Friday, February 7, 2014

Keep Pimpin'

1. Sochi It To Me Baby!

In case you haven't heard.. these Sochi Olympics are turning out to be quite the fiasco.. even though the opening ceremonies haven't even started yet! (Ok thats not true, unless you work for NBC). Let's recap:

It all started with the Double Deucer.. which, I don't see what the big deal is. Great use of space. Probably saved some money on the plumbing...

The Sochi Olympics Have a Two-for-One Toilet Special

But, oh the fun did not stop there. As reporters started showing up and finding the Hotel Horrors (look at that another Illiteration.. maybe I do still work for NBC after all!). First and foremost.. the disturbing lack of water.. or more to the point.. water that won't poison your body.

Water restored, sorta. On the bright side, I now know what very dangerous face water looks like.



We won't even get into the stray dog situation... because it may make Lauren cry... but there's also a little issue with some some minor things like, yknow Avalanches.. and the lack of manholes... of course, that's probably by design given Russia's stance on Gays.. Heyoooo! Thank you all for comin!

Yes, just to be perfectly clear, Putin likes Putin It In WOMEN! Not Men! Despite what you may think from this scene...

Cuddling up: Russian president Vladimir Putin is pictured stroking a Persian leopard at Sochi National Park
Cuddling up: Russian president Vladimir Putin is pictured stroking a Persian leopard at Sochi National Park

I mean.. in the grand scheme of things, that's a pretty manly picture.. especially when compared to this:


Vladimir Putin
The 56-year-old showed off his weapons of mass destruction -- aka his moobs -- by riding a horse shirtless while on vacation in Siberia on Tuesday.



Perhaps our friends at Buzzfeed put it best though (as they often do)

Photographic Proof That Sochi Is A Godforsaken Hellscape Right Now

My personal favorite..

Only shell of toilet, you have no way to flush! #SochiProblems #Sochi2014

 

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Anyway, for more entertainment all through the Olympic Games.. feel free to check out this amazing twitter account...

Sochi Problems

Sochi Problems

@SochiProblems

I'm a mess, and not prepared for you! Our athletes live like Kings!
Sochi 
 
2. Superb Bowl

It was a few days ago now, so in case you forgot.. here's a quick recap in Meme form...

My personal favorite:
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Now.. I must say, while most people across the country who aren't from Denver or Seattle thought Super Bowl XXLVI!IALAL was a shnooozer.. I happened to think it was the 4th best Super Bowl of all time! I mean, other than the Pats winning it, what more could you ask for than Peyton Manning pooping his pants in front of the largest TV in audience in HISTORY! Really, just a wonderful event all around... exCEPT for the commercials! Boy, what a bunch of crap this year.. Apparently, there was one awesome commercial made by a Georgia Lawyer, but it was only seen in that one market.. until now!!



I also liked this Anna Kendrick non-SB commercial...

But perhaps the best story line of all on this year's Big Game.. came from our good friends at PornHub.. I mean, or so I heard..








Sad Denver Fans Cranked Up Porn After Super Bowl Defeat


Sad Denver Fans Cranked Up Porn After Super Bowl Defeat







Sad Denver Fans Cranked Up Porn After Super Bowl Defeat 


HOWEVER! COnspiracy theory alert! Is it just me, or does that graph look an awful lot like a Vagina..? Clever, Pornhub.. very clever..



3.  Backstage at the Fillmore East

Switching gears, recently discovered this rare gem from an old 60 minutes... A piece on Rock Promoter Bill Graham, which not only includes some awesome old footage of the Dead and Janis, but also a pretty interesting interview with Graham himself. .and a surprisingly headie conclusion from a (almost young) Mike Wallace. Enjoy!



4. Interview of the Week

From the geniuses who brought you the Jerry Animated Interview... comes the Animated Jimi Interview! It's actually his last known interview before his untimely demise.. lots of interesting stuff in there, but perhaps the best quote to me..

"When things get too heavy just call me helium"
I think I've finally got a new facebook quote..


5.  20 Years Later

What were you doing this month, 20 years ago?

If, ;ike me, you were listening to Dookie on your way home from seeing Ace Ventura in the theater.. than these links are for you.


