Definitely wouldn’t have gone with the music in the clip above–so we made our own dub-over version below (you’re welcome BMW)–but it’s interesting to see what BMW is doing with body design as the auto market shifts more importance on cosmetics.

Today was a strict mix of drive-time pleasure with a bit of business. Highlights consisted of a trip from Venice to Malibu, some Caribbean cuisine and orchid browsing.

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We’ve been fans of Goldmund aka Keith Kenniff, or Helios as we’ve known him from Merck Records releases, for about four years now. It’s cool to see that he’s branching out into commercials. It’s always fun to hear music you like in commercials because then at least, even if people are in the kitchen getting a snack or conversing when the music is playing, you know it made it out to people’s lives: regardless of whether they were paying attention. We always pay attention to music. Everywhere. Commercials, restaurants, bars, greasy diners, it doesn’t matter. We’re listening for what the music is. So enjoy these spots for MTV and Audi featuring music by Kenniff. We’ll be buying all of the Goldmund records for sure.

Speaking of commercials, shout out to Jon Lipman and the work he’s doing over at Machinehead Studios.

Car companies have been incorporating dance music into their commercials for more than a few years, but the Toyota-owned Scion A/V has stepped past those hasty 30 second spots by releasing the music itself. Ghostface Killah lent his “Charlie Brown” track, left off of Fishscale because of licensing issues, to this Scion A/V 12″ series, to be remixed by several popular electronic musicians. Featured here is the mix from Orgasmic-of Paris-based rap group TTC-who brings some high energy French beats to back the vocals of a legend.

Ghostface: “It don’t even matter. It’s just names. People always get it twisted, you know, “Is this the Ghostface Killah?” Man, it’s whatever-whatever, you can name me Shithead if you want. I don’t give a fuck about all that. It’s real, man. A name is a name, and I make music. My niggas know my voice even without the name. That’s what it is.”

Check it out.

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So, lately, we have been getting a handful of angry messages (generally without merit or grounds) about the site. People tell us what they think the content should or shouldn’t be, or try to criticize the posts without any information to support their opinions. Well, guess that’s just life, huh? These things will happen. However, we wanted to take a minute and use this post as a blanket statement to all the haters to say a few things.

A) Contrary to what you might believe, we do care here. As a matter of fact, if you have content or corrections to the posts that are constructive and not just ripping on them, then we’ll consider either changing my posts or future posts.

B) More specifically, let’s say you want a post with music or video clips about an artist or fashion, etc. Rather than writing, “This is stupid,” you could write suggestions (and not sarcastic ones either). If you really show interest in having a post about someone or something you’re into, we’re definitely open to it.

C) Anyway, if A and B fail to be satisfied, then this site is just going to go on being what it is.

Snapped this photo with the phone earlier today that was funny yet also representative of what HipsterWave is, we’re the:

And if the front doesn’t clear it up for you then the back should:

That’s how we break it down and ride for you. Prepare for more excellent posts. In the meantime, here’s a kid suffering nerd devastation:

Note his downtrodden pathetic reaction. He clearly doesn’t speak English as his first language, but to say “Mama,” when you’re upset at his age? This guy is not winning cool points, even if it does suck that his flat-panel TV got destroyed. It’s like, sometimes man, you just gotta be more careful when you play video games. And damn it, there are too many people in the world who don’t pay close enough attention to what they’re doing when they’re doing it (like say, when driving). So, we learn, you must focus with all your might when playing Nintendo Wii!

Oh and since now we’re sharing pics that we took personally of things and showing video clips of TV devastation, here’s a $40,000.00 70″, 1080p LCD television from Samsung (model  LN-T7081F) that you can now purchase at Best Buy. Shocked? We were. Man. Not only is this beast the same price as a low-end luxury car, but a Best Buy representative came by and stated that “No photos are allowed in the store,” while we were trying to snap some for you, the audience. What’s hilarious is that we don’t even think Best Buy has an official store policy against in-store photos being taken.

First, proof of the insane price-tag:

Okay, so now that it’s official, we were shocked and were so shaken up that we couldn’t manage to take a decent photo of the damn image-quality that’s worth showing you, so the best we have to show for it is a blurred image of Keira Knightley’s face from Pirates of the Caribbean:

If you want to learn more about one of the highest priced consumer TVs available, just holla at Samsung and here’s a photo that actually shows its beauty a bit (albeit a small photo):

So what’s so damn great about this TV? Sure, it’s 70″ and has a resolution of 1080p, but damn. Why $40k? That’s completely absurd! Who pays that much for their TV? Plus, you know that in a few years they’ll have better technology at a better value. We know that Best Buy has marked the price up at least 17-20% because that is one of their policies, but damn, we still could not understand the hefty price-tag. Well, once we learned that the contrast ratio is 500,000:1, that put things in perspective a bit. The average, Joe six-pack flat-screen in the $750 – $2,000 range has a contrast ratio of about 10,000 – 20,000:1. What does such a disgustingly high contrast ratio mean? That all your brights are brighter and all your dark colors are darker. Basically, you get an excellent viewing experience, that was built on a viewing experience that was already good. So, this TV is amazing, but we still refuse to shell out that kind of dough for a TV. That’s just unreasonable.

But hey, by the way, if 70″ isn’t big enough for you, Samsung also has a 103″ model available at $103,000.00. Every TV should cost $1,000 per viewable inch. Just sayin’, you know, in case you decide to splurge.