These Things
The video for She Wants Revenge’s These Things. Featuring the always incredible Shirley Manson.
Found via Amber Rose
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Izzard
Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill, via Videosift
I’ve seen Eddie Izzard twice in concert. His 1998 show, Dress to Kill (shot in San Francisco), incredible. Found the complete video online (above). He’s one of the best comedians working today.
And, just released on DVD is Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story (below), a new documentary about his life and career. Website here. Order here.
Do I use some of his schtick in my history class? Of course. Do I do it as well? Not by a long shot.
Greatness happens with Eddie and Craig Ferguson riff off each other. Here’s a clip from last year: part one and part two.
‘Grandpa fuckin spaceshuttle’
In honor of Fuck Week, here’s some highlights from the Engrish blog.
Actual products from Asian countries where English, of course, is not the primary language. For teens, for babies, for grandpa.
Regular Engrish site here. Adult content site here.
‘He’s my favorite honky’
Steve Martin, 1972
When I was a kid, my dad bought me a huge stack of comedy albums at a garage sale.
Bill Cosby. Bob Newhart. Bill Dana. Old radio shows with Abbot & Costello, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Stan Freberg. Alan Sherman. George Carlin. Redd Foxx. Stiller and Meara. Jonathan Winters. Richard Pryor. Robert Klein. The Smothers Brothers.
Steve Martin changed the game when he arrived on the scene.
He threw out all the rules. In school, a bunch of us recreated his 1978 single, King Tut, as a dance number.
Here’s Martin in headdress, in concert with Henry Winkler:
Steve Martin, 1979
This was the album to own:
A few years ago, Martin finally wrote an autobiography of his standup career – which had gotten so big, he was selling out stadiums. Then one night, he quit. Jumped into acting and was mum on the whole standup thing. Only referred to it once, on a episode of Saturday Night Live, stating, ‘that was the old me.’
It was wild and crazy.
Steve Martin, 1979
Tonite: Slaughter, mayhem and lasers
Sacramento’s Town House Lounge, photo by Tom Spaulding
In the shadow of the California State Assembly is Sacramento’s Fuck Fridays at the TownHouse Lounge.
Tonite: DJs Shaun Slaughter/Jon Droll, Short Circuit, a Cops and Robbers theme and one of the best fucking signs anywhere (above).
More info via Twitter, MySpace or Facebook.
And
Check out Tom Spaulding’s incredible Sacramento Signs Flickr set here.
Digital graffiti at the Olympic Village
‘Canada’s home grown electro kings Holy FUCK lend their funk to this incredible snippet of the digital graffiti out of the olympic village. A huge backlit projection was set up in conjunction with photoshop and given to a group of anti-athletes’
Presented by Chairman Ting and Tangible interaction.
Snag Holy Fuck’s tracks here. MySpace here.
Found via YRB Magazine
Four letter film
‘This challenging and provocative documentary takes a look on all sides of the infamous F-word. Its taboo, obscene and controversial, yet somehow seems to permeate every single aspect of our culture – from Hollywood . . . to the schoolyard to the Senate floor in Washington D.C.’
More about Steve Anderson’s 2006 FUCK film here. MySpace here. Grab it on Amazon here.
Mapping the body
‘And no matter what the locals tell you, don’t take the pink line to the yellow line.’ –Gizmodo
Speaking of the Underground, here’s Sam Lomen’s Underskin.
Found via Justin Nelson
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