days of war, nights of love

jesus and mary chain: april skies

2007-05-22T23:28:00.002-07:00

jesus and mary chain: happy when it rains

2007-05-22T23:26:00.000-07:00

OOIOO

2007-05-22T22:43:00.000-07:00

UMA by OOIOO

VooREDOMS live in fuji 2001

2007-05-22T22:11:00.000-07:00

remote control paintball gun webcam

2007-05-22T22:08:00.000-07:00

so this dude has a remote controlled paintball gun set up in his apartment. you can go to his website and look at his webcam while you move the gun around, then you can shoot it.

iggy pop on dinah shore 1977

2007-05-03T23:09:00.001-07:00

lunar colony.

2007-05-03T22:23:00.000-07:00

so apparently nasa is planning on creating a self sustaining lunar colony on the moon by 2020.
well, that sounds dandy to me, except for one problem: THE MOON DOESN'T EXIST!!!
thats right kiddos, if you don't believe me, see for yourself.

malakapalakadoo, skip two

2007-05-03T22:05:00.000-07:00

this is supposed to encourage kids to use their imagination. i think it encourages kids to shoot lsd into their eyeballs.

flinestones influenced drug psa

2007-05-03T22:03:00.001-07:00

"i saw a ufo" - mick jagger

2007-04-30T12:30:00.000-07:00

Sir Mick Jagger has been visited by aliens.

Michael C Luckman - author of Alien Rock: The Rock 'n' Roll Extraterrestrial Connection - says The Rolling Stones rocker developed an interest in extraterrestrial phenomena after a close encounter of the third kind in the 60s.

Luckman said: "Mick Jagger has been very involved with the subject of UFOs for many years.

"In 1968 he went camping in Glastonbury with his then girlfriend, singer Marianne Faithful, and encountered a rare, luminous cigar-shaped mothership.

"Around the same time Mick had a UFO detector installed at his British estate. The alarm kept on going off whenever he left home, indicating the presence of strong electromagnetic activity in the immediate area."

The 63-year-old singer also sighted a UFO over the crowd during The Rolling Stones' infamous 1969 Altamont Concert in California.

Mick is not the only member of the band to believe in aliens. Guitarist Keith Richards has also admitted to "seeing a few".

Beatles legend John Lennon is another musician Luckman claims has experienced personal contact with beings from another planet.

He said: "John Lennon was apparently given a small egg shaped metallic-looking object which he in turn gave to Uri Geller, the psychic.

"He didn't know what the purpose of it was, but he claimed he had been given it by an extraterrestrial. Interestingly, this all happened less than a year before he was assassinated."

MAC Body Painting Cheong-sam Spectacular

2007-04-15T11:39:00.000-07:00

pretty

2007-04-15T11:37:00.002-07:00

scarecrows!!!

2007-04-15T11:37:00.001-07:00

nyc

2007-04-15T00:41:00.000-07:00

happy easter

2007-04-14T22:59:00.000-07:00

sonic youth - teenage riot

2007-04-14T22:43:00.002-07:00

see you at pitchfork motherfuckers.

young@heart covers sonic youth's schizophrenia

2007-04-14T22:43:00.001-07:00

joi lansing - web of love

2007-04-13T15:36:00.000-07:00

pussycat a go go

2007-04-13T15:35:00.000-07:00

there's no place like home

2007-04-12T23:32:00.001-07:00

so rad.

sue teller mashes it up!!

2007-04-07T19:48:00.001-07:00

original villains!!!!

2007-04-07T19:45:00.000-07:00

original villains!!!
trailer number 2!!
THE SLEEPING CITY!!

original villains!!!!

2007-04-07T19:40:00.000-07:00

original villains!!!
teaser trailer!!!
watch out motherfuckers!!!

keith richards snorted his father.

