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Tequila Suicide

2010-10-07T13:48:00.000-07:00

So, as you may know, I'm a bit of a ~~drunk~~ alcohol enthusiast. Today I'd like to bring something to your attention that is sure to shock everyone at the bar and undoubtedly earn you a highfive or three.

Meet the Tequila Suicide

More after the jump

Now, don't go alerting the local presses or parading down the street with your new fun hardcore drinking game; part of the spectacle is the surprise. You're gonna call everyone to attention, and tell them you're doing a tequila suicide. They'll say, 'what's that?' and you'll reply, 'i'll show you'. Following that, you set up everything required for a standard tequila shot; a wedge of lime, a pinch of salt, and a shot of the T. No one will understand, it looks just like a regular tequila shot!

That's when you shove the salt up your nose. Instantly everyone says, 'WOAH'. By the time they double take, you're already pinching a lime in your eye. At that time, they're probably saying, 'dude..that's just..' and when they see you slamming your head on the table instead of the shot glass, they'll probably stop trying to understand and stay silent.

Wait about 2 minutes for all the burning to subside and collect your props. Here are some videos.

perfect execution!

Terry and Surf Eleki

2010-10-06T08:43:00.000-07:00

If you don't know who these clowns are, you probably know some SHIT about music, although clearly not very much.

I'm a bit of a surf head. It kind of bugs me when people always look at me quizzically when they grab one of my earphones and sample what I'm listening to. It's usually The Ventures, Sr. Bikini, or these guys. It bugs me even more when surf heads look at me quizzically when they grab one of my earphones and sample these guys, Takeshi Terauchi & Bunnys.

Before the Ventures did a tour in Japan, not a lot of people had heard of them. After they returned home, The Ventures were a goddamn household name in Glorious Nippon. Before long, electric guitar enthusiast Takeshi Terauchi 'affectionately' known as Terry, began performing covers some classic Ventures songs (very common even in popular surf groups, every garage band in the 60's and 70's played The Ventures).

They quickly moved on to Surf infused with classical jap folk songs (that I had never heard of before discovering Terry..). The product is fucking magical.

See what I mean?

They're the Dark Horse of Surf Music. While Dick Dale is probably more or less as influential to guitars as Jimi Hendrix, these guys were just as influential, unfortunately only in ways that generation y westerners like ourselves never really felt.

Here's one more song. Feel the familiarity?

STREETWISE

2010-10-03T10:03:00.000-07:00

yep, the documentary from 1984

Just saw it for the first time on Friday, and I really gotta say, it's absolutely incredible. It doesn't try to shove some sobering message down your throat, there's no pretext, no commentary, all it wants to do is show you the ins and outs of the lives of these kids. Could it be any better at doing that? Nope.

It's filmed inspiringly well, from start to finish. You feel it as you're watching, that there's no way it could be displayed any more prominently than it already is. A lot of the situations these kids are in are sad. Very sad. It doesn't hesitate to show you the joy in their lives either, though. Right from the get-go, the first scene captures Rat (the boy in the picture above) jumping off a bridge into the Seattle water in an activity he has deemed 'flying'. The introduction that follows playfully displays the homeless community as they interact, joke amongst themselves and live the image of freedom throughout the day.

By seeing them when they're happy and otherwise, you really start to sympathize with these kids once the worst unfolds. 14 year old girls turning tricks, drug addiction, violence, they're all very powerful themes.

Still, just browsing through some of the youtube comments, it appears as though some of these kids have made something of themselves. Rat appears to be married and very ashamed of this film. One kid who stands out at the start appears to have written a memoir. Others, like the child prostitute who doesn't believe in abortion, have had at least 9 kids..

The film is highly recommended, and it's called Streetwise. Try your hardest to find yourself a hard copy, but it's extremely rare. It should still be available on youtube. Watch out, the shit gets real pretty fast.

Threat to my sanity #1

2010-09-27T14:02:00.000-07:00

Claymation.

Why.

Now, I'm known as a guy without many fears. Heights? I eat those for breakfast. Snakes? I used to pick em up out of my garden with my sister when I was eight. Spiders? I literally picked up a tarantula and put it on my face when I was about 4. The Dark? Well, I only used a nightlite till I was 18.

I thought I was impervious to fear, some kind of He Ranger or Power-Man or something. Life was great.

Then I watched the video for Ready, Able by Grizzly Bear and met that disgusting abomination above. The next 3 minutes were filled with horrible disfigured heads dancing on pedestals, a lizard consuming small dancing claybabies with little claypenises, and a river with a face

yeah

The music video and more claymation horror after the jump

Horrid. Don't watch it baked, kids.

Now, don't get me wrong. I'm no stranger to claymation. I grew up on pingu, and i confess I was so into it I would noot noot all over the fucking place after catching an episode. I played with plastecine as a kid, in fact it was one of my favourite toys. Point is, that shit wasn't tapping into the true potential of stop-motion claymation; making disgusting figures from the depths of the Uncanny Valley and forcing disgusting and spontaneous scenarios on them with no explanation or sense of reason. It gets even scarier when there's some sort of sense of reason behind it. What if it was imagined by, say, an extremely intelligent individual with the intention of delivering a very dark and loathing message holding social commentary about morality and the 'damned human race'?

Well then you get the scene depicting Twain's #44, The Mysterious Stranger in the claymation film The Adventures of Mark Twain.

I know I was a little late to jump on the bandwagon, but I saw it for the first time last week.

I've had the book sitting in my shelf for years now.

Find me a scarier claymation video and I'll personally wet your bed for you; free of charge.

CAUTION

2010-09-26T16:39:00.000-07:00

GOD DAMN IS THIS A NEW BLOG IT'S TIME FOR SOME FUCKING RUSTY HOLY SHIT WATCH OUT

If you haven't figured it out yet, i'm Rusty, and you're fucking retarded. I've had a lot of nicknames; rusty, Pwen, mr. motherfucker, Zedi, but I'm sticking with this one, for now.

What's gonna be in this blog? Glad you didn't ask. I don't really know. I'm still contemplating whether the central focus should be around travel or not, but until then it'll be one of those blogs you hate that rambles on about anything and everything.

I won't jump into the personal shit, I know you don't care about that. Instead I'll skim over what I'm about in what will take you 3.7 seconds to crunch down.

Travel
Drinking
Music
Getting dome

i'm cutting this first post short, since introductions and pretexts are what everyone skips over anyway. Later alligator.