As long as we're posting stuff that already was on Boing Boing: this astonishingly pompous asshole's 1984 screen test for Full Metal Jacket is literally one of the top 5 funniest things I've ever seen on the internet. You watch his sidesplitting introductory remarks and you think "there's no way his actual audition could be funnier than this," and then it somehow is.
For the interested, there's a MeFi post up right now with links to tons of clips of Peter Greenaway lecturing on various topics.
Fun create-your-own-Pollock-kind-of webpage. I just spent a good five minutes getting it to spell "Butt." In lieu of studying, of course.
This is the opening sequence to the first episode ever of Late Night With Conan O'Brien, September 13, 1993. I got a kick out of noticing that in thirteen years there've been no changes made to the band, other than the cutting of several collective feet of hair.
The NYTimes profiled this wildly popular Iraqi answer to The Daily Show, which succeeds in making light of its nation's recent troubles with bloodshed and chaos. One of the show's standout comedic features is the fact that it's anchored by this guy:
Jiminy smokes! First Sebadoh announces a reunion tour, now another of the great 90s indie rock titans follows suit. Anyone wanna meet in San Francisco on December 30?
List of 13 Scary Album Covers. Yes, it's from the Onion, but it seemed good enough to post.
Robot determines people taste like bacon. So hopefully our future metal overlords will turn out to be vegetarians.
According to Fox news, there's a "Scarlett Johansson Record Deal in the Works". It's going to be an album of Tom Waits covers. Apparently, "Scarlett has a lovely, whispery delivery that carries a tune nicely."
My friend, Alex Timbers, with his usual coterie of other mutual friends in Les Freres Corbusier, is staging another spectacle in New York. Once again, it has been favorably, and visibly reviewed by the New York Times. Congratulations to him! Seems like Alice's CSI character could appear in Hell House.
Alice Hill, late of Reed College, who was a dear dormie of mine freshman year, and my apartment roomie (though we were never ever there at the same time) senior year, and who is known personally to at least a few of the frequent contributors to this blog, such as Reid and Mike Campbell, is getting a juicy supporting role as a SuicideGirl accused of murder (I think) on the upcoming episode of CSI: NY.
Visual Story is a Flickr group in which you're supposed to tell a short narrative in five frames. Cool stuff. "Ride of your life" is probably my favorite thus far.
Sorry to be monopolizing the blog today, but I just wanted to share this Slate crucifixion piece about a disgraceful new Chevy ad which has been running at least once an hour throughout the baseball playoffs, and which could not be more horrible. The commentary's a bit obvious if you've seen the ad itself, but I'm figuring most of you haven't, and it's worth reading the article just to be alerted to its unscruplous content.
Daily Mail article specifically about Scarlett Johansson's sexual habits. Do I need to pitch it more than that? Really?
Grind House is an upcoming movie co-directed by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriquez that bring the ultraviolence. The preview:
Man in Poland farts in response to President, is arrested. See, this is the case for SPDs.
The Shivah:
"Shivah is the Jewish mourning ritual. For a week after a family member's death, the family stays at home, receiving visitors, and mourning the deceased.
Rabbi Stone, this game's protagonist, leads a small and declining congregation on the Lower East Side. He receives word that a somewhat disreputable former congregant has died, and left his small estate to the synagogue. Though he himself is close to losing faith in God, he views it as his duty to investigate, and perhaps to comfort whatever family members this man may have as they sit Shivah."
That's right, Sebadoh is back. Gaffney and all. Let's all hope they come to a town near us; I've been waiting for twelve years to hear a live performance of Notsur Dnuora Selcric.
You know those couple hours a day you waste away from your computer not looking at wikipedia? No more, since you can download wikipedia to your iPod. It doesn't update automatically, and you can't listen to music at the same time, but still...
Those of you who've seen Studio 60 probably did not recognize this HW alumna as Jeannie, the cast sexbomb (cast of the show-within-the-show, that is). The last time I saw her (on Conan, about two years ago, plugging Blue Collar Comedy, to which I will not link, because it was atrocious), she looked not-as-good and more recognizable. When someone emerges after two years sexier and less recognizable, it generally means he/she has had work done. Although she doesn't display a lot of obvious bodily renovation. Who knows.
Yet another NYTimes link destined to die in time behind the pay wall, but here is an interesting little bit on repairing "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living." The video is quite surreal.
