Dreamies. It's 1972, and
affable salaryman and good husband Bill Holt quits his good job at 3M to become a musical pioneer from the comfort of his own basement. The resulting album,
Dreamies, is notable for its generous and ahead-of-its-time use of sampling/plunderphonics and became a highly sought-after lost classic
until its re-release this year. Bill now has
his own website, also called Dreamies, where he releases
Eye Candy and Politics in liberal doses. Some are
hypnotic, some are, for want of a better term, '
relaxing', others are
anything but. And all of them are subtly infused with the slightly unsettling taste of
Huh?
posted by nylon
on Jun 27, 2006 -
8 comments
Meet The Press--in Hell with Jesus, Satan, Coulter, Malkin--
... Russert: We’re back with our guests, Bob Satan and Jesus Christ, and our panel Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter. Ann, I’d like to read you a statement by the Virgin Mary, Chairwoman of Mothers Against Armageddon—
Ann Coulter: Oh please. This broad is a millionaire, lionized on frescoes and in scripture about her, reveling in her status as a saint, and stalked by Madonna-parazzies. I have never seen a woman enjoying her son’s death so much. ...
posted by amberglow
on Jun 10, 2006 -
25 comments
The New York office was opened by the founders of the Firm in 1908, the same year women competed in the modern Olympics for the first time. While the Firm moved its headquarters to Los Angeles in 1972, the New York office remains a critical branch of the Firm today, paying tribute to the firm's deeply rooted traditions by undervaluing support staff, requiring formal business attire, and excluding Jews.
posted by grumblebee
on Jun 3, 2006 -
19 comments
waxy.org vows to fight Bill Cosby's lawyers and continue to provide hosting to
House of Cosbys despite receiving a
cease & desist letter [PDF]. Andy Baio, founder of waxy.org, discusses this in the
NY Times and provides updates on his site. As
previously posted, Bill Cosby's lawyers were successful in getting the creators of
House of Cosbys to stop hosting and making new episodes of their parody series.
It appears that threatening letters and lawsuits will continue to be filed against internet parody sites as celebrities try to protect what they view as their copyright, according to the
Wall Street Journal.
posted by Mijo Bijo
on Mar 6, 2006 -
33 comments
"Damn, Natalie, you a crazy chick!" (video) Natalie Portman, rapper and riot grrl? Maybe Lazy Sunday (
video;
mefi post) wasn't a freak occurence after all. Personally, I had expected the
Lonely Planet guys to end up a one-hit wonder, but in my book they've (at least) moved up a notch to talented one-trick pony. Another very well-done digital short that should be seen by a lot more people than SNL's dismal ratings will allow.
posted by Sinner
on Mar 5, 2006 -
99 comments
Looking for an ego boost? The fine people over at
The Screenplay Agency are the place for you! No logline too stupid, no script too poorly written! Are you tired of agency after agency telling you that they don't want your 20 year old screenplay about how much you love peanut butter just because "It doesn't make any sense, and is written with crayon on a pile of dirty gym socks?" I know I was! Until I found out about The Screenplay Agency, who promptly accepted every criminally copyright infringing idea I threw at them until I just KNEW I was every bit as good I writer as I've always told myself I am. And all they asked of me was approximately $250 in fees paid to coverage agencies no one has ever heard of and which seem to be owned by the same company that owns The Screenplay Agency! Sure, you've heard of publishing scams like
Publish America (part 2) thanks to the diligence of sites like
Making Light and our own
thread on the matter, but The Screenplay Agency is totally different! For one thing, they only
rip you off boost your ego through
screenplays.
Now, some
legitimate screenplay writers high and mighty hollywood types have gone and
pranked this excellent automated delusion reinforcer. But don't let those spoilsports spoil your sport! (God, I am such a great writer. No wonder they loved my screenplay!) Go ahead and
generate your own rave reviews!
posted by shmegegge
on Feb 25, 2006 -
14 comments
Romance Of The Jedi. Yet another Brokeback-esque mashup, but at least this one doesn't use text nor that guitar song. Please, PLEASE, let this be the last one.
posted by HiveMind
on Feb 4, 2006 -
30 comments
A Case of the Crabs, and its sequel,
The Goat in the Grey Fedora, are a couple of point-and-click black-and-white Flash games that parody the old Sam Spade-type noir films. You are Nick Bounty, private detective, and it's up to you to solve the mysteries of the counterfeit crabs and the miniature goat statue, respectively. Very, very jokey; guaranteed to induce eyerolling.
Look at everything, talk to everyone, and pick up everything that's not nailed down. Hints are available, but they're crammed with jokes too.
posted by Gator
on Jan 29, 2006 -
5 comments
Remember that
Shining trailer from a few weeks back? Now they've done it with
Big. (embedded WMV)
posted by adrober
on Dec 1, 2005 -
46 comments
Colbert Nation, the Stephen Colbert "fan site". Definitely read Stephen Colbert
fan-fiction, the highlight of which is the Middle-Earth fan-fic. It's a parody of a fan site, apparently written and updated by the Colbert Report's graphic designer. It doesn't matter though, even though my cool side cringes at laughing so hard at something with a marketing budget. Pepsi Blue my ass, Colbert's funnier than I thought.
posted by geoff.
on Nov 8, 2005 -
55 comments
Mega64! Some easily-amused folks with a video camera and a local public access TV channel have created the ultimate video game system. The Mega64 literally places you in the game. And by "the game" any game for any system that makes you look like a total jackass if you try to act it out, and by "you," I mean two unwilling playtesters.
Thrill to Solid Snake infiltrating a grocery store!
Puzzle out where to fit a walking Tetris piece!
Laugh as some bozo spits out coins while saying "Barf!"
While you're at it check out the
Splinter Cell videos hosted off-site.
posted by CrunchyFrog
on Aug 4, 2005 -
11 comments
Driving down the street in my Panzer tank,
sittin’ drinkin’ Cris’ with my bitch Anne Frank.
And when I step into the club’s you know I’m steppin with style!
Raise my left hand,
party people say “Heil!”
posted by jcterminal
on Jul 3, 2005 -
24 comments
That's Mathematics! Warning, contains bad camera work, worse editing, a rather complicated homework problem, a few mathematical in-jokes, illegible chalkboard writing, and a 13 minute performance by Tom Lehrer.
posted by eriko
on Jun 14, 2005 -
29 comments
