Tenacious D always walked that fine line between a being a spoof band vs actually writing some decent classic stadium rock
The problem with the band is that they don’t take themselves seriously at all, so why should anyone else? I mean who ever heard of someone actually buying a Tenacious D album?
Sure, “Tribute†is probably kicking around on your playlist from the early 2000s along with “Wonderboy†and “Fuck Her Gently†but that’s about as far as it goes which isn’t very far for a band that has two (dick-joke laden) albums out.
So I’m making it my mission to buy and review their new album Rise Of The Fenix when it lands in May to see if it’s a load of turd or something actually worth listening to. In the meantime, here’s the promo video they put out for the album, featuring Val Kilmer and Dave Grohl.
Some people who have seen Desmond And The Tutus’ infomercial promoting their new album Mnusic think it’s shot in bad taste and is a poor attempt at marketing this band. But I’m not one of them.
The infomercial features a bullshit cure-all doctor who could have literally stepped off one of those dodgey pamphlets they hand out at traffic lights and is packed to the max with awesome.
People who want to be mermaids, failed attempts at slicing tomatoes, fucking rats that eat your feet and a narrative that makes absolutely no sense at all are just some of the things that make this video amazing.
For the rest, you’re gonna have to hit the play button below. Eeeaaasssyyyyy does it…
It’s like everything that’s painfully shit about infomercials rolled into 3 minutes and 50 seconds of a waking nightmare I once had after 5 tabs of acid.
That last shot in particular is definitely a winner.
I’ll try get my filthy mitts on that album to review it for you guys. In the meantime, follow Desmond And The Tutus on Twitter (@desmondandtutus) and share that video with everyone you know.
So a couple weeks back your pal Slicky-T was asked to take part in an epic spoof of Master Chef brought to you by the good folks at Nomu.
Naturally my agent handled everything, I just showed up at the Nomu studio where I was greeted by cross section of Cape Town’s A-list influencers and more wine than you could shake a tin of Nomu beef rub at (courtesy of Andre Pentz, what a badass).
Everyone from bloggers Big Daddy Savage and Dax to comedienne Angel to 2OceansViber Richard Hardiman was there. Even SA celeb Leslie Van Der Westhuizen showed up and covered the Nomu kitchen from one end to the other in a bizarre mix of chocolate powder, soy sauce, melk skommel and other ingredients which shall remain nameless.
The result was a series of sick videos we’re calling “Half Arsed-a Chefâ€, the first episode of which “The Boerie Tower†follows below.
Unfortunately they had to cut me out of this episode entirely except for the opening credits, something about my performance over shadowing the rest of the contestants, but just you wait. There are at least another three or four episodes of the show and obviously they’re saving the best for last.
In case you were wondering, my team (Bubbles and Caylee) were the ones responsible for “The Alsatian†– the tightest boerie tower ever coiled around cardboard.
Yep. It’s official, I’m bringing Tiger Bites back from the dead and posting them on my site every Friday so you crazy kids have something cool to zone out to before the weekend.
And all you lazy basterds have to do is hit the site on a Friday to hear some sick new music every week and then brag to your friends about how rad you are.
This week I’m posting The Shins playing their new track on Letterman, a video from Miniature Tigers featuring large-breasted female doctors, Lana Del Ray’s new video for “Blue Jeans†which isn’t shit (isn’t great either) and a fucking KILLER track by a band called Guards that I know you’ll dig.
Awesome, ne?
Have a killer weekend party mense. See ya’ll on the flipside.
It’s kinda hit and miss when it comes to Jason Segel. I thought he was pretty damn hilarious in Knocked Up and Forgetting Sarah Marshall but for some reason every time I see him in How I Met Your Mother I want to punch him in the mouth.
