It's the most wonderfully, magically nerdy thing I've seen in 33 years. I could go on, but I'm no poet.
See, tongue-in-cheek right-wing pundit, comedian, writer, actor and Uber-Nerd Stephen Colbert is currently allowing viewers to offer their own creative interpretations of his portrait--you can see them all at this Gallery on Colbertnation.com.
(TTOS Fun Fact: Contributor, Anime Goddess, and Scooter's Best Girl--Scout, lives in Mr. Colbert's hometown of James Island, SC!)
For my part--I've collected the most wonderfully nerdy entries for the viewing pleasure of all you goddamn geeks!XD
After the jumpy thing.
Colbert as Spock
Colbert as Tron
Colbert as Gandalf
Colbert in...I dunno--but it looks video gamey!
Colbert as Captain America (with various comic heroes)
Colbert with Monolith (From 2001)
Got me...But I think that's the invocation to Cthulu at the bottom--so I'd say this counts
Krom willing, a few of you remember about a month or so back when I was kicked firmly in the ass by the news that the greatest band in the history of the universe, DEVO, had released their first new album in 19 years this past June, and I'd been completely oblivious to this auspicious occasion.
As penance for my laxity, I wrote a long overdue article about my hallowed Spudboys, featuring inteviews and videos spanning their nearly four decades of history.
And today I learned that completely without my knowledge they'd done an appearance on one of the funniest shows currently airing, starring Comedy Central's most brilliant comedic mind since Joel Hodgson...
HOW THE FUCK DID I MISS THIS?!?!
I was putting together some material for a piece on Elvis Costello's recent visit to The Colbert Report. As you may remember I'm a huge fan of Stephen Colbert, and both times Elvis Costello(who I'm also a longtime admirer of) has been a guest something remarkable occurred: We got to hear Stephen sing! But I'll save the details and video of that for tomorrow--I can't do it justice as a digression.
Anyhoo, while digging through the archives at Colbertnation.com, I discovered that indeed my favorite band had performed for and been inteviewed by my favorite satirical Right-Wing pundit!
Ever have that feeling where you're simultaneously miserable and elated?
Well, elated won (it usually does--positive emotions are stronger than negative), and I'm delighted to present to my dear, dear readers Stephen Colbert's interview with Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald V. Casale of DEVO!
(sorry for the quality, or lack thereof--the embed code for the Colbertnation.com clip refuses to play nice with my blog, so I had to do it the old fashioned way. The beeping in the background is my cell, I was getting a text message while recording this. Also, yer gonna have to really crank this one. My roommate was asleep so I couldn't record at the volume I wanted)
Vids after the Jump:
We Are Scoot
I need to start a band. Today...Now...Just so I can name it "Intelligent Decline". I don't care if we ever play a note of music, I just want to be able to tell people the awesome name of my band.
Unfortunately, the clip of DEVO's performance which followed the interview was unavailable. In its place I've got a special treat: It's another song off the new album "Something For Everybody" called "No Place Like Home", and it is without a doubt the best fan-made music video I've ever seen.
Oddly enough, the individual who edited this inter-cut scenes from DEVO's past videos with footage of the very "fountain of filth" Mark and Jerry talk about in the interview. Weird coincidence...
You're about 9 or 10 years old, you're bored, and you're just kinda randomly digging through your toybox, or closet, or under your bed--wherever you stash your coolest stuff, and you come across something you haven't played with in a long time.
You look at it and wonder why it's been buried down here for so long, you remember how cool it is and how much you like it.
And then you remember that tomorrow's Show and Tell, and you haven't picked anything to bring. You feel so lucky that you found whatever this is, and you put it aside where you know you won't forget it so you can take it to school it in the morning.
This post is the digital equivalent of the preceding anecdote: I was rummaging through the stuff on my Youtube channel and found this, I saved it to one of my playlists long ago and proceeded to forget it existed.
It's got two of my favorite things in the world: Weird Al and Stephen Colbert, and it's chock full of nerdy goodness!
