Losing your mind will always be stylish, just as long as it happens to someone else

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Syd Barrett is reported dead today, Syd being one of the founding members of Pink Floyd. Syd is, unfortunately, remembered as one of great bummers in rock music, for his creative talents came from a brain well challenged by a schizophrenia-like metal condition accelerated by LSD, and his name had become synonymous, if a bit inaccurately, with talent being ruined by the rock n’ roll lifestyle. In truth, the majority of Syd’s mental problems were genetic and unavoidable. There are a lot of videos with which to memorialize Syd, most with an LSD bent, we’ll simply go with “See Emily Play” the second single from Pink Floyd and the one thing Syd remarked that he liked seeing again in recent years while watching one of the tribute shows on VH1.

In The Dark

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A cute lil’ Flash meditation on what we don’t get to know. That’s quite a list.

Hey there! You! Have a nice day, okay? We mean that.

In The Dark [open the government.org]

Unearthed Monty Python Footage From 1975

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“KERA-TV in Dallas was the first PBS station to broadcast Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and it was the Pythons’ first stop in the US after the premier of Monty Python and the Holy Grail in Los Angeles in 1975. This interview footage first aired live on KERA that year, and hasn’t been seen by the public since. It was discovered on an old reel that had been saved by an engineer, and as you can see, it cuts off after about 14 minutes… the engineer taped over the rest. It’s a look at the group being candidly questioned by fans at the peak of their fame and creative powers.”

Unearthed Monty Python Footage From 1975 [The Sound of Young America]

A long time ago, in a Sudden Valley far, far away

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Farewell, Arrested Development.
( Click for much bigger image. Size matters here, a lot of the funny dies in the tiny one.)

Via 3ts

There’s a pretty good chance Bill actually prefers being dead

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Two incidents of dead-before-his-due comedian Bill Hicks making friends and influencing people in one performance in Chicago, 1992. First, a great segment labeled “You Suck”, in which Bill demonstrates just about the right level of diplomacy with a less than grateful audience member:

Then Freebird, in which Bill actually sets fire to a small child and summons up a demon from a pentagram on the stage floor. Or would, if he had the patience.

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Game over, man!

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Mow down suspiciously fast chickens with a big bad machine gun. Not just any chickens, bird flu chickens. The bird flu makes them fast, and deadly. Oh yes.

Chicken Hunt [crapville]
Via Best Week Ever

Also, and potentially much more time consuming, here’s a damn nifty print-out with which you can construct a model of the M41-A Pulse Rifle, as seen in the movie Aliens. You can also make the little tracker thingy, but that never killed anything.

Might As Well Jump The Shark

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Van Halen, as you’ve probably heard, may or may not follow in the footsteps of INXS and embarrass the high flaming monkey shit out of any remaining fans they might have left with a search for a new singer on “reality show” Rockstar: The Series. That’s right, it is now officially impossible to enjoy Van Halen music. Even if you’re the least concerned person on earth with trends or image, and you play the early good discs with earphones from an unmarked CD-R with all of the windows closed and the lights off, with whatever Pitchfork says is okay this week playing over the speakers for cover, you know, deep inside, that the one-time mightiest rock band in the world has gone too far down the rabbit hole of fucking uncool, man. Thanks to Mark Burnett, Van Halen has been plumbed to depths where even Crystal Pepsi could not bore: they have crossed over into self-parody, Monkees style.

The dinosaur, she is petroleum.

To properly morn the passing, we link here to three cuts of a live performance from 1981 in Oakland, all tracks from the Fair Warning album, which was by far the best Van Halen release. That’s not a subjective opinion, there was test, with all kinds of science, and it is fact.

First, here’s Unchained, likewise scientifically proven their best song:

Next, Hear About It Later:

And finally, So This Is Love?. Oh, the fucking irony:

Our pain etched out in stone thanks to the Tombstone Generator, Vids thanks to Vondozier.

More Frogger than Frogger

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Here’s a high speed pursuit video shot from a helicopter which features possibly the most spectacular death we’ve seen.

Ayds makes you slimer

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Two (in)famous ads for one unfortunately named bit of weight loss stuff; “Ayds” was a real hunger suppression pill which premiered just about the same time the disease became known.

1982 - the first Ayds Commercial”

And of course, a few months later, Ayds in peanut butter flavor. We assume that’d be chunky peanut butter.
Three ATM porn freaks just chuckled knowingly at that, to the rest of you we apologize.

Thanks to Recon

“I’d go over twelve percent for that.”

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Well, we’re sorry to hear of the passing of Chris Penn, Chris Penn being Nice Guy Eddie Cabot in one of not only our favorite movies ever but also the flick that pretty much set the path of mainstream moviemaking for a decade an a half in both America and Britain. Here then is a three-fer in one post:

First, the ear-cutting bit of Reservoir Dogs:

—then Reservoir Cats, the Itchy and Scratchy goof on Tarantino from the Simpsons:

—and finally this odd Star Wars CG thing from Jeff Allen, which is 900% better than we thought it would be:

Careful viewers with notice none of these clips have Chris Penn in them. Our advice to future character actors is to try to get in the scene with the torture in it, as we find that has more “legs” than the talky bits. Chris Penn did get an action figure, though.

American Dreamz

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The best we can say for this is that it’s somehow got Jesus playing Satan.

The American Dreamz trailer [apple]

“Deeeead Honky.”

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The late Richard Pryor on the late Funny SNL.

Racist Word Association Interview [devilducky]