Monday, December 31, 2007
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Screaming deranged internet sensation
While randomly surfing youtube, I came across this video. Supposedly this guy has tourette's syndrome, but it doesn't really seem like it. He is certainly off his rocker though. The video has loud, bizarre ranting, so make sure nobody particularly sensitive is in the vicinity. Also, check out the website devoted to this guy.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Powerhouse
From reading that Mothersbaugh article, I learned about Raymond Scott, the guy who composed a famous Looney Toons piece of music, called "Powerhouse." Rush threw that bit into their epic, La Villa Strangiato. I looked up Raymond Scott on the internet and discovered what an awesome guy he was--a jazz composer with a mathematical flair, and among other things, a sonic/electronic innovator upon whose teats such heavyweights as Tangerine Dream must have suckled. Check this mutha out!
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Happy Holidays
This is a comic by a guy named Patrick Farley. It tells the story of this uptight, old hag who harasses a family of pagans at christmas-time. You get some nice info about the "real" origins of the holidays. Some of the illustrations are sexually explicit, so be prepared, but they don't appear to be pornographic in intent.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Giant article on Mark Mothersbaugh
For the reader who doesn't know, Mark Mothersbaugh is the mastermind behind legendary weirdos, Devo. He's the guy in the video for "Whip It," wearing glasses. For years Mothersbaugh has been composing music for commercials, tv shows, movies, etc. All sorts of shit. He has over 100 composer credits on imdb.com Most notable is his score for the film, "Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise," a movie also notable for its lack of full-frontal female nudity, of which its predecessor had a generous amount. But I digress. Read the article.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
There may be no crying in baseball, but...
This auction house received a bunch of actual, official Major League baseball documents from the olden days of the sport. One referred to "special instructions for players," explaining how it's inappropriate for the players to curse at fans, umpires, etc. The documents themselves contain lots of nasty language. Don't bother reading the article, but check out the scanned pages. Warms the heart...
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Left Coast Special
This is my cajun band. I should say it is rather Pat McEvoy's cajun band, since he is what you might call the "band leader." But this is the band I play in. It consists of me on acoustic guitar, Pat on the accordion, Calvin Keaoola on violin or "fiddle," and Liz Byrne on triangle. We play so-called traditional cajun music, which doesn't include electrified instruments or drum sets. There's a lot of cajun out there that wants to be like rock n' roll, but this ain't it. By the way, Zydeco is not the same thing as cajun, though they are similar. Zydeco is kind of the black version of cajun, much more bluesy.
Click here to download a file with seven low quality recordings of us playing in Pat's kitchen. If you're wondering, there are no high quality recordings of the band.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Worth 1000...
From cougars to rabbits
Just photos of some crazy (and award-winning) rabbits. I like the mortified looks on their faces.
http://home.pacbell.net/bettychu/parade.html
Xynfonica
Here's some of the most retarded shit you've ever heard. I mean that in a good way. The music sounds very much like badly composed video game music. I'm reminded of the music from Super Ghouls & Ghosts, but it's more.....aimless than that. Also, the vocalist sounds like a demonic talking cat. Listen to an mp3!
Check out the lyrics too.
"There's no reason to give a free pass to a culture that celebrates murder, ignorance and incarceration."
Black athlete gets shot and killed. White media is excoriated by loud shriekers for focusing on his criminal past. Fox sports writer tells it like it might could be. Loud shriekers freak out again. Read the sports writer's editorial.
Cuteness built atop dirty pictures
In this video, the artist begins his drawings with such things as a pair of tits, or a dick and balls, then turns them into cute little cartoon images. I wonder how many intentional phalli and vaginae there are in popular cartoons. Artists must be doing it. Wouldn't you?
