Gucci Mane has a very expensive Bart Simpson chain.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
If Atheists Ruled the World
This video made me laugh. These guys are acting out actual transcripts from online forums debating the theory of evolution. Religious fundamentalists can be so funny.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Ronald Fred Seikaly (Arabic: رونالد ﺼيقلي)
"...with the first pick in the Most Overlooked, Yet On Fire NBA Players of All-Time Draft, We Has Spoken selects Rony Seikaly"
Friday, March 27, 2009
Supastition - "Da Waiting Period"
Some kid posted up a music video I directed 9 years ago for an up and coming rapper from North Carolina named Supastition. God Bless the internet. Check for the Piston Honda cameo at the beginning. Rockin' that mini-fro hard. And yes that's John Campo as the record exec. Some people on this board might actually recognize the porno mag he's reading. LOL
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Running of the Bulls
If there weren't moments like this, it wouldn't be so popular. If one person every 10 years gets injured, what's the point? I see this, and it makes me want to give it a try. It would be something to check off life's to do, and hopefully my disability insurance would cover me if things don't go so well.
Absolute Disaster at Running of the Bulls - Watch more Funny Videos
Absolute Disaster at Running of the Bulls - Watch more Funny Videos
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
"Well in the dream you were holding me that's all..."
If I had to choose 10 best scenes in the history of cinema this would be among the top 3.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
SRP
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A review: The food is really, really good - but I'm not sure that the gazillion drunk college kids, the 40 minute wait outside on the sidewalk and the rush you in get the hell out now service makes it worth a visit. If you wanted to get tanked on the cheap, this is the best free wine place around. But don't expect a romantic dinner or to be able to hear your dining companion.
Name a date and time, and I promise I'll be there.
The Carter
It's time for me to go to bed...but I just spent the better part of a half hour reading and watching about the new documentary on Lil Wayne. It looks like it will be quite interesting.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Attention Estonia!
The Upsetter will be playing in Estonia on the 23rd of March at 6PM in the Kumu Auditorium, Weizenbergi 34, 10127 Talinn.
For More Info.
Holler at your boy, Estonians.
For More Info.
Holler at your boy, Estonians.
Monday, March 16, 2009
I Sit Down When I Pee (Screwed & Chopped)
Some kid made a Screwed & Chopped version of "I Sit Down When I Pee" from the Adult Swim show Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job!. Now I've found myself singing it all day long.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Valley Exec Twitters Through Home Break-In
Story + Twitter Updates + Webcam Video
A number of random thoughts come to mind:
1. Which one of us will be the first to "Tweet"
2. This guy dresses like Ben Rekhi circa 1998.
3. If the COO of a company lives like this I do not want to work for or invest in said company.
4. In Philly this video would have ended abruptly, with serious bodily injury to one of the 2 parties.
A number of random thoughts come to mind:
1. Which one of us will be the first to "Tweet"
2. This guy dresses like Ben Rekhi circa 1998.
3. If the COO of a company lives like this I do not want to work for or invest in said company.
4. In Philly this video would have ended abruptly, with serious bodily injury to one of the 2 parties.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Anti-Work
Reading Bob Herbert's column today in the New York Times got me thinking about anti-work philosophy (especially my hero Rick Roderick - whose philosophy only exists in video and audio form and away from the Internet - so I cannot post them in totality).
But, here are two of my favorite excerpts from some anti-work essays on the internet.. since it is Tuesday I guess.
