If you go anywhere rural… they are totally into God. I guess it’s because they have nothing better to do than feel guilty about the few minor pleasures they take in their little lives. Or maybe it’s because they are so fucking bored with there being nothing better to do than get drunk that they hope beyond reason that after you die you go somewhere that all of the attractive single women didn’t get the fuck out of after High School.
In the Inland California suburban wasteland of Rancho Cucamonga, where people love that their city sounds like a Bob Hope punchlin, pro-religious billboards are everywhere because, you guessed it, there is nothing better to do in the Inland Empire. So when a billboard saying, “Imagine No Religion” is put up by the Wisconsin group the Freedom from Religion Foundationover 90 Complaints from scared little sheep started bleeting in to their city government (as if they have anything to do with anything!) and the city asked the sign company if their was a way to have the billboard removed. Eventually it was taken down and a refund was issued to the FFRF.
That Astley’s a good lookin dude. How fucking random. I’m sure the vast majority of people there were all ‘WTF?’ and stuff. I used to go to NYC somewhat regularly, I wish I still did. Last time I went, I saw the Radio City Music Hall Christmas performance, but I’ve never been to the Thanksgiving Day Parade. I got a little pop-culture vom in my mouth when I saw this, but it also made me smile.
30 Rock is still the best comedy on network TV. I know it, most of my liberal facebook friends know it and now Jim Henson’s golden disembodied soul even seems to know it. Everyone seems to know it but YOU America (for shame). I’m not sure how many kids will grasp the concept of this sketch considering their Joe Sixpack and Jane Boxwine parents probably can’t (My Name is Earl, fucking really?). And because I somehow I feel I am it’s intended demographic, this must be great!
Prepare to have your head blown completely from your sci-fi loving ass. My co-author AliUptown sent me the link to the new “motion poster” for Terminator Salvation which starts as an overhead of Downtown L. A. and evolves into…well you’ll see.
So after much arguing/bribing, I’d finally convinced my roommate to see Twilight with me. She tolerates my vampire, ahem, problem. She unmercilessly makes fun of me, but she does understand. Bitch creams herself for Lord of the Rings, so we see eye-to-eye on the whole nerd-obsession thing. But alas, she came to me the other day with the concern that it wouldn’t have enough sex in the movie to make sitting through it tolerable. I should have lied, but I came clean and told her that we’d be lucky for a hot make-out sesh or two, and she bailed on me. And I don’t dislike anyone that much to force them to come with me. Poo.
I wanted to give you the heads up that one of my Top 5 favorite songwriters and a fellow NE-LA transplant Tim Kasher will be the musical guest for The Midnight Show @ the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Hollywood on Sat, Dec 6th.
Tim is best known as the frontman of Saddle Creek bands Cursive and The Good Life and has recently made his foray into writing with his script for Help Wanted Nights to which he also wrote a soundtrack released as the last The Good Life album.
The Midnight Show happens @ the UCB on the first Saturday of the month and is kind of like SNL but a bit dirtier. It’s sketch comedy with a guest host, viral comedy shorts and a musical guest. The show also features and extremely talented cast, many of whom could conceivably be on SNL someday. This month’s guest host is Dax Shepard (Idiocracy).
Admission is a measly $5 and you can brown bag it. You will need a RESERVATION to get in and with this Host/Musical Guest/Cast Combo, this show will inevitably fill up FAST. Go to the UCB’s Website and RSVP now!
Saturday, December 6th
The Midnight Show w/ Dax Sheperd & musical guest Tim Kasher The UCB Theatre – 5919 Franklin Ave – Hollywood – (323) 908-8702
I wanted to give you the heads up that one of my Top 5 favorite songwriters and a fellow NE-LA transplant Tim Kasher will be the musical guest for The Midnight Show @ the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Hollywood on Sat, Dec 6th.
Tim is best known as the frontman of Saddle Creek bands Cursive and The Good Life and has recently made his foray into writing with his script for Help Wanted Nights to which he also wrote a soundtrack released as the last The Good Life album.
