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After the 2008 departure of co-founding members Chris Ross and Myles Heskett, Australian hard rock group Wolfmother has reassembled itself and released a new album, Cosmic Egg. They're on tour and hitting the Fox in Oakland on Tuesday Monday (tickets still available here). Above, their new video for the single "New Moon Rising," which is not to be confused with the new Twilight movie, New Moon, or Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising."

YouTube character Gay Carrington is, near as we can tell, a stoner transsexual puppet who occasional chimes in to talk to her fans in Old Hollywood-style English about her moods, pets, and experiences. She posted the above "kaleido-vision" video "while resting up" for her next real video, but we think it's positively brilliant. It stars her cat, Christina "Mooks" Carrington, and as far as stoner YouTubery goes, it's the tops. Enjoy.

As many gamers are probably aware, the New Super Mario Bros. for Wii gets its world-wide release tomorrow, and Nintendo is having at least one big launch shindig in Manhattan today, according to Kotaku (we can't find any word on something similar locally...). Only because we grew up with Mario, and because this time-and-space spanning spec commercial for Super Mario Galaxy inexplicably chokes us up, we thought we'd share. It edits together the many incarnations of the little guy in blue overalls, set to a soundtrack by Sigur Ros.

The band in question is called B & Not B, a self-described "nerdy supergroup" from SF with a name inspired by Derrida, or something. Watch as they show up at various Mission locales and entertain the natives. They'll be performing a show at the Makeout Room on December 2nd. Hat tip: Mission Mission.

With the new album, The Farm, J Mascis and the gang return to mid-nineties form in sound and song writing. They're performing at The Fillmore tonight and we believe there are still some tickets available. The video above embarrasses us a little, if only because they're all a little old to be on skateboards and BMXs, but we suppose that's the point.

This was part of the Celebrity Autobiography series. What more do you need to know? [Hat tip: Le Fag site semi-NSFW]

We know we're preaching to the converted here (for the most part), and we probably should have caught this semi-gruesome spoof ad by NYC's Upright Citizens Brigade (which once gave birth to Amy Poehler) before Halloween. But here it is, nevertheless, because it still gives us a chuckle, and everybody's in a political mood today anyhow.

Yes, it's that time of year again when aspiring and/or hobbyist writers -- as well as those creative souls who feel their lives slipping away year by year with nothing to show for it but debt and some nice pics on Flickr -- join together with others across the world for National Novel Writing Month. November is but a 30-day month, and if you haven't started on your new novel draft, then, well, you have a little catching up to do. The idea isn't to come up with something polished and perfect, but just to write every day, about whatever, and hopefully link some stuff together into something resembling a 50,000-word cohesive story. (Watch the video above for some tips for getting started.)

Wait, you need us to explain this to you? No amount of text could do this cardio performance of a lifetime justice. This clip is, in a word, genius. Watch members of the San Francisco Bay Club give it their all at the 1986 Crystal Light National Aerobic Championship.

Here it is people: the Trauma episode we've been waiting for. On Monday night, the Halloween episode of the SF-based helicopter drama will be airing, and all the drag queens in town who responded to the drag queen casting call a couple months back will be watching the show at a viewing party hosted by Heklina at The Lookout (Noe & Market). We gather that Lady Bear had her own trailer and some actual lines, and maybe Heckles did too? The video above leaves a little to the imagination insofar as the drag queen/nightclub scene that was shot at Great American Music Hall, but hopefully that $3 million-per-episode budget is at least going to yield some good gay television.

Please forgive us once again if you're totally over AutoTune masters The Gregory Brothers. We're still not. And we love the little world music moment they add to the United Nations summit of a couple weeks back. Also, angry gorilla!

NYC-based band The Walkmen will be playing at 6:20 p.m. on Sunday of the Treasure Island Music Fest (see our preview here), and this rather dark song, "On the Water," is off their 2008 release "You and Me," and they are currently working on their sixth studio album. The video was directed by Nir Ben Jacob.

One of the local acts we're most looking forward to seeing at this weekend's Treasure Island Music Festival (one-day and two-day passes still available!) is Thao with the Get Down Stay Down. They're playing on Sunday at 1:15 p.m., and know this fest that should be a nice, mellow time to plop down your blanket and enjoy the music before the whole crowd pour over the bridge. This cute video for 2008's "Bag of Hammers," has some nice shots of SF, and the song reminds us a bit of Rickie Lee Jones, no?

Hey guess what! It's raining! So here's a little palate cleanser today that could be considered the progressive-house antithesis to yesterday's "Storms" by Stevie Nicks. It's called "San Francisco Rain" and it's by Italian house music artist Marco Lys, featuring vocals by Mooli. Download the track from iTunes here.

In honor of typhoon Melor and the impending five inches of rain with which she'll blanket the Bay Area starting tonight, we present to you a demo of Stevie Nicks' "Storms," one of the greatest songs about a storm (and yet so much more) ever written.

In honor (or disgust) at the Blue Angels arrival in Baghdad by the Bay, please enjoy this clip of the Blue Angels set to Van Halen's "Dreams," off of 5150.

After succumbing to the joy of a perfectly cut and shared cheeseburger, two men hypothesize the homosexual lifestyle, telling each other what they would do to the other if they were bent. Funny stuff. (Note: Dirty words are featured heavily, so this is very much NSFW. Use headphones in case the boss walks by your cubicle.)

Forgive us if her sugary sweetness leaves you wishing for a glass of milk (or some kind of metalcore antidote), but the Australian Madonna is hitting our shores for two shows starting tonight at the Fox. Kylie Minogue may not be as huge here as she is Down Under and across the pond, but she is a cancer survivor and she's sure to bring the gays and a certain contingent of teen girls out to party with her pure dance-pop confections. Some new tickets were JUST RELEASED are still available here, if you're into that kind of thing. Or just watch her new-ish four-year-old video for "I Believe In You" here.

In this special video, a large Russian man bearing some resemblance to Newt Gingrich in a sailor costume gets up and sings the Beatles' "Let It Be" really badly. There is also a chorus of other Russian sailors and a full band. Who knew they didn't have their own translation of this song? Maybe it is true what they say about English being the prettiest language... [via WOW]

Brilliant pop culture blogger FourFour gives us this brilliant montage (which must have required, like, months of work) in which he edits together the myriad moments from recent horror film history in which the screenwriters got lazy and employed the no-cell-signal excuse for why their characters are totally screwed. Enjoy. (See his earlier "not here to make friends" reality TV montages here and here.)

It looks like we have a new "Single Ladies" when it comes to spoof videos on YouTube (particularly from dance-talented gay men), and it's Shakira's "She-Wolf." While it may not inspire a Kanye stage-storming or make non-verbal babies jiggle and shake with glee, the song certainly has moved many (including Jimmy Kimmel) to launch immediate parodies and tributes. Perhaps, in this hyper-imitative digital age, that is the mark of great art. The above spoof, which is a frame-for-frame remake, was made and performed by YouTuber Andrew Foster. (via Dorothy is Dead)