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Eldridge Cleaver: The true penis pants innovator
04.23.2010
09:08 pm
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In light of Bradley’s penis pants post I’ve had several hipsters point out to me that Eldridge Cleaver was there first, and so he was. Lord have mercy.
 
thx Heather Harris And Deborah McElmeel !

 

Posted by Brad Laner
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04.23.2010
09:08 pm
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Penis Pants: For Super-Casual Friday!
04.23.2010
05:34 pm
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Ah, my “Prince Charming” outfit is now complete!  Pants from Spanish designer Isabel Mastache’s Fall/Winter ‘10 collection.  More from the collection below:

 
(via StreetAnatomy)

(thanks Tara!)

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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04.23.2010
05:34 pm
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The Anna Karina Soap Commerical
04.23.2010
04:21 pm
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Criterion just released the Blu-Ray version of 1962’s Vivre sa Vie, starring Jean-Luc Godard‘s one-time wife, but always expressive muse, Anna Karina.  Much like many a real-life Hollywood story, Vivre sa Vie charts an aspiring creative type’s descent into prostitution.  And while it may end in tragedy, the surfaces along the way are typically gorgeous to look at.

Karina would, of course, continue to appear in such essential Godard films as Band of Outsiders and Pierrot le Fou, but she was first introduced to the director in the French soap commercial below:

 
Interestingly enough, Karina’s soap commercial also makes an appearance in the Guy Debord film, On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Period of Time (previously on Dangerous Minds here).

As Karina lathers up, the Situationist engineer himself intones in a voice-over: “The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life.”  While you’re left to ponder that one, check out what many feel to be one of Vivre sa Vie‘s more sublime moments, Nana’s Dance:

 
Bonus: Luc Sante on Vivre sa Vie

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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04.23.2010
04:21 pm
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Chavtowns: Blog About UK Chav Antics
04.23.2010
04:09 pm
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Chavtowns is a public blog dedicated to horror stories of towns run by chavs (council housed and violents). The blog is stacked with highly impressive tales (sorted by region!) of the antics of the chavs, most of which are too out-of-hand to post directly. But this should give you the gist:

Romford is commonly referred to as ’slag town’ and i’ve heard that a number of times when people have asked me where im from. The thing is, its hard to dislike Romford – its a slice of fried gold next door to Dagenham and gangster paradise Ilford. But, its notorious for a lot of really embarrassing and stupid things – notably its chav form. Slag Town, and I heard it from a Dagenhamite once, is a haven of orange tinged cockneys. Girls walk around with dodgy make up and highlights with the typically Romford talk ‘me old mucka’ and ‘wa’s goin on son?’. Unlike other outer London Boroughs, Havering is surrounded by cackholes like Basildon and rough Essex-boi areas like Loughton and Debden. Literally everyone in Romford wants to be Danny Dyer and you see flocks of angry young men with comb overs and polo shirts heading towards Liquid and Envy on a Friday night ready to get ‘gattered’ or find a girl and ‘bang her’...

Romford is one of those areas where if you look at someone on the street, you WILL be challenged. The number of times I have been threatened by a yute on a pushbike and a hoody is big big big and it isnt uncommon to see a 14 year old girl with a ponytale and tracksuit top holding a baby in one arm and a fag in the next.

I also found this rather stupendous story, which through a stroke of some kind of blind Internet info juxtaposition luck I was able to actually find the video of, attached at the bottom of the post. It’s… well, just watch it.

Arguably the thing that made Crawley famous was a little event in an area local to my house called Tilgate Park. A place where, shockingly for Crawley, there are very few council houses. Single mums teenage mums, however, are surprisingly enduring when it comes to finding a home. Anyway, some chavs who were feeling far more clever than they actually were hooked a moped up to a child’s roundabout. They proceeded to rev it and cried in youthful glee when the engine caused the toy to spin. Three Chavettes then seated themselves on it and the fun began. It spun so fast that the stupid s***s were thrown off and given broken limbs and third degree friction burns. This made NATIONAL NEWS and so it should. We should remember the amazing depths of chav idocy. We could scarcly believe it. Other chavs could scarcely believe it.

