Florida: Call # on sign to report missing sign. Wait..what?
Posted: January 19, 2012 Filed under: Entertainment, music, pop culture, Random Stuff 1 Comment »
This is an actual thing, and not a hoax.
John Stossel of Fox Business called The Florida Department of Revenue and asked for an explanation. He was told, “A vending machine operator that does not place the notice on the machine presumably is not in compliance with the other requirements such as registration and payment of the tax.”
So, it just like Van Halen’s famous rider clause demanding no brown M&M’s anywhere in the backstage area on penalty of forfeiture of the show with full payment to the band. This has gone down in legend as an example of the band’s diva behaviour at the height of their career (late 70′s-early 80s). But in reality it was a test to see that producers were paying attention, since VH gigs were so technically complex for the time. David Lee Roth explained in his 1997 book Crazy from the Heat, “ if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl . . . well, line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you’re going to arrive at a technical error. They didn’t read the contract. Guaranteed you’d run into a problem. Sometimes it would threaten to just destroy the whole show. Something like, literally, life-threatening.”
See? The same! Sort of.
But the question remains…if the sign is missing, how do we know what number to call?
(Image via popehat)
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Supercut of Lionel Richie’s Hello!
Posted: January 17, 2012 Filed under: Entertainment, music, pop culture, Random Stuff, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
This made my day. Ha! Someone took the time to go through all these movies just so they could put together a video of actors saying the lyrics to Lionel Richie’s “Hello,” It’s so weird that this is a thing.
Last week I found one of Obama “singing” Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way.” Who. Has. This. Sort. Of. Time? WHO? (Oh, actually, I have an answer. For the first one, anyway. This guy)
I sometimes wish I wasn’t the sort of person who needed eight hours of sleep a night, as I often think one thing that’s holding me back from incredible success is my sleep requirements. The things I could accomplish with three or four more hours in a day! Is the work of an insomniac? Is this what people with extra time on their hands do? Or is there some sort of software that does it for you?
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Finally. Jaws: the 3D porn version
Posted: January 13, 2012 Filed under: Entertainment, pop culture, Random Stuff 1 Comment »
The third dimension is terror, hot, sexy terror.
If, when you saw Jaws 3D back in 1983, you thought to yourself, “This would make a much better porn flick,” you’re in luck!
Hustler has teamed up with Adam and Eve for the porn parody This Ain’t Jaws XXX.
The sex parody features Alexis Ford, Jayden Cole, Phoenix Marie, Lily LaBeau, Dale DaBone and Evan Stone. Those names mean nothing to me but if you’re a follower of the XXX scene, they might mean something to you.
The film was shot entirely in 3D
The movie comes out January 31. Here’s the trailer. It doesn’t tell you much about the plot, and you probably don’t get the full experience without the 3D glasses. (via Horror Year Book)
Test your 90s movie knowledge by letter and image
Posted: January 10, 2012 Filed under: Entertainment, pop culture, Random Stuff Leave a comment »
These are fun. It’s a collection of movie alphabet posters – and you have to figure out the movie by the letter and image — from designer Stephen Wildish (via Laughing Squid). I totally rocked the 90s one, which is why I posted it here, but fared less well (still WELL, though) on the others. At least I think I did. It’s a bummer that I can’t find the answers anywhere, so maybe I’m just making stuff up. But I don’t think I am and I think that just proves I had the most time for watching movies during the 90s.
Have a go at it. And check out the rest of them at Wildish’s site.
Speak like Kristen Stewart (a how to guide)
Posted: December 8, 2011 Filed under: Entertainment, pop culture, Random Stuff, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
I’m always trying to figure out what bugs me so much about Kristen Stewart (even though, not being a watcher of the Twilight movies, I don’t actually see much of her). Well, I think this woman has pretty much nailed it in her how to speak like K-Stew guide with tips like “look nauseous.”
For the record, however, I disagree VEHEMENTLY with the statement that K-Stew is “hot.” It always makes me feel like I’m taking crazy pills when people talk about this woman is though she’s a raving beauty. Look, she looks fine. I’m not mad at her looks. If you brought her out to dinner as your new girlfriend, I’d think she was cute. But the very idea that the WHOLE PLOT of Snow White and the Huntsman is supposed to be based around the notion that Kristen Stewart is better looking that Charlize Theron is so stupid it got fired from the M&M factory because it kept throwing out all the Ws. Just had to get that out there. (Video actually went up in July but I just discovered it via Doobybrain)
(Image: lukeford.net)
The Three Stooges movie trailer is perfect
Posted: December 7, 2011 Filed under: Entertainment, pop culture, Random Stuff Leave a comment »
People don’t know what they want. REALLY. They don’t know.
