Friday, May 4, 2007

argh!



edit: 10:48AM,
Cruisin' - Defeated

Growing Up Orange County Stylee

Allow me to take you back to 1995-1997. Music Video Flashback Time:

Sublime - Wrong Way


No Doubt - Just A Girl

remember when gwen stefani was cool...

311 - DOWN


Loser -- Beck



Cake- The Distance



Smashing Pumpkins - 1979



No Doubt - Don't Speak


Daft Punk Around The World


Sublime - Date Rape


Daft Punk


Beck - Devils Haircut



No Doubt - Sunday Morning



Smashing Pumpkins: Zero



Sublime Ft. Gwen Stefani - Saw Red (live)

white person dance!

No Doubt ft. Bradley Nowell - Total Hate


Blackstreet feat Dr Dre - No Diggity

Improv Everywhere

I posted about Improv Everywhere awhile back on the ol' myspace blog, but i recently saw vid of theirs under Director Videos on youtube so i thought i'd revisit it.

Improv Everywhere is a group based in NYC who "cause[s] scenes of chaos and joy in public places." They're responsible for Operation: Best Buy , in which about 80 people showed up at the same store dressed in an outfit similar to the official Best Buy employee uniform.




"As agents started arriving, I had them wait out of view and sent people over individually in fifteen-second intervals...Pretty soon there was an agent stationed at every aisle in every section of the store."




Slo-Mo Home Depot is another, slightly more elaborate, "mission".

One Saturday, about 225 people showed up to participate.

"We would sychronize our watches and then walk over to Home Depot and shop. At exactly 4:15 we would all begin moving in slow motion. We’d do that for five minutes, and then shop normally for five minutes as if nothing had happened. At exactly 4:25 we would all freeze in place for five minutes. When that was over we would go back to normal and eventually leave the store."



Just before the freeze-in-place portion of the mission, Jewel's "Standing Still" came on the store speakers




My all-time favorite mission though is called The Moebius. This mission makes these people my heroes!

"On Saturday, March 22, 2003 Improv Everywhere agents created a living moebius strip in the Astor Place Starbucks. Seven undercover agents meticulously repeated a five-minute slice of time for twelve consecutive repetitions. Starbucks employees and patrons were frightened, confused, and ultimately entertained as they found themselves stuck, without escape, in the middle of a time loop."

There were six major components to the scene:

  1. Agent Todd and Agent Dippold enter the Starbucks holding hands. They stand in line, debating over what to order. Agent Dippold reaches in her purse for her cell phone, revealing a pack of cigarettes. Agent Dippold becomes frustrated and begins to walk towards the door. Dippold exits and Todd chases out after her.

  2. Agent Mason sits and writes at a table. Shortly after Todd and Dippold enter and stand in line, he spills his coffee. He trots across the Starbucks, grabs napkins, and returns to clean up his mess.

  3. Agent Barrison sits and reads at a table. Directly after Agent Todd and Dippold exit, he receives a cell phone call (the ringer is set to loud and to “The Entertainer”). He gets up and walks to the window for better reception. He finishes the call and returns to his seat.

  4. Agent King sits at a table and writes. Shortly after Barrison takes the phone call, King rises and heads to the bathroom line, stumbling and bumping in to Agent Mason on the way. He apologizes to Mason, asks the patron at the back of the bathroom line, “Is this the line for the bathroom?”, briefly waits in line, and then returns to his seat. After sitting he remarks to Agent Barrison (who is sitting at his table) that the line to the bathroom is “long”.

  5. Agent Keech enters from outside with a boombox playing “Shiny Happy People” by R.E.M. The song is approximately 15 seconds underway when he enters. Keech dances through the Starbucks and exits out the door on the opposite side.

  6. Agent Kula sits and reads a copy of ESPN The Magazine. After Keech exits he sneezes loudly, waits two beats, and then clears his throat. Moments after his sneeze, Agents Todd and Dippold enter and the loop starts again. Agent Kula is also responsible for placing the cell phone call that makes Agent Barrison’s phone ring.

    This sequence of events was repeated seamlessly for one hour.


    Check out the Improv Everywhere website to see more mission.

    Here is their youtube page as well

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Dance Party Mix - Just Add Wine

So back in my sophomore year at USC my friend commissioned me to help him create a booty shaking dance party mix. My search for booty anthems led me to the genres of Funk and Disco and everything in my life changed forever. That day i walked to class listening to what i dubbed Funk Mix 2004. Without even realizing i began strutting along campus, shit , i even made it to class...and stayed! Sure i was indulging in the lyrical genius that is Rick James' Give It To Me Baby the entire time, but staying for all of class, thats a feat. So i took this to my friends apartment and it became the official impromptu dance party mix of the semester. Just add wine.

Old Skool Mix 2004

The Isley Brothers - It's Your Thing
Parliament Funkadelic - Flashlight
Kool and The Gang - Get Down On It
Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
Patti LaBelle - Lady Marmalade
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Rick James - Give It To Me Baby
KC & The Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight
Aretha Franklin - Respect
Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting
Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star
James Brown - I Feel Good
Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal
George Clinton - Atomic Dog
Lipps Inc. - Funkytown
RHCP - Love Rollercoater (not sure why i dont have the original by the Ohio Players *shrug*)
Rose Royce - Car Wash
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

28 Day Slater

Hes Mario Lopez, but hes AC Slater...



episode 1


episode 2

more episodes here

quote of the week

lisa: coke zero just kind of went up my nose

pamela: not the same as coke regular

lisa: haha
are you talking about soda or cocaine

pamela: cocaine
i just spelled that cockaine originally
gross
no one wants that up the nose

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

One Day...

so atlantic records is being lame and not letting anyone embed the new Bjork video, heres the link anyways:

Bjork - Earth Intruders video

and heres some related stuff, kind of:


Michel Gondry, Bjork, and a Paint-Piano


david cross & michel gondry; One Day...

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Friday: We Are Idiots

taint scar, meat, vag-a-saurus rex, vaginamouthmonkey...other things

http://www.HotIndianHulaHoopers.com



if this isnt want youre supposed to do with a camera, then i dont know what is





































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