my friends and I were singing the Badger Song all day out into the ocean last weekend. Ladies and gentlemen I present to you…
Now the beauty of this is about 4 and a half minutes into the piece there is a HUGE payoff. Trust me. It’s fucking HILARIOUS!!!!
[UPDATE] It. Has. BEGUN!!!!!
I had one alcoholic beverage and this is now really bugging me: Is Creed or Puddle of Mudd the worst band of all time?
On the one hand, Creed totally rips-off Pearl Jam and they preach Christianity, but on the other hand, Puddle of Suck rips-off Kurt Cobain and they were discovered by Fred Durst. Well, Nirvana hasn’t put out an album in a while, so maybe it’s okay to rip them off. And maybe since Pearl Jam sucks now, it’s okay to rip them off as long as you rip the 1991 Pearl Jam. In terms of band name, Creed is terrible for the obvious reasons, but Puddle of Mudd is just stupid. A puddle of mud? It turns out I was in the same room when they came up with it: “Hey, what should we call our band? We rip-off Nirvana so maybe it should be like the same but different like Wirvana or Nirvono?” Then I said, “I think it should be something that reminds people of a pile of shit because that’s what you are.”
Catherine Opie has curated a retrospective of Robert Mapplethorpe photographic works that will be the inaugural exhibition for the new Marc Selwyn Fine Art. On their site they say “the show will be an opportunity to see the work of a photographer whose quest for balance and perfection established him in the top rank of twentieth-century artists.” I guess all that controversy surrounding his work didn’t hurt his notoriety either.
This show opens on January 31 and continues through March 13th.
Anyone in the Silverlake area have a Koi pond? I have three Koi that need a new home ASAP. Help!
Admittedly, I have poor hearing. It’s genetic and no, I haven’t been to any concerts lately.
On any given day I say “what?” at least 30 times.
In all honesty, I ask for a repeat when people say outrageous things, and typically the shouted response is what I first heard.
But what does one who is hard of hearing say when everyone is calling a girl “Labia” — if you know please advise.
Moxie:
I’m sorry, come again? I couldn’t hear you
Someone:
I’d like you to meet Labia.
Moxie:
Dabia?
Someone:
Layla.
Moxie:
Libra?
Someone:
LAY-BEE-YA
Moxie:
You’re kidding
Someone:
What? No. LAAAAAAAY BEEEE YAh
Moxie:
A woman? Named Labia?
Someone:
No, not labia, lay be YAH
Moxie:
I’m sorry, I can’t hear you. Or maybe I don’t want to hear you. What were her parent’s thinking?
Someone:
Labia. You’ll love her, she’s very cool.
Moxie:
God, I hope everyone loves her with a name like that.
Any yahoo, it reminded me of the Mulva episode on Seinfeld.
Again, I’m not smart enough to make this stuff up. I only wish I were…
BoingBoing tips us off to this little “snatch and run” in Pasadena.
“A thief stole a 170-pound bronze statue of Star Wars’ Jedi master Yoda from the back of a truck in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 17, the Zap2it Web site reported. Four of the 36 Lucasfilm-commissioned statues were bolted down to a flatbed truck for transport to Los Angeles to be sold. The truck’s drivers, who had stopped at a Westway Inn, found the statue missing the next morning.”
This nerd wet dream is estimated at to be worth between $15,000 - $20,000 and they are offering a $1,000 reword for it’s return. Huh? $1,000?!! Who ever was smart enough to swipe that thing, I’m guessing is smart enough to do the math on that on as well. My guess is it’s not going to show up anytime soon.
You’ve been waiting 12 months for this, so drop whatever you are doing and go read Buddyhead’s Best & Worst Albums of 2003 right now. NOW.
I set up gallery of the day of whale watching off the coast on Sunday. I really can’t wait to go do it again! Check it out
I know I should be posting this on Fucked State but since we officially closed that site after the election it’s going here instead. According to Reuters, The Govenator spent some mad cash on his campaign, and by “mad” I mean “illegal.”
A California judge ruled on Monday that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites) broke state law by borrowing more than $4.5 million to finance his run for governor in last October’s recall election.
In a preliminary decision that could force Schwarzenegger to repay the money personally, Superior Court Judge Loren McMaster ruled on Monday that the Republican governor had violated a law restricting candidates from accepting personal loans of more than $100,000 for their campaigns, said Lowell Finley, the lawyer who filed a lawsuit challenging the loan.
“The judge ruled that Schwarzenegger’s loans he obtained from a bank and then personally loaned to his committee were illegal,” Finley said. “He broke the law by a multiple of forty.”
I’m thinking of heading down to the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego in early Feb. Now, I hadn’t been planning on this before so I didn’t do any pre-planning. I’m wondering if anyone else from LA is going down and wants to share a ride, share a room, share whatever. I’m no stranger to packing a sleeping bag and subleting some floorspace. I’ll probably just grab a basic floor pass, but let me know if you are planning to go.
