Teens Carry On

Recent show. Apparently.

Adult Swim's Dethklok

Dethklok, the greatest metal band in the world!

These lyrics will be helpful, should you choose to watch this epsisode ...

Do you folks like coffee?
Real coffee
From the Hills
Of Colombia

The Duncan Hills will wake you
From a thousand deaths
A cup of blackened blood
(Dying, dying)
You're dying for a cup

Guatemala blend
Ethiopian
French vanilla roast
(Dying, dying)
You're dying for a cup

Prepare for ultimate flavor
You're gonna get some milk!
And scream... for your cream

Duncan Hills
Duncan Hills
Duncan Hills

COFFEE!

Read about it here.

Geek Alert! Woop Woop!

Microsoft has announced the release of Windows 7! On October 22nd, the company will unleash its new operating system, which, by every account I've read, gets it all right this time. That's the good news.

The even better news is that until July 11, you can pre-order the upgrade for half-price, so the Windows 7 upgrade for Home Premium is now $49.99 (versus $119.99)! I ordered mine from Amazon today.

Other good news is that if you don't want to wait until October to buy a PC, you can buy now and receive a free upgrade with your purchase from all the big PC manufacturers.

If you're inclined to take advantage of this limited time offer, I would strongly advise you to click here.

The Hurt Locker

Not that I ever get to the movies any more, but this looks terrific.

Catchy Friday

I think I have an idea what they had the drummer play at his audition.

Shit

For the record...

Shit

The Room

From the sometimes reliable Wikipedia:

The Room (2003) is an independent film written, produced, and directed and executive produced by Tommy Wiseau. It is the melodramatic story of a love triangle between a man, his fiancée, and his best friend. The principal cast includes Wiseau, Juliette Danielle, Greg Sestero, Philip Haldiman, Carolyn Minnott, and Robyn Paris. Without any studio support, Wiseau spent over $6 million on production and marketing for the film. After a brief run in Los Angeles, the film went on to develop a cult following in the city, because of its perceived unintentional humor. It continues to have monthly midnight screenings. Wiseau promotes the film as a black comedy and insists that the “unintentional” humor is intentional, although audience members generally doubt this.

Here are a few highlights ...







A truly bizarre interview with Tommy Wiseau, courtesy of The Onion's A.V. Club, can be found here. By the way, I'd feel sorry for this douche if his cult following wasn't making him wealthy.

The Hits Just Keep On Coming

I saw this shit about Sanford from SC being on the Appalachian Trail and thought it smelled like BS. Of course, it was! I don't blame him, though. Argentine babes are fabulous. Evidently Fox News decided he was more of a Democrat these days.

Patrick Wolf

I can't decide whether this is brilliant or awful, but it is certainly arresting.

Jib Jab

He's Barack Obama!

Nicely Done

Check out The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9, Jake Armstrong's thesis for the School of Visual Arts.

Well, This Sucks

From The LA Times, earlier this year:

Jones joined the ranks of the unemployed on Jan. 17, when Indie 103.1, the scruffy but revered L.A. rock station, became a victim of a vicious downturn in advertising revenue. For five years, the Sex Pistol had been the gloriously unpolished voice of "Jonesy's Jukebox," an eccentric and unpredictable two-hour lunchtime show on which he played any obscure record he wanted, chatted up famous guests or just, well, whistled.

Read the rest here after your tears have dried.

Up Your ... Alley

From YouTube:

Todd Schorr: American Surreal is the first mid-career retrospective of the Los Angeles-based artist. Schorr is a leading figure in Southern California's cartoon-based movement, dubbed Pop Surrealism, which embraces low-brow culture and a ribald graphic style indebted to pop sources such as Mad magazine. Schorrs astonishing, highly polished realism, (inspired by Bosch, Brueghel and Dali), sets him apart from his best-known peers such as Camille Rose Garcia, Gary Baseman, and Mark Ryden. The exhibition, curated by SJMAs Senior Scholar and Curator of Collections Susan Landauer, is accompanied by a book published by Last Gasp, San Francisco.

Reminds me of Candykiller a bit. Todd Schorr's official site is here. I embedded the playlist from YouTube, so 5 two minute videos should play consecutively.

What a Carve Up!

Need some summer reading? How about Jonathan Coe's bizarre perspective-shifting, mystery- thriller, laugh out loud dissection of Thatcherism? I give it a bleeding hearted thumbs up!

Hmmm ...

Any of you inglorious basterds gonna see this? If I hadn't seen Tarantino's half of Grindhouse, I'd be chomping at the bit. I'm just wondering how he's going to work his foot fetish into this one ...

Anyway, here's the trailer in case you're on the fence.

Very Cool

First of all, I'm back, and we had a great time at Rosemary Beach. (Photographic proof forthcoming ...)

Secondly, this extended commercial for the new Beatles: Rock Band game almost makes we want it.

Pacific Northwest Vacation Time!

Caroline and I are leaving this afternoon for our swing through Washington, Vancouver B.C., and North Idaho. See ya!

Hot Chicks with Douchebags website

This excellent site is good for a few chuckles, mostly from the commentary. I tried to find a copy of one of Jay and Susan's wedding pics, but came up empty.

Vacation!

Catch you bitches later. Lie fallow until my return, LBU!

