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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20)

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:46:02 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20):

Spoon (7)
Stephen Malkmus (5)
Wilco (4)
Wolf Parade (3)
Rogue Wave (3)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

GPOYC. Dancing with my mother. Merry XMAS.

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:44:11 -0500

GPOYC. Dancing with my mother. Merry XMAS.

The small Swedish town of Gavle harbors a history of repeated...

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:21:34 -0500

The small Swedish town of Gavle harbors a history of repeated sustained vandalism, unexpected in the polite mild-mannered Nordic country. Making of Yule Goats, straw goat figures are an ancient Christmas tradition in Nordic countries, dating back probably even to pre-Christian times and pagan celebrations of winter solstice. In 1966 an advertising consultant, Stig Gavlén, came up with the idea of making a giant version a Yule Goat and placing it in the town square. Ironically the “chief engineer” on this project was his brother Jesper Gavlén, also the towns fire department chief. At the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, the goat went up in flames. Thus the tragic history of Gavel Goat began. In following years the goat has been burned a total of 23 times, in a few instances in mere hours after being assembled, sometimes even before being actually being built. In addition to that, it has been smashed to pieces several times, and once even run over by a car. Vandalizing of the Yule goat has become something of a dark tradition for the town. The organizers went through a long list of measures to try to protect the goat, or at least ensure its survival until Christmas. The list over the years includes protection by police, firemen, hired guards, bands of volunteers, webcams and fireproofing the material with chemicals. The price tag of goat construction went up ten fold in years between 1996 and 2005, reaching 100,000 Swedish kronor. The 2005 attack sparked the biggest wave of inanimate-goat violence in Sweden so far, with half a dozen copycat goat-burnings all over the Sweden. Nowadays people can even place bets on goat’s survival with certain Swedish and British bookkeepers. Since 1986, two goats are built, one by a society of Southern Merchants and the other one by Natural Science Club of Vasa School. This split is a result of goats complicated history, though both goats suffer the same inevitable fate. In 2009, the Southern Merchants version survived an arson attempt on December 7. It was finally stolen on December 14. Someone tried to throw the Natural Science Club goat into the river on December 11. On December 23 this goat was torched after a coordinated DDoS attack on the two websites hosting live video webcam feeds. Nothing, it seems, can save the Yule goat

From Atlas Obscured

Is Tom Robbins there?

GPOYW. via getgrossedout

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:47:18 -0500

GPOYW. via getgrossedout

soupsoup: fatmanatee: cool customers (via msnbc.com) Snoop...

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:28:19 -0500

soupsoup:

fatmanatee:

cool customers

(via msnbc.com)

Snoop told her to turn the oven up to 420, it went completely over her head.

“Snoop, it’s important to be precise when baking.”

Lady Gaga and her eunuch

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:27:33 -0500

Lady Gaga and her eunuch

dubradave: DubraDave has a feeling that tonight’s gonna be a...

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:14:52 -0500

dubradave:

DubraDave has a feeling that tonight’s gonna be a good night. That tonight’s gonna be a good good night.

DubraDave always gets me stoked about the weekend.

Oh google you silly wabbit.

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:29:17 -0500

Oh google you silly wabbit.

yonilotan: thedailywhat: Stop What You’re Doing And Blow Your...

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:09:56 -0500

yonilotan:

thedailywhat:

Stop What You’re Doing And Blow Your Mind To This of the Day: Get ready to feel really insignificant as you slowly make your way from a closeup of Tibet to the farthest reaches of the Known Universe, in this highly scientific mindfuck from the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium.

[via.]

okay, now im ready for avatar

yonilotan: (via mikeantonucci) I hope when i cheat on my wife,...

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:44:59 -0500

yonilotan:

(via mikeantonucci)

I hope when i cheat on my wife, someone will make a porno of it.

Consider it done.

Those crazy freakangels are about to destroy England. ...

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:42:45 -0500

Those crazy freakangels are about to destroy England. Can’t wait for tomorrow, which means, it will be an off week.

“Heads up” for you and any of your friends who may...

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:15:47 -0500

“Heads up” for you and any of your friends who may be regular Home
Depot customers. Over the last month I became a victim of a clever
scam while out shopping. Simply going out to get supplies has turned
out to be quite traumatic. Don’t be naive enough to think it couldn’t
happen to you.

