9th Apr 2013 | 1 note

6’8 White Dude Raps with Ghostface Killah

From NPR’s awesome review of Ghost’s new album: “Twelve Reasons to Die is the creation myth of a black superhero set in 1960s Italy, which looks a lot like 1990s Scorsese. [It] has all the makings of a cult classic. Jangly, tumbleweed guitar that warms the cold-hearted comic book-style violence. [B]rash and Technicolor and heartfelt. It is not what you would expect from a rap album, or a Ghostface album, or a film score.”

31st Mar 2013 | 10 notes

9-year-old discusses the meaning of life? Sign me the fuck up.

nprfreshair:

Ken Tucker reviews Heartthrob, the new album from Canadian identical twin sister duo Tegan and Sara:

As openly gay women who’ve never made their sexuality or their sexual politics the subject of their material, Tegan and Sara have always created romantic music about falling in love and living through relationships both good and bad. In the past, it was frequently possible to distinguish between the songs each wrote — Tegan’s were often tempestuous and fulsome; Sara’s more poppy. But the material on Heartthrob is very much a collaboration of sounds and sensibilities, and these women are united in expressing the joys and the agony — the often luxurious, languid agony — that anyone who’s been in love can identify with.

Image of Tegan and Sara

I always thought Tegan and Sara were lesbians with each other. Whoops. Well…maybe?

21st Feb 2013

Top chicken looks like the Shaggy Dog. Bottom chicken, see: Leghorn, Foghorn.

The gnarliest chicken I have ever seen in my life…serious.

Via FreshAirTumblr via Slate via Tamara Staples Photography

21st Feb 2013 | 435 notes

Guy took pictures of different newsstands using iPhone. That’s a pretty sick thematic choice, guy.

(via nprradiopictures)

17th Feb 2013 | 1 note

8th Jan 2013 | 1 note

This video proves possible an excerpt from Pickup Artists by Anderson & Millman that I originally thought was bullshit.

[According to Dave Evans] “‘You might think this is bullshit, but it’s true. It’s something that even Jordan couldn’t even do. Earl [Manigault] was playing in a semipro game in 1965 in a little gym up in East Harlem. He was late for the game and the coach said he couldn’t play. But Earl forced his way in, and he immediately took five jump shots from the same place and hit each one. On the sixth possession a guy they called Aubry grabbed the rebound and pitched the ball half-court to Earl. Everyone in the gym stood up. There was one guy back on defense, and he tried to draw a charge by stopping at the foul line. Earl took off a few feet in front of him and stepped on his forehead — his goddamn forehead — and catapulted over him and dunked the ball. Maybe Doctor J could do something like that, but Earl is six-foot-one. I swear this is true. Ask anyone.’ Five people, asked in different places at different times, confirmed the story.” (Page 90-something)

23rd Oct 2012 | 24 notes

The new video for Action Bronson’s “The Symbol” is a ’70s-type throwback. An Albanian-blooded “Shaft “. A red lion’s beard, blonde-wigged masterpiece.

