Sunday, July 30, 2006
A WHOLE NEW PLACE FOR YOU TO IGNORE: Don't take this as a sign that I'm locking up Tiny Money Land, but for the forseeable future I'm going to be focusing in on a new collaborative blog that we're calling The Dunciad. It's already in progress, so check it out.
I'll probably keep feeding this blog about as often as I have in the past year, so take that for what it is.
I'll probably keep feeding this blog about as often as I have in the past year, so take that for what it is.
|| Eric 2:35 PM#
Sunday, July 23, 2006
ANOTHER LINK SAUSAGE, BABY: Please welcome to the family of trusted strangers Ruthless Rhymes, a blog dedicated to the collection and analysis of the darkly humorous verse of Harry Graham and those he inspired over the years. This one doesn't seem to update very often, but you definitely should read it from end to end if you think sick humor started with South Park. Or even National Lampoon.
|| Eric 6:04 AM#
Friday, July 21, 2006
YOUTUBE 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: For those who haven't been following my monster YouTube thread on the Thread aPa board (if you didn't know, there's a waiting period for newbies now to keep the creepy crawlies at bay), here are more of my links. Be advised these are MINE AND MINE ALONE, because the rest of those bums had blogs and threw 'em away! But before that, STAND BY FOR A TERRIFYING MESSAGE FROM AL GORE...in his hybrid pimpmobile.
Okay? Moving on...
Okay? Moving on...
- If you liked the ECW Zombie, you'll dig the holy hell out of SURVIVAL TOBITA, MONSTER WRESTLER. As seen on Wrestlecrap. For maximum effect, save the Ken the Box match until last.
- From the Daily Show, so you know it's good: THE REVEREND AL SHARPTON ISN'T HERE!
- To bring the room down for a moment, from 1970: one of Mr. Rogers' fish dies, and Fred talks about when you lose a pet. It's as good and thoughtful as kids' TV will ever get. Part 1 and Part 2.
- And now to bring the room back up: Billy's Balloon.You will laugh.
- Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Heroes
- Jilted John - Jilted John: the damndest thing I've seen all month...dig that guy doing the hand jive.
- Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
- Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit: I couldn't resist...Kurt and Co. found out they were going to be be miming to a prerecorded track, but the producers trusted him to do live vocals. Oh, those naieve bastards...
- Manic Street Preachers - Faster: The story behind this clip's a keeper, too..."The most complaints the show received for a single episode was in 1994 when Manic Street Preachers performed their song "Faster" in a manner that was seen as intimidating and featured lead singer James Dean Bradfield wearing a balaclava such as would be worn by an IRA terrorist." Very tasteful, that.
- Oasis - Lyla: From last year, Liam waits for a nice closeup to give the whole game away.
- Tom Waits "In The Neighborhood": Believe it or not, there was actually a time that MTV would PLAY something like this. That time is called "not now".
- Paul McCartney "Jenny Wren"
- Os Mutantes "Fuga No. 2": because they're doing a reunion tour of America this summer, Jack.
- France Gall "Les Sucettes": Oooookay, so innocent li'l France Gall sings a Serge Gainsbourg-penned song about lollipops that (achHEM) isn't really about lollipops. She claims she was shocked when it was pointed out to her, but LOOK AT THIS VIDEO. Damn, that's some phallic candy.
- Francoise Hardy "L'amitie": I haven't clue one as to what she's singing, and I assure you I don't give a damn.
- Jacques Brel "Ne Me Quitte Pas": He sings the holy hell out of this song. Makes the Rod McKuen version seem a bit shallow.
- Scott Walker's version of "Jackie", another guy you've never heard of. Just ignore that some goober didn't edit an unrelated song out of the clip before they uploaded. Or you can compare it to what he's done in recent years.
|| Eric 2:56 PM#
JEFFERTON ALIIIIIIIIIIIIclick: or "Why I have grave issues with Tom Goes To The Mayor".
My mom has always had adversarial relationship with the Andy Griffith Show. Her problem was with Sheriff Andy himself, who was way too accomodating with the flipped-out loons that surrounded him, especially the cockily overconfident Barney Fife. I never quite understood why she couldn't deal until I ran across the Adult Swim show Tom Goes To The Mayor. You'd think a show loaded with performances from the best and brighest comics of the past ten years (and whoever Tim and Eric are) would be a consistent delight. And yet, I got nothin' here.
