more best of 2008 youtube vidz

fuck auto-tune

just do it yourself...

Mad Dog, you son ova' bitch!

Here is another recent favorite. WARNING: The nerd factor is real high with this one.

More Youtubery

Here is my most recent favorite. Suck it republicans.

adding to the list : top 3 youtube vidz

Ante Up


Walk It Out


Fuck It, Do Live!

Add to the list

I want a collective top 10 of You-Tube video links here. So get those bookmarks out and start posting. Here are my top three to get things started...


The Slow Jerk



Close your eyes at 20 seconds in and imagine this woman riding you



Why I never want a daughter


The Worst Day Of Their Lives - Watch more Free Videos

Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII

FF13

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FFvs13

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Shoes thrown at Bush : shiteating grins abound.

Iraqi journalist throws shoes at Bush
Dec 14 01:52 PM US/Eastern

An Iraqi journalist threw two shoes towards George W Bush, without hitting him, as the US president was shaking hands with the Iraqi prime minister in his office in Baghdad on Sunday, an AFP journalist said.

Langerado 2009 looks good - does that make me old, white and hippie?

early line-up announced...

Death Cab For Cutie • Snoop Dogg • Thievery Corporation (Live) • Slightly Stoopid • Ryan Adams and the Cardinals • Dashboard Confessional • The Pogues • Matisyahu • Flogging Molly • Michael Franti & Spearhead • Broken Social Scene • Cafe Tacuba • Umphrey's McGee • The Disco Biscuits • Robert Randolph & The Family Band • Pepper • The Faint • Cold War Kids • Steel Pulse • Public Enemy • Gym Class Heroes • Tricky • Girl Talk • Chromeo • Mute Math • Bad Brains • Ozomatli • Against Me! • George Clinton & Parliament / Funkadelic • Tortoise • DeVotchKa • Black Kids • Grupo Fantasma • Holy F*ck • Budos Band • Tokyo Police Club • Lotus • The Virgins • The Gaslight Anthem • King Khan and the Shrines • Lucero • Murs • Ra Ra Riot • Tortured Soul • Rebelution • K'Naan • The Egg • Zac Brown Band • Tigercity • The Aggrolites • Cloud Cult • Spam Allstars • Rachel Goodrich • Blue King Brown • The Heavy Pets • Awesome New Republic • The Postmarks • Suenalo • Live Painting by LEBO •

help me not smell like patchouli and smack some sense into me...

Thanksgiving + Pulled Pork = YES!

this is where i document my first try at making my own pulled pork.
8lbs boston pork butt.

tonight i put on the dry rub; sea salt, brown sugar, garlic, onion, chilies

pictures of the results in the morning.

8:45am




its been a long time since i've used a charcoal grill. almost forgot how to keep that shit burning.

11:15am

fipped and rotated it a couple times now. its starting to come together. the turkey is in the oven now too.

1:00pm-ish

i have nothing to say here. only a few hours to go.

3:00pm
Took the bad boy off the grill. It is basicly falling apart right now.


first taste, with some sweet onion bbq sauce!!!






time to kick thanksgivings ass.

BONE!

Bone!

Holy shit, Ryan watch and learn!

This cannot be real. What is with the kung fu fighting remake in the background? Is he training his kid for the circus or to be an action movie star: Revenge Of The Flying Flesh Colored Nerd.

Via BoingBoing

attn fixed gears

teaser trailer from empirebegins.com


Empire from Empire on Vimeo.

CREEPY.

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i can't wait for this shit to be over with.

Queso isn't a bone is he?

Sunday Morning Smoke #9

Sunday Morning Smoke #9
by DJ Diddles and Infinite Horns

1. Salt-N-Pepa - Push It
2. Chubby Fingers - My Old Piano
3. The Foxglove Hunt - Love My Way
4. Panthers - Goblin City (Holy Ghost Disco Mix)
5. Fully Fitted - Roll It (Fully Fitted Mix)
6. Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life
7. The Twelves - When You Talk
8. Top Billin - Willing
9. Che Grand - City On Fire
10. Bounce Camp - Big Dancin
11. Ghost Music - My Boo
12. Friendly Fires - Lovesick
13. Zoot Woman - We Won't Break
14. Roots Manuva - Let The Spirit (Hot Chip remix)
15. Mount Sims - Grave
16. Walter Jones - Deuteronomy Brown (L-F Edit)
17. Intoxicated - Burn It Down
18. We Have Band - You Came Out (demo)



Push it real good.
(aka, click the photo to d/l)

This is my life...

Well mostly




Thanks Andy.

TARVUISM!!

Say Hebbo! from Torvakian on Vimeo.

Supporting Friends that do awesome things!!!

Not sure how many of you remember my friend Tyler Gray, he used to write a nightlife column for the Orlando Sentinel, played in the band the New Lows, and the very brief but awesome Trophy Wife with Dan Stone, Devin and others...

