Braindead Shithead

Mental illness is no laughing matter. Let me just state this up front: I am not, nor will I ever condone ridiculing the mentally ill.

That said...

Wow!



Classic "word salad" you'll see in schizophrenics.

If you're keeping track of the World Cup death tally, and I know you are, the official count now stands at "50". Thanks to our friends at WFMU for doing the heavy lifting on this.

One story, though, that I had to make sure everyone knew about...

A SOCCER fan who was clinically dead after striking his head during World Cup celebrations has walked out of hospital.

Two police officers will be recommended for lifesaving awards after South Korean Joon Seong Park, 25, was released from Royal Prince Alfred Hospital at 5pm on Thursday.

He was injured while cheering his country's victory over Togo on June 14. He was jumping around in excitement outside a city hotel when he struck his head on a concrete pylon.

Mr Park was taken to hospital where he was in a coma on life support.

But he was able to discharge himself from hospital, although his health would require monitoring. He will return home next week.

Maybe that's how The Hoff hurt his arm? He was celebrating a World Cup victory by Germany (is Germany still alive in the WC?) and slashed his arm on a chandelier.

God, I hate soccer.

We all thought the chandelier story behind Hoff's severed tendons sounded fishy. Now comes this conflicting report from IMDB.

Actor David Hasselhoff was rushed to a London hospital on Thursday after slicing his hand open during a bathroom accident. The 53-year-old Baywatch star, who is currently in the British capital to shoot an advertising campaign, was taken from his hotel to St. Thomas' Hospital for emergency surgery. Hasselhoff severe a tendon on shards from a glass shelf, which he accidentally smashed on the restroom wall while shaving. A hospital aide tells British newspaper The Sun, "David was about to shave when he hit his head on a shelf, which shattered. His hand was cut quite badly."

I urge you, The Hoff, to step forward and clear up this controversy for your legion of Shithead fans! We demand the truth!

Our hero and mentor, David Hasselhoff, had himself a little accident recently. He needed surgery, but apparently all is fine, and he and his hair will return to public life very soon.

LONDON -- Former "Baywatch" star David Hasselhoff had surgery after severing a tendon in his right arm in an accident in a London gym bathroom, his spokeswoman said Friday.

The 53-year-old actor, who played lifeguard Mitch Buchannon on the TV beach drama for 11 years, was shaving at a gym in the Sanderson Hotel on Thursday when he hit his head on a chandelier, showering his arm with broken glass, his publicist, Judy Katz, said.

Doctors operated to repair the injury and Hasselhoff spent one night at St. Thomas' Hospital in central London, Katz said.

"He's fine," Katz said by phone from New York. "He's out of the hospital and will resume filming tomorrow."

Hasselhoff is working on an ad campaign for Pipex, a British internet company, she said.

Wow, this blew me away.

The mother of all transistorized vocoders, prototype of early 70´s custom built for german electronic duo of that period: documented by back cover photo of KW's album "Ralf & Florian" and in some part in the artwork on inside sleeve.

The device was used for two studio productions, title "Ananas Symphonie" including synthetic vocals and rhythm track in conjunction with lapsteel guitar and rhythm machine , as well for "Kristallo" with rhythm machine and EMS-Synth.

Later used to sound the KW's intro for "Autobahn"

The vocoder contains 12 analysis and synthesis filter channels, 2 compressors for speech or carrier signal and excitation signal inputs, voiced /unvoiced detector and switch board for filter-matrix.

It was conceived , built and constructed by electronic engineers in the area of Physikalisch-Technische BundesAnstalt (PTB) Braunschweig, Dipl.Ing P.Leunig and Dipl.Ing. K.Obermayer.

Later the well known german music studio engineering and supplier company R.Barth K.G.,Hamburg, Germany, boiled down the know-how gained from this project into so called MUSICODER which was produced in small quantities.

As I right this, the bidding has reached $5300. There are lots of cool photos on the bidding page. Is this really neat, or just sad (selling off history for a few buck)? I can't decide.

On with the America Rock series!

You guys know I love gifs. Well, this one just about takes the cake for best gif ever. Great work and funny as hell.

Here is a direct link. See if that works. Otherwise, just download it.
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I used to be okay with Gatorade. Sure, it tastes like sugar-filled crap, but whatever. I rarely drink it, even less apt to buy it myself.
They seem to have found a portal into my psyche, and decided to make commercials out of what will creep me out the most.

First, it was that whole "Is it in you?"
I'm sorry, but I don't want my sweat to be COLORED. Isn't that a sign of something bad?
Y'think?



I can't find one of those Propel Fitness Water ones they do, where the little drops of water falling from the bottle are people.
I do NOT want little tiny athletes in my water! They'd probably just try and fight their way out of my stomach, and isn't that a comforting thought?
No.

