Little Obsessions: The Lonely Island - Incredibad

The Lonely Island's album Incredibad leaked, and it is so amazing that I'm not even going to try to start talking about how much I love it.

I'M ON A BOAT

Little Obsessions: Andrew the Taco Psychic

I've been listening to little else besides MGMT for the better part of a week, and procrastination has led me to trawl Flickr for photos of them. I discovered a rather lovely set of pictures of Andrew VanWyngarden hanging out at the beach that I keep looking at over and over. I'm not usually into pastels, but the faded colors are really beautiful and give the photographs a dreamy, vintage feel. (And he's so beautiful he could be a part-time model.) This picture of Andrew having his palm read is particularly striking--I love the composition, with the palm trees in the background.

Check out the whole set here.

Leaked Bonnaroo line-up; Little Obsessions: MGMT

picture by joostvanderdeelen

Electric Feel - MGMT

The Bonnaroo line-up has leaked.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Phish (2 Shows)
Beastie Boys
Nine Inch Nails
David Byrne
Wilco
Al Green
Snoop Dogg
Elvis Costello (Solo)
Erykah Badu
Paul Oakenfold
Ben Harper and Relentless7
The Mars Volta
TV on the Radio
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Gov’t Mule
Andrew Bird
Merle Haggard
MGMT
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The Decemberists
Girl Talk
Bon Iver
Béla Fleck & Toumani Diabate
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Galactic
Band of Horses
The Del McCoury Band
of Montreal
Allen Toussaint
Coheed and Cambria
Booker T & the DBTs
David Grisman Quintet
Lucinda Williams
Animal Collective
Gomez
Neko Case
Down
Jenny Lewis
Santogold
Robert Earl Keen
Citizen Cope
Femi Kuti and the Positive Force
The Ting Tings
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Kaki King
Grizzly Bear
King Sunny Adé
Okkervil River
St. Vincent
Zac Brown Band
Raphael Saadiq
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Crystal Castles
Tift Merritt
Brett Dennen
Mike Farris and the Roseland Rhythm Revue
Toubab Krewe
People Under the Stairs
Alejandro Escovedo
Vieux Farka Touré
Elvis Perkins In Dearland
Cherryholmes
Yeasayer
Todd Snider
Chairlift
Portugal. The Man.
The SteelDrivers
Midnite
The Knux
The Low Anthem
Delta Spirit
A.A. Bondy
The Lovell Sisters
Alberta Cross

I tried watching some videos of MGMT live and didn't think they sounded particularly good; however, I think if I was personally thrashing around in a field with strangers offering me free drugs left and right, seeing them would be an amazing experience. I've been on a huge MGMT kick for the past few days. I have so much new music to be listening to, but I keep coming back to Oracular Spectacular, especially "Electric Feel," the song that properly got me into Pitchfork's favorite slutty hippies. Like many other people, "Time To Pretend" was my first exposure to MGMT, back in that phase last spring when everyone and their dog was lost in vacant-eyed fantasies about running away to Paris. I thought it was a good song, but I wasn't immediately obsessed. When I heard "Electric Feel," the appeal finally clicked. Maybe it doesn't evoke any romantic visions of the stereotypical rockstar lifestyle, but it's catchy, it's sexy, and I like it so much that I actually got excited when I heard it on an episode of Gossip Girl.

Little Obsessions: Jason Schwartzman

Microphone - Coconut Records

Despite the fact that I've only seen Rushmore, The Darjeeling Limited, Marie Antoinette, and half of Shopgirl, I'm a little obsessed with Jason Schwartzman. I could discuss how he and I would have really ridiculously short children, but I'll settle for talking about how talented he is. Of course he's talented, he's a Coppola who isn't Nicolas Cage's creepy goth son! I'd love him even if all I knew of his work was the Coconut Records album Nighttiming, considering that he did almost all of it by himself. I am in awe of people who can proficiently play multiple instruments, and Jason Schwartzman is no exception. I love every song on Nighttiming, and I am so excited to hear his second Coconut Records album, Davy, which is released later this month. I've posted the first single above.

Then there's Rushmore. Rushmore is my favorite Wes Anderson film and in my top five movies overall. It's got all of the Anderson trademarks, but is not as opulent as The Royal Tenenbaums or The Darjeeling Limited. I adore Wes Anderson, but it's really Jason Schwartzman's performance that is the centerpiece of Rushmore. Max Fischer is funny, tortured, quirky, and undeniably charismatic, even in his somewhat absurd battle against Herman Blume.

Also, the fact that he co-wrote The Darjeeling Limited with Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola displays versatility, which can only be a good thing. "I love you, but I'm gonna mace you in the face."