I'm Speechless

My 2013 Best Of

• Black Sabbath - 13
• The Bronx - IV
• David Bowie - The Next Day
• Gary Numan - Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind)
• Iggy & The Stooges - Ready To Die
• My Bloody Valentine - m b v
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away
• Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
• Superchunk - I Hate Music
• Yo La Tengo - Fade

As always, my definition of best means albums I was motivated to purchase and listen to repeatedly.  My honorable mention for 2013 includes ...

• Boards Of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
• Queens Of The Stone Age - ... Like Clockwork
• The Thermals - Desperate Ground
• They Might Be Giants - Nanobots
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II

The Colourful Mr. Eggleston

Watch it before the BBC pulls it.

More Shit

Marcia Wallace, a.k.a. The Simpsons’ Mrs. Krabappel. Fuck cancer.

Someone Get That Kid A Treat

Action Figures, Goddammit

The Secret Story of TOYS from Anthony Ladesich on Vimeo.

Peek Inside Tesla's Robotic Factory

Nerdgasm!

New Series: Artists We Love (?): Springsteen

New series: post an artist and everyone else weighs in with their relative love/disdain for said artist. Our feelings on Dylan, the Replacements, Morrissey, and others are well documented. Let's try some more. Rate the artist on your personal scale of 1-10 and explain why they merit that position. Overrated? Underrated? Let's get some musical dialog going people! I'll start.

I didn't like Springsteen at the height of his 80s popularity. Not enough shredding solos or punk rock aggression for me. He seemed like old people music when I was 18. To me, lyrical depth was exemplified by Roger Waters, not Bruce Springsteen. At some point in the mid 90s, that began to change.

I picked up Nebraska in a bargain bin somewhere and suddenly figured this guy out. I think I had to be older to understand some of the stories and some of the characters. I worked back to The River and Darkness on the Edge of Town and those three remain my favorites although I am a huge fan of his post 2000 work as well. I have a lot of time for The Rising and Magic especially. As I get older, longevity in the business becomes more and more admirable to me. If you're skeptical of The Boss' songwriting prowess, I highly recommend The Promise, a double album set of outtakes from the Darkness sessions. He's got some serious Motown and Tin Pan Alley chops.

If you'd like to hear anything you don't have For The Posterity of it, let me know. I think I've got most all of it save one or two 90s efforts.

Scale: 9/10

Shit

Richard Matheson.

Google him, ya bastards.

The Making Of The Shining

Building A Human

More found-footage hilarity from Peter Serafinowicz.

Shark Week? Try Shark MONTH Bitchez!

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Kudos to Matt, whose photography will be featured in an upcoming Shark Angels Calendar.

Matt's only previous calendar work was as "Mr. April" in Sexy Wetsuits 1993. He says he was young and needed the money.

Hebbo!

You bastards need religion, and it's SO easy to join! All you have to do is say Tarvu's Prayer.

Tarvu tarvooti,
Oboonoo cTooti,
Mimmin O'tibbi noonah,
Mdfitty fitty noonah,
Arvu immentiBarvu,
Tarvu.

(To be said when you wake up, go to bed, and after you have visited the toilet.)

Click here to visit the official internet website for the Tarvuist faith.

Tarvuists believe:

• Tarvu is our Lord God
• There are two universes
• The Tarvunty is the Holy Book
• We should all "be nice"
• Men and women are equal (to each other)
• Tarvu's Prayer should be said every day
• Octopuses are holy creatures
• Everyone has an invisible guardian from Universe A.

Har Har

We're taking the kids to see Brian Regan on Friday. Hope he's still this funny.

Words To Live By

Happy Friday, Bastards.

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. 

This Is Kinda Cool

From the YouTube description:

Here's Linda Blair's actual performance as recorded on set, followed by the same scenes dubbed by the great Mercedes McCambridge in the released film. From the Associated Press: McCambridge was hired to portray The Demon in William Friedkin's 1973 smash hit The Exorcist. After weeks of what she called the hardest work she had done for a film, she had been promised prominent mention in the credits. But when she attended the preview, her name was missing. As she left the theater in tears, Friedkin tried to explain that there had been no time to insert her credit. The Screen Actors Guild intervened and forced her inclusion in the credits.

TONIGHT!

The finished cut of Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me sees its Memphis premiere this evening at the 15th annual Indie Memphis Film Festival. Lurker, the missus and I will be in attendance, and I'm just the least little bit excited about it. So far, all reviews have been positive.

Full report to follow!

How I Spent My Labor Day Weekend

Well, part of it.

Wild Eagle is a steel Wing Coaster at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. It is the first of its kind in the United States. The ride was opened to park employees and their families on March 20, 2012, opened for season passholders on March 23, 2012, and officially opened to the public on March 24, 2012.

Type	Steel - Wing Coaster
Manufacturer	Bolliger & Mabillard
Model	Wing Coaster
Lift/launch system	Chain lift hill
Height	210 ft (64 m)
Drop	135 ft (41 m)
Length	3,127 ft (953 m)
Speed	61 mph (98 km/h)
Inversions	4
Duration	2:22
Height restriction	4 ft 2 in (127 cm)
Trains	2 trains with 7 cars. Riders are arranged 4 across in a single row for a total of 28 riders per train.

Shit

Joe Kubert. Google him.