Divine performing her single “Born To Be Cheap” (1979, Wax Trax Records) on a 1984 episode of The Alan Thicke Show.
The Planters Snacks commercial adds the perfect outro for this punky performance by the immortal Divine.
David Johansen eat your heart out.
Italian pop superstar Adriano Celentano recorded the infectious “Prisencolinensinainciusol” in 1972 and it became a big hit in Italy. In the past couple of years the video for the song has gone viral.
Sounding a bit like a parody of Bob Dylan, the lyrics in “Prisencolinensinainciusol” are gibberish. Centano explains:
[H]aving just recorded an album of songs that meant something, I wanted to do something that meant nothing.”
YouTube’s Buffalax sees the song differently than its composer and has translated the seemingly incoherent song into something slightly more coherent. Here is “Prisencolinensinainciusol” with subtitles.
I wanted to call shenanigans on this, but the person who uploaded it on YouTube says,“This video was discovered by someone who used to work at a public library several years ago. This has not been edited in any way. This is 100% authentic.”
There’s even a poor man’s Portishead tune that reminds you to “Think about this.”
(via Nerdcore )
Britain’s The Klaxon Institute has developed a revolutionary technology that is one small but significant step toward solving world hunger.
As the name suggests, reverse liposuction, or the stretch-and-blow technique, is liposuction turned on its head. Developed by Dr Herod Richards at the Klaxon Institute on Harley St, London, it involves the removal of excess fatty tissue, as with ordinary liposuction procedures. The crucial difference is that this valuable resource is not wasted. Instead, the excess fat is stored and then introduced into the bodies of those with a shortage of fats. This could be for purely aesthetic reasons – but the Klaxon Institute has pledged to use it for humanitarian reasons. Fat from the west is flown out to some of the poorest people in the third world and donated to them. This allows people who would otherwise starve to build up a reserve of fat that they can live off for months at a time, removing the need for them to try to feed themselves.
Watch the video. But more importantly become involved by donating to the Klaxon Institute here.
Via Who Killed Bambi
A Pathetone Weekly news featurette from the 1930s, in which our intrepid news hound guessed what the average woman about town would wear in 2000. The light-bulb head-dress is a winner.
Back in the days when there were video stores, you’d find 1977’s Chatterbox in a faded box stuffed on a dusty shelf alongside Roller Boogie and Slammer Girls . Released by ubiquitous B-movie merchants Vestron Video, Chatterbox isn’t good or bad enough to be a cult hit or sexy enough to be a softcore pud tugger. One would think a movie about a singing vagina would have one or two money shots, but no, not even a closeup of a lip syncing labia. What it does have is Tarantino’s favorite sex kitten Candice Rialson (Candy Stripe Nurses, Hollywood Boulevard, Summer School Teachers) in the role of Penny and the erotically challenged Rip Taylor and Professor Irwin Corey.
Chatterbox isn’t a total bust as you will see in the following clip where Penny’s vagina (named Virginia and dressed in what appears to be one Liberace’s fur coats) belts out a show tune, “Cock-a-Doodle-Doo,” accompanied by a bunch of Studio 54 bartenders in molting bird costumes. It all comes to a mindboggling climax on a giant spinning donut.
Lift up your skirt and sing along if you like.
A DM reader brought to my attention that it’s Rip Taylor’s birthday today. Happy birthday Rip!
Better yet, keep your Italo disco. Here’s some actual Krautrock. Yes, It’s the Sauerkraut synthesizer, the work of one Gordon Monahan.
Gordon Monahan’s Sauerkraut Synthesizer is an experimental synth, built around fruits, vegetables, and a jar of sauerkraut as voltage controllers for a software synthesizer, built with ppooll-max/msp and an Arduino interface.
The video captures a live performance on the Sauerkraut Synthesizer at the Subtle Technologies Festival, on board a cruise ship in Toronto Harbour, June 5, 2010.
The Sauerkraut Synthesizer is based on a technical prototype using lemons (The Lemon Synthesizer), developed as a collaboration between Gordon Monahan, Akemi Takeya, and Noid, in Vienna, March, 2009.
Witness the majesty of the Lemon Synthesizer after the jump…
