Spring Break '82

Extra Scurf is the latest from Spring Break '82, the latest from an old friend of mine, the ever prolific Mike Coleman. David and Jay may remember him from a Singing Spoons record I played for them years and years ago. It's heavy and weird and I don't know what to say about the album cover...Farts Through Photoshop?

Matthew Broderick's Day Off

Clever-ish Honda Superbowl ad.

This Kinda Creeps Me Out...

There's been a little too much gratuitous nudity on this here blargh, so I thought I'd step in and bring us back down to the normal low brow antics.

Some dude with too much free time and too much artistic merit decided to re create Beavis and Butthead in 3D form. My only question is "why hasn't this been done before?"

On second thought, maybe I shouldn't have posted this. Someone quickly do a post with boobs so we don't have to view this for too long...

If you haven't seen enough and want more, click here.

Happy birthday beloved founding Bastard!

Everyone sign the card!

Wow, Look At That Sweet Rick Hofner bass!

The Ladybirds were an actual '60s era girl group from Jersey.

What Yoko Problem?

Frank, John and.. Jesus H. Christ.  (And you thought the church guy was bad.)

There Is No God

This Hits Dangerously Close To Home

Sad Ha Ha

Is The Future Here Yet?

How many passwords and usernames you bastards have to remember?

Grammar Nerd Humor

Wiliam Safire's Rules For Writers

• Remember to never split an infinitive.
• The passive voice should never be used.
• Do not put statements in the negative form.
• Verbs have to agree with their subjects.
• Proofread carefully to see if you words out.
• If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be by rereading and editing.
• A writer must not shift your point of view.
• And don’t start a sentence with a conjunction. (Remember, too, a preposition is a terrible word to end a sentence with.)
• Don’t overuse exclamation marks!!
• Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of 10 or more words, to their antecedents.
• Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
• If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
• Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.
• Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
• Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing.
• Always pick on the correct idiom.
• The adverb always follows the verb.
• Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague; seek viable alternatives.

Underwearld

I haven't seen any of these fine films, but apparently Kate Beckinsale's ass is a recurrent character. Underworld Awakening out today.

Forecast: Snowballs

Chains of Love

Latest single from Ryan Adams. I'm still listening to Ashes & Fire on a regular basis. That is all.

Zombierific

I'm reading the novel right now and it's making me awfully excited for the film. If you haven't read the book, I highly recommend it. The scary thing is, if you can suspend disbelief for the premise, it's probably pretty accurate as far as how something like this would go down.

Haw Haw

Volcanic Green Energy

Geothermists are going to pour 24 million gallons of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Oregon this summer in possibly the awesomest green energy move we've ever seen.

"They hope the water comes back to the surface fast enough and hot enough to create cheap, clean electricity that isn’t dependent on sunny skies or stiff breezes — without shaking the earth and rattling the nerves of nearby residents." Story here.

I'm no scientician, but I'm sure the idea was inspired by that Brady Bunch volcano science project episode...

Peek-A-Boo!

Happy tastefully nude Friday the 13th.

One For The Pooh Bah

Sorry, but I was getting tired of that guy's face.

Once Upon A Beginning

This seems to be up our collective alley, but I'm too busy/lazy to write a proper description. It's got Richard Ayoade and Matt Berry from The IT Crowd, and here's what the sometimes-reliable Wikipedia has to say:

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is a British dark comedy show made for Channel 4 by Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade. Following on from Garth Marenghi's Netherhead, which won the 2001 Perrier Awards, the show revolves around fictional horror author Garth Marenghi (played by Holness) and his publisher Dean Learner (played by Ayoade). Darkplace is presented as a lost classic: a television series produced in the 1980s, though never broadcast at the time. The presentation features commentary from many of the "original" cast, where characters such as "Marenghi" and "Learner" reflect on making the show. Darkplace parodies numerous aspects of '80s low-budget television, including fashion, special effects, production gaffs, and music, as well as the widespread practice of including commentary tracks on DVD releases of old films and television shows.

Darkplace was broadcast in a late-night timeslot, with very little advertising, and met with poor viewing figures. The show nonetheless built up a significant internet following, leading Channel 4 to swiftly repeat the series and produce a DVD release. It was also reported that Channel 4's Film Four had asked Holness and Ayoade to write a script for a movie version of their programme.

Embedding is disabled but episode one, part one can be found here.

Post-Holiday Madness!

Uh, hard to blow off.

Myth of the Tortured Artist

Tweedy's the shizzle.

And Then There's This

I FTP GBV, SOB(s).

¡Happi Nu Yr!

Keep on rockin in the free world, you bastards.