Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Oh Carrie Carrie

For all my fellow Sleater-Kinney fans, still not completely over the now 1 year old break up of said band, I offer you this update....

Sadly no, my update does not involve news of a reunion. It does however involve the one and only Carrie Brownstein, beloved guitar goddess of punk rock. For most of this last year Carrie remained under the radar, not making much of any public appearences, only instead a handful of articles and interviews for various publications. But now shes starting to show her face more often. Most notably in the newly minted web-based sketch comedy show ThunderAnt. ThunderAnt consists of Ms. Brownstein and her good friend Fred Armisen. So far there are two official ThunderAnt episodes and an older collaboration originally titled Boink!

Personally I find them pretty funny, if not always dead on hilarious, but theyre getting better with each passing episode and Carrie's timing is pretty top notch. Also be sure to notice the ThunderAnt theme song which was composed by Carrie and thats her on keyboard with Fred on drums. So go check it out!
And for more random Carrie-ness heres a video that seems to be at a humane society volunteers meeting in portland where Carrie had to give some sort of introduction about herself and wound up singing the orowheat jingle. HILARIOUS!!!