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Cream, sugar, and tea at The Buffering Stream 12/11

Posted at 7:00 AM on December 11, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

  • Prince has agreed to play traditionally lame Superbowl half-time show.

  • A Christmas gift to St . Paul: Eclipse Records to reopen on University Ave.

  • Why is Sean Lennon so defensive? Chris aims to find out.

  • Colbert and Decemberists feud goes to eleven: On-air guitar solo challenge!

  • Minnesota memories of John Lennon.

  • Robert Christgau, self-described "Dean of Rock Criticism," has a new "Consumer Guide" column at MSN.

    • Top of our wish list? A Flaming Lips get-up!

    Posted at 12:00 PM on December 11, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

    According to Stereogum today, the Flaming Lips are offering fans the opportunity to join them onstage for New Year's Eve in Los Angeles. Lucky winners will join the legion of Santas and/or aliens that are regularly a part of your typical Lips freak show. The contest? Get yourself credentialled by youtubing yourself dancing. (We have strong suspicions that the more outlandish your interpretation of "dancing," the better your chances. But that's just a hunch.)


  • Make a video of yourself dancing to your favorite Flaming Lips song or whatever you think will compel the Lips to choose you. (Please limit this to around three minutes.)
  • Join the Flaming Lips Dance Contest Group by going here and uploading your video, making sure to tag it with Flaming Lips NYE Dance Contest
  • Visit and submit an entry form (or else you'll be disqualified!).
  • Cross your antennea and pray you win.

    • Those of you who tend rather in the other direction--y'know, introversion, isolation, and solitude--have your own opportunities for Coynage: We've discovered a website that sells inhabitable plastic space bubbles. For the record, they are known in the industry as "human-size hamster balls," and for around $2,400 they'll throw in a hamster costume. Cool!

    Note to self: Start behaving like a saint; there's still time to get on Santa's nice list. Maybe we can't make hamster, but surely gerbil is within reach?

    Photo: (cc) by JQN

    Separated At Birth... Stations of the Cross edition

    Posted at 3:00 PM on December 11, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

    Prodigal punk rocker Jay Baker and angry baldie David Cross?

    david-cross, courtesy David CrossJay Baker, courtesy Sundance Channel

    Photos: courtesy David Cross; the Sundance Channel

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