The Midnight Show happens @ the UCB on the first Saturday of the month and is kind of like SNL but a bit dirtier. It’s sketch comedy with a guest host, viral comedy shorts and a musical guest. The show also features and extremely talented cast, many of whom could conceivably be on SNL someday. This month’s guest host is Dax Shepard (Idiocracy).
Admission is a measly $5 and you can brown bag it. You will need a RESERVATION to get in and with this Host/Musical Guest/Cast Combo, this show will inevitably fill up FAST. Go to the UCB’s Website and RSVP now!
Saturday, December 6th
The Midnight Show w/ Dax Sheperd & musical guest Tim Kasher The UCB Theatre – 5919 Franklin Ave – Hollywood – (323) 908-8702
The Times reported 10,000-12,000 supporters who marched on downtown L.A. in opposition of Prop 8 last Saturday; and it was pretty fucking amazing.
Speakers included Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, openly gay LA City Councilman Bill Rosendahl, LA City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center Chief Executive Officer Lorri Jean, West Hollywood City Councilman John Duran, civil rights lawyer Connie Rice, actor and F.A.I.R. member Darryl Stephens, and actresses Ricki Lake and Xena: Warrior Princess (Lucy Lawless) who gave her warcry and said she rode the “soul train” to the protest.
Most of us of course took our neglected subway to the protest which made for an awesome photo of thousands of people coming out of the tunnel and into the blazing hot NOVEMBER sun.
We were hoping there would be a riot, Justin wanted a photo of himself being blasted by a firehose atop an overturned police car. Unfortunately Homelard Security was there to keep us civil with the friendly reminder of waterboarding.
It looks like Prop 8 is on its way to the state supreme court where it will hopefully be told to fuck off and die like any god that ever existed would have wanted it to do. So hopefully we won’t have to burn down all the mormon churches. But we should probably do that anyway.
Now enjoy some photos of the 1st Amendment in action.
Here is part of the writeup from Lindsay Stidham at Tubefilter:
Every now and then something comes along on the web, that’s really exciting. It’s got all the right elements to go viral — an interesting subculture: check; hot chicks: check; and really, really funny: check. I’m gonna go ahead and say it, I’m darn excited about wieners. That’s right, wieners. Well, not just wieners, but a new web series from 60Frames focusing on the world of competitive eating.
and also:
…I’d say The Quest for the Golden Hot Dog has all the right elements — hot chicks, wiener eaters, and a veritable who’s who of the LA-indie comedy scene. The world of competitive eating also seems so ripe for parody-fodder it’s hard to believe Will Ferrell and Adam McKay haven’t already capitalized on the idea.
I’m an extra in this. You can actually see me in the stillframe on YouTube right in front of you…I won’t say where. I’m not the black guy in the middle, but those ARE my mirrored aviators he is wearing.
WARNING: I am a a foul mood, and it is deadly contagious.
Goddamn it, I hate living in the hood sometimes. For example, right now.
Come home from a good dinner/couple beers with friends, in a great mood, only to find some fucker has parked in my parking spot. My paid fucking parking spot behind the building. The parking spot I pay for so my car doesn’t get fucked with by some hoodlums in the street (cause they are always, ALWAYS out there, doing who the hell knows what).
Instantly in a shitty mood, I literally pound on the door of every unit in my building that still has lights on (cause I’m not totally heartless), but people either deny it or don’t come to the door. In fact, I don’t even think it belongs to someone in my building, which makes me uneasy about getting it towed, lord knows I’d have the car towed, and they’d fuck with my car, cause shit goes down like that here. I feel totally powerless, and my douchy landlord won’t do a damn thing about it either. In the grand scheme of things, not a huge crisis, but GRRRRRRR, does it piss me off. My roommate totally felt the wrath too, when I came home to the usual mess I grow weary of picking up and threw some evil fucking dirty looks her way.
via UCB: Prop 8 passed. Are you gonna sit around and sulk or are you gonna do something about it? Come learn what you can do next at this comedy show filled with sketches, stand-up, and videos inspired by the insipid Prop 8.
