Monthly Archive for December, 2007

The Nuclear War Dance Party

Years ago, I compiled a list of songs about that perennial 80s subject nuclear war. Every retarded emo kid these days thinks that the songs on this list are mere novelties, having never known what it was like to grow up expecting the world to end any day. In 1989, I watched the Berlin Wall collapse and it was an immense relief off my shoulders as nuclear conflict seemed so far away. Sadly now, in the 21st century, the era I never thought I’d live to see, we have the exact same problems: too many nukes and too many assholes in political power.  So, as a tribute that long gone zeitgeist which is making a frightening comeback, I present my Nuclear War Dance Party, a work in three movements:

Movement 1: Watching the Skies, Expecting the Worse

This is where it begins: en media res, The Soviets and The Gipper are ready to have the big dukeroo, any day now we expect to hear the air raid sirens going off, the panic in the streets. On our TV are movies like Miracle Mile. Everyone is trying to party at ground zero, hold your darling tight, you can just feel the probabilities pulling us apart.

  • Alphaville - Forever Young
  • The Clash - London Calling
  • Sting - The Russians
  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes
  • REM - It’s the End of the World as We Know it
  • Fishbone - Party At Ground Zero
  • The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes
  • Edwin Starr - War
  • Psychic TV - Eve Ov Destruction
  • U2 - Seconds
  • Culture Club - The War Song
  • Timbuk3 - The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades
  • Peter Tosh - No Nuclear War
  • Men At Work - It’s a Mistake
  • The Cure - Strange Day
  • Orchestral Maneuvers In the Dark - Enola Gay
  • Nena - 99 Luftballoons
  • Anne Clarke - Poem for a Nuclear Romance

Movement 2: Apocalyspe

The first impact and everything after. The Russkies called our bluff or President Ray-Gun called theirs. Everything is afire and dying.

  • The Weirdos - We Got the Neutron Bomb
  • The Dead Kennedys - Kill the Poor
  • KMFDM - A Drug Against War
  • The Electric Six - Nuclear War (On the Dance Floor)
  • Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral
  • Metallica - Blackened
  • Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train

Movement 3: Nuclear Winter

The coda to this piece, it’s downtempo, post-nuclear fallout wind down. Everyone has radiation sickness so there’s no fast tempos or anything. On our TVs are Threads, the Day After, When the Wind Blows and The Terminator.

  • Kate Bush - Breathing
  • The Comsat Angels - After the Rain
  • Morrissey - Everyday is like Sunday
  • Sun Ra - Nuclear War

At some point the music dies and we all shiver as we slowly die of radiation poisoning.

Bitch of the Day: Zooey Deschanel

Yeah, it’s another BotD right after someone else posts a BotD.

I guess there’s just a lot of bitches in the world.  What can I say.

So Zooey Deschanel…

What can I say about her?  Well, uhh, she’s fuckin’ hot…

You might remember her as Andy’s murderous psycho bitch girlfriend Kat from Weeds…

Or Anita from Almost Famous…

Let’s see, what else is there to say.  Well unsurprisingly she’s named after a charcter from J.D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey, the book everyone who read Catcher in the Rye meant to getting around to but never read.

It’s pronounced Zoo-ie.  You know, like Zoo, that movie about Mr. Hands getting his colon perforated to death by getting raped up the ass by a horse.

Yeah, I’ve got nothing left to say about this bitch.  Now I can’t get the image of Mr. Hands getting assraped out of my head.

peep this shit, yo!

http://anime.fails.org/hannah_montana_sextape.wmv

I Hate You Deeply

This is probably going to be the first part in long, continuing series that’ll run probably forever: the people that I presently cannot stand at all.

People who listen to “Blues” or “Jazz” exclusively and never shut the fuck about it.

