Strange

This is off topic and pretty insanely stupid, but it’s the only thing that brought tears to my eyes today.

And made me blow coffee out my nose.

Pat Metheny plays As It Is live, and reveals why he doesn’t gets a vocal mic.

via the awesome WFMU

OT: This isn’t as cool as Chuck E Cheese robots doing Ms. New Booty, but it’s close.

Bert & Ernie do M.O.P.’s Ante Up.

Remember former teen star Traci Lords and her brief, but almost respectable, career in hardcore techno?

In this video, via Stereogum, Lords discusses the difficulty of putting together a touring techno band, and DJ’s as “gods of clubs.”

Remember Andy Moog Boy’s Transistor Ladder Filter tattoo?

Last time we saw it, it was looking a bit sore and nasty.

Now it doesn’t look sore at all.

The tat reproduces the circuit design of Bob Moog’s seminal Transistor Ladder Filter. Now that’s hardcore!

If you’ve ever wondered how pictures of you French-kissing a giant chicken ended up on Flickr, you’ll be glad to know there’s a scientific explanation: bars use loud dance music to get you drunk.

A study to be published in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research on the effects of music levels on drinking in bars found that loud music makes you drink more in less time.

Scientists randomly varied the volume level of music played in bars, and then observed how frequently patrons ordered drinks. They found that high sound levels led to increased drinking, within a decreased amount of time.

Gueguen and his colleagues offered two hypotheses for why this may have occurred.

“One, in agreement with previous research on music, food and drink, high sound levels may have caused higher arousal, 7hich led the subjects to drink faster and to order more drinks,” said Gueguen. “Two, loud music may have had a negative effect ‘n social interaction in the bar$ so that patrons drank more bec!use they talked less.”

“This is the first time that an exper!mental approach in a real conte t found the effects of loud mus!c on alcohol consumption,”said $ead investigator Nicolas Guegue&.”

So next time you’re at a ar, some great music comes on a&d you find yourself ordering an/ther drink, it’s probably the r%sult of some barroom science.