Holy shit. Fuck. Guys. Guys?
Remember the band Korn? Christ! How embarrassing — me neither. We totally forgot about it!
Where hope goes to get raped and ritually slaughtered
Holy shit. Fuck. Guys. Guys?
Remember the band Korn? Christ! How embarrassing — me neither. We totally forgot about it!
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For me, Halloween is a bittersweet time of year. On one hand, Halloween suits my fascination with the macabre, while at the same time lacking any of the burdensome family obligations inherent in the more Jesusy holidays. But on the other bitter hand, Halloween can’t help but serve as a reminder of a certain innocence lost from American life.
Years ago, before curfews, chaperoned trick-or-treating, “fun-sized” candy bars, or mandatory sex offender notices, Halloween actually meant something. Halloween occurred after dark the night of October 31, not at 2pm the Saturday preceding at a not-so-spookily-themed FUNZONE PARTY H.Q. For children of yesteryear, the trick-or-treating wouldn’t end until the last porch light went out, the last egg was thrown, the last roll of toilet paper was hurled into the moonlit, autumnal night. There was an ambrosial magic present on this night of nights; a sense that anything could happen and probably would provided that ghouls and goblins still deemed Halloween the proper occasion to run amok.
Like so many staples of American life however, Halloween has begun to suffer, becoming sanitized and diminished in the dual names of public safety and political correctness. The very act of trick-or-treating itself has been criminalized outside the stringent and suffocating boundaries of some nannying councilwoman’s pet ordinance. The veritable cornucopia of candy that used to be the proceeds of a child’s door-to-door adventuring has been replaced with health-conscience treats, or even worse, toothbrushes. Individuals’ haunted houses and garages have been shutdown due to lack of permits. Citizens have been threatened with citations should their Halloween decorations be deemed offensive or capable of traumatizing the fragile psyches of the children. For this new breed of American youth, Halloween ends not when the last porch light goes out, but when their goodie bags have been scanned and deemed “safe” by local authorities.
But I, for one, will not be taking part in this goody-two-shoes euthanization of what used to be the greatest of holidays. Like last year, and every year back as far as I can remember, I will do my best to ensure that any child intrepid enough to brave the cold and the dark, the admonishments of weenie parents, the breathless, sensationalized warnings of local newscasters to knock on my door will be treated to Halloween as it was meant to be. Like last year, the haunted house will be in full effect. Like last year, this will consist of me being tied to the radiator while my gimp Hector whips my balls with an extension cord and I carve up the tip of my erection with a paring knife. Like last year, one lucky child will get to drink from the “Spooky Cauldron of Fun” before having his Spiderman tights ripped from his unconscious body and his luscious butthole filled with Rainbow Skittles. And like last year, each individual piece of candy will have been painstakingly unwrapped by me, covered in a load of my hot jizzum, then resealed with none the wiser.
They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. And surely if we allow these overprotective do-gooders to succeed in the sanitization of Halloween, then the so-called “sickos” have won.
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To the relief of millions, it was confirmed through on-the-scene action footage taken by Eric Wareheim that The National are still just U2 on cough syrup (which is sadly not as cool as it sounds). We also were reminded that The National’s fans are still 10 year old boys trapped in the bodies of 30 year old men (“Hipsters: aren’t we all.” — Eric Draven, 1994. Never forget.). And as much as ten-year-olds have terrible taste in music, they do know a good cartoon when they see it. Hence the amazing Spongebob shirt on display. As Lao Tzu might have said: “The heavy is the root of the light; the love of depressing, pretentious music is the root of the love of absurdist cartoons. There is perfect balance.”
Was it too good to be true? Will we once again be called to smash mankind’s greatest hopes to pieces? Watch and find out.
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I stepped onto the foot platforms of the elliptical machine and started moving. Things proceeded pleasantly for a moment, though I had been forced to take a machine between two other people. Oddly, the gym management is unsympathetic to my constant demands for my own separate cardio room.
Then I caught wind of something foul. Some kind of mutant body odor, mercilessly attacking my olfactory center with retard strength. Top notes of halitosis, middle notes of barely digested junk food, and a resonant base note of … oh fuck, is that vomit?! Once I had detected the theme of this particular body fragrance, I couldn’t not smell it.
Fade in on a garbage-encrusted planet. The camera pans over a robot with a teardrop-or-vagina-shaped glowing heart. A spacecraft descends, containing a horrific Earth monster called “Kanye West.” Alone, rejected by humanity, he raps to an imaginary camera. Where are the tits?
The ship flies past an alien floating in vacuum with no spacesuit, wearing a furling dress. The alien transforms into Katy Perry in alien makeup and a weird outfit that, weirdest of all, does not display her mammoth knockers. Alien Katy Perry twirls around in a weird way that the director probably thought would look like a Mannerist painting. But, unlike a work of Renaissance art, there are no tits. Barely even a hit of that famous cleavage, boobs so dangerous they can’t be let anywhere near Sesame Street.
