Post of the Day!

[Kensterberg]

kool said:

I think Rocky should get 11 minutes out of the 15. That was entirely his set up, Phil just came up with the killer punchline.

Well, whether it was 11 minutes or 15, it was up almost an hour ago.

Hope you made good use of it, Rocky, we all know that fame is fleeting!

What's your name?

[wayved]

who added the scott walker image? hahahaha!

[Kensterberg]

DED takes away today's trophy for this indelible image on Random Top Ten:

ded said:

Last night I had a dream that for some reason we lived in the front yard of my house. Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin were going to have baby and they were still famous but they weren't rich so they couldn't go to a hospital, they were coal miners I think. The baby also wasn't growing in the womb it just sort sprouting in the lower belly area. Other then that though we were just hanging out on couches in my front yard.

Congrats my friend. You and Jim and Janis can all go out and have a dream beer with the Rileybucks you're getting for this post.

[Galactus]

I still haven't figured out what it means but I'm glad it won an award!

[maarts]

From the Mos Eisly Bar this little gem:

kenholzman said:

maarts said:

_{The empire strikes back?}


"Chewbacca" arrested for head-butting


A Chewbacca impersonator was arrested after being accused of head-butting a Hollywood tour guide who warned the furry brown Wookiee about harassing two Japanese tourists, police said on Saturday.

"Nobody tells this Wookiee what to do," "Chewie" from the "Star Wars" movies said before slamming his head into the guide's forehead, the Los Angeles Times newspaper reported.

The 6-foot, 5-inch-(1.96-metre-) tall 44-year-old man was charged on Friday with misdemeanor battery and later released on $US20,000 ($A26,000) bail, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

"Superman" and other movie and cartoon impersonators were reported to be witnesses to the aggression in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater amid concern that such behaviour could endanger their livelihoods.

Street performers at the world-famous cinema collect tips from tourists by posing for photos, but some are known to turn hostile if they don't get money.

Two years ago, Mr. Incredible, Elmo the Muppet and the dark-hooded character from the movie "Scream" were arrested for "aggressive begging", the L.A. Times reported."

Reuters

I wanna see this case go to trial ... imagine the cross-examinations!

"And you are ..."
"I'm Superman."
"And what did you do when you noticed a rampaging Wookie just down the block?"
"Well, I just sort of stood there and watched ... and kept asking for handouts from tourists. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do to eat."
"So even though you're Superman, you didn't do anything to try to stop the Wookie?"
"What, are you nuts? Have you seen how big that walking carpet is?!"

[maarts]

Had to laugh at the following couple of posts off Random Ten:

Ryo: "I know not who this Anna Nicole Smith is.
Now I do. Awesome. I wish I could marry a billionaire who dies a year later."

Dolly: "Try this Ryo: www.millionairematch.com/index?tid=122
You never know your luck. Sure there are scores of rich ladies who would love a spot of Japanese totty."

Ryo: "Yeah, but how do I know they'll die a year later? "


;D

[Kensterberg]

POTD's for Ryo and Dolly!

maarts said:

Had to laugh at the following couple of posts off Random Ten:

Ryo: "I know not who this Anna Nicole Smith is.
Now I do. Awesome. I wish I could marry a billionaire who dies a year later."

Dolly: "Try this Ryo: www.millionairematch.com/index?tid=122
You never know your luck. Sure there are scores of rich ladies who would love a spot of Japanese totty."

Ryo: "Yeah, but how do I know they'll die a year later? "


;D

I didn't even see these myself. Thanks for posting 'em over here, maarts. (Feel free to go ahead and designate worthy contenders as POTD, BTW -- you're at least as good at picking them as I am).

[Kensterberg]

Shit, I didn't even see that maarts had put up my little post from the Mos Eisley Lounge the other day. Thanks man! (I guess this means that the clock starts now for my 15 minutes of fame, or has it already run? Shit, I was famous the other day and didn't even know it!).

[Kensterberg]

Layla get the award for today (which I guess includes this past weekend) for these words of wisdom.

limitdeditionlayla said:

They should teach kids about fire-breathing dragons in science class, too. They could fit that in right between creationism & the theory about how the world is flat & black people aren't as smart as white people.

Hooray for science!

A flat world filled with dragons ... where the skies are not cloudy all day.

Great post, L ... now get out there and enjoy those 15 minutes of fame before they expire!

