Mashup-tacular!

Oh man. Oh man oh man oh man.

I got sent the link to download Wu Orleans today. What, exactly, is Wu Orleans? Oh, you know, just the coolest mashup I've heard in a really long time, probably since The Grey Album. (If you don't know what The Grey Album is, it was a mashup done by DJ Dangermouse -- of Gnarls Barkley fame -- where he mixed the Beatle's White Album with Jay-Z's Black Album. It's really, really good, I suggest you check it out.) Anyhoo, Wu Orleans is various Wu-Tang songs mixed with Dixieland music in order to create some of the most unusual tunes I've heard in a while.

You can download the whole album here: http://djbc.net/mashes/wu/ or you can download a song to listen to here: http://djbc.net/mashes/wu/WhentheMethComesMarchingIn.mp3 which will allow you to download it from that site.
Thanks David!

Another song worth mentioning is Nelly Furtado's "Afraid". I know, I know, Nelly doesn't really reveal my hardcore side, but it really is a cool song. The only version I could find of it online (because it isn't her single) was some video some kids made. The other choice on YouTube was this guy dancing around in Eurotrash sunglasses. I figured this was the better of the two.

I love how Justin Timberlake is trying to shed his boyband image. That's okay with me, as I, admittedly, (being a red-blooded American female and all) am a Timberlake fan. However, there was something that struck me as familiar about one of his promo photos. Hmm...

It looks errily familiar to Mos Def's cover art for his CD, The New Danger, that came out last year. Tres Interresante, non?

Ok, well I've got guitar soon... I'm super out of practice. We'll see how that goes.

Ugly Bloggie.

Dear Whit,

As a faithful reader of Good Bloggie, I am deeply saddened with your failure to comemmorate one of the most beloved animals in all of human history. It seems as if Sam --better known as the worlds ugliest dog-- has passed away. He was laid to rest on November 22, 2005 in his San Fransisco home.

I understand that Lindsay Lohan is a very popular topic on your blog, but I think the world is interested in ugly things too. I think it might be time to start lookin out for the little guys.

Sincerely,

Heather
Your most faithful reader


There you have it. Ask and you shall receive.

I've been toying around with the idea of guest writers lately...

Anyone up for the challenge?

Ghost Ride the Whip?

My friend David has the capacity to find the most random interesting things on the internet. He sent me quite a few videos from YouTube specifically to post on my blog.

The first video is of a phenomenon where dudes "ghost ride the whip." What is this exactly? It's where they get their car going really slow, crank up E-40's "Tell Me When to Go" on the stereo, and get out of their car and dance alongside of it. Another variation is where they get their car going, get out, and accidentally crash it into things. I'm not sure you can really "ghost ride" if you crash your car. Then it's more like "ghost insurance-hike."

From Boingboing.net -- how to properly ghost ride the whip:
(1) get in your car and drive
(2) *while* your car is moving forward
(3) step out of the driver's seat and dance around in the road
(4) optional: jump on top of your car, which remains in motion, and vamp on the roof.
(5) refrain from dying
(6) post video on the internet, boyyyeeeeee.

I couldn't find the one I wanted, so here's another one:




This would be ghost riding gone wrong:


So there you have it; another thing for 14-year-olds to write about on each other's MySpace walls.

Another brilliant thing David sent me was something from a series of pseudo-educational BBC videos. They're shot by ancient 70's-80's cameras and narrated by a man with a British accent. They seem to be educational videos at first, but then they just hit you with something so funny and ridiculous, like this quote from "Module 2 -- Water":
"But what is water? It's a difficult question because water is impossible to describe. One might ask the same about birds. What are birds? We just don't know."



And this one on the brain.



Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

So this weekend was a weird one. On Thursday, we went to the Rio and Wash Bar, and met a dude that was in the most recent season of the Real World. Yeah, we were those girls. On Friday, I was dead, and we stayed at our house and played beer pong... where I got just as drunk as if I would have gone out. Damnit. At the end of the night, I was drinking Hamm's beer (I guess it's comparable to Schlitz... $6.49 for a 12 pack. Classy, Andy.) and taking shots of SoCo lime that I didn't need. On Saturday, I was even more dead and decided to take it easy. Apparently, that means drinking a mixed drink that consists of 55% vodka, 40% 7-Up and 5% ice cubes, going to the Pickle Barrel to drink cheap drinks and then coming home at 12:30. I'm turning into such a loser. Tonight, we saw Beerfest, which was.... exactly what it looked like. Boobies and beer. It was still enjoyable nonetheless. It made me really want to have a little beerfest of my own. I'm off to sleep and then get up early to do my French homework. Damn.

