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An idiosyncratic and foolish blog written by an overweight copywriter who spends far too much time seething quietly about the unfairness of it all.
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Advertising occaisonally manages to create something beautiful
This is a promotional video created for my friend Randy's little ad agency, The Great Society. Love, love, love it. It's like a fruity European art comic, in the best sense. He also did this great documentary series on the Finnish village of Fiskars,...
My GOD this a great podcast
The Cold BathThis is really good. My friend Michael (who I really don’t know all that well, to tell you the truth. But he’s a nice chap) has another friend, a mysterious Luciferian gent who is a former political consultant. Michael has convinced ...
The web is a powerful collaboration tool for spazzes
A couple of years ago, blog chum Jack P. Toerson linked to the singular Mr. Baldo Has A Blog Now, a blog marketing the wonderful and spurious Mr. Baldo's Shiny Wax For Balds -- Now with Phlogiston®. Well, Jack P. and I were possibly the only readers...
The Most Wanted and Most Unwanted Songs
The artists Komar and Melamid took a survey of music listeners to find out which elements of music were the most and least desirable. The following compositions were the result of those surveys: This is the most wanted songThis the most unwanted song...
I am Anonymous.
Over the years, I have been watching you, Five Star Video. Your smirking clerks; your unwillingness to knock down my late fees ; your idiosyncratic classics section; all of these things have caught my eye. With your latest crudely rendered dust erase...
Two Musical Interludes
Two anecdotes I like from the Ultraclassy World of Music:As a young man in 1950's New York, composer Morton Feldman (sort of a minimalist New York dude that wrote dense and quiet pieces -- beautiful in a not readily apparent way) hung out a lot with ...
Good source for weirdo art and music by dead people
Ubu Web. Full of weird audio and video clips of weirdos like John Cage, Guy Debord, Beckett, etc. It's a bit overwhelming.This came from Bastard of Art and Commerce, just so you know. bastardofaandc.blogspot.com...
John Cassavetes punching Ronald Reagan in the face.
This came from Bastard of Art and Commerce, just so you know. bastardofaandc.blogspot.com...
Flower Travellin' Band
Roughly the Blue Cheer of Japan. Great Japanese acid rock. Hat tip to the inimitable slickdpdx (a distant relation toMr. Mxyzptlk) of the even inimitabler-to-being-sui-generis Known Unknowns.Okay, I laid it on a bit thick.This came from Bastard of Ar...
Go Frank.
There's this guy, Frank Chu. He's a fixture in downtown San Francisco, an eccentric (well, more than an eccentric. More like a schizophrenic) that has a standing bottomless tab in various bars in the Financial District. His claim to fame, other than...
Another commercial from the Id of commerce
More local TV commercial bliss:This came from Bastard of Art and Commerce, just so you know. bastardofaandc.blogspot.com...
dun-Dun-DUN!!!!!
This came from Bastard of Art and Commerce, just so you know. bastardofaandc.blogspot.com...
Mike Gravel has... not my vote, but he has something.
The following Herzogian bit of insanity is a campaign... commercial?... for Senator Mike Gravel. For non-US and for US readers who could give two shits, Mike Gravel is running for the Democratic nomination for president. He's taken the role of the hy...
Cynical Dreamer
Goof ballCrackpot Dave hooked me up with the following good shit:Cynical DreamerThis came from Bastard of Art and Commerce, just so you know. bastardofaandc.blogspot.com...