2007-04-03T23:49:00.000-07:00

"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards was quoted as saying by British music magazine NME.
"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared," he said. "... It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."
Richards' father, Bert, died in 2002, at 84.
Richards, one of rock's legendary wild men, told the magazine that his survival was the result of luck, and advised young musicians against trying to emulate him.
"I did it because that was the way I did it. Now people think it's a way of life," he was quoted as saying.
"I've no pretensions about immortality," he added. "I'm the same as everyone ... just kind of lucky.
"I was No. 1 on the `who's likely to die' list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list," Richards said.

viper fish

2007-04-03T23:39:00.000-07:00

Viper fish (Mesopelagic - found at 80-1600 meters - about a mile down) are some of the most wicked looking fish dredged up from the depths. Some of them are black as night all over with light organs (called photophores) in strategic places on their bodies, including one on a long dorsal fin that serves as a lure for the fish it preys upon. Some viperfish (and many other deep ocean fish species) don't have any pigment (color) at all - they're "see through".
They also have enlarged eyes, presumably for gathering as much light as possible where there is little or no light at all. The light organs create lights by using a chemical process called bioluminescence. Other deep ocean fish, such as the the gulper.
Deep ocean anglerfish eel have a hinged skull, which can rotate upward to swallow large prey. They also have large stomachs which can stretch to accommodate a fish much larger than itself. The gulper eel is particularly well-known for its impossibly large mouth - big enough to get its mouth around (and swallow!) creatures much bigger than itself. Fish that live down here must adapt to a very low food supply, eating only "scraps" that sink down from above, or sometimes eating each other.

rag chair by droog

2007-04-03T15:36:00.000-07:00

this chair is made of 15 bags of rags.
purdy purdy.. it will go well in my secret gypsy tower.

dj tiesto shares his secrets

2007-04-02T16:35:00.000-07:00

taz ah

2007-04-02T16:32:00.000-07:00

by attua aparicio torinos for thorsten van elten
buy it here.

3 wishes

2007-04-01T23:12:00.000-07:00

A violent state mental hospital patient said a genie commanded him to kill another patient, so he did. He apparently received further orders from the genie to escape, so he did.

what's his third wish?

vice tv

2007-03-23T00:11:00.000-07:00

in case yr sleepin'
i'll throw you a link.

so your own adventure with sue teller

2007-03-23T00:10:00.000-07:00

grandma tells how to customize your kicks.

jesus pets

2007-03-19T23:42:00.000-07:00

if jesus returns tonight, who will feed your pets tomorrow?

god tube: you'll find jesus in there

2007-03-19T23:36:00.000-07:00

god tube: drugs ballad

2007-03-19T23:34:00.002-07:00

god tube: 4 problems of evolution

2007-03-19T23:34:00.001-07:00

pretty paintings

2007-03-19T23:17:00.000-07:00

kelsey brookes

Eine

korean sex theme park

2007-03-19T22:02:00.000-07:00

Love Land is a sex theme park in korea.

oh, and children under 12 can enter for free as long as they're accompanied by adults.
more pictures here

russian squirrel pack kills dog

2007-03-19T21:59:00.000-07:00

from jordy:

Squirrels have bitten to death a stray dog which was barking at them in a Russian park, local media report.
Passers-by were too late to stop the attack by the black squirrels in a village in the far east, which reportedly lasted about a minute.
They are said to have scampered off at the sight of humans, some carrying pieces of flesh.
A pine cone shortage may have led the squirrels to seek other food sources, although scientists are sceptical.
The attack was reported in parkland in the centre of Lazo, a village in the Maritime Territory, and was witnessed by three local people.
A "big" stray dog was nosing about the trees and barking at squirrels hiding in branches overhead when a number of them suddenly descended and attacked, reports say.

"They literally gutted the dog," local journalist Anastasia Trubitsina told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.
"When they saw the men, they scattered in different directions, taking pieces of their kill away with them."
Mikhail Tiyunov, a scientist in the region, said it was the first he had ever heard of such an attack.
While squirrels without sources of protein might attack birds' nests, he said, the idea of them chewing a dog to death was "absurd".
"If it really happened, things must be pretty bad in our forests," he added.
Komosmolskaya Pravda notes that in a previous incident this autumn chipmunks terrorised cats in a part of the territory.
A Lazo man who called himself only Mikhalich said there had been "no pine cones at all" in the local forests this year.
"The little beasts are agitated because they have nothing to eat," he added.

girls and octopusses

2007-03-18T00:06:00.000-07:00

kalle gustafsson

2007-03-18T00:05:00.000-07:00

pretty pretty pretty pretty

100 girls!!! 100 octopusses!!!

2007-03-17T23:43:00.000-07:00

100 girls!!! 100 octopusses!!!!
heavenly!!!

porn saints

2007-03-17T23:29:00.000-07:00

japan

2007-03-17T23:20:00.000-07:00

Chewing gum just to freshen your breath is a thing of the past. Now with an innovative new gum from Japan, gum can freshen your whole body. Approximately an hour after chewing the gum, the special aroma component is emitted from your skin through the use of the new substances geraniol and linalool.