Actually, that pretty much goes for the entire cast come to think of it…
Anyway, Segel stars in a new movie called Jeff Who Lives At Home about a slacker living in his mom’s basement who “might discover his destiny when he spends the day with his brother as he tracks his possibly adulterous wife.â€
No idea whether or not this has hit local theatres yet. I do remember seeing a trailer for it that made me wish I could have those 180 seconds back, but regardless of whether the movie is shit or not, Flula’s techno remix of the interview he did with the cast is awesome.
Did you like that?
That’s good.
As you read this, I’ll be in Durban getting ready to MC a good buddy’s wedding so spare a thought for your Tiger pal, loaded to the gills on herbal tranqs and elbows-deep in a hipflask of whisky.
I used to write this weekly feature on www.pulpmag.co.za called “Tiger Bites†that got some decent traffic.
It was a weekly round-up of everything going on in the music world. I used to bust my balls to find to best content from the music sites I trawl and then mix it all into one post. It melted faces.
So here’s something in a similar vein. This week it’s new tracks from the Blood Red Shoes, Temper Trap, Garbage (yes they’re dropping a new album and yes, the single is SICK) and The Shoes with their video for “Time To Dance†featuring Jake Gyllenhaal.
Dig it.
Fair warning before you play this next one. It’s fucking badass, got my hands on it courtesy of my man Nick Bouwer. Check his site out for more good shit.
Have a killer weekend party people! See y’all on the other side
I came across this startup video last night on Mashable that I thought I’d share with you crazy kids because the guy behind it, Michael Dubin deserves some recognition for his work.
Not only has the guy come up with a great idea for a startup business, but he’s managed to secure his first $1 million of funding to get his business off the ground.
How did he do it? Partly by busting his ass and working like a goddamn Trojan to make his dream a reality, and partly by shooting and acting in the following video which is all kinds of awesome.
What a total badass.
Call me fickle, easily impressionable, gullible and weak willed, but DAMN! I’d sign up for Dollar Shave Club in a second.
As amazingly entertaining, arbitrary and awesome as the internet is, there’s also a darker, far more sordid side to it.
Yes, you guessed it. I’m referring to the “cute factor†that turns distinctly average content into a powerful internet supervirus because we live in a sibling society where people dwell in the perpetual twilight of their childhood years, refusing point blank to grow the fuck up.
It’s Neverland, and it’s populated with sickeningly adorable characters that people LOVE simply because they evoke that “aaaawwwwww, cuuuuuuuuuttte†reaction that defies all rational logic.
Case in point – Sophia Grace Brownlee and her hilariously useless sidekick cousin.
For those of you who don’t know these two distinctly mediocre, irritating little girls, let me enlighten you.
It all began back in September last year when this video hit the internet. Brace yourselves, the content I’m about to show you WILL instantly trigger your gag reflex.
Yeah. Pour yourself a whisky now, because it only gets worse.
So mom films her kid and goofy sidekick singing a distinctly average version of an irritating pop song which, let’s be honest, isn’t the first time in history that’s ever been done.
The difference is that is years past, recordings like that would be relegated to the VHS drawer under the TV and not surface again until the “performer’s†21st birthday where she would die of embarrassment the second the play button was pressed.
Instead, this video exploded in such a huge way on the internet that it has had no less than 31 MILLION views to date!
So great. Well done to everyone involved. Excellent work guys. Let’s just get on with our lives shall we?
No. We shall not. Enter Ellen Degenerate who, credit where it’s due, is one smart lesbian. She latches onto these talentless little chavs like a goddamn barnacle and exactly one month after the video appears on YouTube, this happens:
People lose their minds. They think these two girls are the most adorable, cheeky, loveable, talented, and all round SUPERCUTEST things they have ever seen and Ellen’s eyes turn into gigantic green dollar signs as a world of possibilities opens up to her.
One month after that performance on her show, she gets them all tarted up to the max and plants them squarely on the red carpet at the American Music Awards.
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
So now not only do celebs have to put up with the paparazzi swarming them like locusts on the red carpet, but they also have two (let’s be honest, one) hysterical, screaming pink girls to deal with.
