coketalk:

I’m totally feeling the 80’s today.

publishers know their audiences

Dang that wouldve been a perfect reblog to follow with Starchild but I blew that wad.

Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo - Stars (radio mix)

So apparently if you’re a candidate for public office and you put together a broadcast ad with the proper disclosures, stations are obligated to run it for cheap, no matter what it is?

Like if you’re just state and local they can segment you off by office but have to treat each candidate the same, but if you’re federal they’re obligated to accomodate you

Like this woman who just ran for the fake DC Congress seat so she could make ads that were like

BLOODY FETUS

and the stations were obligated to run them. Randall Terry, the Operation Rescue guy is running for the Dem presidential nomination in 2012 so he can force a BLOODY FETUS ad into the Super Bowl.

The stations can’t edit or censor or hold your ad until late night. And also political ads are immune to FCC indecency regulations. It’s only legal obscenity and actual felonies that they can screen for.

If you run for House of Representatives, you can make TV stations sell you a 7 minute block in the middle of prime time to say “fuck” over and over

truefax

Motion to Recommit

Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo - Stars (hardcore mix)

This one’s better

Black & White - Stars

but this one is best

Jesus fucking christ ive spent 10 minutes trying to stop laughing at this

catbus:

There is a genre of cartoon called ‘Nonsense, This is An Election Year’ and here is a REALLY GOOD EXAMPLE.

catbus:

(via executiveproducerdickwolf)

(via executiveproducerdickwolf-deact)

I remember I was in a parking lot like a year or two back, and some guy had a bumper sticker that just cited a bible passage, like “Psalms 9:16-29*” or something, and we were like “what?” and looked it up and read it aloud off an iPhone, and were still like “what?”, because it wasn’t really a snappy quote and we were kind of baffled what he meant by it.

And so we went on wondering and mocking and wondering, and then eventually I realized:

“Well, dude just slapped a bumper sticker on his truck and we atheists just spent 5 minutes reading and discussing the bible. I think the dude wins.”

And the dude won.

*no, it wasn’t actually Psalms 9:16-29. I think it was Psalms, though.

Kaos - Diamond Eyes

Would you believe I won a free vinyl of this from Go Mental by correctly answering that Mr. Mister did the original “Broken Wings”? Because I did. Transatlantic shipping and all. Damaged in a move a while ago tho. I had someone digitize it once; at 45 (correct) she thought the opening couldn’t possibly be that fast so recorded it at 33 1/3.

Someone who reads this pointed out to me recently that the way the youngs use Tumblr, that they do something I thought died with chat rooms, they put a/s/l - age/sex/location, and in that format, as the very first informational content in their theme.

This makes me happy not least because I like to think Tumblr, along with 4chan, are the True Remaining Internet; they’re maybe the female and male halves of said? Because by resembling my experience of growing up on the internet, they’re experiencing the true and proper experience - they’re where people don’t censor out their curses, or bodies, or selves (like they do in modern craigslist ads looking for a man to eat and fck her married pu$$y, like what the fucking fuck?)

Of course it could just be the same early-adopter self-and-socioeconomic-selection, which I’d like not to think bcuz I’m still illusioned enough to want the Message of the Internet to be “yay widespread human potential and democracy” and not “yay comfortably rich white dominions”?

Shit, if I keep going with this Gabriele d'Annunzio thing, I’m going to have to learn Italian, won’t I?

Took the bike up through Highland Park. They’re right it doesn’t look like LA. Between the hills and the hwoah greenness with shade! trees!, which smelled right! and the tight-packed commercial streets with handpainted! frontages! in a variety! of styles including brick! that they took seriously! A canyon breeze that reminded you what air could be!

I mean I come from the east coast, we do all right. But! Now I totally appreciate the appeal of a part of LA that doesn’t look like Tijuana. Not as in “there aren’t latinos”, ha ha, this is LA, bitch, though more of them were hanging out talking with their yoga-pantsed asian girlfriends than Echo Park, so there’s that. But that it reminded me of the Catholic middle-ring suburbs just one step in from where I was, this modernist/vernacular mix, the kind of place where I could have a perfect chlorine hexagon sun summer (and I hear that’s the thing) - peaked roofs! Houses with yards that arent ranches or craftsmans! Did I mention the shade! Holy shit. Now I know why this place is hot and I haven’t even seen that much of the hillside houses.

Then I got lost and came down through Lincoln Park and some shit I don’t even know and saw THE most AMAZING cluster of buildings on the horizon, one of which in particular was like “holy shit that beautiful concrete gothic thing is surely a miniature in a Tim Burton film” but oh no it was County General/USC, it’s this amazing campus that has such mass but in each era of expansion they were like “oh god let’s at least render this horrific mass architecturally awesome in the current idiom”

Vinylgroover - You Will Be Mine

Vinylgroover, jeez, where to start. His original stuff holds up after these years. His cash-in covers, woof.

Also: I just downloaded Take Offs and Landings from the iTunes store and this is a totally different album than I remember. Different tracks, different mixes. What?

Gah, it’s funny, I bothered to track down all the tracks from the various Initial Friend/self-titled runs, I wonder how long I missed this.

Which is a great riff from which to queue a post.

This one is maybe a replay from the livejournal but youre impatient kiddies aren’t you.

The Wizard (1989) is pretty much the key to the hipster version of the American Dream, presenting the two main variations:

A) A talent you exhibited in elementary school, something at which you were the best among the 30-120 kids you associated with, will turn out to be a world-class talent and you will be rewarded accordingly

B) You have no such talent, but you will hang out with those that do, be cool, and end up with a younger version of Jenny Lewis