Available in three different flavors, Fuwarinka fresh citrus, Fuwarinka fruity rose, and Otokokaoru rose menthol for men, this unique gum will be available starting July 21st from CompactImpact.com.

$7 for a set of 2 packs (single flavor or mixed pack)
9 pieces per pack

ed banger party

2007-03-17T23:17:00.000-07:00

ed banger ed banger ed banger!!!!!

mrs. mouth

2007-03-17T23:14:00.000-07:00

mrs mouth has a snack

david sedaris

2007-03-17T23:13:00.000-07:00

i read dress your family in corduroy and denim and it was the shittiest thing i've read in the last few years. fuck the hype.

unicorn caused crash.

2007-03-17T23:08:00.000-07:00

this shit is great:

A man told police not to blame him for crashing his truck into a light post — it was that unicorn behind the wheel. Prosecutor Ingrid Rosenquist said Phillip C. Holliday Jr. initially denied driving the truck involved in the March 7 crash in Billings. He told officers at the scene that a unicorn was driving, she said.

Holliday, 42, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to felony charges of criminal endangerment and drunken driving.

A pickup truck drove through a red light and nearly struck another truck in the intersection, according to court documents. The driver then made an erratic U-turn through a gas station, crossed the street and crashed into a light pole. Nobody was injured.

Holliday has five drunken-driving convictions. District Judge Gregory Todd kept his bail at $100,000 despite his lawyer arguing that Holliday's last such conviction was 14 years ago.

the magic position

2007-03-17T23:04:00.000-07:00

by patrick wolf

control panel porn

2007-03-17T23:00:00.000-07:00

control panels!!!!!

i want to eat it

2007-03-17T22:58:00.000-07:00

HAGI, Yamaguchi -- A rare, white sea cucumber has been donated to a local museum after fishermen found it off the Sea of Japan at the end of February.

Fishermen found the 20-centimeter-long white sea cucumber on a rocky area off Hagi. Local fishermen generally admire white sea cucumbers because they believe they bring about good luck. The museum put the white one into a small water tank for visitors to watch.

Edible sea cucumbers live in the sea near Japan, South Korea and China. They are normally black, nut-brown or deep brown. (Mainichi)

hyperactive machine

2007-03-17T22:57:00.000-07:00

the hyperactive machine.
i'm not sure if this is really fun or really annoying.

jeremy scott

2007-03-17T22:05:00.000-07:00

kanye is a little bitch

2007-03-17T22:00:00.000-07:00

Rap star Kanye West was named Best Hip Hop artist but still came off as a sore loser at the MTV Europe Music Awards. Kanye apparently was so disappointed at not winning for Best Video that he crashed the stage Thursday in Copenhagen when the award was being presented to Justice and Simian for "We Are Your Friends." In a tirade riddled with expletives, Kanye said he should have won the prize for his video "Touch The Sky," because it "cost a million dollars, Pamela Anderson was in it. I was jumping across canyons."

"If I don't win, the awards show loses credibility," Kanye said."

oh.. and then motherfucker was sued by Evel Knievel.
"He's just a disgrace to me," Knievel, 68, a resident of Clearwater, Florida, told Reuters in a telephone interview on Tuesday. "What a cheap shot. What a cheap, two-bit shot."

picture of the day

2007-03-11T23:15:00.000-07:00

midnight rambler

2007-03-11T22:58:00.000-07:00

midnight rambler. 1971.
look at that fucking gold shirt. hot damn.

kate moss kate moss kate moss

2007-03-11T22:28:00.000-07:00

cocaine.

nikon.

four dreams of miss x: part 1

four dreams of miss x: part 2

beijings olympic stadium

2007-03-11T22:26:00.000-07:00

beijing's olympic stadium.

oohh.. pretty.

satisfaction. november 1969

2007-03-11T22:11:00.000-07:00

is mick jagger satisfied?

tom rubnitz

2007-03-11T21:56:00.000-07:00

i've been watching too much shit like this lately

it can't be good for the mind.

rupaul on dance o rama

2007-03-11T21:48:00.000-07:00

let rupaul and the uhauls teach you the o dance. they just got out of rehab and they're looking great!

the reagans need to talk to you.

2007-03-11T21:46:00.000-07:00

priests to purify site after bush visit.

2007-03-11T21:29:00.000-07:00

(AP) GUATEMALA CITY Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate "bad spirits" after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday.

