In 2004, FOX planned a remake of the Mr. Ed television show. Sherman Hemsley was cast as the voice of a new, hip, street-smart Mr. Ed.
Among the other auditionees was Ol' Dirty Bastard.
What follows is allegedly ODB's audition for the part.
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A pilot was filmed, but was not picked up by FOX. The show's writer and producer, Drake Sather, had committed suicide shortly before the pilot's completion.
Bob Dob: "Rough Night Out"Zeitgeist: The spirit of the time. A term that is commonly used to describe trends and cultural movements — the most perplexing of human social phenomena.
It has been said that art imitates life. Oscar Wilde took this notion and flipped it, stating that "life imitates art far more than art imitates life." One need look no further west than Hollywood to see that both statements carry a certain truth, but it is Wilde's version of the statement that weighs especially heavy on Hollywood, and by export, on Western culture in general. Art clearly began by imitating life, but then art changed and grew. At some point, life began imitating art. Notable examples can be seen in the art of film — Hollywood film in particular. 
Sometimes celebrities become caricatures of the roles they play, especially when they are typecast into very specific kinds of roles. But it isn't just the characters in the roles that they play that bleed over into reality; look also to their appearance. Look to the scalpel. See how Jenna Jameson, porn starlet-turned-media-icon's face has changed over the years. Look to the 45 year old movie star whose prime has past. Notice perfect teeth, busts, and hairlines cleverly stacked on top of sagging buttocks as they shuffle legs corded with varicose veins across the red carpet at an award show. Look to Joan Rivers, who Jenna appears to be becoming. In the process of projecting fantasies onto screens around the world, Hollywood has become a fantasy land, perhaps through a feedback loop of some sort. This is fine though, because fantasy sells well. If you sell fantasy for a living, you will also tend to project fantasy in your personal life. The same principle explains why car salesmen at high end dealerships don't drive 1980 station wagons. This principle can be applied to any job.
When a production is competent, we see exactly what the producers intend for us to see. It's all makeup, camera angels, and editing: movie magic. The pressure to keep up this facade off-screen (but in front of nigh ever-present cameras [especially of the paparazzi]) is high, but the illusion is kept up quite well by everyone, except for Britney Spears. These illusions effect the perception of reality of the moviegoer (the media consumer).
So: right now in Hollywood, life appears to be imitating the art that is produced in an effort to bring moviegoers to 'fantasy' lands where, among other things, everyone is attractive. Physical attractiveness the unifying element of all Hollywood movies. Genre & theme may vary from one marquee line to the next, but everyone looks good. Everyone looks ready for the camera. Hip-hop music can be said to have a similar effect, in that currently it seems like life is imitating art. 
The commercialization of hip-hop involved framing and exporting certain slices of urban life to markets that had limited or a complete lack of exposure to it. Now it seems to me that the prevalent lifestyle (and if nothing else, the style — the fashion) of predominantly black youth in urban communities is based on themes presented in hip hop music. But aren't the themes that inspire this art drawn from real life? Not necessarily. Rappers — especially popular ones — are primarily entertainers and may never have known the lifestyle they portray in their songs. I won't bore you with all the details but the information is out there. Some rappers have even been quoted saying things such as that the rap game is "like the WWF." Here, again, life imitates art when the art is among dominant media, as movies are, and as hip-hop music is. The end effect isn't terribly unlike a magnification of the stories the news publishes about kids killing each other when performing professional wrestling moves.
Preface for the remainder of this post: I support freedom of speech, and I do not see violence in games as a problem. Many of the games I play are violent, and I do not necessarily believe, as some believe, that violent games are inherently dangerous to society. Not all violent games glorify violence just as not all violent movies or music glorify violence. The role that violence in the media plays in influencing real life violence is unclear.
What happens to life when the art is a video game that makes more than $500 million in its first week in stores, making it the biggest entertainment launch of all time?
