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Of course you do. Everybody loves Leonard Cohen!




Thanks to Music For Your Eyes for posting this ancient (1970) performance of the beautiful "Suzanne". I love this beautiful song. Hell, I just love Leonard Cohen.

This time, the giant sucking sound is Ryan Seacrest being inhaled into Teri Hatcher's mouth.
Up next, the giant up-chucking sounds of me forcibly removing everything I've eaten for the past two days.

Please, I can't believe he's chosen that over gay men...

We continue our journey through Multiplication Rock; this time with 'Three Is a Magic Number".

An extra bonus this week is a completely non-political gesture on my part (as suggested by our own tng). It's called "3 Ring Circus," and it explains our wonderful system of Checks & Balances. After all, nobody would dream that one branch of government, be it Executive, Legislative or Judicial, should rule our great Democracy autonomously. Would they?

I have an almost morbid fascination with these old videos. Be they about proper hygiene, job safety, good study habits, or how families should behave with one another (like this video), I am always taken by the detached tranquility of it all. Yes, you can almost smell the dangerous cocktail of repression and amphetamines.

The message itself is very sweet; enjoy the time with your family. The deliver, however, is...well...all I'm saying is, I would kill somebody if forced to live in the manner depicted in this video.

"The dinner table is no place for discontent. It makes mother and father uncomfortable."

Ah, the '50's.

I don't think this guy thought he'd eaten worms either on his trip to Hungary, but boy did he have a big surprise when he got back to the States a couple weeks later. Enterobius vermicularis, now that's what I call a souvenir! You can read the abstract at the New England Journal of Medicine website or, better yet, view the video of the colonoscopy and watch the little critters wriggling about and just generally having a super happy fun time in this guy's colon. Don't forget to download the PowerPoint slide for the next time you need to liven up a presentation! Hat tip to Pharyngula, because we can never have enough videos of intestinal parasites at Braindead Shithead.

And man, am I ever torn.
On the one hand, I love Bettie Page.
On the other, I really detest Gretchen Mol.

I'm totally going to have to see this.
Christ, I really don't remember the last movie I went to see in a theatre.
Um...yeah. At all.
That's really sad.

Anyway, this comes out April 14th. I'm so there.





And here, for your viewing pleasure, a bit of actual Bettie Page.

He even knew about menstruation.

You can call ‘em TREMFU if mom’s around...

[Like] the Jesus Lizard molesting the Pixies while McLusky takes pictures...

...this band will rock you so hard you'll want to smash your foot through a stained-glass window.

...like if pere ubu fronted scratch acid...

...kind of like the jesus lizard, husker du and black flag having a knife fight to see who gets to make out with black sabbath.

...an auditory onslaught that sometimes make you scream, sometimes moan, and always feel cheap and used the next morning when you're scamming a ride home in the same short skirt you went out in the night before.

TREMENDOUS FUCKING will rock your ass like john holmes giving mary-lou retton anal.

Their website: Tremendous Fucking
A site with just about every one of their songs for download: Tremendous Fucking - Musical Family Tree
Their myspace space: Tremendous Fucking

A few of my favorites. (Just for a taste.)
Just Like Burt Fucking Reynolds
And Then He Realized He Was Talking Out Loud
All You Motherfuckers Are Gonna Die
Clicking the titles should give you the chance to play or download the song. I should ask Neuralgourmet how to make one of them mp3 player thingies sometime...

Ah, where would the 1980s be without German techno music and Kraftwerk? I never really enjoyed Kraftwerk that much. They're one of those bands that I felt had more style than substance but I do recommend them as an antidote after accidental exposure to Punky Brewster. First up is Robots and then The Model. The Model being perhaps the only Kraftwerk song that doesn't make me want to jab an icepick in my ears.

Because I know everybody (especially Madame!) wanted a vSocial version of this video, I have taken the time to repost this amazing performance. Enjoy!

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young men who feel good about their looks are more likely than their peers with a less positive body image to engage in risky sexual behavior, a new study of college students shows.

Oh my god, no, really? (You have to say it really fast with a Cali accent to sound just like I do.)
Wow, I would NEVER have guessed that guys who think they're hot go have lots of sex.
Never.
What an EYE OPENER.