"That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture," Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders, said Thursday.

Bush's seven-day tour of Latin America includes a stopover beginning late Sunday in Guatemala. On Monday morning he is scheduled to visit the archaeological site Iximche on the high western plateau in a region of the Central American country populated mostly by Mayans.

Tiney said the "spirit guides of the Mayan community" decided it would be necessary to cleanse the sacred site of "bad spirits" after Bush's visit so that their ancestors could rest in peace. He also said the rites -- which entail chanting and burning incense, herbs and candles -- would prepare the site for the third summit of Latin American Indians March 26-30.

naked girls and PETA

2007-03-11T21:25:00.000-07:00

so PETA has gotten pornstar zara whites to pose in front of the agriculture fair in paris wrapped up in a meat package to convince people to go vegan.

mutant spider robots?

2007-03-11T21:03:00.000-07:00

umm.. so i came across a "mutant spider robot"
!!!!

what would a unicorn do?

2007-03-11T20:59:00.000-07:00

rev ted haggard massage table in ebay

2007-03-11T20:56:00.000-07:00

Mike Jones, the former prostitute who serviced Ted Haggard, is eBaying the massage table on which Reverend Ted Haggard enjoyed himself with Mr. Love. Proceeds go to charity. It's at $860 with over 7 days left in the auction.

image of the day

2007-03-04T21:45:00.000-08:00

moustache competition

2007-03-04T20:29:00.000-08:00

so i shaved last night when i got home. and then i come across this. damn... just a few more days...
Soumyadeep Paul documentary on a moustache competition in Rajasthan.

london fashion week: manish arora

2007-03-04T20:16:00.000-08:00

like.. whoa.

werewolves!!!

2007-03-04T20:05:00.001-08:00

A Fond du Lac man who claimed he was a werewolf and spoke what sounded like a medieval language has been charged with criminal trespassing, criminal damage to property, disorderly conduct and possession of marijuana.

A $5,000 cash bail was ordered for Robert Marsh, 39 — who lists his address as the Fond du Lac County Jail — during an appearance Friday in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court.

A woman who lives on West Division Street contacted Fond du Lac police about 3 a.m. March 1 and reported that Marsh broke through the deadbolt on her door and grabbed her arm but was stopped by two men in the apartment, according to a criminal complaint.

Marsh was released from prison a few days prior to the incident and the woman had allowed Marsh to stay at her place because he was homeless, according to the report.

During the time Marsh stayed at the home he had not slept, was drinking and often incoherent, stating he was a werewolf, had powers and was involved in a witch religion, the woman told police.

When Marsh was located he had a small amount of marijuana on him and warned authorities that he could change forms.

If convicted of all charges the defendant faces up to almost eight years in prison and over $21,000 in fines.

His next court date is 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 14.

human bodyparts delivered to wrong address

2007-03-02T23:41:00.000-08:00

CASCADE TOWNSHIP -- A Cascade Township couple made a disturbing discovery when two extra packages containing human body parts were delivered to their home.

Investigators with the Kent County Sheriff's Department say the packages originated in China and were supposed to be delivered to a laboratory in Traverse City. Instead, the driver from DHL accidentally thought the extra packages were part of the couple's order when he made the delivery on Thursday.

The couple opened the other packages and noticed the body parts.

The two extra packages are part of a much larger shipment. Investigators say three of the original five boxes shipped have been received. Of the two missing boxes, there could be up to 30 individually wrapped specimens that do not pose a health risk to the public.

Now a statewide alert has been sent to police agencies. Authorities say anyone who receives these packages by mistake, shipped by DHL, should contact police.

smithsonian on time machines

2007-03-02T19:21:00.000-08:00

A physical time machine—a device available at Wal-Mart, as opposed to a natural wormhole somewhere in the cosmos—is possible. You begin with something square. Next, install mirrors at the corners and send a beam of light, perhaps from a laser, at one of the mirrors. The light will bounce to the second mirror, the third, the fourth and back through this cycle forever.

The force of this constantly circulating light will begin twisting the empty space in the middle. Einstein's theory of relativity dictates that everything happening to space must happen to time, so time begins twisting, too.

To fit a human inside this time machine we need to stack a bunch of these mirrors on top of each other, and add more light beams. Eventually, we'll have a cylinder of circulating light. Once we step inside, we're ready to fly through time....