The sales of Grand Theft Auto IV, the growth of the games industry in recent years, the related increase in production cost and quality of games, and the decline of box office sales all seem to suggest that the games industry is becoming more similar to Hollywood, and perhaps even culturally dominant over film. In addition to this potential dominance is the position that many have taken in recent years that says that games are art, not unlike movies. In an interesting example of art-imitating-art, the last four (and most relevant, and three dimensional) Grand Theft Auto games have taken on the style of and contained similar plots to the most memorable crime-themed movies and television shows. The question we must ask in the near future will be, does life imitate game art as it appears to do with movies? 
Again, might not have been the wisest choice to cast John Goodman after The Flintstones, but, on the other hand, his mustache is fucking raw.
Some scenes are incredibly ugly and it's like the color palettes were deliberately made to be bland. At this point I'm about ready to walk out. I can't care about the movie. To make matters worse, one of the main characters says, "Justice, that's a commodity I don't waste my money on" in very poor English. The movie cost $120 million, couldn't they have done a couple extra takes on this shot?
Every once in a while scientists get ready to try something that excites and scares the shit out of the world. It's happening again now with the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.This post is about ? & The Mysterians.
From Wikipedia:
? & The Mysterians - 96 Tears
The band's frontman and primary songwriter was Question Mark. Though the singer has never confirmed it, Library of Congress copyright registrations indicate that his birth name is Rudy Martinez. His eccentric behavior helped to briefly establish the group in the national consciousness. He claimed (and still claims) to be a Martian who lived with dinosaurs in a past life, and he never appears in public without sunglasses. He has also claimed that voices told him he would still be performing "96 Tears" in the year 10,000.
Poster from post-house fire benefit show for Question Mark
Skilled with computers? Understand how to configure a boot loader like GRUB? Jump into the emerging market of building Mac clone PCs for customers who like Apple products (but not enough to buy them). Or, do it for yourself. On an existing PC. For free. Like I did.
Using a Mac Pro that costs approximately $3000 as our point of reference, one can build and configure a clone with comparable hardware for about a third of the cost, by my calculations (at Mac Pro configuration page: downgrade CPU, double RAM, make hard disk 500MB, and change video card to Nvidia to see a machine roughly comparable to the one the article's author built).
In the quote below, he claims it is roughly half the cost, with roughly equivalent performance:
But the real question is, just how does the $950 Frankenmac compete with Apple’s hardware? Overall, quite well. To get a sense of just how well, I ran a few tests here, though I plan to ship the whole machine off to the Macworld Lab in San Francisco shortly, for an official run through our Speedmark test suite.It seems wrong to charge $500 to install two extra Gigabytes of RAM. I got two gigs of RAM on a PC I built last week for less than 50 dollars. My RAM has a lifetime warranty at no additional cost. Apple's entire system, including the RAM, has a free warranty that lasts a year. You can get an additional two years added to the warranty for $249. At Newegg, most of the RAM at the same specifications (roughly 80%), even the high end stuff, is between 25 and 75 dollars.
For the unofficial testing, I used a few old favorites—Xbench for overall benchmarking, Cinebench for graphics, and a quick blast through the standard Quake3 timedemo to give a sense for raw gaming performance. I ran the tests on the Frankenmac and my Macworld-provided Mac Pro (a 2.66GHz quad-core Xeon with 4GB of RAM and the ATI X1900xt video card). Using Xbench, the Frankenmac beat the Mac Pro on the overall score, 149 to 143. Within the individual tests, the Mac Pro was faster at the CPU, thread, and OpenGL tests, while the Frankenmac was better at the memory, Quartz graphics, user interface, and disk tests. Overall, there’s not much difference in the two machines’ Xbench results—and keep in mind that the Mac Pro is more than twice as expensive as the Frankenmac.
Five of them. Ranked by me. If you want the real top five you should just go look on YouTube and notice that some of the top videos there have "gamed" thumbnails, meaning that the video's screenshot isn't actually of the video itself, but some tits or ass or something
Oh and none of them are nearly as good as the ones I picked~
MC Miker G & DJ Sven - Holiday Rap
This video is incredibly fun, especially if you are into (or think you might be into) a modified version of Madonna's 80s hit "Holiday" being rapped over by a paid of Swedes. Again, this video is just so much fucking fun.
