Cuz he rocks out for a group of elementary school kids in France.



Thanks to Graham Linehan's "Why That's Delightful!" for the original postie.

A New DVD from JoCo documenting his recent tour... got to see him last week @ the Granada, and it was awesome. I think I liked it better than Flight Of The Conchords the week before...

Not much to say lately... well, not much that bears writing about... maybe soon.

But - have been listening the hell out of The Stone Roses first album in recent days... and just saw on the internets that this is getting a gee-whiz remaster 'n re-release in August.

So, to celebrate - here's Fools Gold:




And the lyrics, as after re-listening to them are kinda applicable to what's prompted my silence lately:

The gold road's sure a long road
Winds on through the hills for fifteen days
The pack on my back is aching
The straps seem to cut me like a knife
The gold road's sure a long road
Winds on through the hills for fifteen days
The pack on my back is aching
The straps seem to cut me like a knife

I'm no clown I wont back down
I don't need you to tell me whats going down
Down down down down da down down down
Down down down down da down down down

I'm standing alone
I'm watching you all
I'm seeing you sinking
I'm standing alone
You're weighing the gold
I'm watching you sinking
Fool's gold

These boots were made for walking
The marquis de sade don't wear no boots like these
Gold's just around the corner
Breakdown's coming up round the bend

Sometimes you have to try to get along dear
I know the truth and I know what you're thinking

Down down down down da down down down

I'm standing alone
I'm watching you all
I'm seeing you sinking
I'm standing alone
You're weighing the gold
I'm watching you sinking
Fools gold

Fools gold

I'm standing alone
I'm watching you all
I'm seeing you sinking
I'm standing alone
You're weighing the gold
I'm watching you sinking
Fools gold

Not quite as awesomesauce as "Watch Us Work It" but still, the spuds are back and still angry.

...and that's a good thing!



"DON'T SHOOT" - DEVO from DEVO Channel on Vimeo.

This 8tracks thingie seems to work kinda well...

Listen to my station on Blip.fm!

Wait. Never Mind. I seem to have such weird taste that NOTHING I searched for was available on the BLIP servers. DAMMIT...

Derek Dye - the Abstinence Education Clown!

MARVEL! To him liken premarital sex to juggling Machetes! (about 3:45 in):



Okay, so on one level... here's this guy talking about saving yerself for marriage and suchlike, which if yer so inclined... okay, good on ya.
Hope yer spousal partner is of the same mindset and you two are trusting/loving/secure enough to be able to grow together in your awareness of yer bodies & yer sexual needs.

But should our tax dollars be used to fund this stuff? Without teaching any alternative methods?

SNARK Engage:
But on another level... HOLY FUCK! You just KNOW that this kid is going to wind up with some fucked up machete-on-his-johnson fetish.

Plus - the whole realm of wrapping this up into "AVOID RISK!" type thinking has just got to be helping to perpetuate the whole "My Precious Little Unique Snowflake of A Child!" attitude prevalent in so many parents nowadays.

Lateral thinking moment: so, since this whole "abstinence only" movement has it's basis in the fundamentalist christian community, I can see how they would think that since we're immortal souls trapped in these nasty horrible squishy fleshy bodies, avoiding giving into those baser impulses is the only way to do things right.
But even so... since there's that whole "the body is a temple" thing, and one could say that the hormonal urges that come with adolescence (and are therefore perfectly natural) are in fact part of the rituals of said temple, and to disavow them and not listen to them is in fact committing an act of sacrilege against said temple?

Anyhoo - here's some clowns who most definitely understand what those baser instincts are about:

That's Short-Duration-Personal-Savior:



Man I wanna read that book.

Father Jack from "Father Ted" sends ye the best on this day of Holidayized Binge Drinking.

Heard this a week ago @ the poolhall, and CAN NOT get it out of my head...

YOU FIND A NEW GOD!


400 BABIES!!!!


I want this drink so very very badly.

Oh for fuck's sake...

Commentary here and here.

Having grown up in Oklahoma, I never thought I would be THIS glad to live in Texas.

Freedom of Speech... Just Watch What You Say...