Not To Toot My Own Horn, But...

I love how you can insert little disclaimers into your speech patterns so that when you say something really inflammatory or conceited, people have less license to get mad at you. Like in Talladega Nights, Ricky Bobby's manager says, "you can't just start off a sentence with 'with all due respect' and still insult me!" to which Ricky replies, "yes I can -- I said 'with all due respect' -- I can say whatever I want."

Well, not to toot my own horn, but....

I do a lot of horn tootin' in this blog, and by no means are you supposed to take me seriously. Anyways, I was reading this article, and it made me scoff and look around my room like someone else was sitting on my bed or something, ready to agree with whatever I said. Unfortunately, not making any money with this blog has left me with no funds with which to pay someone simply to agree with me. Someday... someday.


A GOTHIC ROMANCE WITH BLACK NAILS
By RAAKHEE MIRCHANDANI

August 24, 2006 -- PAINT the town black this fall. This season's hottest Goth-chic beauty trend - seen on Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham and Lindsay Lohan - is short, dark nails.
"I think dark colors, especially dark nail polishes, are popular again because we are all angst-ridden teenagers at heart," says NARS senior stylist James Boehmer. "And it's easy to channel your inner Goth by slapping on a dark coat of nail polish."
Cosmetics companies are indulging in their dark sides too- Chanel recently launched "Black Satin," their first inky black shade, and nail-giant Essie has four new dark shades in dark wine and brown coming out for fall.
"When you see black nails on a woman, it says she's comfortable showing off a bit of her wild side," says celebrity makeup artist Rachel Goodwin, who works on Avril Lavigne and Hilary Duff. "I think wearing a black polish adds a fun, subversive rock-chic vibe without being harsh or unfeminine."

I've had my toenails black for like, three months now, and I just got done chipping all of the sparkly black topcoat off of my fingernails today in Accounting. No offense, but I'm so ahead of my time. The world ain't ready. Maybe K-Fed and I should collaborate. I'll spit lyrics and he can play the bongo and the french horn.

1000?!

Good lord. After I posted last night I looked at the hit counter and noticed it was on 999 views. Right now, it's on 1013. Over one thousand views!!! Holy shit. That's fantastic.

I think Brooke Hogan puts it best:

And that, my friends, is what Good Bloggie is all about.

Good Reader. Bad Blogger.

Good lord, sorry I haven't written in a while. My 4 devoted readers must be pissed.

In lieu of the New York Post I promised, I'm going to just do a regular one. I put off posting for so long because the prospect of sorting through literally 500+ pictures was slightly daunting, so I'll get to that later.

The other night was my birthday celebration... yes, the 4th one in 4 days. So what? I think being the last one of my friends to turn 21 means I can do that. It was a pretty rockin' good time. The whole night was a bit of a shitshow, but super fun nonetheless.

I started classes yesterday. I can't believe I'm back in school! After taking 9 credits this summer just to freaking catch up to all of the JUNIORS at Csu, I've realized how desperately behind I am. Not desperate enough to take more classes, just desperate enough to feel sorry for myself. My french class turned out to be a combination 400-500 level class, so that's incredibly daunting. I'm sure it'll be ok though.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to see Snakes on a Plane. I know, I know, after the way I've been hyping it, it's incredible that I haven't seen it. I was simply too drunk to even think about seeing a movie this weekend. Actually, Sunday, my body just kind of shut down and was like, "Nah uh, Whit. No beer pong at Potts. No way." I'm still kind of recovering from our week long drinking binge on the east coast. F yeah. In other "movies I want to see" news, Little Miss Sunshine has finally been released in theatres here and I must go see it.

So Mel Gibson got probation instead of jailtime for his arrest. Yes, the man who publicly stated his intense hatred of Jews -- instead of getting time for doing something illegal-- gets to read books to children and pee in a cup every Wednesday. By the way, wasn't Jesus a Jew? Isn't that a wee bit hypocrytical?!

