April 28, 2011
August 3, 2010
New Yorker Cartoons captioned with Kanye West Tweets
http://twitpic.com/tag/kanyenewyorkertweets
July 12, 2010
Lou Zoom
I'm still waiting for the 'Nico ToDo list' manager. Built in alarm for Sunday 8am.
June 15, 2009
"Writing a song about Pirates called 'Capture my Heart'."
http://twitter.com/BrookeHogan
A marketing friend of mine registered this early and has 58k+ followers. It's usually predictable stuff so as not to be obvious it's fake. But occasionally there's a Pink Floyd quote or a reference to an 1800's French philosopher he'll find on Wikipedia.
May 5, 2009
Maybe not the "King of Beers" but the heart is in the right place.
I like the comment
"A commercial starring 2 of the best products this planet has ever produced. cant go wrong with that. "
January 1, 2009
Phil Collins Gorilla British Cadbury spot
You may have already told me about this, but I just wanted to make sure you'd seen it:
November 14, 2008
Donald Fagen Defends Steely Dan To Friends
"No way you'd be saying this crap if you'd seen Steely Dan play live as many times as I have," Fagen reportedly told his companions after purchasing them a second round of drinks. "Plus [Steely Dan cofounder] Walter Becker is a super nice guy."
In The Onion.
October 16, 2008
DBMBT! New texting abbreviations!
On FMU blog.
October 11, 2008
MovableType has a theme called "Cityscape Houston"
So of course that must be sneetard's design theme, at least for a while.
August 27, 2008
Schoenberg's 2nd Viennese school: And, If You Act Now!
From Alex Ross's blog: a 1977 very funny "ad" for the greatest hits of "Arnie" and Webern and Berg. You vill enjoy! (It's from Cleveland in 1977, so just think of the other dissonant music with a sense of humor was in the air at the time.)
August 5, 2008
Link Wray, el mejor !
If you place &fmt=18 at the end of a youtube url you'll get a higher quality version of the file. Unless of course it's a video tape of a TV screen's 1978 broadcast of Link Wray. (El Mejor!)
July 16, 2008
It's like modern dance or something.
June 18, 2008
the Trons - self playing robot band
One of the comments is 'I want to sleep with the drummer."
June 5, 2008
Perhaps the greatest single video on YouTube
To hold that opinion, it helps if you were 10 years old when this was on TV.
May 12, 2008
Wanted: Britons to represent Europe in space
April 27, 2008
Rush album title generator
Lost Rush Albums e.g. The Telltale Galactic, Changing Receivers, Radio Free Shaman.
April 21, 2008
"Quincy" opening with lyrics
And sung with a lot of heart.
March 7, 2008
Garfield without Garfield
The introduction from the Garfield minus Garfield page:
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against lonliness in a quiet American suburb.
February 21, 2008
White Klingon
January 18, 2008
Animatronic talking Elvis
Only $349!
Media about media about media.
January 9, 2008
Drunk History
Remember your friend's idea for a Drunk Cookbook? Check out Drunk History.
December 30, 2007
Excellent ebay item
December 12, 2007
Only the french..
Start at around 2:20.
November 15, 2007
Glasgow Senior Citizens Reenact Iconic Moments of the 20th Century
September 28, 2007
Riddle Me This
Lots of great Batiana at a recent FMU weblog posting. The best are Gorshin novelty single, Bert ward Screen test, and B and R try to save ABC's new fall lineup (which includes Milton Berle looking at the camera and saying "Holy Affiliate!")
August 1, 2007
Did you mean: "Harry Potter"
A Google search for "Hairy Potter" gets over 58,000 hits.
On that topic, the "Extras" episode with Daniel Radcliffe is very funny.
July 17, 2007
Mr. Picassohead
June 20, 2007
Je Suis Le Metal Detector
May 19, 2007
Dali Sells Out
May 18, 2007
You ought to be in pictures.
One in six are pretty weird.flickrvision (beta)
April 13, 2007
YouTube search of the week: David Bowie Dinah Shore
Try it. Note that the results take two pages. From the sublime to the ridiculous:
March 16, 2007
George Martin kidnaped, Dylan Hears a Who
New from FMU:
The skit of George Martin kidnapped by terrorists is very funny. I don't suppose the research for his lines was very difficult.
dylanhearsawho.com great imitation of Blond on Blond era Dylan, "lyrics copyright Dr. Seuss."
March 8, 2007
churchsigngenerator.com
March 3, 2007
Becoming a Licensee
Becoming a Licensee: If you're going to sell something with Elvis's picture on it, here is your first stop. The second stop is the PDF form, which is worth looking over. (Lansky Brothers was the pimp-oriented clothing store where Elvis bought his clothes; " B. B. King later recalled how he’d often bump into the teenage Elvis at Lansky’s.")
February 24, 2007
Austrian music at Stratton, weird enough for FMU
From the country that give us Hitler and Schwarzenegger, via Stratton Mountain:
All the ingredients are there: Austrian, Emo, Stratton, Ricolah-like big horns. Note their multi-tract recording (sic). I have to wonder about the song "Auf der Autobahn." I wonder if Dad had any contact with them in his Stratton days?
February 15, 2007
Hairstyle Names from 70s Ebony Ad
I like The Perfecto.
meathaus looks like another blog that could really suck up a lot of time if I don't forget about it right away.
