listening to the flaming lips and watching their videos, especially in more recent years, makes one wonder if, much like kenneth the page on 30 rock, wayne coyne views the world through muppet-flavored lenses. however, unlike kenneth the page, to wayne coyne, those muppets are the scariest things in the world.
just look at the look on his face in their video for "watching the planets" (totally nsfw, by the way).
although, in his defense here, if i were surrounded by that many naked hipsters and hippies, i'd probably be terrified as well.
also, if you had asked me this morning, "hey, will you see wayne coyne's penis today?" my answer would have a resounding "no."
sometimes, you just don't know what the day will bring.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
ten things that are making me happy right now
okay, so i'm inspired to write this blog post for two reasons: my cousin did something similar and i think it's an excellent exercise in positive thinking and then i'm only one blog post away (after this one, anyway), from breaking my previous blog record!
1) getting bobby flay burgers for dinner tonight. totally going to find out what the burger of the month is, and if it stinks? miami burger....mmmmm pressed ham....
2) 27 days until the official start of fall! things that that means? the return of pumpkin spice lattes, "cool ghoul" colored m&ms, target's always excellent halloween decorations, the dvd release of the long-delayed trick r treat, my other cousin's wedding, and a total justification of my horror obsession. plus, bug-free camping! (and no, those don't count as several different things. they count as one! go to hell!)
3) death metal. i'm listening to the south carolinian, egypt-obsessed band, nile, right at this second, and at home, in my free time, i'm watching the second season of metalocalypse, getting ready for the third and dethklok's second album.
4) the superchunk song "misfits and mistakes." whether it's the version with meatwad from aqua teen hunger force or not, it's still an amazing song. "For all the misfits, mistakes, and the others/Say you will, say you will/Fall down together like lines in your letters/Put all the random pieces together."
5) prince.
6) okay...enough of the music ones... my wife. how's that for cheesey? would it make it better if i said "my family" (i.e., my wife and my cat)? no? oh well. you can go to hell again.
7) Zornow Must Be Destroyed. He's my of-the-moment illustrator obsession. but, give me about 30 seconds and i'll come up with some more. ed repka (that's by no means ALL of his stuff. not at all). drew millward. john dyer baizley. dan mumford. i can keep going. believe me.
8) less than 50 days until the release of brütal legend. start stretching your thumbs and banging your head: ..........NOW!
9) MetalSucks.net.
10) old-school sailor jerry-style tattoos.
on a completely different note, i think my new coworker is an alien.
he keeps asking the most random and simple questions like he's never experienced anything in his life before (weird stuff about dogs, the blackout of 2003, pizza, etc., etc.), and clearly, the only answer is that he must be an alien.
also, i totally just discovered this website, and it makes me happy in my heart:
Sleevage.com. why didn't i know about this before?
1) getting bobby flay burgers for dinner tonight. totally going to find out what the burger of the month is, and if it stinks? miami burger....mmmmm pressed ham....
2) 27 days until the official start of fall! things that that means? the return of pumpkin spice lattes, "cool ghoul" colored m&ms, target's always excellent halloween decorations, the dvd release of the long-delayed trick r treat, my other cousin's wedding, and a total justification of my horror obsession. plus, bug-free camping! (and no, those don't count as several different things. they count as one! go to hell!)
3) death metal. i'm listening to the south carolinian, egypt-obsessed band, nile, right at this second, and at home, in my free time, i'm watching the second season of metalocalypse, getting ready for the third and dethklok's second album.
4) the superchunk song "misfits and mistakes." whether it's the version with meatwad from aqua teen hunger force or not, it's still an amazing song. "For all the misfits, mistakes, and the others/Say you will, say you will/Fall down together like lines in your letters/Put all the random pieces together."
5) prince.
6) okay...enough of the music ones... my wife. how's that for cheesey? would it make it better if i said "my family" (i.e., my wife and my cat)? no? oh well. you can go to hell again.
7) Zornow Must Be Destroyed. He's my of-the-moment illustrator obsession. but, give me about 30 seconds and i'll come up with some more. ed repka (that's by no means ALL of his stuff. not at all). drew millward. john dyer baizley. dan mumford. i can keep going. believe me.