Here's the catch: The time machine only allows someone to travel as far back as when the machine was first activated. Since no time traveler has shown up yet—check-out aisle tabloids notwithstanding—no such machine has yet been invented.

airline loses two legged dog

2007-02-27T00:49:00.001-08:00

Faith, the dog best known for walking on two legs, was lost for several
hours at the Orlando International Airport on Wednesday.
Faith’s owner, Jude Stringfellow, said the airline put her dog on
the wrong flight. But there were howls of happiness as Faith and
Stringfellow were reunited.

Faith is a celebrity famous for walking on two legs. She’s the
world's most photographed dog, and what a day she had. "When you lose a
pet, it's over you can't bring it back," Stringfellow said.

Stringfellow went to pick Faith up after arriving in Orlando
on a flight from Oklahoma City. But she says for hours, no one could
find her beloved dog.
"Nervous, and I was upset because they wouldn't give me any
solid information" commented Stringfellow. Stringfellow said Faith's
spirit kept her going. She was born without use of her front legs and
still managed to survive.

"The whole concept behind my dog is faith and I named her
Faith. And I can't give up hope or give up faith," added Stringfellow.
Finally, the airline tracked Faith down, saying she was accidentally placed on a different flight to Orlando.

American Airlines called it their mistake. A spokesperson said they are investigating.

swarovski encrusted giant madagascar hissing cockroach brooch

2006-11-29T19:21:00.000-08:00

A little information on our little friends. These insects come in varied patterns and are decorated with the finest Austrian Swarovski crystal. Each roach takes about an hour of painstaking work to achieve his final magical glory. All roaches are male to ensure sterility, and come complete with a leash set. This consists of a gorgeous pin you attach to your clothing with a chain that clasps to the cockroach's carapace to keep him from running amok. The lifespan of these animals is approximately one year if housed and fed properly. This is not a guarantee, it is an estimate. Roaches love fresh bananas and must have access to fresh water at all times, a very damp paper towel or cotton ball will do the trick. Dehydration is the main cause of death. Keep him in a little terrarium in the dark and he will love you and be very responsive to your touch. Roaches are shipped overnight in a box and can be kept in this box for up to 4 days without food or water while you secure him more hospitable accommodations.
check 'em out here

hunter s. thompson

2006-11-29T19:13:00.000-08:00

hunting with guns by hunter s. thompson

M+B gallery and AMMO Books are pleased to present GONZO, the debut exhibition of photography by famed American author Hunter S. Thompson. The exhibition coincides with the release of Thompson's final book, of the same name, and chronicles his life through his own photographs and memorabilia.

GONZO began as a personal collaboration with Thompson prior to his untimely death, and has since come to completion with the support of his family and estate. The show will feature many never before seen photographs from Thompson's personal archive, including shots from his early days as a foreign correspondent in Puerto Rico, living in Big Sur in the 1960s, time on the road with the Hell's Angels, illuminating self-portraits, and many personal moments with friends and family throughout the years.

GONZO is a visual tour de force that will take you on an incredible journey through the life and times of the legendary writer Hunter S. Thompson. The iconoclastic American author developed his own style of writing that became known as "gonzo journalism"-a completely truthful, but not always factual, hands on method of reporting. With his numerous articles for Rolling Stone and other magazines, his acclaimed books including Hell's Angels , The Rum Diary , Curse of Lono and the seminal Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Thompson influenced generations and established himself as an original and powerful voice in the political and literary world.

Immortalized on film by good friends Johnny Depp (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1998) and Bill Murray (Where the Buffalo Roa, 1980), Hunter became a cult hero to counter-culture youth, intellectuals and celebrities alike. Notoriously fond of firearms and hallucinogens, Thompson lived in his self-described "heavily fortified compound" in Woody Creek, Colorado. One of his most famous quotes summed up his anarchist and acerbic philosophy on life, "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."

deputies: "man on crack when alligator attacked"

