I love old cigarette commercials. They are wacky. They seem to take me back to an earlier era better than any other piece of media. The way people lived. Everything from how popular music was produced to what sort of clothes people wore is all represented in these little nuggets. And after watching enough of them the very idea of smoking becomes nauseating. After a while all people do is bitch about their cigarettes. The flavor doesn't last. Menthol too strong. Not mild enough. Whine whine whine. Seems like a big drag to me. Hah, I kill me.
But maybe I watched too many? Like this poor bastard here who probably found something wacky in his tobaccy:
Look at this related series of Kool commercials and scroll down to the comments. Some guy is so pissed off for some reason that he challenges a person to a fight. In his zeal he gives out his phone number.
Click to embiggen and WTF
Yeah I guess that is what happens when you stay up too late smoking cigarettes. You go crazy. If I was drunk and all alone here I would probably call this number just to see what happens. I already put the number into google, and I won't spoil that mystery fun time for you. But man...what was in that cigarette?
You'd think I'd like this kinda crap intrinsically. I hate that 4 cello Metallica crap though, and most of these Vitamin quartet songs are not that good. But this...is good? I don't know. wat u think??
That's right, Mr. Booze is now uploading things to the webernets. My grandkids came over and helped me figure out the upspout on the pipes of the internet. So check out my youtube videos and let me know what you think.
Me playing guitar. Thrash forever baby!
Sarahbear! Love U BB!
My grandkids are always messing around and taping stuff with their digital 35mm doohickeys
Sometimes in this crazy mixed up world there are few things on which we rely. Luckily we can still rely on Danzig to make solid music with tacky videos involving strippers.
Danzig abides!
Also here is to hoping for more albums from Danzig in the vein of the last one. Though maybe on the next one he will let his grey hair come out and sing some stripped down metal ballads about growing old and bitter. Sigh...
One glass of wine too many and I ended up beyond the void in the netherworld of the webernets (thanks Carlo Rossi). First, you remember the Misfits. And you remember that they ressurected the Misfits without Danzig and put out some material that was maybe ok but nothing like the real thing. And you promptly forgot the whole ordeal. I know I did. But what, youtube covers of modern Misfits? First, a refresher:
The original, in case you slept on it (and I know you did). I don't think it is terrible, but if this wasn't sold as the Misfits it would probably be your favorite local band that never made it.
Bish covers this song acapella. Probably born after Danzig I came out. Note the unfinished guns chestpiece. I am old and have no idea what it means, but wise enough to know it is probably not something original and is more likely a reference to something (hit me up in the comments for the answer please).
But there is more!
On we go!
At this point my mind is blown. So many bishes covering some random newera Misfits song. WTF? You may now weep for humanity.
Yes I know. I will cry with you at the youtube poop. There there. We will get though this one day at a time.
Recently I heeded the call for podcast suggestions by searching through my stash but I get bored with things very quickly. So I can't really find much to recommend that is consistently entertaining. I'd start by saying that there are two sorts of podcasts and they are very different. For a while I wanted video podcasts because I had a phone with a big screen to watch them. But they were largely disappointing two years ago. I was hoping for something like this:
God I wanted to find something like this. I didn't. At least not on iTunes. People take their podcasts way too seriously but they aren't amusing like this. I guess that is youtube poop fair, but youtube is an inconvenient format for phones.
Why isn't this a podcast?? ZOMG the lols.
Of course youtube poop is full of duds too, people sitting in mom's basement droning on at the camera about stuff that is boring and unfunny.
The other category is audio podcasts. This is much better for amusing yourself while commuting or working when you don't feel like listening to music. I enjoy a few music podcasts as a way to supplement my intake of music that I only have a passing interest in. For example I enjoy low light mixes because I'm not a huge fan of ambient electronic music but an hour of free music is a good deal and I have enjoyed a few of the mixes.
Still, I haven't found any audio podcasts that are like a good blog: funny but not comedy oriented. Witty without being boring or pretentious. Clutter free. A few of the NPR shows make good stand alone podcasts but I do find them to have a consistency problem. They also don't go through the range of topics that interest me: alcohol, poverty lifestyle, heavy metal, photography, Hemingway, weird classical music, college football, Glenn Danzig, and international political economy.
I'd also like to take this moment to criticize iTunes for having an incredibly shitty search function. It is really cumbersome to try and search for free audio podcasts and to filter out topics like religion, or try to filter through a topic to find something that interests you (like Mormon apologetics). Lo, iTunes sucks, and searches are usually fruitless and time consuming. Compare that to youtube, where I found Goth Talk Jr in less than 1 minute.
To sum up podcasts I'd say they have so much untapped potential. I don't just not listen to the radio, I actively hate the radio. I hate radio programming and podcasts were a way to liberate audio content from the thumb of radio stations. Plus the name podcast is great branding. The DIY ethos of podcasts never produced much of quality, which is sad. Thus I find them to be greatly disappointing, and there is a lot of content on the youtubes that should probably be produced into podcasts but I suspect that Steve Jobs' walled garden prevents that from happening. Should I blame Jobs for the lack of a real life Goth Talk podcast? I don't know. But I do know that it is an underused format and while I like wasting time on the youtubes that won't help me on my commute or at the office and podcasts would. So for now, so long poopcasts.
Once upon a time I was a big fan of Flickr. It was one of the best photo sharing websites around. The content was good and people who were into photography were really into the site. There were problems with the site, but we used it anyways.
Then, like all Yahoo owned things, they focused on building things people didn't want and ignoring things that people wanted. Uploading video clips was added instead of view on black settings. No easy interface with facebook. No good iPhone uploader app. Then giving view on black but stripping EXIF. No photo slideshow queuing. Basically the only reason people still use it is that facebook is a closed network, tumblr too bloggy, and Google hasn't tried to get into the game. Flickr sucks but no one has tried to make a better Flickr. The online photo community I was once networked into dissolved because no one cares anymore because there are so many better online networking sites.
Basically I wish Google or someone would make a better Flickr, because everything Yahoo touches turns to poop.
