I think there might be easier ways to do this… I don’t believe I’ve ever stumbled across someone “forming a triangle” before in a public bathroom. In any case, I hope you found this useful?
Diagram from The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook.
I gotta get me one of these. It might teach the menfolk not to piss on my floor. Photo taken by Flickr user masterklaas at the Rheinfels Castle in Germany.
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Painting by Eunice San Miguel of Los Angeles
Here’s a blog post ode to one of my most beloved films Harold and Maude. I guess I’m not the only one totally gaga over this movie—I put together a collection of artists’ creations in a shared celebration of their affection for Harold and Maude too.
By Julian Callos of Los Angeles
Harold-n-Maude by leodhas
More after the jump…
Last month La Gaité Lyrique in Paris launched a large scale exhibit devoted to skateboard culture.This video by skateboarding legend and deck designer Natas Kaupas animates some classic board graphics.
For a close-up look at the animated graphics check out Cargo’s website.
Via Skate And Annoy
Yes this is a real thing and it is spectacularly sad amusing. Rent-A-Friend was released in 1986 for lonely peeps with VCRs who, well… needed a pal. Sam (your new rent-a-friend) has long converstions with you about life and shit. He’ll even hang up the phone just to listen to you!
If you’re super lonely or just need a shoulder to cry on, you can buy Sam for $16.00 here.
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Denver-based street artist Theo has only been working since February but already he’s getting a lot of attention. Inspired by his love of beat writer Jack Kerouac’s novel On The Road and the Banksy documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, Theo and other members of the Kerouac Project, have taken to stenciling pensive looking “Kerouacs” around various locations in Denver where the writer was known to have visited or that he mentioned in his book. It’s also a protest of the fact that the upcoming film adaptation of the book is being shot in Canada. From the Denver Westorld:
Sixty years after Jack Kerouac filled a 120-foot scroll in a haze of lust, creative ambition and amphetamines that resulted in the original On the Road, producer Francis Ford Coppola is actually making a movie of the book — his third attempt. But while On the Road is a distinctly American classic, he’s filming the entire movie in Canada.
That snub is particularly egregious considering that Denver factors prominently into the action — in fact, you could argue that our fair city is a main character in the book. While, sure, some of the action takes place on either coast, Denver is like the meat of that literary sandwich, providing the book with a prodigious amount of its soul, not to mention its hands-down best character: one Dean Moriarty, known in real life as Neal Cassady, Denver boy and Beat god.
And in the rabble-rousing spirit of Cassady himself, at least one team of “elite street thugs” is not taking the slight lying down. For the last few months, cloaked in secrecy and carrying a copy of On the Road and a handful of stencils, this group has been visiting known Kerouac hangouts and doing the writer a favor he may or may not have gotten around to himself: tagging them with a likeness and the words “JACK WAS HERE.”
“I got the idea when I heard about the film adaptation coming out,” explains the artist and ringleader, a shadowy figure who calls himself only Theo. “The filmmakers substituted Gatineau, Quebec, for Denver. I’ve been a Kerouac addict for years, and I’ve always wanted to pay tribute to the author in some way, but it only recently hit me just how this could be done: It’s just a simpler reminder that Kerouac was here in Denver and not some small town in Canada that no one’s ever heard of. I think it’s an appropriate gesture to celebrate one counterculture with another.”
There is a very cool Tumblr blog dedicated to the “Jack Was Here” Kerouac Project.
Above, outside of Neal Cassady’s favorite bar at 15th and Platte Street in Denver. Below, Kerouac interviewed in French on Canadian television, 1967.
Motley Crue, Poison or the NY Dolls?
Two fifths of The New York Dolls played Kenosha Wisconsin on June 25 as the opening act, in a chronological and cosmic sense, for Motley Crue and Poison. Had there be no Dolls, would there have been a Crue or Poison? I think not.
Anyway, here’s a fun interview with David and Sylvain conducted by Kenosha cable TV star Dr. Destruction. Johansen, looking a bit like a cross between Carol Channing and Paul Williams, is more than ready for the Catskills or an ashram. I love how David slips in a reference to radical mystic Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran. That has to be a first on Kenosha cable.
Portuguese singer Carlos Bastos performs “Satisfaction” with all the longing and mourning of the fado style.
Bastos really really can’t get any satisfaction. At times sounding a bit like Bryan Ferry, Bastos takes the Stones classic and wrings every drop of desperation out of the tune.
The visuals are from Luciano Martino’s Italian mondo movie Naked Cities.
Number 10 in a series of soul crushing covers of classic rock tunes.
Thanks to folks at PC LinkDump for introducing me to the Jack Kevorkian of Portuguese pop music, Carlos Bastos.
Another song to slit your wrists to after the jump…
