I did the running man waaay back in the day and liked this utah saints song, when neither was ironic.
now I kinda like them ironically....but I actually participated in them the first time.... 'cause I'm old. So are old people allowed to like things ironically that they were a part of?
hmmmm, I'll think about while I put on a new diaper.
I just came back from Burning Man today. It ended last week, but my boy RayJay, hadn't return from Saturn's twenty seventh moon (Aegir- it's the one that looks like Beyonce)
Dude, Burning Man was totally awesome and all about radical self expression. I love how extreme Burning Man's art is. It's extreme art. Not that namby pamby art made by people with training or talent. No it's too Hard Core, too Radical for that, yet at the same time it's about hippy love.
Speaking of hippy love, after pulling an all nighter with some killer bud we got from my boy RayJJ from the IT department and then downing 23 cans of Mountain Dew. It was such an awesome vibe JayRay and RayJay and I tried to kill Sharon Tate.. Yeah pigs must die! -Unfortunately we got confused and accidently killed RayJJ's pet ferret "Mr. Skiddles" instead. -But man, what an extreme way to go. (Go with god Skiddles!)
Yeah, then later I meet this hot chick Xena. She was a stripper fifteen years ago, but now a mom of seven. Man, she could totally twirl a baton. You know, like cheerleaders back in Missouri, but with with this awesome extreme outfit of a gasmask and some rags. And she looked like she was totally into bondage. We hung out for hours talking about LinuxGNU variants
Then we got naked and danced with these fire dancer chicks. But they would sleep with us even after I "accidently" burned RayJJ penis (Sorry RayJJ! and again thanks for driving!)
Man the whole day was hard core radical extreme awesome dudely - I'm totally going to it next year. Unless it's the same day as Lollipalloza or that new Cochella thing. I hear those are totally alternative too.
P.S. Dear real attendants I'm sorry that you hate your job in the IT department, but you know the difference between a nerd with piercing and googles and a nerd without. The first one still thinks it 1995.
Xteme Peace Out Bytches
Oldsalt (who is proud to be the second type of nerd)
This is less crazy than the others mainly a satire of French foreign policy and racism (so you need a bit of knowledge about France's history to get some of the jokes) but even if if you don't if you liked the look of Mad Men (this movie came out in 2007!) or just want to see two grown men get use live chickens as weapons check it out.
This isn't tras. I think this is "brilliancess." (like a brilliant princess- smart and hot)
Sapporo made a series of ads with two guys fighting over food, the Karaoke mic, and then a snowball fight / apocalypse.
The first one is the weakest but we have to start somewhere:
Last bit of beef
Karaoke Mic
Snowball Apocalypse
I shouldn't give any points for these cause these guys are pros and otherwise I'd have to give points for all the great bud lite ads... but I like how sapporo tastes , so +1 japan.
Aqua I don't know what to say about Aqua. I believe this type of music was called NRG or Eurodance. It's sort of where "rolling" went wrong. Somehow X made all the fauxravers miss the misogyny , the badly looped beats, the auto-tuned singing.
Oh Well...
COME ON BARBIE LETS GO PARTY! Yay!
Lollipop
EVEN MORE RANGERS!!!! In case you forgot about THIS SKIT
Kumail Nanjiani, his comedy isn't the most innovative -it's just observational based rants- but it's funny. plus he often opens for Zach Galifianakis.
Yeah, so they'd share an bill, "it's Galifianakis with Nanjiani!" I wish I could take my grandparents to their show- just to watch them try and pronounce it.
Bonus Japan is insane. This is not what I expected with little red riding hood.
I have a guest staying at the house, so I don't have a lot of time to write sillyness So let's just jump in okay?
This is a Japanese ad for Dole, Banana, and Mcdonalds... and insanity.
(2 quick bits of tasty sillyness.)
and as a counter point... this video inspired the last treatment t was working on, called "A Dance of Shadows" The Vide gets a bit slow towards the end- but It's neat.
Many people think absurdist comedy was invented in England with Monty Python in 1969 wrong. Perhaps with The Goon Show maybe? (where Peter Sellers got his start!) wrong.
For my mind surreal or absurdist comedy began in the 1950's we saw the beginning, right here in the US of A with the Ernie Kovacs' Show.
NINETEEN FIFTY! in THE McCARTHY ERA AMERICA. Sadly like a lot of live television, little of his best material survives. but this...
This is the Narubi trio Ernie is the one with the gigantic cigar (which was his signature)
Simon Pegg Obviously you are all Simon Pegg fan's so I don't have to tell you about His blog, How awesome the movie "Shaun of the Dead" is; How great the TV show "Spaced" is; or how he was the best part of the new "Star Trek". You know it.
(and if you don't your on Netflix right now you ignorant toffee nosed splat monkey!)