 15 Surprising Facts You Might Not Know About ‘Ace Ventura: Pet Detective’ On Its 20th Anniversary

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Who could have predicted that a film about a man with talking butt cheeks co-starring Tone Loc would have been such a hit at the box office? Besides being an incredibly successful film for Warner Brothers, it skyrocketed Jim Carrey to movie star status. (It also gave millions of 14 year-old boys the ammunition to annoy the hell out of everyone for the rest of the decade.) It was inevitable that he would go on to bigger things after In Living Color, but probably not even Carrey dreamed Ace Ventura would be his vehicle to $20 million per picture paydays only a few years later.



Most notable.. Carrey wasn't the first choice for the role.. guess who was? (Click link to find out.. but seriously.. guess first below in the comments because I doubt anyone will get it)

Dookie' at 20: Billie Joe Armstrong on Green Day's Punk Blockbuster

Green Day
Green Day
Catherine McGann/Getty Images
"Back then, I just wanted to write songs I could be proud of and be able to play in five years," Green Day singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong says, recalling his state of mind exactly 20 years ago – on February 1st, 1994, the day his band's third album and big-record-deal debut, Dookie, was released. He has another, earlier memory, just after Green Day got their advance money from Reprise Records, part of the Warner Bros. company, which issued Dookie and is still Green Day's label. "I remember thinking," Armstrong says, "'Let's just record this thing, and make sure we have money left over, so we can pay our rent, in case anything happens."



6. Lower Third of the Week

FYI: That's "Newspeak" for those graphics that sit across the bottom lower third of your screen during the newscast.. 
Anyway, this week's award goes to our good friends at Faux News...



7.Holy Shit of the Week

Piggy backing off the whole Woody Allen drama from the past few weeks.. Gawker posted a little article that rocked my world.. I had never heard any of this, but it's earth shattering nonetheless..








​Who Wants to Remember Bill Cosby's Multiple Sex-Assault Accusations?


​Who Wants to Remember Bill Cosby's Multiple Sex-Assault Accusations?


The thing about Dylan Farrow's open letter accusing her father, Woody Allen, of sexual abuse is: There was not much really new about it. It was new that Dylan Farrow herself was signing her name to the accusations, but Vanity Fair had covered the case, in grim detail, more than two decades ago.

So the current crisis over how people are supposed to feel about Woody Allen is on some level odd. Woody Allen's status as an accused child molester has been a matter of public record since before Manhattan Murder Mystery came out. Anyone who didn't think about it before now had chosen not to think about it.

Not thinking about it is a popular and powerful choice. Which brings up another beloved American funnyman, Bill Cosby. Who doesn't love Bill Cosby? I grew up watching Fat Albert and eating Jell-O Pudding Pops, which is a cliché, but Bill Cosby is the creator of some of our most warming and affirming clichés. He is charming and iconic, one of the most culturally important and successful comedians ever, an elder statesman of the entertainment industry.

He's also someone who has been accused by multiple women of drugging them and sexually assaulting them. Here is one of his accusers, describing an incident:

Well, there were a number of people at the table, friends of his, and he said to me, yes, you do seem ill, you're slightly feverish, would you like to have some Contact? You know, the cold medicine. And I thought, why not, can't hurt. So he went into some sort of office area at the back of the restaurant and he produced two capsules in his hand. I thought nothing of it and I took the capsules. In about, I don't know, 20 to 30 minutes I felt great and then about 10 minutes after that I was almost literally face down on the table of this restaurant...

He said, "Oh my, you must be more ill then we believed. I totally lost motor control; I was almost unable to hold my head up. I was very, very, very stoned. He took me into my apartment and then very helpfully and nicely was prepared to take off my clothes and help me into bed and pet me, and that's how the actual assault began.

She recounted this in an on-camera interview, under her own name, with Matt Lauer of the Today show, on February 10, 2005. The assault had allegedly happened back in the 1970s, but she said she had decided to come forward because another woman had accused Cosby of committing a similar assault in January of 2004.



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In retrospect.. it all makes sense now!