[Ryosuke]

Oh damn, I didn't realize that I had won the POTD award. Well thanks to my trusty collaborator dolly for making this possible.

[limitdeditionlayla]

kenholzman said:

Layla get the award for today (which I guess includes this past weekend) for these words of wisdom.

limitdeditionlayla said:

They should teach kids about fire-breathing dragons in science class, too. They could fit that in right between creationism & the theory about how the world is flat & black people aren't as smart as white people.

Hooray for science!

A flat world filled with dragons ... where the skies are not cloudy all day.

Great post, L ... now get out there and enjoy those 15 minutes of fame before they expire!

Science is cool. So is creationism. And being a superior white. Mmm, facts.

[dolly]

ryosuke said:

Oh damn, I didn't realize that I had won the POTD award. Well thanks to my trusty collaborator dolly for making this possible.

LOL, I hadn't seen that either. Cheers Maarts. Happy to set up a quality one-liner for the man, Ryo.

[Kensterberg]

Skvorecky gets today's POTD with this lengthy critique over on the One-Album Wonders board:

skvorisdeadsorta said:

Also, neither Courtney Love or Yoko Ono are groupies. Both are artists of their own volition. Courtney Love slept her way to the top, but I would hardly call her a groupie. Using sex as a tool for power and social status has been done by men for decades, so why not a woman musician? Another fine example of the sexism that rockjism is.

Also, Yoko Ono was not a groupie. She was an internationally famous fluxist artist who blew the mind of Lennon. I'd hardly call her a groupie and if you knew anything about the story of the Beatles, you would know that Linda McCartney had just as much to do with the volatile break up of the Beatles and maybe more so.

If you really knew anything about Daniel Johnston, you would know that it wasn't his goal to sell his soul to the devil for fame. In fact, one of the things that pops out with his condition is his MORTAL FEAR of the devil. I know, I live in Austin and I have a couple of friends who are in his band, Danny and the Nightmares, so while he wanted to be a big songwriter, the devil had nothing to do with it.

On your American Hardcore thing, Greg Ginn of Black Flag was hugely influenced by The Greateful Dead. DC has had a healthy music scene and is responsible for some great bands like Q and Not U, Autoclave, The Nation of Ulysses, Trans Am, Bad Brains there are just a ton of great bands from the Alexandria, Richmond, Baltimore, DC area. Cheney is also originally a Representative from Wyoming and was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. I would hardly call him "From DC" nor would I say the same for Nixon. That's one of the reasons why the scene was so great is you had this pocket of anger against the politicians that lived in their backyard who were these insane transplants making awful legislation for the entire country. Dave Grohl is from the DC/Virginia area. Also, Fugazi did not do interviews with magazines that had Liquor or Tobacco ads, not magazines that they would not read themselves. They have done plenty of interviews with magazines that I'm sure that they have no desire to read that were in line with their personal philosophy of not being associated with that industry.

"THEN came Hardcore and MacKaye's precious straightedge movement which was basically a bunch of rich kids from the Suburbs PRETENDING to be punk by shaving their heads and putting safety pins through their noses."

WRONG. Straight Edge was about not drinking, not smoking, not having sex, not eating meat and not doing drugs which is pretty much the antithesis of The Sex Pistols. Also, you are aware that McLaren managed The New York Dolls, totally destroying their career and tried desperately to destroy the career of Richard Hell because he wanted to be associated with the NYC scene so bad. That was before the Sex Pistols. In fact, much of McLaren's ideas for the Pistols came totally from the NYC scene after he went back to England with his tail between his legs.

Also, it is on record if you would ever care to read the interviews of the bands that you talk about, that several of the American bands were heavily influenced by the British artists. The Minutemen were way into Wire and The Pop Group. Minor Threat was very much into the Buzzcocks, The Clash, Crass, artists such as that. Bad Brains were really into making really fast hardcore with the mixture of the Dub Roots movement that was so huge in England at the time.

Also, the bands of that era didn't just develop the DIY culture, they DEFINED it.

If you can't see the quality of the Ramones, you're a retard.

The last line alone would've been enough to get POTD, really, but the whole thing is brilliant. Very well said, my friend.

[skvorisdeadsorta]

Thanks, dude. I appreciate it. I will humbly take my award.

[Rit]

that was indeed awesome.