10th Oct 2012

$Jeopardy Review | Show #6441 | Dancer At The Barre Nipple Slip, From Book Of Rejected New Yorker Covers Ionesco was an French Romanian absurdist playwright? Fuck. Yeah. Click read more. [[MORE]] _______________________________________ Single Jeopardy _______________________________________ “COUNTRIES OF THE CARIBBEAN” $200: “Site of a 1983 U.S. invasion, it’s also known as the Isle of Spice” Located in the West Indies portion of the Caribbean, just north of Trinidad and Tobago (I’m sure that geographical clue helped),Grenada is the world’s 2nd largest producer of nutmeg. In 1983, the island was invaded by a “Stormin’ Norman” Schwarzkopf-led group of US forces. US medical students studying in Grenada were being fucked with by then prime minister Maurice Bishop. The invasion led to the ouster of Bishop. (Bishop’s timeline post-ouster: 1. House Arrest; 2. Freed from house arrest by supporters; 3. Rearrested by non-supporters; 4. Executed.) In addition to the ouster of Grenada’s PM, the invasion resulted in the 1986 film “Heartbreak Ridge” produced, directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood. Apparently Clint had a boner for this little conflict in the Caribbean. The trailer for this movie is awwesssoommmely bad. Like, really, really, really, bad. Answer: “Grenada” Eastwood: What’s your name marine? Marine: Lance Corporal Fraggetti. [Eastwood grabs aviators off of marine’s face, throws them on ground, smashes them with boots.] Eastwood: You shouldn’t litter, Faggot-ti. ________________________________________________ $400: “The reverend Gerard Jean-Juste championed the cause of refugees from this Caribbean country” Answer: “Haiti”. Some French-sounding shit in the Carribean? Gotta be Haiti. ________________________________________________ $800: “Saint paired with the Grenadines in a country’s name” Answer: “Saint Vincent”. On that note, here’s the video for the lead cut off of David Byrne (of Talking Heads) & St. Vincent’s (of Grenadine) new album, “Love This Giant” David Byrne & St. Vincent - “Who” ________________________________ “THE METROPOLITAN OPERA” Feel free to skip past this section, I know dick about opera so this shit is going to be choppy as fuck. $200: “The Met archives include wardrobe from the 1890s, including the Mephistopheles costume from this Gounod work” OK. The Metropolitan Opera was once known as the “Faustspielhaus”, since it played “Faust” so often. Sweet? The most famous bit from “Faust”: Mephistopheles celebrates human greed in the “Song of the Golden Calf”. Also composed “Ave Maria”, Latin for “Hail Mary”, a popular opera based on a popular Wagner piece. Answer: “Faust”. _______________________________ $600: “In 1955, the Met made history with the debuts of its first African-American singers; the first man was Bobby McFerrin’s father Robert, and the first woman was this great contralto of the day” Straight From the Wiki’s Mouth: “In 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused permission for Anderson to sing to an integrated audience in Constitution Hall. The incident placed Anderson into the spotlight of the international community on a level unusual for a classical musician. With the aid of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anderson performed a critically acclaimed open-air concert on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. She sang before a crowd of more than 75,000 people and a radio audience in the millions.” In 1939 she was awarded the NAACP’s Spingarn Award. About the Spingarn Award: first awarded in 1915, the award is considered the highest honor for achievement among African-Americans. Why Wikipedia is the devil: the 1937 recipient of the award was named Walter White. Clicking through shows that the dude was white-skinned and the head of the NAACP for 25 years. This generates a “What the fuck? This is crazy. Is Wikipedia fucking with me?” response. 3-minutes, and 3 research-paper-quality websites later, it is confirmed. From NYTimes,”Mr. White, the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington, was a Negro by choice. Only five-thirty-seconds [5/32, reading fractions is just as confusing as multiplying them] of his ancestry was Negro. His skin was fair, his hair blond, his eyes blue and his features Caucasian. He could easily have joined the 12,000 Negroes who pass the color-line and disappear into the white majority every year in this country. But he deliberately sacrificed his comfort to publicize himself as a Negro and to devote his entire adult life to completing the emancipation of his people.” God. Damn. Answer: ”Marian Anderson” ________________________________ $800: “As the duke, Luciano Pavarotti thrilled Met audiences with the aria ‘La donna e mobile’, which