Stuff out of a low-rent Lady Gaga video happens. Katy’s dress and appearance change a lot for no reason. Katy kisses the robot. It changes into a naked albino Wesley Snipes with his Demolition Man haircut. Kanye lets loose with some weak rhymes. Various animals do stuff. A cheetah fucks another cheetah while some worms watch. Katy Perry puts on sunglasses and Lee Press-Ons and then has fawn legs. Approximately one billion lens flares pop onto the screen. (Fuck, you J.J. Abrams! It’s all your fault!) Holy shit, where are the fucking tits?!
I can only conclude that this video was one of the most effective and dastardly uses of reverse psychology in human history, and Google searches for “katy perry nude” and “katy perry boobs” went up about a billion percent today. So don’t play into their game. Instead, watch the more Katy-Perry-esque and more honest “Supertight” video, and then do a search for “Rose Byrne topless.” At least you’ll see some titties.
It’s rare that a master reaches out to instruct those who most need it, free of charge. Franklin Fleming wrote an article recently at Pajamas Media entitled, “Why Every Kid in America Doesn’t Need to be Educated,” which winds up being an argument for why Fleming himself probably shouldn’t have dropped out of the 4th grade to suck dick for Chuck E. Cheese tokens. The unintentionally hilarious subtitle, “Do we really want all of us to be a bunch of educated people who never do anything useful — like the Obama administration but for the whole country?” is already a sad indication of the terrible writing and hazily-reasoned arguments to come. So I decided to show Fleming how to write like a fuckin’ champ by picking out five of his sentences that need the most improvement.
…low budget, with no big stars, by a group of weirdos who really care about the subject matter. Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report are the best adaptations of his work so far, but they don’t really capture the insane genius of his novels.
Radio Free Albemuth movie trailer
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This looks … weird.
Could it be that the Universe, in all its wisdom, has provided us with the mirror image of the Atlas Shrugged film adaptation? Both Radio Free Albemuth and Atlas Shrugged are movies that should have gotten the big budget treatment but were instead made by a rag-tag group of indie filmmakers. Both have themes of personal liberty and a corrupt, authoritarian government. Both PKD and Ayn Rand were novelists of ideas. One of them was a poor-to-middling writer with brilliantly mind-bending ideas, the other was a poor-to-middling writer with unoriginal ideas, an outsized sense of self-importance, and a nastily abrasive tone. Any guesses as to which author fits which description?
P.S. Would somebody please make The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch into a movie already? Somebody who’s good at making movies?
The Oscars are upon us, my friends, and it seems that everyone is falling over themselves to speculate about who will win, how boring the show will be, what dresses will be worn, etc. But really, why does anyone care? Why do the Oscars have even a tiny veneer of legitimacy?
Is the winner for Best Picture ever actually the best movie of the year? Certainly a movie must be at least pretty good to be nominated, but even a cursory glance through the recent best picture winners shows a penchant for swooping, swooning schmaltz.
Consider 2008′s winner, Slumdog Millionaire. What. The. Fuck. I’ll admit to enjoying Slumdog to some degree, but to say it was the best of 2008 is just a punch in the cinematic dick. Slumdog‘s plot has already been wiped from my mind, but I still enjoy re-watching the truly great films of that year: Forgetting Sarah Marshall (that’s right, I called it “great,” assholes), The Fall, The Dark Knight, WALL-E, Hellboy II, and Tropic Thunder. Slumdog didn’t have even a small fraction of the creativity or gratuitous Jason Segel cock that any of those films did.
Sometimes the Academy will pick a good one for the win: The Hurt Locker, The Departed, and No Country For Old Men come to mind as recent surprises. But were any of those truly the best film of their respective years, either? I’d argue “No” on all counts.
Or how about last year’s best movie, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World? Nope. No nominations at all. Instead, we get a list of admittedly excellent films, plus the sequin-and-cum-encrusted red-headed stepchild The Kids Are Alright.
Yes, there is a lot of subjectivity involved in judging art. Yes, it’s hard to tell what movies are going to withstand the test of time. And there is an inherent futility in saying that a certain movie is the best, because it’s being compared to different films with different artistic objectives and merits. So why bother? Because, as we all know, it’s not about art, but big egos and big money.
The winners are decided by a vote from the members of the AMPAS, who are a bunch of industry motherfuckers. And everybody knows they vote based on industry politics and, of course, a series of blowjobs.
But let’s say the AMPAS bitches voted based on their opinions. Is there anyone less qualified to judge what a good movie or a good performance is than a bunch of movie executives, producers, PR men, and makeup artists? You’d find a more informed viewpoint on film by conversing with the patients at your local special needs care facility. I probably watched more movies in my junior year of high school than these guys watched in their entire lives. Oh, sure, these old ball-sack-smelling sons of bitches still get more teenage pussy in a given week than I ever got in high school, but my point still stands.
The whole thing is flawed from the get-go. It’s nothing more than the movie industry’s pathetic display of self-fellatio. In fact, I heard Hollywood had Marilyn Manson remove its lower ribs so that it could watch him play Paul on The Wonder Years while sucking its own dick. And Abraham Lincoln helped.
So fuck the Oscars. Let’s all go bowling instead. I call not buying! Bowling is expensive as fuck these days.
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UPDATE: Hahahaha fuck you, Oscars! Your ratings sucked ass and another boring as fuck costume piece won the top honors. You are now completely irrelevant!



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