this one is worth mentioning because i think his films are incredibly special and badass. i don’t know where to even start. scenes from a marriage, wild strawberries, & persona are ones i’m really in love with. i highly recommend you get to know him if you aren’t familiar with him outside of the Seventh Seal. hour of the wolf is awesome too but i’m scared to rewatch because it gave me nightmares for days. i used the cover for persona for my cosmic dust mix because i think Liv Ullman is kinda gorgeous

here is a decent obit from the guardian

so in weirder news, jon lovitz grabbed andy dick by his hair and smashed his head into a bar 4 or 5 times. did i read that right? JON LOVITZ?? apparently andy dick made some joke to lovitz about Phil Hartman and lovitz lost it.

i don’t really feel bad for andy dick. is that mean? making fun of a guy who was murdered to his friend is lame. i like jon lovitz. i like artie ziff

i almost don’t believe this is real cause i just can’t see jon lovitz capable of a joe pesci move like that. what if this was just an elaborate hoax and the two were secretly friends like andy kaufman vs jerry lawler

today is a national day of silence for internet radio. the idea of not being able to listen to WFMU and KFJC anymore is scary to say the least.

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/06/webcasters-nati.html

Across the U.S. today, thousands of internet radio stations are observing a national Day of Silence to protest new webcasting rates set by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board. These new rates, which will go into effect on July 15 (and are retroactive to January 1, 2006), will drastically increase the royalties webcasters must pay to SoundExchange, an offshoot of the RIAA responsible for distributing this money to artists.

WFMU believes in compensating artists. We currently pay webcasting royalties to SoundExchange and will continue to do so, but we are protesting the new rate scheme for a number of reasons:

1. Under the new rates, non-commercial webcasters only get a break on the commercial royalty rate if they maintain small listenership numbers. In order to afford the astronomical new rates, WFMU may have to cap online listenership on our streams, limiting the exposure we give to independent artists by blocking our accessibility to music fans.

2. SoundExchange has not been dutifully distributing webcasting royalties to musicians, claiming on their website that they are unable to locate thousands of artists including Kraftwerk, The Replacements, Pizzicato Five, The Muffs, and even Warren G!

Instead of webcasting silence today, WFMU has decided to boycott all music that is registered with the RIAA and/or SoundExchange. Today, you will hear songs from live performances on WFMU, material from the public domain, orphaned works, music from bands and record labels that have signed a waiver releasing WFMU from SoundExchange’s unreasonable royalty scheme, and music from artists that SoundExchange has neglected to pay.

We hope that this sends the message that WFMU is fully capable of airing great music that falls outside of the RIAA and SoundExchange’s control.

If you would like to protest the new webcasting royalty rates, please call or write to your Representatives and Senators before July 15, and tell them to support the Internet Radio Equality Act (S. 1353 and HR. 2060). Visit SaveNetRadio.org for more information, including a quick way to look up contact info for your elected officials.

google street view is creepy and funny. my e-stalker stock closed at the same average though. luckily my house and block isn’t viewable yet

22nd and Mission St: Gimme 5

The Embarcadero: Giant Sneeze Attack Dude

44th Ave & Anza: Sisqo City

more here

i had no idea who or what a james blunt was until i sat at the imax theater waiting for spidey to come on and this horrible song came on. young said “i hate this song” and i was like what the hell is this? “it’s you’re beautiful by james blunt” i say “it seems fake like it’s will ferrell singing on an SNL sketch” totally unbelievably & comical falsetto. it sounded like some poor guy just got castrated and somebody shoved a piano in front of him. “forget the pain, here play this!” i just couldn’t believe it was a real song.

two days later i go to the gym and get on the fake bike listening to a scharpling wurster bit where wurster pretends to be a dude complaining about all the “obscure crap tom plays that no one cares about” and asks him to play you’re beautiful. “what? you mean by james blunt??” and then that bit is over and guess what comes through the speakers of the gym? you guessed it.

anyway, here is a current events cross-post red rocker/campari $80 million transaction tie in

so part of the macarthur maze melted. this guy was speeding and his tanker turned over and blew up part of it which means two freeways near the Bay Bridge are closed. i honestly didn’t think this shit was possible.

my commute on BART is already ridiculously crowded. i wonder what’s going to happen now since this is going to take months to repair. oh yeah the guy is alive and everyone in the bay area hates him now.

dude…

sorry for ruining your day

what the hell is the story behind this photo? i wish i knew. it’s insane.

p.s.

