Some people are just too busy to be creeped out by Halloween. That's why we've developed the Nightmare Generator™ which implants images of disturbing things in your brain, resulting in a general feeling of uneasiness and low grade horror. Today's Nightmare Generator™ is a segment from Hungary's "Sandor Fridercruz" show featuring a choir of ventriloquist dummies singing the Beatles' "Yesterday."
As you watch this and your nightmare is being generated, take time to reflect on some of this video's many mysteries. Such as, "Why is the guy with a mustache such a bad ventriloquist?" Or, "Why do the ventriloquists with the least hair have dummies with thick, lustrous hair?" Or, "Why do we live in a world where black ventriloquists are the only people to use black dummies?" Not that black people or dummies are dummies, but you know what I mean. Shutting up now.

Extra credit: The VentriloChoir were at one point Conan O'Brien regulars. Anybody remember?

Local and fabulous band Visqueen are getting some big props on CNN.com right now:

After he bashes Joss Stone for three minutes ("Joss Stone is for soul music what Chicken McNuggets is to soul food"), Current.com's Peter Grumbine praises Visqueen's new record Message to Garcia by saying "This is a straight-up rock and roll album but it's as good as any soul music I've heard recently... This is one of my top three records of the year."

Read David Schmader's wonderful recent interview with Visqueen frontwoman Rachel Flotard here.

I didn't either.

So if you missed it, here's the recap: On last night's episode Kim Gordon officiated a wedding for two people who said the stupidest vows ever, and then Sonic Youth played the reception and no one cared:

(Via Videogum.)

Sunny Day Real Estate playing "Seven" on Jimmy Fallon:

Fallon seems sincerely giddy about their performance.

They play the Paramount on October 16th and it appears tickets are still available here.

Yesterday Jay-Z was a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

To see the full episode, go here.

To see only the skin-crawly segment where Jay teaches Oprah to rap, go here.

Wait, who are we kidding? Seriously. Line Out has been suggesting a plethora of varied musical fare for your evening entertainment— Japanther! The Dead Weather!— but um, let's be real. You're probably not leaving the house. You'll probably be holed-up in sweatpants watching THIS.

Extras are still needed for MTV.com's web series $5 Cover, which currently is being directed by local director (and previous Stranger Genius) Lynn Shelton.

The show is being filmed at various clubs around the city, and starring different local bands (already on the roster: the Spits, Thee Emergency, Champagne Champagne, the Maldives, and more), and they're looking for people who can come down and be in the crowd and rock out while the bands play live. For more information, e-mail 5dollarcoverseattle@gmail.com.

You're a question on Jeopardy.

Congratulations, Sub Pop!

Next week ultimate party dude Andrew WK debuts a new kids show on the Cartoon Network called Destroy Build Destroy, and all it is is a bunch of kids getting to break shit.

That is so much cooler than Mr. Wizard.

The Decemberists were guests on The Colbert Report last night—Colbert interviewed Colin Meloy and Chris Funk, then the band played a song from their new album The Hazards of Love (see post title). You can see the full episode on Hulu.com right now—their bit starts at about 14:30.

Colbert is hilarious, the band is polite: "Which came first—these sideburns or your interest in the time period?"

It's cute.

What has Sweden's pop princess Robyn been up to?

(Hat tip Jesse!)

Mood-elevating Seattle hiphop crew the Saturday Knights—or someone with their best interests at heart—have placed their song "Foreign Affair" on the teevee show The Reaper. Tune in tonight at 8 pm on the CW for the action.

ht: Trent Moorman

If you’re not already watching the new season of Flight of the Conchords you should probably start. I enjoyed the first season just fine — it was easy enough to binge-watch in a pleasantly long setting or two, but it also struck me as sort of bland. The episodes revolved mostly around Bret and Jemaine’s aloofness and naiveté, with premises that seemed obviously crafted around humorous songs that the duo had already been performing live for some time. The cute songs, coupled with the charming antics of the protagonists made for quirky, mindless, easily enjoyable television that I watched once but didn’t bother to reacquire after my hard drive broke.

Last night I realized that season two was already 5 episodes deep, so I got them from the online getting place (try before you buy) and sat down in front of my TV to be mildly amused for the evening. Flight of the Conchords has gotten much, much funnier. This season, it doesn’t seem like the premises of the episodes are based around the silly songs, but vise versa. The plotlines — which are excellent this season — have taken center stage now, with the songs serving as interludes that embellish and expand the narrative. I enjoyed the songs in the first season, but I never cared to actually re-listen to them on the Flight of the Conchords record. I like Bret and Jemaine much better as comedians than musicians. In season two it feels like the music is just part of the duo’s act, not the main attraction, and it works better that way. They’ve also smartly expanded the musical numbers to include the rest of the cast, making the show seem like a well-rounded “musical comedy” instead of just scaffolding built around stand-alone comedy songs. I probably still won’t listen to an album of the songs from season 2, but thanks to stepping up their comedy game I’m now waiting for new episodes to air with rapt attention.