Sexman's Rambo Review
This kid is gonna be a star; he's going to fucking burn up until there's nothing left.
This video speaks quite loudly for itself. I don't really want to go into detail about it, so please, just watch it.
"a sexman...film!"
Jessica Delfino - My Pussy is Magic
A wonderfully honest and cute music video about vaginas. Great rapping, great singing, absolutely hilarious visuals. I liked the song up until the point where she said "not 'abra-cadabra,' cause that shit is NOT real" at which point I loved it.
Also I have a crush on this Jessica Delfino now.
Ball Buster - 1975 Game Commercial
A tabletop family-oriented game. The commercial is absolutely rife with testicular innuendo. This game was a product of a company called Mebo.
The Make-Up - Save Yourself
Just fucking indulge me for a moment here, okay?
Some of you might know that The Make-Up is one of my favorite bands; I just recently discovered on my last.fm page that I've played them more than any other band in the past year, despite only learning about them in the late spring of 2007. (Aside: let it be known that I'm not entirely comfortable with the way last.fm tracks song statistics because they just don't feel accurate for whatever reason. Perhaps one I'll dedicate time one week to doing my own song tracking and comparing it with last.fm's tracking) Fun fact: The Make-Up was a labelmate of Black Eyes, one of my other favorite bands ever, on Dischord Records. Their singer, Ian Svenonius, is one of my favorite people in music or culture today. I'm posting this video as an act of self-indulgence. I think the song sounds awesome and the video looks awesome, which combine to give us an awesome feeling. I rode the awesome feeling produced by this video for a couple hours last night. Yeah, I played the video on repeat. A lot. I'm getting the DVD this video was pulled from some time later in February, along with Ian Svenonius's book, The Psychic Soviet. I plan to blog about this. Maybe I will write a long blog post like I did about Danzig.
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Bonus Video: Glenn Danzig's Book Collection
"Welcome to my book collection..."
I don't really consider this a top YouTube video, but I did find it incredibly interesting and absurdly humorous. These two things combined made it worth discussing with The Internet. Hot on the heels of my really long Glenn Danzig post is a video I should have included in the post. In fact, I'll add it to the post. Danzig really just talks about various horror and occult books in a manner that's just a little too matter-of-fact -- as if he's an expert on all these books. Also, the way he peruses the shelf seems to imply that he doesn't really even know what books are on the shelf. Regardless of whether or not he is familiar with the contents of all these books (it's entirely possible that the video sort of just happened and he is doing all of this candidly, thus the lack of polish on the presentation), the video is a gem. Also we learn of some great young Jesus stories from apocryphal Bible books! Jesus was a real killer, according to Danzig's books.
Let's start this off as weird as possible
The Misfits - BraineatersHey hey hey
Brains for dinner
Brains for lunch
Brains for breakfast
Brains for brunch
Brains at every single meal
Why can't we have some guts
Hey hey hey
Brains are all we ever get
In this rotten fuckin' place, hey hey
Brains are all we ever get
Why can't we have a change of pace
Brains for dinner
Brains for lunch
Brains for breakfast
Brains for brunch
Brains at every single meal
Why can't we have some guts, hey hey
Why can't we have some guts, hey hey
Why can't we have some fuckin' rotten guts
Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
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"Welcome to my book collection :)..."
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Danzig?
-- basically a rock and roll singer
Who is Glenn Danzig? Is he this guy, catching roses* in his teeth at a show?
*Rose toss over approximately 30 seconds into video
The Devilock
-- hair-style that is at once ridiculous and awesome if you have straight black hair and you're not someone's fucking dad
Is he the inventor of the Devilock?
Well maybe or maybe not, but that's beside the point. The point is that he rocked it a lot better than the rest of them, given his size and height.
I posit that Danzig is an indestructible egotistical force that is more than a man. By being and representing this Danzigian essence, Glenn Danzig created some special place in time. A place where the American concept of sub cultures became stronger -- more visible because of infusion with another cult culture (such as horror movies) -- and then diverged.