Here’s how the scam works: Two seriously good-looking 18 or
19-year-old girls come over to your car as you are packing your
shopping items into the trunk. They both start wiping your windshield
with a rag and Windex, with their breasts almost falling out of their
skimpy T-shirts. It is impossible not to look. When you thank them
and offer them a tip, they say “No” and instead ask you for a ride to
another Home Depot. You agree and they get in the back seat.

On the way, they start having sex with each other. Then one of them
climbs over into the front seat and performs oral sex on you, while
the other one steals your wallet! I had my wallet stolen December 4th,
5th, 6th, twice on the 12th, 13th, 15th and three times just
yesterday, and very likely again this upcoming weekend as soon as I
can buy some more wallets.

Have a Merry Christmas!

Every Hyper Space Scene.

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:04:28 -0500

Every Hyper Space Scene.

tallwhitney: make-em-laugh: cyborglovesong: blergmymind: Stev...

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:30:56 -0500

tallwhitney:

make-em-laugh:

cyborglovesong:

blergmymind:

Steve Carell & Tina Fey & Stephen Colbert
THEN & NOW

~~way too much free time on my hand~~

I so, so approve of Then & Now images! They’re lovely.

Thiiiiis is fantastic!

Agreed.

"“Consider the Douche: A Study Tucker Max, douchebag, is famous exclusively for claiming to be..."

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:04:11 -0500

“

“Consider the Douche: A Study

Tucker Max, douchebag, is famous exclusively for claiming to be an asshole. Yet all who know of him know that the term “douchebag” is the correct one. Why is this? What makes a douchebag a douchebag, as opposed to an asshole? The following thoughts have been set down by way of rumination on the ways and methods of the douche and how shall ye know him.

For the purposes of this essay, the douchebag is assumed to be male. While it is true that females can exhibit douchebag behavior, they are usually too busy fighting off male douchebags to do so. Those most often mistaken for female douchebags, Julia Allison among them, tend to be divas, another creature entirely.

It is also for this reason that I would argue against “douchebag” as being a sexist term. The Jezebels have pointed out that the insult is based on something a woman uses. I say that a smart woman uses a douchebag when she has to—and then she throws it away. Sounds like the perfect metaphor to me.

Douchebagging is a young man’s game. After the age of 40, the classic douchebag becomes a scumbag—which is to say, a douchebag left out to become all cruddy and murky with the bitterness of middle age. Scumbags, like hyenas, are still essentially bottom-feeding losers, but years of failure and sexual rejection have turned them mean and honed their low, animal cunning. A scumbag can be violent in a cowardly way if you let your guard down. A douchebag is always a coward, period.

Another thing to note: douchebaggery is primarily concerned with establishing channels of social power based on the pack mentality. There is never a lone douchebag—they are social animals.

The term “douchebag” does not apply to such as Rush Limbaugh or Lou Dobbs. Aside from the issue of age (both Dobbs and Limbaugh being heaps of decaying, rot-bloated, cholesterol-laden, pre-cancerous flesh), neither is interested in social interaction per se, or in sex, the other great idée fixe of the douchebag. They, like most politicians and media figures, are festering shit-swollen boils on the ballsack of Beelzebub, but they are not douchebags.

The simplest way of conceiving it is this: a douchebag is a failed asshole. The asshole is the true alpha-personality: the douchebag is the cowed, quivering copycat. The asshole rarely thinks of his own assholishness—the douchebag plots and plans his assholery, only to have it collapse into a wet splashy puddle of douche. The asshole can, on occasion, be charming, attentive, generous or cultured—this is what makes him attractive, and therefore dangerous. The douchebag is never anything but a schmuck. The douchebag worships and loves and hates and envies the asshole. The asshole never notices the douchebag, except on those rare occasions when he is inspired to crush the douchebag to a pulp. The douchebag dreams of being an asshole. The asshole does not dream—he’s too worn out by fucking the douchebag’s girlfriend.

