Gilda Radner as “Candy Slice,” her Patti Smith-like character from SNL’s glory days of the 70s. In hindsight, “Candy” seems much more like Amy Winehouse, of course, than Patti Smith, who was never much of a “rock-n-roll animal.”
The clip below is from Gilda Live
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Gilda Radner: Let’s Talk Dirty to the Animals
The barely animated Henry Rollins and Tom Waits give advice on what to do when falling in love with a dead person.
With thanks to Tom Ruddock
Super Punch is currently holding a bizarre art-mashup contest of the Beatles meets Stanley Kubrick meets Lord of the Rings. There are some pretty humorous entries in the lot. Here’s a taste:
Go visit Super Punch to view more entries and vote.
The Lizard King has an epiphany and starts channeling Bill Murray…all the way from the future.
Great minds meld outside of time. Can ya dig pure unbounded joy?
Jamaica has finally distinguished itself a bit in the global animation community. It’s easy to see why JA animators Allison and Anieph Latchman’s five-minute Cabbie Chronicles: Drive Thru Drama short won the Best Caribbean Animation Award at this year’s Animae Caribe Animation and New Media Festival. It’s some straight-up homegrown Kingston street satire.
Don’t get it twisted—Jamaicans have been doing animation for a minute now—for example, Coretta Singer’s fantastical 3-D work has been shown out in the global animation circuit for a couple of years now. And folks can point to the cutting-edge Ninjamaica, but that was a Canadian production. Cabbie Chronicles is straight from yard, and hopefully one of a long-running series that sets the tone for an era of great ‘toons from the island.
After the jump: check an interview with the screwfaced Cabbie himself…
This is better than The Who and Springsteen’s Superbowl half-time shows combined!
“By using long poles and four adult-sized puppets—with himself in the middle – Christopher is able to be all five Village People at one time.”
A selection of Amy Winehouse’s teenage lyrics and a “to-do-list” has been found in a “stash of dumped school books,” Britain’s Sun reports:
They also include diary entries the Rehab singer made when 17 in 2001, the year before she landed a recording contract.
In one Amy, who has fought cocaine and booze addiction, urges herself to “live like the bombshell I really am”.
In another she tells of her lust for a fella named Felix and writes: “There’s too much sexual tension.”
Amy, now 27, scrawled lyrics amid course work for an English Literature A-level. She wrote “Amy’s Songs” on the front of a red notebook.
Lines include: “I’m digging myself into a hole/These days I’ll just work when once I had so much soul.”
Another verse starts: “Drain my drink & order more.” And a third - “Find someone with whom I can come undone” - predicted her future with junkie BLAKE FIELDER-CIVIL.
The books were found in rubbish on a North London street.
Amy’s to-do-list includes: buy a flat, buy a car, buy a sunbed, get a gym membership - all of which pales into insignificance when compared to what Amy eventually did do.
Full pics and story here.
Amy’s youthful longing.
The shape of things to come?
Via The Sun
BLING!
Cause Small Change got rained on with his own thirty-eight
And a fistful of dollars can’t change that,
And someone copped his watch fob, and someone got his ring
And the newsboy got his porkpie Stetson hat”
Andy Rash has a fun blog where he posts his Iotacons - extremely low resolution portraits of things that take his interest. He’s already created Iotacons for the Senate, the Supreme Court, the actor Roger Moore, and the film Casablanca, amongst others. Now here’s Andy’s version of the Indiana Jones film franchise.
Top Row: Dr. Marcus Brody, Mr. Katanga, Sallah, Marion Ravenwood, Indiana Jones, The Ark of the Covenant, Dr. René Belloq, Major Arnold Toht, Colonel Dietrich, Satipo, Major Eaton.
Second Row: Captain Phillip Blumburtt, Shaman, Short Round, Willie Scott, Indiana Jones, Sankara Stone, Mola Ram, Chattar Lal, Little Maharaja, Chief Guard, Lao Che.
Third Row: Grail Knight, Dr. Marcus Brody, Sallah, Professor Henry Jones, Indiana Jones, The Holy Grail, Walter Donavan, Dr. Elsa Schneider, Kazim, General Vogel, Panama Hat
Fourth Row: Dean Charles Stanforth, Professor Oxley, Mutt Williams, Marion Ravenwood, Indiana Jones, Crystal Skull, Irina Spalko, George “Mac” Michale, Dovchenko, Mayan Warrior, Cemetery Warrior