February 8, 2007
Not the Raybeats or the Beatles
Paris au hiver.
January 3, 2007
Not the Beatles
More FMU blog stuff: Anthony Newly singing Within You Without You from a 1977 TV special. "I think the greatest reason for the classic quality of the Beatles' music is that they were constantly experimenting, striving for change. Each song brought new growth, new meaning." It's particularly funny if you keep in mind that Bowie has cited him as an influence. The ending of the TV show is also pretty surreal. I'm sure Percy Thrillington enjoyed it.
Also, check out Cook and Moore's excellent Beatles parody. They said it was supposed to be a Beach Boys parody, and it sounds more like Smile (in February of 67!) than anything, but their accents make it sound it more like the Beatles.
January 2, 2007
Excellent set of New Years resolutions
Paul Ford's New Years resolutions. I'm surprised he didn't submit them to McSweeney's. They would have loved it.
October 26, 2006
Bollywood version of "Thriller" video
on YouTube. From about 1:14 to to 1:17, it sounds like something off of 99 Records.
Also, don't miss Martin Scorse's Sesame Street.
October 11, 2006
Iggy and the (reunited) Stooges contract rider
backstage requirements, etc. Some selections:
Iggy's dressing room needs typical stuff and:
Somebody dressed as Bob Hope, Doing fantastic Bob Hope impersonations and telling all those hilarious Bob Hope jokes about golf and Hollywood and Bing Crosby.
dressing room two:
1 x case of big bottles of good, premium beer.
You decide. But remember, I might ask you to taste a bottle, so buy something nice!! Here's a clue - it's probably won't start with a letter "B" and end with "udweiser"
September 26, 2006
Willie's Weed
I wonder how the people at Ziploc feel. (I don't know why the picture's not showing up here; click here if not.)
September 13, 2006
How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger
September 11, 2006
Louis Armstong's version of "Oops, I Did It Again"
September 6, 2006
Fake Paris booklets replace real thing
September 1, 2006
Sudoku Toilet Paper
![[Sudoku toilet paper]](http://www.gadgets.dk/images/Sudoku_2.jpg)
August 24, 2006
Photoshop makes it difficult to believe anything anymore, but...
August 3, 2006
July 20, 2006
25 Biggest Wussies in Rock and Roll
The 25 Biggest Wusses … Ever! One of many great lines: "[Graham] Nash is the Ned Flanders of rock & roll, mustache included."
April 26, 2006
Catching up with FMU's weblog
It had been a while. First, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, rocking with her white SG Custom.
Next, Clown Ministry: advice for beginning Christian clowns on dos and don'ts when visiting nursing homes. Seriously.
Human Feedback Machine: a guy covered with microphones walks into a room full of cranked-up speakers attached to those mics. Really cool.
Finally, the Velvet Underground on Lawrence Welk. I think they're lip synching, because it sounds just like the record. It's nice to see Cale front and center for once.
April 17, 2006
Cowsills video: Folsom Prison Blues
March 29, 2006
Chewie's Blog
March 7, 2006
Band sues Warner Bros: "Don't call us a Christian band"
March 5, 2006
Thomas Kinkade, not so bad after all
This story has everything you could want: heckling Sigfried and Roy, pissing on Winnie the Pooh at Disney World...
February 10, 2006
Brian Wilson's First Five Suggestions for the Name of the Album that would be Called "Pet Sounds"
February 3, 2006
Kurt Cobain does Ian Curtis does Kurt Cobain
See http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/01/kurt_cobain_doi.html.
Very funny.
January 19, 2006
Celebrity childrens book authors part XXXIX
So Alice is reading some book and like a good parent I take a look to see what it looks like and who wrote it. One word: "Ayyyyyy." http://www.hankzipzer.com/authors.html This is the second one she's read in the series, and she really likes it.
January 11, 2006
Great for curious kids!
January 9, 2006
Bone Fone Redux
January 6, 2006
If you liked Planet of the Apes
Then Walmart recommends...
nice stage banter collection
Shut Up and Play, Volume 1. I think someone should contribute some Ace Frehley to his collection before he gets to Volume 2.
I also think I had the volume on my PC up too loud during the infamous Freddy Hubbard entry, which I'd heard before. Someone was walking by my office and hopefully had the discretion to ignore what she heard.
December 30, 2005
December 29, 2005
Swedish for "opening act"
I can't put it better than the caption of drawing 2 by Teo Wei Yong.
I just like saying "yngwie.org" out loud over and over, like a mantra.
December 15, 2005
A new and exciting twist in bobbleheads
November 29, 2005
Weird Ebay Art!
November 17, 2005
Jospeh Sadler's views on Metropolis as Jungle analogy
November 8, 2005
I found my 50 cents on Benny Hill
November 2, 2005
Ween: "Rejected Pizza Hut Jingle"
http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/BL/0511/Ween_-_Pizza_Hut_Ad.mp3
To promote the cheese being inside the crust.
October 24, 2005
Leonard Cohen's Seven Immutable Laws of Business
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/21KenKrimstein.html
My favorite:
Scrap all the words like "maximize," "incentivize," "amortize," "enhance," "enable," and "team-building" from your vocabulary and replace them with "sorrow."