Category Archives: Hardy Har Har
Music Box: Out Of The Frying Pan, Into The ARCADE FIRE
Arcade Fire | The Suburbs
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They remain one of the few hipster “cult” bands who deserve the (sorta) mainstream success that they’ve (sorta) acquired. But how “cult” is a band, really, when your last two CDs lived at the upper realms of Billboard’s Top 200 album charts? Their 2007 release, NEON BIBLE, debuted and peaked at #2 – and their recent Grammy Winning ALBUM OF THE YEAR release, THE SUBURBS, debuted at the zenith of the charts.
I had a hearty laugh (as I always do at a hipster’s expense) at this video.
And (Someone) Said, “Let There Be Facebook!”
I found these “early” status updates this afternoon on Facebook and thought they were hilarious. I’m not sure who created them, but, damn, he/she is brilliant (if you know the mind behind this, please let me know so I could update this post with the proper credit):
Honesty Is The Best Policy. Dude.
Pussy Hates Bieber
And I know exactly how the pussy feels.
Imma Let You Finish, But Kanye West Has Some Of The Most Random Tweets Of All Time…Of ALL TIME
I can’t imagine any one of his 400,000+ Twitter followers (including yours truly) not having a chuckle or two (or twenty) at his oddball stream-of-consciousness (and, natch, pompous) tweets, – which are more akin to Tracy Morgan’s 30 ROCK Tracy Jordan persona than he’d probably ever like to admit – but suppose Kanye West’s twitter posts were matched with New Yorker cartoons…
Well, that’s what the funny guys at PAUL AND STORM imagined…and executed:
Yes, it’s true: Paul created the #kanyenewyorkertweets Twitter hashtag meme. We’re seriously thinking about changing the name of our act to The Meme Brothers.
Hot on the heels of Storm’s #wookieeleaks juggernaut, Paul’s insomnia and subsequent Twitter exchange with Josh Cagan led him to launch #newyorkerkanyetweets, a mashup of New Yorker cartoons and Twitter n00b Kanye West’s tweets. An e-mail interview with Paul about the meme’s appeal can be found at Urlesque.com, and already it’s been picked up by The Onion A/V Club, Paste Magazine the Huffington Post, and, yes, The New Yorker.
Check ‘em out on Twitter, or in this handy gallery of mashups by Paul, Josh, and Storm…
Here are a few that are pretty darned perfect (I love that they kept all West’s typos intact):
“STRAIGHT. It’s the new GAY”
I’ve never heard of Steve Hughes before coming across this clip posted by one of my Facebook groups, WIPEOUT HOMOPHOBIA ON FACEBOOK, and according to his Wikipedia page, he was a member/founder of various thrash metal bands through the 80s and 90s in his native Australia. Such genre bands are not exactly the bastions of thought-provoking tolerance, nor, I surmise, fun-loving, daffy, slap-my-knee hilarious all-inclusive jesters. Knowing his history after-the-fact, it came as a delightful surprise at how funny Hughes is. After watching this clip, I found myself spelunking YouTube for other Hughes posts, which are aplenty, and I’ve been laughing all morning.
In this clip, focusing on the hard-edged, fag-bashing culture that is Thrash Metal, the heterosexual Hughes makes the brilliant distinction between what is considered to be “gay” and what constitutes pure masculinity. You might be surprised at how correct he is.
Could “That’s so straight!” be the new “That’s so gay!”? Or as Hughes more steadfastly puts it, “Straight. It’s the new gay.”
I Vant To Suck Your…Blood?
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Long averted to the vampire craze that has permeated the Pop Culture landscape more prevalently these past few years than ever before, friends of mine have been insisting that for the past 2 years I have no idea what I’ve been missing (even while sympathizing with my derision for the two polluted, putrid TWILIGHT films).
But I had to chuckle at HBOs newest promo “poster” for the upcoming 3rd season of its popular TRUE BLOOD series. Always with its prescient eye on the argot, HBO utilizes, cleverly, the omnipresent acronym for, well, you know.
Sadly, though, it’s not enough to persuade me to actually watch the show.
They Are The World
I say lesbian fetus Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Joe Jonas and all the auto-tuned train-wrecks can eat shit. THIS is THE definitive WE ARE THE WORLD 2010! (Even though it was posted in 2009…) Methinks that much more money could’ve been raised for Haiti if the geniuses forewent the disastrous official vid.
Just Say No (Pants On The Ground Edition)
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via NY1:
State Senator Eric Adams is launching a campaign to discourage kids from wearing saggy pants.
The Brooklyn lawmaker released a YouTube video over the weekend to encourage younger people to demonstrate their confidence by pulling up their pants and ending the sagging pants trend.
Adams also unveiled a new billboard campaign throughout the borough with phrases like “Raise your pants, raise your image!” to encourage young Brooklynites to pull their pants up.
Adams says that while kids will be kids, it’s up to adults to send the right message.
The”Stop the Sag” billboards will be installed today in several locations including Rockaway Parkway, Franklin Avenue, Nostrand Avenue and Fulton Street.
Adams says he used $2,000 in campaign funds to pay for the ads.
