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The Sounds of VTech / Bilal Levels

• A galactic new video for Bilal's song "Levels" from his album Airtight's Revenge, directed by Flying Lotus.
  
  
• Oliver Wang's thoughtful musing in The Atlantic on “Tiger Mom” Amy Chua.
  
  
• A great interview with comedian Nick Adams about writing for NBC's Perfect Couples, among other things.
  
  
• Dan Savage, advice columnist and founder of the "It Gets Better" movement, is working on a pilot for MTV loosely based on his speaking gigs at colleges across the country.
  
  
• Lastly, some very cool preview panels from the upcoming Scenes from an Impending Marriage by acclaimed graphic novelist Adrian Tomine.
  

• Paul Scheer, the embodiment of the values of MaxFun, has announced that his show National Terrorism Strike Force: San Diego: Sport Utility Vehicle, a parody of "police procedural" shows we've come to know so well, will be coming to Adult Swim next summer. Be sure to check out Paul's recent contributions to The Sound, including his reading on this show with Judd Apatow and this AWESOME piece with Seth Morris.
  
  
• Flying Lotus produced the track "BNG" for LA rapper Blu, which now has a pretty cool new video.
  
  
• Kyle Kinane, Chelsea Peretti, and Reggie Watts are all on Comedy Central's Hot List of 2010, which recognizes some of the up-and-coming talent in the world of comedy. Chelsea and Reggie have both appeared on The Sound in the past year and a half, and Kyle is included in our own upcoming Best of 2010 Comedy Special. Look out for it!
  
  
• Yo La Tengo kick off their annual lineup of Hannukah shows tonight, and the speculation on their special guests begins...
  
  
• And we just can't contain our cheers for Al Madrigal, who just announced that he's developing a sitcom with ABC revolving around a family business of running a food truck -- drawing on his own experiences of working with his parents' business.
  

A new video from recent Sound guest Flying Lotus.

Flying Lotus is a critically acclaimed music producer. His sound lies somewhere between progressive hip-hop and dance music. This year he's released an LP, Cosmogramma, and an EP, Pattern+Grid World.

FlyLo talks with Jesse Thorn about how he found his aesthetic, about his Aunt, Alice Coltrane, about how his mother convinced him to submit music to Cartoon Netowrk's [adult swim], about the influence of the late hip-hop producer Jay Dilla and more.

Now that I've seen this, it's going to be tough to accept videos that don't have any SPACE INDIANS in them.