Thursday, May 14, 2015

Your Studio and You - Matt Stone and Trey Parker's first movie

By Jack Brummet, Comedy Ed.

"Your Studio and You" is the first film by South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. The educational style film It was commissioned as part of a party at Universal Studios by then new owner Seagram.

The short is 14 minutes long with appearances by James Cameron, Demi Moore, Sylvester Stallone, Michael J. Fox, Traci Lords, John Singleton, Shaun Cassidy, Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Angela Landsbury, Brian Grazer, Heavy D, Marty Stuart, and the Zucker Brothers...

You can download a copy of this film athttps://archive.org/details/yourstudioandyou.







Saturday, May 09, 2015

Listen to Kurt Cobain's amazing "mix-tape," *Montage of Heck*

By Jack Brummet, Music History Ed.


I am posting this image because I just listened to Kurt's fascinating [you can't really call it a mix tape] tape "Montage of Heck" for the second time.



The tape includes among many pretty hilarious sound effects, Foley clips, and obscure snippets of sound. United Mutilations identified these components of Kurt's Montage of Heck:

“The Men In My Little Girl’s Life” by Mike Douglas
“The Sounds of Silence” by Simon & Garfunkel
“Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!” by The Beatles
“A Day In The Life” by The Beatles
“Eruption” by Van Halen
“Hot Pants” by James Brown
“Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves” by Cher
“Go Away Little Girl” by Donny Osmond
“Rocky Mountain High” by John Denver
“Everybody Loves Somebody” by Dean Martin
“The Candy Man” by Sammy Davis, Jr.
“In A Gadda Da Vida” by Iron Butterfly
“Wild Thing” by William Shatner
“Taxman” by The Beatles
“I Think I Love You” by The Partridge Family
“Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl?” by The Barbarians
“Queen Of The Reich” by Queensryche
“Last Caress/Green Hell” covered by Metallica
“Whole Lotta Love” by Led Zeppelin
“Get Down, Make Love” by Queen
“ABC” by The Jackson Five
“I Want Your Sex” by George Michael
“Run to the Hills” by Iron Maiden
“Eye Of The Chicken” by Butthole Surfers
“Dance of the Cobra” by Butthole Surfers
“The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey’s Grave” by Butthole Surfers
“New Age” by The Velvet Underground
“Love Buzz” by Shocking Blue
Orchestral music from 200 Motels by Frank Zappa
“Help I’m A Rock” / “It Can’t Happen Here” by Frank Zappa
“Call Any Vegetable” by Frank Zappa
“The Day We Fall In Love” by The Monkees
“Sweet Leaf” by Black Sabbath (intro)
Theme from The Andy Griffith Show
Mike Love (of The Beach Boys) talking about “Transcendental Meditation”
Excerpts of Jimi Hendrix speaking at the Monterey Pop Festival
Excerpts of Paul Stanley from KISS’ Alive!
Excerpts of Daniel Johnston screaming about Satan
Excerpts from sound effects records
Various children’s records (Curious George, Sesame Street, The Flintstones, Star Wars).
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Friday, May 08, 2015

Drawing/painting: Faces No. 1107+ detail

By Jack Brummet

This is a pen and ink and Sharpie drawing I did on  an 8"x10" piece of sheet metal (with all those intricate lines and triangles in the metal) which translated in a Photoshop distortion filter into a pretty cool pattern. . .

The original:


The 'shopped image:





Detail: 

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Thursday, May 07, 2015

Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Cannibalism legal in Idaho under certain conditions

By Jack Brummet, Anthropophagy Ed.


The Donner Party would be off the hook in Idaho

A law (still currently on the books) in Idaho provides for an affirmative defense against cannibalism under certain conditions.

TITLE 18
CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
CHAPTER 50
MAYHEM
18-5003.  CANNIBALISM DEFINED -- PUNISHMENT. (1) Any person who wilfully ingests the flesh or blood of a human being is guilty of cannibalism.
(2)  It shall be an affirmative defense to a violation of the provisions of this section that the action was taken under extreme life-threatening conditions as the only apparent means of survival.
(3)  Cannibalism is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding fourteen (14) years.

History:
[18-5003, added 1990, ch. 210, sec. 2, p. 468.]


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Drawing: Faces #1100 - The Steering Committee

By Jack Brummet


click to enlarge

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Monday, May 04, 2015

Poem The Meaning

By Jack Brummet



1
Some people say
Life would have no meaning

If we lived forever;
Others among us say

Life would have meaning
If we did.

2
The meaning of life
Is like the rings running circles

Around a tree trunk.
If you remember back

On your last trip
To the natural history museum,

The best tree sections
Have pins on their rings:

Jesus born;
Magna Carta;


Mayflower arrives in America;
Declaration of Independence;

Civil War ends;
Man walks on moon.


3
Wouldn't it be something
To not konk out

And see rings marked
Race wars end;

Israel and Palestine merge;
Poverty eliminated;

The return of Jesus;
Alien diplomats arrive?

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