2006-11-29T19:12:00.000-08:00

LAKELAND -- A man who was attacked by an alligator this morning was naked and smoking crack at the time, Polk County deputies who rescued him said today.
The alligator had the man in his jaws when deputies arrived at Lake Parker in Lakeland about 4 a.m. today. They were called by nearby residents who reported hearing a man yelling for help.
The first deputy on the scene was unable to free the man, Adrian J. Apgar, from the alligator's mouth. It wasn't until 3 or 4 of them were in chest-deep water that they were able to pull him free after the tug-of-war.
Apgar, 45, of Polk City, suffered a broken arm, partially amputated left arm and trauma to his left leg. Doctors are trying to reattach the arm at Lakeland Regional Medical Center, where was listed in critical condition.
"We don't know whether he'll make it or not," said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.
According to a news release from the Polk Sheriff's Office, "The very dark conditions and risk of injuring the victim made shooting the alligator impossible, leaving deputies to contend with their own safety after becoming exhausted in waist deep mud. All deputies made it out of the water without injury."
State fish and wildlife officials captured an 11-foot alligator that they think was the biter.
Deputy Billy Osborne first heard the man's cries for help but couldn't see him through the thick brush and dark sky.
"'I have two broken arms and an alligator's got me pinned. I can't move. Please help me,'" the Polk County deputy sheriff related at a news conference today.
As Osborne listened, he followed the voice through more than 20 yards of brush in Lake Parker's murky, chest-deep water about 4 a.m.
Then he saw them: a naked man crouched down in the jaws of an alligator amidst thick cattails in bloodied water.
Other deputies pursued, following the man's cries, Osborne's voice and the sounds of the alligator thrashing around in the water.
Osborne grabbed onto the man's arm and tried to pull him free.
"We were pretty much playing tug-of-war," Osborne, 26, said.
After about 30 seconds, the alligator released the man.
Judd said Apgar told deputies he was smoking crack-cocaine at the adjacent park, but it was unclear why he was naked or why he was attacked by the alligator.
No one answered the door of Apgar's home in rural community and neighbors knew little about him.

blood scarf.

2006-11-29T19:09:00.000-08:00

Blood Scarf depicts a scarf knit out of clear vinyl tubing. An intravenous device emerging out of the user's hand fills the scarf with blood. The implied narrative is a paradoxical one in which the device keeps the user warm with their blood while at the same time draining their blood drip by drip.
laura splan

oooohhhh...... sparking vodka

2006-11-28T00:49:00.000-08:00

even though i am morally
opposed to vodka,
(i'm sure that many of you
have heard my rants about
how much i hate this substance)
here is something that may
be very very exciting.

sparkling vodka...
ooohhhh.....

mountains of coke 2: how coke is made

2006-11-27T13:25:00.000-08:00

emotionally insecure dinosaur robot!!

2006-11-26T16:12:00.000-08:00

Ugobe, however, hopes to change that next year with a cheaper, more versatile toy called the Pleo. Pleo is a robotic dinosaur coming in the second quarter of 2007 that reacts "emotionally" to its surroundings.

If you talk to it in a coo, it becomes more responsive, wagging its tail and offering to shake hands. If you are curt, it can display signs of being depressed--its back slumps, it emits a mooing sound and its tail drags plaintively. It can express joy and aggression. It can also yawn, sigh, sniff, sniffle, snore, cough, hiccup and sneeze.

mountains of coke

2006-11-24T16:39:00.000-08:00

Coca products were taboo for a long time in Colombia. Now Colombians can purchase coca wine, coca tea and coca cookies. The newest product is called Coca-Sek, an energy drink that is fast developing an international reputation -- much to the irritation of the Coca Cola company.
This sign at the coca plantation indicates that coca cultivation is being supported by the children's rights organization Terres des Hommes.

In other news, Last year, a study instigated by SPIEGEL ONLINE made big headlines: Experts had foraged Germany's rivers for a substance produced by the human body during cocaine consumption, and the results were bountiful. The extrapolated numbers revealed, among other things, that residents around the river Rhine's drainage basin near Düsseldorf consume roughly 11 tons of cocaine each year. The street value: around €1.64 billion.

Now the experts at Nuremberg's Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research (IBMP) have expanded their method to other EU countries and the US. The results are similar to those of 2005: Previous official estimates for cocaine use, which rely heavily on police statistics, are apparently way too low.

For example in New York, IBMP teams searched the Hudson River and found the by-products of a projected cocaine consumption totaling 16.4 tons per year. There are approximately 3.4 million people aged 15 to 65 living in the Hudson's watershed. According to the United Nations "World Drug Report," 2.8 percent of Americans in this age group use cocaine at least once a year. That would mean that about 95,000 people are responsible for an annual consumption of 16.4 tons of pure cocaine -- a per capita rate of 172 grams per year.