The most common answer, that "people need to earn a living," is obviously tautologous. It is simply an undisguised value judgment which does not even attempt to address the issue of why people "need" to earn a living in a world of increasing material abundance. Despite its total philosophical vacuity, the ubiquitous statement is usually delivered with a granite-like sense of finality, as if it were the sort of truth that is simply unimpeachable, to be challenged only by fools and madmen. But why should people need to earn a living?
http://naturyl.humanists.net/synthesis/freedom.html
___________________________
The other essay I enjoy is a bit longer, and although the last section is a bit nonsensical, I especially like this part:
The consumer must be conditioned from birth to hand over the "excess" wage in exchange for the excesses of capitalist production. In the early twentieth century the new requirement of capitalism became the total cultural control of workers outside the workplace (when their role changed to that of consumers), through the new advertising industry, as well as in it. Advertising is perhaps the most obvious mode of spectacular ideology. The spectacle holds workers in thrall, teaching them in what is called their "free" time that their desires can be satisfied through consumption. The upkeep of the capitalist economic system thus finally encroaches on all our waking hours.
Half a century after the development of advertising and consumerist ideology, the situationists held that the "society of the spectacle" (commodities, art-as-commodity, the mass media, the entertainment industry) alienates its "spectators," who are condemned to do nothing more than watch themselves, experiencing satisfaction (but not really) only through the mediation of the commodity. The spectacle steals every experience and sells it back to us, but only symbolically, so that we are never satisfied: via this mechanism we support the machine of endless consumption over and over.
Play is thought of as the opposite of "work." Yet under the existing order play is officially allowed only children and the workers of play-as-spectacle, which is not play. It is reified through the professionalization of select people as "athletes," "artists" or "entertainers." These physical, creative activities are reserved for "professionals," who must sell the product of their "play" as spectacle. As observed by the Bureau of Control (pamphleteers from Houston, Texas), in the realm of "art" behavior is tolerated that would not be in the "real world." Play in the "working world" is diverted, channeled off as "art," contained as decadent behavior in the mainstream of life. Children are punished in school for playing except at scheduled break time, as training for the radical split between what one is ordered to do and what one might like to do.
http://cultronix.eserver.org/martz/
Too philosophical? I hope not. Back to work!
But, here are two of my favorite excerpts from some anti-work essays on the internet.. since it is Tuesday I guess.
The most common answer, that "people need to earn a living," is obviously tautologous. It is simply an undisguised value judgment which does not even attempt to address the issue of why people "need" to earn a living in a world of increasing material abundance. Despite its total philosophical vacuity, the ubiquitous statement is usually delivered with a granite-like sense of finality, as if it were the sort of truth that is simply unimpeachable, to be challenged only by fools and madmen. But why should people need to earn a living?
http://naturyl.humanists.net/synthesis/freedom.html
___________________________
The other essay I enjoy is a bit longer, and although the last section is a bit nonsensical, I especially like this part:
The consumer must be conditioned from birth to hand over the "excess" wage in exchange for the excesses of capitalist production. In the early twentieth century the new requirement of capitalism became the total cultural control of workers outside the workplace (when their role changed to that of consumers), through the new advertising industry, as well as in it. Advertising is perhaps the most obvious mode of spectacular ideology. The spectacle holds workers in thrall, teaching them in what is called their "free" time that their desires can be satisfied through consumption. The upkeep of the capitalist economic system thus finally encroaches on all our waking hours.
Half a century after the development of advertising and consumerist ideology, the situationists held that the "society of the spectacle" (commodities, art-as-commodity, the mass media, the entertainment industry) alienates its "spectators," who are condemned to do nothing more than watch themselves, experiencing satisfaction (but not really) only through the mediation of the commodity. The spectacle steals every experience and sells it back to us, but only symbolically, so that we are never satisfied: via this mechanism we support the machine of endless consumption over and over.
Play is thought of as the opposite of "work." Yet under the existing order play is officially allowed only children and the workers of play-as-spectacle, which is not play. It is reified through the professionalization of select people as "athletes," "artists" or "entertainers." These physical, creative activities are reserved for "professionals," who must sell the product of their "play" as spectacle. As observed by the Bureau of Control (pamphleteers from Houston, Texas), in the realm of "art" behavior is tolerated that would not be in the "real world." Play in the "working world" is diverted, channeled off as "art," contained as decadent behavior in the mainstream of life. Children are punished in school for playing except at scheduled break time, as training for the radical split between what one is ordered to do and what one might like to do.
http://cultronix.eserver.org/martz/
Too philosophical? I hope not. Back to work!
