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.

What a waste.

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.

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:

My favorite episode of this celebrity-stroking series is the interview between Galifianakis and actress Natalie Portman. Just brilliant stuff.

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, but Letterman seemed more interested in needling Douglas about his cancer instead. Awkward, touching, and honest are all words to describe this moment between two entertainment icons.

Anyone of my age or older can remember watching Michael Landon deteriorate before our eyes while struggling with prostate cancer in the early nineties. Landon, who had been the picture of health and vitality throughout his career with his long, flowing hair and sparkling eyes, suddenly wilted, shriveled up, and died. I remember the class and dignity Landon infused into his struggle, and how much it befitted his legacy as one of television’s best fathers.

I have no doubt that Douglas will confront this situation with a similar resolve. I can only hope that his outcome matches the outlook, and he makes a full recovery. A talent like Douglas’ is not finished yet.

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.

Here’s a question – what exactly was the purpose of this rally? Beck claims it wasn’t a political rally, yet his speech was constantly warning that “they” were going to take away our (politically-oriented) freedoms. He claimed it wasn’t a rally geared toward any particular faith, yet it fervently directed its energy toward the Christian God while railing against Islam and any peoples of atheistic belief. They claim they want to be the voice of America, yet they exclude almost everyone who does not lock-step with their rigid, uninformed dogma.

Here’s a lesson for all of these political preachers like Beck and his ilk: Jesus said his followers would be “no part of this world.” NO PART. The books of Revelation, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Daniel clearly indicate that God’s Kingdom – the one Jesus told his followers to pray for – would completely destroy all man-made governments, “and it itself (God’s Kingdom) will stand to times indefinite” (Daniel 2:44). So why on Earth do any of these fools think God has any part of a government that he clearly indicates he wants to destroy?? Praying that America turns back to God is like New Orleans hoping that Hurricane Katrina will come back and help restore the city to its former glory. WAKE UP PEOPLE!

There’s nothing that I despise more than stupid religious zealots, and there aren’t any dumber ones in the world than the so-called Christians in America. OPEN YOUR FUCKING BIBLES, YOU HYPOCRITES! You think America should follow your pathetic religious beliefs, yet you don’t even know what your own religion teaches, or what the book upon which your religion is based teaches! These idiots think watching The Ten Commandments every Easter and going to church occasionally makes them some sort of Christian. Hey, guess what? Knowing how to spell the word “Jesus” doesn’t give you an honorary halo, nor does it give you the understanding to inflict your beliefs on the laws of the United States and its people. EVER.

But … but … but … America was founded with God in mind, right? NO. Have any of these fucking herds of cattle ever read any of the writings of the Founding Fathers of America??

Here it is that the religion of Deism is superior to the Christian Religion. It is free from all those invented and torturing articles that shock our reason or injure our humanity, and with which the Christian religion abounds. Its creed is pure, and sublimely simple. It believes in God, and there it rests. – Thomas Paine

As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed? – John Adams, letter to F.A. Van der Kamp, Dec. 27, 1816

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind. – Thomas Jefferson to Carey, 1816

Sure sounds like they loved religion, didn’t they? Whenever I hear these religious puppets argue that America needs to return to its religious “roots,” I want to laugh right in their fat, Kool-Aid-smeared faces. Where’d ya hear that at? Wal-Mart? America was founded to ESCAPE the religiously-ruled government in Great Britain, you morons! That is why America was intended to be governed FREE OF RELIGION!

Here’s a fun fact: most of the signees to the Declaration of Independence were EPISCOPALEAN. The Episcopal Church supports gay marriage and gay clergy! So the Founding Fathers would support gay marriage if alive today! You know … that pesky gay marriage problem that so many of these dumb motherfuckers are fighting against because they say it’s anti-American! UNBELIEVABLE! Do some research and actually use the shriveled nut rattling around inside that gerbil-cage you call a cranium!

As this video shows, the religious right are lazy, stupid, and uninformed. They repeat slogans without thinking, they can’t be bothered to investigate their own religious and political beliefs, and they have no interest in the rights or thoughts of anyone besides themselves. They are selfish, judgemental, and cruel.

Like the dwindling numbers in the churches, movements like this will be soon left in the dust, abandoned and forgotten. And good riddance, I say.

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As we all know, Mexican people do nothing all day except get drunk, rob foreign tourists, and get pregnant all day long because their Pope tells them condoms are the Devil. They also make pretty nice dog trainers, as it turns out. Here we see some authentic Mexican craftsmanship in dog form:

That dog’s pretty good, eh? Better than Kate Gosselin on Dancing With The Stars, anyway. And less of a bitch, to boot.

This brings me to a couple of videos produced by Radiolab, a nationally syndicated radio program produced in New York City, and broadcast on NPR (Nation Public Radio) stations in the United States. The videos are complex and poignant yet simple and inspiring. The first video was made last year and was simply title “Moments”. The video is a simple look at life and the moments that make it special.

The other and most recent video is entitled, “Words”. It’s a simple and thought provoking play on words. It’s very well cut together and makes you think as you watch it. You will probably have to watch it twice to catch what the filmmaker is doing here. These videos are exceptional and should really inspire the amateur film maker in us all.

By the way, did you catch the eight words that were being described in the video?

The one thing I never thought the film needed was a musical number, but apparently there are people out there with minds more warped and creative than mine. So they created a musical out of it. And it ain’t half bad.

For many music fans, nineties dance band Deee-Lite was a one-hit wonder with a goofy, eye-catching sense of style and whimsy. Although technically correct, critics of this seminal and visionary outfit are missing out on some of the best and most engaging pop music created in the last twenty years.

The band came together in the New York rave scene emerging in the late eighties. Vocalist Lady Miss Kier, Towa Tei, and Super DJ Dmitriwere all DJ’s of various repute in the scene when they formed the group. Their retro-rave style and insistent dance beats caught the attention of New York clubs, and they were signed shortly thereafter.

Their first album, World Clique, featured hippy lyrics and a strangely-acoustic dance sound that felt old and new at the same time. The album was a massive success thanks to the gigantic lead single Groove Is In The Heart, one of the happiest singles this side of Love Shack. They just don’t make them like this anymore, folks:

The band had a minor hit with the follow-up, Good Beat, which you can see right here. They also had another minor hit with Power Of Love:

As with any suddenly-successful band, the sophomore album can be a tricky prospect. Deee-Lite followed their Earth-conscious muse to produce Infinity Within, a cohesive album about safe sex, pollution, love, and unity. By far their best album, the singles are mixed together to create one huge tapestry of sound and brilliant pop melodies.

There are four singles here that desperately needed to be released: Heart Be Still, I Won’t Give Up, Rubber Lover, and Thank You Everyday. A fifth single, Runaway, was released with a truly awful video that destroyed its chances of getting heard. You can see that right here.

Here’s a neat video from MTV around the time of the release of the album:

I strongly suggest you follow THIS LINK to Amazon and sample the songs yourself. Amazing stuff. It’s also worth noting that Deee-Lite used this album to push eco-packaging, which utilized cardboard rather than plastics to feature their CD’s. Talk about putting your money where your mouth is!

Their third album, Dewdrops In The Garden, showed some cracks in the band. Original member Towa Tei left the band during recording due to the presence of new DJ Ani, a young Kansas City musician. The sound became much more urban and R&B influenced, with a thicker dance accent.

Bittersweet Loving was the biggest song on the album, an ode to self-determination:

After this album the band called it quits, with each member going back to the club scene as DJ’s around the world. Their mark on fashion, dance music, and pop culture remains, however, as evidenced by this short tribute: