That’s right . . . falling off a surfboard.

Wallflowers front man Jakob Dylan is officially releasing his second solo album, Women and Country, in early April. But Mountain listeners get a preview when Jakob joins me in the Carter Subaru Mountain Music Lounge this Monday at 3:20.

Produced by T-Bone Burnett, who just won an Oscar for his song from the Jeff Bridges movie Crazy Heart, Jakob’s new album features backing vocals by Neko Case (of the New Pornographers) and Neko will be joining us for this session in the Lounge.

I hope you can catch it on the air Monday at 3:20, but if not, you can always check it out afterwards in the Music Lounge archives here.

You might remember the groundbreaking music video by the alt-rock band OK Go from a few years ago in which the band members executed some flawlessly synchronized dance moves on treadmills. It was one of the first videos to go viral on YouTube and it made the band semi-famous. (That song was Here It Goes Again, and you can watch it here.)

Now they’re back with a truly brilliant production in which they set a giant Rube Goldberg-like machine into operation, in real time, as the camera captures it all in one continuous shot. (Well, almost. You can get the behind-the-scenes scoop here.)

It’s hard to explain, but thrilling to watch. Check it out — and I’d suggest watching it all the way to the end:

Here are the wacky antics of a band I love called HoneyHoney. They’ve been up to the Carter Subaru Mountain Music Lounge — I’m gonna say it was in December of 2008 — and besides making really catchy music, Suzanne Santo and Ben Jaffe are hilarious.

Here they are in action:

You can listen to that ‘08 Lounge session here.

. . . when I get my hair cut. It seems fine when I’m in the chair, and then when I get to work and take a good look at myself, it’s so much shorter than I thought. Whatever — it grows back quickly.

Back in the go-go 1990s I used to go to some really fancy salon in Belltown where they massaged your scalp, shampooed you with exotic products, served you champagne, gave you a big hug at the end of the visit, and charged you an arm and a leg. Now I go to this place on Capitol Hill called Scream. (This is not a commercial, I swear.) They’re fast, super-nice, and CHEAP. Much better. Although I do kind of miss that scalp massage.

First there was his controversial interview in Rolling Stone. Now the singer/songwriter weighs in on his fling with Jessica Simpson (“Sexually it was crazy . . . . it was like napalm, sexual napalm . . . “) and offers some strange single-malt-Scotch-fueled comments about his lack of interest in having sex with black women — comments that have already been called racist by bloggers all over the place.

Check out his interview here.
(Warning!! Reader discretion advised! Adult language and subject matter!)

. . . thanks to the ingenuity of the web, I can still pick my favorite Superbowl ads, after the fact.

Maybe you know I’m not much of a sports guy (an understatement), so my usual technique is to DVR the big game, then skip through the actual playing part so I can see all the commercials in about a half-hour. But this year I just checked out this website, which lets you look at every Superbowl commercial, and even sorts them by quarter.

I thought this little Letterman promo was the funniest:

And call me sentimental, but — with apologies to all my pals at Bing — I thought this Google spot was sweet, simple, elegant, and brilliant:

If you’d like to review all the commercials and pick your fave, the site is NFL Fanhouse. Way easier than actually watching an entire game!

More good works from the music community for the people of Haiti . . .

The Dave Matthews Band has established the Bama Works Haiti Relief Fund — an initiative to help provide long-term support to the people of the earthquake-ravaged nation of Haiti.

They’ve released a digital EP with five live tracks called The Haiti Relief Project. Here’s the track listing:

Butterfly
Cry Freedom
Out Of My Hands
Lying In The Hands of God
Dive In

The EP is downloadable now, and it’s only 5 bucks! Click here to get it.

You may have already discovered Eddie Vedder’s beautiful version of Bruce Springsteen’s “My City of Ruins,” which benefits Haiti relief. (The details are here.)

Now Pearl Jam’s guitar god, Mike McCready, is putting together an event called A Hootenany for Haiti on February 28 at the Showbox at the Market in Seattle. The featured guest will be Duff McKagan of Guns ‘N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver, and there’s a nice assortment of other great artists: Kim Virant, Kristen Ward, Kim Warnick, Mark Pickerel, Star Anna, Chris Friel, Gary Westlake, Jeff Rouse, Justin Davis, Ty Bailie and friends.

They’ll perform in the intimate surroundings of the Showbox to benefit Partners in Health, a 20-year-old organization that’s on the ground providing much-needed medical care in Haiti.

Tickets are only 15 bucks — how can you not go? Here are the details.

It means it’s time to take down the holiday lights.

Oh sure, some people might say you should take the lights down on, like, New Years Day. I say, what’s the rush? Why should I drag my big extension ladder out of the garage and around to the front of the house on some rainy early-January day, when I can wait until a mild, sunny-ish morning comes along?

Gee, now it’s only 10 months until it’s time to put them up again. Maybe I should’ve just left them . . . .