But THIS? This takes the cake.
Ever play "Goldeneye" on the Nintendo 64? That was the hottest shit game around back in 1998, and while I sucked at it, my ex was the undisputed champion. For reals. Okay, so it doesn't look that great on a resume, but he kicked hardcore ass at it, and I spent many an evening (before we were married) sitting at the shop he and my friend Beav owned, watching a throng of guys play four player, and him usually winning.
Anyway, that whole paragraph leads up to this. See, for those weenie people (like me), they had "Big Head Mode". Where the characters have tiny bodies, heads like twice the size of the tiny bodies, which makes it much, much easier to pull off that elusive "head shot".
I saw this tonight, and it disturbed me so much I didn't even watch it again on YouTube. I just paused it and got the code, and got the hell away from it.
Sometimes, I don't miss television reception.

In case you haven't already seen this video, I thought I would post it.

It's the Matt dude from Where the Hell is Matt. This time he's dancing in a bunch of different places. I alternate between hating this guy and just thinking he's a self-absorbed douche, but I must admit this video is very cool. Except for his dancing, of course.

"Star Crash!"

I had not heard about this tasty little nugget. A direct ripoff of "Star Wars", it stars The Hoff (yes, THE Hoff!) in an intergalactic showdown of epic proportions. Uh, yeah. Just watch the clip.


(Via)

Check out Kompressor.



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Here's the last couple of cartoons I loved before discovering my willie.

Star Blazers:


...and I'm sure you all know Voltron already:


Finally! JR's and my own eerily similar childhood paths diverge!

I'm so there! The last cartoon I loved before discovering my willie.


(Via)

This guy is so punk rock. [Click link for South Korean World Cup fan protesting about referee fairness.]

What a thoroughly depressing day. I need something to cheer me up, how about you? How about a little 1970s jazz fusion? And considering the steel gray sky and torrential rain I think there can be only one choice here. That's right. A little Weather Report. Here's Jaco and the gang from a 1978 Rockpalast performance.

Set List: Black Market and Scarlet Woman [both first clip], Young and Fine, Pursuit of the Woman With the Feathered Hat, A Remark You Made.

Wow. This has got to take some dedication. Via Haha.nu, and a Russian porn/fetish site (I think) that's all I can tell you.

On later reflection: Looking at this post several hours later I suddenly have ELP's Karn Evil 9 First Impression running through my head.

So, I heart this little internet comic, "Cyanide and Happiness", brought to us by the folks at Explosm.net. It's random, and quite rude, but we're not called "Braindead Shithead" for nothing.

Anyway, about a week ago I noticed this little item "The DaVinci Chode". Apparently, a high school kid emailed them this request.


"Hello there. for my class project we had to make a comic strip about the book 'Davinci cide' by dan brown. I was wondering if you could make a comic strip 8-15 pages(scenes) long. Each page has to have a certain event in the book that is important. Please PM me back or email me at 'jaysmithson@hotmail.com'.
P.S. If you can get me a B (85%) or above I will give you $20
-Jay"

Um, okay.
So, they did. They asked for reader submissions, and emailed it to him the day before it was due.

In the end, this was a magical life lesson for a high school slacker. You may not want to, but go to the end, for the correspondence that took place after they sent him the requested material.
Unfortunately, this isn't the sitcoms, and I don't think he learned his lesson.
Or that the guys at Explosm got that $20, either.

At least, I guess that's what they were doing.

WARNING: THIS CLIP GETS LOUD!!!

(VIA the best damn erotic blog in the galaxy, Corps_Circuits)

Did you think I'd forgot? Nah, I'm just feeling lazy tonight. So here's a bunch of The Pillows tunes. You already know the Pillows. I've posted stuff of theirs before. And you have seen FLCL haven't you? Oh, and as an added bonus there's a theremin in here too. Who doesn't love theremins?

Set List: Terminal Heaven's Rock, The Third Eye, One Life, Strange Chameleon, Sawao & Jun, No Self Control, Kono Yo No Hate Made.

Back to the old format today. Coming up with the pictures and stuff is just too much for my feeble brain to handle at this point.

We start the Mix with some straight ahead rock & roll (with guitars and everything!). People in Planes, Wolfmother, and Darker My Love almost make you want to stuff a sock down your pants and pretend to be Robert Plant!

Then comes a great song by Nearly. I really really like this song. Absentee and Barbara Morgenstern provide fun, quirky little numbers. I have no idea what Barbara is saying, but I dig it! Semifinalists serves up a strange number (which I love) after that.

In case you haven't noticed, I've settled upon a formula for the #8, 9 and 10 songs. #8 is the 'long song', usually instrumental. Today, Wagon Christ fits the bill nicely. #9 is the weird, somewhat experimental song--from Sunset Rubdown. And at #10 we have the oldie. Today is a real keeper from Lenny Dee.

Enjoy.

Mix time: 40:17