…from watching your TV (or ANYONE’S: friends, airports, bars, restaurants, laundromats…), simply turn it off.
Just touch that dial! One size fits ALL!
Category: Bizarre
Neverland
Bizarre and slightly unnerving: Neverland, Amerika, a Flickr photoset with a twist. (last two via Exploding Aardvark)
eBay Atheist
On eBay: Send an atheist to his local church!
Everytime I come home, I pass this old Irish church. I promise to go into that church every day– for a certain number of days– for at least an hour each visit. For every $10 you bid, I will go to the Church for 1 day. For $50, you would have me going to mass every day for a week.
Current bid: a whopping US $280.
Count Zappa
A painting by an Anonimous Actor from the eighties (maybe). Buy it!
Ads from the Eighties
But: from the eighties of Hungary! Jeezis, I’ve grown up on these! :-) You won’t understand a word, but you’ll have fun, I’m sure!
Hunka Hunka
Careful when playing that favorite Zappa-tune over and over again in your loved one’s presence — especially if (s)he happens to be Australian.
Longplayer
Longplayer is a 1000 year long piece of music which started to play on the 1st January 2000 and will continue to play, without repetition, until the 31st December 2999, when it will come back to the point at which it began – and begin again. Longplayer takes an existing recorded piece of music and uses this as source material, simultaneously playing 6 sections taken from it, each at a slightly different position and each at a different pitch. Here’s a live stream.
John Cage: eat your heart out!
Sleeping In a Jar-port
“Downstairs, you have metal chairs very uncomfortable at first but after 1 or 2 hours your body manages to fit in. You have to hurry though, as after 2am there’s quite a few people coming to stay the night.” The Budget Traveller’s Guide to Sleeping in Airports (soon to be thoroughly studied by part of the KUR team…).
Teen Repellant
Aah the endless possibilities of disturbing air molecules:
The device, called the Mosquito (“It’s small and annoying,” Mr. Stapleton said), emits a high-frequency pulsing sound that, he says, can be heard by most people younger than 20 and almost no one older than 30. The sound is designed to so irritate young people that after several minutes, they cannot stand it and go away.
Top 50 Worst Guitar Solos
What would possess us to compile the worst guitar solos in history? I mean, come on, it’s no great feat to list the best guitar solos ever. Just put Hendrix, Page, Clapton, and Gilmour in the Top 10 and everyone’s happy. It’s obscuring reality somewhat, but it’s convenient.
Hehe. Okay, and now go and check out nr. 11… He?
Sex Machine
There’s your regular marital aids, and then there’s this: DIY-sex machines.
The dildonics on display are not intended as artwork. The function comes first, and any design that results is coincidental. Most — but not all — lack the ironic message that pervades so much modern artwork. As a result, these inventions resemble a kind of folk art sculpted from the Home Depot palette.
The Museum of Sex has opened an exhibition dedicated to this “vibrant American subculture where sexual adventure, technological ingenuity, and heartfelt personal visions intersect.”
Spider The Tylercore
During the recording sessions, John Paul’s 5 year old younger brother (Tyler Petrucci,) came into the studio and said these words to Dan and Bob. “I’ve been trying to tell people this forever. Too young to live, too young to die. You will die forever, and ever. The sun will blow up and you will turn into a zombie. Forever.”
Five-year-old Tyler Petrucci whips it out.
You Are What You Is
Quite the unbelievable story this: man discovers he’s black at age 26:
When the baby born to two white parents came out black, the secret became a lie. Throughout his childhood, David Myers was told that his skin color was a disease called melanism. He was lucky, his mother said, because the skin discoloration was all over his body, instead of just splotches of brown like most people had.
HuhFu
Finally, a healthy alternative for our cannibalistic fellow man: Hufu — The Healthy Human Flesh Alternative. “I can’t believe it’s not people!”
Bad Mags
Loads of bad and/or bizarre magazines (some NSFW). Reminds me of that Woody Allen movie where he goes in to a magazine-shop, grabs copies of all sorts of intellectual publications and ends up sticking a porn-mag in the middle of the stack. When he puts them on the counter, the shop-owner yells across the store: “Joe! How much for a copy of Orgasm?” See, now that’s the kind of stuff I find funny.