Anyway here's a little short film he did a loooong time ago with some friends- about a astronaut and his dog.
Ahhh, the classics I'm sure all you Lamé-ites have seen these at some point in your life but it's time for a review.
The great by their very human nature must fail us from time to time- and the blowhard overrated actors doubly so. Let us rejoice in those massive throbbing failures.
Okay, this is my favorite. Joe Pesci rapping about being a gangster. This is like 1990, long, long after all the others ones in this post had these embarrassing turds in their legacy. And what did Joe do? Mr. Pesci said fck it - I'm gonna do a gangster rap video and full length music album. Yeah, so only did he do the deed- he took it up a notch. Way to go Joe, way to go.
OOOOH YEAH It's Telly S and he want's to sex you. Sexy sex you. 'Cause you're his love. IF. IF, you'll let him.
Kojax does country music. Yeah country music.
The Man, the Myth, the Captain The one star that needs the type equivalent of an echo. Will William mmmm, Shat Shatner errrrrrrr!!!!!! Few artists have managed the sort of career the shat has- esp few that are as much of a Shat as he is. A huge steaming, shat.
And he's gonna be high as a kite by the end.
It was a year. with the Shatner.
Die Hard in my pants baby. Well done Bruce, At what point in your 80's action star career did you think? - Yeah, I can be a 60's doo wap soul singer. Awesome!
This one shouldn't be as funny as it is but somehow it just makes me giggle. Russell crowe has an epic reputation as Hollywood tool and this just confirms it. You know what I said about Joe Pesci, double it. The god for honest vapid cojones- and the spewing stupidity of the music. Russell you are the new Shat.
Lets end big- this is one of the classics. Not only is the vulcan Leonard Nemoy playing with his own pointy ear fame- he's tying it in to Lord of the Rings. It's like a big nerd sandwitch -you've got fantasy, you've got sci-fi, you've got "go go" girls and a bowl haircut.
I guess I should give point for this USA +3 Australia +1
The eighties was a fucked up time: Thundercats, Cheers, Married with Children, and Designing Women.
Thundercats was pretty cool- at least it was a thousand times better than He-Man which came before it.
I used to like Cheers (when i was young)- before I started listening to the head writer's radio blurbs on our local PBS radio station here (KCRW.) He strikes me as a mentally lazy, self absorbed, over paid tool. Retroactively I'm removing my "like" of that show.
Married With Children is (with the possible exception of Hee-Haw and the Holocaust) the worst thing from the 20th century.
Oh wait, that's right, the second worst... Designing Women. (Aka "Grey Gardens: The Early Years" ) Fuck, I didn't just hate that show. I hated the idea of that show. It was the Reagan years, network Tv, vaginal warts all slurred together with...
Sorry... I really hated that show.
Regardless, Dixie was the star of that river of diarrhea, (again sorry...) (god I hated that show! And I do not for a second believe her real name was Dixie!)
Anyways shortly after that show, lovely, talented, Miss Dixie, put out a Meditation, Yoga & Exercise video. (Maybe to counter the former commie, then "Turner" sellout Jane Fonda's "empire of exercise")
Regardless here's scene where she shows us an interesting mediative technique.
Thanks Dixie, You're a Jem!
USA +1
Sunday, June 14, 2009
I was going to do a entry about the insane icelandic kid's show Lazy Town. It's a kids show, about getting kids to be active. Yeah, it's a TV show about how you should be playing outside instead of uh watching TV. Also it based on that weird euroRave late nineties Xtasy look made so popular by Barbie girl But I had to much to drink last night to be clever about them, So instead here's a quick musical interlude of stripes and bizzaro angry boxes
Sometimes the level of stupidity we Americans are capable of astonishes even me. Sure, my country elected George W Bush twice; has decided to rally behind seven series of "Two and Half Men;" and "Smallville;" but then there's this....
Thank you, Steven King, Thank you- And when the Machine overlords come for us I'm going to disguise myself as a toaster and start throwing bread at people. I think that will give my life meaning.
The Best fight scenes Evar! yeah, I'm getting lazy, the USA has way to many points but what can I do when our culture spews out jems like this.
80's bad anglo-kungfu movies.
as a side note:
Dear Chuck Norris, You are a tool. The resurgent celebrity from the internet? We are making fun of you. You should not run for congress or governor. You represent all the bullshit the Conservative movement represents. Though, I would like to see you fight again- someone your own age group.. Mainly Mike Tyson. I would like to watch him eat you. 15 minutes done.
ANYWAYS
If your not gonna watch any other clips watch this one. Cynthia Rockheart (?) Seriously this is 80's macho at it's worse.
Internet whipping boy JCVD in tights + girls in 80s aerobic tights. = Awesome.