Strong variations

But the "World Drug Report" says the average user, at least in Central and Western Europe, consumes only 35 grams of pure cocaine per year. Unless the appetite of the average American is considerably greater, present estimates of overall consumption are likely to be too low. Either there are more coke-heads than reflected by the official statistics, or they snort far more Charlie per year than yet realized.

And there's more. IBMP Director Fritz Sörgel says there are a number of further lessons provided by his study:

Good news for Germany -- cocaine consumption has, according to his data -- stagnated.

New York continues its reign as the Cocaine Capital of the World. One is almost tempted to upbraid them for wasting the stuff. Nowhere did researchers find as much pure cocaine as they did in the Hudson River.

Europe is catching up in cocaine consumption, with Spain bravely leading the way. The British and Italians also display a ravenous appetite for blow.

The details vary, though, from city to city. In Washington's Potomac, IBMP chemists found traces of an annual per capita consumption of 73 grams of cocaine, while the San Francisco Bay indicates an annual use of little more than 40 grams per person.

In Europe, the pattern is similar. According to current estimates by the European Union, about 1 percent of Germany's 18 to 59-year-old population consumes cocaine at least once a year. Based on the IBMP measurements, that would mean that the average cocaine user in Nuremberg consumes a mere six grams per year, while in Mannheim the number is closer to 55 grams.

thanksgiving.

2006-11-23T01:20:00.000-08:00

word up to the real deal.
fuck hallmark and fuck christopher columbuses slave trade.

robot kangaroooooos!!!

2006-11-22T21:44:00.000-08:00

dancing robot squid!!!!

2006-11-22T21:32:00.000-08:00

The Hakodate civic association, local businesses, and the Hakodate National College of Technology have gotten together to build a giant dancing robot squid that stands over 2 meters tall.
dancing squids!!! robot squids!!! dancing robot squids!!! crank up that fucking new young pony club motherfuckers!!
oh.. and you can control it's 500 different movements over wifi. hot damn!

squid and tea

2006-11-22T21:28:00.000-08:00

happy thanksgiving from good old wild bill burroughs

2006-11-22T20:18:00.000-08:00

smoking girls you tube scandal

2006-11-22T18:17:00.000-08:00

apparently.. some very intelligent people with a shitload of free time on their hands have viewed 27,000 you tube videos featuring girls smoking and determined that its a big tobacco conspiracy.
you decide. in the meantime i'm going to go smoke a cigarette.

thanksgiving nose jobs

2006-11-22T18:11:00.000-08:00

so this fine couple right here are featured in MAKE explaining how to make the ultimate vegetarian turkey. out of paper nonetheless. what i'm concerned about is their noses. maybe in the spirit of the holidays can we all chip in to get them nose jobs for christmas? anyway, here's the link for the video. i don't want to watch it, i'm afraid of the noses.. but i'm sure it's a clever origami feat.

Kids! Accept Jesus Christ as Your Lord and Savior and Get a Free PlayStation 3!

2006-11-22T14:33:00.000-08:00

Hey kids! If your Mom and Dad can't get you a PlayStation 3 for Christmas, you can still get one FOR FREE! Have you ever heard of Jesus Christ? Well, He's heard of you! And He wants you to have all the cool toys your parents are too cheap to buy! In fact, the Lord Jesus is very upset with your parents that they won't give you all the latest stuff that every kid in America deserves! And Jesus has got your back, because He is your homeboy! If you've never heard of Jesus, He is an invisible cloud-dwelling deity (infinite lives!) who loves you very much and wants nothing more than to give you a free PlayStation 3!

read more.....

plur

2006-11-21T22:29:00.000-08:00

so i'm totally obsessed with new rave.

death to death from above

2006-11-21T20:55:00.000-08:00

from the myspace of death from above 1979
hey

i know its been forever since i wrote anything on here. im sure by now most of you assume the band isnt happening anymore since there are no shows, no work on a new album, etc. well. i wanted to let you know that your assumptions are correct. we decided to stop doing the band... actually we decided that almost a year ago. we finished off our scheduled tour dates because there were good people working for us who relied on us to make a living and buy christmas presents and pay rent etc. we couldnt just cancel everything and leave them out to dry... plus i think we wanted to see if we would reconsider after being out on the road. our label was really hoping that we would change our minds, so they asked us to keep quiet about the decision for at first. well, its been quite awhile now and we are still very sure the band wont happen again, so i guess its time to say something.