The men who were most satisfied with their appearance, and the most appearance-oriented -- meaning they were highly invested in their looks and considered appearance to be important -- were also the most likely to have sex without condoms and to have sex with multiple partners, Dr. Eva S. Lefkowitz of Pennsylvania State University in University Park and colleagues report.

So, not only am I an amazingly hot guy, but I also know how to shave my armpits...of COURSE I must be god's gift to all those girls out there. Me AND my sperm.

Among young women, in contrast, those with a more positive body image were less likely to engage in risky sexual behavior, Lefkowitz and her team found.

Damnit! I really am a slut because I have poor self-esteem. And here I just thought I liked sex. And conquest. And the thrill of the hunt. And drinking. And the combination of all four.

This is the video about a guy who has injected silicon into his crotch for 6 years. Yeah, it kinda screwed up his package. What is more disturbing than his globular penis and testicles is the pride which he takes in "the journey" of mutilating himself.

I will never understand this sort of mentality.

Interesting story I discovered via Hemaworstje. An autistic man that has been planning, designing, and documenting the city of Urville since 1984. Only thing is...the city doesn't exist. He created it in his mind. This is pretty interesting stuff even without the implications of the autism.

It made me think of Henry Darger. Which made me think of this great movie, In the Realms of the Unreal. The human brain is a wondrous and terrifying place.

The vid, the song, the story...I like it.

Classic bit.

[Cross-posted at Stump Lane.]

It was a steel pole about eight feet tall, stuck in the ground. At the top a rotating hoop about two feet in diameter, with four or five steel chains equally spaced around the circumference of the hoop. The chains hung down and had forged steel handles at the end three or four feet off the ground.

It was essentially a more modern, more brutal version of the contraption pictured at this link.

In it's normal mode of operation, a group of kids would hold on to the handles and run around the perimeter, jumping off the ground occasionally and swinging out.

To be honest, it wasn’t much of a ride. But we were industrious kids. It wouldn't take long to devise a way to make this thing more thrilling...

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This video is kinda long (you don't have to watch the entire thing to get the vibe) but I think it's neat.

Swimming Snake Robot

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Hey, if it's good enough for George Smith, Senior Critic of the Village Voice (why is the Village Voice critical of old people?) it's good enough for me. Actually, I've got to admit that even if the music for this song doesn't grab me (it doesn't suck, but it just doesn't make me jump up and down shouting its' praises from my window), the video is pretty damn stylish. In fact, I think it even won an award or something for that. Anyway, here's Float (My Electric Stargirl) by the Atomic Swindlers.

Are you tired of YouTube's horribly slow loading times and choppy playback? Thanks go to our friend Jeff at Throw Away Your TV for pointing out this website that makes it possible for you to download videos from YouTube and other sites. Presumably you might then upload them to a better site like Google Video or VSocial.

The only problem is that YouTube videos will download as .flv (Flash Video) files and you'll need to convert them. I'll post a tip for doing that later (meaning as soon as I figure it out).

UPDATE:

Hey, gang! JR here. Just to add to tng's already good post, here is a program called CinemaForge, which works great for converting flv to any format you like. This is the best and easiest program I've been able to find.

This is an independent movie that is apparently...uh..bad. Like, "so bad it's good" kind of bad. Here's the synopsis, taken from the Dangerous Men website.

DANGEROUS MEN

An unforgettable suspense, mystery drama.

DANGEROUS MEN, an action, adventure, comedy, drama, is a film with many characters... like Mina (Melody Wiggins)… whose life is shattered when two bikers with rape on their minds attack and kill Daniel (Kelay Miller), her fiancé. Driven by grief, she embarks on a killing rampage, wreaking vengeance upon all the men that she seductively lures into her trap. In her twisted world, cops and killers are all the same DANGEROUS MEN. David (Michael Gradilone), Daniel’s brother, is a cop who relentlessly pursues the killers, while facing a nest of drug dealers, followed by the FBI and the police SWAT team, also in hot pursuit. Mina, a victim of violence, carrying a twisted obsession for justice, is caught between opposing forces in this fast-paced drama, a world of DANGEROUS MEN.

It's like nothing you've ever seen.

I suppose it's taken like 20 years to finish the movie, which has created several rather alarming continuity errors. Such as...people growing beards between scenes! It's playing in a few cities right now, and is definitely worth the price of a midnight movie. Here is the trailer.