MC Chris does a send up to the whole "American Ninja" thing
And lastly that third act recovery and resurrection.. Anyone in involved in storytelling has to know the third act is about the character bringing it all back and beating the odds.
In this case JCVD Yep JCVD, actually made a good movie recently And It's called "JCVD", no really! It's thriller, not a kung-fu movie, and I actually have to recommend it. Variety and NY times, Rotten Tomatoes all recommend it. It's kinda like the "Wrestler" for Mickey Roarke, except more Post Modern and without the sucky ending and badly acted subplot with his daughter.
Bonus Polysic video. Eventually Polysic will probably get there own entry- I mean how can you not love a japanese Devo cover band that turned into a noise dance essemble while living in Silver Lake. also this video is just fun.
Sweden Disciplined soccer players, former vikings, Ikea globalists, and democratic socialists.
I've only known a couple sweds in my life. (excluding their american decedents - i.e. The state of Wisconsin) All three sweds I encountered were tall, pale skinned, blond girls... a cliché to point. None of them were very good at drinking and all three made some mistakes in dating choices- especially the one that dated me for 6 months. (Seriously, a bad move on her part).
So culturally I can't say much about it as a country. but I believe These three clips... they speak for sweden.
Before alcohol. (I dare you to make it all the way through)
Back in high school, I was really into French shit. Food, Art, History, all that bourgeoisie pretentious French shit- (See there I go again using a pretentious french word- "bourgeoisie!!!")
Thankfully after I left High school I fell in love with Japanese stuff (just as pretentious but with more "nature"); before falling in love Chinese shit (not that pretentious excluding Wong Kar Wai); and then British shit; and Adult Swim. (Adult Swim 2000-2007 should have been a country; if not an empire!)
But when did France start making better kung Fu movies than Hong Kong?? I don't know but it's true- Must have something to do with Parkour and Luc Besson.
Fuck it. This is from B13, which is basically Escape from New York = Escape from Paris.
France (finally making films where thinking is optional) +1
but it's time for a music review. obviously you've heard these songs... but had to search for the videos (so inconvenient!) So Im gathering them in one place for my... ah, I mean your convenience.
'cause I do this all for you not me... cause blogs are certainly not a place for time-wasting narcissistic masturbation.
oh shit yes they are.
damn.
Yelle: A Cause Des Gason featuring the new Tecktonik dancing... and thus the beginning of 90's retro! (including the necessary commercial exploitation)
CONVERSE: My drive through NERD + SANTOGOLD - Selling out never sounded so good- the converse ad.
Hello Baltimore! Rye Rye with Blaqstarr, both out of crab town (mmmmn... crab cakes)
Rye Rye : Shake it to the ground.
Duh Santogold
Santogold: Lights out.
Santogold:
Graphics (super Duh MIA)
MIA is insane this video fucks with colors MIA -BOYZ
It's my new favorite song! San Paulo been pumping out the new bands- CSS and Bonde De Role etc... Manchester better wake the fuck up.
I don't know what the hell is going on with dance music now and it doesn't really have a title that seems to stick yet. But certainly MIA, Santogold, Rye Rye, and alot of bands coming out of South and Central America are on top of it. It's lo-fi kinda "electro dance punk"... or at least how I'd describe it. You could call it "electro grime" to I guess. Fuck I wish I knew what to call it- cause it's been going on for several YEARS now. And is the Mighty AwesomeSauce incarnate Anyway, Listen to this shit and weep in joy-
AQUI PARA VOCES - BURAKA SOM SISTEMA FEAT DEIZE TIGRONA
Rio Rio pointed out that "Aqui para vocês" literally means 'here's to you' but what it really means is 'I'm flicking you off', it's what you say before you flip the bird. (Also here's too hoping Jon and Hieu change the music up in LXD)
Cansei De Ser Sexy (CSS) Took their name from Beyonce' stupidly saying to the brazilian press "I'm tired of being sexy" but on a great show too- okay, you should be listening already... click bellow...
CSS: Let's make love and listen to Death from Above
CSS: Alala awesome backwards punk anger prom party!
Bonde Do Role actually friends with CSS and tour together... similar sound a little more discordent and sample heavy.
Bonde Do Role: Solta O Frango how can you not like a human chicken fight?
Bonde Do Role :Office Boy only for the hardcore fans of the genre'
Bonde Do Role : Marina Gasolina The song is classic the video is not. but fuck it you can't not dance to it.
Brazil + 6 (and next week I'll put some more of the Santogold and MIA up- cause it's long overdue )
Also Moe Moe worked on this series a few months back. Preview looks good... though I strongly suggest skipping ahead to 1:30. (Jon's a nice guy, but he talks way too much on these things) Also hopefully the music will be more bloc party and less Lord of the Rings.
