Tuesday, February 17, 2009

beaker and honeydew is MOVING!

it's tumblr or nuthin'.
update your links to this venue and then reblog my posts so that you can share the magic of beaker&honeydew with all your tumblosphere-loved-ones!

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

what a special week


also: happy birthday to my GOOD FRIEND CALLI! whose tumblr i stole this picture from.

DOWNLOADS:
FEB 10 EPISODE

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

i'm going to invent more durable glasses chains and test them on old ladies that dance HARD

ladies and germs
my apologies for my absence last week. to make it up to you, i present to you my favourite xkcd strip of all time. hope jou like it. also happy chinese new year.


i'm low on prose this week because i'm having a bit of a quirky anecdote dryspell. plus i got a tumblr recently and now my brain is starting to think exclusively in discrete video/photo posts and accompanying captions. i'm actually losing my capacity to have a complete, flowing train of thought. this may be issuous when it comes time to write up my thesis but we will cross that bridge when we get to it. or alternately, instead of crossing it, we will stop and watch several youtube videos, and post the best of them to my tumblr. god i want an iphone.

Point being, instead of my usual charming, witty banter, here are a series of links to stuff you should look at.

POLAR BEAR UPDATES
-remember that polar bear conservation roundtable i was telling you about? there's finally been a press release outlining what they talked about. except it's not so much outlining what they talked about as barfing a lot of vague bureaucratic fluff, as is true to the nature of press releases. but i think the gist of it is that the roundtable brought a lot of different bodies together (government, scientists, blah blah) so that they can now collaborate better. which is good.

NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL VIDEO
-a friend of mine showed me this video. ms paint minimalist steez at their finest.

TO ZION
-lauryn hill you are a goddess. not just a goddess, but the original goddess.

I SAW THIS MOVIE LAST NIGHT
-it's an open source documentary about copyright and remix culture and it's centered around the story of Girl Talk. It was amazing. I will be discussing it on the show today. make sure you tune in, i might actually have some keen insights. maybe. o_O

ok that's it for now.
cuddles,

Beaker&Honeydew

DOWNLOADS:
FEB 3 SHOW first half second half (not up yet)
JAN 17 SHOW (not up yet)

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

i've got the 's got the Toasted-Sandwich-Cut-Up-My-Gums-Then-Pickles-Made-It-Burn Bluuuuues.


But don't worry, my torn and inflamed gums are a most minor issue in the shadow of such a big day - WELCOME TO OFFICE BARRY THE BARRACUDA BARACKINATOR OH-BE-ME I M SO HAPPY 4 U. I'LL SEE U AFTER WORK FOR CELEBRATORY PINTS AND PB & J SAMMIES AND OH-BE-ME CAKES, BRAW! (ps thanks for the sammies Michelle!).

i'm also really glad this person was able to find the right ballot square. it's ok barry looks after the needs of all peoples, including dyslexics with terrible aesthetics.

COOL POLAR BEAR LINXX:

-WWF's POLAR ARCADE
-GOOSE EGGS NOMMMM
-WHAT THE FO WHY IS THIS BABY POLAR BEAR VIDEO SO CUTE AAAAGHGHHH PLS WATCH AND ADVISE

OTHER COOL LINXX:
-GAYDAR: EWES GOTTA LET ME KNOW WHAT EWES FEELIN (link to calli's tumblr, click through to see full article)

DOWNLOADS

-JANUARY 20th SHOW (NOT UP YET)

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

new year's resolution: the POLAR BEAR PROJECT

Listen up Planeteers!!!

As i mentioned during last week's episode, Beaker and Honeydew's new mission for 2009 - and I hope you all join me in this - is to SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!!!

Polar bears have been endangered since 2007 and are among the species that are most adversely affected by global warming.

There's a lot of great climate change sites out there that cover diverse topics and are updated really frequently and reliably so in addition to my usual antics and music-ish babble, I'm going to direct you guys towards interesting or useful articles and anybody who has ideas on how to take action, please comment your ideas to the blog. The most successful undertakings come out of interdisciplinary brainstorming and even small projects can make an impact so everybody please comment. THINK ABOUT THE BEARS. LOOK AT THIS ONE <--- OH GOD IT'S SO CUTE. Since this is the first week of the Polar Bear Project, here's a bit of background.

THE FACTS

-There are 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears worldwide, 4,700 of which live in Alaska and spend part of the year in Canada and Russia

THE PROBLEM
-the sea ice the polar bear depends on has been receding

-Northern latitudes are warming twice as rapidly as the rest of the globe, according to a 2004 scientific assessment
-The ice in Canada's western Hudson Bay breaks up 2 1/2 weeks earlier than it did 30 years ago, giving polar bears there less time to hunt and build up fat reserves that sustain them for eight months before hunting resumes
-U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials have concluded that polar bears could be endangered within 45 years.

