(Source: archieoutofcontext)
Goal, Squid Attack for USA.
“And the eye-in-the-sky is watching us all.”
My first fake Criterion Collection cover.
Oh skycake…
…why must you be so delicious?
“The Dove World Outreach Center is a small nondenominational church in Florida that reportedly has no more than a few dozen members. The church website describes it as a “New Testament Church — based on the Bible, the Word of God.
Its online store sells T-shirts, ball caps and coffee mugs with the phrase “Islam is of the devil.” According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks groups espousing intolerance, the 25-year-old church in Gainesville regularly professes anti-gay and anti-Muslim sentiments, with members at one point joining in an anti-gay rally with the Westboro Baptist Church, the group that brings signs that say “God Hates” homosexuals to military funerals.”
Now news of the church’s burning of a Koran has apparently incited a mob in Afghanistan to attack a U.N. compound there, killing at least eight foreign staffers.”
Remember the SNL game-show sketch “Who’s More Grizzled?” I’m pretty sure Tom Waits and Neil Young would always win, even if they were playing against each other.
You might have noticed that I haven’t updated my Tumblr much since it’s inception, and this is the reason. I’ve been playing guitar off-and-on since I was 16, most of it on an American Standard Fender Stratocaster. I decided on a whim to trade in my Strat for a Telecaster, courtesy of Twin Town Guitar.
Watch this and read the recent GQ article, “The Day the Movies Died.” When combined, they present a pretty cohesive story of where American film is at right now.
The video isn’t as depressing as the article, as there are only so many types of stories that can be told, but the GQ piece paints a pretty grim depiction of how American films are green-lit and marketed.
Oh hi-didn’t see you come in.
I joined tumblr for two reasons:
- Record my ramblings on pop and web-culture
- Explore the design capabilities of the themes. You’ll probably see the design and layout change a lot.
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Ten Years After
—I'd Love to Change the World
Adventures in Terrible Lyrics: “I’d Love to Change the World” by Ten Years After
It’s always embarrassing to hear a song that you used to like and realize that the lyrics are lazy and pretentious. I hadn’t heard this song until 2004 when it was used in the trailer for Fahrenheit 9/11. I heard it again this afternoon on KQRS. Instrumentally, it’s pretty good, but Christ™ are the lyrics awful:
Everywhere is freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity
Tax the rich, feed the poor
Till there are no rich no more
I’d love to change the world
But I don’t know what to do
So I’ll leave it up to you
Population keeps on breeding
Nation bleeding, still more feeding economy
Life is funny, skies are sunny
Bees make honey, who needs money, Monopoly
I’d love to change the world
But I don’t know what to do
So I’ll leave it up to you
World pollution, there’s no solution
Institution, electrocution
Just black and white, rich or poor
Them and us, stop the war
I’d love to change the world
But I don’t know what to do
So I’ll leave it up to you
This is the reason that people (myself included) hate hippies and the hippie mentality. There are a slew of things I could tear apart in this song, but this phrase has to be one of the laziest, nonsensical passages I’ve ever heard in a rock song:
Life is funny, skies are sunny
Bees make honey, who needs money, Monopoly
Just pick a word and rhyme from it—doesn’t matter if it makes sense.
