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Yeah I think you're thinking of Zaoza Scrivs, but he just doesn't cut it imo.

Um... what is all this about torment and intellectual superiority? If you don't think it's funny just say so.

Perhaps there's a little more to life than 'A' or 'B' ?

I can't believe people actually went as far as doing a lolcat translation of the Bible. I read the first chapter of Genesis and that was about all I could hack.

I think lolcats is probably funniest to the people who have been cat owners, particularly to the kids who grew up tormenting their poor household moggy, lolcats just seems like a logical cyber extension of that torment.

Yeah I picked up his Dead Emcee Scrolls book last year, highly recommen it. Off to the download. Nice link btw.

Yeah London Theatre Blog is run by me and thanks for the compliment. I find time late at night mostly (says he, posting on 9rules just after lunch!). But the postcard project is a no-brainer really. Find post card -> scan postcard -> upload to tumblr ... bish bash bosh.

WTF Dumbledore's gay and that's it. I don't know why people are making such a big deal out of this. He's just a normal person like you or me...except gay.

...and except that he's been known to throw one hell of a wicked spell around too. ;)

lol that is awesome, deep down I've always known we were suckers for trash culture...that's why myspace worked so well.

wa alaikum assalam Saifuddin. Thanks for clarifying those points. I'd love to see Kaba for myself, I have friends in Mecca, who knows maybe one day I'll make it there.

Very interesting insight indeed. What is the significance of spinning beyond dancing? Is it to induce a degree of transformation of some kind? And presumably there's some sort of technique involved in spinning for sustained periods without lapsing into uncontrollable dizziness right?

Yeah. It's not quite a remix but Barker is the tightest drummer around. I'd like to hear a better quality version. Anyone find one?

Not a better version but possibly a better drummer???

Virgil Donati.

Could this be the ultimate price of vanity?

The Louds 1973. They called it 'TV verite' ...quaint isn't it?

Kill your televisions! I laid mine to rest a long time ago. Took me years to get over the withdrawal symptoms but with the Internet as a substitute patch I made it. Now all I have to figure out is how to get over the Internet and then I'll be free!

Earth Wind & Fire

That is very cool. Kind of reminds me sometimes of Zap Mama, maybe without the soul though.

"No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star image no to the heroic no to the anti-heroic no to trash imagery no to involvement of performer or spectator no to style no to camp no to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer no to eccentricity no to moving or being moved."

(Yvonne Rainer, "Some Retrospective Notes on a Dance for 10 People and 12 Matresses Called Parts of Some Sextets", in Mariellen R. Sandford, ed., Happenings and Other Acts, London, Routledge, 1995)

In the history of humankind, there may never have been a display of such collective depravity than in the first decade of the 21st century on YouTube. Congratulations fellow humans, we finally proved our worth.

He reminds me of Timothy Treadwell

なんかみんなバカだなー
じつはこう言う番組面白くないだろう!

Nice, would've been even better if she was hawking half price pairs of Jordans!

Scream

Smokey and the Bandit
Canonball Run
Masters of the Universe
The Young Sherlock Holmes (movie version)
Police Academy
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Back to the Future

yeah yeah

it's symptomatic of the wider celebrity culture we consume but more specifically it's part of the youtube culture of derision. Videos like these remind me just how low people are willing to go in the pursuit of celebrity.

I find it interesting that South Africa is a parallel to Iraq in her mind.

There's a reason why they advise you to wear gloves when handling chillies

This is all a fabrication. If for one minute this news channel didn't want this scene to happen, the producer would have cut to commercials. This is about getting viewer ratings through a bit of cheap scandal, even cheaper than a story on Paris Hilton. If she really believed in what she was saying she would have got up and left.

The only star wars episodes you need to see are the first three. The rest are plagued by the special FX syndrome and are products of a sick Hollywood franchise.

In shooting the first three they took alot of risks. Lucas was still heavily influenced by Joseph Campbell at the time and it all felt far more mythical and in many ways a credible sci fi world.

Sometimes I imagine myself in the trenches, cold, wretched, surrounded by vermin, and Ernst Junger passes me coffee.

sometimes I feel life is bearable.