I love the cousin though. “We are so excited to be here, aren’t we Rosie?†“Whatever. I can’t believe you dragged me into this again…â€
And the thing is, unlike the other members of the press, you have to be nice to the cute little girls or you WILL be crucified on the spot and left desperately trying to douse the flames of your near-unsalvageable career.
Something else that’s interesting to note on that last clip is how exponentially precocious the little scamps are becoming – a sure sign that they are being spoilt ROTTEN which any child psychologist will tell you is a great way to raise kids.
But whatever right? Who cares? I saw those videos last year, shrugged it off as people being pathetic and had another whisky.
BUT, in a furious bout of trawling the interwebs yesterday what do I find? ANOTHER fucking video of these two on the red carpet of ANOTHER awards ceremony.
Only this time it’s the Grammys and as you can tell from both the girls and the celebs themselves, everyone’s starting to get a little tired of this sparkly pink dog and pony show.
I love the way all the celebs address Ellen in a thinly disguised “seriously, enough with this shit now†tone, priceless!
How did this ever get so big? What are the implications for our society that something like this is not only allowed, but encouraged to happen? Those kids will never be the same. How can anything they ever do ever live up to the experiences they’ve been spoiled with thus far?
I mean to be fair, they don’t know any better. They’re literally just being handed everything they want on a silver plate because God knows why, people love it.
As irritating as they are, I can’t help but feel sorry for them because this is child exploitation in it’s very worst form and call me old school, but I don’t think it should ever have been allowed to get this ridiculously overblown.
This could go either way. It could end up being just another dumbass American slapstick movie crammed full to bursting with dick jokes and endless shouting, or it could be pretty funny.
The premise is that the two main characters Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim (playing themselves presumably) are given a billion dollars to make a movie and end up squandering every cent.
To make the money back they decide to rehabilitate a mall full of vagrants, bizarre stores and a man-eating wolf that stalks the food court. Oh yeah, and Zach Gallifianakis, Will Ferrell and Jeff Goldblum are in it. Hit the “read more†link for the trailer.
Let’s hope the closing line of the trailer isn’t actually a succinct summary of the entire movie.
The movie premiers on the 2 March, but I’ll definitely wait for it to appear magically on our company “secret server†and watch it randomly on a week night when I have nothing better to do.
From 1987 when Maniac Mansion hit the scene, until around 2000 when Grim Fandango and Escape From Monkey Island were released, Lucas Arts made some of the finest adventure games known to man.
Ask any kid who grew up in the 90s and he’ll tell you straight up those games (Indiana Jones, Day Of The Tentacle, Sam & Max, Full Throttle, Monkey Island, etc) were the stuff our childhood was made of.
But then the 2000s hit and adventure games suddenly died. First person shooters, sandbox-style games like GTA, and epic titles like God Of War took over and adventure game fans were left wanting. Until now…
My buddy Civilian sent me a link on Friday to one of the craziest projects I’ve read about in a LONG time.
Tim Schafer, the co-designer of The Secret Of Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge and Day of the Tentacle and the designer of Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, Psychonauts and most recently, Brutal Legend, is making a game funded entirely by donations from adventure game lovers.
You can get the full story about the game by clicking these magical underlined words, but the single most amazing thing about it for me is that he set a target of $300 000 to make the game and $100 000 to get a production crew to film the entire project from start to finish.
The project goes live on Tuesday, March 13th and you know how much money they’ve raised to date?
You’d better sit down for this:
$1 635 530!
Which just goes to show, there are a LOT of adventure game fans out there who would pay good money to be able to play more titles like those iconic adventure games from the 90s.
I think it’s a brilliant idea and can’t wait to see what the guys come up with. They’ll easily top the $2m mark when it comes to donations – when I first checked the site on Friday evening it was at $1.3m and now, exactly two days later, it’s already on $1.6m. THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND FUCKING DOLLARS IN TWO DAYS!
Tenacious D always walked that fine line between a being a spoof band vs actually writing some decent classic stadium rock
