Play 2009 off, Keyboard Cat

This year has suuuuuuuucked...

The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

Is when the Venture Brothers' annual Christmas song is released.

Getting in a Christmas Spirit

Hanoi F'n ROCKS.

Pomplamoose - A Few Of My Favorite Things

One of my favorite things is seeing a Metafilter post about a cover of a terrible song and discovering something really wonderful. Discovering this band and Au Revoir Simone are a couple of bright spots in an otherwise crummy month.



Pomplamoose means grapefruit in French, but in my mind I see an arrogant ungulate. Yes, I know I'm weird.

Number 9/9/09

BEST BEETLES SONG EVAR



Sorry, pretty much had to.

VENTURE BROTHERS PREVIEW

SEASON 4

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

HANK HAS HAAAAAAIR

BROCK IS BAAAAAAAAALLLD

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH DEEEEEEEEEEEEAN

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Dude, did Billy Quiz Boy just get raped by Sargent Hatred? WTF?

Comic-Con Cosplay

I love this time of year. Comic-Con is happening and pics of cosplayers abound on the interwebs. Emma Frost seems to be the go-to costume for chicks wanting to show some skin this year. There's also silly, classic, clever and kickass.

My absolute favorite.

Of course this unabashed expression of nerdity always makes me think of this song by MC Frontalot:


woooo more pics now with snarky commentary

R. Crumb Genesis

R. Crumb has illustrated Genesis. He did it straight, too, which is extremely awesome. The book comes out October 19th, but you can get a sneak peek here.

(via the Blue)

Funniest thing I've seen all day

AAAAAHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA

Too true... too true...

The Pinnacle of Human Achievement

Is this. No, really.



What, I hadn't posted in over a month. I had to post something.

Animal Collective - Brother Sport

WOOO! WOOO! WOOO! WOOO! WOOO! WOOO! WOOO! WOOO! WOOO! WOOO! WOOO! WOOO! wooo WOOO! wooo WOOO! wooo WOOO! hack WOOO wooo WOOO! gaaah WOOO wooo WOOO hack wooo WOOO wooo wooo wwww Wooo wwwuh wooo Woooo! woo woo woow woo waah woo! woow wooo waaa woow aaa wwaa wooo gak wwaaa waa wow woow woow waah wow waa aaah aaa.



Goddamn I love this freaking song. If I played in the major leagues this would be my at bat music. And I'd dawdle at the plate every time just so I could hear all the woos.

Holy Crap This Is AWESOME

Seriously, it's like the Manos: The Hands of Fate of garage band videos.



I'm not being ironic here either, I had a big ol' smile on my face the whole damn time I was watching this thing. Sure, they suck, but they are sucking with honor. Beats the shit out of a Guitar Hero video, that's for sure.

Radio/Rodeo

Everything in its right place
+
Planet Telex
+
2+2=5
+
No Surprises
+
Optimistic
+
You and Whose Army?
+
Karma Police
+
Knives Out
+
Creep
+
The National Anthem
+
Morning Bell
+
How To Disappear Completely
+
Just
+
Fake Plastic Trees
+
Nice Dream
+
Paranoid Android
+
Subterranean Homesick Alien
=
Rodeohead

Royksopp - Remind Me

I always wondered what that song was in the Geico commercial.



(fantastic video, btw)

Abstruse Goose EBook

Abstruse Goose has released an EBook of cartoons. Read it and donate so his site isn't down half the time from Reddit hammering his server.

What I'm listening to right now

Bob Claster's Funny Stuff

There's a whole mess of interviews with comedy legends from Bob's radio days on there. John Cleese and Michael Palin are feeding off each other in their interview, there's cool old sketches that are very hard to find in Peter Cook's show and the Tom Lehrer program is practically a greatest hits album with commentary. If you love comedy, it's worth checking out.

Dropkick Murphys - The Spicy McHaggis Jig

Gotta have some Dropkick on St. Patty's Day.



Gotta have some Stiff Little Fingers too, come to think of it.

The Pogues can wait until Cinco De Mayo.

Hitler is not a Zach Snyder fan

I pegged Adolf as more of a Frank Miller fan, but hey, the guy is passionate about his comics.

Saturday Morning Watchmen

I'd been looking forward to the release of Watchmen for years and now that the say is here, I can't go see it. FML. At least I can watch the cartoon.

Yum

Space Invader cookies.

Maybe the best thing ever

This is funny enough, but when he pulled out the "May the farts be with you" line in the description I nearly lost it.

Happy President's Day

Meow.

The Greatest Valentines Day Comic Ever

Yes, I am strange. It's still funny, dammit.

Songs I Love

This is a list of songs I love. Not just like, I mean I want to marry these songs and bear them many children. Or at least get them for my MP3 player. This is a work in process and will probably never quite be finished. I'm adding them a few at a time as the mood strikes me. The songs I add tomorrow may be very different from the ones you see here today.

B52's - Planet Claire
B52's - Rock Lobster

Blur - Boys & Girls
Blur - Song 2

Camper Van Beethoven - Devil Song (I'll never ever find this online)
Camper Van Beethoven - Take the Skinheads Bowling
Camper Van Beethoven - Where the Hell Is Bill

Daft Punk - Around the World

Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles (WTF?)

Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard in my Back Yard (Apparently the record label has been yanking Milkmen songs on Youtube right and left- bastards)
Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl
Dead Milkmen - Stuart

Calvin Harris - Acceptable In The 80's
Calvin Harris - Neon Rocks

Kraftwerk - Die Roboter (The Robots)
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express

Motorhead - Ace of Spades

Orbital - Halcyon (+On +On) (+On)

The Pixies - Ana
The Pixies - Debaser
The Pixies - Gigantic
The Pixies - Is She Weird (I can't find my favorite version online and it's driving me nuts)
The Pixies - La La Love You
The Pixies - Motorway to Roswell
The Pixies - Subbacultcha
The Pixies - Wave of Mutalation
The Pixies - Where is My Mind
Ok, I love everything Pixies except for this overplayed crap although this is actually a pretty good version... Aw fuck it I love everything Pixies

Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen (Atlanta version!) (Motorhead version!)

They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng (Dial-A-Song version!)
They Might Be Giants - Dead
They Might Be Giants - Fingertips
They Might Be Giants - Four of Two Dial-A-Song Version

Frank Zappa - Willie the Pimp

Today, I reloaded this page 14 times

and every damn time I laughed harder. FML.

Animal FFFFFUUUUUU

Reading 4chan archive threads until you laugh so hard you puke is way better for depression than Prozac or Zoloft.

Top 3:

poot

chomp

and the one that almost made me black out

tongue

Bill Hicks on Letterman

Better late than never.

Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!

Rudy's sack on YouTube (heh) spliced together from original game film and the radio play by play.



I must confess I've never seen this movie. I'm not big on heartwarming drama. However, I am a fan of Samwise, especially since his pop was Gomez Addams. Besides, it does my Bulldog alum heart good to see someone beating Georgia Tech.

Amazing Comic

This is from the guy who created Subnormality, one of my favorite comics. One of these days I need to update all the links on the sidebar, it's like a snapshot of the stuff I was reading in 2005. Anyway, he did this comic for an anthology and it's just fantastic. Horrifying, heartbreaking, and just plain terrifying, but amazing. It reminds me a lot of some of the really good underground stuff that was created back in the late '60s/early '70s. Spiegelman, Bodé, Crumb, that kind of stuff. It's probably not safe for work, and be warned that you will greatly affected by reading this but it's well worth it.

Click

So I Changed The Name Of My Shitty Blog

It seemed like the times demanded it.

For old times' sake, here is the inspiration to the old title.

When I created the blog, that particular refrain seemed appropriate. It's a new day however, so I've decided to make the title more optimistic. Thankfully I had another inspiration for this title to make it all personal and stuff:

Hey, I just said the times had changed, I didn't say they weren't still terrifying as hell.

How To:

CREATE A LIST OF BEATLES SONGS FROM WORST TO BEST:

Step 1: Write the name of every Beatles song on its own 3 by 5 index card.

Step 2: Shuffle all the cards.

Step 3: Throw all the cards off the observatory deck of the Empire State Building.

Step 4: Search the streets of Manhattan for the cards.

Step 5: Rank the songs in the order you find the cards. The first song you find is teh suxxorz. The last card you find is the best song ever.

There you have it! Instant Beatle Song Ranking System™!

And no matter what happens, it's still better than this shitty list!

Archives completed: Questionable Content

Questionable Content

Ok fine, it's a 'romance' webcomic. It's still funny as hell and I have a tooncrush on Hanners, just like every other nerd on the interwebs. I didn't even mean to go through the whole archives, it just sorta happened. It's kinda fascinating how the art evolves on that strip... I mean, it changes so much, but you really don't notice the change and it's never really "bad" art. It's just a little more minimalist at the beginning. Still, it's a good comic and I finished the archives, which is something I haven't done with a webcomic in years. At least since Fans! and Elf Life burned my ass long ago. Maybe I should buy a shirt to celebrate. I'm thinking the Giant Isopod shirt. I feel pretty.

Gonna do Overcompensating next. I've heard Wigu is better but I have yet to read an Overcompensating comic that did not make me laugh.

Ode to Joy

Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business

I don't know what's more awesome, the song or the dude dancing in the streets of Montreal.



I actually like "Try" better, but I can't seem to find it anywhere.

My absolute favorite thing of the year

EVERY year.

The Beast's 50 Most Loathsome People In America article is out. I am happy.

Of course this means the rest of the year is completely fucking downhill like a greased elephant seal down a luge course, but I'm used to that.

And now, for no discernible reason, Radiohead.

Every Once In A While You Have To Do Stupid Shit Like This

Like stay up till 4AM reading the first 328 strips of Questionable Content while listening to random shit on YouTube. Here's my QC Soundtrack:

LA Style - James Brown Is Dead
James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine
Interpol - Evil
Mogwai - I'm Jim Morrison I'm Dead
John Vanderslice - Tablespoon of Codeine
Camper Van Beethoven - Interstellar Overdrive
Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling
Primus - Tommy The Cat
Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
Steely Dan - Black Cow
Steely Dan - Peg
Wilco - Impossible Germany
Blur - Song 2
Pixies Where is My Mind
Pixies - Motorway to Roswell
Pixies - The Sad Punk
Helmet - Unsung
Judge Dread - Big Six
The Specials - A Message To You Rudy
The Specials - Ghost Town
Modest Mouse - Float On
The Hives - Hate To Say I told You So
Louis XIV - Finding Out True Love is Blind
Soft Cell - It's a Mug's Game
Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People
Secession - The Magician
Arcade Fire - Wake Up

Several songe like Interpol and Blur I listened to multiple times. I have no idea what it means but someone, somewhere may someday figure it out.

Cat Stevens - Wild World

This is one of those songs I could put on a loop and listen to for hours.