Fighting Fire With Fire

Seems the RIAA fucked with the wrong consumer. From Ars Technica:

The recording industry has spent (and continues to spend) millions of dollars on its litigation campaign against accused file-swappers, but if two lawyers have their way, the RIAA will have to pay all the money back. Not content simply to defend Jammie Thomas-Rasset in her high-profile retrial next week in Minnesota, lawyer Kiwi Camara is joining forces with Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson to file a class-action lawsuit against the recording industry later this summer.

It's an interesting attack, and if any bastards were still reading the blargh, they could check it out here. I have to think the RIAA's about to give up on suing its customers, a strategy that allegedly has them in the red.

Impressive

From Edge, the Adobe newsletter:

This impressive promotional site for the world's first cinematic proportion TV is immediately intriguing because users feel like they have been dropped into the middle of a major incident. With "baddies" dressed as clowns and police everywhere, the deliberately slow-moving video experience has numerous hotspots that take the experience to another level. Take a moment to explore everything. You won't be disappointed.

Make sure to click the three vertical blue bars in the time line. Check it out here.

Did I mention it's done in Flash?

I'm Big in Tampa

This is funny.

An Audience Of Five (Or Six)

From Slashdot:

"Douglas Quenqua reports in the NY Times that according to a 2008 survey only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days meaning that "95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled." Richard Jalichandra, chief executive of Technorati, said that at any given time there are 7 million to 10 million active blogs on the Internet, but it's probably between 50,000 and 100,000 blogs that are generating most of the page views. "There's a joke within the blogging community that most blogs have an audience of one." Many people who think blogging is a fast path to financial independence also find themselves discouraged. "I did some Craigslist postings to advertise it, and I very quickly got an audience of about 50,000 viewers a month," says Matt Goodman, an advertising executive in Atlanta who had no trouble attracting an audience to his site, Things My Dog Ate, leading to some small advertising deals. "I think I made about $20 from readers clicking on the ads.""

Contributing to our longevity, I think, is the fact that we never had dreams or ambitions.

Lost in Translation

This one is probably a bit redundant, because I am pretty sure you chaps spend even more time than I do watching tape-delayed editions of Sky Soccer Saturday. On the off chance that isn't true, this is the ultimate realization of that uniquely British phenomenon -- the sports highlights show without the highlights. Lacking the rights to show clips of any games it is not actually showing live, Sky instead has a studio show, where the presenters all watch the games on monitors and tell us about them, and the immortal "Kammy" who reports live from one stadium each week, always a few minutes behind the action, and always totally befuddled. The second clip is the presenter, Jeff Stelling, defending the northern city of Middlesborough from Southern metrosexuals "who call their mushy peas guacamole and have babyshambles as their ringtone."

This Makes Me Chuckle

The longer I watch the funnier it becomes.

This Makes Me Chuckle

The longer I watch the funnier it becomes.

Catchy Monday

But what a shitty way to find new music ...

The Hangover

Saw it last night. It's really funny. I didn't think you could really do the Vegas bachelor party movie again, but this one pulls if off brilliantly. The actors are all excellent, and the way the story unfolds really keeps you involved. It's sort of a drunken 'Memento.' Excellent excellent excellent!

Big Star Box Set Coming

Fap fap fappity fap ...

Billboard has the scoop.

Four discs worth of unreleased demos, alternate takes, rarities, and live cuts are on tap for cult-rock act Big Star this fall when Rhino releases "Keep An Eye On The Sky" on September 15. The 98 tracks cull from 1968 – 1975, and include pre-Big Star bands Rock City and Icewater, solo work from Alex Chilton and Chris Bell, and unreleased material from the "#1 Record," "Radio City" and "Third/Sister Lover" sessions.

Read the rest here.

Happy Birthday, Dave!

Hope it's a good big one.

Drag Me To Hell

A masterwork. Fucking brilliant.

Fuck Fucking Fucker

I somehow acquired this little bastard last night. (Looking for that Buck Frain link, strangely enough.)

Reformatting and re-installing XP now ...

Create A Need And Fill It?

Joe, I know this must be confusing for you, but most adult males have hair on their bodies, especially around their genitals.

He's trimming that.

10 For 10

I saw this with da kids yesterday, in 3-D no less! Spot-on as usual, heartwarming and hilarious. If you don't choke up at least once in this movie, you have no soul. (And I must say, the house-as-emotional-baggage metaphor is fucking sublime.)

As most people know, Pixar movies are rotten with Easter eggs. Here's a bunch from Up. There are some spoilers, though; if you haven't seen the movie, don't click 'til you have.

Required Viewing For Even Casual Fans

Narrated by Joey Molland and Mike Gibbins (the two band members who apparently didn't experience the gut-wrenching despair that leads to suicide), Badfinger: A Riveting and Emotionally Gripping Saga contains loads of incredible band footage, plus a how-to guide on getting fucked by some of the sleaziest shitbags in the music industry.

You can get it here, or I can Finagle The Pontiff.

For those bastards with a litte more time on their hands, I found this out of print book, too. Although it says it's just a sample, the whole thing seems to be here. Much cheaper than the $100.00 Amazon wants for a used copy ...

And as if that isn't enough, here's a live rendition of "Day After Day" from 1972. It's a little dodgy at first, until the soundman gets the mix right. Still, no kick drum. What's up with that?