This is sci-fi from Spain a pretty religious conservative Catholic Country. Some people say Sci-fi is for nerds with serious social and sexual issues. Yep.
A Meme i missed and totally worth it + its sci-fi fantasy crap.
USA: Totally eating spaghetti in the shower +1 Spain: Paging Doctor Freud +1
Zach Galifianakis: I'm purty fond of Zach's stuff He was one of the standouts of Comedians of Comedy. but please ignore and forgive the stuff he's done for Kimmel
Interviews Michael Cera.
His actual standup: "Characters" I
I'm not a big fan of Tim and Eric show (etc... etc...) they'er okay. but this shit I found funny...
Vanilla Beans- "nicola" This is one of those bjorky, spike jonesy things Super low tech, simple to do, happy colors, - basically everything the interweb video should have. lot of little cute/funny moments- decent song. Plus it's got Flight Attendants (bonus!)
I can't really post the above video without showing Pizzicato Five. Moe Moe turned me on to this group- and after force feeding me it for a few years I grew to love them- a lot. (and that was the end of me listening to 'ardcore) They made a whole series of videos/DVD's called ReadyMade TV. All shot ala' Warhol factory: Fun, simple, intentionally silly/cheap- way ahead of it's time. (plus they make me think of Moe Moe)
Meme knowledge is one of the most important parts of our cultural exchange. No? Okay that's total bullshit but I keep being surpized when people I know are unaware of the most famous memes. Okay if you don't know what a meme isWiki!
Then I don't understand you. This show is brilliant and you should fuck yourself. Adult Swim picked it up from the BBC and thank god. (it might also be on hulu and Adultswim's page.)
The series bellow appears the be a spin off from that focusing on the "Dean Learner" character (the "producer" of the Dark Place)
Alexyss Tylor is sex talk show host and author out of Atlanta Georgia. The woman next to Alexyss is her mom. Yes, her Mom.
Let's quote Alexyss- "He won't buy you a... uh, shrimp special from long john silvers. That plate is what? $2.99. But he will give you a mouth full of cum.... A rectum full of cum..."
Yes that's her Mom sitting 30 inches away from her. "Now her mind, her mind is no good 'cause that penis done ejaculated all in her brain." We are living in a golden glorious age, of wonderment. and this... this is internet happiness.
Gottsu "A" Kanji, one of the great sketch comedy shows evar! It think I've watched whole seasons online. I'm not sure how to start with them so we'll do it with these 2
Power Ranger idiots This is a whole series of skits about a group of powerrangers that can't get their outfits right - the ire of their super-villain rival. Who is (inexplicably) a pervert.
Tongue Twister contest. The comedy team is also responsible for all of this stuff. (thought his is a later show)
What What What? Have you forgetten what's it's all about? The Existential void getting you down? .... Wrong Blog- seek out emo/mentalhealthtwats.com
Let's review, bitches. This blog is not about my life, kids, dogs, food, self help emo bands, or other shit in blogs I do not to listen or read. This Blog is about the global fight for garbage- the brilliant luminant garbage. for example:
This is not the usual Sunday/ Wednesday entry and I'm sure you've all been missing my clever clever phrasing (I've been busy fck all yall)
Anyways, despite my attempt to keep this blog from devolving into music videos all the time, I have to post these:
The Go Team. Pretty awesome band one half "CSS", one half "The Rapture", one half double dutch. (fck ur maths) I love their silly videos but this one is cheapo classic
Here's two of their older vids for context... and lesser awesomeness:
"Doing it All Right." Yes, I will Go team. I will join band camp. The blue jacket and pink earring command me with your hotness and electric company feelings.
"Milk" It's in english, but WTF is she saying.
I promise a return to commercials and you-tube stupoodé soon. USA +2
Okay, lets remember that last year Southwest airlines kicked Kyle Ebbert off of a plane for wearing a mini-skirt. Keith, a southwest flight attendant, told her- "This is a family airline. I'm sorry your dressed to provocative to fly on this flight"
Uh, okay... Lets look back Lamé-ites at Southwest's glory years
"Remember what it was like!"
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+bonus not period, but lets face it stewardess r hot, and I'm a dude
USA +1 (could have been plus two if airlines didn't suck now)
(whoops sorry I set this post to the wrong date everybody- should have appeared yesterday)
Need a break from insanity. Both songs are a couple years old, as are both videos but they are also brilliantly insane.
#1 I'm a sucker for exploitation send ups Muse's Knights of Cydonia mix cheap italian sci-fi, karate, and dead on spaghetti western. ( I love the flag waving at the end)
Also good (though lacking an exploitation edge) Frontier Psychiatrist
USA +2 Nah, lets face these are too good to be trash.... USA +0