Comedy Gold…
I do declare I have discovered the most 80s thing in existence. This appears to be the high water mark for eightiesness. The one moment in which every 80s cliché invented is rolled together into one giant, non ironic monstrosity, after which the wave broke and stage was set for grunge and acid house to burn down the party. Essentially what you are about to see looks like a world where a Cyndi Lauper / Madonna clone and Billy Idol spend their time driving a slightly lame car through a dry ice laced cocaine factory. It’s an MTV advert for the Plymouth Duster, a car that was actually pretty cool in the early 70s, but by 1985 couldn’t be saved by a desperate attempt to surround it with every single signifier of youth cool the guys at the ad agency could rustle up. Brace yourself.
Chat Roulette + Dude Improvising Songs on the Piano= WIN
Anyone want to know what my life is like?
It’s almost exactly like this:
With thanks to Louis Gaston
Welcome to the HORROR that is DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll voting season. Now is your annual opportunity to be relentlessly spammed by every frickin B list DJ on the planet, with them begging for you to vote for them. Only to be bewildered when 78 of the …winning DJs turn out to be bizzarre eastern european trance DJs you had no idea existed. With that in mind, if you actually LIKE The Young Punx, please feel free to vote for us.
I guess from the youtube views this isn’t exactly new, but its a nice inversion of all the normal rap stereotypes!
thesmokinggun.com has tracked down and published the most famous rider of them all, the one in which Van Halen famously stipulated that brown M&M’s were to be banished from the band’s dressing room. The document, also stipulated that promoters provide the group with “herring in sour cream,” four cases of “Schlitz Malt Liquor beer (16 ounce cans),” and a total of eight bottles of wine and liquor. Oh, and the band also needed “One (1) large tube KY Jelly.” The rider’s “Munchies” section was where the group made its candy-with-a-caveat request: “M & M’s (WARNING: ABSOLUTELY NO BROWN ONES).”
While the underlined rider entry has often been described as an example of rock excess, the outlandish demand of multimillionaires, the group has said the M&M provision was included to make sure that promoters had actually read its lengthy rider.
Read more and see the whole thing at http://www.thesmokinggun.com.
I’m always a fan of any cross cultural mash up, so i found a moments entertainment in this footage of a (DAMN GOOD) B Boy locking and popping to old timer blue grass music. It takes a while to get going (fast forward it), it IS an Obama activist video, and it isn’t THAT awesome, but I felt it was in the spirit of what we like round here.
Or in fact, while we are on the subject of the election (if you need any tips, vote Obama) how about a dance off between Obama and MCCain? (This is incredibly well done!)
