Always the savvy marketer, Zappa sure knew how to reach his audience, eh? As seen in Daredevil #38.
And here’s another piece of obscure Zappa ephemera, a Clio Award-winning soundtrack for a Luden’s Cough Drops TV commercial that he did in 1967.
My god what this must have looked like to Carl Burnett’s audience in 1973! What did my grandmother, a big Carol Burnett fan, think of this? Knowing her she probably loved it.
from Luxist via Jonathan Gold, thx !
“Something about Hello Kitty just makes me think of the dump truck load of saccharine that it takes to give a lab rat cancer. The wine is actually quite pleasant, with hints of red fruits and a nice floral bouquet. It is not cloying at all, as some sweet sparklers can be.
I don’t know if any of you have heard about the whole sex scandal with Tiger Woods, but if the world famous golfer thought the worst was behind him, when he woke up this morning to the news that one of his alleged mistresses, porn star Joslyn James (real name: Veronica Siwik-Daniels), had put up 100 of his “sexy” text messages to her online at a site called Sexting Joslyn James.com, he was certainly disabused of that notion immediately. If his wife is already as homicidal as she seems to be, he’d better make sure all of his golf clubs (and all sharp objects) are well out of her grasp when she gets a load of this site, because this will push her well over the edge! It would be in poor taste for me to reprint them here, but trust me, this is some good, hilarious shit.
Unless, of course, you’re Tiger Woods…
Okay, here’s some of the better ones. Yuu don’t get her side, but it’s pretty obvious how she answers anyway:
Tiger:Sent: 01:28 PM 09/08/2009:
Have you ever had a golden shower done to youTiger:Sent: 01:29 PM 09/08/2009:
Just morbid curiosityTiger:Sent: 01:30 PM 09/08/2009:
Really. You. You have done just about everything havent youTiger:Sent: 01:32 PM 09/08/2009:
Never done it. I think i would get stage freight
The dude is fuckin’ toast, isn’t he? Talk about revenge served cold… ouch.
I think it’s a safe bet to say that there are many porn aficionados who are also fans of Dungeons & Dragons. A subset thereof. But it’s also probably not going too far out on a limb to suggest that nearly ALL D&D aficionados are porn fans, too. I mean, well…that’s just not a very controversial statement, is it?
So this is why author, artist and male pornstar Zak Smith’s blog, Playing D&D with Pornstars is becoming so popular. The name obviously has a lot to do with it—tell me your eyes didn’t go right to the title—but so might the alt porn kittens who dungeon master Smith plays with: Sasha Grey. Kimberly Kane, Justine Joli, Mandy Morbid and Satine Phoenix.
Four Ways of Looking at a Vampire (Playing D&D with Pornstars)
Thank you Anthony Miller!
James “Bucks” Burnett is a “collector.” He used to write the Mr. Ed Fan Club newsletter and he managed the one and only Tiny Tim. Now he wants to open an eight-track museum.
From the WSJ:
“There are only two choices. A world with an eight-track museum and a world without an eight-track museum,” he says. “I choose with.”
Shortly after the show, the planners of a music conference in Denton, a music-loving college town about 40 miles north of Dallas, made Mr. Burnett an offer. They would find him a vacant space and pay $4,000 to build a temporary museum for a one-month run beginning Friday.
Mr. Burnett accepted and is readying his collection for another display, this time in a former lingerie factory in Denton. He plans to showcase and play a few hundred tapes, including a baby-blue copy of The Who’s “Tommy,” a copy of the “Easy Rider” soundtrack with sun-bleached cover art signed by Peter Fonda and a rare copy of Lou Reed’s 1975 avant-garde homage to noise called “Metal Machine Music.”
Play It Again: Promoter Has One-Track Mind About Eight Tracks (WSJ)
[Pleased to say I own a copy of Metal Machine Music on 8-track. Displayed proudly on my book shelf. I think it might be the first or second oldest possession I have, dating to when I was probably ten years old. I think it cost a dollar, still sealed, at a white trash department store my mother shopped at in Wheeling, WV.]
Xenorita Jardin of Boing Boing shares the musical spoils of her visit to Amoeba Records in Hollywood, probably the best record store I’ve ever been to. Believe me when I tell you, ‘cos I’ve shopped for records all over the world. Amoeba is a record collector’s heaven. I have spent many an afternoon (and paycheck!) there. (Dig the Alan Lomax in Haiti
I refer you to the comments thread of this week’s Dangerous Minds interview with Charles Johnson, of Little Green Footballs. This afternoon Charles linked to the interview from his popular blog and within a matter of minutes people were posting about the interview both there and here. Some pro, some con (I get compared to Sean Hannity for instance!), but some just nasty and fairly pointless, such as one item (since deleted by us and not at the request of Charles, either) which managed to slip in both a homophobic epithet and a not-so-veiled death threat!
Charming.
As Charles replied “Welcome to my world! These are exactly the people I was talking about in the interview.” I sent him the IP address and in a matter of minutes he tracked the guy down and found several instances of his email address posted online elsewhere.
Views were initially slow on this episode, but are trending upwards quickly. I’ll leave this up for another day before posting part 2.
There’s an interesting-looking art show at the ArcLight Cinemas multiplex opening tonight that caught my eye in David Ng’s post over at the LA Time’s Culture Monster blog. L.A. artist Rachel Schmeidler takes celebrity mug shots and renders them in a Warholian style. The results are simultaneously amusing, thought-provoking and chock-full of schadenfreude!
Included in the show are mug shots of Charlie Sheen, Paris Hilton, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Lenny Bruce, Jimi Hendrix, Jane Fonda, George Carlin and the Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown. Quite a (literal) rogues’ gallery.
I’m glad to see that my favorite celebrity mug shot, that of David Bowie (above), has made it into Schmeidler’s show. Have you ever seen a more elegant and sophisticated mug shot in all your life? If it were not for the intrusion of the Rochester Police Department placard he’s holding, this particular mug shot might be mistaken for an outtake from his “Station to Station” album cover art! Most mug shots, even those of big Hollywood celebrities, tend to look like Nick Nolte’s “portrait,” right? Not the Thin White Duke’s, baby!
What’s fun to consider is how these pieces will acquire greater and greater “camp” value over the years. Charlie Sheen’s mug shot (shots?) as seen on TMZ and Perez Hilton today will gain, in time, the same sort of arch, kitschy excess as, for instance, a mug shot of disgraced silent era comedian Fatty Arbuckle has.
Stated differently, a mug shot of Twiggy, say, would have a higher kitsch quotient than one of Naomi Campbell, although the Campbell mug shot might well surpass it in the camp sweepstakes at a later date. What would Susan Sontag make of this post-camp fare, I wonder?
—Richard Metzger
Cross posting this from Brand X