The Misfits
-- lame ass 138 kids chanting "WE ARE 138" with fists in the air
What the fuck do The Misfits mean to anyone these days? Jerry Only is the only former member still in the band, which has played up the horror punk theme up so much that it's no wonder little kids are the only ones digging this shit now.
See the following two videos for a comparison.
New Misfits, circa too recently -- I recommend turning the video off close to the end because they attached some wack commercial to it
Original Misfits, circa 1983.
There's clearly more feeling in the second video -- not just the singer, but from all members of the band. The first video feels very Disneyworld, and the least of these causes is the inappropriate lights. There's also Jerry Only's boring showtunes-ish delivery of the vocals and -- ok, I'll be honest: it's mostly the "extreme" camera work and the lighting. I mention the difference between these videos to illustrate that the band was clearly an energetic force, one strong enough to merit resurrection long after the band's original death, with an entirely new lineup. What other bands exist and sell lots of merchandise as ghosts of themselves? Ghosts of the Misfits: staying with the horror theme to the grave (and clearly, beyond).
Mis > Sam > Dan > Mis
-- some sort of wonky circular phenomenon
The Misfits were around for a while and they were pretty cool. Danzig started a new band called Samhain that was a lot like the Misfits but with a slightly different aesthetic. It's sort of like the way Frankenstein and all the other movie monsters started off really cheesy, but as time goes on their film incarnations tend to get grittier and darker.
The final form of Danzig wasn't really a true final form at all, but the name had been finalized: Danzig was the new name of the band, and, as one might postulate, would be the future name of any band that Glenn Danzig helmed. Initially releasing records on Rick Rubin's American Recordings label, they also had the assistance of Rick in the studio to help them polish their sound. Thus, Glenn Danzig's band took on a polished hard rock feel with a morose theme as opposed to a less-polished punk rock feel in earlier bands.
See this video for some idea of how the band changed:
After the first four records, though, the band's aesthetic changed again, along with the band's lineup, and some say the magic was lost. That being said, though, one is still left to consider the legacy of Danzig and his bands. The effects are arguably more important than the music that was created, or the aesthetic channeled at the various points in time.
G. Danzig, H. Rollins
So here we are, some 30 years after The Misfits first performed. The band saw far more popularity as an undead reincarnation of itself than it did during its original tenure. Their commercial success was not nearly their only success, because that commercial success is indicative of something else: the existence of sub culture. In short, some people identify with The Misfits very strongly. For some, the band's logo is synonymous with sub cultures like punk rock, and the history doesn't even matter because they know everything they need to know about The Misfits based on whatever their views on punk are. Even more interesting is the effect of the band's then-unique theme; who else tried to infuse their music with then 20 year-old horror movie icons, or any other icons at all, save religious ones? And what happened to the newly seeded trend of fusion among sub-cultures with cult icons afterward? People who now worship The Misfits are a lot like The Misfits themselves, in this one way: they're paying tribute to ideas that are 30 years old. Horror in 1978 wasn't the same as the 50's themes Danzig was espousing, and Punk today isn't the same thing it was when Danzig was doing it.
The devilock, though: that's timeless. But Lord, not when 50 year old circus clowns rock it!
and check out the fingernails and pants on his friend :)
ok let's go
basically last year i had a bunch of links to danzig/misfits videos but this year i wanted to do something a little different it's mostly music videos but also some other stuff too!
