As we continue to show you the things in this world that feeds our brains and souls for our own work, may we present to you the 2nd season premiere of Flight of the Conchords!  Arguably the funniest show on television, Conchords does a great job of weaving music with theatre and comedy, which has given them the ability to translate their show from a celebrated BBC radio series to a highly-accliamed HBO television series to a Grammy-award winning music group to a great live show.  Another great example of cats who are bending not only genres, but also artistic mediums!  Check out their variations of below, first from the HBO series and then from the live show:

Yes, our section Under the Influence is BACK!  Bringing you all the videos we huddle around at the telly rooms while on tour.  Here’s an oldie but goodie, and if you haven’t seen it…brace yourself.  MJ and Prince square off at a 1983 telethon hosted by James Brown!  The comments all over the youtubes heavily side with Jacko, but we might possibly kinda really verymuchso beg to differ.  You decide.

Dammit, if Michelle and Barack make speeches cool again, we spoken word artists may be out of jobs. You know how much we depend on the boringness of speeches to lure y’all in with our rhymeschemes and spacey metaphors? Okay Obamas, lets make a deal…after you win, please cool it down and ween the country back to the bland and uninspiring speeches that it’s accustomed to…we need gigs, yo!

PS: Not that we’d vote for someone just because they consistently choose Stevie Wonder for their intro and outro music, but it definitely doesn’t hurt.

Hmmm is there room for another blog category?? Under the Influence will be our collection of music, video, and people that are inspiring our creative process…gotta give proper dues, right? And given that we’ve been feeling a bit tronic lately, there seems to be no better way to kick it off than with Midnight Star’s Freak-A-Zoid! The above video is badass, as is this one. Enjoy!

This one too! Wassup with people disabling embedding? That’s pretty wack-a-zoid.