‘Jizz In My Pants’ (UPDATED)
If good looks was a minute/ You know that you could've been an hour- Smokey Robinson, 'The Way You Do The Things You Do'
The hottest viral video on the web right now is ‘Jizz In My Pants‘, the video from Andy Samberg’s the Lonely Island. Jamie Lynn-Sigler and Molly Sims provide the t & a. Andy is not allowing us to embed the video, but take my word for it-this is going to reach a ‘Dick In A Box’ level.
Remember, you heard about it first right here!
- Here’s the nerd version. Not fantastic, but still pretty funny if not just for the honest Asian dudes.
‘Batcat’
Will eat you alive! Mwaaahahahaaaa!
Found-MBV.
‘Children of the Revolution’-T Rex, Elton, Ringo ‘72
This rocks a whole hell of a lot. Three drummers, T-Rex, and Elton bang out this classic T-Rex hit. On the flip, you also see the wasted self-love which made the ’70s suck. Bolan starts off by serenading EJ from within his piano. Ringo, who directed a T-Rex feature from which this is taken, walks around in a clown suit filming T-Rex in a mirrored cube. Ick!
Amount of degradation before and after this was shot- Epic!
Found- MBV.
‘Stronger Than Jesus’
The band is called A Camp. The song is ‘Stronger Than Jesus’. It is the first single from their next album. The album drops Feb. 2, 2009, and will be called Colonia. Very much dig the song with its mid-70s MOR feel, and a video which harkens back to the very early days of music videos.
Plus, I like hot blondes.
Found- Chromewaves.
Sesame Street Christmas 1978
With all the troubles that we’re going through right now, I know we all can use a good smile. Here is ‘Christmas Eve on Sesame Street’ from 1978. I was for sure too young to remember this airing, being all of 11 months old. I’m sure my sister Michelle watched it. She had a Sesame Street playset that I loved when I got a couple years older. Really brings me back to plenty of wonderful Xmases on Springfield Ave. My mother would clip out the holiday listings from the Tribune’s TV Guide, and my sisters and I planned our December viewing around the Grinch, Charlie Brown, Frosty the Snowman, and (maybe one year) this.
The cast we grew up with is all here- Bob, Maria, Gordon, Susan, Luis, David, Linda, and Mr. Hooper (!!). And Snuffalupagus!
You can watch the rest of the special right here.
Rhetorical questions- How does Oscar see where he’s walking with no eye holes in his can? With no money, do I want to know how Bert and Ernie make rent each month? How come Big Bird was always getting himself lost?
- Want more retro Christmas treats? Get yourself over to BetaMaXmas right now! Awesome site that collects a bunch of our childhood Xmas specials.
Odetta: 1930-2008
Odetta, one of the leading voices of the ’50s folk revival, died Tuesday. Odetta coincidentally died a few weeks after Studs Terkel, who introduced her to me through his WFMT show. Odetta sounded like no one else; like a cross between Bo Diddley and Nina Simone maybe. Her guitar-playing was as spare and plain as could be, but her voice, well, her voice was like the dark side of soul music. Sam Cooke and Ray Charles brought soul to Whites by taking out the pain. Odetta reveled in the pain. It was very much heavy metal folk.
Odetta influenced many. From Odetta, we get the Staples Singers, Bob Dylan, and The Band. She played at the March on Washington in 1963, so we can also thank her for President-elect Obama. I know she will be rocking out on January 20 of next year, and Studs will be close at hand, passing a hat through that heavenly bar.
The New York Times has a great interview with her last year here.
I Asked For A Zima, Not Emphysema
Alas, one more line from my favorite Simpsons episode will need to be explained to my children. Zima, the beer (?) which came, saw, and then turned into a national punch-line, was officially put out of its misery by MillerCoors on October 10th. Slate last week published an appreciation for this amazingly bad tasting malt beverage.
Zima came into being at the beginning of my drinking. I distinctly remember the first time I drank the stuff. In a decade which brought us the iced-beverage fad (yes, I once drank Miller High Life Ice), Zima was by far the foulest brew available. It tasted like cold, flat ginger ale-except with a distinct, mediciney after taste that made you want to immediately gargle with Jager. It lasted amongst my peers for a year because the Mother McCauley girls were able to place Sweet Tarts in it to create some kind of uber-sugary concoction similar to Homer’s dear Skittle-Brau.
Here’s to you, Zima. May you continue to ruin young drinkers’ palettes in some Latin American after-market.
Word Of The Day: Rickrolling
From Wikipedia:
Rickrolling is an Internet meme typically involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song “Never Gonna Give You Up“. The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a Web link that he or she claims is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The URL can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true source of the link without clicking. When a person clicks on the link and is led to the web page, he or she is said to have been “Rickrolled” (also spelled Rickroll’d). By extension, it can also mean playing the song loudly in public in order to be disruptive.The age of irony now reigns supreme over the internet. At first, this is a genuine funny prank. But then it gets co-opted into something much worse- an appreciation for an awful song which forgets why it was even started. By the time it hits network TV, it becomes such a Russian doll of a joke that you get exhausted trying to figure out why you’re supposed to laugh.
As a cultural commentator, I’m left feeling cheated. What is important? That Rick Astley is alive and well? That a nagging buzzterm can infiltrate the mainstream to erupt on the float for a children’s show on a traditional holiday platform?
I guess I just can’t believe that the folks from the Today show are more on the pulse of the moment than I am. If this is hip, though, I’m ready for Florida.
Again, harrumph.
Today’s Big Dumb Idea
Ever want to go for a jog, but stopped because you really hate pavement? Or maybe you’re just looking for another way to make that broken-wing hop you do even more ridiculous? Shambollocks presents the Treadmobile!
Wow. I’ll just let that video speak for itself.
Kal-El Lands In Canada
Last night, a giant meteorite smashed into an area near the Alberta/ Saskatchewan border. The reunited Alpha Flight was believed to be on their way to inspect the extraterrestrial debris.
O'Hare Arpt., IL
