Highway to Hell

An article in today’s Daily Telegraph about Australian trends in funeral song choice:

Highway to Hell among most requested funeral songs

Cool! Also popular are “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”, from Monty Python’s Life of Brian, which features the lines, “Life’s a piece of shit, when you look at it”. And then there’s “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead”, from Wizard of Oz. Hey, any one of these has got to be better than those ghastly, never-ending, amorphous organ dirges which usually get airplay.

I can think of a few other songs I might consider, including one from Neil Young called “Why do I Keep F….g Up?” How about you? Why not have some fun at your funeral?

Jackie Broyles 08

Jackie Broyles, from the hilarious Travis and Jonathan team, has announced his presidency. Here’s a snippet from his site, which is well worth a visit:

“My fellow americans:

Aren’t you sick of candidates who actually WANT to be president? Let’s face facts- anyone who honestly wants to be president is a conniving corporate shill who is only in it for the babes, or the quick bucks.

We deserve better- we deserve Jackie Broyles….

Despite Jackie’s insistence on having nothing to do with his own bid for the presidency, it is clear that no other candidate has as much to offer the american people.

Jackie is a businessman, an entrepreneur, and a pillar of his community. He’s unable to get a driver’s license, but he owns half a dozen legal shotguns, and has used them on an almost daily basis for the last forty years.”

I think he deserves a look! You could do worse than Jackie Broyles.

Drive Through Haricuts

Seen locally …… drive through haircuts (click on it). It’s snowing and you really have to get home and shovel.

Who has time to sit down and wrap that sheet around your neck?

I have seen the future and it is the drive through haircut.

Charlie Wilson’s War

Went to see the above mentioned movie yesterday at the local cineplex, and was immediately put into a bad mood due to the fact that I hate the local cineplex experience with a passion… but missed the movie when it was on offer at the State Theater, so had little choice. You go in and you feel dirty. It may be dark, but I still have a pretty good idea where I am, and it’s not clean. It stinks of rancid popcorn, and all those people who turn out look like escapees from Idiocracy, with the Big Slurpys, etc. Then there’s the constant boom which comes seeping in through the thin walls of the next movie - Star Wars V perhaps? Lastly, you have to sit through about a half an hour of advertising (dog food and Bod spray) and bad propaganda from the National Guard, directed at the poor slobs who might be tempted to go and get their ass shot off in Iraq. Yes, well, at least the movie was good.

And here’s the amazing thing: I swear, Philip Seymour Hoffman played a character based almost entirely on a colleague of mine, circa 1985. It’s uncanny! The mannerisms, the hair, the slightly tinted glasses - I would say he ripped it off. See what you think:

Ricky Gets Burned

Extras - best thing on TV. Here’s the clip where David Bowie riffs an impromptu tune at Ricky’s expense. Brilliant!

Lookalikes

One of my favorite features of Private Eye is the lookalikes section. I always see resemblances between people - it’s how I remember the features. I remember watching Wimbledon earlier this summer - the titanic struggle between Raphael Nadal and Roger Federer - and it suddenly dawned on me that Nadal reminded me of Richard Pryor. It was the about the mouth, actually - the way Nadal’s smile would slowly turn into something else, something like a distracted grimace. So I searched all over the web for pictures of the two, Nadal and Pryor, but was unable to find just the right match. But, strangely enough, I started to come across pictures of the two of them resembling each other in other ways. So here’s what I submitted to Private Eye.

“I have detected a marked resemblance between the late comedian, Richard Pryor, and recent Wimbledon semi-finalist, Raphael Nadal. I was wondering… could they be, in any way, related?”

I’m still waiting for them to get back to me.

Quote of day

“In the future, I plan on taking more of an active role in the decisions I make. “

PARIS HILTON

Worst. Logo. Ever.

This is just wrong on so many levels.

clipped from eatliver.com

Travis and Jonathan

A send-up of Werner Herzog’s “Grizzly Man”, an educational video where Johnny Appleseed gets the snot knocked out of him, and (best of all) the Red State Update … be sure and check out Travis and Jonathan’s hilarious site. These guys are good. The skits are up to the minute relevant, and the improv skills are pretty amazing.

You bourgeois militarist!

Experience the recently launched NK News, a searchable database of North Korean propaganda. The site also features a random insult generator, from which I gleaned the above insult, You bellicose philistine!, you!