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Cultural guerrillas in Paris
This is a neat story about a group in Paris who, for years, have secretly moved through the crevices of the city, staging cultural events in odd places, and even restoring dilapidated historical sites/objects. They recently revealed themselves after fixing an ancient clock in Paris' Pantheon, which is a big fancy old building with a dome on top.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
"Conservatives" are obsessed with sodomy
"Conservapedia" is the name of a website that was created by assholes who felt the popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia was created by sodomites as a tool to spread sodomy throughout the world. Conservapedia would tell it how it really is, unbiased toward Satan and his sodomistic ways.
If you visit this page, listing the top ten most popular searches, it shouldn't surprise you that nine out of the ten on that list are related to homosexuality. The main page is the most visited. I'm surprised "gay bowel syndrome" is only number five!
If you visit this page, listing the top ten most popular searches, it shouldn't surprise you that nine out of the ten on that list are related to homosexuality. The main page is the most visited. I'm surprised "gay bowel syndrome" is only number five!
Giant sea scorpion
So these scientists found a fossilized claw of such a large size that indicates this prehistoric scorpion was about 8 feet long. How terrifying. Wouldn't it be neat if these suckers were still around? We could feed them with politicians. Picture that; instead of hanging the vice president for treason, he would be fed to giant aquatic scorpions.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Snarky sci fi writer's take on the "Creation Museum"
"Horseshit. Complete horseshit. Utter horseshit. Total horseshit. Horseshit, horseshit, horseshit, horseshit.....that is the key to understanding the Creation Museum."
Science fiction author, John Scalzi, was challenged by his readers to visit the Creation Museum that was built near his home. This is his essay/diatribe about his visit. Funny stuff.
http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=121
Neal, you've probably heard of this guy. I have one of his books but haven't cracked it yet.
Science fiction author, John Scalzi, was challenged by his readers to visit the Creation Museum that was built near his home. This is his essay/diatribe about his visit. Funny stuff.
http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=121
Neal, you've probably heard of this guy. I have one of his books but haven't cracked it yet.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Flying squirrels.
Holy crap!
I can see Todd declaring this a new goal. You can hardly blame him. This looks incredible.
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Comet!
So check it out: there's this comet that, in, like, the last week and a half, suddenly brightened to over a million times its previous brightness. Astronomers are saying shit like it's "absolutely unprecedented in the annals of cometary astronomy." The anals of cometary asstronomy! Can you fucking believe it?
So anyway, this thing is supposed to rival the brightest stars in intensity, so go outside and check it out and shit.
The story: http://www.space.com/spacewatch/071026-comet-holmes-update.html
Citay
This is a S.F. band that channels that Battle of Evermore side of Led Zeppelin, but adds some slick electric melodic guitar work. Real pretty, spacy music. I'm going to go buy their records today. Here's their myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/citay07
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Voivod - Ravenous Medicine
Voivod is one of my all time favorite bands and this is one of my favorite Voivod songs. I'd no idea there was a music video for it. You have to love the low budget production values on this one. It also features many drawings by the band's drummer, "Away," who has carved a unique, easily recognized style of illustration in the world of Metal.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Marauding Killer Monkeys!
It pleases me to know there are still places on earth, cities even, where being killed by a horde of monkeys is an everyday danger.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7055625.stm
Friday, October 26, 2007
The greatest rendition of Amazing Grace ever sung.
Todd says he wants the song performed like this at his funeral. The singer in this video is most likely dead already. At least you'd think.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Mutants!
Monday, October 22, 2007
Great album cover, not so great band, hilarious lyrics
This is the album cover Coven's first album, "Blessed is the Black." Troy Pugsley bought it for the cover alone, but we were amused by the songs. A sample of lyrics from the song, "McDonaldland Massacre:"
Ronald is lying on the floor,
The Grimace took a bullet trying to run out the door.
Hamburglar's brains all over Mayor McCheese,
He won't let you go, even if you say please.
Quarter Pounder, Big Mac, Fillet 'O Fish and fries,
it doesn't matter what you order, everybody dies.
Cool, huh? This is the only band I've ever heard who have done an explicitly Satanic power ballad.
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