In lighter news, K-Fed performed his first single, Lose Control, on the Teen Choice Awards the other night after being introduced by Britney Spears. I'd post a video of it from YouTube, but I'm sure none of you would be bothered to watch it anyways, so here's a quick rundown: 14-year-olds who have been standing on their feet for five hours have bewildered and pained expressions on their faces as Britney Spears introduces K-Fed. Thoughts of "what happened to her?!" mixed in with "holy crap, look at those jugs!" run through their minds as a piano beat plays over the speakers. K-Fed has hired a man even more annoying than himself to yell at random intervals during the song to punctuate that Federline is both "hard" and a "badass". The attempt fails as Keanu Reeves starts yelling "FREEBIRD" while scratching his head. Just kidding. Anyways, the summation is that it was actually a very earnest and serious attempt that didn't get pulled off. I think he really tried on this one. Sad... at least he didn't perform Popo-Zao. Or would that have been better?!

Let's talk, Brooke Hogan. Let's fucking talk.
http://www.idontlikeyouinthatway.com/pictures/20060821/brooke%20hogan%20teen%20choice/bhtc1.html
I swear to god, the next white girl I see wearing a grill, I will personally threaten to slap... in my head. I'm really not all that violent.
Blogger's stupid photo uploader isn't working, because all I seem to write about are things like K-Fed and Brooke Hogan, but damn Blogger. Gimme a break.

This is the video for a song that I'm absoloutely obsessed with. It really is worth a listen. It's a really calm, upbeat techno song by Deepest Blue.



Ok, well it's a wee bit late, and I have to get up early to read for my French class (surprise, surprise, the cycle of procrastination starts again) so I'm going to hit the hay. Nighty!

I'm Back, Bitches.

I made it!

My plane didn't crash or get bombed, I didn't kill myself from drinking on my birthday, and I didn't fall down a subway grate or do something equally stupid while in New York City. I had the most amazing time. I'm going to do a huge post (and by huge, I mean try to condense the 400 or so pictures that Caroline and I took into just a few) later, but I don't have all of the pictures yet.

...But for now, I'm going to go spend some quality family time with my dad and step-people, which hopefully means getting drunk and making adults feel weird.

Hoorah!

Start spreadin' the news....
I'm leavin' today....
I wanna be a part of it,
New York, New York!!!

YECKSHIMESH!

Here's the theatrical trailer for Borat: The Movie. I saw it before Talladega Nights and almost peed my pants from excitement. I didn't do it, however, because we ended up sitting next to our lawn guy, and that would have made the already weird, weirder.

"Vedy nice, how much?!"



Sorry I haven't updated much lately. I've been working quite a bit and getting ready for NYC. Who's excited?! I'm excited! I leave Thursday morning.

I might be able to update midway through, but I'm not sure. When I get back I'll be sure to put up lots and lots of pics! Yay!

Grumble. I have to do my laundry and pack by tomorrow.... I'm leaving for the airport at like, 5am and am going to attempt to fly standby. That should be very, very interesting. When I come back, I'll be 21!!!
(High pitched girly shrieking)

Ok, sorry, I'll stop bragging. Have a wonderful Tuesday, buggers.

You Should Start DVRing Good Bloggie.

So, after being in my drunken, reckless stupor last night, I nestled into the love sac to watch some of the shows I DVR on Friday nights -- Best Week Ever and The Soup, both pop-culture gossip shows. As I laid there, drinking from my water bottle and munching on cheese-its, I realized something; it was all old news. Almost everything I was watching was something I had heard about earlier in the week, and more importantly, written about. That, to me, was both awesome, and sad at the same time. Awesome, because Iguess that means I'm in the know about things other people have to wait a week to hear about, and sad, because I realized that I spend a pretty large chunk of time reading about other people's lives.

Going to go to work, have a good Saturday!

A Sure Sign of the Apocalypse

I never thought I'd say it, but here goes: Kevin Federline is a brave, brave man. Everyone talks about how he just uses Britney Spears for her money and how he is only using her to further his career, but damn -- I can't say I blame him. "Why," you ask?! Just watch this video and you'll understand. I've had more coherent musings in my sleep.



There are things in life that just make you want to run around and yell, "HELP ME JESUS! HELP ME TOM CRUISE!" This just happens to be one of them. I'm sure when Britney found out she was pregnant, she exclaimed, "What's happenin', y'all?! Did I eat one-a them seeds and I'm gonna grow a watermelon in my belly again? Kevin! Kevin! Look, baby, I done sat on a bag of Cheetos. I'm so silly! Oh, shit, Sean Preston's fallen into the pool again. Someone go get him; I gotta fix my ponytail."

Lord help us.

So I finally got pictures from the other night, part deux of Burt's birthday.