8) less than 50 days until the release of brütal legend. start stretching your thumbs and banging your head: ..........NOW!
9) MetalSucks.net.
10) old-school sailor jerry-style tattoos.
on a completely different note, i think my new coworker is an alien.
he keeps asking the most random and simple questions like he's never experienced anything in his life before (weird stuff about dogs, the blackout of 2003, pizza, etc., etc.), and clearly, the only answer is that he must be an alien.
also, i totally just discovered this website, and it makes me happy in my heart:
Sleevage.com. why didn't i know about this before?
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
bizarre song of the day
reminds me of shonen knife a bit. i'm not even sure if i like it all that much, i'm just more oddly intrigued.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
the funk of 40,000 years....
well, embedding was disabled by request, so i'm gonna link to this m.f. =
Michael Jackson - Thriller
this was one of my favorite records growing up, and can probably be viewed as partially to blame for my current horror-obsessed brain (i love and loved vincent price's voice-over), so i have to pay respects to the man who sang "the man in the mirror." yeah, you had some rough times m.j., but you also brought a lot of people a lot of joy. my cousin val told me yesterday that she hates the phrase "r.i.p." because it makes her think of zombies, and she doesn't need to be thinking of zombies when someone is paying respect to their grandmother. in that respect, i can't help myself:
and now, because we could probably all use a laugh, i got an email about this site this morning:
Your Baby Is An Asshole
Michael Jackson - Thriller
this was one of my favorite records growing up, and can probably be viewed as partially to blame for my current horror-obsessed brain (i love and loved vincent price's voice-over), so i have to pay respects to the man who sang "the man in the mirror." yeah, you had some rough times m.j., but you also brought a lot of people a lot of joy. my cousin val told me yesterday that she hates the phrase "r.i.p." because it makes her think of zombies, and she doesn't need to be thinking of zombies when someone is paying respect to their grandmother. in that respect, i can't help myself:
and now, because we could probably all use a laugh, i got an email about this site this morning:
Your Baby Is An Asshole
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
awkward photo choice.....
i'm sure wherever she is, whomever she is, this woman does not appreciate her hindquarters being compared to a sinkhole. just sayin'
(from yahoo)
(from yahoo)
Monday, June 15, 2009
word has it that superman, norway tipped them off...
Excuse me, I would like to live in Batman...
can you imagine if a rash of towns, named after super heroes, formed a justice league, and they fought super-villainy worldwide?
a boy can dream, can't he?
can you imagine if a rash of towns, named after super heroes, formed a justice league, and they fought super-villainy worldwide?
a boy can dream, can't he?
Thursday, June 11, 2009
who would have thought space butterflies could be metal?
Mastodon "Oblivion"
also? watch for the "fail!" around minute two.
totally not "fail?" jay-z's new song "D.O.A."
the idea that one of the biggest names in mainstream hip-hop is releasing his new record (the blueprint III) without any auto-tune (from mtv), smack in the middle of our cultural auto-tune lovefest, BLOWS my mind. there's a reason jay's the best at what he does. he just auto-tuned my heart.
also? i can't really speak for the song (they're pretty hit-or-miss in general), but the new killers video just gave brian fallon (of gaslight anthem) a heart-boner:
i imagine that's what the inside of his head looks like. i'd be curious to hear gaslight do this song, actually, maybe give it a little more spine and a little more soul. someone want to tell him to get on that?
also? watch for the "fail!" around minute two.
totally not "fail?" jay-z's new song "D.O.A."
the idea that one of the biggest names in mainstream hip-hop is releasing his new record (the blueprint III) without any auto-tune (from mtv), smack in the middle of our cultural auto-tune lovefest, BLOWS my mind. there's a reason jay's the best at what he does. he just auto-tuned my heart.
also? i can't really speak for the song (they're pretty hit-or-miss in general), but the new killers video just gave brian fallon (of gaslight anthem) a heart-boner:
i imagine that's what the inside of his head looks like. i'd be curious to hear gaslight do this song, actually, maybe give it a little more spine and a little more soul. someone want to tell him to get on that?
