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Beyond Good and Emo

  1. In Origins of Superheroes news: Climber guy freezes lower legs off, learns how to make prosthetics, designs new artificial knee, rebuilds his legs better than before, is now 8 feet tall..
  2. In Science Proves What We All Knew news, USC researchers find that pathological liars have extra brain material to help them keep track of all that bullshit.
  3. If you haven’t seen it, the video for Coil’s 1986 version of “Tainted Love” is amazing. Thanks to transbuddha for reposting it.
  4. Elegant, sophisticated, rebellious, and eternally fashionable: Black toilet paper.
  5. The Who has been a tragic joke for years, and now the inevitable biopic approaches. Click to find out just how bad it will be!
  6. Tom Coates finally had the first contact in 28 years with his father, and made an eloquently emotional blog post about it. Because this is the Internet, the next thing that happened was that ad agency stooges trolled his blog for a product promo. And then he tracked them down.
  7. Our governator won’t permit gay marriage. Could this be because he’s a RETIRED MANWHORE? Maybe he and Jeff Gannon can get together to “pump us up”.

Purchase sampler: I buy, you win.

I got my package from Aquarius Records, including the new Jello/Melvins opus, the 1981 L.A. no wave/postpunk compilation “Keats Rides a Harley”, a two volume set of Tibetan Buddhist rituals, some pipe organ madness, and the Jack Palance album. It’s everything I can handle, and more!

Here’s a sampler of mp3 from each. Links likely to expire, please mirror if you want to spread, etc.

Jello Biafra & The Melvins Kali-Fornia Uber Alles 21st Century (Live). Everyone made the lame joke about the DKs redoing “California Uber Alles” after we got governated. Jello and the Melvins did it, and very very well. There are better tracks on this CD but here’s the crowd pleaser.

Jack Palance, Hannah Jack talks his way through one hell of a tearjerker country ballad in his very best psychotic murderer voice. This will either be much better or much worse if you’re drunk or tired. Let me know.

100 Flowers, Salmonella (from Keats Rides a Harley compilation) This compilation came out in ’81 and has a load of L.A. weirdos I used to know: Leaving Trains, the 100 Flowers/Danny and the Doorknobs axis, the Meat Puppets, all doing weird underproduced stuff. It’s really good, especially for people with obsessive interest in underground rock of the early 1980s. Hello, obnoxicant? Twenty years later people called this music “Indie” but it was dead by then.

Georges Montalba, The Washington Post March PIPE. ORGAN. MADNESS!

Long Trumpets Auspicious Ending from the Tibetan Buddhist Rituals set. No one makes a really long series of honking noises sound as cool as Tibetan Buddhist monks. I want these guys to play my wedding.

Pissing Contest, Czech Republic

Pissing Contest in Bronze

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The idea is disarmingly simple. Two bronze sculptures pee into their oddly-shaped enclosure.

While they are peeing, the two figures move realistically. An electric mechanism driven by a couple of microproccesors swivels the upper part of the body, while the penis goes up and down. The stream of water writes quotes from famous Prague residents.

Visitor can interupt them by sending SMS message from mobile phone to a number, displayed next to the sculptures. The living statue then ‘writes’ the text of the message, before carrying on as before.

via bruisedhips

The X-Files meets Reno 911

From Chuck Shepherd’s News of the Weird blog, the usual stolen ambulance with high speed chase, driver dressed in medical outfit, dead deer in the back hooked up to IV. You know.

turnip: This guy is from Jax. You party with him?

Davidson County, NC — We have new and bizarre details about the man accused of stealing a Davidson county ambulance and strapping a week-old deer carcass to the gurney. Investigators say Leon Hollimon stole the ambulance and led police on a three-county chase this past weekend. When they caught him, he was wearing a stethoscope, pager and had two latex gloves in his back pocket. The deer was attached to an IV. Investigators say they’re not sure where Hollimon is from, but he has a large number of arrests in the Jacksonville, Florida area and may be from there. They say they don’t yet know how he ended up in Lexington.

He’s currently having a mental evaluation at a state hospital in Butner.

The Ballad of Jesse Frederick

This is a marvellously obsessive guide to the career of the guy who wrote the themes to “Family Matters”, “Full House”, “Step By Step”, and “Perfect Strangers”.

There are far, far too many mp3s. I also found out that Mr. Frederick did the theme to a show from 1997 in which Bronson Pinchot played a space alien named “Meego”. I never thought Lovecraft was adaptable to sitcoms!

Via the always worthwhile waxy links, syndicated here as waxy_org

Codex Psychoceramianus

Via torgo_x; crossposted to

Jim Marshall insists that he has decoded the Codex Seraphinianus of Luigi Serafini. Whether or not there was a code in this bizarre, beautiful work of art is not known to me. What’s certain is that Mr. Marshall has mixed psychoceramic genius with the “Da Vinci Code” phenomenon and created his own work of art.

http://www.cr.cx/seraphinianus/codex/index.html

“I believe that the Rosetta Stones found on the pages mentioned above were meant for other audiences and not for the human race at this time!”

[…]

“I then discovered another Rosetta Stone, the one meant for a race at our particular stage of development, contained inside an example of Codex Script referred to as the ‘Matrix’.”

[…]

” Character for O – not sure. ( alien input ? )”