Today SVR honors the noble Scottish Terrier, a breed famed for its courage, tenacity and unswerving faith in the wisdom of its own judgment. Up first, Shootout at the Scottie Corral, a short video proving that Scotties are trainable.
Read moreTechnically we’re still a few days away from Solstice, I know, but … you should see the weather here in Colorado. Trust me, folks – it’s summer. So to sort of pre-honor the arrival of sun season, SVR today presents a few vids to put you in a surf, sand and sky kinda mood. Up first, the supremely cool Scot
Read moreWelcome back to another episode of SVR Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. This week, join us as Jim pushes deep into the treacherous suburban jungle in search of the elusive Scuridae carolinensis – the common yard squirrel. This specimen demonstrates the ingenuity and tenacity with which the fearsome pine gopher pursues his prey.
Read moreI’ve been a very big Don Dixon fan since the late ’70s, so when his new CD, The Nu-Look, dropped I was bouncing around the living room like Snoopy doing a happy dance. Sadly, a lot of people don’t know Don’s music – although many know his work as the producer of Murmur and Reckoning by REM and multiple records
Read moreNormally we try to pull each week’s SVR together around a theme. This week? Here are some random videos. Watch ’em and you tell us what the theme is. First, the new video from Weezer for “Pork and Beans.” God Bless YouTube.
Read moreThere is nothing new under the sun, or so they say. I’m not a big fan of groups that slavishly imitate their influences, but I do love bands with a sense of history and a desire to explore older styles in search of new angles. This obviously establishes a tricky standard – be true to the masters, but not …
Read moreWelcome back my friends to the show that never ends… You know, as any musician can tell you, instruments are expensive. So what to do if you love music but are running low on cash? Silly artiste – you make yourself an instrument. Like this guy – got some empty soda bottles laying around the house? Cool – git yer
Read moreAs our friend Pat so eloquently noted yesterday, graduation season is upon us. Commencements hit full stride today up the road at CU, and I suppose at hundreds of other institutions across the country, as well. So S&R would like to take a moment and congratulate the Class of 2008. If you’ve read us much at all you know that
Read moreDamn, Mike Gravel is the most interesting thing in this campaign so far. He’s a better rapper than singer, though.
Read moreOh, my. This is … uhhmmm … I guess this what happens when a crew of Obama’s kids gets a little punchy after watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode #107 ten times in a row. Thanks to Jim Gilliam for pointing this out. I think.
Read moreHowdy. And welcome back to SVR. We’ve recently offered up some of the greatest videos in music history (part 1, part 2, part 3), and today, in the interest of fair and balanced coverage, we felt a hateful need to ruin your Saturday morning by inflicting an ethical obligation to present some of the worst music videos in history. So,
Read moreFirst of all, I recall to your attention the extraordinary fact with which I began. To wit, that the human being, like the immortals, naturally places sexual intercourse far and away above all other joys — yet he has left it out of his heaven! The very thought of it excites him; opportunity sets him wild; in this state he
Read moreOne of my favorite musical sub-genres is sort of an off-shoot of trip-hop, a sultry urban electropop district where the downbeat influence of Portishead meets up with all kinds of interesting characters dressed like David Bowie in the ’70s. California pure pop a la Burt Bacharach, for instance, which we find in the likes of Saint Etienne (and the solo
Read moreThere’s so much badvertising in the world, so today on the Saturday Video Roundup we’re going to spend some time with some good (or at least entertaining) ads we’ve come across recently. Let’s start with the coolest gorilla in the world.
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