is so catchy that Verdi kept it out of rehearsals for this opera, so that it wouldn’t become known before opening night” Rigoletto is the name of the Duke of Mantua’s court jester in this 1850s Giussepi Verdi opera famous for the aria “La Dona e Mobile” (“Woman is fickle”). Answer: “Rigoletto” ____________________________ DOUBLE JEOPARDY ____________________________ “THEY ALSO WROTE CHILDREN’S BOOKS” $400: “In 2011 he had bestsellers with the thriller ‘Cross Fire’ & the kids’ book ‘Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life’” James Patterson hated middle school. Grades I hated: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Grades I liked: Kindergarten, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. No joke, elementary school was just awful. I legitimately hated waking up. If I have a shitty day now, I think to myself, “At least I’m not fucking aged 6-12 years, that shit was awful.” Answer: James Patterson ___________________________ $2000: “This Romanian absurdist playwright also wrote absurd children’s tales like ‘Story Number 1’” Eugene Ionesco was born in a yurt in a bucolic Romanian town. That’s probably not true, but he did write “Rhinoceros”, the tale of the inhabitants of a small, provincial French town who turn into rhinoceroses. At the end of the play, the only non-rhino is the play’s protagonist, Berenger. The townspeople’s transformation into horned pachyderms parallels the transformation of European peoples in to communists, fascists, and Nazis in the pre-WWII festivities. (Get this shit, “pachyderm” is a term used to refer to elephants, hippos, rhinos, and other non-ruminate ungulates. Fuck yea, random words.) Answer: Eugene Ionesco ____________________________ “YOU NEED TO CLEAR THAT UP” $1600: “Verbiage from the State Department may leave you in this state; it comes before “Bottom” in the D.C. area where state is located” I would’ve bet Mary Poppins $20 that Foggy Bottom was a neighborhood in London. Goddamn. Washington DC? Really? I guess. The Department of State is nicknamed “Foggy Bottom”. The region of DC is home to the Kennedy Center, The State Dept, among other shit, I’m guessing. Answer: “Foggy” _____________________________ “MARSHALL LAW” $800: “Gibbons v. Ogden said a federal license trumped a state grant of monopoly in the use of this Robert Fulton invention” Answer: “Steamboat”. In 1809 Robert Fulton patented the steamboat. Noted. ____________________________ $1200: “This battle of M’s in John Marshall’s Supreme Court was the first time an act of Congress was declared unconstitutional” I knew this. I don’t know what the case was about. States rights? Constitutionality of something? Not googling this and living with the mystery is much more appealing than being refreshed on the topic. Answer: “Marbury v. Madison”. ____________________________ $1600: “In 1807 Marshall wrote the opinion for U.S. v. this politician, making standards of evidence for treason” Aaron Burr was vice president for Jefferson’s first term. In 1804, while VP, he killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. (The bald dude from Pawn Stars just got the meanest boner from the previous sentence.) Why treason? After failing to create his own country in the West, he asked Napoleon to help him conquer Florida. That oughta do it. He was acquitted. Dude embodied the entreperneureal spirit this country — and the country he was trying create — were founded on. Jefferson’s VP after Burr? George Clinton, formerly of Funkadelic. Answer: “Aaron Burr”. This music video from/for the movie PCU is pretty close to what a George Clinton concert in a small place is like. Jon Favreau just got the grossest boner.$

Jeopardy Review | Show #6441 | Dancer At The Barre Nipple Slip, From Book Of Rejected New Yorker Covers

Ionesco was an French Romanian absurdist playwright? Fuck. Yeah. Click read more.

Jeopardy Review | Show #6436 | Chick From Grimes’ Video Fellating Invisible Wang

First episode of the season. Chick who won the final episode of last season had to wait weeks to play her next game…she loses. Such is life. Clues about lakes. A clue about a Theodore Dreiser novel. Standard stuff. The Final Jeopardy clue made my my my my fucking brain implode on itself. Here’s the video the photo from up top is pulled from. Click read more.

14th Sep 2012 | 2 notes

Remember when you were all, How come no band strategically fuses together 1-second clips of 70s/80s porn and sets their music to it? Well, the video for “Cycle” by Icky Blossoms does just that. In a good way, it feels like a music video for Boogie Nights Soundtrack. The video, while NSFW, isn’t overly graphic — think the scene in A Clockwork Orange where the main dreg sleeps with birds he met at the record store.