surnames and straight hair. i hate sappy, smarmy tweedle-tweedle nothing music no matter who's making it. (this is not "taste," mind you. it's merely an expression of my cynicism and perverse pride in social maladapation.)

though her kooky askance-looking grates, she's a million times less annoying than prancing dude.

Do pompalmoose choose to perform "single ladies" because they see it as cute irony, or is something more insidious? (a celebration of that whole Christian "virginity pledge" nonsense, perhaps?)
Maybe i should also apologize for bumping this up to the top o the board...

congratulations, you "win" at "life." Your prize is you get to pretend you're a baby.

lawl

I'm sure they chose "Single Ladies" because of some stupid shit Beyonce said a dozen years ago, yes.

is all of this ultimately laid at the feet of calvin johnson?

like there's something gratingly childish and infantile about this that seems to stem from beat happening, right?

like somehow beat happening ended up leaking into the mainstream via kimya dawson and juno and shit and then dorks that were "activities people" in high school thought it would look good for their college transcripts to have a band or something ended up turning it into this corporatized dreck?

and like ugh i'm challopsing but this shit makes it really hard not to get in a henry rollins mindset you know?

you guys should buy DVRs and fast forward through TV ads

sorry but mad lols @ "these people are not true hipsters" upthread

the only time ive ever thought something along those lines was when i saw that 'teen hearts' video where a bunch of late 20s label dudes appear to be dressing up like 17 yr old emo fans. but this?? cmon guys. narc of small diff for sure. give or take a hyundai spot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqzAUFFg_Z8

look at these fucking hipsters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_vGbB8moyg

so THIS is what became of new wave, a fucking hyundai ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G5JaicYuVU

xxpost, seriously

at least when most ppl had their GREEN DAY IS NOT PUNK tantrums they were like 15 not adults posting on messsage boards

To be frank about it, calling them hipsters is not totally inaccurate, but certainly they are involved in a far, far, far lower-level of hipster than someone drooling coke-bubbles in the bathroom at Whartscape

amazing thread--may it indicate good things for ilx in 2k11

I actually think the cooing baby-making aspect of Pomplamoose is borderline-adorable, but it's the suburbs-bound thing that kinda gets to me. Depressed that there are people out there who are tailor-made for the cozy life (class-warfare part in me), outraged that they are so well-adjusted about this, and lack the ambition to fight against it, let alone transcend it.

I almost want to get into it over this post, but instead I'll just recommend that you head out to your back deck and take a nice long look out at the community park. That's what I do when I want to calm down.

To be frank about it, calling them hipsters is not totally inaccurate, but certainly they are involved in a far, far, far lower-level of hipster than someone drooling coke-bubbles in the bathroom at Whartscape

― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 10:27 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this breakdown isnt really any more defensible, but as an extremely characteristic post ill allow it

low level hipster in the pomplamoose crime family

the ben folds connection makes total sense

at some point pomplamoose will record the soundtrack to a dreamworks animation film scripted by the pitchfork reviews reviews guy and ilx will collapse in a supernova of apoplexy

http://img35.imageshack.us/i/grit.jpg/

you can blame the original true grit for this

picture not working but here is the link

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3288434432/tt0065126

pomplamoose was a hero to most

you guys should buy DVRs and fast forward through TV ads

― da croupier, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 10:12 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i have the worst habit of watching shit on DVR and then forgetting i can fast forward, drives me crazy

xpost lollllll

isn't Amanda Palmer the lady that made a mint doing a 'pay what you want' album of playing Radiohead covers on ukelele? she and Pomplamoose deserve each other.

who does neil gaiman deserve?

like somehow beat happening ended up leaking into the mainstream via kimya dawson and juno and shit
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

Good call; I'd forgotten about that whole K scene.

The secret link exposed: wiki touts BH's "pivotal role in the International Pop Underground Festival, which brought anti-corporate rock its earliest mainstream acceptance." Cue crushingly cute waves of irony.

We've sure put a lot of energy into this thread and I'm still not sure why. I'd love to hate Pomplamoose (firstly for mispelling a fruit I'm rather fond of and secondly for being from Corte Madera just on principle) but I find I don't have the energy.

my only contribution to this thread is that I assumed it was Feist appearing with some random bearded dude I didn't know

It's an advert!

So, what about that one that's "That's just me" about the Godfather 3, while picking a vintage Gretsch off the wall of a junk store, about? Hmm?

...and don't even get me started on the Honda Odyssey / Judas Priest commercial. But that's a whole other topic.

Or the Toyota one where AC/DC is singing "Tundra-Struck!" That one split my mind open.

yeh that dating one is weird, they are two kind of cuddly alt looking ppl too

i like old movies
like godfather 3

ok godfather 3 is not really an old movie in a medium with like a 120 year history

it's not considered the best one

it is in fact considered a travesty ruining the legacy of two of the finest american films of their decade

but that's just me

yep, that's just you...

oh sorry, you directed it? fair enough....