I don’t have anything against enjoying either genre of music. I own a fair amount of jazz records. Miles Davis’ “Bitches Brew” is one of my favorite albums. But goddamn, I hate these fucking idiots. All they do is babble on and on about how [insert genre here] is the only “real” music and how that all current music is descended from this genre. No new music is good enough for these losers. Point out anything positive by a band in the past 30 years and you’ll get some asinine argument about how it doesn’t compare to a real jazz or blues jam session and how that’s more important that silly things like structure, technical skill or the ability to write a good song.

White kids who think they’re thugs. AKA “wiggers”.

wiggers.jpgWhat pisses me off is how they glorify the most banal and ridiculous aspects of black culture, e.g. thug life, and ignore the rest. And what gets to me the most is that I’ve read Langston Hughes and Toni Morrison; I own a fair amount of jazz, soul and funk albums; I’ve watched Roots; Richard Pryor is probably my favorite comedian ever; I enjoy soul food and I sincerely doubt if any of these wiggity white boys i see hanging out at the local high school have done so. Do I think I understand black America because of this? Not at all, if anything I’ve realized that there’s a much larger racial divide than I saw before. Do I hate hip hop? No, I’m just annoyed by how its lamest element has become the dominant pop culture meme. In short, I hate stupid white boys.

Douchebags who are “into” cars

honda-ricer.jpgand treat you like you’re some retard and/or homosexual for having your oil changed instead of doing it yourself. As if there’s nothing better to do on a Saturday than spend it changing the oil on my car.

Christians who think that science is debatable.

jesus.jpgNo, you morons, scientific theories come from years of research, observation and experiments, and are based on documented observation of repeatable phenomena and experiments that are performed under strict controls. Intelligent Design is NOT a theory, it is a hypothesis. Anyone can make a valid hypothesis on any asinine, impossible idea and it’s still valid as a hypothesis. Theory on the other hand refers to a hypothesis that has been tested and shows substantial empirical evidence that it is factual. Evolution is called a theory because of this. What’s really annoying is these morons want to debate science, but allow for no debate into the factuality of the bible.

Girls in college who make up their own asinine majors and think they’re oh so special for it.

hippie-girl.jpg“I’ve made up my own major where I study the history of oppressed people and their pottery!” What’s worse is they act like their retarded major is a perfectly fine career path and that others with more practical majors are “never going to get a job”. NEWSFLASH: worthless made up majors from a liberal arts college won’t even get you a job at McDonald’s, that Graphic Design or Computer Information Systems major? There’s whole sections on job listings for them.

Morons who make a big deal out of being 1/16th native American.

village-people.jpgIf you’ve actually been raised in the culture, I don’t have a problem with you, but what I can’t stand are the people who are for all intents and purposes white, but they make a big deal out of some minor native blood in a far off family tree branch. Technically I’m 1/16th Spanish, but I never bother to tell anyone this except if it’s a detailed discussion of genealogy because such heritage has had ZERO impact on my life. All I know about Spanish culture I learned in my high school Spanish class.

icecube.jpgWhite kids who spell “America”, “AmeriKKKa”. Ice Cube is allowed to continue with this usage, however.

People who use the term “sheeple”.

People who are proud about not having a cellphone/email address and WILL NOT SHUT UP ABOUT IT.

Hippies who are constantly ruining it for us more mainstream progressives.

No, your fucking “Bush = Hitler” sign will not reach out to Middle America at all, you fucking asshat. All you’re doing is giving Fox News material to run “look at these asshole liberals” segments.

Dipshit hipsters and retarded emo kids who think that they can be graphic designers just because it sounds like a cool job.

STOP CLOGGING UP HR DIRECTORS’ INBOXS WITH YOUR RESUMES OF FAILURE.

Katrina (Katie) Bowden

Katrina Bowden

Holy hot chick.  Born September 19, 1988 in Wyckoff, New Jersey.  Most famous for her role as Cerie in the TV series 30 Rock.  Not too much info out there about Katrina, as she seems to have pretty much just started off her acting career.  You can bet we’ll see a lot more of her in the future.  Here’s a couple hot shots from 30 Rock.