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
a feedbag of truckstop linkage
none of this has anything to do with feedbags or truckstops, i just felt like referencing lagwagon. anyway, even though i feel like the era of the mashup has passed a bit (girl talk's amazing feed the animals notwithstanding; there was TOO much mashup in that for it to really be considered the same kind of beast -- it's like comparing a stuffed animal of a kitten with a full-grown tiger), one of my coworkers forwarded me this this morning, and it was so awesome, i had to share:
and then there's this, which my cousin sent me, and which is alarmingly true, at least for the first 1/2:
30 Rock is a Rip Off of the Muppet Show!
ooh, and what's this?
FUTURAMA!!!!
and then there's this, which my cousin sent me, and which is alarmingly true, at least for the first 1/2:
30 Rock is a Rip Off of the Muppet Show!
ooh, and what's this?
FUTURAMA!!!!
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
beware, the unheard of depths of depravity:
"uncensored oprah in club"
that totally wins for spam of the day.
that totally wins for spam of the day.
she said....werewolf!!!!
cross-dressing werewolf nuns, bondage vampires, and the blues...man, they sure don't make music videos like they used to:
this totally doubles as the song of the day.
this totally doubles as the song of the day.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
truth in advertising
aside from a weird trend recently in the spam that i get every day at work to be getting emails from 1977, i have to admit that i appreciate a new, direct approach that they're trying. take this subject line, for example:
"i beg you to buy some viagra"
i mean, i guess you can't claim then that they're duping you into anything...
i hope this doesn't mean that they're completely changing their approach though. i don't want to miss out on gems like:
"give her real immoral pleasure"
and
"fertilize your male tree"
aahhhh, the internet. how else would i be so entertained while at work?
"i beg you to buy some viagra"
i mean, i guess you can't claim then that they're duping you into anything...
i hope this doesn't mean that they're completely changing their approach though. i don't want to miss out on gems like:
"give her real immoral pleasure"
and
"fertilize your male tree"
aahhhh, the internet. how else would i be so entertained while at work?
i felt up your feelings
this whole album (stephen malkmus's s/t debut from 2001) is pretty amazing, but this definitely wins for song of the day, and it's not even 1:00pm yet:
i used to be with "it," and then they changed what "it" was...
...and now what i'm with isn't "it," and what is "it" seems weird and scary to me.
i just listened to the new black eyed peas song at the behest of a coworker, and it's terrible. they used to be progressive and old school at the same time, and while it's arguable that by adapting kanye west's recent infatuation with the 808 drum machines and auto-tune (lil wayne? i'm looking in your direction, too...), they're still doing that, now they're doing it from a position of behind the curve instead of ahead of it.
they've also dumbed themselves down tremendously, and don't have any of the wit and spark apparent on their earlier records. back in 1998 in their first single, "fallin' up," will.i.am spoke to the haters, theorizing that the reason they weren't getting respect was because they didn't wear "tommy hilfiger and baseball caps," but now they might as well be. so much of what they've become has to do with fashion and trends and everything they stood apart from 10 years ago. contradicting themselves again, it seems like they're "using dollars to represent," and don't seem to be using their "inner sense and talent" like they used to.
so i leave you with a question: what the hell, black eyed peas? what the hell?
i just listened to the new black eyed peas song at the behest of a coworker, and it's terrible. they used to be progressive and old school at the same time, and while it's arguable that by adapting kanye west's recent infatuation with the 808 drum machines and auto-tune (lil wayne? i'm looking in your direction, too...), they're still doing that, now they're doing it from a position of behind the curve instead of ahead of it.
they've also dumbed themselves down tremendously, and don't have any of the wit and spark apparent on their earlier records. back in 1998 in their first single, "fallin' up," will.i.am spoke to the haters, theorizing that the reason they weren't getting respect was because they didn't wear "tommy hilfiger and baseball caps," but now they might as well be. so much of what they've become has to do with fashion and trends and everything they stood apart from 10 years ago. contradicting themselves again, it seems like they're "using dollars to represent," and don't seem to be using their "inner sense and talent" like they used to.
so i leave you with a question: what the hell, black eyed peas? what the hell?
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
today is punk rock day
i am only going to listen to punk albums all day. so far that has included the real mckenzies and authority zero. i wonder how long it'll take me before i want to smash the system or at least get smashed? here's this:
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