Informative. Hilarious. Cathartic.
Hosted by: James Adomian
Featuring:
Steve Agee (Sara Silverman Program), Heather Campbell, Jackie Clarke, Convoy, Drew Droege, Colton Dunn, Janeane Garofalo, A Kiss From Daddy, Nicol Paone, Ryan Perez, Jennie Pierson, Amy Rhodes, Mike Rose, Bryan Safi, Ben Siemon, Chris Farah, Amanda Sitko, A video by Jonathan Smith, Pete Zias, and more!
via Facebook Event: This is a nation wide event. Every major city in America (and some around the world) will be protesting on 11/15 10:30 PST (or 1:30 EST). http://jointheimpact.wetpaint.com/
Locally we will be gathering at LA city hall 200 N. Spring St at 10:30am on 11/15. All the latest information on the LA event can be found at http://protest8la.wordpress.com/
If success can be gauged by the company you keep then Nebraska’s Dirty-Punk/ Aggro-Blues Rockers Brimstone Howl are already legends. Their 7″ for Blood on the Rocks, Bones in the River was recorded back in 2006 by wunderkind Texas garage rocker Jay Reatard. You’ll have to hook a lie detector to most hipsters who would claim they even knew who Reatard was back then. Since then they have recorded 2007′s Guts Of Steel with producer Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and this year’s We Came In Peace produced by Jim Diamond who co-produced the first two White Stripes records.
They’ve toured with the likes of Silverchair, The New York Dolls and Ted Nugent, Toledo/Detroit’s WE ARE THE FURY will be playing Sunday Night’s CAMERATA at CINESPACE IN HOLLYWOOD. Camerata happens every Sunday and features up and coming bands opening for instrumental Metal-Proggers The Devil’s Orchestra playing with a LIVE visual artist. Live DJ’s and an art show in the rest of the venue mean there is always something to do or see in every part of the space.
This event is FREE before 1030 pm for 21+ and something like $5 for minors.
I think that Katy Perry is a manufactured celebrity. Just a few years ago she was gay for Jesus and putting out bad records under her given name Katy Hudson. A Capitol Record$ fronted producer and image consultant gang-bang later and she’s all over your radio and the stinking corpse of MTV with her gayploitative songs and turquoise Wayfarers. Her music is crap, her music career is probably over after this album. “I Kissed A Girl” isn’t an original song title or concept, it isn’t nearly as clever as Jill Sobule’s (who I once gave a bunch of weed to but that’s besides the point). She’s as boring as her boyfriend and she gives bi girls a bad name.
Just as Isaac Mizrahi bids adeiu (and I don’t think I’ve ever said that phrase in real life), Target greets a new plan, a plan that kicks off with one of my all-time favorite designers-McQueen. Much like their “Go International”, line, which features young or upcoming designers such as Proenza Schouler, Rogan, and Luella Bartley, “Designer Collaborations” will allow the masses to obtain pieces from designers that typically market to a higher-end customer. The difference is that this program brings established designers, rather than emerging ones to a wider range of people at an affordable price range. The first of which is Alexander McQueen, who will create a version of his McQ collection, called (surprisingly) McQ Alexander McQueen for Target.
I worked 14 eyeraping hours today at my thankless hellhole of an office design job. I wish I could post the Weekly Trashing about celebrity glorifications of violence and Cappucino Shakes but my brain is going to fall out of my ear and my cat looks like he’s having too much fun sleeping that I need to join him. I’m a day late with this… but it’s still time to PARTY LIKE A BARACK*STAR!
If interested, I tried to host this week’s Splattercast @ DeadLantern.com. This week’s topic is TECHNOLOGY IN HORROR. Fans of horror click away.
