Cults

go HERE to check out the band site. You can download their three track 7" for FREE, either from the player right above this text, or at the site.

Heart Grow Fonder

So tomorrow's my last final, and then i'm off to house sit for my aunt in Chandler. Her computer is almost ten years old, and can barely turn on, so it's unlikely that i'll be blogging for the next ten or eleven days. When i get back to Tucson, i'll be packing up to move house by June 1st, so i'm not sure how much i'll be blogging when i get back, either... you might not hear from me until next month. Not that you would have noticed if i hadn't mentioned it, lol.

If for some reason you MISS ME, feel free to lurk my somehow MORE insipid twitter presence. i can do that from my phone.

Craig Ferguson's Leather Boy Raffle

Ten Days of Betty: 4, 3, 2 and 1 Days Left

Here's a mishmash of Betty White stuff, old and new. i love BW, but holy fucking christ, i am kind of tired of writing about her.


Still, don't forget to watch SNL's Mother's Day episode tonight with Betty White (and musical guest Jay-Z... I hope he does 99 Problems. that's my ringtone, lol), Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and others... it's going to be an extravaganza!

and now back to our regularly scheduled programming here on SLWMAC.

Laos Is Fierce

Behold: Laotian Snake Whiskey. Yes, that's a cobra with a scorpion tail clenched betwixt it's jaws.

Twitter really has given me good stuff at a pretty fast clip.

Taken from the twitter account of skeleton robot sidekick building snake whiskey drinking Grant Imahara. He's cute as hell anyway, but you factor in the robot skeleton building and the snake whiskey drinking, and you have a recipe for stealing my heart.

I Was Wrong

Twitter is Awesome. I mean, it's really stupid too, but it's got this duality that saves it.

Behold: Douglas Coupland linked to this article about a dude who travels the world fixing crumbling landmarks and architectural wonders with LEGO. that's fucking cool, i don't care who you are.

also, i'm still finding my twittervoice, but feel free to follow me HERE.

Yes, Really.

i have unicorn key holder thingies where the lock picking part of the key sticks out of the unicorn's head instead of a horn. same vein, different hole.

Ten Days of Betty: 5 Days Left

These are a few of my favorite things: Craig Ferguson + Betty White = Yay!

Betty White has always been pretty popular, but the ZEITGEIST she has been riding the last two or three years i think probably has a significant something to do with Craig Ferguson having her on his show every month or two like clockwork. Craig's smart- he regularly pays homage to Late Night Tv's rich history. BW was, as we've seen already on the Ten Days of Betty, a Tonight Show with Johnny Carson staple, and as previously mentioned on SLWMAC, Craig recently did a tribute episode in honor of Tom Snyder when he spent an entire episode interviewing British actor Stephen Fry. Anyway, this is funny shit. A good formula works forever.

Ten Days of Betty: 6 Days Left

Betty Vs. Ryan on the set of the proposal.

"When Betty White asks you to get coffee, you get her a fucking cup of coffee."

words to live by, ladies and gentlemen.

Dreams Can Come True/You Know You Got To Have 'Em...

'Iron Man 2' Buzz Heats Up Over Rumors Gwyneth Paltrow Gets Punched In Face

This is about a million times better than buying the world a Coke.

Stolen from Jason.

ps, i TRIED to get a picture of Gwyneth either bleeding from the face or at LEAST crying, but her on crutches was the best i could do :(

Ten Days of Betty: 7 Days Left

Today's first "catch up" Betty White offering (1 of 3) is the godawful Lake Placid, pared down to a much more tolerable length of about 6 or 7 minutes- featuring only the parts with Betty White in them. This is a fun one to watch, because BW's telling cops to suck her cock and making proclamations about how she wants them to be eaten alive. yay!

Know Your Role, Snarf

click to enlarge! Go visit I-Mockery.com HERE.
Click HERE to go straight to the complete thundercat comic thing i got this from.
:)

Ten Days of Betty...

Um, i'm behind on them, obviously. Prepare for a triple dose tomorrow!

Ten Days of Betty: 8 Days Left

Today on Day 3 of the 10 Days of Betty here on SLWMAC, i present to you Betty White's complete Oral History, as told by BW herself to her (classic archetype of an) agent of 30+ years. It is VERY long, about two and a half hours or so, but it is also very rich in detail and i think it gives the viewer a great deal of insight into Hollywood, as well as to the woman herself. Stretching from her childhood all the way into her later career, with time spent discussing virtually everyone she has ever worked with. it's really something. there's one of these oral histories with Bea Arthur, too. i'll probably post that sometime in the future. it's been about a year since she passed, so maybe i'll do that soon.

The first of the last four clips is Betty discussing famous skits she did with Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show. The clips following that are the skits in question.

