I didn’t see it, but it’s hard to imagine that The Love Guru was half as fun as Devendra Banhart’s new, must-see Bollywood-inspired video for “Carmensita,” which features hilarious subtitles, knife-throwing, snake-shooting, and Banhart’s girlfriend Natalie Portman. This could easily be one of the best videos I’ve seen in 2008 and has upped my excitement for Banhart’s Megapuss sideproject!

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Rare is the actor who has kissed both Gyllenhaals.

Why so serious, Hypeful readers?

MP3s:
The Beautiful South - “I Started A Joke”
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - “When Jokers Attack”
Four Hundred Years - “If You’re A Joke I Don’t Get It”
Grand National - “Joker And Clown”
I Spy – “More Than Joke”
Low - “I Started A Joke”
The Lucksmiths - “I Started A Joke”
Page France - “The Joker’s Joke”
Queens of the Stone Age - “Running Joke”
Raised by Wolves - “I Was Only Joking”
The Smashing Pumpkins - “The Joker”
The Smiths - “That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore”
Steve Miller Band - “The Joker”
Wolfmother - “Joker And The Thief”

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Top 20 Super Hero Songs

At his iTunes Live gig in London last night (July 8th), Lightspeed Champion performed a rocked-up medley of Star Wars themes including “The Imperial March” and the main film theme. Way better than what you would hear from a beauty pageant trumpeter and with less awkward choreography, Dev has been using the medley as an extended introduction to his epic single “Midnight Surprise” at recent live shows. If you dig L-Champ or just love R2-D2, you should check out the tracks below in less than 12 parsecs!

(As a bonus cover, I’m also posting his excellent take on The Strokes’ “Heart In A Cage!”)

MP3s:
Lightspeed Champion - “Star Wars Medley”
Lightspeed Champion - “Heart In A Cage (The Strokes cover)”
Lightspeed Champion - “Midnight Surprise”

There are two things I never thought I would get to type in 2008:

#1: I have finally seen Christmas On Mars in its entirety.

#2: Christmas On Mars is an amazing achievement that manages to live up to the hype, even after 6+ years of waiting.

On a stormy Friday the 13th nearing midnight, I found myself packed into a circus tent to watch the film along with approximately 150 Flaming Lips fans and the band/filmmakers themselves. It may not have come early, but Christmas was about to finally come to Oklahoma City! Always the proverbial circus ringleader, Wayne Coyne was working overtime to set the screening up as part of deadCENTER Film Fest and create an event that was way more unique than your average film viewing experience.

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Producer Mark Ronson has given yet another update in the ongoing ping-pong of Amy Winehouse’s involvement in recording a theme for the new James Bond flick, Quantum of Solace. Despite his optimism about the track just days ago, Ronson says the duo have now abandoned recording the theme and it would take “some miracle of science” to finish it.