ok so first off let's do some blue oyster cult most people only know them for their "don't fear the reaper" song shout out to big ty whose senile grandmother who is about ready to check out turned him on to this song and didn't see the irony that she was about to bounce the biggest check written out to "vitality" rest in peace grandma ty see you next halloween in the mausoleum anyway so yeah blue oyster cult has lots of other good songs and damn some cool moustaches one of their songs "burnin' for you" from the album "fire of unknown origin" has a really tight riff that it starts with it's pretty tight but it isn't the best song from the album which would be "veteran of the psychic wars" but the video is tight and please watch it all the way through for some goofy 1981 style "scary" and "edgy" stuff but really just respect this i mean think about how it was fucking like 26 years ago and holy shit it's older than me but i'm also pretty old (22 years old now!) ok here it is:
ok actually there is a video on youtube for "veteran of the psychic wars" i mean it's just the coolest fucking concept for a song UNFORTUNATELY i will not be embedding it in this post but i will however give you a link to it so here it is if you liked the other video check this out for sure also i should mention this is a live version of the song so it is kind of masturbatory for the band but it is still cool if you like this "metal" classic rock kind of shit http://youtube.com/watch?v=nrd2xf5DIlU
ok next video is by bauhaus a real force a real legend in the 80s goth scene or something honestly i know fuck all about bauhaus but useff said to check out their stuff for this post and this video fits perfectly plus it's an achewood in-joke so i mean just check it out for a little while it's good for halloween spirit and shit
next video probably needs no introduction if you are between the ages of 18 and 25 today because it's bobby brown's video from ghostbusters ii so it will bring back some good memories for you because the video is tight and bobby brown says "found out about vigo, the master of evil. try to battle my boys? that's not LEGAL" so it's like he was cool with the ghostbusters and understood their plight and shit oh man so much footage from the movie this movie reminds me of a time period that will never come back, so shitty yet so good only because I was four fucking years old at the time and ghostbusters were awesome to me but check it out, and like everything else, think of this as a period piece and also especially check out the dancing and the outfits and the haircuts and everything also donald trump is in the video
also more important than anything is that bobby brown is fucking INSANE these days he's a fucking crackhead who dragged whitney houston down with him and now she's worthless too and their lives are a fucking mess and he had a fucking heart attack like last week while sitting front row at a fashion show, can you believe this shit? it's like everything we ever knew is going to start dying
ok the next two aren't music videos well one is kind of but they are both clips from "American Werewolf in London" which in my opinion is one of the greatest "horror" movies ever i mean it was made a long time ago but as you can see in the transformation clip it has some amazing special effects even by today's standards i mean seriously they made that shit look so fucking painful i included the version of the clip that has a little part in the beginning that shows him talking to his dead and zombified friend just so you can see that this is a movie that isn't all about horror i mean it's scary as fuck but doesn't take itself too seriously actually i'll include THREE scenes the first one is a bonus and i won't ruin it here! just please watch it!
next scene is the aforementioned transformation scene prefaced by one of the film's many hilarious zombie talks, this scene is kind of a music video because blue moon is playing as he transforms!
ok guys this next scene starts with tits so don't watch it at work! or just fast forward to like a minute into it this scene is very dear to me because not only is it cheesy but there are some really gruesome car crashes and deaths in this scene!
next is judas priest's hit single "breaking the law" it's corny as fuck and man I don't really know what to say about it, just watch it and fucking laugh. the opening riff is pretty tight though! also rob halford (the singer) is soooooooo gay seriously look him up on wikipedia or some shit!
ok final video I LOVE this video i loved the song before i saw the video and the video totally fucking changed the game for me this video is so awesome and deceptive and slightly creepy and has a lot of nuanced things going on that you might need to watch it a few times to catch but seriously i don't want to totally ruin this for anyone i'm just amazed that such an incredible video was made in 1979!ok so if you are confused after that video the significance would be that it says "The Cure?" at the beginning and then those letters bleed away and we're left with what appears to be something like a 1960s british pop boy band performing in front of a sheet but the thing is if you know anything about the cure you're wondering where robert smith (the singer) is and he's nowhere but you can hear his voice and that one person looks like they're singing but it isn't him and then weird stuff is going on in the background and then robert smith's silhouette with glowing red eyes appears but only the silhouette and also if you go back and watch it again you will notice that the band member's shadows are "wrong" in many ways
ok so yeah all that stuff right above this isn't necessarily true it was just my interpretation of a youtube video that was poor quality and this video here is higher quality and has a different and better interpretation but I still like mine so if you want to read the strike through-ed text above this by all means please go ahead!
happy halloween
ok bonus super weird creepy video that useff showed me and said it was like scary and it actually is this motherfucker looks like he's possessed and shit this video isn't on youtube so please do not sue me for being a huge fucking liar sorry
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