Ok, this shit needs to go viral. DJ Hammond of Athens’ Je Suis France just released a spoofy, Flight of the Conchords-esque concept record called Excalibrah. “It’s a joke project I do for my fantasy football league kinda as an alter ego,” he informs. It’s epically retarded—and we mean that in a good way. We could give a damn about fantasy football, but how can you not appreaciate titles like “Futurewings/Sexfood” and “Gandalf vs. Neo.” Just go grab it… it’s free. And the music is actually amazing catchy. [thanks Christina]

Last night we went to scope out the Red Bull Snowscrapers event over in East River Park, where top riders Shawn White, Travis Rice, and Terje Haakonsen got blasted by New Jersian Shayne Pospisil. Aside from a rather vicious onslaught of stage 1 hypothermia, we came back with a few pictures to share. Photos by yours truly and Angela Cranford.




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This is simply the most bizarre shit we have ever seen. People who fall in love with objects. [Via Jezebel]

Check out the documentary, Married To The Eiffel Tower [Part 1] , here

by Dave Thomas

Gomorra
Looks like your best movie options this month are to stay in making lousy Oscar predictions and hoping that Dollhouse doesn’t suck.
FEBRUARY 6
HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU
WHAT’S THE PITCH?
Love, Not Actually
WILL IT SUCK?
If this were a TV show, I’d have more confidence. Director Ken Kwapis has helmed some solid eps of The Office and Freaks and Geeks. The one thing I didn’t like about his Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, on the other hand, was the direction. Never saw Vibes or Dunstin Checks In, though. And the writers did Never Been Kissed.
Remarkably recognizable casting, though: Jennifers Aniston and Connelly, Scarlett Johansson, Drew Barrymore, Ben Affleck…but I’m most psyched to see Justin Long and Ginnifer Goodwin together again for the first time since Ed.
HOW WELL WILL IT DO?
A little bit of competition from Dance Flick and Pink Panther 2 this week, but next week is the real bear, Confessions of a Shopaholic. $61mil.
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THE PINK PANTHER 2
WHAT’S THE PITCH?
This is what you get for going to see Pink Panther 1, America.
WILL IT SUCK?
Even during the trailer I was going “Oh, my God, is this thing still going?” They’ve added some top shelf talent (John Cleese, Alfred Molina, Andy Garcia, Aishwarya Rai) but they kind of had that already (Cleese replaces Kevin Kline). Agent Cody Banks and One Night at McCool’s director Harald Zwart takes over for Night at the Museum 2-bound Shawn Levy and the writers are brand new. As with the first, Martin has a screenplay co-credit but I just refuse to believe it.
HOW WELL WILL IT DO?
The only thing with this high of a profile for miles around is Friday the 13th, and that’s a completely different demographic (although a Clouseau/Jason crossover flick would rock). $71mil.
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CORALINE
WHAT’S THE PITCH?
Girl finds a parallel universe with an alternative, perfect family for her…or is it?
WILL IT SUCK?

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Photo by Tien Mao, c/o Gothamist
16 of the world’s top snowboarders are in town for tonight’s Red Bull Snowscrapers competition, where they launch off a 150-foot long, 9-story ramp in East River Park for a piece of the $100,000 purse. Gothamist, ever the early risers, got some sick shots from the top of the ramp this morning as the sun rose over the city. I’ve posted one above, but for the rest, click through to Tien Mao’s gallery at Gothamist.
Catch it all starting this afternoon at 3p.m., with the final jam session kicking off at 7:45. And once the boards are off, let Anthrax sing you to sleep with their sweet lullabies, starting at 9.

The day after tomorrow has a lot going on, so get your plans in order:
1. Dark Was The Night Listening Party @ Stanton Public

Dark Was The Night is a new compilation from 4AD records, which includes a slew of neat bands and songs. Everyone from Andrew Bird to Yeasayer to Iron and Wine contributed tracks to fundraise for the Red Hot Organization – an international charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS.
Its official release date is February 16th, but if you RSVP at Insound you can hit the listening party Friday night and swill some free Budweiser while you’re at it.
8 PM
17 Stanton Street
2. Cheeseburger and Andrew W.K. @ Santos Party House

Fans of Adult Swim, Cheeseburger, and/or Andrew W.K. rejoice – the three forces are combining for a $0 show on Friday.
Santos says:

‚”Hosted by Jon Glaser, New York based writer and star of Adult Swim’s new show Delocated!, the event will feature a solo performance by Andrew W.K. and also a performance by New York’s very own Cheeseburger. _Christy Karacas of Cheeseburger is also co-creator of Adult Swim’s Superjail!.”

Get there early (music starts at 7:30 pm) because again, admission is on a first come, first serve basis.
6:30 PM
96 Lafayette Street

Image C/O Marfaring.com
Rhizome is perhaps my favorite art and technology organization. Right now, it’s affiliated with the New Museum. It’s call for 2010 Commisions are out now. See below for details:

Founded in 2001, the Rhizome Commissions Program is designed to support emerging artists with financial and institutional resources. In the seventh year of funding for the Program, Rhizome will award grants, with amounts ranging from $1000 to $5000, for the creation of significant works of new media art. This includes projects that creatively engage new and networked technologies to works that reflect on the impact of these tools and media in a variety of forms. Commissioned works can take the final form of online works, performance, video, installation or sound art. Projects can be made for the context of the gallery, the public, the web or networked devices. Artists who receive a commission will also be invited to speak at Rhizome’s affiliate, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and to archive their work in the ArtBase, a comprehensive online art collection.

2009′s commissions included a project called Marfa Ring by Claire L. Evans, Jonah Bechtolt, and Aaron “Flint” Jamison–two of them are better known as YACHT.
In other related Rhizome news, Marisa Olson has a great review of Stage II at The Project gallery–including work by my current favorite music/art collective Lucky Dragons

The Village Voice attempted to have a serious cyber-chat interview with the “alt”-imate blog bro, Carles of Hipster Runoff, and I can’t quite figure out what to make of the outcome. What I do know is that I just cannot wait for Carles’ “post-bloghouse, or maybe post-Merriweather-post-core” EP to drop. Way to not “expose yourself”, bro!
The Voice asks, where are you Carles? Who are you? And Carles responds:

I am in a relatively “alt” area, but I think the whole concept of the site is “being able to justify your alternative existence” by monitoring websites that are theoretically on the bleeding edge of culture. So while a tween may be disconnected from “fitting in” at his local high school with kids who shop at the local mall, he can find acceptance on the Internet through alternative websites, blogs, social networks, and e-commerce shops. That’s sort of why I feel like the “Carles” part of HRO is insignificant, and it probably makes the site easier to digest without “some dude” attached to it. It’s more of a naive, bro-like, third-person omniscient tone.

Read the rest, and visit HRO.

The McCarren Park Pool renovations public update that was scheduled for today has been moved to February 10th at 6:30 pm at the Swinging 60′s Senior Citizens Center (211 Ainslie St., corner of Manhattan Ave.). In case you forgot, The Pool is being renovated to provide swimming in the summer, year round recreation in the former bathhouse, and the design accommodates the potential for skating in the winter and off-season performances. The key phrase there is off-season performances, which basically means it’s not time to pack away your MGMT headbands just yet.
update via Nag