Lucky Dog Audio Post

Dear Bubb Rubb,

As the connoisseur of "woo", we humbly request your review of smudgeorama's work.

Sincerely,

Lucky Dog

Awesome faux doc on proper sushi etiquette. Running time = 08:09.

"However in the case of 1, you should always show a little guilt with your eyes."

Somehow we missed Talk Like a Pilot day (it was Saturday, May 19th). But now that we've looked into it, we realize that we have very different ideas of what pilots sound like when they are talking.

What! You've never seen "Look Around You?" Seriously? Here's 8 modules to get you started.

One of our most important pieces of equipment here at Lucky Dog Audio Post is our Whee-lo. A Whee-lo is a "magnetic spinning wheel toy" invented in 1953 by Maggie Magnetic, Inc of New York. Though advertising for the Whee-lo promoted it as a great "contest toy, sick room toy and back seat toy," we feel that it comes in handy during casting sessions, music searches, and dinner parties with Dolly Parton, Will Ferrell and Meg Ryan. For more information on the Whee-lo, visit the Classic Toy Museum's Whee-lo page. And, in case you were wondering, Whee-lo's can be purchased from Restoration Hardware. Also, it seems we would be remiss if we failed to mention Harvey Job Matusow, who claimed to have invented the Whee-lo in his autobiography, The Stringless Yo Yo.

More web goodness via Brother Dave. Danka.

Part 1: Vulture, New York magazine's Arts and Entertainment blog, has this cool section called the "Weekend Read." They post an article in pdf format for you to print out, take home, and read at your leisure.

Part 2: So a friend of a friend has this intriguing experience with a landlord. The first friend encourages his friend (the friend of the friend) to write about the experience. After several years, the friend of the friend finally writes the story. It turns out that the friend of the friend writes really well. In the fall of 2006, his story gets published in the Georgia Review.

Part 3: The National Magazine Awards come around every spring. This year, up against big name essayists like Calvin Trillin and Paul Theroux rises an underdog writer named Michael Donahue. Donahue's first published article appeared in the Fall/Winter 2006 issue of the Georgia Review. It's entitled "Russell and Mary."

Part 4: On May 1st, "Russell and Mary" wins the Essay category of the 2007 National Magazine Awards.

This category recognizes excellence in essay writing on topics ranging from the personal to the political. Whatever the subject, it honors the author’s eloquence, perspective, fresh thinking and unique voice.

Part 5: Last Friday New York magazine posted this great story by Michael Donahue in their "Weekend Read" section. . .

Rarely does a piece of Youtubery come along that runs through so many of our blog categories like this video from Lemon Demon. The title of the song is "Word Disassociation" and we can't pin it down with just a single category tag. On our blog, this gem qualifies for Audio Goodness, Music, Web Goodness, and Words. Plus I'll give it Dogs for the one shot with a-Benji-ish mutt paired with the word "jellyfish" (though there are more cats than canines in this music video's mis-en-scene) as well as Advertising since the word "advertisement" made it into the song. So that leaves only Food and Drink, Luck, and Recent Work unchecked. Oh well. You can't win 'em all.

For what's it's worth, that sped-up piano and that dry and wry vocal style bring They Might Be Giants to mind. But more than anything, this song's Dada lyricism reminds me of the almighty Wire and their stream-of-consciousness, pop masterpiece Kidney Bingos:

From whence does Web Goodness come?? We don't know. But we love a a kick-ass song about art direction as much as the next guy.

Maybe more.

Yeah. Make the logo bigger (link to mp3).