The MTV for "Total Eclipse of the Heart" was ridiculous, with their bad hair-do and strangely garbed dancers (ninja dancers who twirl). It took more than a decade for someone to make a spoof video of just how ridiculous it is though.
If you want a good laugh, you seriously need to watch this video. Trust me. I watched several times and I still laughed every time.
French president Nicolas Sarkozy has often expressed his disdain for the novel, La Princesse de Cleves. His very public opinion of the 17th century novel has helped the book gain a reputation as the literature of dissent against Sarkozy. [ Source ]
Recently the sales of La Princesse de Cleves has risen. The French people dislike Sarkozy so much they feel they need to read the book.
This is the kind of story that makes me go all warm and fuzzy inside. It makes me want to learn French and move to Paris. I love a culture that protest by reading.
I'm utterly besotted with Nellie McKay.
Ever since I chanced upon the video of her performance for TED a few days ago, she became a singer I had to follow.
Yes, she is pretty, with her cutesy white-blonde hair and charming smile. Yes, she sings a mighty jaunty tune. Nellie McKay is everything sugar and spice - but she is not always nice. (Or maybe she is) She is also a musician with an uncompromising streak who fell out with a major record label because they wouldn't let her do her album the way she wants. Beneath that adorable face, this girl has backbones.
Nellie McKay's style is whimsy, playful and a little naughty. Watch her on this video, with her ukulele performing "Mother of Pearl" - the Sarah Palin version.
Feminists don't have a sense of humor
Feminists just want to be alone (boo-hoo-hoo-hoo)
Feminists spread vicious lies and rumor
They have a tumor on their funny bone
They say child molestation isn't funny (hahahahaha)
Rape and degradation's just a crime (lighten up, ladies)
Rampant prostitution, sex for money (what's wrong with that)
Can't these chicks do anything but whine
Dance break
Woo-hoo
(Take it off)
They say cheap objectification isn't witty (it's hot)
Equal work and wages worth the fight (sing us a new one)
On demand abortion, every city (okay, but no gun control)
Won't these women ever get a life
Feminists don't have a sense of humor (poor Hilary)
Feminists and vegetarians (Make mine a Big Mac)
Feminists spread vicious lies and rumor
They're far too sensitive to ever be a ham
That's why these feminists just need to find a man
I'm Sarah Palin, and I approve of this message
Nellie McKay on myspace
"We should not even be talking about Sarah Palin because it's sexist."
[Thanks, Serene! I love Jon Stewart!]
I was just watching the documentary loudQUIETloud on DVD, about the Pixies when they reunited for a sold-out tour in 2004.
One of the advantages of watching a film on DVD are the Extra Features, like the deleted scenes.
In one of the deleted scenes from the DVD, where Kim Deal (bassist and vocalist for the Pixies) goes to a music shop. She was paying for her purchase with her credit card, and the guy at the store remarked, "Kimberly Deal. Like The Breeders." (Kim Deal is lead vocalist and guitarist for The Breeders)
The guy went on to ask if Kim Deal listens to The Breeders. Kim says "No", and the guy just continues, telling her they are "really a cool band, actually."
Deal has this look of utter disbelief, which is just priceless.
[Picture of Penelo Pea Pod from the official Veggie Pride Parade NYC website]My friend Serene just had to send me the link to the New York Veggie Pride Parade 2008.(thanks, sweetie! keep them coming! ;p)
The event took place last Sunday. It looks like so much fun. Lots of costumed vegetarians marching the streets - including the seven feet Penelo Pea Pod on the left.
The parade’s participants wended their way peacefully through Greenwich Village to Washington Square Park, led by a seven-foot-tall pea pod and an outsize carrot, who would later marry onstage in a faux ceremony. A giant pink replica of a human colon, replete with polyps and a sullied colostomy bag, brought up the rear.
This is for those of you who LURVES Anthony Bourdian to pieces.
*straight-faced* Click to enlarge. (Don't be disappointed if it isn't as big as you would like it to be.)
[Thanks to Hezbollah Tofu, who proves that vegans have a sense of humour :)]
As I mentioned earlier, I am currently compiling a "Wrist Cutting Music" Playlist for my new iPod Nano. I just happened to come across this: Sad Kermit singing Elliot Smith's "Needle in the Hay". Sad Kermit even acts out a parody of the scene from the Wes Anderson film, The Royal Tenenbaums. [thanks Chad]
It's an awesome video, done by some obviously gifted people with very warped sense of humour. May you guys use your powers for good and not for evil!
Sad Kermit even has his own MySpace page, where it was explained:
"Soon after the death of Jim Henson, Sad Kermit spiraled downward into a life full of addiction, romance and pain. The songs and videos on this webpage shed light on Sad Kermit’s descent into his dark, hurting world"
Oh, you poor thing, you green thing.
Go to http://www.myspace.com/sadkermit , where you can listen to Sad Kermit sing his versions of Radiohead's "Creep" and Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah".
LMAO!
PS: I've decided I need a "Muppets" label for this blog. Yes, there will definitely be more Muppet posts to come. ;)
From BBC News - 1st May, 2008:
Campaigners on the Greek island of Lesbos are to go to court in an attempt to stop a gay rights organisation from using the term "lesbian".
The islanders say that if they are successful they may then start to fight the word lesbian internationally.
The issue boils down to who has the right to call themselves Lesbians.
Is it gay women, or the 100,000 people living on Greece's third biggest island - plus another 250,000 expatriates who originate from Lesbos?
If they win, what are lesbians going to call themselves?
From BBC News:
Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say.
The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
Workers said they thought they were just making colourful flags and did not realise their meaning
Which goes to show, everything is made in China these days.
Serene sent me the link for this:
This is too funny. I can never watch ballet with a straight face anymore.
I love how the people behind this Hindi movie dares to be shamelessly campy. Unless they are absolutely serious, then it worries me.
Synopsis from the official website:
What happens when you throw two guys who hate each other together...
A cool call center executive Jimmy Cliff (Saif Ali Khan), a desi wannabe gangster Bachchan Pande (Akshay Kumar) add for good measure a beautiful girl Pooja (Kareena Kapoor) who can't be trusted... on a journey across spectacular India... a journey which will alter the course of their lives in more ways than one... a journey where even enemies need to trust each other if they want to be alive...
Trouble is, in this world no one can be trusted ever!
And to top it all, there is the evil eye of Bhaiyyaji (Anil Kapoor) ... a maverick gangster who enjoys killing people as much as he enjoys speaking English.
What you get is.....TASHAN
It's an action movie (I think). But it's the "maverick gangster who enjoys killing people as much as he enjoys speaking English" that I really want to see. Apparently, his ambition is to speak English like George W. Bush.
My friend HobbitGirl posted this on Facebook. For some reason she thought I would be offended. Hee. I really need to show her this.
Let's sing along:
I've heard the screams of the vegetables
Watching their skins being peeled
Grated and steamed with no mercy
How do you think that feels?
Carrot juice constitutes murder
Greenhouse are prisons for slaves
It's time to stop all this gardening
Let's call a spade a spade
Kate Winslet's artistic impression of her buttocks:
She's doing it for charity. So it's okay to be a little cheeky.
