Braindead Shithead

Thought this was pretty funny from ytmnd. I can spend far too much time on that site.

I realize, this is going to come as a shock to some of you, but please, try and take in what I'm about to tell you.
Sit down, hold a loved ones hand, and be prepared for the most shocking revelation since "The DaVinci Code" proved to be fiction.



ADAM ANT IS TAKING OVER THE WORLD.


Have you got that? Taken it in?
Okay.

I'm sure you're wondering what the fuck I'm talking about. But, if you'll just bear with me for a moment, take a look at the evidence for yourself, you too will realize that a good 30 years after his initial successes, Mr. Ant's horrible, evil plot to take over the world is finally coming to fruition.

First up? Here's Mr. Ant's video for "Goody Two Shoes". While those of you with more memories of the '80s than me (okay, for some reason I have like no memory of the '80s. All my friends my own age do. Just not me. I'm smelling conspiracy here...) will no doubt recall some of his other successful songs, this one has always been the essence of Adam Ant to me.



Several points to note here...

* Pirate dress. And, a tied midriff shirt. Which to me clearly says GAY pirate dress.

* The make-up. Sweet baby Jebus, the make-up.

* Do I detect a wee bit o' skunk hair at the end?

First up.
Gay Pirate Dress.
Um, I don't think I need to say any more than that for you to immediately think of Captain Jack Sparrow from "Pirates of the Caribbean". While Mr. Depp has wisely chosen to tone down the extreme make-up look of Mr. Ant, going instead with a more sublter black liner, he has clearly spent time studying Mr. Ant's bold fashion choices.



According to Wikipedia, Mr. Depp has claimed his influences for the character to be Keith Richards and Pepe LePeu. While he certainly has a right to claim whatever he wants, I think the evidence shows who he's really under the influence of.
P.S.-I'm not the only one to make this connection.


Second
The make-up.
No one has managed to make that rectangular look work since then.
Until now.
Enter the new video, made by Ms. Janet Jackson, as her re-entrance to the world of popular music.
(trust me folks, unless you want your brain to melt and run out your ears, for the love of god mute the damn thing)
She makes many...um...DARING fashion choices, but what caught my eye most was the large block of red she decided to put around her eyes.
Coincidence? I think no.




Third
The reappearance of the skunk hair.
Now, I was all for blaming this on Blondie. True, we haven't seen her in awhile, but dear god, the incidents of seeing adult women with the black/blonde two tone has gone up dramatically in the past few months.
I was all set to blame it on this band, Shiny Toy Guns...
(I liked the song, which led me to this abomination. I was going to make a post just to ridicule it, but no, more pressing truths have been revealed)



This video has a subtler version of the black/blonde than I typically see, or that Deborah Harry had. I can see its roots clearly now.

Bonus evidence?
Here's a pic of Mr. Ant in concert...



And here is a pic of the lead singer of one of my favorite bands, The Bravery...




Clearly, the evidence points to only one conclusion.
Any day now, Mr. Ant will re-emerge into the public eye to proudly show how well his finely honed, devious plot has worked.
Taken individually, a few comparisons might have been made, but put together like this?

I'm scared.

Dear Professor Camphausen-

In my research, I have noticed the affinity between the artists' rendering of the various apparitions of female saints and the vulva. Especially the Madonna herself, of which there have been over 3000 accepted appearances during the last 1500 years. With your encyclopedic overview, has anyone posited such visual similarity? Certainly, there must be a DNA level remembrance at play in the artists' imagination. . . .

Click through for examples and comparisons that leave nothing to the imagination. (NSFW.) The Madonna Code Revealed: Pointing to the Uplifted Blossom

Dear god, we are sick, sick people.
But, here is The Hoff's British ad for Pipex Broadband.
In it, he spoofs himself gloriously.
At least, I HOPE he's spoofing himself...

Meant to post this a few days ago...

It is with great sadness that I must report the demise of the great blog, X-Y-Z Cosmonaut's Cosmoblog. Go get the stuff while it's still up.

Damn, I did love this blog. Fare thee well, Cosmo!

A wee bit o' Dead Kennedys to send you off to dreamland.



