Axl Rose has been an ignorant prick ever since Guns And Roses made their first ten dollars way back in the late eighties. His bizarre, primadonna behavior has caused riots in my hometown of St. Louis, as well as caused many other problems all around the world. It’s little wonder why the other original members of the band want nothing to do with the guy.
Axl and his retooled GNR lineup brought their show to Ireland over the weekend. Anyone who knows anything about GNR knows that Axl shows up whenever the fuck he wants, so it shouldn’t have surprised the concertgoers when the show was delayed 90 minutes. By the time Axl and company lumbered onstage to actually play music, the fans were drunk and quite upset.
So they threw bottles at his fucking head. Axl, you should never piss of the Irish.
In keeping with Axl’s overwhelming legacy, the band quit and left for the night, leaving tens of thousands of fans screaming for blood. And I hope they get some. I just can’t stand Axl’s bullshit anymore. I cannot listen to GNR anymore without thinking about how much Axl destroyed something so special, and how he continues to destroy it.
Many companies have spent the last couple of years desperately trying to invent ways to use the brushfire powers of viral marketing to sell products through the internet. Most of the time web users sniff out these attempts before they ever go viral, thwarting their expensive marketing efforts.
But Juicy Fruit has come up with an idea just crazy enough to work. They realized that anything unicorn-related gets attention online, so they recruited a unicorn puppet to lip-sync to romance ballads. Simply titled Serenading Unicorn, the ads are a partnership between Juicy Fruit and the Jim Henson Workshop. You can see the money and skill dripping off the frame thanks to the very high production values and expensive pop songs. While I’m still a bit confused as to how this sells sticks of gum, it sure is mesmerizing.
This latest installment of Between Two Ferns satisfies two curiosities: (1) Can Sean Penn be self-depricating and funny? (2) Can Zach Galifianakis play another type of character besides the awkward, stumbling doofus?
In this episode, Galifianakis plays his gay Southern twin brother Seth as he interviews a grumpy Penn, who plays off of Galifianakis’ routine with ease. It’s deadpan and pretty funny:
It’s hard to quantify how much actor/producer/director Michael Douglas has meant to popular culture. He’s been a fixture in films for nearly 40 years. He had a run through the eighties and early nineties that almost defined the pulse of the times: The War of the Roses, Wall Street, Falling Down, Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, Traffic. These are films that not only entertained millions of people, but also provided some of the most talked about issues of the day.
Douglas was such a lively, energetic, and charismatic force onscreen that it’s difficult to imagine him dying of old age, let alone a degenerative disease like cancer. Yet, sadly, that is the fight he has before him now. Diagnosed just three weeks ago with throat cancer at the base of his tongue, Douglas has continued to promote his new movie, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps with his typical good humor and class.
Douglas showed up on David Letterman last night to talk about the movie, (more…)
What can I say? The moronic lardasses who descended on Washington this weekend for Glenn Beck’s nebulous “Restoring Honor” rally have no ability for thought whatsoever. They simply believe everything Beck says, except for the times when he says really awful things (Obama is a Muslim, Obama is a racist, etc.) … they can’t seem to remember him saying any of that. Although they still believe those things to be true.
This kid went into the crowds on Saturday to ask them some logical questions. Listen to these guys give answers so deluded and confused that I’m surprised the word “honor” was even spelled correctly on their banners.
I’m most bothered by the guy in the red tee-shirt who simply walks away when confronted by Beck’s own rhetoric. THAT’S what’s wrong with this country in a nutshell – both sides are clogged with intellectually-challenged ditto-heads who simply regurgitate sound bites they’ve heard from their leaders, and patently refuse to discuss an issue beyond those boundaries. It is REVOLTING to watch. (more…)
