Archive for June, 2009

June 30th, 2009

A (Not So) Complete History of Our (Not So) Complete Histories

You may have noticed that we love to catalog things here at YuppiePunk World HQ, particularly the outer edges of pop culture. From live TV streaking to rejected movie posters to TV theme songs sung by cast members, we’ve grouped a lot of things together over the years. We even do it in our podcasts…

June 27th, 2009

Actor Art Review

From Andy Warhol to Jackson Pollock to Jean-Michel Basquiat, there are a lot of great films about artists. Perhaps that’s why so many amazing actors are attracted to taking those roles. Plenty of A-listers would jump at the chance to play a dark and long-suffering complicated character — the general archetype of the artistic personality. [...]

June 22nd, 2009

Q&A: Virgil Dickerson of Suburban Home Records and Vinyl Collective

Virgil Dickerson is a busy dude. When he’s not running his indie label Suburban Home out of his Denver, Colorado office, he’s busy overseeing Vinyl Collective, the distro and online store he launched three years ago that specializes in — you guessed it — vinyl. And somewhere in between all that he also manages [...]

June 15th, 2009

Eggers²

We love Dave Eggers here at YuppiePunk World HQ (just like Angelina does), and the San Francisco author/founder of McSweeneys and the non-profit 826  has recently made a couple of books available for pre-order. Out on October 1st is "The Wild Things," a sort-of hybrid adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book "Where the Wild [...]

June 10th, 2009

Titles of Posts in Our Feed Reader That Would Make Great Band Names

Barfing Monkey
Do Not Buy the Licorice
Coppola’s Unhinged Dream World
The Geek Atlas
Banjo Rock
New Media Writer…

June 1st, 2009

Dear Brooke Hogan

Hint: When you’re already kind of thought of as a dumb blond, don’t make silly typos on the video page of your official website.
Sincerely,
YuppiePunk World HQ.
P.S. Tell your dad not to hurt us…

June 1st, 2009

Fivesome

Here’s a look (and listen) to some records that have been cluttering up our desk and inboxes here at YuppiePunk World HQ over the past few weeks. Though none of them inspired 3000-word soliloquys, we figured we could at least muster 50 on each and an MP3…