Assholes can be talented, even geniuses—thus the frequency one hears the term; “Gee, X is absolutely amazing at BLANK, but he’s kind of an asshole.” In this case, some of the perceived assholishness of the asshole comes from his willingness to put his talent before other human interaction. Assholes win Nobel prizes, Olympic swimming competitions, Academy Awards. The douchebag has no talent other than an ability, under certain circumstances, to appropriate the asshole’s talent as his own.

Sex for the asshole is really about pleasure—his pleasure. That of the woman (or of the other man), comes a distant second or not at all. Sex for the douchebag is about power—first over the woman (in addition to being primarily male, douchebags are exclusively heterosexual), and then over the team of fellow douchebags he plans on bragging to of his conquest. Pleasure never enters the equation for either person because the douchebag always has one hand on his blog. Assholes can be discrete, basically because they don’t want people to realize whatever sort of kink they’re into. Douchebags are nothing if not vanilla in the sack, but are compelled to invent all sorts of grotesque practices, encounters and partners to cement their asshole status. Thus, Tucker lying about filming butthex in Opie & Anthony is the true epitome of douchebag.

Now, I’m not going to fly a big banner for assholes. Given the choice between asshole and douchebag, it is better to be neither. The life of an asshole is essentially a tragic one, leading to wasted talent, estranged families, friendless existences, financial ruin and something very, very, very wrong with your liver. No one possessed of a moiety of their marbles could ever point to a raging asshole and say: “Go thou, and do likewise.”

However—and here’s where Tucker Max comes in—true assholes never make a fetish out of their own assholishness. An asshole, like a tornado or a killer whale or some other initially impressive but ultimately destructive thing, simply is. James Bond, perhaps the ultimate asshole—a cold-blooded murderer, a spy, a sociopath—never once called himself an asshole. It was just: “Bond. James Bond.” (Conversely, Pussy Galore, also an asshole, never had to say: “Gosh, I’m good at fucking!’)

It is the burden of the douchebag to continually trumpet his own fake asshole status. If someone tells you “I’m an asshole” you are almost certain to be dealing with a douchebag. An asshole may tell you a horrific story of his past that leaves you thinking “wow, what an asshole;” the douchebag tells you the same story (which he heard first from the asshole), gingerbreads it to the point of obvious absurdity and concludes: “Yup, I’m really an asshole!”

Tucker Max has attempted to parlay his own weasely life into the Elysian Fields of Asshole, but belies his quest with every act. A remora fantasizing about being a shark, he describes himself as an asshole, blabs and boasts of his assholery, lies—obviously—about his stories, and is forced, douchebag that he is, to hire thugs to serve as his asshole-muscles (no asshole ever relied on some other dude to do his brawling). Panting desperately for the sacred status of mythological assholes such as Jack Nicholson, Marlon Brando, Miles Davis, Prince Harry, Robert Maplethorpe or Mick Jagger, he has succeeded only in making himself look ever more the quivering, bullying, squealing, lisping, jelly-bellied, flipper-waving, khaki-pants-wearing, Mommy’s apron-clinging, frat-boy pee-stained sloppy-boppy poopy-pants pile of douche.

And this, friends and neighbors, is why Tucker Max is my vote for Douche of the Decade.”

”

- RollsRoyceRevenge

And that’s another vote for Tucker.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13)

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:34:05 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13):

Yo La Tengo (3)
Aesop Rock (2)
Common (2)
Modest Mouse (2)
Grizzly Bear (2)

Uh ohh. Thing just rowdy at the Gawker meet up.

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:02:09 -0500

Uh ohh. Thing just rowdy at the Gawker meet up.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13)

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:31:09 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13):

Yo La Tengo (3)
Aesop Rock (2)
Common (2)
Modest Mouse (2)
Grizzly Bear (2)

mercurypdx: justsayjolie: I would find this glass so much more...

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:17:43 -0500

mercurypdx:

justsayjolie:

I would find this glass so much more charming if it didn’t remind me of the ex who got a set from me one Christmas. Sigh. It’s hard being an alcoholic who is utterly unlovable.

Maker’s Mark giftset!

Yum Yum. The wax on the handle elevates Maker’s Mark above Knob Creek on the Bourbon scale.

Can you understand a word of this?

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:41:39 -0500

Can you understand a word of this?