I’ve been talking with a friend about bad ’80’s videos lately. This is one of the better bad vids of all time. Incredibly naive, incredibly pretentious and didactic, yet somehow, at the time at least, impossible not to watch.
I love the profligate use of freeze frames. Especially with the projection of “1984″ on his space [...]

Get ready to weep…with creamy, delicious laughter.

Thanks to Barn for the hookup.

Do you know these two? Because I sure do.
I used to think they’d grow out of it after about grade 8, but actually, they just get worse. By 35 they’re intolerable. (Some of you will know exactly who I’m talking about. I’m talking about you, you annoying prick.)

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So we can all stop speculating about Steve Jobs’s post calling for the end of DRM a month or so ago. He was just laying the PR groundwork for this.
The exec summary? EMI will offer DRM-free versions of their offering at the premium price of $1.29. The DRM versions will still sell at $.99.
Kudos [...]

Some nice moments in this:

John Otway is the best and this is the best thing you’ll see ever and if you disagree suck it and move on.

Thanks to guest blogger: Conky

Found this tonight. This is the kind of thing that makes them the best rock band ever. Other than the other best bands ever. But nobody was a better Clash than The Clash.

Jarvis Cocker’s new album drops April 3rd, but here’s a little preview track that’s being released under the title “Running the World”.
The original title: “Cunts Are Running the World”.

This album should be fun.

We all know that Pope Benedict is weird and creepy. His new book reveals that he’s also a total control freak.

Pope Benedict was opposed to Bob Dylan appearing at a youth event with the late Pope John Paul in 1997 because he considered the pop star the wrong kind of “prophet,” Benedict writes in a [...]

There’s a great piece in Slate about Ann Coulter’s latest tirade.
If you haven’t heard about it, she called John Edwards “a faggot” in front of a packed room of Republicans. There was a little gasp, then laughter and applause. She knew her audience. Michael Richards would have been jealous.
As the article points out [...]