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Hello internet, just a quick little write up here, want to get something up here before the internet is flooded tomorrow with posts about the Apple special announcement (excitement!). So what am I here to talk about tonight? The Flight of The Conchords! For those of you that don’t know The Flight of The Conchords is a comedy folk duo from New Zealand consisting of Jemaine (No R people!) Clement and Bret McKenzie. The two kiwis are absolutely brilliant if you ask me. Just look them up on youtube and check out scenes from their HBO One Night Stand or any of their other shows.

These guys have been popular in New Zealand for a good while now, but have gained popularity state side with lots of thanks to HBO. HBO agreed to give the Conchords their very own show called, The Flight Of The Conchords of course. The show is all about Bret and Jemaine making their way as an out of place band in New York City with their manager (whose real job is working at the New Zealand consulate) Murray Hewitt (played by Rhys Darby). Murray’s no manager and the Conchords are no band by most standards. But, after watching a couple episodes the seemingly stupid series just gets flat out catchy and addictive. I watched the first two episodes following Entourage and was just flabbergasted, I didn’t know what to think, but in time I couldn’t stop listening to the kiwis hilariously whacked out lyrics.

So the point of this post is the Conchords aired their season finale on Sunday night following the Entourage season finale. I won’t give away too much detail about the episode but I would like to express a bit of dissapointment about the episode. It was a good, typical, Conchords episode (which we WILL be seeing more of soon, as they’ve signed on for another season) with added talent from comedian Demetri Martin as a goofy keytar player who comes into the show as Murray tries to add a third member to the band (a bongo player named Todd) and winds up splitting the duo. Again, I’ll try not to give you a total synopsis, but I will say that the lack of even one Conchord’s song was rather dissapointing. There was a song by Demetri and Todd (anyone know who he was played by?) that was mildly amusing, but just not the Conchords. So hopefully we’ll see more catchy New Zealand music videos next season, but this final episode left me bored and disappointed. I still have faith in these guys though, and if you haven’t seen the show, you should certainly make an effort to do so.

So that’s it for now, as I’ve mentioned I will be talking about the Apple bluetooth headset soon, and I’m sure I’ll have something to write about tomorrow after Mr. Jobs engrosses the masses. Later.