Weekend Multimedia

After all but taking last weekend off, this week's offerings are a veritable cavalcade.

PC dominoes. No comment necessary. (Via Boing Boing.)

Irony of ironies: James Dean on driver safety.

Hüsker Dü's video for "Could You Be The One?" Not exactly from their Zen Arcade or Flip Your Wig heyday, but still far better than most what passes for rock and roll these days. (Via Pitchfork.)

Trailer for the upcoming Silkworm documentary, Couldn't You Wait?. Maybe it's just their demise - longing for what can't be recovered - but I'm appreciating the band more and more as the years go on.

Stephin Merritt, of the Magnetic Fields, doing a Volvo ad. Hey, everybody's grabbing for the brass ring these days, and at least it wasn't one of his own songs being compromised. I had seen that commercial a few times before, but hadn't realized it was Merritt.

Shalom Auslander, whose story collection Beware of God was one of my favorite reads of 2006, is back with a memoir, Foreskin's Lament, the wonderful trailer for which is here. (Via Bookslut.)

And turning to the political, we have a somber reminder of U.S. failures - yes, failures - in Afghanistan, on the sixth anniversary of our "intervention." And on a lighter but no less pointed note, the unseemly, wide-stance relationship of Congress and the agribusiness industry. Oink.