What is "that damn shirt", you might ask?
I'll explain.
Back in the day, when I was like 18, I bought me some shirts at Jade Mountain Music, this kick-ass little independent music store in Valdez, the only one I might add, which sadly is no longer there.
Anyway, that's where the majority of my paychecks went before I discovered cigarettes, and where I learnt of the magic that is the special order. And where I learned how Gary Numan spelled his last name.

So, one day I sees this shirt. It is the coolest of the cool shirts.
It is Dead Kennedys.
It is Too Drunk To Fuck.
It is a size large.




Now, while I usually went for extra-larges, I liked my shirts a bit loose, a large might work, all things considered.
Sadly, though, this was not one of those size larges. I don't remember what was wrong with the fit at the time, but probably something to do with bad suctioning around my hip region, and perhaps a too-faithful outlining of what belly I had back then (Oh, dear god, to have that belly back again...sigh.).
Anyway, this shirt was too cool to just get rid of. Though there were kick-ass folks working at the thrift store in town, and I know it would have gone to a good home, I decided differently for this shirt.

I decided it needed to go to a home of my own choosing. A home that was worthy. Someone who would love the shirt like I loved it, would wear the shirt, and, most importantly, actually fucking knew who the Dead Kennedys were.
There were some close calls. I probably could have given it a kick-ass home this last winter, had I properly thought about it before hand. I.E., remembered it.

But I finally, not only have a home for the shirt, I have an address to send the shirt to.
Sure, it'll be a little bit big on him, but his credentials are impeccable. Loves DK. Loves the song. And, most importantly, will wear the shirt.

I should mention? This shirt has travelled everywhere I've gone since I purchased it. Mostly in this magnificant shirt protection case. AKA Ziploc, gallon size.



That's right, this fucking thing even went to Maine and back with me last summer, simply because of the chances of getting rid of it.

Now? Now it will be leaving me August 1st. And thus ends my 9 year (yes, nine freaking YEARS!) quest to find the perfect owner for that damn shirt.

At Stump Lane: Joe Pleads With Mortimer to Address the Unprecedented Use of Executive Signing Statements

OK, this has to be the height of cross-blog pimping, but I figure my voice alone makes this Braindead Shithead material. About 5PM this afternoon Paul Van Heden of Brainshrub fame, easily one of the best political blogs in all of Left Blogistan, shot me an e-mail asking me if I wouldn't mind being a fill-in guest on his radio show about blogs and blogging that airs weekly on WPVM 103.5 FM Asheville, NC. Despite having a voice that several environmental groups have sought court orders to have banned as detrimental to wildlife I enthusiastically agreed. Paul, whom I have great respect for, is one of the hardest working people in the blogosphere and beyond. As you might know, Paul and I are co-conspirators in the Carnival of the Liberals and have known each other for well over a year. Probably more. So I was thrilled when he asked me on.

Overall I thought it was a pretty good interview, and certainly a lot of fun. This was a bit of a last minute thing and as such I definitely stammered a little as Paul switched between topics (and pulled out a couple I wasn't expecting). I hope in the future (assuming another radio host throws caution to the wind and has me on) I could be a bit more coherent. Give a listen as we talk blogs, Drupal, Dilbert, spammers and more. Oh, and a little cotton swab in your ears will stop any bleeding caused by my voice.

Madame tried to post this a few days ago, but YouTube yanked it before anyone could see it. Well, it showed up on vSocial so I grabbed it again.

I confess. I'd never heard of "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" before reading Madame's post the other day. But I have heard of Snakes on a Plane, and you know in internetland it's only a matter of time before any two seemingly unrelated memes collide, sometimes with outrageous results. And sometimes it's pure genius -- kind of a monkeys-and-typewriter thing. Set the whole thing to music and... well... ALL YOUR SNAKES ARE BELONG TO US!

[Via: The Poor Man Institute]

You're either going to love or hate tonight's group. Rin' (the apostrophe is part of the spelling) is a female trio that mixes traditional Japanese instruments and style with modern pop music. According to their website, their name comes from the English word 'ring', the Japanese word Wa (和, meaning both 'ring' and 'Japanese-style'), and from the trio's hope to create a 'ring', or circle, of music. Can you tell they're art school graduates? Well, so what. Their music is stunningly beautiful, even if perhaps geared for the Yani crowd.

This record heat wave inspired a very special topic for SIMV14.

SURF!

That's right; Shitheads do surf!

So grab your board and Sexwax, you surf punk!

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