link of the day – the deadly syndrome on tour
Do you like music? I like music. I like music so much that at the opening show of The Pixies Doolittle tour in Los Angeles last night I forgot to order a “call” vodka and instead wound up with “well” vodka. And not just once, but three times. Not the rookie move you really want to make for a Thursday work morning, but I was just so excited I could have peed all over the floor of the Hollywood Palladium like a puppy. Make that a drunk puppy (who is now a slightly sick puppy). Anyway, if you can’t make it to one of The Pixies shows—it’s worth it, trust me—maybe you can check out our friends in The Deadly Syndrome. They’re on a slightly less grandiose tour at present but it’s a tour just the same and they need to be loved just like everybody else does. And on that handsome note: Rock over London, rock on, Chicago. Dickhouse—it takes a load off.
more link of the day
Spike Jonze discusses his latest film Where The Wild Things Are.
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The Chattanooga Free Times visits Roger Alan Wade at home.
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A Shredordie.com webisode of Free Lunch, featuring Tom Green.
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Tell Them Anything You Want, a new documentary short by filmmakers Lance Bangs and Spike Jonze premiering on HBO.
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link of the day – mancrush.com
For the past several months a couple community members—a “Mrs. Knoxville” and “Bessie” to be precise*—took it upon themselves (and tried forcing several others) to get Johnny Knoxville ranked number one on mancrush.com. Well, they finally did it and here’s the proof of their online guerrilla efforts. No mean feat, either, seeing as they had seemingly insurmountable odds going up against “Jesus Christ” and “God” (technically these are the one and same divine being if you’re of the Christian persuasion, but I shan’t get into the believed to be Triune details at present). Anyway, am I alone here in finding this site somewhat confusing? I mean, if you have a “man crush” on someone, doesn’t that technically mean you’re of a same sex nature? And if that’s the homosexual case, then is it really true that all these dudes have a crush on Jesus? Yeah, he is a supreme being, no doubt there, but what exactly is it? The long, wavy hair with naturally golden halo highlights? The light olive-skinned complexion? Flowing robes cut from a swaddly and cuddly cloth? All I know for sure is that it can’t be a foot thing, because any guy that goes walking around an arid climate in flip-flops for 33 years is going to have some seriously muffed up feet. But Winston Churchill … now there’s a man’s man.
* As well as Shannon and Kelly, I’m now being told, but I don’t think they ever pestered me as much as the other two.
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This Saturday, September 12th, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia is pulling up to the Chicago Underground Film Fest for its grand Midwest premiere.
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When I first heard of Twitter I thought it was total bullshit. Time passed, I matured, I got an account, and now I realize it's not total bullshit after all. It's only 99.99% bullshit. And here's the .01% that makes it worthwhile for a giggle or two throughout the working day.
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With Where The Wild Things Are set to hit theaters this October, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City has announced an exhibition entitled "Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years."
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