Handjives for the Masses

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November 21

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Red Aunts - All Red Inside

In Bay Ridge this morning, I stopped into a Salvation Army and happened to find this gem of a CD. Back when I was in 8th Grade and I compulsively collected Epitaph Records’ “Punk-O-Rama” compilations, Red Aunts was one of the bands that I thought was too weird to listen to. Now I realize that they, along with New Bomb Turks and maybe a handful of other bands, were the only bands worth hearing (sorry, Pennywise). This album, Saltbox, has some really cool packaging, too. Check it:

November 20

16 year old me.

Cultural references to pigs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This whole page is golden, but this is my favorite line:

“The Ken Burns documentary, The Civil War, quotes U.S. President Abraham Lincoln as saying, “Too many pigs. Not enough tits,” in reference to the number of people asking him for government jobs.”

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Patti Smith Group - Pumping (My Heart)

Powerful enough to thwart its own cheesiness. And Patti Smith never looked finer than she did in the picture on this album’s sleeve.

The supposed story behind this clip from the Gong Show is that Chuck Barris (with whom I am fascinated) brought this act in to distract the censors from some of the raunchier acts he had in his show. The plan was that they would get all huffy about the simulated fellatio and ignore all the other, less offensive things he was trying to slip by. The censors, however, didn’t comprehend how dirty this was, so they let them on to do their “act” anyway. Chuck Barris was surprised but unfazed.

November 19

I hope your memory of animorphs is as good as mine, because EYE totally get this joke.

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witchhunt:

waxandmilk:

Frank Wilson - Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)

What a great song. Spank Rock samples those bells in “Sweet Talk.”

November 18

This evening a producer/writer for Saturday Night Live came to talk to my class, and it managed to convince me to watch this week’s episode. Usually this show is god-awful, but this sketch made me laugh. Even January Jones was good in it, and she can hardly speak English.

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Leftover Crack - Atheist Anthem

I was doing work late last night and this came on my iTunes shuffle and it reminded me that, hey… fuck you, world. up the punx. rules are for posers.

Hhigh-jinx:

These dudes are like considered the “dandies” of the Congo.

So Fierce.

Holy shit this is awesome It is worth living in the Congo to have the opportunity to be this cool.

November 17

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I missed three weeks of homework for my synth class. I will get a bad grade. However, I made something last week and I made something today. This audio file is me figuring out what “Convolution” means.

warm winter, wyman park.

November 16

Radiation March

Josh and I watched this video this morning as a bonus feature on the “New Gladiators” DVD. I wanted to remember it.

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Now That You’ve Gone - Delta 5

Scraped from the bottom of the incredible songs barrel.

PS. I recommend that all of you purchase an incredible songs barrel. It’s an entire barrel filled with incredible songs. They cost, like, six dollars. Worth it.

The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling

There is a whole wonderful DVD of this stuff at Video Americain that you can get and watch and enjoy for a couple of days, then return and wash your hands of it.