8. And On A Lighter Note

This week, Bob Marley would have turned 69 (heheh).. instead he's lighting a big ole spliff at the dance club in the sky.. but in honor of the late and great one.. check out the original Jamaican Version of "Catch A Fire"
  


As J-Dog put it, who unearthed this gem.. "It's way more black"


9. (No) Soul Plane

The hits just keep on comin for old friend, Justin Bieber (pun intended). Apparently, he and his Dad had quite a trip on the friendly skies..

Report: Pilots on Justin Bieber’s Plane Had to Wear Masks Because of Pot Smoke

The pop star and his dad were stopped by police when they landed, but were not detained

Justin Bieber and his entourage filled their private plane with so much marijuana smoke during a flight last week that the pilots had to don oxygen masks, according to a police report obtained by NBC News.
The reportedly hot-boxed flight came Friday as Bieber, his father and 10 friends were on their way to the Super Bowl in a leased Gulfstream IV. The plane was met by federal authorities when it landed at a small New Jersey airport. “The captain of the flight stated that he warned the passengers, including Bieber, on several occasions to stop smoking marijuana,” the official report of the incident reads, according to NBC. “The captain also stated he needed to request that the passengers stop their harassing behavior toward the flight attendant and after several warnings asked the flight attendant to stay with him near the cockpit to avoid any further abuse.”

I'm just impressed by Time's proper use of "Hot Box". Well done, sirs! Of course, Dre & Snoop never had this problem.




10. Quick Hits
No pun intended...




11. Under My Skin

For those of you not from the Bay State.. you probably missed this story this week..but an artist's statue is causing "quite a stir" at a local women's college.. and not in a good way.
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Tony Matelli's Sleepwalker, is part of an art exhibit at Wellesley College's Davis Museum.


I have to admit, pretty creepy.. but I still think it's amazing.. not quite as amazing as this guy's Aaaat.. but to each their own, eh?


Of course, there's no better artist than the original one herself.. Mother Nature..


Water in the air captured at just the right moment to look like Super Mario




12. DVR Alert
Of course, it's been Beatles week all over 'Merica.. but the coolest thing I have seen yet was this documentary last night on PBS about the Magical Mystery Tour Movie.. Yes, apparently, there was a movie for that album that aired on British TV. Completely batshit insane, to borrow a phrase.. Anyway, PBS is re-running the documentary, and then the Movie itself this saturday night. Set your DVRS and thank me later. 


13. Fun With Infants

From our "World's Greatest Dad" correspondent...
I thought we were cool parents.. but this couple may take the sippy cup.
Sneak peak:
 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 12



14. FSF

Ok, it's not a full show..but it is pretty awesome nonetheless.. and it should satisfy your Good Ole' Grateful craving sparked by those snippets in the 60 minutes piece above.. 




Jerry Garcia at Château d’Hérouville, photo (c) Rosie McGee

Château d’Hérouville is a residential recording studio in Hérouville, France made famous by Elton John, who recorded three albums at the studios, (Honky Château, Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player and Goodbye Yellowbrick Road).  Marc Bolan, Gong, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Bad Company, Iggy Pop, Fleetwood Mac… there is a long, long list of groups who have recorded there. It was once home to Chopin and Vincent van Gogh apparently painted part of the building.
The Grateful Dead did not record in the famous studio, per se, but they did perform a locally legendary impromptu gig there on June 21, 1971, as Jerry Garcia explained to Rolling Stone:
We went over there to do a big festival, a free festival they were gonna have, but the festival was rained out. It flooded. We stayed at this little chateau which is owned by a film score composer who has a 16-track recording studio built into the chateau, and this is a chateau that Chopin once lived in; really old, just delightful, out in the country near the town of Auvers-sur-Oise, which is where Vincent van Gogh is buried.
We were there with nothing to do: France, a 16-track recording studio upstairs, all our gear, ready to play, and nothing to do. So, we decided to play at the chateau itself, out in the back, in the grass, with a swimming pool, just play into the hills. We didn’t even play to hippies, we played to a handful of townspeople in Auvers. We played and the people came — the chief of police, the fire department, just everybody. It was an event and everybody just had a hell of a time — got drunk, fell in the pool. It was great.
Sounds like a good time to me!
Have a great weekend yawl.. and keep pimpin'

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