Nice Sense of Self, Xtina

So the new christina aguilera video came out today, and it's called "Not Myself Tonight," which turns out to be PAINFULLY appropriate upon first viewing/listen. i wouldn't normally bother to comment on CA, not that there's anything wrong with her, but to me she hasn't been even vaguely interesting except during the HILARIOUSLY named 'Drrrrrrty' or whatever it was called, and the songs on that album were ALL OVER THE MAP, so that was confusing (not that a singer has to be one thing, but this bordered on schizophrenic). She's never really had a coherent identity, basically. This is just INSANELY obvious here- she's doing a direct lift of Madonna, Lady Gaga, Gwen Stefani, etc. It's sort of a stylist's version of I'M EVERY WOMAN. i don't think i have ANY thoughts on the song... while i was listening to it, i THINK i found it to be unoffensive as that style goes, but now that it's been ten or fifteen minutes, i don't remember?

What does that SAY about an artist, though? when your first single is just openly taking shit from other people with no pretense whatsoever of originality? i don't get it, she's got a voice. anyways, i have a horrible headache and i'm not sure where i'm going with this. watch it and let's see if we can't figure it all out together :)

**(UPDATE)**

oh, i guess she's doing a movie with Cher called "Burlesque." I can't help it, i love CHER-BOT 5000. Anyway, i'll be curious to see how that all works out.

I Heart Emma Caulfield

here she is in the new Sci-Fi (ish) Romantic Comedy, 'Timer.' Also, she has apparently co-created a comic book called Contropussy?!! AAAAND, she's goiing to be at the Phoenix Comic-con from i think May 28th-the 30th! SOOOO GOING, even though i have to move house by the 1st of June. Christ, May is going to be beyond brutal and unforgiving.

**UPDATE** OH WOW, i just went to the website (it's a free webcomic) and it is AWFUL, as in FUCKING UNBELIEVABLY BAD AWFUL. it's about hypersexual cats? i'm not sure. it's just thumbs down all around... i want to be supportive, but sometimes even those we adore make it difficult (Shut up, people who know me). Go HERE to behold the unmitigated HORROR starting at the very first installment.

**UPDATE 2** ok, so i pushed myself through the first arc, and it's not the UTTER ABOMINATION the first few strips make you think it is, but it's still not great. the pussy means both cat and vagina entendrés alone make me want to dig out my own eyes with a claw hammer, but it's not the worst case scenario... not quite. see for yourself.

Twit

i got a twitter account. My handle's sort of stupid, but youreviltwin was taken, as was SLWMAC and so on and so forth. i didn't know what to put, so i put this phrase i wrote into a song that was an anacronym for my full name (SAA), but out of the context of the song it doesn't sound as cool... but now my email's associated with it and i'm stuck, i guess. I found a couple of my blogger buddies' twitter accounts, but i'd love to follow those of you that aren't diametrically opposed to the idea- at least those of you who i actually interact (or attempt to) with. lemme know. rock and roll, whatever, deal with it.

Lula Tops Major White American Magazine's (TIME) Most Influential List

From The Latin Americanist:

Luis Inácio Lula de Silva - let's just go with Lula - is on top of Time Magazine's list of the World's 100 Most Influential People.


The internet tells me the list is ranked by order of most influential, but I'm not 100% sure Time is so explicit about it. If they are, J.T. Wang, head of Taiwanese computer manufacturer Acer Group, ahead of President Obama? Absolutely no way. Lula is the most popular leader in the world, but any credible influence list should begin with B-Rock.


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ok, it's me seth again. Isn't it funny that even on a blog written for Latinos by Latinos, Lula- a Latin American- is STILL being second guessed as a valid choice? I guess the only thing not horrific about that is the fact that he's being second guessed for a black world leader (obama) instead of THE WHITE DEVIL.

go HERE to read the Michael Moore penned profile in it's entirety.

The Number You Have Dialed

I probably should have posted this on monday when i first realized, in the event that someone who reads my blog has attempted to call or text me but has been met with voicemail or the appearance of text message apathy (not the case, i assure you!) but i left my phone charger in phoenix this last weekend, and my phone won't even turn on it's so out of juice, so that's what's up. i haven't gone back to drugs or finally gotten shot during an ill-fated backroom card game... all is pretty much well.

charger was supposed to arrive today, but you know how the mail is. damn mail. that's probably why i've been blogging so much, is i feel lonely from no phone. anyway, maybe tomorrow, if you need to get ahold of me. also, feel free to email. if you want me to call you when i get my charger, just text me or leave a voicemail and i will return all messages as soon as i am able.

*Literally TWO MINUTES LATER...*

**UPDATE**

scratch that- charger has arrived and is in my hot little hands! watch, there will be NO texts or messages of any kind, lol. ahhh, the folly of arrogance...

:-)

**UPDATE 2**

i had 6 text messages AND a voicemail, thank you very much! SUCK IT, humility!

Ten Days Of Betty: 9 Days Left

Here we have the complete Dean Martin Roast of Betty White. Pretty rad, if you're into the era and enjoy the old school comedic sensibility. Plus, ABE VIGODA*!

i'm thinking of getting an Abe Vigoda tattoo across my chest, like a new spin on the classic battleship. Skip to Part 5 of 5 just to watch betty respond to her contemporaries. good stuff!

*i was entering in all my tags for this post, and i entered in A and then B, and as it turns out, this is not the first time i've blogged about Abe. i thought that was kind of funny. you get what you pay for here at still life with monkey and cigarette! ALL ABE VIGODA, ALL THE TIME!