Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Fix or Repair Daily

Or I guess this might be more appropriately titled "Too Much(Jim Steinman is never ever enough)"

I know this is from October/November of last year but I of course missed it because I suck.

Yes, it’s a Norwegian Lo-fi industrial pop band called Hurra Torpedo with an inspired performance of Bonnie Tyler’s smash hit "Total Eclipse of the Heart".

Their first US tour was documented in the indie film “The Crushing Blow" which can be seen for all I can tell in it’s entirety at that link because it’s all a fake.  It’s pretty damn funny but in the end it’s only viral marketing for FORD, well at least according to the wiki, but from the looks of their homepage and their Myspace they are very much for real and touring America again this summer.

Who to believe? Or does it really matter.

On an unrrelated note the INCOMPARABLE Ze Frank has started a little news commentary video blog called Ze Frank: The Show that is totally hilarious. Go watch. Now.  Really, do as you’re told ‘fore I whup yo punk ass.

Monday, April 24, 2006

Everything louder than everything else

I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday.
I was barely 17 and I once killed a boy with a fender guitar.
I don’t remember if it was a Telecaster or a Stratocaster,but i do remember
that it had a heart of chrome and a voice like a horny angel.
I don’t remember if it was a Telecaster or a Stratocaster, but I do remember
that it wasn’t at all easy.
It required the perfect combination of the right powerchords and the precise angle
from which to strike.

- "Love and death and an American guitar", Jim Steinman

So I was browsing my favorite BitTorrent site yesterday and instead of looking for movies or games I decided to check the music section.  As I’m noticing that there are at least ten torrents for Tool’s new album "10,000 Days" which doesn’t come out officially for another week (May 2) is see a link for “Meatloaf: Live at The Bottom Line 1977”. 

Ho-lee-shit, 1977!  I was a sophmore in high school.  I have a very distinct memory associated with BOOH.  It involves a very very long van ride that summer from Ontario back to the Poconos after a 10 day canoe trip. "Two out of Three Ain’t Bad" was probably the theme song for that trip as we heard it about twice an hour on the radio.  I went and bought the album as soon as I got home.  Of course within that year I heard ““Never Mind The Bollocks..." and that would change my musical perspective forever.

Some tidbits from the WIKI , BOOH is in the top five selling albums of all time is the second longest running album in the British charts behind Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumors”.  Pretty impressive, and so is the Bottom Line live set.  Particulary the piano work of Jim Steinman, the strong backups of Karla DeVito and a juicy encore of the Ike and Tina classic "River Deep , Mountain High".  I downloaded the mp3’s with BT but when I did some searching on the net I found that these tracks are available on Jim Steinman’s personal website.  I highly recommmend a thorough perusal of Jim’s informative site. It has lots of great stuff about all aspects of his long career in both music and theater.

Of course I came across some awesome other bits as I entered that near fugue state I sometimes get when I crawl into the web and find myself somewhere unexpected.  Evidently “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” is a favorite song at weddings, and that’s a very BAD thing.  Also it can be quite embarassing when you are holding out for a heroand all you get is silly stop motion dancing instead.

Rock on Beavis. \m/

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Smutty Engrish 101

This one goes out to the one and only Vagabondage, the Cruel Mistress of E/N (former poster extraordinaire at this very site) who not only loves the Japanese language but smut as well. This video of a Japanese woman teaching us how to say some mildly dirty phrases in english is one of the funniest things I seen swimming in the meme pool for quite a while.  Heh, “cockpit”.  Need I mention this is NSFW?

Via Boing Boing via Fleshbot via Fazed and they told two friends and they told two friends etc.

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Retro Hotmud 4-15 2001

Crouching Tiger, Hello Kitty
- hotmud @ 11:50 pm EDT



Or alternately the spoonerific “Stole away the Roan”

It’s all that clean suburban air that’s got deep down in my lungs. It’s making me lightheaded.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. He’s all out of love and intelligence and courage.

I forgot to mention I saw a really cool movie the other night with Sagesse called “Memento” Their website is good but make sure you’ve got Flash.  The movie is about a guy who is trying to find the guy who raped and murdered his wife.  His only problem is that he has no short term memory.  Anything over about fifteen minutes is lost.  He has all of his old memories but is unable to make new ones.  This movie is all about structure and might be confusing at first but after you get the concept that you are working your way through the story back to front and inside out then it still makes you think some more.  If you don’t have a local “Art” movie house you may miss this one.  But I certainly recommend it if you like thrillers or mysteries.

Ron Jeremy kicks your ass, and then he does it again. Ron is the man, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Sesame Street is brought to you by the letter G and the numbers 3 and 7.

These are the jokes folks, we’ll be here all week.

Of course some of those links are broken so just in case that’s not enough to help you through this easter weekend you might consider the existence of god or even something much more zen.

Then again there’s “Fuck the Shit”.

H(out)

Monday, April 03, 2006

In rotation

The Loved Ones - Keep Your Heart Philly three piece The Loved Ones play a supremely catchy mix of Lookout style pop punk cut with a healthy dose Eastcoast hardcore (ECFU!) and some obvious shoutouts to Jawbreaker.  Check the videos for “Jane” and “100k” for a taste.  These guys could be huge but I’m not sure if I really want to see that for purely selfish reasons.

Pied Piper Of Harrisburg

From the “when you think he couldn’t say anything stupider but manages to anyway” department…

It seems that Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum thinks Euope is dying. My goodnes! They’re being “overrun” and their culture is dying. Someone quick they need an injection of “vibrant faith” and our boy Ricky is just the utter ignorant tool to give it to em right in the ass.  Is it true that there are declining birthrates and economic and social problems in many countries in Europe? Yes it may be true, but why would they bother to listen to a reactionary US Senator to help solve their problems.  I think that helping our friends in Europe is about the last thing on little Ricky’s mind and it’s more fearmongering and indoctrination for the gullible.

It is totally shamefull that someone this slimy actually got elected. He doesn’t even live in the State he purports to represent. I guess there weren’t enough clear headed voters in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh to overcome the rest of the “faithul" in Pennsylvania.  With a large early lead challenger Casey might manage to kick this cretinous theocrat to the curb in November. Unfortunately Casey Jr isn’t much better even though he’s nominally a Dem.  Sigh.

(via dkos)

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Back again

Turn back the hand on the clock

you’re a bitter old man who’s done nothing

but work your hands to the bone on the assembly lines

you’ve grown cold to the touch of the ones that you love

ignorance is something you can’t overcome but you’ve passed it on down

and that’s something much worse for a bitter young man…

is now taking the torch

Dropkick Murphys

So we’re back, well really it’s just me.  The old school Hotmud crewe have mostly dispersed. What was once the Philly crewe has ended up the Durban-Glasgow-NYC-Philly don’t talk much anymore because well, mostly because I suck.  It was very nice to take a big break after five years.  Traffic was (er that’s is) nonexistant so I decided to go into a bit of hibernation.  Now with V.6 we’ve got a new host, and a new backend (php booty Expression Engine Core).  The design is mos def temporary, just got dork around with the CSS a smidge to make it more personal.  And I think it’s just going to stay personal for a bit, we’ll see if I feel like adding in any more authors this time.  Not sure what to do with five years of archived post, most of which are in a terrible format.  Maybe I’ll serve them back up as “retro” posts and not try to convert it all.  More to come this week.  H(out)