Curse your catchy sensibilities, it's Friday

Bloated Government

Not sure if we're in the habit of granting honorary doctorates in bastardy... but this guy's a strong candidate. More here.

Anyone Else Working Today?

You Guys Give Up, Or Are You Thirsty For More?

I've always wondered about this ...

Since its debut in 1990, Home Alone has become as much a part of the Christmas cinematic ritual as It's a Wonderful Life. But unlike that uplifting tale about the good of mankind, Home Alone tells a rather unsettling Christmas story of a precocious 8-year-old who, accidentally abandoned by his family, is forced to defend his home from two dimwitted burglars. Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) turns his family's home into a veritable funhouse of torturous booby traps that so-called Wet Bandits Marv (Daniel Stern) and Harry (Joe Pesci) hilariously stumble through, and the transformation of a suburban Chicago home into a relentless injury machine is nothing short of spectacular. But it does require quite a suspension of disbelief. Can a man really be hit square in the face with a steam iron and walk away unfazed? What kind of permanent physical damage would a blow torch to the head really do? To answer these questions and officially dissolve Home Alone's Hollywood magic, I spoke with my friend Dr. Ryan St. Clair of the Weill Cornell Medical College. Enjoy.

Full article here.

Catchy Friday

Happy End of Days!

See you bastards in the hazy cosmic jive!

Here's Mine

Best of 2012, that is.

• Bob Mould – Silver Age 
• Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits 
• Gaz Coombes – Here Come The Bombs 
• Guided by Voices – Let’s Go Eat The Factory 
• Heartless Bastards – Arrow 
• Mountain Goats – Transcendental Youth 
• Redd Kross – Researching The Blues 
• Screaming Females - Ugly 
• Shoes - Ignition 
• Sigur Ros – Valtari

Anybody else?

Depressing But Fascinating

I still have a hard time understanding what happened to Detroit and why. Fortunately, there's a page that answers those questions.

Slideshow explanation here. Specific locations in Detroit here.

Ho Ho Ho!

Check our virtual stocking.  I'm too lazy to burn and mail CDs.

For The Bastard Who Has Everything...

Last-minute Festivus ideas?

Onion on the Mark Again

Fuck Everything, Nation Reports

Just Fuck It All To Hell

Catchy Friday

Consuming Spirits

Nearly 15 years in the making, Chris Sullivan's Consuming Spirits is a meticulously constructed tour de force of experimental animation. Shooting frame by frame in 16mm, Sullivan seamlessly blends together a range of techniques—cutout animation, pencil drawing, collage, and stop-motion animation—into a distinct, signature visual style. In the process, he constructs a hypnotic, layered narrative, a suspenseful gothic tale that tracks the intertwined lives of three kindred spirits working at a local newspaper in a Midwestern rust belt town.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmaybe

New Guillermo del Toro flick coming soon.  Robots and monsters?  Yes, please.

I Laughed A Little Too Hard

Still Shopping For My Xmas Present?

Look no further ...

Catchy Saturday?

Long week = you guys get pop music a day late and a holla short.
I'm a big Morning Benders fan, even though they've now changed their name to Pop Etc because "bender" is a pejorative name for gays in the U.K... So they say.
Anyway, I love Chris Chu's voice. There's a good little intro/artist's thoughts bit, song starts around 2:00.

SimilarSots

I added on this FireFox widget to show me sites similar to the one I'm on.  Tonight it verified that Los Barstardos Unidos is utterly one of a kind.  I'm just going to go ahead and assume that's the outstanding kind of special and not the short bus kind of special. 

Shit

Dave Brubeck, 1920-2012.  Time Out, indeed.

It's For A Good Cause...

...so it's o.k., right?

Festivus Countdown Begins

[photo courtesy Dave's Childhood Archives]