(Chavtowns.co.uk)

Posted by Jason Louv
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04.23.2010
04:09 pm
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John Michael Greer: Economic Superstitions
04.23.2010
03:38 pm
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Archdruid John Michael Greer’s excellent new article on how the Iceland volcano poked some very large holes in our assumptions about the way things run, and how many of our views on economics are the superstitions of the modern age. Very lucid, clear, direct-to-the-point stuff.

The widespread reaction to the Eyjafjallajokull eruption, for that matter, points up what may just be the most deeply rooted of our superstitions, the belief that Nature can be ignored with impunity. It’s only fair to point out that for most people in the industrial world, for most of a century now, this has been true more often than not; the same exuberant abundance that produced ski slopes in Dubai and fresh strawberries in British supermarkets in January made it reasonable, for a while, to act as though whatever Nature tossed our way could be brushed aside. In the emerging postabundance age, though, this may be the most dangerous superstition of all. The tide of cheap abundant energy that has defined our attitudes as much as our technologies is ebbing now, and we are rapidly losing the margin of error that made our former arrogance possible.

As that change unfolds, it might be worth suggesting that it’s time to discard our current superstitions concerning economics, energy, and nature, and replace them with some more functional approach to these things. A superstition, once again, is an observance that has become detached from its meaning, and one of the more drastic ways this detachment can take place is a change in the circumstances that make that meaning relevant. This has arguably happened to our economic convictions, and to a great many more of the commonplaces of modern thought; and it’s simply our bad luck, so to speak, that the consequences of pursuing those superstitions in the emerging world of scarcity and contraction are likely to be considerably more destructive than those of planting by the signs or leaving a dish of milk on the back step.

(Archdruid Report: Economic Superstitions)

(The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World)

Posted by Jason Louv
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04.23.2010
03:38 pm
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Nimoy Sunset Pie
04.23.2010
02:47 pm
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Last one I swear!
 
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Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Bea Arthur Mountains Pizza
Selleck Waterfall Sandwich
 
(via Mister Honk)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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04.23.2010
02:47 pm
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RGB Wallpaper
04.23.2010
02:10 pm
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Brilliant wallpaper design by Carnovsky. From design blog Today and Tomorrow:

Three different patterns are printed over each other, resulting in a very unclear image. Red, green or blue light can hide 2 of the patterns and make the third one appear.

Posted by Tara McGinley
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04.23.2010
02:10 pm
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Giorgio Moroder’s Extraordinary Records
04.23.2010
11:48 am
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Wait, what ? Giorgio Moroder did a coffee table book for Taschen about all of the most gorgeous colored vinyl/ picture disc/ odd shaped records produced during vinyl’s multi-decade reign as sound medium of choice ? One for me, please !
 
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Posted by Brad Laner
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04.23.2010
11:48 am
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Spoiler alert! John Locke is not The Smoke Monster
04.23.2010
01:50 am
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I fucking knew it! 
 
(via An Internet Website and The Daily What)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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04.23.2010
01:50 am
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Home Restaurant Guy Has a Pop Group
04.22.2010
11:43 pm
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Horton Jupiter, the Stoke Newington DJ who has a restaurant in his house (as linked earlier in the week), wrote in to let us know he has a pop group:

thanks for the heads up for the Secret Ingredient. If you think my home restaurant is dangerous you should check out my pop group (currently on hold as we were very widely misunderstood and often openly hated) (not least by MTV, who were “disgusted” by this video, which frankly, on a budget of 800 quid, including the use of the helicopter, is a tribute to human ingenuity). Enjoy! horton ;o) x

The YouTube comments say:

the full version of the new stars popvideo, featuring a cameo appearance by one of our all-time heroes, Kevin Rowland, a True Star, aswell as one by Sean from Autechre (drawing a willy on my head, bastard!), a custard pie fight, a hula champion, and They Came From The Stars, i saw them leaving the stadium in a helicopter! Oh, and how could we forget - this video features the debut “performance” of hit band The Reality. visit their website at www.myspace.com/therealityuk

I am perplexed.

(They Came From the Stars, I Saw Them on Last.fm)

(Moon Song (Holy Ghost! Remix))

Posted by Jason Louv
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04.22.2010
11:43 pm
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