It’s probably very difficult to make a movie version of a property as beloved as The Three Stooges, and I never got The Three Stooges and kind of hate them, which means I can’t fairly judge this trailer for the Farrelly Brothers’ new movie.
But to me, it looks pretty much exactly like the Three Stooges, to perfection. Could this look more Stooges-y? Does that mean it looks good? It looks wretched. But it also looks perfect. People all over the web are saying it looks terrible as though there’s a way it could have been better. How on EARTH could this have been better?
It’s possible, I suppose, that because I am not a fan, there’s something I’m missing. Is the subtlety and nuance of the Stooges getting lost here? Was their oeuvre full of obscure references and one percenter jokes about Foucault or Plato’s Symposium and I TOTALLY MISSED IT? Were they giving over my head nods to physics or phenomenology? And now that subtlety has been lost?
Because if not, it’s a FARKING THREE STOOGES MOVIE. IT’S PERFECT.
Amazing, holy fark pole dance by Jenyne Butterfly
Posted: December 5, 2011 Filed under: Entertainment, pop culture, Random Stuff Leave a comment »
This is some pretty AMAZING pole dancing. For the record, I wish she’d done it to something other than Florence + The Machine, because I can’t STAND Florence + The Machine. But I guess there’s no way she could have known that, so I’ll let it go this time. But maybe next time we could go for some Yeezy?
This woman’s name is Jenyne Butterfly and she is an aerial performance artist and champion pole dancer.
This makes me feel like I need to do some sit-ups or something…but I think we all know I’m gonna have another hot chocolate with vodka and whipped cream.
India’s Got Talent is farking insane
Posted: November 30, 2011 Filed under: Entertainment, pop culture, Random Stuff, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
These dudes are everywhere on the web over the past couple of weeks. So, I can’t imagine you missed it, but if you have just woken up from a coma or returned from outer space (and in either case, congratulations!) The Warriors of Goja were recent contestants on India’s Got Talent.
They remind me of this guy my friend once had a one night stand with who used to hammer himself with nails and walk on swords and stuff, on stage, as part of a show. Those freakshow and sideshow things were everywhere in the 1990s. I won’t share either of their names because she is SUPER embarrassed about it and if I ever want to shut her up about anything I’ve ever done, all I have to do is remind her of it.
Anyway, I can’t figure out if the Warriors of Goja have a philosophy or anything but I can note that India’s Got Talent looks like a lot more fun than America’s Got Talent.
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Porn star turned disco star Andrea True (More, More More) dead at 68
Posted: November 21, 2011 Filed under: Entertainment, music, pop culture, Random Stuff Leave a comment »
Andrea True, who had a major hit in 1976 with the song “More, More, More” (which I’ve been known to sing as “Mo, Mo, Mo” for my friend Mo, who is actually mentioned in the previous post) died earlier this month at age 68.
True was a well known porn star before hitting the disco scene with her group Andrea True Connection. She also released the singles “N.Y. You Got Me Dancing” in 1977 and “What’s Your Name, What’s Your Number” in 1978. Her third album tanked and she left the music industry and, according to Dangerous Minds, she’d been working as a psychic for a number of years.
According to the Kingston Daily Freeman, True died on November 7 of causes that have not been released.
The Freeman also says More, More, More is being used in a TV commercial for the Post cereal Honey Bunches of Oats.
Look at the kitty! Catvertising!
Posted: November 18, 2011 Filed under: Entertainment, pop culture, Random Stuff Leave a comment »
Look! A kitty!
A few months ago I read about a fascinating scientific discovery that showed that people are more likely to click on a picture of a cat than on a picture that is not of a cat (the above picture is of my cat, Kafka).
The Toronto Star reported that, “A cat in an ad will get 78 per cent more Facebook users to click through to your company website, according to the findings of Red Square Agency, an ad agency based in Mobile, Ala.”
So, this ever so clever video was made about an ad agency that decided to take it to the muthafuckin’ EXTREME!
Bonus: video has cats in it.
(Also, I think it might be made in Toronto. Not sure…did you make it?)