we started as a punk band with pop aspirations and we met every goal we set for ourselves. a few weeks ago, the album finally went gold in canada and that was the final mark i really wanted to reach.. it was my goal to see how big we could become without ever compromising or changing what we did right from the start... and now i know. we did way more than i ever expected and i like to think the fans (you?) enjoyed it as much as we did.... watching us sneak our way onto network tv, big festivals and sports arenas... playing music that most people assumed only belonged in basements and dirty rock clubs. we played our first show in a living room on long island for about 12 people and played our last in the calgary saddledome for 12,000. ha! what more could i have ever asked for? ive been in lots of punk bands over the last 15 years and i played every basement, squat, hole and alley from here to eastern europe. dfa79 was the first time i ever really played on a stage, yet i really didnt change what i was doing from what id been doing in the past... hell i was even using the same amplifiers!

i never would have imagined that the wall of noise i love so much could have come this far. to see my silly elephant trunk idea become so popular... im sure its the greatest piece of graphic design ill ever do.over the last 3 years of touring, sebastien and i had grown apart to such an extent that the only real time we spoke was just before we would play and during interviews. we both changed so much that the people we were by the end of it, probably wouldnt have been friends if they were to meet for the first time again. its a totally normal function of growing up. like how your high school bf/gf that meant so much to you would probably be the last person you would date at 30, ya know? thats where we got to. its not sad.

it would be more sad if we stopped changing and growing and kept playing the same songs for 40 years like the rolling stones. for me that would be a nightmare.

thank you so much for your support from beginning to end. thanks ache records for giving us that first 325 dollars and thanks last gang for taking us the rest of the way. thanks to everyone who came out to our shows, wrote letters just to say hi, baked cakes and made your own t-shirts. i kept everything you gave me. thanks so much to the kids who came really early to see us when were were opening for bigger bands... that meant so much to me.

i hope i have been a positive example and not a bad influence and i really want you to know that when you stop me on the street and i dont know what to say, its not because i dont appreciate you, its just not something ill ever really get used to.

thanks again.

j f k

sir richard bishop

2006-11-21T19:49:00.000-08:00

at the knitting factory

raga blues in manchester

esoterica of abyssinia from torch of the mystics.

robert altman died

2006-11-21T19:45:00.000-08:00

i cried actually. which is weird. because i didn't think i was emotionally attached to robert altman at all. anyway, i loved 3 women. it was rad.

klf burned a million quid.

2006-11-21T19:25:00.000-08:00

wikipedia article here.

submarines!!! cocaine!!!

2006-11-21T18:41:00.000-08:00

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) -- Tipped off by three plastic pipes mysteriously skimming the ocean's surface, authorities seized a homemade submarine packed with 3 tons of cocaine off Costa Rica's Pacific coast.

Four men traveled inside the 50-foot wood and fiberglass craft, breathing through the pipes. The craft sailed along at about 7 mph, just 6 feet beneath the surface, Security Minister Fernando Berrocal said Sunday.

The submarine was spotted Friday 103 miles (166 kilometers) off the coast near Cabo Blanco National Park on the Nicoya peninsula.

"This is the first time in the country's history that a craft with these characteristics has been caught near the national coasts," Berrocal said in a statement.

U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents, FBI and Colombian officials aided Costa Rican authorities in the operation, Berrocal said.

Two Colombians, a Guatemalan and a Sri Lankan were arrested and taken to the United States, since they were captured in international waters, Berrocal said.

Officials took the submarine to a Costa Rican Coast Guard station and were trying to determine its origins, the Security Ministry said. It was found with several tanks of gas, but Costa Rican authorities said the vessel, which had a bailer to keep out water, probably did not travel far.

So far this year, Costa Rican authorities have seized 18 tons of cocaine.

In March, the Colombian navy seized a 60-foot fiberglass submarine that likely was used to haul tons of cocaine out to speedboats in the Pacific Ocean for transportation to Central America and on to the United States. Three people were arrested and two speedboats seized during the operation, but no drugs were found.

Colombian authorities say smuggling cocaine by sea has become the top method of transport in recent years, as radar systems have made it difficult to smuggle drugs in small airplanes.

space!!!!

2006-11-21T18:37:00.000-08:00

sunn o)))

2006-11-20T00:03:00.000-08:00

happy birthday to me.

2006-11-19T23:58:00.000-08:00

i'm 24 now.
i'm old.
i'm scared.

more cassette playa

2006-11-19T22:07:00.000-08:00

protect yourself

2006-11-19T21:49:00.000-08:00