Hotlinkyed from The Daily What.

All I can say about the following clip is "Holy Crap That's Amazing". Nice to see a well-produced fanfilm that ISN'T Star Wars:

Okay, so, being rather "leftist" in my political inclinations, and in my heart of hearts something of an optimist about humanity in the long term (the cynicism is just sweet crunchy coating), I generally think that the U.N. has a place in the world. We need some sort of supranational body to sort out the friction that occurs between tribes (er... nations) until we collectively as a species can reach a point where we're more concerned with issues that affect all of humanity, and not just ones relating to the dotted lines between hunting grounds.

People who squawk about the U.N. being the beginning of the "evil one-world gubbamint" and the inevitable "mark of the beast/harbinger of the antichrist/apocalypse" nonsense can just Shut The Fuck Up and get back top lobbing pleas and supplications to your invisble sky-daddy.

Crap...I just did what the U.N says I can't do anymore.

Lemme step back a minnit... so the U.N. has passed a binding resolution about "blasphemy"... i.e that blasphemous speech can and should be punished in countries that are so inclined. Amazingly enough, Canada has stated that this is incredibly stupid, and refused to vote on it. Never thought I'd consider leaving for Canada in the Post-Bush era, but this makes me consider it.

I mean really? Criticizing religion is going to be illegal? How soon before religious worship is also mandatory? I'm sure Pope Palpatine is slobbering about this, since it means that he'll get to have his buddies in the Inquisition start oiling up their racks again. Though I do find it interesting (and rather unsurprising) how it's primarily Muslim nations that are pushing this through.

Lateral Thinking moment of Schadenfreude:
I'm sure the fundigelicals - oh, sorry... "socially Conservative Evangelicals" here in 'Murrika are experiencing some severe cognitive dissonance about this (that is, the ones that are intelligent enough to grasp the implications)...
After all, this would allow them to lobby for such stupidity here in the states, but it would mean recognizing the validity of the United Nations as a governing body; something their ingrained American exceptionalism would have seizures about.
(After all, White Protestant Jeebus don't need no satanic-one-world-gubbamint-U.N. to bring his message of truth and NASCAR to the unsaved masses of all them brown people countries.)

Speaking of brown people countries and people who are scared by them and simultaneously an example of the exceptionalism idiocy, here's Lou "No, really, I'm a populist" Dobbs trying to spin the whole thing from a "How Dare They!" angle.
He brings in Christopher Hitchens to chime in on the sheer, utter wrongness of this. I like Hitchens' views on religion and thought his book "God is NOT Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" nailed a lot of things on the head (or wrists... or feet...) But I must admit to experiencing my own C.D. at having to hear valid concerns with this in the context of Dobbs' John Birch society right wing stupidity.

So, watch the following clip for the Hitchens observations, but ignore the Dobbs stupidity.



It was the great H.L. Mencken who summed this whole thing up:
“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”
(lifted from a discussion thread about this law on Pharyngula)

First off, a few videos from Monster Magnet, as I've been feeling the Groove Metal loveor a couplefew days now:

"Power Trip"


"Monolithic"


"Space Lord"


Ever wondered how big the blast would be if a nuke fell on yer house? Using this gizmo you can get a pretty good idea.

and a couple of things that reflect mmy mood today:




and the fact that I've joined the herd and now have a Twitter account... this Penny Arcade sums up a lot of things:

Okay... so hot on the tails of hearing that DEVO is playing SXSW (and I get to see 'em!) I read today that Jane's Addiction is COMPLETELY reunited, including long absent bassist Eric A, and they are gonna do a tour with Nine Inch Nails.

Crap... I really am in the "time for the bands of my youth to do reunion tours" demographic, aren't I?

Anyhoo - here's Jane's from a secret show they did last monday (thanks to Pitchfork.TV) doin' Had A Dad... a songs that bears some of the responsibility for my irreligiosity:

To quote XKCD... Science: It Works, Bitches.

I love Zero Punctuation, the only game review you EVAR need.

That said, it appears that Yahtzee has similiar tastes, as this was the first game series I well and truly fell in love with:

Hotlinked like it's... um... hot.