James Mason For Thunderbird Wine
04.15.2010
11:14 am
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Thunderbird, for the suave sophisticate. It’s really quite unusual.
thx Celeste Moreno !
Thunderbird, for the suave sophisticate. It’s really quite unusual.
thx Celeste Moreno !
Calling all Juggalos:
A Swiss actor is carving out a new career as a sinister-looking clown—terrifying children’s birthday parties. Dominic Deville had the brainwave after watching his favourite horror movies and set up his Evil Clown service in Lucerne. And he says his unlikely new venture is going so well that he’s laughing all the way to the bank.
After he is hired to scare a birthday boy or girl, he first contacts his ‘victims’ to tell them they’re being watched. Then he taunts them with texts, phone calls and booby-trapped letters warning them that at sometime in their party he’s going to smash a cake into their face. “It’s all in fun and if at any point the kids get scared or their parents are concerned we stop right there,” he explained. “But most kids absolutely love being scared senseless.”
WHOA! Here’s an excerpt of a bizarre interview freaky YouTube user Tonetta did with Lolokaust:
Lolokaust: Every time someone new comes on the scene the music press always try and categorize and pigeonhole an artist, this wont be easy in your case so how would you describe what you do?
Tone: I don’t really know i just accept what it is
Lolokaust: Do you collaborate with anyone to make your music?
Tone: no I do it all myself
Lolokaust: Who are your musical influences and is there anyone to whom you aspire to?
Tone: the genius John Lennon
Lolokaust: There are many references to the male member in your lyrics, is this something particularly close to your heart?
Tone: I’m simply promoting it.
Lolokaust: Many of the songs are about sexual deviancy, Would you consider yourself a Sexual Deviant?
Tone: Yes I am.
Lolokaust: You have had incidents with Youtube deleting your videos/accounts, What are your thoughts on Internet Censorship?
Tone: Makes no sense
Read more of the interview with the infamous Tonetta over at Lolokaust.
How sad is this? Paul Hooson writing on the Wizbang Pop blog:
The wife of indie-music icon, Alex Chilton, Laura Kersting, revealed how the legendary singer was suffering serious heart symptoms recently, but had to delay seeking medical help due to a lack of health insurance. According to his wife, the 59 year old singer had been mowing the lawn recently, when he developed shortness of breath and chills. Chilton lived in New Orleans.
Chilton was the lead vocalist of The Box Tops, and had a multi-gold 4 million selling single with “The Letter” at the tender age of just 16. Chilton was scheduled for a reunion show with Big Star only days before he called his wife at work to say that he wasn’t feeling very well. She rushed home to get him, and while in the car, Chilton lost consciousness only a block before they arrived at the hospital emergency room door. Chilton was soon pronounced dead.
Chilton lived in a mixed race neighborhood in New Orleans. He and and his wife managed to survive the great storm that ruined the city in recent years. Strangely, Chilton chose to use a push mower to mow his own lawn, and lived a very humble life. Although, Chilton had sold several million records over his career, he never became wealthy.
Despite a string of great singles and a huge imprint on American power pop music, Alex Chilton was just your “Average Joe” musician.
Thanks Steven Otero!
Thanks again to Matt Musick at Motherboard.tv for sending me this segment they did on Sid Meier—the acknowledged greatest game designer of all time (he’s most famous for the game “Civilization”—“Pirates” and “Alpha Centauri” are two other favorites). The video follows Meier as he judges a contest to create a video game in 48 hours, apparently the video game equivalent of the 3-day novel and 24-hour comic book.
The master behind Civilization I through IV, Pirates!, Railroad Tycoon, and dozens of other titles, Sid Meier is one of the most acclaimed game designers of all time. Always a true believer in the idea that games will someday rule the world, Meier wants to inspire a new generation of game designers. Namely, the ones from his alma mater at Michigan, where he returns in this episode of Motherboard, in order to judge and of course participate in the “7th Annual Wolverine Soft 48 Hour Game Design Contest,” which pits coders and designers against each other in a race to create a game in two days.
Sid first used a computer as an undergrad at Michigan, when punch cards and time-sharing meant that one mistake cost hours of time. It was on that early IBM mainframe that Sid designed the first tic-tac‐toe game, a use for which he was chastised and nearly kicked out.
Shocking news—professional StarCraft, the biggest national sport in South Korea, has apparently been rigged by the mob for years. Infected Hive! INFECTED HIVE!
We all know South Korea takes their StarCraft seriously, but here’s a new window into just how seriously: Reports of widespread match-fixing and illegal betting is rocking the pro-gamer StarCraft community in the country, literally shaming some of the most popular professional StarCraft players into retiring.
As Gamepron reports, “various pro gamers” were involved in rigging their matches in coordination with illegal gambling groups, having some players intentionally lose their matches as well as leak replay files of their matches to said gambling groups. But it wasn’t just a few current players involved in the deceit—evidently the widespread match-fixing involved retired players and coaches who helped the gambling rings get in contact with the current players in the first place.
And what’s more, reports state that the e-sports organizers in South Korea knew about the match-fixing (although for how long isn’t clear), and attempted to resolve the issue themselves before actually discussing “the possibility of co-existing with the illegal betting sites.”
(Previously on Dangerous Minds: The Odd World of Professional Starcraft Players)
Although this stunning piece of phased psychedelic madness was released in 1967 as Caleb, it is actually the work of one Caleb Quaye. Quaye was a top notch guitarist during the 70s working with Hall & Oates, Paul McCartney, Pete Townsend and Mick Jagger, as well as being an key member in Elton John’s band. He would also start his very own goup Hookfoot, which operated from 1970 to 1974 and specialized in jazz-rock. In 1982 Quaye discovered Christianity and served as an associate pastor at Four Square Church in Pasadena, California. In 2006, Quaye’s autobiography, A Voice Louder Than Rock and Roll
If you’re left unamused by the shameless mugging on Friends, you won’t be laughing much at this either. Who knew North Korea had a long-running sitcom on the…oh my God, beans? Hysterical!
(via HuffPo)
Caught an excellent interview last week with recovering skinhead Frank Meeink. Meeink’s promoting a new autobiography on how he went from neo-Nazi mouthpiece to lecturer for the ADL, so I thought maybe the time was right to revisit Stormfront and see what might be looming on their summer reading list. Here’s a sampling of what those white-priders are recommending on the Whatcha Reading thread:
The Secret Diaries of Hitler’s Doctor by David Irving
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel’s Lobby by Paul Findley
Remotely Controlled: How Television Is Damaging Our Lives by Aric Sigman
Ultimate Sniper: An Advanced Training Manual For Military And Police Snipers by John Plaster
An Evil Love: The Life of Frederick West by Geoffrey Wansell
Hunting Humans: The Rise of the Modern Multiple Murderer by Elliott Leyton
Ford County by John Grisham
The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem by Henry Ford
Dune by Frank Herbert