Sadly like most of the super talented from these parts, he got out of town and on to bigger things. He planted himself in NYC and has been kicking ass as a writer, and a Dad, and for the first time has a book coming out! Published by Harpers-Collins. It is so cool to see success come to people who work so hard for it... check out the book if you get the chance and more importantly save some cash and pick this up.



CLICK to Pre-Order Here

About the Book

Without Lou Pearlman, there would have been no Backstreet Boys, no *NSYNC, and possibly no Justin Timberlake. In the late 1990s, Pearlman's boy bands ushered out guitar-and-angst-driven grunge music, and *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys began to dominate the television and radio airwaves. At the core of this squeaky-clean pop revolution was a sinister international fraud conceived by Pearlman, a husky huckster who first honed his crooked business skills as a teenage math nerd and blimp enthusiast in Flushing, Queens. From there in the mid 1980s and from his Orlando, Florida, base in the early 1990s through 2007, he cheated hundreds of investors out of nearly $500 million. When they finally caught on to him and started demanding he return their money, the “Sixth Backstreet Boy” had already fled to Germany and then to Indonesia, where he was eventually nabbed by authorities and charged with a historic federal fraud.

Tyler Gray (the only journalist to speak with Pearlman while he was in jail) weaves together the fascinating behind-the-scenes story of the greed and desperation of this boy-band mogul and monumental scam artist. Gray unravels Pearlman's twenty-year long Ponzi scheme and explores persistent rumors about alleged inappropriate behavior by Pearlman toward members of the boy bands and other young men. Along the way, former friends, family members, Pearlman business associates, and band members themselves reveal detailed accounts of everything from the heyday of their stardom to Pearlman's more troubled times.

The Hit Charade starts with Pearlman's awkward youth and follows along as his juggling act becomes increasingly complex, then builds to the heartbreaking moments when investors—retirees, relatives, and friends—and government authorities discover that the man they had trusted had been cheating them all along. How did this chubby boy from middle-class Queens, who pioneered some of the music industry's most lucrative pop ensembles, mastermind one of the largest and longest running Ponzi schemes in U.S. history? Here, finally, is the true story of Lou Pearlman's epic rise and fall.

About the Author

In his thirteen years as a journalist, Tyler Gray has covered everything from a teenager's death-penalty trial for murder to the drug- and sex-fueled shenanigans of fuzzy theme park characters in Orlando, Florida. His stories have appeared in the New York Times, Esquire, Radar magazine, Men's Journal, the New York Daily News, the Orlando Sentinel, the St. Petersburg Times, and other publications. He has appeared as a pop-culture and news commentator on ABC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, Comedy Central's the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and other television broadcasts. Gray is currently a senior editor at Blender magazine in New York City.

I Didn't Forget - weeks of Sept. 28 - Oct. 11

two for one fire sale!

Old Man Gloom - Vipers
Scrotum Grinder - Capiam Deiis

if there is anything i want to do in life...

i want to drink out of a skull.



Crystal Head Vodka, brought to you by DAN FUCKING AYKROYD.
check the site, watch the videos.

I just hope this is for real.

YES!

Punch-Out!! Wii 'Debut' trailer

Follow up to the taser post

Lt. Michael Pigott, the police officer who delivered the order to Tase emotionally disturbed Bed-Stuy resident Iman Morales — a decision that resulted in Morales falling ten feet to his death — has committed suicide on his 46th birthday. In his suicide note, Emergency Service Unit Lt. Michael Pigott said he put a bullet into his head over fears that his three children would see him in handcuffs or behind bars, the sources said. The note, which included pictures of Pigott’s wife and children, was left in the locker room at Emergency Service Unit headquarters in Brooklyn. Apparently, Pigott was repeatedly being taunted by one of his ESU superiors with threats of being jailed.

via Guanabee

I figured it was time to talk about hood rat stuff.

Enuff w/ da polatiks

" i yanked it, i yanked it, the thing! "

SO CLASSIX

Head of Skate!

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I really enjoyed mighty ducks 1-10 so I think this will follow suit and be just as awesome.

Next time you think getting naked in public is a good idea...

DONT DO IT, hudge.

Seriously?

I can't believe they let her do this interview. Wow. I think the Republicans are really starting to lose it. This is just a small clip, you can watch all of it on cbsnews.com

I Didn't Forget - week of Sept. 21 - Sept. 27

The Exploder - Go

The more you know

This is a post from boingboing.net by Douglas Rushkoff entitled PRINT YOUR OWN MONEY


Everyone seems to want to know about the economy these days, so we may as well go there. It's as great an example as any of a program that not only got out of control, but became so prevalent - so accepted - that we came to take it for granted. We think of the economy and its rules as given circumstances, when they are actually constructions.
In brief, the money we use is just one kind of money. Invented in the Renaissance, and protected with laws banning other kinds of money, it has very particular biases that lead to almost inevitable outcomes.