The premise is as simple as a Roadrunner/Coyote episode: Tom Peters gets an idea that he thinks would benefit the community of Jefferton, and the wigged-out mayor either extrapolates Tom's idea into something utterly insane or merges Tom's idea with one of his mayorial project...which is invariably utterly insane.
My main issue, and where my Sherriff Taylor/Tom analogy would've broken down if I had chased it, is that Andy almost always knew when something was going south and gently tried to steer things back on course. Tom doesn't have that "problem"; openly despised by his wife and stepkids, taken advantage of by anyone and everyone, he simply takes it, then bends over and asks for more. As a rule, I have nothing against deferential characters, but Tom Peters is too much. We get it already: Tom will never win, is past winning, and invariably is willfully sabotaged when he gets the prize in his grasp. I'm assuming this is the "point", and maybe with a stronger personality at the fore I'd be on board. In fact, the ones I enjoy the most are the most atypical ones. The marathon balloon race from season one is a perfect example; Tom's gradually rising alarm as the mayor loses his mind (more than usual) is the type of character-driven conflict sorely missing from a standard episode.
The program is toploaded with grotesques; the freakishly "on" Married News Team, the troll-like harpy that is Joy Peters (she's morbidly obese, she's barely coherent, and she screams everything, and I guess that's why we're supposed to think she's funny), and various annoying one-shot characters. We do get exceptions to the rule, but not often enough.
It's kind of beside my point, but TGTTM isn't even a proper cartoon, rendered in a washed-out Xerox of still frames of the live actors performing, mixed in with actual video of them whenever the hell they feel like it. "Well, that's just their style," I've been told, but these are the same jerks who bag on Squigglevision for the laziness of the approach, so I have no sympathy whatsoever.
My mom has always had adversarial relationship with the Andy Griffith Show. Her problem was with Sheriff Andy himself, who was way too accomodating with the flipped-out loons that surrounded him, especially the cockily overconfident Barney Fife. I never quite understood why she couldn't deal until I ran across the Adult Swim show Tom Goes To The Mayor. You'd think a show loaded with performances from the best and brighest comics of the past ten years (and whoever Tim and Eric are) would be a consistent delight. And yet, I got nothin' here.
The premise is as simple as a Roadrunner/Coyote episode: Tom Peters gets an idea that he thinks would benefit the community of Jefferton, and the wigged-out mayor either extrapolates Tom's idea into something utterly insane or merges Tom's idea with one of his mayorial project...which is invariably utterly insane.
My main issue, and where my Sherriff Taylor/Tom analogy would've broken down if I had chased it, is that Andy almost always knew when something was going south and gently tried to steer things back on course. Tom doesn't have that "problem"; openly despised by his wife and stepkids, taken advantage of by anyone and everyone, he simply takes it, then bends over and asks for more. As a rule, I have nothing against deferential characters, but Tom Peters is too much. We get it already: Tom will never win, is past winning, and invariably is willfully sabotaged when he gets the prize in his grasp. I'm assuming this is the "point", and maybe with a stronger personality at the fore I'd be on board. In fact, the ones I enjoy the most are the most atypical ones. The marathon balloon race from season one is a perfect example; Tom's gradually rising alarm as the mayor loses his mind (more than usual) is the type of character-driven conflict sorely missing from a standard episode.
The program is toploaded with grotesques; the freakishly "on" Married News Team, the troll-like harpy that is Joy Peters (she's morbidly obese, she's barely coherent, and she screams everything, and I guess that's why we're supposed to think she's funny), and various annoying one-shot characters. We do get exceptions to the rule, but not often enough.
It's kind of beside my point, but TGTTM isn't even a proper cartoon, rendered in a washed-out Xerox of still frames of the live actors performing, mixed in with actual video of them whenever the hell they feel like it. "Well, that's just their style," I've been told, but these are the same jerks who bag on Squigglevision for the laziness of the approach, so I have no sympathy whatsoever.
|| Eric 2:16 PM#
