January 10, 2006
He's an actor, but...
... what he really wants to do is rap. According to Allhiphop, Patrick Swayze "is finally experimenting with rap music." (Their words, my emphasis. Who was waiting for this? Oh, right, ME.) In the Swayzlestick's words, he's using “rap rhythms as an emotional undercurrent for ballads.”
I'd make some jokes about this (or his recent appearance in a Ja Rule video), but everybody knows nobody puts Baby in the corner, lest they invoke the throat-ripping wrath of Dalton.
Instead, I'll try to be constructive, and point Mr. Swayze in the direction of my good friend Alex, who has at least one hot rhyme up for grabs in his Free Unused Rap Lyric Compendium. That should help start Swayze on his undoubtedly illustrious rap career, even if it does indebt him to a private performance for Alex.
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December 2, 2005
Rush Warrior!
It's December, and that means a couple of things:
- I need to hurry up and post the inanities of my Thanksgiving festivities (it involves evaporated turkey meat, carbonated brussels sprout, and my vomit, among other things) before it's completely beside the point, and
- It's getting close to that magic day, when people should be buying me all sorts of gifts (this is probably Christmas, but feel free to buy me presents in honor of Hanukkah or Kwanzaa).
So, in order to make your task easier, I'm going to highlight a few things I want this month, starting with this gem:
It's a portrait of one of my favorite intellectual giants, Rush Limbaugh, "as he protects 'Lady Liberty' and 'Miss Justice' from the lecherous tentacles of the forked-tongued Bill and his cronies." (Which appears to be Hillary . . . and who?) And it's a steal at only $20! Autographed! Click to be whisked away to the site of fantasy illustrator Clyde Caldwell, where you can spy the full majesty of the painting. And then get on top of this now, people, because my gift requests are only going to get more expensive.
I'm assuming his new muscle-y awesomeness is owed at least in part to the physique-enhancing effects of inhaling Oxy-Contin at the rate a horse eats through hay.
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November 29, 2005
Comedians of Comedy
At this year's SXSW, I (along with my friends Ryan, Sam, and Sandy) caught an encore performance (as it were) of the Comedians of Comedy tour, with Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis, Brian Posehn, and Maria Bamford. For the SXSW stop (they were there to screen the film), they had Eugene Mirman open the show and generally act as MC for the evening. It was by far some of the funniest hours of my life.
Just recently, the documentary of the tour itself was released through Netflix, and I've watched it a couple of times, and found myself making others watch moments of it repeatedly. It's nice to see such genuinely funny comedians get recognized for their own work (as opposed to their stints in sitcoms like Just Shoot Me and King of Queens, or films like Out Cold), and the documentary is an interesting (and hilarious!) look at what being a touring comedian for over 15 years is/can be like. Well worth the time.
There's apparently also a Comedy Central show of the same name, which I haven't caught yet, but will do my best to this week. And Eugene Mirman, meanwhile, keeps writing brilliant entries on his Village Voice blog. The most recent post, about TV news (and Nazis, and a gay Bill O'Reilly, and poodle-rock band Skid Row), is especially funny, and you should be sure to listen to his phone call to ABC News, made in an attempt to find out what about the winter could kill his dog.
(You can also see a picture of Ryan taken by Patton Oswalt on our plane trip to Austin here, if you scroll down the page to about the halfway point.)
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