We all got pretty drunk, like, come-home-at-12:30-drunk. Yeah. I think the pics do an adequate job of explaining that.

K, well... yeah. I'm going to go do nothing before I go to work. Money money money moneyyyy... MONEY!

Ok, GO!

Wow. Wowee wow wow.

In my minutes upon minutes... erm, hours upon hours... erm, forget it.

In the very limited time that I spend on the internet each day --I'm talking 30 seconds a day max-- I find a very small amount of things that I'm sure you and most of society would deem "important" or "noteworthy". This happens to be one of them. I heard President Bush watches it each day to gain insight into al-Quaeda or something like that, I wasn't paying attention. Could have been "Al Cake-a". So here you go, America: White guys performing a dance routine on treadmills. You heard me. Treadmills. It's so awesome that Mich and I were shrieking with delight. I hope that you, too, shriek. And not just because of that huge bug on your shirt. Oh, sorry, that must have been me screaming. You know, about the huge bugs everywhere. This crack is fantastic.



ANNND! If you can't get enough, here's a much older video by the same band, which actually helped them gain notoriety in the internet community.

Paranoiattack

Here's a video of The Faint performing "Paranoiattack" on Jimmy Kimmel live for no reason other than the fact that it's awesome.



Last night was one of the biggest shitshows I've had in a while. Let's just say that it involved me dancing in my front yard at 1 a.m. to Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody". That should be enough information for you to go off of.

Weeeeeeeeeeeak!

Because the post below this one turned out to be kind of weak, I'm going to just stick some recent celebrity news in here and hope it will keep everyone satisfied for a while.

According to Starpulse News Blog, Lindsay Lohan has been reportedly been dropped by the British record label, Island Records, in response to her lackluster promotion for her album, Speak.
A no-show to a London promotional campaign, Lohan's seeming disinterest in promoting the single infuriated the record label execs and has resulted in a shelving of the album completely. The Sun's inside source at the label reports:
"A single was a huge flop over here because Lindsay couldn't be bothered to promote it. In the end they didn't even bother releasing the album in Britain. She didn't bother to come over to the UK to do interviews or make TV appearances to help sell the album. Island have now decided not to do another one with her."

Three words: One. Hot. Mess.
Source: A Socialite's Life

In the upcoming sequel to "Batman Begins," Oscar nominated Heath Ledger, 27, will get his shot at the villain Jack Nicholson reinvented in 1989 when he takes over the role of the Joker. According to Variety, the "Brokeback Mountain" lead has signed on to be the bad guy in "The Dark Knight," which is expected to go into production early next year.Christian Bale will be back as Batman/ Bruce Wayne, joined by "Batman Begins" director Christopher Nolan, whose brother Jonathan, will write the script. Jonathan Nolan previously penned the screenplay for 2006's "The Prestige," directed by his brother and starring Bale, and wrote the short story that inspired Christopher Nolan's 2000 breakthrough "Memento."

How awesome was the most recent Batman movie? I really, really liked it. I'm super stoked for this new, darker take on Batman.
Source: MTV News

"If you've ever wondered how handsome you would look in your mugshot the day you got pulled over doing 90, then got arrested for a DUI, then tried to escape, then said you "owned Malibu," then said "the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," then tried to break a jail phone, then called a female officer "sugar tits," then tried to piss on your cell floor, it would be impossible for you to look as suave as Mel Gibson does here." -- IDLYITW.com
http://www.idontlikeyouinthatway.com/2006/08/mel-gibson-has-mugshot.html

I'm not going to write anything about the whole Mel Gibson debacle because it's just too easy -- it would be so simple to make fun of at least, if not all, aspects of the whole thing so I'm just going to leave it at that.

I also decided I don't want to write anything about Pam Anderson's like, 5 marriages in like, 5 days to Kid Rock, because frankly, I don't care. And Kid Rock's real name is really Bob. Bob Rock. No, I'm kidding, it's not Bob Rock, that would be too cool. Theirs is a marriage made in heaven --scratch that-- a trailer park.

Happy Burtday.

Last night we went to Elliot's martini bar downtown for Burt's birthday. It was actually pretty fun... It's a cute little place with a very small "creep ratio." I couldn't drink too much because I have to work this morning at 10:30. Anyways, here are a couple pics from last night.

Hahaha. I didn't realize it at the time, but apparently I had the foresight to order a martini that was the same color as my shirt. Drinks as accessories? I think so!