Vedder’s first solo music video—for his critically lauded and Grammy-nominated Into the Wild song “Guaranteed”—airs on VH1 (and VH1.com) on Monday. Perfect timing, then, for the ever-more-famous guy to bump into his 1992 self while browsing Easy Street’s vinyl bins. Serendipity! 1992 Eddie (strokes soul patch; sings to himself): I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution… take a bow for the new revolution… 2008 Eddie (spots 1992 Eddie): Hey, are you ... ? Young......

Ever since Jack Roberts died and Cal Worthington disappeared, there's been a definite lack of goofy commercials on Seattle airwaves. If you, like us, are jonesing for silly ads, this ought to well satisfy your cravings. A Seattle transplant working at MTV dubs it "the best music video I've seen in a long time."......

This has been a rough week for your -ist pals, though you wouldn't know it from the great posts all over the network. Plagued with server problems, our tech team (led by the great Neil Epstein) toiled around the clock to solve the glitches as they arose. Seriously, we've said, typed, and thought the phrase "server problems" more in the past week than we have for the last 35 years combined. Why not say......

Pretty Girls Make Graves rock and their label Matador Records also rocks and, thirdly, new-web-order-2.0-thing You Tube rocks as well. You rock also, of course, and we don't want that to go without saying. Four great flavors --that's you, Pretty Girls, Matador and You Tube-- are coming together to make you (or more likely some freaky A/V kid from Montana, honestly, but give it a shot) the author of the new Pretty Girls Make Graves......

It's music, which we love, and video, which we also love, however in Seattlest's opinion there is no more wasted modern art form than the music video. How these two vastly expressive mediums combine to form such an awful taste is beyond us. Damn you, MTV. They're just not ever worth watching, outside, of course, of a handfull of indie rock videos that never get spun and the odd Tool offering. Yes, actually some......

Seattlest has never been to South Central, nor do we have any immediate plans to vacation there. But we do so enjoy watching the kids and their crazy clown dancing. In Rize, celebrity photographer/music video auteur David LaChappelle uses his first feature length film to bring the dance phenomenon krumping and its predecessor, clowning, to the fore. With its origins in post-Rodney King L.A., clowning was created by Tommy, a hip hop clown who......

Two little blurbs about music distribution, one cool and one really annoying. If you are a fan of the music videos than you may be interested in pioneering Pacific Northwest band, the Decemberists, who in addition to singing cute little songs about pirates, pioneered a whole new model of music video distribution. They created a video for their latest single ’16 Military Wives’ and then put it on their website for free distribution via BitTorrent.......