Have a Good Day
I wish you all the very best, you and your entire family.
With love for all,
PISTON HONDA
With love for all,
PISTON HONDA
Friday, March 6, 2009
Look what I found on Craigslist
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/zip/1063705591.html
Free Monkey (East Village)
Reply to: see below
Date: 2009-03-06, 7:45PM EST
Free monkey. House trained, friendly, good with kids. Can serve drinks. Moving and needs a good home. Any questions please call. Marisa 917 683 3941
Mike, you down to split the cost?
Free Monkey (East Village)
Reply to: see below
Date: 2009-03-06, 7:45PM EST
Free monkey. House trained, friendly, good with kids. Can serve drinks. Moving and needs a good home. Any questions please call. Marisa 917 683 3941
Mike, you down to split the cost?
Monday, March 2, 2009
WHS Philippines Special
(play this video - "Mr. Suave" by Parokya Ni Edgar - to serve as your soundtrack as you read this post)
The past few weeks have reminded me of the Philippines. "Cavite" was on the Sundance Channel last night. It's a film definitely worth watching, especially if you're an adventurous traveler that's always researching the next place to visit. The Philippines has tourist destinations such as Cebu and Boracay that are popular with the European and American sets but "Cavite" reminds you that most of the country still retains unspoiled elements of holy-fuck scary. Hopefully you've followed my instructions at the top of this post and are already listening to a song featured in the film. Hoy! Hoy! Hoy! Hoy! Hoy! Hoy!
"Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations" is the only show on television that I actively follow. It took No Reservations a little while to get to the Philippines but an episode dedicated to the country finally aired a few weeks ago. Most of the food featured isn't anything I'm familiar with and most certainly wouldn't eat. Then again, I limited myself to the more western-tasting Filipino dishes growing up (adobo, empanadas, pancit, lechon, chicharrones, lumpia, relleno) so I'm not sure how much another Filipino with a more advanced palate would agree with me on the assessment of the dishes featured on Bourdain's show.
Finally, I was told that the Filipino fast-food chain, Jollibee just opened in Woodside, Queens. I'm going to wait for the hype (resulting in multi-hour waits) to die down to trek out on the 7 train to try it. Read about the opening in this Gothamist article.
Cavite Trailer
Clip from Anthony Bourdain: No Reservation's Philippines Episode
The past few weeks have reminded me of the Philippines. "Cavite" was on the Sundance Channel last night. It's a film definitely worth watching, especially if you're an adventurous traveler that's always researching the next place to visit. The Philippines has tourist destinations such as Cebu and Boracay that are popular with the European and American sets but "Cavite" reminds you that most of the country still retains unspoiled elements of holy-fuck scary. Hopefully you've followed my instructions at the top of this post and are already listening to a song featured in the film. Hoy! Hoy! Hoy! Hoy! Hoy! Hoy!
"Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations" is the only show on television that I actively follow. It took No Reservations a little while to get to the Philippines but an episode dedicated to the country finally aired a few weeks ago. Most of the food featured isn't anything I'm familiar with and most certainly wouldn't eat. Then again, I limited myself to the more western-tasting Filipino dishes growing up (adobo, empanadas, pancit, lechon, chicharrones, lumpia, relleno) so I'm not sure how much another Filipino with a more advanced palate would agree with me on the assessment of the dishes featured on Bourdain's show.
Finally, I was told that the Filipino fast-food chain, Jollibee just opened in Woodside, Queens. I'm going to wait for the hype (resulting in multi-hour waits) to die down to trek out on the 7 train to try it. Read about the opening in this Gothamist article.
Cavite Trailer
Clip from Anthony Bourdain: No Reservation's Philippines Episode
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