Ok kids, let's get to it.

love
biscuits

DOWNLOAD:

JANUARY 13 SHOW

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

BEST OF 2008


good afternoon poppets and kitties.

we are BACK ON THE AIR today after a delicious little hiatus and that weasel sean and i are ready to ring in the new year with some dope ass beets.

but before we can put 2008 behind us altogether, we'd like to revisit some of the bests and worsts of 2008 during the
Best Ofs installment of BEAKER AND HONEYDEW.

Join us. Tune in. Or better yet, call in and tell us your faves. Tell us your mom's faves. Even though we already know. ;) ;) The new year is full of cuddles. for you.
<3
biscuits

2008 SUPERLATIVES:
  • Best webcomics of 2008
    -xkcd.com
    -buttercup festival
    -saturday morning breakfast cereal

  • Best albums of 2008
    -crystal castles - crystal castles
    CANADIAN!
    -wolf parade - at mount zoomer CANADIAN!
    -chad vangaalen - soft airplane CANADIAN!
    -hercules & love affair - hercules & love affair
    -bon iver - for emma forever ago
    -the presets - apocalypso
    -of montreal - skeletal lamping
    -rafter - sweaty magic
    -fujiya & miyagi - lightbulbs
    -department of eagles - in ear park

  • Favourite bloghaus remixes/hypemachine discoveries
    -sigur ros - saeglopour (crash overdrive remix)
    -hail social - heaven (designer drugs remix)

  • best eyesore
    -YOUR FACE

  • ultimate brooding tracks (aka wrist slitters) of 2008
    -bon iver - skinny love
    -spoon - i summon you
    -belle & sebastien - get me away i'm dying
    -iron & wine - flightless bird, american mouth
    -band of horses - part one

  • top 5 cardio tracks for 2008
    -the first 5 minutes of sta's april mixtape. actually the whole thing. but especially the first 5 minutes.
    -theset - never odd or even (bngz n krlz remix)
    -joe budden - fire (sta remix)
    -crystal castles - vanished (mr vega remix)
    -the qemists - lost weekend (killer on the dancefloor remix)

  • favourite cover of 2008
    -winter gloves cover of LCD Soundsystem's Someone Great

  • best mashup of 2008
    -grizzly bear's the knife/knife's heartbeats, by Parrka

  • best live shows (other than your mom)
    -beirut @ sasquatch --> omg nantes
    -wolf parade @ capital music hall --> omg fine young cannibals
    -flaming lips @ pemberton --> omg yoshimi
    -deadmau5 @ pemberton --> apparently i was there.

DOWNLOADS:
JANUARY 6 SHOW!
so sorry this is so tardy, it took me a while to get around to cropping the mp3. but better to lower my standards early in the year so i may RISE AGAIN. O_O

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

HAPPY HOLIDAYS | I LOVE YOU


This week's show wasn't actually very good. I've become entirely dependent on sean for fetching things and filling talk time. I feel overcome with the same sloth that defeated me when Spellcheck was first invented. and then again when they started canning chick peas in brine and i didn't have to soak them overnight anymore. i don't even know where i would start if i had to soak my chickpeas again. Sean you get back here you little Rat Face.

Now join me as a I list the series of events traversed in my journey to christmas-spirit restoration:
  • i lost my wallet on the bus. shit.
  • i called the bus depot and they had it, complete with the $1200 paycheck that was in it. yay!
  • my boots don't keep water out. i have been elected mayor of WetSocksville, MA. shit.
  • my roommate kate made turkey and i ate it. then we drank wine and made apple crumble and watched the muppet christmas carol (FEATURING BEAKER & HONEYDEW). yay!
  • the little old man who found my wallet left me a merry xmas note with a phone #. i called and wished him happy holidays. HOW CUTE. yay!
  • i listened to a lounge-y remix of hercules and love affair's blind that made me want to vomit a little onto the white vinyl kidney-shaped couch i'd have to be sitting on for that remix to be played in the first place. shit.
  • i found the MY!GAY!HUSBAND! remix of THE MUPPET SHOW THEME SONG!! merry christmas hypemachine! yay!
and now here we are and i just want to hug everybody. hope you like the show. one of the first tracks is a santogold track called icarus that i'm really really excited about.

Beaker and Honeydew is now on hiatus until the new year. everybody have a safe and wonderful holiday and we'll see you at 5 pm on THE FIRST TOOZDIE OF 2009!!!

LAWWWWWVE YOU
biscuits

DOWNLOAD:
December 16th show

Santogold - Icarus
Muppet Feme Tune - Remixed by MY!GAY!HUSBAND!

ALSO HERE'S SOME NOT-DOWNLOADABLE TUNES YOU SHOULD CHECK BC THEY ARE KOOL
Passion Pit - Sleepyhead (Wallpaper. Dio Remix)
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great (Wintergloves Cover )


AND LASTLY...PEEP THIS.