(by andrew noz)

Dear Phil Spector,

dude…. please just stop freaking me out. please? i don’t know if i can take these AP photos anymore. they were funny at first (especially your electrocuted Yahoo Serious look), but now i can’t sleep.

phil are you listening? are you there?
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So a bomb squad blew up some explicit cds at a church in NM yesterday…

The CD players, duct-taped to the bottoms of the pews, were set to turn on in the middle of noon Mass on Wednesday at the Roman Catholic Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi.

The recordings, made on store-bought blank discs, featured people using foul language and “pornographic messages,” Johnson said. He would not elaborate because of the ongoing investigation.

Church staff members took the CD players to the basement and called police, who sent the bomb squad, Johnson said.

The bomb squad blew up two players outside and kept the third one to test for fingerprints or DNA and trace its components, he said.

Is it just me or does this sound like it could have come from one of the Police Academy movies? i like that they didn’t blow up the third cd so they could test it for DNA and fingerprints. actually no i don’t. what a stupid way to waste money.

got this link from day and nearly choked on pizza
takei is alright with me

Prehistoric lovers from Neolithic period found locked in eternal embrace

mayor newsom is thomas carcetti from the wire

please look at this video and forward to people who are afraid of sharks.

christ

African lion hugs and kisses woman who rescued it from circus

The king of the jungle showed his romantic side when he reached through the bars of his cage in Cali, Colombia, and clasped Ana Julia Torres in his giant paws to give her a kiss.

Ms Torres earned the affection of Jupiter, a 110kg (242lb) African lion, by nursing him back to health after rescuing him from a circus. He is one of about 800 maltreated residents at her Villa Lorena animal shelter in a poor suburb of the city.

is this for real?

so a sea lion kept biting a bunch of people in the marina.
20 swimmers to be exact.

“I get half way back to the dock, and I feel something,” he explained to CBS 5. “I don’t know what the hell it was. It felt slimy. So I just kept going. As I got to the end of the dock, the lady from next door said, ‘You better get out of there, because there’s a sea lion right after you.’ “

and this account:

“I was a quarter-mile out swimming along, felt a brush under my feet, and I think, ‘These feel like whiskers,’ ” said Celeste McMullin. “I realized it was an animal. So I stopped, and he popped up and looked at me.”

McMullin then tried to swim away, but the sea lion “followed me the whole time, bumping me and nipping” continuously until she made it back to shore. She ended up with six bites – two puncture wounds and four cuts – and was advised to go to the hospital to have the wounds cleaned.

One of my least favorite news anchors people in the world resigned from KTVU this week which makes me so happy because she had one of the most annoying deliveries and facial expressions i have ever witnessed on the news. Whenever she was covering a “sad” story she was would make a sad pouty face and seriously would sigh between every other word to express her disappointment. If she was reporting an “uplifting” piece she would would have this huge grin on her face, her eyes would widen and she’d raise her eyebrows really really high like she was a toddler at disneyland. please see my graphic below

she also would deliver in this weird sing songy way with unnatural and forced inflections that drove me crazy. apparently, one of the reasons she resigned was because the station didn’t stick up for her when the Oakland Tribune wrote a column mocking her style. she is going to move Colorado and is planning to make a documentary about “the state of the news today.”

ha, i’ll be sure to check that out

Kramer caught dropping N-bombs on a heckler

if you want to see the full video, you can here

Michael Richards exploded in anger as he performed at a famous L.A. comedy club last Friday, hurling racial epithets that left the crowd gasping, and TMZ has obtained exclusive video of the ugly incident.

Richards, who played the wacky Cosmo Kramer on the hit TV show “Seinfeld,” appeared onstage at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood. Kyle Doss, an African-American, told TMZ he and some friends were in the cheap seats and he was playfully heckling Richards when suddenly, the comedian lost it.

The camera started rolling just as Richards began his attack, screaming at one of the men, “Fifty years ago we’d have you upside down with a f***ing fork up your ass.”

Richards continued, “You can talk, you can talk, you’re brave now motherf**ker. Throw his ass out. He’s a n****r! He’s a n****r! He’s a n****r! A n****r, look, there’s a n****r!”

seriously what the fuck? this is horrible and hard to watch. i don’t think i can ever watch seinfeld again

my dreams have been answered! yesterday i posted on soulstrut begging anyone who could to animate the dollhead and someone did

oh my god.

dang check out Rick Santorum’s family….holy shit.
son = future axe-murderer? i think the daughter just found out she can’t have a pony.
her doll even has matching prairie clothes! have you seen that show Big Love?

i nearly spit out my water when my friend asked
“what if the doll’s head turned around and had the same expression as the girl?”

you know, like linda blair….