Katrina Bowden - Skimpy outfit 1Katrina Bowden - Skimpy outfit 2

“w00t” crowned word of year by U.S. dictionary

Was it really coined by online gamers?  Anyways [yahoo news]

Approval for the first LSD psychotherapy study in 35 years

LSD-assisted Psychotherapy Research in Switzerland

On December 5, Dr. Peter Gasser received the final permission for his MAPS-sponsored LSD/end-of-life anxiety study! He had previously received approval from Swissmedic (Swiss FDA) and a Swiss Ethics Committee (see this letter). This approval marks the completion of the initial phase of the psychedelic research renaissance, which has been building slowly since 1990.  [MAPS]

Cops pull plug on cabaret club serving pee on the rocks, plates of pubes

“As soon as you enter the club, a hostess will give you a hot towel that she has already used to swipe her private parts. You can start fondling the hostesses’ breasts as soon as you sit down, but that’s nothing. You immediately get a drink, but it’s a hostess’s urine served on the rocks. They also serve tidbits sprinkled with cuttings of the workers’ pubic hair,” the employee of an adult entertainment introduction service tells Shukan Jitsuwa. “They also had a service where the ice served in drinks is first inserted into the hostess’s private parts. They just kept on getting wilder and wilder and I think they went too far in the end.”  [Mainichi Daily News]

Rowtow’s Top Music Videos of 2007

5. Collarbone
Okay, I’ll admit, this video starts off a little gay. But holy shit, keep watching, these guys are psychopaths…

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4. Smiley Faces
Gnarls Barkley fucking rules, and this video is just too awesome.

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3. Thou Shalt Always Kill
Scroobius Pip rocks some Streets-like droning British spoken word, while attacking your worship of your favorite bands. The Beatles were just a band… indeed.

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2. Read A Book
This definitely wins the award for the most intelligent crunk song ever written. The satirical Lil Jon-esque vocals overlaid on top of Beethoven’s 5th represent a new level of intellectual artistry in rap. Oh yeah… buy some land… fuck spinnin’ rims.

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1. What What (In The Butt)
There’s just too much to love in this song. The breathing mouth-heart. The cheesy graphics. The buttsex with the wildly flailing censorship boxes. Oh, and the title.

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Debra Jean LaFave

Debra Lafave

This hot, bipolar chilmo teacher was born on August 28th, 1980 in Riverview, Florida. I’m sure you all know that she was charged with statutory rape back in 2004. Read the police report here, it’s pretty damn detailed. What was that kid thinking? He had it made. A 14 year old with straight A’s and blowjobs, c’mon dude. He’s probably kicking himself now, so I won’t give him too much shit. At any rate, she manged to fuck up her probation by simply talking to a 16 year old female co-worker. I don’t really see how you’re supposed work in the restaurant business without getting to know your co-workers a little bit, so I think this whole thing is crap. Oh, and Nick Carter from The Backstreet Boys claims to have lost his virginity to Debra in school.

Colorado liquor stores open on Sundays?

Looks like getting rid of Blue Laws in Colorado might actually be a possibility come 2008.  [thedenverchannel]

Kill Ugly Radio

Kill Ugly Radio - Lagunitas Brewing Co.

I’m typically a sucker for a good booze label, and it usually results in some relatively crappy booze in the bottle.  As a Frank Zappa fan, this label could have easily sold me a bomber of Jenkem.  From Lagunitas Brewing Company, this IPA actually turned out to be pretty darn good.  Packing a 7.8% ABV, slightly harsh, yet fruity pine flavor, this ended up being a good purchase.  I’ll definitely be checking out more brews from Lagunitas in the future.

Charlotte Rae Lubotsky

Charlotte Rae

That’s right, Mrs. Edna Garrett, the house mother from The Facts of Life yo. Born April 22, 1926. Thanks for all the lulz, Charlotte Rae. Couldn’t find any nudes :(

Fort Collins police return dead pot plants to couple

More than three dozen marijuana plants seized by authorities from a Fort Collins couple were returned to them dead today by police.”  [denverpost]

Crazy Daft Punk Chix

Golgo showed me this, purdy coo

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