Cleaning Out My Inbox
Special for Mom's Day: Thirstin Howl III's Still Live With My Moms: MP3
More family love with the only known excerpts from the indecent (by 2006 standards) 1921 animation by Winsor McCay, The Centaurs: [download video, 18 megs, mpg format]. More early animations here. (via del.icio.us)
The golden age of the Answer Song is long gone, but that didn't stop Dr. Bruce Thiessen from responding to Neil Young's latest album: Neil Young's Let's Impeach The President MP3 and Dr. Bruce Thiessen's Neil Young, Have You Forgotten? MP3 (via Stereogum)
Tornado in the Philipines? Landslide in Indonesia? Keep track of all your weather porn with the World Disaster Alert Map. (via fazed)
The good people of Swansea, UK would like your support in protesting the corporate fruitflingers who buried Swansea North under 8 tons of fruit pulp last February: video link. (via Tollfreedom)
Yelp along with Thelma White and her all-female big-band with a rousing 1946 rendition of Lionel Hampton's Hollywood Boogie: [download video, 7 megs, mp4 format] If it looks like the intruments are being played backwards, it's because this is a "soundie," and early video jukebox format that was shot in reverse. Another great soundie here. (via archive.org)
Downloaded by accident, but amusing nonetheless: a foul-mouthed Italian sportcaster's on-air tirades: download video, 3 megs, wmv format.
Brian Joseph Davis has another audio art project: Yesterduh, in which gallery attendees were forced at gunpoint (actually, they were paid five dollars) to sing the song Yesterday, whether or not they knew the lyrics.Here's a composite MP3, and all six more can be downloaded here.
Wondering what was in that letter from Iranian President Ahmadinejad to President Bush? Here it is.
From the World Championship of DJ'ing, it's it's.. I don't know: streaming video.
Above photo by kittenbazooka. Photos below by Anthony Kurtz:
the jesus eagle photo is from flickr user kittenbazooka
Posted by: pat | May 15, 2006 at 12:25 AM
those Anthony Kurtz images are dope
Posted by: Steve PMX | May 15, 2006 at 10:47 AM
Wow, that Italian guy is madder than a rattlesnake at a Thai wedding.
Posted by: jesu | May 15, 2006 at 01:26 PM
Jesus Christ. That Bruce Thiessen song is about the worst thing I've ever heard. I couldn't even finish it. Did I miss anything important?
Posted by: Clayton Counts | May 15, 2006 at 06:28 PM
No credits and no links make both baby Jesus AND baby eagles cry.
Posted by: kittenbazooka | May 16, 2006 at 07:00 PM
The worst you've ever heard? Seems like one poor-taste-stricken blog visitor's "worst" is another blog critics #8 best song of 2006. I'll listen to rock critic Al Barger and keep writing. Here's my latest:
I was initially overcome with worry and anxiety when the economy began to crumble. Then I decided to channel my anxiety in potentially constructive ways.
I subsequently wrote this song, a song I'm hoping raises awareness of the plight of those most directly afflicted by economic crisis:
Billy Wants a job for Christmas
Dr BLT featuring Brian Benson
http://www.drblt.net/music/BillyRockDemo2.mp3
For more information visit:
http://www.drblt.net
Posted by: Dr BLT | November 27, 2008 at 12:44 AM