I love this joke. It is the essence of Family Guy humor.
Stephen Colbert for President
Seriously, I think he should run. Just as Hillary is pulling ahead in the polls and it seems like it’s about to become business as usual, a major farcical candidate could be just what this country needs. If it ends up being a Rudy vs Hillary ticket, I’m out. There is no hope. I will gladly support absurdism, no matter how silly and unpatriotic it becomes. If Colbert can actually make it into debates and prove to be a mock, disruptive candidate alongside other candidates (that just appear that way), then we have truly entered into a golden age of irony and sarcasm. Fuck being serious. Dada bitch, dada.
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Filed under president, rudy, stephen colbert
Vinyl/CD Hybrid
Sure, it’s not all that useful, but the geek in me wants one!!
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Teresa Brewer R.I.P.
Teresa Brewer, who sang the with-lyrics version of the official Catchiest Song Ever, Spanish Flea, died yesterday. Don’t know much about her, but girl sang a mean Flea!
Filed under spanish flea, teresa brewer
Wow. Leopard Mail looks like it’s going to give Google a run for its money. I love my Gmail and Google Reader, but this looks amazing. Stationary? RSS feeds? Jesus.
Sigur Ros Interview
Awesomely awkward Sigur Ros interview”. The interviewer wasn’t really asking the right questions, but they certainly did not make it easy on him.
Book of the Hanging Nooses
Hey. News flash. When you make it incredibly easy for idiots to fuck with shit, idiots will fuck with shit. I mean, I completely understand being offended by a hung noose, that shit is fucked up. Everything it represents from lynchings to capital punishment is horrible. But do you know how easy it is to hang a noose? Boop! Just like that. Just scared and offended millions of people. If you give assholes that kind of power then they will inevitably use it.
There seems to be this paranoid fear that all of these nooses are heralding some new white supremacist movement or something. Is crazy-ass racism present in America? Hell yeah it is, more than people (especially white people) want to admit. But all it takes to throw up a few nooses and draw some graffiti is ONE PERSON: one simple-minded, bored, racist anus-face.
I've never understood the idea of giving so much power to a word, symbol or gesture. Curse-words, flaming crosses, and middle fingers just hold no weight with me. You could throw these at me till the cows come home and I would just look at you blankly. Of course, this is easy to say as a white-ish male in society. But I always come back to the Lenny Bruce argument: the fear and reverence given to these symbols and words is what gives them power.
Filed under Lenny Bruce, noose, nooses, racism, white supremacist
Burn the RIAA to the Ground!!
Beautiful. This makes Radiohead, NIN, Oasis, Jamiroquai, and now Madonna the list of former major-labellers who have now dumped the Record Industry. That's what you get for suing kids assholes! They are fast becoming as obsolete as the Walkman and is there ever an industry that deserves it…
Filed under Jamiroquai, Madonna, NIN, Nine Inch Nails, Oasis, Radiohead, Record Industry, RIAA, Walkman
Matt Marks is totally moded by Family Guy
Ok. I was a doubter. I worried about the future of the funniest show on television. Then this last Sunday’s episode came on. Hell yes. What I should have realized is that the one before this was a Brian episode. They tend to be, like his personality, more serious and somewhat romantic, ever since Season One’s Brian in Love.
This last episode, titled Believe it or not, Joe’s walking on air is the sort of episode that tends to have the widest appeal, and surely leaves me in helpless fits of laughter. The use of self-referential/deprecating humor was conspicuous in this episode, with the writers poking fun at criticisms leveled against them by South Park, among others. Once could view these responses either as acts of self-consciousness or as humorous means of transcendence. I tend to be optimistic about it. I was laughing my ass off, so I approve.
In other humor news. I have always been a fan of slapstick movies, unrealistic comedies such as Airplane, Naked Gun, even the Hot Shots movies made me laugh. Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, but the newest movie to emerge from the genre, The Comebacks, just looks awful. It could be because I’m just generally not a sports fan, but come on, one scene shows referees with dark glasses and canes. Oh! I get it they’re blind! A-he he… It could be just my growing older, I wasn’t particularly thrilled with the Scary Movie series, I just generally think the two young Wayans brothers are about as funny as a tube of Metemucil. No, actually Metemucil at times can be quite hilarious. I actually think David Koechner was pretty funny in SNL, Anchorman, and The Office, but I will sit this one out.
Filed under Metemucil, Naked Gun, Scary Movie, SNL, South Park, The Comebacks, The Office
Matt Marks Music 