The BPA (formerly Fatboy Slim) released a track a while ago titled He’s Frank, which featured Iggy Pop on the vocals.  There were a few versions put out, but this newest installment is Iggy Pop in his rarest form- puppet. Video – Amazing.  Gotta love Iggy’s eyeballs. The music video for The BPA – He’s [...]

In an attempt to instill a greater sense of structure and regularity on roubalot, I am starting a weekly posting dubbed The Muse, in which I will post up new songs/old songs/bangers/goodies/sounds that delighted me the prior week, and hopefully will ignite some sense of optimism in this world gone mad for you too! This [...]

Animal Collective. Even before this record was out, several music magazines and websites started to refer to it as “The Best Album of 2009″, while Uncut Magazine called it “one of the landmark american albums of the century.” The album cover, based on optical illusions by Japanese Psychologist Akiyoshi Kitaoka, is what I imagine when [...]

For anyone who works on Flash, this little piece I stumbled upon is a really impressive in how it combines the environment with the animation.  Fun little ditty. Animator vs Animated

Listed are two remix/refixes of the lyrical epic Bombs Over Baghdad by Outkast, remixed by thy, mr roubal. The first is one from this past weekend, a Bmore/House/Chopped edit, and the 2nd is what I always imagined Waters of Nazereth would be like if someone had the privilege of laying lyrics over. Czech it! Sir [...]

A few weeks ago my good mate/legendary hockey star in Toronto, Sir Corey Wiseberg, generously tossed me a CD for the trek back to Ann Arbor.  He described it as “all Black Ghosts songs and Black Ghosts remixes mixed into one track.  Play it full volume and just bounce, it KILLS!” Couldn’t have been more [...]

Update of my favorite zombie, the now famous Jonathon, also known as Zombie Kid or simply… “I like turtles.”  I always wanted to know what happened to our mysterious friend.

Last night I got super excited to eat handmade Pierogis.  I defrosted and fried 4 of them, and they ended up being filled with sour kraut instead of the usual potato/cheese combination.  Talk about disappointing. Luckily, Ryan Tomaro pointed me towards the youtube of a NY acquaintance by the name of Cole Escola, that captivated [...]

Who isn’t sucked into the Summer Heights High craze right now?  It seems I haven’t gone a day without overhearing at least a dozen quotes.  Read example: (Jonah sneezes during class) Miss Wheatley: JONAH Please! Jonah: “…sorry miss, I’m just allergic to some shit up here… I must be allergic to your fart miss…” Jonah, [...]