I just finished a book (more on that later in the week), where I make the case that our highly corporatized society was really forged during the Renaissance. Aristocrats were losing power just as a new merchant class was gaining it. So they made a series of deals through which merchants' companies were granted monopoly charters from the monarchs in return for a sweet cut of the proceeds. Merchants got to lock in their status as newly rich, while monarchs stopped their own descent. Merchants supported the monarchs whose charters granted them exclusive access to new territories or industries, and monarchs got to do colonial expansion once-removed.

The invention of centralized, national currency was meant to support all this. Where localities had previously been free to mint their own currency based on the crops they had grown, now they were forced to borrow money from a central bank. This allowed the issuer of currency - the crown - to extract value from every transaction. Anyone who wanted to buy anything from anyone else had to run it through the central authority - coin of the realm - one way or the other.

This engendered competition for money, which was now a scarce currency issued at interest, instead of a local currency as abundant as the year's crop. Moreover, any business wanting to borrow money for equipment or development had to pay back several times what they had borrowed. This meant bankruptcy was built into the currency system. If a business borrows $100,000, for example, they'll have to pay back $300,000 by the time the loan is due. Where does that money come from? Someone else who borrowed.

Meanwhile, local currencies had the opposite bias of centralized currency. Local currencies lost value over time. They were really just receipts on the amount of grain that farmer had brought to the grain store. Since some of that grain was lost to rats or water, and since the grain store had to be paid, money devalued each year. This meant the money was biased towards being spent. That's why reinvestment in infrastructure as a percent of total revenue was so high in the late Middle Ages. It's why they built those cathedrals. They were local efforts, by people looking to invest their abundant wealth into real assets for their communities' future. (Cathedrals were built to attract pilgrims and tourism.)

Unlike local currencies, centralized currencies were biased towards retaining their value over time. Capitalism (in addition to being a lot of other things) is the way people get rich simply for being rich. Capital becomes the most important component in the capital/labor/resources equation. Since the purpose of the Renaissance innovations was to keep the currently wealthy wealthy, the currency was biased to favor those who had it - and could mete it out at high interest rates to those who needed it for their transactions.

What we witnessed over the past decades has been the necessary endgame of the scenario.

Today, in essence, the central bank lends money to a federal bank, which loans it to a regional bank, and so on, each bank paying interest to the bank above, and charging more to the one below. By the time the person or business who needs the money gets it, they're paying an awful lot of interest - so much, that it amounts to a drag on their ability to do business. The speculative economy, rather than fueling the real economy, drags it down.

The only way for banks - who run such an economy - to make more money is to lend more out. So they looked for more borrowers, as well as more places to park their cash. As a result, the things you and I depend on in the real world became investment vehicles. Homes, oil, resources...you name it. So the costs of all these things went up not because of any real laws of supply and demand, but because they had become new classes of investment.

As for finding new borrowers, well, that's why Bush kept talking about "home ownership" as the right of every American, why lending standards were lowered and, of course, why bankruptcy for individuals was made so much harder. They wanted to lend more money, but didn't have any more qualified borrowers. By changing bankruptcy laws, they meant to make it impossible for borrowers to cry uncle. (This was a 150-million-dollar lobbying effort by the credit industry, over the course of an entire decade.)

Eventually, the tension between the speculative economy and the real economy simply had to become too great. Lending money, in itself, doesn't actually produce anything. On the contrary, it strains those few who are still attempting to produce things. It's what turned so many companies into balance-sheet-driven outsourcing operations. Only so many bankers and investors can be supported by industry and homeownership.

We're not really watching an entire economy fail. We're watching a particular program fail. Only because it's not sandboxed like a bad plug-in in Google's Chrome browser, the resource leak sucks money from everywhere.

If we can adopt what we Boingers might call the "Happy Mutant Approach" to this crisis, however, this is not an entirely hopeless situation. Yes, corporations may lose the ability to keep us employed as the banking investment they depend on to operate dries up. But this corporate activity was always extractive in nature, getting (or, historically, forcing) people to buy mass-produced, and nationally distributed food and other goods that were once produced locally.

The collapse of centrally controlled commerce and currency simply creates an opportunity for local commerce and currency to revive. For people to learn to work and live together on a human, local scale - as the original free market advocate, Adam Smith, actually suggested. Admittedly, this would be a painful transition for many - but it's better than maintaining dependence on a fiscal system designed from the start to turn people and communities into extractable corporate assets. (Think about that the next time you're called up to "human resources.")

Whether or not we've had time to fully embrace the Craft/Maker/cyberpunk/Boing ethos, our ability to provide for ourselves and one another directly, locally, even socially instead of entirely through centralized commerce, will determine how well we can navigate the near future.

For starters, check out the LETS system and other complementary currencies for how to make your own currency, Bernard Latier's book The Future of Money free online, and Local Harvest for Community Sponsored Agriculture opportunities near you.

Money can be just as open source as any other operating system. It used to be.

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