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• On April 12, 2013

What I’m enjoying now: AV Club’s fourth series of “AV Undercover” is now underway.

So far, we’ve had ZZ Ward cover Frank Ocean, Yo La Tengo cover the Supremes and Night Beds cover Robyn.  BTW, call your girl friend. It’s probably time you had the talk.  But by far, my favorite was Frontier Ruckus, whom I have never heard of, cover “Semi-Charmed Life” by a little up-and-coming band called Third Eye Blind.  And that’s just a sample of what to come.  They invite bands to play a song on their list of 25.  As the season goes, the list grows smaller, forcing the bands into fun little creative corners.  On this years list?  Billy Ocean.  Backstreet Boys.  New Radicals.  It is enjoyable.  You should partake.

 

Garfunkel & Oats are getting a show on IFC

The duo will play fictionalized versions of themselves, so basically this will be the lady Flight of the Conchords.  I’m very excited about this.  It will be pretty easy to work many of their songs into a story – “Pregnant Women are Smug,” “I Don’t Understand Job,” “Douche Rap“- but I really can’t wait to see how they work the following in:

VIDEO ONE

BJ Novak is getting paid a shit ton of money to write two books